skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're attempting to drive a false distinction. At this scale, doing anything about anything involves "redistributing wealth". And if that's all you see, well, I'd suggest that has more to do with what you're looking at than what's there.

If you approach this sort of global negotiation with a precondition that it not alter the existing economic order, that is the same as refusing to negotiate. If that's your view, then fine; there's clearly no point in discussing further.

But if the goal is to deal honestly with climate change, the reality is that there will be winners and losers. Just like happened in the run-up to where we are now. Guess what: we won the run up. Now we have to decide if we're willing to give up some of the "unfair" share we've had for almost a century in return for our grandkids having something vaguely like the quality of life our parents had.

Some days I really think the U.S. is just doomed by our culture. Thankfully, I'm more chipper other days.
Darn right! There's more mystery and magic if you have to go on a six hour journey through the desert to even get a glimpse of them.
Ask HN: Any profitable B2C solo founder projects?
While most indie hackers seem to be working on B2B projects (for good reason), I was wondering if there are good examples of thriving B2C projects done by solo developers?
Enough subsidized housing to serve more than a tiny handful of lucky applicants would be a foundational societal shift even more dramatic, and more difficult to pull off, than UBI.
While I support that, I also understand why some people -- especially outside the US, or in the US but outside the tech hubs -- would be cautious about posting salary ranges. Quoting who_is_firing:

> Every HN hiring thread has someone comment on how low salaries sound for a specific country they are not from. Can we stop dis-incentivizing employers to be transparent about their salaries with negative comments?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13549090

Sure enough we already have an instance of that type of comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243428

Another example from a previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023984

That sort of comment isn't helpful.
US quits Climate deal
Could have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling learned machines.
> If this is easy

If what is easy? Making a few million in a few years is never easy, but I don't know of a better way to do that on a risk-adjusted than joining startups after product/market fit.

And for what it's worth I don't build very much anymore, unfortunately
GOT MY NOSE PIERCED
I really agree anything that takes your total concentration is great for helping to snap out of depression. Depression I view mostly as a cyclone of shittiness in mental feelings, which seems to feed back on itself (as does happiness).

Other things that I find get me out of whatever I was thinking before:
Driving (especially fast, or fun roads), shooting a gun, Starcraft / RTS games (at least if you want to win).

I think there's also something for repetitive actions, such as jogging or running, which kind of slowly lull you out of your current thinking.
0riginal neckbeard here - I have none of these problems, I have no friends, personal network, relationships, photos, or social interactions. I have never had Facebook, and I feel absolutely fantastic.
The 3rd time I tried to re-invent TCP/IP for a particular situation, I got it right.
This is exactly the same situation I am in. I found kratom in 2010 while looking for some solution to my back pain and arthritis which wasn't also a recreational drug. It ended up helping me with anxiety and depression associated with PTSD, chronic pain, and even helped me stop drinking altogether. I felt like marijuana was a pretty amazing thing before, but it isn't even on the same planet as kratom.
Originally, this is much more in the purview of state government than it would be in federal government, anyway. It's easier for us to affect change, as well as easier for us to shield ourselves from shitty governance, when decisions like this are made closer to home. If this buffoon is accomplishing one thing, it's illustrating the importance of state supremacy - Broken glass half full... while it's plummeting off a cliff... kinda deal.
pinboard has always been better, like the Gen-X brother that taught you how to play guitar and helped to wash puke out of your jacket after a late night
Well, here in Australia we are lucky - we've got Clean Coal™! /s

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-30/clean-energy-funding-c...
When I abandoned Delicious, started using Diigo, and it still works fine [1]. Curious no one's mentioned it here.
https://www.diigo.com/

Edit:
[1]: fine, not great. It's got some weird usability flaws that someone thought would be either a good idea or just good lock-in. But they're mostly avoidable.
"Nearly a quarter of Japanese companies have employees working more than 80 hours overtime a month, often unpaid, a recent survey found. And 12% have employees breaking the 100 hours a month mark."

This is not uncommon in the US either, in the finance industry, at startups, at much bigger competitive companies, in medicine. I'm actually surprised there isn't more suicide, burnout, and depression from overwork in the US, or maybe the people just aren't as open about it in the US as they are in Japan.
This is why amazon is not worried about Walmart.
Speculation on my part only based on observation:

If you're a billionaire in Russia or China, you only get punished if A) you piss-off/embarrass the leadership or B) the leadership wants to steal all your wealth.
He clearly means that the spin rate increases.
Lol you need leverage, then ask for something reasonable.
Grassroots - socialdemocracy that sprung froms scandinavia but has major partial similarities to alot of European countries pre EU when the public sector was larger (around 10%). Through grassroots people achieved greater impact for the state (as represented by the people for the people) through law, regulation and public ownership ("the greater good").
That change was not brought on catastrophically but incrimentally by the poor working class also even partially by what today would be called entrepreneurs (the liberals of those days) that realised that local companies could gain more by increasing the wealth for the local populace who could then produce more efficiently (win/win).

Anyway, when people impact through the national state they have power, when wealth is shifted from nation to private hands is when the public should start to move. I'm still surprised the reality that could be had by the big short (2015) where moody's et al with rubberstamping actively helps in making that shift happen. It seems like hidden plutocrats have greenlit to jump ship more or less...

What people need to do is to organise, activate and put real pressure on those working for as few as possible instead of as many as possible.
Once real democratic rule has been established through law and oversight (transparency - means disabling some shadow groups in the gov and right outside it) a more egalitarian and utilitarian (efficient) society will spring forth.
We supposedly can't leave until 2020, but who would enforce that?

There is also the option of staying, but reporting our carbon emissions with alternative facts. Done to an extreme, that means we get the payments.
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Remote: Yes (preferred)

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Some ability: C, Ruby, interested in other languages as well.

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All of my professional programming history is solo-projects and short-term contracting gigs.

For now, my projects

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Man, if only they'd made the cartridge play a little tune when the chip is disabled. Then they could do the full DMCA game. Seems like the key to modern security is to have something copyrighted behind a terrible lock
You are not wrong.

And yet, many people spend upward of 3 hours/day with the screen showing Facebook. They actively have google in front of their eyes for much less.
It's blindingly wrong. It creates a mutable snapshot of the other object. Depending on the size of `a` and how many instances are being wrapped in this way, it could increase memory footprint substantially. I can't imagine a time where you'd want to do this. This sort of effect is usually achieved by a __getattribute__ that falls back to whichever object(s) are being shadowed. Not that that's ideal, but weird to see somebody who knows Python so well throw out such a useless example.
This is a good thing. Ad blockers as they are today don't work because the "block everything" approach is not sustainable.

Advertising is a good model, it works, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Ad blockers, by being selective, can actually act as an agent of change by forcing the market to move towards the formats people actually prefer.

Ad Block Plus attempted to do this with their pay-per-play whitelist approach but that obviously has major issues since it didnt have realistic goals, wasn't transparent, and clearly let crap through anyway.

I wish the ad standards also included outstream video (the autoplaying video ads inside of an article) but this is a good start.
And then Edge would just use a different user_agent.
Isn't the problem more those occasional solar flares than steady-state cosmic radiation? All longterm spaceflight so far has been inside the van Allen belts which offer quite a bit of protection (for us on earth too).
> If anything, the thing preventing resolution of any variety of GUT is culture.

Doesn't your mindframe lead inexorably to string theories? Those haven been empirically successful. So, no, I'd say the thing preventing the GUT is reality.
How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? (2014)
the word you're looking for is humor.
I'm not saying they're more important.

But as for why they are important, I think that there is some relationship between how people live and per-capita emissions. So if you ignore the population size and only look at net emissions, the people in larger countries would be held to a higher standard than the people in the smaller countries.
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Yes, those "engaging" ads as marketers say tend to have better metrics precisely because they're designed to.

All these autoplaying videos have more video starts, completion rates and more time in view - which is obvious since it's forced and not voluntary - but add in layers of agencies and clueless CMOs and you have the situation today where this kind of format takes over the market.

Also not every or even most advertising is about sales or direct response. There are billions spent on general awareness and top-of-funnel product consideration so clicks and other actions beyond viewing the ad are not necessary.
Actually, your statement was entirely correct. "Let's say 10% of start-ups succeed ... You would need to join 10 of these start-ups ... to have an expectation of one case [of success]."

It is a true statement that the expected number of successes after 10 tries would be 1. It is also a true statement that your chance of zero successes after 10 tries is 34.8%. (The balance comes from the outcomes that include multiple successes.) It may be that the latter is the more relevant and interesting statement to make, but your math was totally right.

;-)
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Not in the urban centers at the bottom of the valley, but in the Sierra Nevada and its foothills. You're way less likely to encounter people like that in the Bay Area or around LA.
What about staying for 1-2 years per company? Then, you can diversify twice as much as if you stay 3-4 years per.
They take our tax dollars. I would have liked some of that to go to the Paris accord.
Except in this case you aren't winning. We're all losing. The climate isn't just going to be nice on developed nations 20 years from now. It's going to be bad for all nations because we didn't act.

We're all losing. Already.
That's a best case scenario way to look at this. I agree with you on how this looks to his base, and what it gives other Republicans. We all know his base will support him on anything so that isn't saying much. And the Republican party is going to ride this train to get as much as they can until it crashes.

I'm not so sure how it helps him with Europe and China. What are your thoughts there?

IMO his foreign relations have been a disaster. I think the only country he has good relations with is Russia. Everyone else is laughing at him.

This also continues the polarization of the nation, which, I guess can be good for him but that's still TBD. And only someone with a gold fish's memory would let this distract them from the Russian thing.

I tend to cringe whenever intelligence is assigned to the man, but I know that's wrong and I should be more open minded.
Lot's of books throw recursion at beginners and expect them to understand it as intuitively they would a loop. But it's not intuitive at all (at least it wasn't for me).

I like the book "The Little Schemer" to learn recursion. Yes, a whole book to learn something other books briefly throw at you. You will not regret the read.
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It went through Congress in 1992 when the UNFCCC was ratified.
NATO mandates that members of NATO spend at least 2% of their GDP on their own militaries. The vast majority of them do not, they just count on the US stepping in for free if shit hits the fan. The point of NATO is that countries keep up their militaries to the acceptable standard so as to lend a helping hand if the need arises, not that they contribute equally to the NATO's doughnuts budget.
This is all part of "destructuring pattern matching". Let's say we have:

struct Something<T>(T);
let x = 42;

When we say:

let y = Something(&x);

...we're constructing a value of a particular type on the right-hand-side of the `=`. Written out, it would be something like "take the value x, calculate its address in memory, and wrap that reference in Something()".

let Something(&z) = y;

...does the reverse operation. Written out, it would be something like "take the value y, remove the Something() wrapper to get the value inside, dereference the pointer to find the value pointed to, then assign a copy of that value to the variable z". At the end, z == x.

Note that the last step is copying a value: it only works if value is of a type that can be safely memcpy()'d (in Rust terminology, if the type implements the Copy trait). In this case, the value happens to be the integer 42, and integers are Copy, so it all works out. However, not all types are Copy, so if you can't copy the value, what happens?

If the value you're destructuring owns the inner value, it's easy—you just become the new owner:

let x = Something(123); // x owns this Something instance.
let y = Something(x); // the value from x is moved into y.
let Something(z) = y; // the value inside y is moved into z.

On the other hand, if the value you're destructuring doesn't own the inner value, you can't just take ownership of it. If you want a handy name to use when talking about that value, it's going to need to be a pointer.

let x = Something(42); // a value that is not Copy.
let y = Something(&x); // a reference, so we can't take ownership
//let Something(&z) = y; // Can't take ownership of x!
let Something(ref z) = y; // z is a reference to x

You can play with these examples in the Rust Playground: https://is.gd/LhrphO
it's also one of the highest-paying software niches

this might not last, but you can always switch to android. unless mobile dies out completely, but that won't happen for a while
You work so hard on "winning" that you push much more poor and desperate people to the breaking point, you're going to have problems.
If u can stop using facebook when u deactivate it, cant u just not deactivate it, and use it for the 10% to stop ur frustration?

I treat facebook like i treat my phone. Its a tool. Not a way of life. Been on the internet since '95, back when i was at school i was the only one who would spend hours on the computer, they called us nerds. Now its the opposite, i use the computer at work everyday, and when im home, i stay away from it, my phone, tv, as much as possible and call everyone else geeks who need to stop obsessing over there hands (cause they dont know about computers, they just use them)
Tiny foldable i.MX7 module squishes into 30 x 27 x 8mm
My guess: they implement a SQL parser and executor on top of whatever infrastructure they have already.

The SQL layer could probably just be an API client to the data they have already.
Exactly. Trump just took steps that benefit the incumbent auto industry Musk is trying to disrupt.
I just did a guesstimate:

Combustion concentrates radioactivity by a factor of 5x to 10x [1]. Fly ash can replace 25-50% of cement [2]. A typical concrete is 16% cement (1 part cement, 2 parts sand and 3 parts gravel) [3].

Hence a concrete might be 4%-8% fly ash. If the ratio of fly ash is 'A', the concentrating caused by combustion is 'C' and the background radiation of other concrete ingredients is uniformly taken to be 'B', then the radiation count of concrete without fly ash will be:

B

and the radiation count of concrete with fly ash will be

A.C.B + (1-A).B

Plugging in values for A (0.04 to 0.08) and C (5 to 10), we find that fly ash increases the radiation from concrete by a factor of 20% to 70%. That strikes me as a significant proportion of the radiation from concrete.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2015-09-radioactive-contaminants-coal-...

[2] http://www.theconcreteproducer.com/how-to/concrete-productio...

[3] http://www.cementaustralia.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/website/pa...
I can see many people signing up for such a service to learn how to meal plan and get started cooking.

As someone who was never taught cooking and am always exhausted after work, I need as little friction as possible to consider cooking.

I wouldn't see myself using it long term though mainly because of the excessive packaging.
Bitcoin mining companies face shutdown in southwest China
Remember the old story of The Tortoise and The Hare? U.S. is acting like the Hare now…
OK - I've read the paper on arXiv - can see that ethereum (for better or worse) has smart contracts layered on top where as bitcoin does.

I seem to recall that there was another more fundamental difference at the blockchain level, was wondering whether there was any link for that ...?
Wow, what a read. There are two certainties in this life: death and taxes. Some people try to unsuccessfully avoid one or both :)
>It becomes easier to start your own enterprise.

I lived in France for a few years and noticed something that validates this a little. French unemployment pay is quite generous (can't remember the exact figures but it's close to or 100% of your last salary for 12 months) - effectively quasi UBI for a year. I knew a lot of 'twenty somethings' that used this cushion to give them 12 months runway to try their hand at a startup.
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This is really incredible. Thank you for this insightful post
> Your consent is not required.

The point is that regardless of whether or not consent is required, it's a question of principle to not give consent (and personally I do use LibreJS and the other various tools to improve the shitty state of affairs).

Companies acting unethically shouldn't be given extra leeway to act even more unethically.
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The business model relies on the next versions which will introduce new innovative ideas on top of bookmarking. It'll take some time, I won't rush. Currently the server is AWS free tier so it's not costing me anything. Personally I'm doing contractor to keep my budget healthy.
News like this makes me glad I've moved entirely to edge. It has ublock and lastpass and RES. It's as fast as Chrome and much more responsive than Firefox. There are some bugs but Microsoft is doing a good job of gradually ironing those out. That's enough for me.
> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

that made me laugh! OH NOES ITS A MONORPOLY!!11
Usually a "right" defines a grant of legal ability to act, that is illegal for a third-party to attempt to constrain.

Examine the right to free speech:

• it is a denial of your rights if a third party interfere with your exercise of your free speech (by e.g. forcefully "silencing" you in the public square—maybe using noise-cancelling speakers or something.)

• It is not a denial of your rights if you made an agreement with the third party that they would aid you in your exercise of your free speech, and then they choose to stop honoring this agreement. (I.e. forums are allowed to ban people.) This is, in-and-of-itself, a consequence of the right to freedom of association.

I would expect the same to apply to the "right to repair": Tesla is allowed to revoke its complicity in helping you drive its cars—by "bricking" them—but you then have a right to circumvent that bricking, and they would be infringing on your rights by trying to prevent you from doing so.

They don't have to make it easy; logically, with a highly-complex software system like a smart-car (that hasn't gone through an ecosystem-wide standardization like PCs have), the vendor's complicity is required to make doing anything at all with the car easy, and they're not required to give you that complicity. (Consider: even if the law required them to, they could always just go out of business in response, like Lavabit did.)

But once you start "hacking your car", anything they do in response to that to inhibit you would be a violation of your right to repair.
The resolution of the detector is 1/1000th the width of a proton. The signal they see is much bigger: the length of 4km long arms stretch and then shrink about 1/10 the width of a proton. How do they know it is really space/time changing and not an earthquake? They have two detectors over 1000 miles apart from each other:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO#/media/File:Simplified_di...
> in connection with terrorism or other national security-related visa ineligibilities

> Still ridiculous.

I mean, at what level does it becomes not ridiculous to have deeper vetting?
marble counters emit radiation (radon) due to the break down of iridium that occurs naturally. your actually supposed to test your marble counters for excessive radon release. It comes to no surprise that concrete would have an elevated count - anything with any kind of stone probably would.