skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon is a heuristic, not a target. The air isn't bad because of carbon; carbon oxides are just the most common of the GHGs we put in the air.

Bunker fuel contains a lot more light-molecular-weight things that aren't hydrocarbons (e.g. nitrogenous molecules), and so when they burn, you end up with toxic GHGs being produced, rather than just bad for climate change GHGs. (And, as you mention, the fact that we're burning it mostly at the beginning and end of the trip, means we're burning it near ports, and therefore making the air at port cities — and nearby estuaries — toxic.)

But even then, the concern with bunker fuel in particular isn't really the GHGs (i.e. the low-molecular-weight products of combustion that stay airborne), but all the high-molecular-weight stuff that's mixed in there, that doesn't stay airborne, but is temporarily put into the air during combustion.

Bunker fuel is "dirty fuel", using a similar sense of "dirty" to a "dirty bomb" — not that it's radioactive, but that it "salts the earth" where it goes off. Except that a bunker-fuel "bomb" goes off over water, and all the resulting heavy-molecular-weight vapors that come off the combustion then fall into said water, contaminating the oceans+estuaries with these chemicals. Bunker fuel salts the sea.
Or, more likely than stealing their SSL keys, found a “vulnerability” that caused whatever string the smart contract is looking for to appear in a signed request from the server. I put vulnerability in quotes because it's not clear to me that that is not something banks would consider part of their threat model.

It's kind of like how SMS messages worked fine until “if I can read an SMS sent to your number I can withdraw from your account” became part of the threat model.
More generally, this concept of creating money out of thin air, yes.
A lot of these migrants are traveling via sea from the coast of Africa to European countries, no? The article posits that the EU is funding the Libyan government to intercept these boats and put them in offshore detention -- what safe land did they pass through? Would you consider Libya a safe country for their ultimate asylum if they're being detained in these horrific conditions?
Gaddafi's government had tight border controls and prevented illegal entry into europe. Since Libya fell the country has become a prime route for migrants seeking to cross the borders into europe.
2014 Vice film
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/europe-or-die-storming-th...

Now Libya is again a barrier to european entry as Vice and now Ian Urbina
/nyt describe.
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/europe-or-die-libyas-migr...
Tether’s total (on-chain) liabilities sum to a bit less than two months’ worth of Federal Reserve purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities. They’re huge, if they’re a fraud they’re probably the biggest ever, but in macro terms they’re small fry.
I really hope Unison succeeds. It looks like a really interesting take on FP / distributed systems. The fact that Paul Chiusano and Runar Bjarnason are at the helm is exciting, especially to Scala / FP devs like me who know them as the writers of the legendary "red book". Just based on the rare quality of that book, I'm super interested in other FP projects that they're involved in.
I understand what you are saying, but why then didn't the writer apply the term "savage" to the "Western Hunter Gatherer" groups they describe earlier:

> By the mid to late 5th millennium, the peoples of Greece had diverged from their cousins. Europe was convulsed in a parallel set of conflicts involving tribes of WHGs conquering their EEF neighbors and establishing themselves as a new ruling class, catalyzing a new synthetic culture with their new subjects.

The WHG by your definition are just as "savage" than the Indo-Europeans but they are described as "conquering" (which is a term of glorification), and "catalyzing a new synthetic culture". In contrast, the Indo Europeans are described as "destroying" and "not content their new lands".

I have a hard time believing the intent, process, and outcome behind either circumstance was appreciably different from the other, at least in any way we can infer from archaeology.

If the term "savage" as used in the article is simply a matter of "civilization" and not brutality, then the Indo-Europeans should be considered far less savage than the WHGs, since they had created the spoked wheel and chariot technologies, and were pastoralists who practiced wheat/barley agriculture and animal husbandry - they were not forest-dwelling hunter-gatherers. In this way, they were far more similar to the EEF in lifestyle.

Therefore, I don't think that the author is using the term "savage" denotatively as you suggest, but rather is coloring their otherwise fascinating article with their own anachronistic opinions of the ancient Indo Europeans.
Every time there's a tether story here, the inevitable discussion of fraudulent activity comes up because Tether seems like an outright scam. I'm inclined to believe all that from what I've read and however little I can make sense of. However, I can't really tell how this ends. They seem confident that there will be no repercussions to minting money out of thin air and, so far, they've been right.

Eventually, that's bound to catch up, but I suspect it's going to hurt a lot more than just those with crypto assets and hurt a lot of those without crypto assets, no?
It kind of depends on how exactly the sharing mechanism works.

If you are in a place with code-review, the 2-person system allows one person to at least read the code that is being written as it's being written, so the genesis and reasoning behind such code might be a little more obvious.
I wonder how they test these.
There's nothing in contract law preventing parties to agree on the automated execution of software when certain criteria are met.

It's just that it doesn't trump contract law and it's not generally a barrier for implementing contracts digitally.
Look up Eni and Enrico Mattei: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Mattei

Mattei took over the relatively small national oil company in Italy, expanded it aggressively until it was able to compete with the Seven Sisters (Exxon, BP, etc, all not state owned). State owned companies can definitely compete.

Should I add that Mattei died under mysterious circumstances?
Custom Minecraft Classic 0.30/ClassiCube client written in C
Indeed it might! I personally hate paying a chunk of my annual income to the department of defense. But "the US govt" sure describes a large machine, and it's worth highlighting that some parts of that machine are better than others, and I believe that some of them are definitely fixable. We should fight for the good programs and try to kill that bad ones, imo.

But yeah, I mean on the whole, if I could abolish the US govt (not other govt's, just this one), I probably would. But that's not my call! So in the meantime I'm voting progressive and contributing to pressure to repair the good systems we have and make life more livable for the unlucky souls born poor in this country and on this planet.
Shouldiuseajsonbfield.com
>I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 30s and my life has been on a substantial upswing since

Is that to say you started medication, or just knowing about ADHD has helped you with this?
Also they added microtransactions on many platforms. I did expect them to ruin it more by now though.
A whole mall+parking lot is probably as grand if not grander than I was imagining an average facility to be.
> What would be awesome is if instead of this we gave a fuck ton of money to the post office and tried to solve this problem for everyone and also eroded amazon's competitive advantage.

Amazon solved a problem and reaped a reward.

Your response to that is to take everyone’s money, and give it to someone else in the hopes that they can solve the problem. Sure, I suppose, no reason for it not to work.

On the other hand “why don’t we just enable remote commerce like this for everyone as a societal good” is beyond simplistic and naive. Amazon is very good at what they do and what they do is not easy.
Oh, the contemptuous disdain dripping in this comment.. somehow feels like the early 1900s pride of the British Empire.. just sounds very awful tbh.
he was involved with theranos
Sure, but that is not really what the article is about.

And rewrites are the most common of them and also being the easiest to actually have control over, and most can't even be bothered with that.
>Amazon doesn't send me shit I don't order and don't want

Give it 10 years when Amazon is looking for new ways to increase profitability and shit's shipped to your door that you have to schedule a ship back or you'll end up being charged for it.
Termination of LG Mobile Developer website service
It's funny that people think that even 1% of all desktop users is "little". That's hundreds of millions of users.
> So the problem was offshored to Turkey, and to some extent Greece, and I'm sure to some North African nations in deals I'm not aware of.

Surely you mean the problem was offshored to Europe, and now (part of) Europe is onshoring it back to the Middle East? Contrary to popular belief, Europe is not the only place in the world suitable for asylum.
Yeah 10 episodes down a hole of anime season and you find the last ones don’t have English dubs resulting in an impending shit show to deal with because no one bothered to release it or there are no seeds for single episodes. Then there’s the subs written by someone who doesn’t know any languages apparently. Then there’s the shitty transcodes originally. Then the logistics of managing which one of the 5 members of my family wanted it and getting it to the device of their choice.

Then you find something is only available in x265 so you have to transcode it yourself so it’ll play on the kids 5 year old Samsung TV. Oh and that only supports certain very fussy audio streams.

Just no. I’m on the mark. I’ve been doing this shit for a decade and I’m tired and fed up with it. I pay ~£35 a month for all my services and that’s a bargain. It’s literally fuck all money to make the problems go away.
It’s simple, and you said it: It’s better than what they had. The places they are coming from are terrible.
I've come to the conclusion that it's a good skill to have since it's (or logging which is basically the same) the only debugging method that's always guaranteed to be available. For example there's lots of build and CI tools out there that have no Real Debugger.
https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...
Well, the basics remain the same

Asylum is not a "free migration card" as some NGOs or some people purport it to be. You don't get it just because you were born in a poor country.

And as much as some maybe, sheltered (or just idealistic) think borders shouldn't exist, no, they're there for a reason.

And the more asylum gets abused the more it will be harder to get.
The last discovery is to add all the container security boundaries to a super lightweight container called a process.
Really cool thought experiment but it's hard to imagine making significant investments on a project that wouldn't produce any results until ~250 years. Any project on that time scale and that distance from "home" would likely need to be completely self sufficient so I would image the project would need a fully capable AI and self replication or at least some sort of very advanced manufacturing capabilities. Autonomous self replicating drones like in universal paperclips are likely the answer.
Because it’s better than where they came from, usually.
There still has yet to be any verification of anything backing Tether. It is likely to be literally thin air.
Right, but I hope you also acknowledge that the US does not have very many flexible, customizable offerings competing in healthy markets?

There is barely a US industry left that isn't completely captured by 2-5 corporations. We may have the illusion of markets and choice, but we don't. We have monopolies and oligopolies extracting monopoly rents because they buy, destroy, or merge with the competition.
Then let me know what else should I use for schemaless data
Thanks for the link.

I have found online a fragment of Wasson, but unfortunately the fragment stops before page 129, so I could not see the rebuttal, only a mention by Wasson that some colleague derided him for believing that there is a connection between the name Mycenae and mushrooms.

Wasson might be right about the use of mushrooms at the Greek mysteries, but that has nothing to do with the name of the city Mycenae.

We know that the female name from which Mycenae is derived has been in use, e.g. in the Odyssey some nymph with this name is mentioned.

It does not make much sense for a woman's name to refer to mushrooms.

Assuming that you are right and the woman/city name is pre-Greek, then that removes any connection with the Greek name of the mushroom, which is likely to be Indo-European, derived from the same word with the Latin "mucus".
The truck only has to drive down the street once, as opposed to 5 trucks driving down the same street?
Sounds like this mirrors the situation in the United States, where the root causes are political instability and economic devastation in nations of the south, some of which exacerbated by American policies.
"What if the city does surrender? Are those people killed or sold into slavery anyway?"

Typically, no. The attacker may leave the city entirely intact, or may place their own proxy government. They may take the elites of the city as prisoners, either as punishment or as insurance.
I recommend the author's book "In Persuasion Nation", a collection of short stories, mostly a kind of near-future sci-fi satirizing excesses of commercialism.

Here is a story that made me pick up the book after I heard it on the radio: My Flamboyant Grandson":

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-...
I agree, we just added some markdown examples.
Let those people stay back and fix their own countries.

The countries of the EU and The Americas all went through wars-- in some case several wars including civil wars, to get where they are now.

I think war is a part of nature-- whether a petri dish, a savannah, or a human "nation". Disputes over resources are a part of nature.

Migrants, stay home. If you're really so valuable to an economy, go and stay valuable in your own economy.

Oh wait-- Maybe we should drain all of our resources to pay for migrants. And then, yay, some country can come invade our country because we'll be poor too!
> Those aren't the only two options. You can try to get a team to develop systems that any other capable software engineer can pick up reasonably (such as via effective documentation, and reasonably maintainable nature of the code).

That sounds nice in theory, but I've only ever seen it be a disaster in practice. It's like that mirror thing from Harry Potter. As soon as you actually try and make a maintainable code base, it starts going the other way.

The only way to truly optimise for onboarding is by writing the simplest, cleanest code possible. Everyone is already trying to do that by hiring the best devs they can. Any further efforts just look like more dependencies, more patterns, and more incidental complexity to act as guard rails in the pursuit of a newb-friendly codebase.

The end result is that new devs are productive at small and simple tasks, but big things take longer. Also, you're never going to find a manager that understands this trade off, so your new dev is going to be left in a terrible position trying to explain how they got so much work done in the first month when they knocked off all the small cards, but now the new feature that the business desperately needs has taken 3 months all by itself.
Wow, that's strange, I could have sworn it was earlier. It must have been 2010-2011 when I stopped playing it then.
> Alternatively 300km range added in about 15mins.

Doesn't that already exist in cars that consumers already have? Can't the Lucid Air, Porsche Taycan, and all of the new Teslas (and probably more I'm not thinking of) all do that?
Wow, some of this stuff is truly incredible. You have "activist groups" assisting human traffickers, that is very surprising (these groups are very suspect, the person who led one of the largest "activist group" in Calais was having sex with migrants...apparently this is rife). You have someone who works for a nonprofit claiming they are a journalist when they are, unsurprisingly, imprisoned for doing things they shouldn't be doing. The author describes the danger of Libya at great length but the implied solution is: just let everyone come in...ofc, makes perfect sense.

Just generally, is it a good idea to enter a country that is in a state of war in order to illegal migrate to another country (which, btw, has very open routes for people to seek asylum legally)? No, it is not a good idea.
Any entity of genus Homo is (or was) human. Just not necessarily culturally or physiologically modern.
All EVM programs that run on Ethereum are trivially decidable because of the per-block gas limit ;P
It looks like it is made by someone who just picked up HTML/CSS and has zero knowledge of design. Hope you are trolling.
As I said, I don't have proof about parts I can't see and never claimed so. But the parts I can see are IMO bad, so it's reasonable to be skeptical about the parts I can't see.

Also, I haven't worked with my actual bank, but I've done multiple bits of consulting in the past on some other national bank's technology, and my time there was such a disorganized mess that I have to doubt the quality of all of their systems and practices.
I guess it depends, why do you have schemaless data?
Depends a bit what you are looking for but I would say speechly.com
How about those who buy plane tickets from Iraq to Belarus and then try to go through Polish border to get to EU?

Also, which country in North Africa is currently not safe to be? I'm not aware of any war currently happening in Lybia, Tunisia, Egypt?
They are not edge cases for the people who use it out of need.
The meteor that nearly killed the dinosaurs is estimated to have contained 420 zettajoules of energy in its impact, and to have killed to extinction 75% of all plant and animal species on Earth. There are some 13_000 nuclear weapons currently in the world. If we assume they are all equivalent to the largest one ever tested (210 petajoules), they would in aggregate contain 2.73 zettajoules of energy, or 0.65% of the meteor.

Maybe you're right, we don't have the capacity to blow up the Earth quite yet.
Plights are a part of nature.

Not everyone is going to live the life of a billionaire. Few can.
Agreed. Nobody is solving any interesting problems in crypto-space, except for a few computer scientists. The rest are degenerate gamblers who don't realize cryptocurrency is exciting because it's no different than a slot machine at the casino.

There are so many problems I'd love to be solved by crypto, but it's so frustrating how caught up with winning the lottery these people seem to be. It's an ad nauseum cult.

The only good thing about crypto is how it occasionally decreases inflation in the US every time this digital "gold" is lost.
Regarding being asked about blockchains: I think people might just be trying to make conversation with the author because they know crypto is a place their interests intersect tech, and clearly the author has an opinion on the subject.

But how many of these “takes” can we see on HN? What am I supposed to take away from this? Personally, I don’t think farm animal sanctuaries solve a problem that’s interesting. There just isn’t much to gain by sharing my opinion on farm animal sanctuaries with others though, especially multiple times a day.
A great, great man. And one of the few Presidential candidates with a sense of humor [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBklPt7oUOc starting at 11:00
No, people don’t just “move across borders if they need to”. This is what militaries are for, to enforce sovereignty. Saying that is impossible is undermining the notion of statehood.
Maybe, but I think there was still a risk you'd end up under water? I don't think it ever actually happened to me as I was genuinely scared of getting stuck so I was always prepared and careful.
You can run it on a machine and access the wiki over http. The Files app on ipad can do webdav, but it won't help ya much with the tiddlywiki side of things.
I was getting the immigration story of a friend the other day, as I often do. How did a brown guy end up in the UK? I've been even more keen on it since my parents died, having left me in a part of the world where I'm clearly foreign. To be fair I did move around a bit myself, but Western Europe is not that big. In our family we have horrendous stories. People who fell in the water, terrible fights breaking out in the camps. People feeling so desperate they sent their kids to foreign countries under false pretences.

As we were talking, it struck me that there's no right to free migration. There's all sorts of other things in the human rights convention, but going where you want somehow isn't one of them. This is despite the economic orthodoxy being that mobility, particularly of capital, is good.

I do get it. It's not actually a plus for absolutely everyone in the receiving country. Perhaps they compete for jobs or housing. There's legitimate concerns about people bringing values that aren't compatible with existing ones. Or they might commit crimes.

But there's also a lot of evidence that future generations assimilate. You'll meet plenty of darker skinned people in Europe who pretty much think the same as anyone else. They take a job, they pay their taxes, they root for the national team.
Nice! This really makes me want to play with notcurses. :) BTW, did you notice the image of a coronavirus in there?
Managing Digital Files (e.g., Photographs) in Files and Folders
That is a pretty limited view of what blockchains solve these days. This reads like someone looked into Bitcoin once ten years ago and then applied that to everything that came after it.

You don’t have to be interested in it but I hardly find this blog as a compelling or well thought out reason for finding them boring. It’s more like a reason for why you want to stay ignorant about the tech which no one asked you to know about in the first place.
They're not Lybians escaping Lybia.. They're Subsaharan Africans trying to get to Europe because they don't like where they were born, which is understandable, but is not grounds for asylum.

The reason the EU asks the Lybian coast guard to intercept is because German NGO ships are patrolling just outside the maritime borders waiting to ferry people to whatever unlucky Southern European country is forced to accept them.
Some reasons a migrant should be automatically disqualified for asylum.

1. Traveling through a safe/peaceful country and not requesting asylum there first.

2. Attacking anyone protecting the border of the country you are apply to asylum for.

3. Destroying border barriers of the host country.

4. Committing any violent crime while applying for asylum in the host country.

5. Prostituting minors or other asylum seekers while in the host country.

Maybe a lot of other reasons, but otherwise some compassionate method for dealing with migrants should be worked towards.
Living is just moving stuff around based on the stimulus received. :-)
Just about every Ethereum competitor has some equivalent to ERC20 tokens. I'm surprised Tether dedicated 1 Billion USDT to TRON but its likely because they don't think there will be any repercussions for creating liquidity out of thin air.
Pilots who used to fly Amazon Prime branded planes were actually flying for large cargo outfits like Atlas Air.

But Amazon has now gotten into the airline business, with a purchase of 11 Boeing 767s.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-makes-its-first-aircr...
Destruction of government property is generally considered illegal.
"The only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything after that has to be learned."

And even that's not universal, it's quite normal for newborns to struggle with feeding.