skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have two hundred and fifty years, assuming we completely rid the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, methane, and all other greenhouse gases. Hopefully you can see that this means it will be less than that amount of time.

Global energy usage is already diverging from that exponential curve so your alarmism does not seem very rooted in reality (as long as global population continues to stabilize.)

> Hell, we’re fifty years into scientists sounding the alarm about greenhouse gases, and we’ve only managed to accelerate our production of them in the time since.

Global warming is a signifanct concern, the thermodynamic contraints on solar energy generation is not.
I don't buy that. If we use the example of height alone, the vast majority of women would not date a man shorter than them regardless of whether the man has a "likable personality". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbG05ePWRQE
TimescaleDB Has Rasied $40M
China seriously invested in it heavily, met a modicum of success in building a wave of nuclear plants, but near the middle of the full plan decided to halt any new construction. I think even with low regulation, and a focused investment it was turning out more expensive than the alternatives.

Personally, I think looking at the data so far, we should just stop investing in fission plants, continue research of fusion plants, but put a practical focus on building renewables to meet climate targets to get the most reduction for the buck.
Thank you for looking into this!

That was very informative!

I'm going to look a little deeper into it but that makes me feel better about the efficiency of the post office now.
The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive
Not if you have solid lazy iterator support in the language. If they’re strict and every link in the chain is adding O(n) to the complexity then yes, this is a problem.
> There's a reason the statement "acting presidential" exists. We generally hold people in power to a higher standard in this country, and rightly so

When did "we" turn into the current governing structure of Facebook?
Which is why cryptocurrency shills are so unpopular here.

If their get-rich-quick pump-and-dump schemes actually worked, they'd have a lot better things to do with their time than evangelize Bitcoin and Ethereum and ICOs and NFTs in online forums.
I thought that was what fast breeder reactors did.
They have only low grade waste. The disadvantage is that you don't get free plutonium to put in your nukes
sounds like something that could potentially be built on top of Ethereum smart contracts (not sure if it should though ...)
>future hires need to start somewhere, need to be able to learn on their own, and need to do so safely.

I've shared this before on hn, but I was about to bite the bullet on a fire base subscription to back a web app I'm building. Google announced its cancellation the week I was going to subscribe, I was hitting daily limits in my testing with my garage code and wanted the extra buffer to speed up my progress. As soon as they announced the cancellation I ripped out fire base and have been working on a swap to hasura/postgres/auth0. I can't afford, likely multiple, hundred or thousand dollar mistakes for a hobby.

"Just code better"

I'm trying...
There is no need for apprenticeships. The labor glut makes it easy to pick the cogs who trained themselves and avoid the useless cogs that didn't train themselves at all or in the wrong subject. Useless cogs aren't even a drag for the private sector, they actually fuel it through student debt.

If one were to create a strawman of the most capitalist, greedy and shortsighted kind then there would be nothing more beautiful to that strawman than consumption without income, because it allows wealth inequality to grow without hitting macroeconomic limits that would otherwise prevent the relative wealth of the strawman to grow beyond a certain point.

You're right that there is no need for more central control but how else do you get out of this trap?
I agree that's a goal, but I think it's overly concerned with the product (job) rather than the process (how the job is done). I think focusing on the latter is more sustainable for enjoying something because the job itself will undoubtedly get stale at some point and can lead to the hedonic treadmill of constantly looking to the next thing to make you happy. I've known people who have had jobs that people would traditionally consider unenjoyable, but they had the mindsets to truly enjoy the work by focusing on the process, constantly bettering their performance, etc.
Maybe one day car manufacturers will be required to tell you how to disconnect your car from wireless networks. Or even better, it will be illegal to opt you into them. (but I don't see any of those happening with the current government)
The subscription fee is $5/month. The payments _you receive_ back are via a formula. So the maximum you will spend is $5/month.
US people who give info to ISPs have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.”
> competition from plentiful natural gas, wind and solar power, which are rapidly becoming less pricey.

No one questions whether the zero emissions target is rational. Natural gas in North America should complement the variability of wind and solar, IMO.
Facebook lets third parties use your photos in ads. The TOS publishing clause probably covers that and other usages:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-using-profile-pho...
I understand paying to comment (or vote) but not to read.
Are you saying you do know the way to create a good ranking function? Does Arrows theroum stop that?
Assuming the details of your story are accurate, that dinner violates a number of norms and industry standards.

Reps can pay for dinners where clinical presentations are made (educational events). Budgets are supposed to be capped and reasonable. Non-physicians are not allowed to attend.

Not saying your story isn’t true, just saying there are already rules around not doing those things.

Oh, and your sign in sheet will record how much was spent on your meal and it’s should be on the Sunshine Act website that is publicly accessible.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search
His mother --- unless she asks him to do something that would jeopardize his marriage --- in which case the mother has proven herself to be selfish with little regard for her son's well being --- and thus undeserving of any special consideration.
Because they're already doing it regularly
I had a vt320/vt420 on my desk for years. YMMV...but 132 column mode was a bit cramped even when my eyes weren't aged.
Reminds me of Iran

>In theory, the Supreme Leader is elected by the Assembly of Experts. However, all candidates for membership at the Assembly of Experts (including the President and the Majlis (parliament)) must have their candidacy approved by the Guardian Council, whose members in turn, are half appointed unilaterally by the Supreme Leader and half subject to confirmation by the Majlis after being appointed by the head of the Iranian judiciary, who is himself appointed by the Supreme Leader.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran
What lack of resources are you talking about? You comment seems completely disconnected from what you are replying to.
It's a neat idea; based on the fact that the Navy has a lot of operational experience with nuclear power (especially small heat sources)? How well does that experience translate to a large-scale reactor? And is the Navy particularly good at building things? I would imagine that the (private) shipbuilder has at least as much knowledge around the tech.
I guess you also don't need insurances for nuclear plants. Nobody will be able to pay in the worst case.
There is a San Franscisco salary in there. Still under 200k.
You're blaming F35 cost overruns on trans people and minority hires? Wierd, my first guess would have been something about the complex and ultimately corrupt interplay between military contractors, congressional pork-barrelling, and government bureaucracy.

These things usually boil down to money and power, not {{cultural_issue_of_the_day}}.
The two phrases are massively different. One is asking you which color of emoji you prefer. Other is asking you which race you are.

The difference is big enough to make original statement lie - inflammatory lie that makes people outraged over something that dont exists.
According to my father, the unions were requiring some crazy stuff like you had a pipe fitter do X, then a different pipe fitter do Y. Both had to be on seperate days.

My dad actually left his role when he was stuck in a pipe shaft in 120 degree heat. A pipe fitter went up and the person who helped him out of the pipe and was fired for not following protocol.

The regulation came in when they started codifying the union rules. There was also an incident where Westinghouse and GE were faking inspections. I don't have specifics on hand.

Generally though, it seems corrupt. At least at the time, the unions essentially controlled construction and wanted to line their pockets, the politicians also lined their pockets. Eventually, the cost was too high to build.
I actually just tried to sign up and when I click on the "Pay $5.00 and Subscribe" button, I get a little popup that says "K is undefined" and nothing happens.
Regulation is something a government does within its own jurisdiction. The only country that can regulate China is China. This does not imply a lack of ability to impose effective regulation on the part of any other sovereign nation. Regulation is not something you do to a geopolitical adversary.
It's surprising how poorly supported Shadow DOM is across the major UI testing frameworks. To access a Shadow DOM element you'll typically need to write a JS shim that uses the DOM APIs to get at the element, and then do other tricks to work around things like closed vs. open shadow roots and handle how event propagation works with shadow DOM.

Shameless plug, but we're building a no-code testing framework (https://reflect.run) that does all of this for you automatically. Works great with Shadow DOM (both open and closed) as well as more esoteric things - for example did you know Salesforce's Lightning framework overrides how Shadow DOM works? :D
I think there's a blend of good and bad.

If you ever see a HN front page story where you have inside information about some event, you can rest assured there will be maddening amounts of completely wrong speculation written as if it were gospel by people with no connection to that event. And then people attack the strawmen with abandon.

And for professional reasons, you grit your teeth, keep your mouth shut, and let it all slide. I'm not in PR.

"Someone is wrong on the Internet": https://xkcd.com/386/

I agree that HN is better than a _lot_ of places. But it's not all wine and roses.
tact != dumbing down

If anything, it's the opposite.
Peloton recalls all treadmills after child dies
Not sure whether this model could work. But not sure it won't either. Maybe it would help to know what topics will be covered? For programming I could prove helpful but maybe not as much for other domains. Good luck with this experiment
I suppose that's really all there is to see here; it'll be interesting to see how this develops.
The only way this makes sense is the concept of attractive nuisance. That's a very poor case imho, but let's assume we had to make it. The real attractive nuisance here isn't snap, it's that someone made a car that can do 153mph, and some kids parents bought it for him. Not Snapchat letting you film it with filters.
They hate our freedoms led to 20 years of war.
> It is trivial to secure windows with plastic foil, glass will literally become bullet proof.

Here's some $50k windows that Nordstrom in Seattle was using that used that film. The windows couldn't stand up to Antifa with hammers, which makes me question the bulletproofness claim. It might not be the same exact stuff that you're claiming, but I'm guessing it is due to the description ("due to their thickness and a protective film that internally self-adheres after strikes or damage"), and that this has happened numerous times to them in the last year and I'm sure they're tired of replacing them and went for the best, strongest windows they could. $50k-70k EACH seems quite expensive for a single display window.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/downtown-nor...
Twitter gained almost all of their value from third party clients and once they had that value, they told those developers to go jump in a lake. Don't help companies for free, they will never repay you.
If you're talking MS-DOS, 132 column mode was very common on apps where it made sense (wordstar, visicalc), but was usually invoked with an app-specific driver of some sort, not BIOS calls.
Ahh yes. I believe the tailwind workflow is incompatible with the component scoped styles which web component forces. I believe however that when you use components scoped styles (whether through the shadow dom, React’s styled components, Vue’s single file components, etc) tailwind becomes obsolete (or rather the wrong tool for the job).
Only now, many decades later, I realized the Sun x86 based workstations use more or less the same design language and proportions of the 386i.

http://qolc.net/tihkal/acme/acme-setup-off.jpg

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-017c0/images/stencil/640w/pr...
The problem is the definitional issue is the foundation of many of their arguments. If you give in here, then it's much easier for them to convince you that something must be done.

"There's not much we can do as a company to confront the white supremacist society we live in" sounds downright dismissive compared to "there's not much we can do as a company to support police accountability or any of the other myriad ways in which racism shows up in our society, since that stuff mostly happens outside our company".
No, not exactly. I'm blaming it on a culture of reduced accountability. You can't enforce high standards because you will end up firing the affirmative action hires first. Inability to enforce high standards is a problem with government bureaucracy, and increasingly private bureaucracy, in general, but what's notable is that it's reached the military and federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which used to be the exception.
Considering the history of the meat industry, I'm OK with not allowing the farms to police themselves.
Good thoughts/questions, thanks.

1. Not sure, but I think that's the problem I'm asking about. Because prepaid or auto-generated cards are not mainstream, big vendors don't need to accept them.

2. Agreed, but at least this puts one more layer of control back to the owner. AWS doesn't have my birthdate or social security info (US), so it would be harder (not impossible) for them to "wreck your credit report". At least this approach puts an extra barrier in the equation.
A dynamic toll can be used to reduce incentive to drive on the road at certain times. It's not feasible to make a 10 mile wide road due to congestion for 2 hours during the day.

Solution? Increase the cost during those 2 hours such that fewer people choose to use the road during those hours. You can give poor people cash and they can decide if it's worth using that road during the times with higher congestion, but the problem of exceeding a road's capacity along with the inability to build infinite lane roads is separate from income/wealth gaps.
What is your plan for transaction costs?
I think the premise is that the US Navy is quite good at building nuclear power plants as multiple reactors power each and every submarine and Aircraft carrier we have. By the numbers the Navy has more nuclear powered ships than the US has nuclear power plants. There's also precedent for smaller scale plants that are lower maintenance and less dangerous.
“for a decade”

There’s the problem, this kind of short term thinking that is just long enough to let someone else deal with it.

Also, guarantees on paper don’t mean as much as physical reality. Ask any native American or Fukashima resident about how much guarantees are worth.
I support strong moderation, but it was a farce from the start to create an 'Oversight Board' because there is no such thing as objectively fair moderation.

The group's recommendation that Facebook add even more rules than it already has to its moderation flowchart is a waste of time because — again — there is no such thing as objectively fair moderation.

FB should hire people who share its values and goals and entrust them to moderate as they see fit.

As I see it, there are only three good explanations for banning users or removing content: (1) "we think this is illegal" (2) "we just don't like seeing this kind of thing on our servers", or (3) "we just think the kind of users we want to attract don't like seeing this on our servers."

You can't argue with those explanations because they're honest. If an online forum wants to remove a photo of a turd, they shouldn't have to do philosophical soul-searching to explain what they don't like about turd photos, or spell out an exact heuristic they will use to identify a turd.
The problem is, in the case of an emergency, the owner might be unable to get to their capsule in time. However, if they added some kind of 'arm port' which would allow the user to stick their arm into a reinforced sleeve and glove and reach out, along with a mini 'airlock' to allow for shuttling things in and out safely, the owner could reside in one indefinitely, thus eliminating this window of danger.
We used TimescaleDB for a flood prediction tool, works really well, kudos.
I know enough to know I don't know much :) But there's plenty of documentation out there.

My impression is that if you're not dealing with people trying to game the algorithm then it's all a lot simpler.

As to data sources - with a constrained set of sites the creation of custom adapters should be do-able I'd have thought.

Not that I have any plans. Maybe I should though :)

Edit: come to think of it, it's practically an internet law that stuff you think of already exists. So maybe I should just post an Ask HN for the link to the search engine in question...
> This is a problem of optimization, not language design.

It is also a problem of langage design though: JS’s HoFs are spec-defined as returning Arrays, which makes fusion way more complicated.

Internal / external iteration also have different optimisation profiles e.g. Rust initially used internal iteration, switched to external because that was much more conducive to optimisations, but re-introduced an internal supplement because some combinations / patterns optimisé much better through internal iteration.
A metal detector?

Jokes aside, I didn’t see anything about breathable oxygen/nitrogen.

Perhaps I missed it.
If your goal is anonymity, it's worth nothing that you are revealing more bits of information about yourself by using the person-facepalming variant than one of the gendered ones.
Politics is like 25% solving problems and 75% a popularity contest and that's being generous. No sane politician would ever remove something providing a benefit until well after it's outlived it's usefulness.
The most successful lifestyle/dating coach Mark Manson often glosses over him being born into wealth.

It's very easy to Not Give a F** when you've always had rich parents to support you. As if your known to come from money you'll have no shortage of people who want to get to know you.

It's all trash anyway. The only thing that fixed my dating life was dropping 70 pounds in my 20s. Also fixed my blood sugar! Without the chronic back pain I'm happier too.

This was very hard though and took 6 months or so. I doubt ' Fix your life in 6 to 12 months by making hard choices ' would sell all that well. These books offer quick fixes which aren't practical.
I would like to know how that same guy is doing today. That article was 5 years ago, and it sounds like a promising development.
If one did not believe in free will, one would not believe in rewarding or punishing people, including criminals. It is not fair, reasonable, or productive to reward or punish people if their decisions are the result of some mechanistic process, rather than a decision that they made born of free will. That would be like punishing the weather for a tornado. My guess though, is that Mr. Stephen Fry does not believe that we should let serial rapists go unpunished or just open up all our prisons. If he believed his own words, these are exactly the kinds of things he would advocate for, since morality can only exist in a world with free will.
My grandmother put together a collection of copies of old letters from families who had been in our hometown for several decades and gave it copies to all of her children.

Treasures of history right there.
Love to hear that.
oh hey! i'm the gal that made this! feel free to throw questions at me, i guess?
"You can’t just shame tens of thousands of men into accepting a substandard life."

I would challenge the "substandard life" assertion, as it's a framing issue.

The biological need for sex is indeed great, I won't argue that point - but I don't believe that lacking sex necessarily makes a life substandard.

In all fairness, it is extremely difficult to re-frame something so primal, but I think a stronger focus on acceptance of the world and healthier views of one's capacity to influence it would be a prime candidate for reducing the harm of the incel mindset.

Getting there in any practical manner, of course, is... probably not gonna happen.
I didn't see a way to browse the content. There is no version of the world where I would pay before I see the content. If I like what I am seeing I will be driven to want to join the conversation and maybe would pay for it then.
Love these tools. Any tools that help people use flex/grid is A++++ in my book.
Car chases are dangerous, seems like it would be good to put a stop to them permanently. Cops can already mess up your day pretty badly if they decide you're a threat; if anything, taking over the steering of my car would be the most non violent option.
Okay, I'm not a lawyer and I'm trying to avoid a little work today etc. Here is a quick search of the term bribery, https://bribery.uslegal.com/solicitation-and-attempted-bribe...

Everything I run across refers to public official and public trust.

I wonder if there are any lawyer out there that can clarify this?

I own my own company. I should be able to award any all contracts to who bribes me the most money?
The argument here is completely illogical and frankly pretty racist.

You assert the Chinese have a broad cultural trend of laziness or poor work ethic, and your only supporting argument is that a word exists in the language? A word that roughly translates to “meh”, or “who cares” in English?

If only it were that easy to instil cultural values. Want to get rid of rape culture? Just get rid of the word “rape”.
Tagalog: The text labeling platform for teams
TimescaleDB looks great. I'm interested in using it but I'm concerned about the upgrade path across major PostgreSQL versions. Logical replication is a big help when upgrading PostgreSQL across major versions while minimizing downtime. As far as I understand it, TimescaleDB doesn't support logical replication yet. Major version upgrades with TimescaleDB is obviously a solvable problem but it probably means we'll have a more complicated upgrade path. Upgrading via logical replication is just so nice.
They don’t contract it out to Westinghouse or other similar companies?
Not sure what you mean, didn’t Apollo do this in the 1960s?
Facebook's Oversight Board ban of Trump is arbitrary and ideological