skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can sort of explain how life is in beautiful symbiosis with the planet it resides on, but mostly this sort of perspectives cause harm. It's not science and encourages magical thinking.

- "Gaia" makes it easy to think we are bound to Earth, and that nature protects Earth. There is no magical force that ties us to Earth, or a magical force that keeps it liveable, it's just a lucky coincidence and a complex set of systems. Maybe we stop global warming, and then a supervolcano erupts.

- "Balance of ecosystems" creates the illusion that even the tiniest change in nature will hurt it. We spend more time worrying about tigers going extinct than an asteroid wiping out all life.

- "Biodiversity" makes us think that more variety is always better. No universal law rules that a single super-crop couldn't keep us happy and fed in an environment without biodiversity. If we bring two of each species to a space station, it won't be because of economic reasons. Wild animals and plants do their best to destroy biodiversity constantly anyways.

- "Nature knows" causes us to think that naturally occurring solutions are better. For example the genetically engineered Golden Rice, which could save millions of lives yearly, is a victim of this belief.

Similar flaws in thinking even cause most of the medical profession to only see medicine as a way to treat disease instead of improving wellbeing. Ask doctors and they'll tell you: all medicine has side-effects! If you gave doctors a pill that eliminates the need for sleep without side effects, they would only give it to people who are dying from insomnia.
Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars
How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?
It's an Android terminal emulator https://termux.com/
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> The problem is bus lanes are hopelessly inefficient, because there aren't enough buses to fully utilize them

That means there is a lot of capacity to add buses without causing congestion in the bus lanes. That's good.

Obviously it might be tempting to say "look we can't sacrifice one lane of 4 here to buses when cars are jammed bumper to bumper in the other 3 lanes" but that's how bus lanes work. With too few buses, they are just an ineficcient demonstration to the people in cars that they really should be riding the bus.

> If you want to spend resources to make buses more attractive, start by eliminating fares.

If petrol taxes, parking and tolls are high enough, then the buses are already almost free in comparison. Whether it costs $0 or $4 to ride the bus to work shouldn't matter - if parking, gas and tolls are 10 times that for one day of driving. Eliminating fares is one way of making the bus relatively cheaper compared to cars - but there is very little room there. The room to increase the cost of driving is almost infinite and it can be tweaked with gas taxes, congestion fees and parking costs.

Btw: do people in US metro areas usually pay to park at work in inner cities? If metro area parking is a taxable comp then that's also a cost (e.g. if my marginal tax rate is 50% and free parking would be valued at $100 so I'd be taxed $50 per day for that benefit).
I think this thread already has past that point.
And if you are not programmer you can claim that == for comparison contains unnecessary syntax.
> She was

Not a "she", according to the US government who keeps Manning in the male-only correctional facility at Fort Leavenworth.

Thanks, Obama!
why do people keep comparing LA to any other city in the world?

that's the same logic of: my life is a mess, but my neighbour's is worse, so I'm pretty alright.

I do think traffic is one of the main issues in our society because we still have the same mentality about cars as we had 50y ago (or more). They should never be a priority, we're a collective not a bunch of singulars, so investing in good public transportation and keeping private cars out of the main areas of interest should be the norm. This way of living messes up with our health and life quality.

Here in Lisbon, Portugal, people complaint everyday about traffic and how much time they spend on it..even public transportation is a mess because it's schedules and quantity aren't that good. Fortunately, 2 years ago, I switched to riding my bicycle for 50min (each way) everyday. The commute is by the river and there's no description for how better my life got.
But I recognise we can't all do that, so at least we should invest in good public transports and keep cars out of the cities so we can just walk a little bit once we got out of the train, metro, bus, whatever or even bring our bicycles to make this easier.

We will always be as lazy as possible if we allow ourselves to drive the car everywhere.

Let's just stop thinking that the car are the solution for need, it should never be. Cars and highways mess up our health, nature, landscapes, life quality, noise, etc. etc.

(I was in Washington D.C. for 2 months and hell I was about to get crazy just from the noise of cars and for the incapacity of being able to roam freely by foot.. there were cars EVERYWHERE, huge roads everywhere. I honestly think that cities like that aren't made for people who live or work there.)
* Download requires you to sell your soul.

* No comments/documentation about the hardware or the challenges the author has gone through.

* Github repository has just CHANGELOG.md and README.md.

* Some how the author managed to get a popular game running flawlessly in a short time.

It looks more like another emulation scam than an actual product, but it could be one of those projects the author is just dreaming about making an emulator. Is that you, vgturtle?
If you control both sides of the channel - compression and decompression - and can make money out of better or faster compression, you should definitely look into RAD Game Tools' Oodle libraries - they exceed LZ4/Zstd on all axes.

http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm

(not a employee or a financially related in any way to them, just a compression nerd following the field)
Probably the core cypherpunk value is the right to privacy. That might seem funny, given Wikileaks. But there's the argument that right to privacy is inversely proportional to power. So governments should have no privacy.

But anyway, do read the book. You might also enjoy Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.[0,1] It's rather the grandfather of laissez faire.

0) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?n...

1) http://www.fullbooks.com/Of-Captain-Mission.html
Why so mean? https://github.com/naftulikay/travis-pls/pull/2
And the Benin empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Empire

Not so large, but noteworthy for the admiration Europeans showed for Benin City / Edo, and for its centuries of history of trading extensively with Europe (and even employing European mercenaries to assist in attacks on surrounding states). E.g. a Dutch account from the 17th century (from the Wikipedia link):

> The king's palace or court is a square, and is as large as the town of Haarlem and entirely surrounded by a special wall, like that which encircles the town. It is divided into many magnificent palaces, houses, and apartments of the courtiers, and comprises beautiful and long square galleries, about as large as the Exchange at Amsterdam, but one larger than another, resting on wooden pillars, from top to bottom covered with cast copper, on which are engraved the pictures of their war exploits and battles...

The "special wall" was the Benin Earthworks[1]:

> They extend for some 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometres) in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 2,510 sq. miles (6,500 square kilometres) and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.[3]

... and it was destroyed by the British [2] as they conquered, burned and looted the city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Expedition_of_1897
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Everyone is selfish to some extent. Your view probably makes you more selfish than people who would be happy to ride a train with every class - but still less selfish than people who insist on a private car. Up to you what level of selfishness makes someone a bad person.
Is that a buzz feed article? #images #randomConclusions
I've spent the last few years reading/learning everything I can get my hands on involving artificial intelligence and CRISPR. Along with VR/AR and robotics, I consider them to be among the most important areas of extraordinary potential for the next several decades at a minimum.
VCs, startups: Stop networking so much
This is unbelievable for any notebook lover! Thank you so much!
Best comment I've read on here since I don't know when. Well said.
> It seems a bit uneconomical, if a population 10k smelly homeless prevents a population of 1+ million people getting to their work comfortably and efficiently.

It is indeed. Clearly something has broken down somewhere. But do you have any proposal for a politically-acceptable way to resolve it?
I can ping bing.com, but does that mean bing is not hosted on Azure?
[Though it redirects to pinging something like a-0001.a-msedge.net]
Review: BOSE QuietComfort 35 – The “GETTING THINGS DONE” Headphone
I have two kids, and I love the time I spend with them. My life's goal at the moment is "Have a good time with my kids and teach them the good stuff". There is this song "Cat's in the Cradle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_in_the_Cradle which I really love. It shows the pitfalls of living a fast life.

Pasting the lyrics here (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/harrychapin/catsinthecradle.h...) :

"Cat's In The Cradle"

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son
I don't know when, but we'll get together then, Dad
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you comin' home son
I don't know when, but we'll get together then, Dad
We're gonna have a good time then
Are you implying that offensive tools cannot be useful for defense? Really?
Show HN: Globtrottr.com – travel maps about the journey, not the destination
Celebrate International Women’s Day, National Women’s History Month
> (100 people dying every day, are you kidding me?)

Out of 300+ million. 100 people dying is one car accident per state per day, effectively. That seems like a very low, very tolerable rate.
Lawyer up. An agreement by email is still an agreement, but it will need to be defended. Preserve all emails and any other evidence of your contributions to the company. Expect "not due to performance" to turn into "totally due to terrible performance" as soon as things get hot. Know that a lawyer costs money and you should think about the tradeoff between that cost and the value of the equity (which may or may not have any value down the road). Holding out for your full third share might not be better than accepting a quickly negotiated 25%. Or less, depending on a realistic future value of that share. Don't make it personal.

But mostly, lawyer up.
The classic joke:

Some years ago a small rural town in Spain twinned with a similar town in Greece.
The mayor of the Greek town visited the Spanish town. When he saw the palatial mansion belonging to the Spanish mayor, he wondered aloud how on earth he could afford such a house.

The Spaniard replied: ‘You see that bridge over there? The EU gave us a grant to construct a two-lane bridge, but by building a single lane bridge with traffic lights at either end, I could build this place.’

The following year the Spaniard visited the Greek town. He was simply amazed at the Greek mayor's house: gold taps, marble floors, diamond doorknobs, it was marvellous.

When he asked how he’d raised the money to build this incredible house, the Greek mayor said: ‘You see that bridge over there?’

The Spaniard replied: ‘No.’
Different people are skilled at and like doing different things. I'm not the "big, original vision" guy. I'm the guy who pairs with the big vision guy and figures out the myriad details required to make that big vision come to fruition, figures out how to reign in the unrealistic, unachievable, or merely "sometime later" parts of the vision, so we can deliver in the near-term on the parts that are achievable.

That means I often get (and win at) the second-in-command role, but I don't see that as being taken advantage of at all. I've made quite a good career of it and honestly and earnestly enjoy it.
The scale is very deceptive. The estimates are a million cubic yards of erosion and repair bill of about $250 megabucks. Of course, the smart move isn't to fix it exactly back to how it was exactly but to engineer the most value/$ TCO fix with the least cost and effort.

There's probably 20 Hoffman-crew-sized rented vehicles, and subcontracted employees and value-add diesel fuel ain't cheap either. It's going to take probably 9 months, at a minimum.
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How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?
Make sure you don't mean "how do companies make sure they only hire people who are clones of their existing staff?"

The answer lies more in making your company somewhere where anyone can excel, then looking for people who show empathy in your interview process.

Here are some things we do: https://www.haplo-services.com/blog/2017/working-with-early-...

The post focuses on early stage developers, but I believe the principles stand at all levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

The plans aren't his.
Building an API Gateway with Lua and Nginx
As has been demonstrated, the narrative is very easy to manipulate when people are lazy about how they acquire and treat data.
Interestingly, this new development could also be a good thing for the CIA. A way to clean the slate as well as a rallying call for new talent with fresh minds, with far less baggage. The proliferation of this tech was inevitable. We need to set standards for responsible use. My perspective constitutionally is that it falls between the 2nd and 4th amendments, depending on intended and actual use. As a data collection tool, it should be treated with the same care as medical data.
There's instructions for installing from their repos elsewhere on the site: https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu
> Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?

As ridiculous as shutting down discussions about the unusual circumstances of his death with "it's so incredibly disrespectful to his family"?
From page 53:

> Organizations should ensure that they have
> disabled HTML from being used in emails, as
> well as disabling links. Everything should
> be forced to plain text.

Well, that ship has sailed ...

Further, a comment on twitter[0]:

> ... webmail UX robbed users of clues as to
> links' effects or origin. Then we blame them
> for not learning.

How can we become serious about security?

--------

[0] https://twitter.com/sergeybratus/status/830864841866874881
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
What kind of trolling nonsense is this? The senior engineers I know all have spouses and children, and our employers find us quite desirable to have around.

If you're focusing on learning each new whizbang whatsit that comes out, you'll never learn how to lead a team. You'll teach your employer that you can be abused, because you are desperate to impress them.

Giving up a family to stay ahead will leave you a lonely, burned out mess. This is a marathon, brother, not a sprint.
A cough may be evidence for a tuberculosis infection, but it would be foolish to take anyone who is coughing and say "hey! we should test for TB". Homeostasis is a necessary but far from sufficient test for biological life.
Feeding alt-right conspiracy theories

1. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/794450623404113920

2. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-echoes-tweet-anti-...
> Most of these things the HN crowd obsesses over are [not important]

Maybe 'most', but some of it is important in terms of developing your skill set. It can be difficult to know which bits are going to become important (popular), so learning about as much as you can will a) increase the chances of you learning about something that will become relevant, b) getting better at filtering out the noise.
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Most Americans don't have several months of savings regardless of age. I agree that it's a bad sign, but it has a lot more to do with the current economic climate than individual behavior.
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I can tell by reading responses it has a lot to do with current political climate.
Well, it looks really nice indeed!

Do you have any plan to make data entry less tedious?

An automatic email importer maybe?

Since I'm an avid traveler for 15 years or so, I have a lot of emails from my different plane and train bookings.

I would love to get all these travel bookings imported into a map of all my travels without having to type all of them by hand.
Why is it an interesting model to guide scientists? Should we also take the intertwining nature of the DNA helix as guidance that true love exists at the molecular level, and that future experiments should be guided by love? If that seems ridiculous (as it does to me), how specifically should scientists factor in the Gaia model into their experiments or their range of hypotheses?
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I used to support Assange, but that fell away when finally Sweden agreed to interview him at the embassy as per his request... and he demanded that the interview questions be submitted as a document... and in Spanish. A Swedish prosecutor interrogating an anglo-Australian man residing in England in Spanish? With preprepared questions only? That's clearly obstructing the course of justice beyond the concern for his extradition.
If this results in common knowledge that parents will tell to their college-age kids "don't go working for scammers, because when they get exposed this will be a black mark on your CV for years" - well, then that's a good thing for society in general, as it will make recruiting for "technically legal, not yet explicitly prohibited" scams harder.
I don't think you're going to notice the difference between real ground beef and the fake stuff in a Taco Bell taco.

That's not really saying much, is it? How about a nice burger made with well-marbled ground chuck? Much harder to replicate the flavour and texture of that.
This is what I loved about the web back in the day. I remember putting up my first web page and coming across Matt's script archive.
gmamil.com takes you places.....
I see ads ALL THE TIME for these binary options and it always looks like a betting site. Thanks for clarifying what the hell were those ads about.
> These people will often look at my code and it looks disjointed to them. They can't read the code and get a sense of what it is doing. They find themselves jumping around through hundreds of files just to figure out what's going on.

I'd add that unit tests (above the method level) help to "tell the story" of the code. Coming into a large code base with well-factored code can be daunting, it's a boon to be able to step through unit tests that exercise even just typical scenarios.
I'm out of the loop; whose emails did they not release? Trump's?
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It's Not a Wonder, Women
"Oh look, I found this tunnel under the border, I'll use it to feed the birds on the other side. I swear to god I'll never use it to smuggle drugs or people"

It is too bad people is using it for good causes but the hole has to be closed. Sorry guys.
The key thing to remember is that when you have kids, you can have exactly one hobby. If keeping your github account green is your hobby, you can do it.

You just have to stay healthy, eat, exercise, and get up an hour or two before everyone else.

I have been doing it for 4 years now, and I am still able to ship features on my side project.
If you have not done it yet, install it in a VM. Make your own picture. I did not like it. In my opinion, Ubuntu or Fedora is better for the desktop.
> For my current project I have a very low level spec/architecture, that says class Abc does Xyz, classes A1, A2, A3 implement a strategy pattern, etc. It's designed with C#, VB.NET or Java in mind, but the dev team would prefer F# or Scala.

This sounds like a horrible environment to work in. If you don't trust your developers to make those kind of decisions for themselves then what are you even paying them for? That gives them no ability to exercise their skills and I would not expect any good developer to stay long in such a place.

Frankly it suggests a level of brokenness in your process that I've always found unfixable. I'd advise finding a better job.
Thanks !
Yes, ultimately I'd like to make it as simple as can be and have the users just forward their emails and build the map automatically (like TripIt or Wipolo do)
This is a great idea.

I have one small suggestion: Please give the cursor a better contrast or outline/shadow.
He went to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald based on their reputations. They and associates have managed analysis and reporting of the information. Some have criticized them for profiteering and censorship. Others have criticized them for putting US interests at risk. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
Didn’t help Ratzinger that he spent his whole career being the inquisitor attack dog of the Church’s right wing.

My Mexican Jesuit friends called him “Nazinger” for his political actions as an adult, not for his past. German Catholics called him the “Panzerkardinal”.
I'm guessing Thread?