skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You 100% missed the point.

There's something totalitarian about setting vague rules to hold people responsible when you deem fit to prosecute. As an example of how this is going to be politically misused, if you actual read the Paris Accord, you'll know that this ecocide law set is going to be a shitshow. In the Paris Accord, it literally summed up, "You need to sign this agreement, pay the commission $100m, and then we'll setup a commission to figure out what the commission should look like that'll setup the various commissions that'll determine the environmental laws that you have now agreed to." I'm not kidding, what so ever. There were no targets or plans in the original accord that countries had to sign, which preemptively had them agree to whatever the hell the commission would decide YEARS later. Why is anyone to think more of these harsh "environment laws" are going to be precise or even effective if we're to be honest.

I guarantee you that these ecocide rules are going to be just as vague as anti-mercenary international laws. However, ecocide is going to be a political tool to bully countries to toe a line or face severe penalties. Other countries performing ecocide, as long as playing ball, won't face charges.

This is a case of helping make sure that, "everyone is guilty of something". Toss in the public impression of, "That political figure is committing ecocide!", even when they're not, you now have yourself the ultimate political weapon.

Just because someone claims they want to save the world, doesn't mean they actually intend to. There's this thing called lying for personal gains. Fairly new invention, but you should be aware of it. A very small amount of politicians do it and only recently.
It's more doable from this standpoint to use IntelliJ to build Android apps, but not as straightforward (and from what I've experienced can be a source of conflict when some team members still use Android Studio).
Many are listed in the article itself.
Inflation during a jobless recovery. I see salaries nosedive whole inflation is raging for working people a nasty combination.
Of course having tax laws that account for events crossing time periods is reasonable.

You still haven't explained how it is unreasonable to require companies to either 1) commensurately reduce their publicly reported profits or 2) pay the tax on the publicly reported profits if they want the public/market image of higher profits.
Thinkpad as home server and NAS (2018)
It's not a list of people who died in space or during space flight. It's list of people who died while serving as astronauts or cosmonauts.

Astronaut Edward G. Givens Jr. included in the Fallen Astronaut plaque died in a car accident before being assigned to a prime or backup spaceflight crew.
The minimum reasonable size of an "illegal number" is fairly comprehensively explored here [0] (tl;dr 128 bits)

(You needn't be kept up at night by the thought of accidentally publishing nuclear codes; as you say, the probability is 0 for all practical purposes, and the reluctance of government agents to dismiss it as a coincidence would be entirely reasonable)

[0] https://qntm.org/number
Net worth taxes exist in a small number of places in Europe. It appears to be unpopular because it causes people to hide their assets and invest in assets that are harder to place a value on. Some places just have a property tax instead.

Revenue is taxed in many places; it’s called sales tax. Profit is also taxed. It is called an income tax / corporate tax.
The phrase is somewhat common, yes, but it's not related to April 12 or Gagarin in any way. It is about the decline that happened later, not about Gagarin. April 12 is a happy day for most Russians, and ex-USSR people in general.

It saddens me to see how current Russian government (de facto Russian government, I should add) uses the achievements of the past to promote their own agenda though.
Global CO2 emissions where higher in 2019 than 2010, higher in 2010 than 2000, higher in 2000 than 1990 etc.

We aren’t fixing the problem. Now, you might look a such trends and say it’s fine everything is going to work out, but I think that’s hard to justify. Some local trends look promising, but advanced economies outsourcing manufacturing and thus CO2 emissions isn’t actually helpful.
Yes. We need a hell of a lot less destructive criticism that leads to war.
> Gagarin died during a test flight

Actually, not a test flight - a rather routine one, and most sources seem to think that the problem was adverse weather.

From wikipedia:

"On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, Gagarin and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died when their MiG-15UTI crashed "
Let's imagine that overnight the price of bitcoin increase x50 to $1000000 like in the article.

In a imaginary word where miners get only the block subsidy, they get x50 more money are incentive to use like x50 more electricity.

In a imaginary word where miners get only the tx fees, they can reduce the fees x50 and get the same money. (Moreover, the size of the transactions will be x50 smaller in Bitcoins.)

In the real world where miners get both, it's something in between more complicated, but each halving makes it more similar to the second scenario.
It's portable until you realise that you've used several utilities that aren't available on all Unices by default.
The benefit is transfers. Walking down the terminal without luggage to another gate vs leaving the airport with luggage and getting on a train. Especially if it's the difference between going through the baggage claims area in a major international airport (usually the transfer point) and a small regional one (usually final destination).

Plus if you're driving home, train stations are usually in city centre (expensive/difficult parking).

This ban will just make travel more of an ordeal for frequent (esp. business) travellers in some smaller towns/cities in France. It may or may not be a worthy tradeoff, I don't have an opinion on that.
> This is very similar to the idea that throwing more devs at a project will help it deliver more quickly.

This is a nonsense ad absurdum argument. It's self-evidently true that more devs will, in general, deliver projects more quickly - especially considering that we are talking about a system, not a single project.

Otherwise, we could have One True Dev delivering all of the world's software. Do you think that is reasonable?

Political pressure won't necessarily make a difference, as you say, but sustained and genuine political pressure will almost certainly make a difference.
This might be more palatable:

Say you are a developing country. The US comes to you and says we're going to restrict trade until you get your carbon footprint in line.

This is, of course, being done for your own good (you're an agricultural nation after all--climate change will scorch your exports!) by countries who have dumped carbon into the atmosphere for centuries while they were industrializing.

https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/news-insights/international...
The Jesus Fast [PT]
It being useful does not mean that Mozilla has any right to collect that information without informed consent. Leaving behind a telemetry service when uninstalling the software it came with is certainly scummy.
Major coup if the Turing Award can win a Jeff Dean
Who do you consider to be non-MSM?

Facebook has been around at scale for a short period of time so the total amount of harm it has done so far won’t compare to propaganda done by others but this should not detract from worry/blame/concern about Facebook. I won’t lay the FB hate aside as you put it because I see the great harm it can and does do. Humans are easily manipulated and Facebook can do this at an unprecedented scale.
This is a terrible take, and it seems like you have a grudge audient Guardian. Following your own logic, lay off the guardian hate. Their reporting is solid, and much needed these days.
Jekyll has been a dream for me, used it for about four years now. The problems I have with it are generally solvable on my own, but haven't quite passed that threshold where I want to take the time to solve them (i.e. a plugin for autocomplete for things like layouts, includes, etc).
We live in a numpy array.
Required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
Ah, can't wait to be an international criminal for using plastic straws /s
Haven’t we learned anything about merits of enforcement when it comes to global campaigns?
> a standard way to encode the position of multiple audio tracks in 3D space

Isn't that the idea behind Ambisonics [1], which OpenAL Soft is based on?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics
The problem is the constant naïve pounding on FB prompted by MSM hacks (drill a little bit and you'll discover the motivation: some of it surfaces from time to time, like the obvious blackmailing of FB by mass media in Australia, Canada, most of European countries, and maybe soon coming to the USA).
When I need a shell script, I write a PHP script instead.

(PHP has its oddities, but it has many benefits over Bash, including an optionally strictly-enforced type system, binary-safe strings, clear C-like syntax… and like Bash it has backticks!)
Government is mostly the problem it tries to solve. Increasing dictatorial power just increases corruption. That's a terrible gamble to make that the people in charge would just based on random chance agree with you that the climate problem needs drastic measures. You will never know what kind of a dirt-bag manages to climb to the top. It never seems to be the people you actually want.
There's https://www.netlifycms.org/ it has drafts and you are not limited to Hugo with it.
(a) There could be a slippery slope to a lower quality of life - like curtailing meat production; (b) the threat of that would prevent governments from signing up; and (c) without governments signing up, the scheme won't work.
>it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs.

Hiding number is not a proper way to address the issue. We should address the core of it - drm which should be made illegal.

What is strange for me is that making digital rights management program that does who knows what and thus breaks any privacy by definition is not illegal but some number that merely describes a computer program that bypasses such program is. This is not crazy? Why it should be illegal to protect own computer from malware?
Another reason why Tesla is likely to get in trouble at some point in the future: lack of quality control (it appears to only have gotten even worse over the past couple of years) and terrible long-term ownership experience.
Random dude without relevant qualifications talks incoherently but confidently about complicated topic. No hint of rigor or academic review in sight.

300k views, 8k like and loads of nonsense comments.

"Idiocracy is already here"
A rich kid getting richer? How boring.
"That's the entire point of governments."

In theory, maybe. It seems most governments are full of people just wanting to hold onto power for themselves. They do what they want and don't truly care about the people or rule of law (ie nobody holds them accountable because the system looks out for itself).
> And while we're being pedantic, it's 'lose'.

Fair. I'm better at shell and Perl languages than English. None of them are my mother tongue.
No need for namecalling/insults.
I think the author is also severely underestimating how early Tolkien starting working on his maps. The Hobbit (published in 1937) already came with a somewhat fleshed out map of the Misty Mountains and surroundings, and it is fair to assume that from this the remainder of Middle-Earth was fleshed out. (I cannot quickly find somewhere when he first drew a complete map of Middle-Earth, but Wikipedia notes that "The paper became soft, torn and yellowed through intensive use, and a fold down the centre had to be mended using parcel tape" [1]. So he probably knew what Middle-Earth looked like for quite some time, maybe even late 1930s?

To presume that Tolkien would have had an understanding of the then state-of-the-art theories around continental drift is a bit hopeful. In fact, plate tectonics did come to be accepted until the 50s/60s, so Tolkien could barely have known of the theory when writing LOTR and especially not when drawing the initial map.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_maps#The_Lord_of_t...
so for one thing, it really depends whether "great" means "loud" to you. I personally find the levels in most theaters to be uncomfortably loud, but maybe I'm just lame. unless you need to feel the floor shake, it's totally doable to have a great home theater experience in an apartment. $2000 can get you a pretty nice 55-60" tv and a capable audio system to go with it. $2000 is a lot of money for some people, but each movie outing for two is going to run $25+ these days. and this is for enthusiasts. a "just okay" HD setup is more like $500.

I kinda suspect it will be more like a CD-quality audio situation. is 1411 kbps PCM better than a 128 kbps AAC? yes, but for most people it doesn't outweigh the convenience of being able to stream on your phone. and people have shitty earbuds anyway because they don't care.
Is that person even real? The ending made me doubt it, as it was just a list of things leftists want rich people to do with their money. Like donate it all somehow, and under no circumstances give anything to their kids. Wtf?

I worry so much about the world my kids are going to grow up them, that I am trying to give them as much of a financial head start as possible. I don't want them to have to suffer through discrimination because of their skin colour or gender, or having to bow to the office politics of the day.

As for donating money, why not wait until you die, and donate what is left (and your family can spare). Why the rush? Even the 6 million dollars that hypothetical woman has may amount to not much, with the crazy amount of money printing and inflating costs for housing.
Is Google Docs Down?
Can't create a new Google doc - error page keeps appearing. Anyone else experiencing this ATM?
GGP mischaracterises the campaign by suggesting that the people behind it want to have perpetrators executed. This is not true.

I did not say anything about the other pros and cons of the idea at all, you're jumping to conclusions.

You wouldn't use the word "execute" when discussing other measures that put people's livelihoods at risk, even if they're terrible measures.
Singapore Dealer Prepares Vault for 15,000 Tons of Silver
That is why I'm anti-Facebook. Remember the role they played in the Myanmar genocide?
The International Criminal Court is not “a government” and isn’t really representative of the people of a particular country in any direct way.
I wouldn't describe people working at Big Tech making $12,500 per month gross as "exploited proletariat"
The rich and powerful have no idea on the cost of living, and yet they control the world for the majority.

The Australian Gov floated making people pay for doctor visits that are currently free, and bagged out disagreement that it was 'only the price of a coffee'. Those on benefits cannot afford a coffee, as that would be almost 10% of money they had to per day to pay for everything. Meanwhile they use government flights costing $60000+, or give themselves raises more that a minimum wage earner gets per year.

Bill Gates was on a show and they made fun of him because he had no idea what bread and milk costs. Yet people like him are the ones that politicians listen to.
> 5 minutes with an expert would have saved them years of learning the lessons everyone already knew.

I'm not sure it's fair to make this statement without acknowledging the times he's been successful doing precisely what that five minute conversation would have had him avoid.

For example: Tesla itself, SpaceX, and PayPal.
It's not surprising that Tesla over-promises, under-preforms and has to raise prices because they couldn't get things right the first time.

I'm shocked that people are shocked about this. The cult of Elon is strong.
The EU can expect to suffer oil depletion by 2030 (2020)
You hardly need python for models at this point. There are native julia implementations of linear regression, naive bayes, gradient boosting, random forest, PCA, T-SNE and more.

The python interop is just a stopgap
Same here. Editing existing document work, creating a new one causes error.
Aside from the brilliant satire, it’s worth pointing to the “What I Learned” section of the readme:

how C++ smart pointers are implemented
how to implement a Non-Fungible Token
how the Ethereum ecosystem has evolved since I wrote my last smart contract in 2017
how to integrate my previous Solidity, Truffle, and Ganache workflow with new tools such as OpenZeppelin and hosted wallets
how to write a (trivial) program in Rust without fighting the borrow checker once
how to use rust-web3, serde_json, and the openssl crates
how to call Rust from C

I often struggle with deciding what to build as a practice project when I want to learn a new skill, and this is a good reminder that “humor” is an acceptable answer. Using a satirical project to learn how smart pointers are implemented is genius.
It's worth mocking purely because of the source in this case. Anything that legitimises scientology is bad and should be avoided. If it is as you say and it's sort of a generally distributed idea that exists in a bunch of different forms we can come up with an example that doesn't involve humans preying on other humans (actively, and without intervention).
The companies see the STATE taxes as cheaper. That's what is driving them there.
I have no grudge against The Guardian in particular, I have a grudge against ALL media (purporting to be 'left' leaning) that fed us lies (under the guise of R2P) to ease most wars and imperialist adventures. This post links to The Guardian, and The Guardian was most vociferous in the destruction of Libya (and Syria).
What's your motivation with this account, that seemingly only exists to defend FB?
Teaching Coding to Complete Beginners
I use (and love!) Proxmox but as a way to virtualise dedicated servers (eg from OVH / Hetzner) and avoid having to pay hosts like DO everytime I need a new VPS for a project.

I'm completely confused by what this ("Proxmox PCI Switcher") is – and the readme isn't helping very much. Can someone explain?
Yeah, the climate is an important factor here in Texas. We had a roofer out not too long ago and I asked him how long roofs typically last here, and he just sort of shrugged and said "they last until a storm damages them and then you get your insurance to replace it."

Sure, if your homeowner's insurance is paying to fix it and you never actually see the bill, it sounds like a more expensive roof still makes sense. But putting up the upfront expense of a tile roof when you know it's just going to break the next time there's a big storm is pretty unappetizing.
In Europe most bulbs in the stores are expensive Philips, Osram, etc. products. Ikea bulbs are rebranded and also expensive.

You can buy on Ebay of course, but that is not what most consumers do. I don't consider it competition if all brick and mortar stores do the same.
It's reg-walled anyway, which makes sharing on social media irritating for the receivers.
This is tangentially related, but I want to call out the ordnance survey for making their data available. A large portion of their data is licensed under the UK's Open Government License.

The map tiles themselves aren't, but they recently moved from a "call one of our partners for a quote" model for licensing to an extremely cheap and friendly model. In "development mode" you get rate limited to about one request per second but it's free, in "production mode" their hiking maps are $0.000046 per tile with the first ~$1,400 per month free.

This made a hobby project of mine (an open source backpacking map for Android) feasible. I found it interesting that the previous situation seemed to be because they couldn't be bother/didn't have the resources to open up, not because they had a reason to want to keep things more restricted.

My only remaining complaint is the license doesn't allow you to cache for more than 24 hours. All commercial outdoors maps apps allow caching for longer because you might be out of cell service for a few weeks, and I wish I could offer this feature. I'd be totally fine if it cost more.

Edit: fyi, my number doesn't match their pricing page because I changed the unit to make more sense to someone not super familiar with maps and converted to USD.
Is it similarly forbidden in the US? i.e. Is it legal for Amazon to practice similarly?
Google Docs is down in Atlantic Canada, anywhere else?
Okay!

If I may ask, I tried using SXMO a couple of times, but I never got used to it. Do I just need to stick with it for a little bit and it gets better, or what are your thoughts?
Good lord, there's so much international crime that goes unpunished already. What a waste of time.
It won’t necessarily make it normalized. But killing someone in some very special context can be morally right, I think. Euthanasia is a more common example, but I believe killing Hitler would be similarly non-controversial.

But it is an age-old question of philosophy.
or dtksh ?
It's really good show (created and written by Ronald D. Moore). Writers try to take the technical and scientific advise seriously as much as they can.

In the second season they show new spacecraft designs that are based on actual proposals. Like the Sea Dragon super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

They also introduce androgynous mating system that is very similar to International Docking System Standard (IDSS) https://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/
That was my guess too. I've tried SXMO a couple of times but ended up going back to Phosh. Its probably me, but I could not figure out the UI of it.
CyberTruck and CyberLandr = Ultimate Adventure Vehicle
He did not say “don’t criticize” he said to “lay off the hate” which to me means make sure your criticism is measured and reasonable.

Laying off the hate is likely just good advice all the time.
And when the goals of the system occasionally align with the good of the people, then somebody comes out of the woodwork to cry "totalitarianism!". Or, even more silly, "this will entrench the incumbent companies, would somebody think of the upstarts?", like if market competition was the be-all, end-all of social development.

It's a catch-22.
Just to be clear -- b/c I got a bit confused reading this -- this example seems to assume "12345" and "71" are base-256 numbers and "256" is base-10.
For your life circumstances, is there an amount of money that is large enough to celebrate, but not so large as to be life changing? If so, then you can relate to the author's point, but for a different value of N. The author is speaking from their experience. I think if they were to caveat every point like this, it would be a much longer read and one would get tired of reading the disclaimers.

In the past few years, I've received bonuses that were massive and I could only have dreamed of some years ago. Since then I've come to realize that sums like that were not life changing. When I dreamed of them some time ago, I imagined they would have been. I would have bought the car I really wanted or bought a bigger apartment or something. But in the end, I would have still had a car and somewhere to live, working to sustain that quality of life. Is it life changing?
I was eager for some insight into sophisticated software (either deep or funny - I was open for anything); I was greeted with a prompt to enable JavaScript. I still haven't been able to clean all the irony off my monitor.
Which language do you know?