jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is exciting to see. Like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and the biggest climate solutions will ultimately be market based. If business isn't on board, it won't happen.

Make no mistake, the government is going to have to do a lot, too. The single biggest intervention the government can make, according to the IPCC[1] is to set a high price on carbon emissions. And one of the closest times that the economics profession has come to a consensus is when thousands of economists signed a statement[2] that the most effective way to price carbon is to put a high, steadily increasing price on it, give it back to people as dividends, and use a carbon border adjustment to maintain trade competitiveness. This approach is called carbon fee and dividend [3], or sometimes just "carbon dividends".

MIT built a climate policy simulator[4] called EN-ROADS that lets you move sliders to see what moves the needle most in terms of energy mix, and by extension global average temperature above pre-industrial average by the end of the century. It's hard to get anything real to happen without moving the Carbon price slider.

We need to pass carbon fee and dividend legislation at the national level. The legislation that has so far gained the most traction is the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act [5], but ultimately we just need something that actually solves this problem while being fair to people and good (or at least not bad) for business. It also needs to be as bipartisan as possible so that it doesn't get tossed around every time there's a shift in administrations.

The bottom line is that there's a cost to society from continuing to use fossil fuels, and that cost should be reflected in energy prices from carbon-intensive sources. That cost is currently reflected as $0, despite the billions of dollars in damage that climate impacts will have on our economy, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment[5], a massive and rigorous report from more than 300 experts and 13 federal agencies.

We have to supercharge capital investments into the future of clean tech. VC funding like Lowercarbon Capital is part of that, but we also need carbon dividends to greatly multiply that effect.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/climate/carbon-tax-united...
[2] https://econstatement.org/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/climate/carbon-tax-united...
[4] https://energyinnovationact.org/
[5] https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
Small-scale companies are probably more likely to have shapes for hard-to-find people. If you can hire one person to do three jobs you need 1/3rd of a person for, that's more valuable than finding three people who can do that; especially if those three people would have needed to be in close communications with each other.

Big companies tend not to have as many places where they need one person to wear many hats; so their hard-to-finds will tend to be finding deep experts, but there's probably not a lot of positions that really need that.
Maybe it is just me, but the basis has always been power and tribalism. Its then wrapped in catchy words such as racism, communism, democrats, republicans ...
That's a pendulum that swings both ways, however. Disabling a manufacturer's entire fleet of product when they go out of business is a little bit far on that scale, IMO. Like you said, the right to swing your fist ends at my nose.

That's why I said "how about we stop tethering devices to manufacturer servers" implying that their basic functionality should always be standalone. Why should we be increasing long-term waste by bricking such products?
> As for being anti vax, the vaccine is practically being forced down their throats.

This.

I very much believe in vaccines in general and me and my whole family are vaccinated according to calendar, but getting injection of something that is still at phase 2 trials, created using technology never used before without information on long term effects is something else.
EU salaries are also given before taxes.

Have you worked in the EU?
I actually only signed up to insta two weeks ago. In an attempt to keep up with some long lost friends. What are you scribed to that provides these?
But Solarwinds is agentless, which is what makes it attractive.
edit I see I'm late, dataflow already made this point. I'll leave this here anyway.

This rule of thumb is often useful but there are many exceptions.

As an example, the internal behaviour of this OpenCL function [0] is presumably quite different depending on which bits of the second parameter are set, but it's still a good design as all possible behaviours of the function are still closely related as far as the user is concerned.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/sdk/1.2/docs/man/xht...
He lost popularity as the advent of TV showed the public what was going on, as well as several key rulings by the Supreme Court.
The other thing is that most programs are probably doing nothing most of the time. Waiting for user input, waiting for network IO, waiting for some other real-world event.

For most developers, it's probably not using another language so you can "wait faster" most of the time. The performance sensitive code can be scrutinised and properly optimised on a case-by-case basis.
> Where I live(Germany), the business who only need 2 developers already have them.

No new businesses get created in Germany and no people retire? Sounds like a bleak place.
If segregation was legal and common, why would racists even need to resort to single family zoning to accomplish their goals of excluding people of color?

Did they anticipate the end of segregation and require multiple fallback methods of exclusion?
It's not only one-off social media samples...

When an actual genocide happens, you see massive flows of refugees trying to escape. Where are the news of massive flows of Chinese refugees in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan?
Some of the first software I ever wrote for pay was a daily shell script that pgp encrypted an ACH batch and sent it from one financial institution to another over a dedicated frame-link, via FTP. This was over 20 years ago! Can't believe it's still the same.
Ahh, I see. The change log for the compiler led me to believe that it was a recent thing.

Thanks.
Thoughtful features like supporting UEFI Secure Boot with vTPM attestation. This allows building setups where even a full GCP account compromise can be mitigated.

Integration with our org GSuite (this alone is a massive plus).
AND, the problem with F-35, as stated directly in the article, was not that we CANNOT build cool things, its that we didn't need something too fancy, and it became too fancy through add-ins that were not slated as requirements.
Technically the vaccine (at least the moderna one) was built in 48 hours. They had it prepared before they even had a sample of the virus. Chinese researchers uploaded the genetic sequence to the net and that was all moderna needed to build the vaccine. It was trials/testing/approval that took the rest of the time. Truly some mind-blowing stuff.
Sports like olympic fencing are very far removed from their martial origins.
https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreeme...
While it's still a lot, software development is only about half of the Mozilla Foundation's expensive (and not all of that is the browser). They spend around $50 million/year on marketing, ~$75 million/year on administration, etc. They publish annual audits and reports (which ironically probably eats up a million bucks on its own).
This is really great. Where have all these companies been? I've been in DC for almost 3 months now and I was preparing to move to SV because the startup community seemed non-existent and I hate working in a void. If I can find a startup that has a desk to rent so I can focus on my own project, or at least an enjoyable part-time gig, I might stick around.
No. No no no.

The source code to the hashing algorithm means nothing. It is already open source!

The reason that the salt is there is to prevent against rainbow tables.

The salting did NOT become useless. If they had not salted passwords, then many many more passwords would have been broken because instead of having to brute force each and every one, you'd just look it up in a massively large hash table.
I think the point that jbooth is trying to make is that, the wealth of the country has measurably increased since the 1980's but that increase is going mostly to the wealthy. The problem is jbooth is trying to prove this using inflation data. Indexing purchasing power to a constant basket of goods is missing the point because our production has become more efficient over that time.

But this is exactly the point he's trying to make: While productivity has increased across the board, the wealthy are gaining disproportionately from that increase in productivity. I think this is indisputable. The middle class is shrinking precisely because what it means to be "middle class" should reasonably grow with increases in productivity. However, this isn't happening. And by many measures its decreasing (say health care, college education).

The question should be then: is it in societies interest to make sure that the benefits of increased productivity are distributed more proportionally, and should government attempt to accomplish this.
Seth Godin prescribes this behavior as well, and acts on it if his eBook distributions are any evidence. Giving things away for free in a genuine way is a great way to make money if you are clever about it. There is nothing wrong with mutually-assured improvement.
As a DC area coder interested in startups, I thought I would map this to see where the hot spots are. I was not surprised to learn that there were several along the Dulles Toll road, but I didn't know that downtown DC was a favorite.

My map: http://bit.ly/fO9gyL
>"well, just ban all the food that's unhealthy, and people will eat better..." - but we know where that road leads.

Modern Europe?
"A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Provos and Mazieres.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80....

An HTML version appears to be here: http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/provos/provos_html/node...
Some of the links, particularly the main page, appear to be broken.
this is already available for the major browsers as an extension; try googling for "pwd hash" (from stanford) and "password hasher". also, as was noted in another comment, this is currently being discussed in another thread
What's worse, the fact that politicians are bought, or the fact that they're so cheap?
Not only coding, but much else in my (Electrical Engineering) college education, was taught as if I was a computer:
- my God you cannot use a term without defining it first
- you define the term once, then never again
- always start from a very small, apparently useless example, then build up, only getting to something useful at the very end

This is a great way to program a computer. It is a lousy way to teach a human. Humans are more like machine learning algorithms; give them examples, then later explain the general definitions and syntax.

If machine learning ever becomes a mainstream method of programming, I wonder if it would cause programming instruction to improve? Probably not. The "define first, useful applications last" style of teaching is probably actually based on math and philosophy logic, so there's centuries of inertia there.
The Nim compiler offers a set of tools intended for use in IDEs ant text-editors that help with this. Besides the style insensitive grep, there are also a compiler-assisted "go to definition" and "list references" commands.
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If you live in a rented apartment, you probably still need the landlord's permission to have someone who is not named on the lease live there for that period of time. If you're not there and they're paying you to live there, it really sounds like it's a sublease, not a roommate situation. But why listen to me? Take a look at your lease contract and see what it says.
In the to-do list (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html):
"Search engines :
Now the web of data and indexes exists, some really smart intelligent algorithms ("knowbots?") could run on it. Recursive index and link tracing, Just think... "
As you can see in the video, all cyclists drive quite slow. In the Netherlands, cyclists who use their bike for sport, do wear helmets and go outside town.
OK, I lost it when I got to the image captioned "FUCK."
Sure, but that still doesn’t explain the difference in rerendering between writing down the JSX element as a child or passing it in via props.
Note: I got an apartment in Davao (which is in the Philippines) for $180/mo, utilities included (which includes air conditioning and wi fi and all other normal things), near city center. Took a small amount of insider knowledge (read: I asked a native friend I had made how people find apartments -- her answer was only marginally more complex than 'ayos dito', which is an/the online marketplace in the Philippines -- and had her help out when the guy's English was not quite amazing).
Can you explain or give an example of a "rule", it's unclear what this means to me.
I'm with you. Not only is the data neutral, but it's damn hard to get that cat back in the bag- which is a glaring hole in the plans for solving the problem with crypto.
Closest any company has come to a decent web version of Access is Intuit Quickbase. But it is priced for enterprise and not hobbiest. Lacks full SQL but can do some pretty amazing things. Also has reasonable REST-like API. I built a PoC data backend for an iPhone app really easily.
Not just first class functions -- anonymous functions, and closures.

Python has first class functions, but not anonymous functions, since lambdas aren't full functions.

And Python doesn't have closures, because you have to use "global" or "nonlocal" (in Python 3) to assign a a variable in an enclosing scope.

These features let you write concurrent state machines in JS without explicit state -- you basically use the stack as state.

Python was pretty early in terms of event loop programming for interpreted languages -- asyncore in the stdlib, and Twisted. But I agree that the node.js style is nicer than asyncore, Twisted, or Tornado. I prefer coroutines over state machines, but if you're going to write state machines, than doing it with anonymous closures is nicer than doing it "manually" with classes and so forth.

Tcl was even earlier, but Tcl is pretty foreign to most people, and was more of an embedded language than a scripting language. Pretty sure Tcl has full anonymous closures, but it is a bizarre language in some other ways.

I haven't seen the event loop style in Perl but I think you can do it. If someone has an example I'd like to see it. To me, Perl only barely qualified as a real programming language because you can't even name your function params? At least when I used it, which was over 10 years ago.
I didnt really say that. I said that if it puts Facebook's value at risk, what exactly was that value? Why is it zero sum?
The Amazon employee Amazon wants you to listen to.
Petro-dollar is not about US dependences on oil producers. It is the other way. It is about forcing all countries to using dollars to buy oil. This allows the US to sell dollars and charge for this in various ways. On the other hand it requires the US to keep military control of oil logistics. The advatege for allied oil producers it that they can trade oil more easily. You know - transferring billions of dollars over international sea in the form of oil requires a lot of support from military just to make it happen.
Have some advice from this experienced dad with 12 kids: the baby tub is a poor way to clean a baby. The water instantly gets disgusting from poo or whatever it is you are trying to remove, and then that gets all over the baby. Plus the baby tub costs money and takes up space. It's more clutter to trip over in the dark.

Babies can be washed in sinks, with the drain open and the water running. (don't let them kick the water temperature control though) Babies can be washed in a normal shower, held in the arms of a parent.
"Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."--misappropriated from George Santayana.

Without a solitary shred of evidence to support my conjecture, I claim that the problem is that programmers are given a smattering of information about how to use some tools, but are not taught about the progression of tools over time. The history of programming languages is a history of attempts to solve various problems and a history of various design trade-offs.

Deprived of this basic grounding, young programmers are constantly rediscovering the good and the bad, and the Internet gives us a constant stream of their revelatory essays, all of which can be summarized as "Babies vs. Bathwater: Fight!"
I often travel internationally (with no data roaming) and I've noticed that the iPhone's A-GPS is incapable of determining my location when I arrive in a new place, even if I've pre-loaded my route/maps in the maps application prior to arrival. But once I've connected to the internet - even for a few seconds - my phone is permanently able to track itself in that city, even after I've left and returned months later.

It's going to be unfortunate when I can't do this anymore because of people blowing this issue out of proportion. I hope Apple will at least provide the option of caching this data for longer than 7 days.
I was specifically talking about storing your IP along with the location data. That makes no sense as it does not add value to the data.

They have access to it sure. But they have access to it through a lot of other methods. In fact they even have your credit card information. You gave to it them :)
On the one hand, this does not inspire confidence. It is disturbing to have magic in one's software. On the other hand, the speed gains are really impressive: I'm sure there are times when it is reasonable to make a magic vs. utility tradeoff. Also, it's OSS: I'm sure someone will eventually want to make a well-understood and documented version, and the devs seem like people who would be willing to accept that.
This post is about how he allocates money to his investment accounts, which was not interesting to me.

If you want to know how he actually invests his money, that's discussed in this post of his:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/04/20/rebalancing-in-...
Which agricultural plant gets 5% efficient photosynthesis ? That's huge. 2% is quite a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
Sure, that's why they say "anonymous". If they do not delete the IP address as soon as technically possible they are lying about the anonymous part.

This is not about ability. This is about trust. They say the data is anonymous which means they are obligated to disregard the IP address and to not log it anywhere.
Well you can at least for the next few months, just don't update your OS
In the EU at least, it seems the offerings are likely to be with a leased battery precisely for that reason. The batteries can also be used for lower-requirement purposes after being retired from vehicle use.
Who cares if it is? Why can't he profit while also sharing a cool link? If HN didn't think it was worth visiting, it wouldn't be voted up. If HN does like the link you send, and it's a link that incidentally may lead to money for the OP, what difference does that make?
The legality (or lack thereof in the US) of DeCSS has absolutely nothing to do with publishers making deliberate errors in their pressings.

In fact, it's nothing more than yet another reason why comparing the frequency of DVD ripping to CD ripping and drawing conclusions about the effectiveness of deliberately introducing errors in pressings is flawed.

Furthermore, I said "cross platform", not "ships from the factory with standard installations". If you don't understand the difference between these...

I recognize that you enjoy digging your own grave, but seriously man.
So the wife wasn't the co-founder?
NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Plain HTML version:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-507es.html
HiFi and its API are running on Recess. The Recess database code is fundamental to making the data model / API possible.

Recess has been somewhat dormant while focusing on product. I've slowly and infrequently been readying the 5.3 branch. 5.3 has so much upside and has now been out for over a year I see very little value in doing new work. The 5.3 branch packages modules for individual consumption rather than taking a kitchen sink approach. It feels more functional, in the lambda-y sense, given 5.3's anonymous function support. I've started a new SQL generation layer that is in the same spirit as Recess' SQLBuilder but much more powerful and flexible with heavy inspiration from Arel.

I don't want to make any promises but its my full intention to package up the lessons of the last year or so into a great set of 5.3 libraries of Recess lineage.
On a personal note, I was raised in a Christian Science family. While devout, my parents were very attentive and I was lucky to have a healthy childhood (though I didn't even try aspirin until I was in college). A philosophy degree at SFSU cured me of that dogma :) but that's part of why I'm sympathetic; I love my dad even if he is a radical.

I think parents still have a legal obligation to not be negligent. There's a difference between not providing any care (while playing WOW all day) and doing your Christian Scientist damnedest for your children. A person espouses civil libertarianism not because they hate government, but because they trust people and hold others to the personal commitments they make.
Your girlfriend is sexist then.
We, too, have ported Readability to a web based API, however ours is synchronous. It's lighting fast under the hood (thank you Cython) and you can hit it as much as you like, as quickly as you like. We currently process about 5 million calls to clean-html.json a month, which is odd, because we added it to our set of API calls on a whim. It's turned out to be our most popular API call, by a large margin.

We're also going to be issuing an update soon to include multi-page reading. So you can grab those long, paginated New Yorker articles all in one API call.

http://www.repustate.com
It has an approximately equivalent Fair Dealing, but in general fair dealing/fair use gives much weaker protection to commercial users than to personal or academic users.
He claims he sold $20,000 worth of product in 1 day, for a profit of $3,000. However, if he is sending fake product (like the women claims she received) profits may potentially be much higher.