skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
370 upvotes in 2 hours with 268 comments (as I write this), yet this story is at the very bottom of the front page of HN
at #28 (6:15 EST).

Does HN systematically penalize / shadow censor certain kinds of content?
In other words, the rest of the world has to learn that it's pointless to make agreements with the United States that have any political implications. Or even agreements that have bipartisan support (see: NATO two years ago).

Which puts us in solid agreement, but you're foolish if you think this doesn't seriously advantage countries that are capable of maintaining agreements over the USA.
A subtitle from the article that irked me: 'I’m not giving up on crypto.'

Why would you? You were never using it in the first place. Exchanges aren't bitcoin.
Exactly. See article [1], it lists all the weaknesses of the Paris agreement and why it was so weak. US, sorry, it's actually US' president, seems to act more and more selfish - it's almost humiliating to watch this as a European.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/will-trumps-slow-mo-walk...
This is just an anecdotal account of your single experience, it isn't making a strong case for your general point.
I agree. I was actually under the impression that he raised $35MM from people under the age of 30.
Yup, it's a win-win from their perspective, since they consider both environmentalism and internationalism as evils.
Progressive tax rates are rooted not in contempt but in declining marginal utility curves.
Iterative improvements versus starting over. Particularly with something like environment change.

It took years just to get the Paris language settled. But yeah, let's start over. With Trump at the wheel. The great but actually spectacularly bad negotiator.
Thanks, I did it quickly and thought I'd gotten the whole paragraph. Went ahead and added all of it, there was a page break in between.
I actually don't recall any negative experience when I cancelled my account. It might be because I'd already opted out the future deliveries, but closed the account with no issues.
Further clarification, my bad: 0.3 degrees _greater_ warming if the US withdraws. Not 0.3 degrees total. The climate is warming, no one is disputing that. It's not warming anywhere near as quickly as models from 10 years ago predicted, though.
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I spent a whole hour talking to your recruiter, I was told she would schedule a technical interview. I never heard back. Your process seems broken and unprofessional.
FCC says broadband isn't telecommunications
So far there's been one successful attack that involved surfing to a 'bad' webpage on the car's touchscreen browser, followed by a malicious firmware update. Tesla's been closing the known holes, of course.
No. It is still better to recycle.

While there is an obvious carbon footprint when shipping, don't forget that your box is on a truck with many other boxes. Inside your single returned box are 8-10 completely reusable gel packs from the last 4-5 weeks of meals. Ship back once a month.

Also keep in mind that many supermarket items travel farther than Blue Apron boxes, so if you're concerned about shipping emissions, you have to compare Blue Apron against that un-recycleable Purdue chicken package that probably traveled 3x as far.

The UK did a study about shipping recyclables to China for processing, and even that 10,000 mile journey for recycling had a better carbon footprint than landfilling and remanufacturing.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/19/recyclin...
I wouldn't say after each step. It would be foolish to add salt to a sauce I'm reducing for instance. You taste your food always before adding salt. And you generally hold of seasoning until whatever you're doing is reasonably stable.

So imagine I want to cook some chicken breasts. I'm going to dry them and the season them and let them sit for awhile. Then I will cook them and finish them. If I want to make a sauce from the nice remains of the pan they were cooked in I'd remove the chicken and excess oil perhaps and begin that process. And that process has many steps from adding shallots and garlic to deglazing with wine perhaps and reducing that and then adding stock and reducing and then mixing in some butter. The very last thing I'd do is season.

If I'm going to put the sauce on the plate and there is a starch there's a good chance I won't have to season those much at all as the sauce will carry that.

New cooks tend to over season. They forget that if everything you're cooking has salt on it when someone eats one thing there will be salt left on their tongue and in their mouth. This will help the next they thing eat and it won't need as much salt.

In general anything like a stew or a sauce should be seasons as late as possible even if there are many steps in creating it. Meat should be seasoned early and left to rest so excess moisture can be taken out of the surface areas of the meat to help form a better surface texture and flavor.
If ad revenue wasn't based on impressions and clicks no one would want to shove them in their users faces. Ad networks like Google's​ are the cause of the problem.
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Funny enough for me, neither happened. I left when I was in my early teens but having spent enough time being indoctrinated. I didn't chalk every western report on the CCP to be based on hatred, nor did I develop extreme distaste for the CCP.

I still think Western reporting likes to sprinkle in a few words to demonstrate their distaste for communism and authoritarianism (even when unnecessarily) whenever possible. But above all I think I just learned to be skeptical -- a useful trait for this current election cycle ;)

To be fair I think for the people that are much older who have spent their life dedicated to the proletariat struggle, the truth may be a lot harder to swallow. On the other hand, the older folks aren't blind either. Most will have some idea that there are devious things happening behind the curtain -- but Chinese as a culture has always promoted collective harmony over individuality. So most simply accept the way things are.
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I agree that they're doing a good thing.

Doesn't mean they're worth investing in, or have prospects to match the valuation (I don't have an opinion either way on that personally, but I enjoy reading others' opinions).
I'm kind of surprised to see these posts describing how it's possible to get off Facebook. For me, it doesn't really make much of a difference whether I'm on or off. I barely ever log in, barely ever use it, and things don't really spread through Facebook.

However, that just may be that I don't live in the US, and it just might be more pervasive there.
This exists for Android: https://families.google.com/familylink/
Would've loved to pick her brains on what she learned. I imagine she had interviewed tons of people in the process of making the documentary.
Besides Facebook banning search engine indexing of itself the search functionality of Facebook itself is terrible. I belong to several groups and I've seen numerous examples of content, which I know is in the group, not showing up in search results while using very straight forward and matching searches.
Sell parts to Chinese for reverse engineering.
The truth is youre more likely to find the skills within a talented team and not individual.

Someone with a knack for product AND great engineering chops is extremely rare.

Not disagreeing with you, if anything bolstering your point.
Donald Trump's Middle Finger to Mother Earth
Probably a chop shop. Tesla parts are hard to get, they probably have decent resale value.
PostgRest with Mithril.js or Elm on the front end. Keep it simple. Or WebSharper with SQL Server for a more integrated feel with static typing all the way from the database all the way down to the front end. Studies have shown static typing to be extremely important for removing bugs and programmer productivity, and from what I've seen WebSharper would give the best experience for that.

I've only used Mithril.js in those technologies though.
I wrote about the change:

http://codesorcery.net/2011/03/04/working-with-development-s...

Basically, I thought I'd never work again for someone else. That was over six years ago. Mapbox has grown from about 15 to over 220 people now. Somehow I knew it was different and it was just compelling enough — plus I had a "try before you buy" experience through contracting that was just too good to pass up.

On the balance, I definitely enjoyed the software (and still do), but especially working at home on my own, I enjoyed the interaction with people (usually by email or phone, sometimes in person) and the constant variety and problem-solving nature of it. And not just technical problems, but organizational and strategic problems, too.

I think it could have been as lucrative, but at least in the Mac software space (and probably the iOS one more so), it had a certain element of "grind" to it, with product marketing and website presentation, working PR contacts and releases, and constantly getting things in front of influential people. As much as I enjoyed that some of the time, I didn't want to do as much as it would have required to make apps the lion's share of my income.
The Paris Treaty is rearranging the deck chairs. The others were fixed by plugging the hole in the boat. Plenty of US companies and governmental agencies are working on plugging this hole, but the country as a whole is tired of being hit up to pay the orchestra so the the rearranging can continue as before.
WebAssembly APIs give you access to the compiled code of a module. A Web page can store that code locally, e.g. using IndexedDB, so it doesn't have to be downloaded and recompiled again. Thus, the first time you visit a page, you're effectively installing the app. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Caching... for details.
It's not that obvious and not so much a loophole. Shipping is more efficient than you give credit for (eg shipping recyclables from UK to China is still net-beneficial as opposed to landfilling [0]), and most likely recycling back to them is advantageous. The gel packs are reusable, you ship them 10 at a time, and "Reuse" is better than "Recycle" in "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/19/recyclin...
Remember, Trump lost the popular vote by a couple million, in an election where about half the country voted, so his base in general could be estimated at about a fourth to a fifth of the country. But if we take the "more than 5 to 1" figure from the linked article as valid, then it implies that even a bunch of people who voted for Trump liked the accord. My impression is that people didn't like Trump for policies having to do with the environment or climate change- they liked his stance on immigration and general outsider status.

The not-being-responsible-for-other-countries bit is also a popular policy of his (arguably, its his most widely-appealing position altogether), but I'm confused that you think that that applies to the Paris accord. The accord didn't mandate us giving anyone else anything, and climate change is going to mess the U.S. up as much as anywhere else.
Visiting Costa Rica
People in this thread talking about getting off of Facebook like former smack addicts...
Apparently you don't know the definition of "most".
It's unlikely for $0 pre-basic income and $X post-basic income to have the same value. The former is, well, nothing, and the latter is, well, something.
Try Are.na (https://www.are.na). Built for saving all types of content, more centered around organizing information than straight-up social bookmarking (though people use it to do that). Disclaimer: one of the co-founders.
The hardest work -- my opinion, of course -- is those that deals with front line customers. The irrational and angry customer who you can't reason with because they want to be angry for angry's sake. It's hard because it is incredibly dissatisfying and a "win" doesn't carry over to the next interaction.
There's still hope. Glad I saw this comment.
I don't really see it as a lot of hate. I agree with everything you said about them, but that still doesn't mean I think their multi-billion dollar valuation is in any way supported by their financials or their business model.
Elon Musk steps down from Trump advisory councils over Paris climate decision
Probably more like a statistically relevant sample, but I believe so.
> but by series B a lot has been mitigated

Or, the fact that a series B is needed is indicative that there was more risk than anticipated. Series B is not always good news (in general it is though, but there is still plenty of risk at that stage). So always verify what the reason for a funding round was and make sure that it was an 'up' round rather than a 'down' round.
So, purely for entertainment, how much money one needs, on a population on a billion in developed countries, to influence the democratically elected leaders in 20 countries?
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to improve the contrast. As you mentioned, most of the templates I chose were the popular ones from sites like ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. I am happy ot add more templates, if someone were to open a "Template Request" issue on the repo.

And yeah, I was hoping to add import/export to json as well as an "import from LinkedIn" functionality.
You've just explained when/why it would be required.
> 1/53rd the number of representatives in the House.

I assume you meant 53 representatives?
> Facebook is in fact involved in web breaking behavior.

>...internet.org and Free Basics...

Last week I met someone who spent the better part of two years in Mozambique and other parts of Africa for the Peace Corps. He spent most of his time in areas that had little to no internet access.

He used Free Basics a lot while he was there and considered it integral to his work and sanity (in his words). Based on his experience, I would consider your specific example web enabling, not web breaking. There are many people who want to connect to the internet even if it's not the open, platonic ideal that is passionately endorsed message boards like HN.

From what he told me, his alternative to using Free Basics was climbing a tree and waiting for a signal so he could send emails for work. It's not a perfect system, but it's fairly uncharitable to call it web breaking just because you don't believe one company should have control over it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be assuming a seed round valuation of $40 million (it's returning $0 unless the exit is > $40m). That's absurd.

Edit: the assumption of 0.01% is also absurd.

A simplified calculator should include reasonable defaults. This is like a mortgage calculator called tldrCanYouAffordAHouse.com that assumes 25% interest rates and doesn't disclose that.
"This simulation doesn't estimate taxation at all."

Well, then it's misleading.

Between AMT, capital gains / income tax, there's potential for a huge chunk of what you might earn to be removed.
You can already do this with existing Web platform APIs; JS libraries for asset streaming and management already exist.
> if your company isn't one of the top companies of the decade

GGP covered that option quite nicely. Those are companies that are clearly at the top companies of the decade, maybe even longer.
Dude, that guy who was supposed to lose by 90% chance actually DID win. And you're telling me to prove this by showing you some research result?

It's not misleading to say your odds of winning the lottery is one in a million because it IS one in a million, mathematically. NYT saying Hillary would win by 90% chance is NOT mathematics. Do you really think your analogy was adequate?

My point was that people believe statistics, just like you believe that because NYT did it, it would be scientific and you should believe it. But that's where the danger lies. And an influential publication such as NYT should be ashamed of themselves for misleading people by trivializing things down to just a percentage and feeding it to the world, in realtime.

I'm sure a lot of Trump fans who saw that poll on NYT that morning who didn't care for voting decided to go vote.
I don't think "hugely popular" is an overstatement if the number is really nearly 70% in favor.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...
The US didn't exactly abandon its allied in South Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frequent_Wind#Result...

It lost the war, but that's not the same thing as just walking away frivolously, on whim.
> In the worst case, an option is going to be worth 0 and in the best case it's going to be worth > 0, so the value of an option is always positive until the company actually dies.

That's only true as long as you're still working at the company. If you leave, you have to exercise, and then the worst case becomes negative.
Complaining about virtue signaling is conservative virtue signaling.
That is an exit of sorts.
4x performance is worth having for many applications.

The other thing is it's not just about performance, but also about running existing and future C/C++/Rust etc code on the Web.
As an online discussion continues, the probability of it all being blamed on Yoko Ono approaches one.
Sorry, I typed the wrong word. I've updated the parent to be less confusing. s/compile/optimize/

For reference the first line used to be: "Well the compiler knows the signature of the function you pass it to so it should be able to compile it anyways."

> &T vs &mut T is very significant in Rust

Yes, especially for function signatures it is critical, however the ancestor was talking about using & to take a reference. When using & to take a reference I don't think &mut needs to be required. The compiler could probably figure it out.
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I agree, but the same applies to a lot of materials accumulated from grocery store shopping. Like I said, I do think Blue Apron ends up being more wasteful in the end, but it doesn't strike me as an "astounding" difference.
I don't think that's what "balance" of power means. If you have one branch that for all the things says "NO!", then I think it's natural for the other branch to say, "I'll try it a different way instead of trying to compromise, because there's no point in even trying." That's the implicit threat that makes the legislative and executive branches negotiate and get stuff done.

The difference in the climate today is that one party was essentially saying no to anything Obama might do. Even if they privately agreed or could find some ways to agree with him, they knew that if they so much as smiled in his direction they'd get primaried and kicked out. That climate poisons the relationship between the branches, and gets you to non-standard processes which we can all agree are sub-optimal.

For a balance of powers system to work you need to actually have a working relationship between the branches. It's not going to work if one says, "NO!" then expects the other branch to take their toys and go home. In the real world, we all have to accept compromise toward our objectives, and if we don't we'll get disaster for all our objectives down the line.
I guess because it would be buffering sugar intake it would allow the body to keep insulin levels lower. That would help ward off type 2 Diabetes.

You'd still be consuming too much sugar but the body could handle it better.
I wrote the first version of Gmail in a day!! #damn
UPDATE: For those who don't want to do the exercise: The Intel compiler (icc) optimizes it in about the way that I would if I were to write it in assembly:

> https://godbolt.org/g/LntTnY
What was Eich's argument against gay marriage? Does anyone have a link where he fleshed out his position?
Pinboard does this. For crypto papers, I search Pinboard about as much as I search Google.
And even that implicitly relies on the Sized trait.
But this new currency wouldn't have the same support e.g. by exchange plattforms and not the same popularity.
I wish I could offer you more upvotes. Brilliant observation, perfectly said.
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Firefox had XUL for a long time, which is imo a better solution for building structured user interfaces compared to raw html.
Not sure how many people know the back story based on the comments I've read. This language was designed by Louis D'hauwe for his iOS app Pixture. He wanted a language that could be used for shader like features on his app but Apple doesn't allow user executable code or compilers so he built his own in Swift only.
The seo juice Pinboard can get with a simple redirection, alone, is worth much more than $35k.
You can actually go visit the sets used for the Alamo movies here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Village. Stick hot and sticky though :-D
I respectfully disagree on this. The moon shot was a specific engineering challenge, with a clearly defined goal.

Decarbonizing our economy is vastly different in two ways: 1) a multitude of approaches and engineering solutions rather than a single path, 2) huge amounts of industry across the world (10s of millions of people) rather than a small (thousands) focused team. A nation-state effort like a moon shot is doomed to fail at something like this. We need lots of experimentation, lots of failures, and a few successes.

This is better solved through market approaches. This is what we've been implementing over the past years. We subsidize carbon neutral tech through tax credits (negative tax) rather than placing a positive tax on carbon emission. This is less than ideal, but at least it equalizes things.