skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely cool. Can't wait to write something in this! Why is the configuration[1] done in an ad-hoc language instead of Guile?

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/artanis/manual/manual.html#org96...
You raise a fair point and I can't say with any certainty why YC picked us over any other ideas. One advantage we have over Themeforest is that our customers are willing to pay on a monthly subscription basis, whereas TF is a 1 time fee as you mentioned. We also integrate seamlessly and directly into whatever backend our customers are using, so they don't need to deal with HTML/CSS/other theme files.
Zoos exist so regular people can see exotic animals. While it is probably terrible for the animals in general, people keep coming. A "real jungle safari" is something most people just can't afford.
cheers, sadly I won't be exploring JS lib wrapper approach.

we're already deep down the EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS() rabbit-hole :)

originally, the fixed size heap (/w optimisations) meant unbound use from a JS lib was too hard to reason about;
hence avoided entirely in favour of a emscripten blackbox.
fuzzy logic is a very ... fuzzy term.
Woohoo, congrats Gustaf!

Index of startups and technologies for mining carbon from the air: http://airminers.org

We built Air Miners to catalog what exists so hackers can find the gaps in carbon removal and build new solutions :)
Related, this is the premise of MC Frontalot's "Secrets from the Future": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPstXCqyus
first article was written in 2000. it talks about projections (!) of 2001 budget.
All I can say is lol you obviously don't work in SEO
Go into management, product management etc. No need to program but knowing what it's like is a big plus.
Of course not. But some welfare would have saved a few million lives, greatly enriched any country (although people didn't know that by the time), and removed one or two world wars from our history.
I’ve been a fan of Prisma for a while now - hacked on a project with graphcool. Congrats on the launch!

As it’s unbundled it doesn’t have (on purpose I think) a few things for a proper production deployment.

I’m working on a GraphQL front end server (Bunjil) designed to be the public bastion server in front of a Prisma/Prisma Cloud backend (though it works with any and multiple graphQL servers).

It’s probably too early to share this as I’m still writing the documentation, but here it is anyway.

The main additions are an authentication hook, and Policy Based Access Control similar to AWS IAM. I’ve found this style of authorisation amazingly powerful with GraphQL.

This gives you the ability to give a role access to say all types, or everything on the user type except ‘password’. Or block access to certain mutations.

I’m looking at how to hide specific mutations from the final scheme (to block ‘allUsers’ for example).

https://bunjil.js.org

As most of the docs are still being written, the main two pages with more info are the api specs. The front page has a simple usage example.

https://bunjil.js.org/api/bunjil

https://bunjil.js.org/api/policy
I'm amazed this doesn't already exist. But you're right there's no single source you can go to for a brief, unbiased description of even the top 50 tokens. If you can get the community going, I think this could be a big help.

Any plans to add live data?
I took a quick glance, many of Hobbes' principle values do not seem to be widely held today.
The tool fails to explain what specific investments it's modelling this on. I'm assuming ETFs, but those returns seem suspiciously high.
Third party blocking is easy.
From Wikipedia, we are recycling more-and-more: 2.8% in 1960 to 8% in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_recycling

Also we recycle low-quality clothes as isolation for example.
Some feedback: the way you present your arguments is not useful or productive to discussion.

This has nothing to do with whether I agree or disagree with your premise. It's the delivery of the message that you need to improve if you want it to come across in a way that is productive.
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Understood, I edited it to include more details about what I was trying to get across.
still wastes crawl budget and in the past I saw a large uk site lose > £500 k in less than a week from a simple canonical mistake on 20 % or so of their pages.
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But what happens when the citizenry decide that our class of informed representatives no longer serve their interest? That these elected officials only care about election and taking money from lobbyists. That our president is...but I digress.

I would like to say that I do not necessarily feel this way, but I know a LOT of people who are slowly but steadily losing any faith they once had in our government. I know that switching to a direct democracy is drastic and would probably be a bad move, but I think we need to start finding ways to improve our current situation and that starts by asking questions.
No, it's absolutely not legal. The big difference is AFAIK, we don't require electronic recording. A lot of trucks owned by the bigger trucking companies do have electronic recording though.

The max per day is 11 hours, with a 70 hour cap for the whole week.

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/new-hours-servi...
Ah, my point was that I would prefer to run mainline Linux (among other things). And I'm hoping we'll get there. Didn't mean to imply we were there yet.
Why not to include css-definitions in your global sass file
> Star Wars

Few people in Asia have ever heard of it. It's not as influential or popular on a global scale as one might think.
I've bootstrapped the last 3 years. I'm in the "supporting creators" category. 100k happy users so far.

I'm really hesitant to join YC because I feel like the personal touch of having a dozen companies per cohort is lost. Can anyone speak to that?
You anyway need an offline backup for such keys/passwords in case you forget them, lose them, or they get destroyed in e.g. fire.

E.g. it's not safe if the passphrase for your password manager or cryptocurrency wallet is only a single copy in your head; there are all kinds of plausible traumatic events/accidents resulting in things like prolonged hospitalization (e.g. what if you get hit by a car?) that may result in you misremembering some detail.

If you have a backup of the "master keys" in a safe somewhere, then they're not only a backup for you, but also for whoever inherits that safe.
Did the site do down?
You typically pay a surcharge for a team load, usually because you effectively move your load 1000 miles a day instead of 500. For certain types of loads, team drivers are how you make up for manufacturing delays.
A dead post recommended me "Start lifting weights". Sorry, I can't. I have osteo-arthirtis which doesn't let me lift.

I can and love running though. It is not that I don't want to, but when feeling this terrible, I can't move from bed.
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I read this as an OO class that access Google's API. Given the overloading of the term, a better title might be 'Learn Python with Google' or some such.
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I've been seeking out remote positions for this very reason. I would love it if a company focused on work and success based on that work instead of politics and personal interaction. While I've gotten very good over the past few years at navigating complex, toxic environments, it's a huge energy drain.
As scary as it may be to start anew, I hope you're also really excited! I've changed careers twice now (maybe three times actually) since graduating college in 2010. I think the best thing you can do is take a real step back and think long and hard about what your personal values are. What exactly are you trying to optimize for? What energizes you? What drains you?

I try to do this exercise at least once a year. It helps me to distill what it is exactly I'm working towards. Your values will change over the course of your life and it's important to continuously re-evaluate what matters to you now. With your values in mind, you can then make sure that your behaviors are in line with what you care about most. Having a general "north star" will help you evaluate different options as you continue to brainstorm and think about what you want to do next.

Good luck! And congratulations! :D
Thanks, messed the years. Corrected.
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> The solution to this is simple: allow the USPS to offer banking services to the unbanked.

Walmart is basically the banking service for the unbanked. Between Bluebird, check cashing, and bill paying, you got a lot of bank functions.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/walmart-money-center/5433
You can buy your jeans from quality selvedge shops. There are many denim manufacturers to choose from that grow sustainable, organic cotton and weave/sew them in first-world countries that pay their workers livable wages. Obviously you'll pay more for these kinds of jeans – think in the range of $150 at the low end up to well past $500 for high end.

If you're into techier outerwear, you can look into the very popular Outlier (www.outlier.nyc) – again, you pay a premium but the textiles and sewing are made in socially responsible ways in socially responsible areas (I think).

I don't have a super comprehensive knowledge of fashion in this space though.
I'll admit I've considered the amnesia scenario before. Haven't done anything about it yet though. Might need to start thinking about that.
Let me argue that the only reason for this is the atomic bomb and not 'technological progress' as a whole. Technology's 'ability to create' has virtually no bearing on any of this in my opinion.
My main distro is OpenSUSE Tumleweed, because it has good KDE Plasma desktop and KDE software integration and it has frequently updated packages to the latest version. Also love the YaST settings centre.

I also use KDE Neon which came with the Slimbook laptop and works well enough not to have the need to change to something else. And on another computer I use Gentoo,
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Agree with your logic regarding avoiding additional emissions. The extra piece that this RFS add is, we've got about a trillion tons of extra carbon already up in the atmosphere, how do we mine it?
Not at the moment. This is because that's the most freely available info right now in Crypto.
Time will tell. Bangladesh is grossly overpopulated, and struggling with hydrological and agricultural issues which may yet lead to systems collapse. India may thrive, or die in nuclear fire along with Pakistan. Until pretty recently tech was great for Syria too, but again, chicken, eggs, hatch.

There are the big twin baddies of climate change and mass migration to contend with, and nobody seems to be contending. We’re in a decent place, but I would argue, a profoundly negative trajectory. In the same way that the Late Bronze Age was both a time of wonders, and utterly doomed.
Reminds me of the Scuttlebutt culture docs, which I found recently: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
The risk is systemic either way. Those in this thread feel good about themselves for contributing more than others, but long run they're in the same boat as those 'others'.

You never escape systemic risk. The reality is that guaranteed pensions have a track record of getting people to save for retirement. Those programs are gone now and people don't save. The clever reductionists in this thread blame the workers, but placing blame is an exercise that bears only schadenfreude. Personally, I'm interested in lessening systemic risk - and that doesn't mean buying more bonds with shit yield.
> The US government was deliberately not set up to be a direct democracy.

It was also deliberately set up to permanently enshrine slavery and overrepresent slave owners.
>> Based on my personal experience, that statement applies to western Europe.

"Western Europe" is almost always what Americans are referring to when they say "Europe," for various biased reasons.
they simply change the headlight/taillight configuration

One example of this: the exaggerated "tail fins"[0] that characterized late-1950s American sedans started small, then grew almost annually for a decade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_tailfin
You got some leaps of faith there.

Capitalism was basically born by the application of technology disruptively like it did. Saddling the creative forces with the consequences can easily prevent the change from happening at all, and in the end, it is better for the whole.
I can certainly picture the dev frowning at the screen trying to think of a way of not just saying "bucket kicking date".
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> [data cleaning is] boring, it requires a lot of dirty, ungeneralizable work.

How sure are you that it really is ungeneralizable? Just because it appears that way at first glance doesn't mean you won't find opportunities for automation once you understand the domain and the typical dirt in the data better than anyone else (note: 'dirt' can often be modelled).

And well, once you're the developer and maintainer of the data-cleaning system that has become the company's competitive advantage...

Similarly, bug-squashing is often an opportunity to really understand some important but unglamorous system (eg. payments, or authentication), as managers will notice that bugs in system X are fixed much faster and more thoroughly when assigned to jr. developer Y, and this often leads to becoming the go-to person for implementing new features in that system.
I'd really like to see his proposal as something you can toggle when you navigate to someone's twitter profile, since when I do that I'm usually only interested in things they wrote themselves, not things they retweeted.
>However, women, children, and minorities have far more freedom and privacy than they ever have historically.

Why should technology get the credit?
You're right, I was mixing that up with the initial conversion from axis+angle to quaternion.
This may be useful to figuring out how to get involved -- here's an index we made of all the existing carbon removal startups and companies: http://airminers.org
To add to what Kitsune has said, the violence has simply changed into a series of proxy wars between nuclear powers, at the expense of non-nuclear powers. The other part is that for the first time in over a thousand years, Western Europe isn’t almost constantly killing itself in endless wars.
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What happens is that the freight trains gives Amtrak a window for its timetable. In that window, Amtrak gets priority. Miss the window, and Amtrak has to wait for freight trains. There's a separate issue that some freight operators will decide to screw Amtrak over (even within their nominal window) and just eat the fines instead.
But competition is a problem in healthcare too. Why do you think health care is so expensive? A big factor is no one has to pay for anything out of pocket, and no provider has any incentive to compete on price. In fact, no one knows what the price of anything even is.
I appreciate the feedback and agree, I did a poor job. Hopefully my edit has added some much-needed substance.
This is a great reminder that it always helps to think deeply about a problem before spouting out a solution. I appreciate that Cory moves beyond the "protech" and "anti-tech" rhetoric and allows for us to be humans together on the same journey.

However, I find it increasingly frustrating that there are many voices out there involved in this "techlash" yet there seems to be little thought given to the actual ethics and morality they continue to cite. Who gets to define what is right?
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> But what happens when the citizenry decide that our class of informed representatives no longer serve their interest?

Change them; if the electoral system isn't very good at that, probably fixing that is a more reasonable fix then abandoning representative democracy.

Reserving some direct democracy powers but not forcing voters tombe full-time legislators (as many US states do) is a more extreme, but still reasonable step.
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Great observation. Huge fan (shockingly enough) of the work they're doing in that regard, but I would argue that minimal banking functions should be served by the USPS or other governmental organization (in a transparent, accountable way), as it's basic infrastructure necessary to operate in today's economy as a citizen.

What Walmart giveth, Walmart can taketh away at any time.
Not exactly an answer to your question, but I have one folder in my inbox called "biographaphical" where I archive any personal communication, even the mundane stuff, but not bills and invoices and alerts.

I plan to set up something to archive that folder somewhere accessible, together with various chat logs. This is intended to be the digital equivalent of the "box of letters in the attic", which anyone who survives me and is sufficiently interested can access. I decided to do this when looking through old letters and realising that the digital era can, if we're not careful, put an end to the possibility of going through the correspondence of the deceased, which would be a real loss.
They are amazing and one of, no, in fact the best in the world, both Poles and Russians. But that's a selection bias. Don't expect to drop there and find streets overflowing with such people eager to work for you in the actual Poland and Russia. The best already found their cozy spots and are not trading them for your offer whatever it might be (and let's face it: you're not going there after the talent but a cheaper talent), given their fears and insecurity (and exploitation) of the local labour market. Or otherwise, found their way out of the country or are actively looking (will I get promoted to your UK HQ in a year or two?).
The Great Oxygenation Event.

Sounds like a fun party of massive death and extermination.
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> “If we take out housing and pensions [which in another part of the article we observe 'those two categories comprise most of the so-called wealth of most Americans'] and calculate just the shares of financial or business wealth — and, thus, equities, fixed-income claims, and business assets — the degree of inequality is much, much worse.

So, if we take out the first two elements of the American dream and likely the first two items that Americans save for, which we've discovered represent most of the wealth of the middle and upper middle class, we find that the remaining wealth is even more unequal.

Well, duh...
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MoviePass knows where I am when I'm near a theater

That's not the risk -- Moviepass knows you are there at that time simply by your usage metrics.

The problem is that (1) other apps have Location access while you have Location services on if you have ever granted that privilege, including only at install time, and (2) few people have the presence of mind to turn Location on and back off promptly so that it's only on when the user is conscious of it.
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Dan Gittik just started working at google, and geeked this out as his first side project:
Getting a virtual autograph from a virtual world celeb
When I started working at Google, I had the sudden realisation that I am working at the same company as people like Ken Thompson, Vint Cerf and Bram Moolenaar.
These are people whom I'd ask for an autograph, if I ever get to meet them. So I thought: why not! And what's even better than an autograph on a piece of paper, is a cryptographic signature on an actual executable file. Imagine how cool it'd be to say "Hey Bram, can you please sign my vim?", or "Ken Thompson, oh my God! Mind writing 'To my dearest friend, Dan' on my gcc?"
That's what Virtual Autograph is about: you upload a file, write a dedication, and we email it to your hero to sign. Once they do, you get an email with your very own copy of, say, tcpdump, signed by Vint Cerf himself - so now you can, uh, sniff packets, just like before, but be dorkily happy about it.
The significance of Trump's election, if any can be said to exist, is that from now on all of our chief executives will be reality TV stars.

JFK was the first candidate to embrace Television. Perhaps Trump, being a part of the same lurid show, is the first candidate to realize how hollowed-out the media based on that technology has become.

Is that progress?

It's the classic creative destruction in the media.

You think you're being clever, asking all these questions before making any firm statement.

One of the best ways to judge someone is to see how they make decisions and predictions, and to observe on what information those are based upon.

The downvoters seem to have seen through the mask?

It's not possible to make judgements as above from the downvotes. It seems you should have noted that.
Here's a few biochar companies you might find interesting:

http://www.biocharsolutions.com/

https://www.biocarbontech.com/

http://blackcarbon.dk/

https://www.carboculture.com/

http://fullcirclebiochar.com/

(list is from AirMiners, index of companies mining carbon from the air, plus lots of other sequestration tech: http://airminers.org)
I use Dashlane for this purpose and have provided my wife access...the way it works is she only gets access if her request is not denied by me after 72 hours. Presumably on death, she requests access and 3 days later has control over my accounts.
I have been trying my hardest to find such a hiring manager, but at a certain point one starts to wonder if they exist at all.

Why does the responsibility for toxic culture and unethical behavior fall on me, the applicant, the one with the least amount of power and leverage in the interview process? Why do companies get free passes on ridiculous behavior while I am supposed to compromise what I believe in to placate others? I'm asking a philosophical question, of course, but it's an important one: If not enough people stand up for themselves, we get worker mistreatment and toxic work environments.
If you meant, instead of tossing out representative democracy, “can we make the legislative branch one of virtual meetings so that representatives stay home with their constituents rather than going to Washington, I think that there would be a more interesting discussion.
good lord. I didnt even check that one.
Why shouldn't it?

Different technologies, sure. But the liberating effects of labor saving devices is pretty tough to dispute.
Here's an example where the authors propose doing this for planetary gravity assists, e.g., instead of using Venus for a normal gravity assist, dig into its atmosphere. Everything would need to be folded up first.

"Hypersonic Interplanetary Flight: Aero Gravity Assist"

Al Bowers & Dan Banks, 2006

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200900...

Discussed in a podcast here: https://theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/al-bowers
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Emirates responded with a standard statement.

Excerpt: “The depiction in Mr Modi’s article as to what data is being shared, or customer choice in ‘opting out’ is inaccurate.”

Here is my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16532591