skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s only impressive to remember someone’s name now since we don’t have it being projected to us. Once that happens then it’s as impressive as remembering someone’s birthday now that we have facebook.
> epidemic of suicides and mental health problems

Especially after all the re-definitions for what "mental illness" means, and the development of drugs to treat them. I take a cynical view.
Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch
Giteabot account was compromised
My counter argument is that these questions can be asked, it's none of your business to sayt what questions should not be asked on a reddit community. Historically, r/(I)AMA has been just that, and the ducks question is part of the community's history now (I can't think of a semi-famous AMA in the last year where that question wasn't asked).

More importantly, it's an ama, and the fact that he is about to be github CEO is secondary. We don't want movie stars coming there just for their latest release (if you overdo it, it's a disaster. Google Rampart AMA)

Finally, my intention was to be brief, but stop short of disrespect (and I am sorry if it offended you). Unfortunately I seem to have approached you with the same condescension you showed for (I)AMA's users
That’s the problem with mutually assured destruction weapons (which AI bots most surely qualify as). If you accept as a given that at least one faction is building them, then the other factions’ only choices are: 1. Build your own and pray for a Cold War stalemate and 2. Don’t build your own and guarantee you’ll be destroyed.
Fortran is still a thing (2017)
I think a big part of it is that airline industry is typically co-located in cities with large numbers of other jobs, allowing a region to soak up the loss a little more easily.

In coal dependent regions, the mining jobs create downstream jobs in transportation and general support of mining towns. This means when a mine shuts down, along with it go other local jobs, from gas station attendants to truck drivers and freight train conductors.
Lots of people with bachelors degrees don’t have professional jobs.
Nat answered this in the AMA: They intend to develop both, and ensure VSTS users can use GitHub easily for version control if they want to.

But bear in mind, extremely long-term support for business workflows is Microsoft's obsession: Even if they decided to "retire" VSTS, it'd probably get updates for the next decade or so.
1) money,
2) profit,
3) revenue.
So move people away, bulldoze the towns and let it return to nature.
Sure thing; going into the future I'll make sure to; and sorry for breaking guidelines a bit.

I was thinking I should probably take a break from HN until the current news cycle's run its course (way too many things happening that I'm tempted to reply with one-liners to; works on Twitter, doesn't work here), and should have went with my intuition + will now.
The reason is simple: we've already put enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause adverse changes over a long period of time. A lot of the IPCC models and their discussion centers around more near-term climate threats over the next 100 years or so caused by continued emissions and overall severity of going ever more "over budget" with CO2 levels, but we're still 100+ ppm of CO2 over the highest average of the last half a million years or more. That CO2 is going to hang around in the atmosphere for quite some time as the natural processes like weathering that lower it are slow, and its presence will add extra heat from solar radiation while it's still there. If we suddenly stopping emitting now, we would still be above baseline but not in the apocalyptic range. If things don't change quickly though, we're going to have to suck CO2 from the atmosphere one way or another because just halting emissions won't be enough.
I think the biggest problem with the political issues surrounding coal is that it's so iconic an industry in the areas it operates. That makes it all too easy to overestimate the size and importance of the industry. In reality, it's been dwindling for a long time, though its complete death is by no means imminent.
How to take over any Google account that doesn't have recovery options set
All you need for this is the name of the account holder.

1. enter any password

2. click forgot password

3. go to account recovery

4. ENTER PHONE NUMBER OF CHOICE

5. it will ask you for the name registered in the Google account

6. the account is now bound to your phone number

Enjoy
also sounds like a terrifying future for child kidnappers or fugitives or anyone on some wanted list.

whether they deserve to be on that wanted list or not

I mean right now we have cameras everywhere but they’re not all HD so the govt can’t run facial recognition reliably plus they need access to all the cameras. But when people voluntarily put facial recognition devices on their own selves, en masse? Wow.

Sounds like something Google or Amazon could benefit from practically giving away.
Bucketization, what is it and how does it work?
Why? There are ~76,000[1] coal worker in the US out of 151 million people in the workforce[2]. Why does this minuscule industry deserve more protections then say Toys 'R' Us' 31,000 employees?[3] Just because they all vote GOP?

Coal is a terrible industry that is destroying the world. It can't go away quick enough.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/8-sur...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000

[3] http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/16/news/companies/toys-r-us-emp...
Well Google is now framing this as a moral issue, so did morality change significantly between when they accepted this project and today?
It was not my intention to criticize NASA, I like it and as I mentioned on my original post I hope they keep getting the funds they need.

My point was that the title seems a bit exaggerated given the content of the article.
The first thing about doing it right is to make sure it has been developed in an appropriate manner for safety-critical systems, which includes, but is by no means limited to, adequate testing.

The second thing is to require the owners to take some action as part of the installation procedure, so that it is hard for them to overlook the fact that it has happened.

The third thing is that changes with safety implications should not be bundled with 'convenience/usability' upgrades (including those that are more of a convenience for the manufacturer than for the user.) To be fair, I am not aware of Tesla doing that, but it is a common enough practice in the software business to justify being mentioned.

And it has to be done securely. Again, I am not aware of Tesla getting this wrong.
Yea but unlike LinkedIn people don't put their entire resume and a litany of other personal info on the front page. Yes your resume website might be in your github, but the exposure is much more intentional.
Can you point me to a source for the billion Autopilot miles? This is something I've been trying to track down without any luck so far.

The best source I've been able to find so far is a tweet by Elon Musk in 2016 saying "Cumulative Tesla Autopilot miles now at 222 million".

[1]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/784487348562198529?ref_s...
As I mention above, you need to do your due diligence. Investing without knowing the rules is fraught with peril.

I only use non-recourse mortgages when investing in real estate. YMMV.
In fairness, that's pretty much a given for any web app.

Whatever user groups they create are only ever going to be an artificial construct - it's all just lists of stuff
GitHub promotes a walled-garden approach to development. People who use it will want you to have an account on it, and some people such as myself cannot or will not use GitHub at any cost. I have my own cgit instance I host my own code on, and I contribute to anyone else's projects through mailing lists or other open forms of contact. It doesn't require a sign-up; it requires something that everyone on the Internet already has: an E-mail address.

Git is a decentralised protocol that goes hand-in-hand very well with the federated nature of E-mail. GitHub destroys that, and just because it has a shiny web interface and has encouraged "social coding", people forget how Git really is and refuse to take an old-fashioned PR patchset because they want it done through the GitHub interface, or they refuse a bug ticket because it isn't in the issues list that requires you to log in. (My concern with bug trackers requiring registration extends past GitHub; I would rather every tracker simply require a valid E-mail address to send in a new ticket.)

All of this simply helps to fragment the OSS community and its collaboration even more than it already is. So yeah, some people prefer E-mail for the utility rather than for the "hackerman aesthetic" as you assume it to be. It's nothing about nostalgia; I'm a pretty young developer who hasn't had a chance to grow up in the dialup days and I still see the benefits of using mail as a primary form of development communication.

Don't fix what isn't broken.
Devil's advocate question, why?

We are talking about an ~200,000 person industry, why does the federal government need to go take care of each small industry that gets out-competed?

I could see having a generic program in place for retraining, which does exist [1]. But it's not like journalism, say, which could arguably have an out-sided improvement for the rest of the country above and beyond its business model and is worth saving for its own sake. Coal is highly polluting and prematurely kills ~10,000 people/year in this country [2]. It seems like a rational government should regulate against it, if anything.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-coal-retrain...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-other-reason-...
Reserving a certain amount of phone numbers costs money as well as do phone plans for businesses. Those spammers typically don't have just one phone number but plenty of them.

They probably also don't have your usual private phone plan with unlimited calling but some sort of high volume call centre plan.
> What makes coal special?

The coal industry is a larger portion of the economic activity of the states it's in. The airline industry is diffused across the country. Helping the coal industry is kind-of like gerrymandering.
Honestly, I'd love if our society chose to be more generous and invest in retraining workers across the board. But if someone loses their job in Welch, West Virginia, and there's nothing else ... they might need to move.

How is it different from steel jobs drying up in Gary IN? Or automobile jobs in Detroit? Or fishing jobs in Maine? Or tobacco jobs in ... wherever tobacco was grown
Actually it is quite easy, cost of doing business in such cultures is much higher as you can not really trust anything and must guard against a knife in the back at any moment.

There is a huge amount of friction that eliminates if counterparty can be trusted vast majority of the time.
> Have they embraced modernity?

Wow. Sounds like you ought to embrace modernity, specifically the part about tolerance for others who are different from you.

As for the substance of your question: They vote. We're talking several states' worth of voters, who will turn against anybody who advocates your position as a political platform. So, politically, if you want to kill coal, you have to not dead-end these people, no matter what you think of them personally.
Both can be used for malicious prosecution.
Methanogens have been discovered in 3.5B yr old rock on earth [1]. Organisms capable of producing methane have been identified only from the domain Archaea.

Other methane discoveries in solar system [2]:

- 2004, methane was discovered in the Martian atmosphere by M.J. Mumma of NASA's Goddard Flight Center
- 2004, martian atmosphere finding verified by the Mars Express Orbiter
- 2005, Titan's atmosphere by the Huygens probe
- 2015, the Cassini orbiter spacecraft on discovered the Enceladus (Saturn's moon) plume which has all the ingredients for methanogenesis-based life forms to feed from. Suggested hot water is interacting with rock beneath the sea.
- 2017, new findings of Enceladus plume support that conclusion and add that the rock appears to be reacting chemically.
- 2018, NASA disclosed in a press conference that its Curiosity rover had documented seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane levels on Mars.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8882-methane-making-m...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis#Extra-terrestri...
Why is it famed as a "privilege" and race issue then? They can only be inclusive if the other person is a minority?
MobileEye (EyeQ3 which is in AP1) does detection on chip including things like road sign recognition the “software” part is near non existent for them it’s more of a configuration than some sort of a software ANN model like what Tesla is using with AP2 and the NVIDIA Drive PX.
Definitely being sarcastic and just poking fun. Classic developer, thinking they can replicate a startup in a weekend. :)
Maybe. But it takes guts to draw any line in the sand, when none of your rivals has been willing to do it.

Sure, it'd be nice if Google tightened up their rhetoric a bit, or proposed concrete ways they intend to act deliberately and publicly to enforce these bylaws.

But this is a start, and reveals a willingness to speak out both to their employees and the public at large that company policy disallows some future lines of business, especially building weapons and surveillance tech.

IMHO, this is a positive step in the right direction.
This is even more important if public servants see this narrative as a way to score easy support, and propose ad hoc policies to do so. This doesn't just waste resources, it's evading the real hard problems because they're hard.
4am seems very excited about the project. https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/993247470414127104

And there will still be work to do. https://twitter.com/yesterbits/status/993345477805559809

The Internet Archive will have both copies around, and I can't think of any particular reason they wouldn't let you boot both of them in their emulator.
I don't know if they'd outright "open source it", in part because there is probably a fair bit of cruft, much as Windows and Office likely have under the covers. But I suspect they'll build open source initiatives on top of it.

I don't know if GitHub going open source is likely or even beneficial, but imagine if they chose to develop an open standard for PR/issue/comment data. The easiest way to show you are going to play fair and win via quality and trust is to make it easy for people to leave. IMHO, that's where I'd push for/encourage.
This is a bit dramatic though because these robots can't reload themselves. Automated targeting for a single area is miles away from planning strategy, deploying battle groups, etc.
Oh yes, coffee is one of the less harmful pleasures of life! I would never consider quitting it, that doesn’t mean I’d neglect sleep though.
Here's a better source [1]. They found some organic goop, like kerogen. Might actually be organic (as in microbial) in origin.

However methane and organic matter gets discovered every 2 weeks. Perhaps next week they'll rediscover water for the 10,000th time. I get the excitement for the few that weren't aware of it, but it's getting really tiring for the rest of us.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/nasa-rover-hits-organ...
Natural gas needs to be phased out due to CO2.
What is so special about coal miners?

Tons of other industries have undergone or will be soon bigger shifts in unemployment. Retail workers have been hit hard by online shopping. Taxi drivers have been hit by Uber and Lyft and the like. Truck drivers will be hit by self-driving trucks. Factory and warehouse workers have been hit by automation, which will only continue.

I don't feel like we "owe" coal miners anything more than we owe other people who are industries facing declines.

That said, I agree with most of what you are saying - technological innovation and other changes are hitting certain groups of people fairly hard and we, as a society, need to do more to help them transition to other careers.
I don't claim to be poor, but the struggle is real. And like the post above me, my life would be exponentially better if health insurance wasn't terrible.

Our system is designed for people to fail. Even our own president has bragged that another depression would be a good thing since he could buy things up at a discount. (yeah, there is a tweet for everything)
I know, I didn't mean that you criticized NASA, I was talking about other people.
Impending AI Winter poised to make a lot of people look like fools?
The US were the only one to use atomic weapons on a already defeated enemy/at all.
I don't know how you do something and avoid doing something at the same time.
Well, not quite. Nat cofounded a company (Helix Code, later Ximian) with Miguel de Icaza (cofounder) which then developed GNOME apps and infra.[0]

Nat was a cofounder in the same way that Jeb Bush was a US president. Connected to one perhaps but not one himself.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History
The whole idea of “protecting the national insterests” of the US creeps me out, as that to me usually means oppressing others, interfering with democracy in foreign countries, and generally sacrificing people outside the US to maintain the global hegemony we promote.

I can tell you see it differently, but I hope you see that not all people see promoting “US government interests” as an automatically good thing, given what that phrase has meant historically.
Evolution of the AppDirect Kubernetes Network Infrastructure
Biodiesel is neither synthetic in the sense that I mean (direct chemical synthesis, no biomass) nor is it presently carbon-neutral. It also isn't suitable fuel for legacy gasoline-fueled vehicles.

My estimate is based on adjustments to the LANL Green Freedom concept for synthetic gasoline from 2007:

http://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/greenfreedom...

The authors claim that for profitable operation "the price of gasoline at the pump must be about $4.60/gal." This number incorporated the authors' unrealistically optimistic expectations of low-cost Generation III nuclear reactor construction. It rises to $5.69/gallon, adjusting for inflation[1]. The rest of the cost increase comes from my estimate of using renewable electricity sources instead of cheap nuclear power. (It would be even more expensive if I used nuclear power at actually-observed costs of currently-in-progress American reactor construction.)

[1] Yes, I used CPI, and I know it's not really appropriate for capital-intensive industrial projects. This is just a back-of-the-envelope estimate.
Resurrecting my Macintosh Plus
So a checkbox or screenshot for KYC is going to fly with the SEC?

They aren't going to go after retail investors.
Because ZTE is a prime instrument of PRC hegemonic ambitions, and $1B is a bargain to put such an asset back on line.
We are going to need a staggering amount of renewable power anyways, but this could at least partly answer the concern of how to store that renewable power since it is variable in its output.
It might be an artifact of the system-centric nature of our culture. We seek to reduce everything to predictable absolute rulesets, to make things regular and reliable and tractable. I'm not sure if this comes primarily from the Industrial era and mass-manufacturing which has a tremendous conformity component, or whether it comes mostly from the more recent advent of computers.

We so easily accede to someone who says "its policy" without considering that the person involved clearly outranks whatever policy is being dealt with. Perhaps we've not been burned by strict adherence to policy and expecting the world to be regular and predictable as recently as those other cultures. It might just be a temporary thing, but I don't know. We've got things like "personal space" which were a very American concept for a long time, but which has since spread, almost certainly with many negative consequences, widely. So maybe this desire for people to accommodate systems rather than for systems to accommodate people will spread too. We're screwed if that's the case.
"We're just going to put the tip in...."
> so?

You missed the point. Correct, who cares. But why are they driven to do it? It's because otherwise they are not valued. (If you have another theory let's hear it.)

> I've basically never seen the former. I do see 100X as much ranting against it though.

You don't spend enough time on college campuses, and you especially don't spend enough time listening to liberal student yell and scream if someone conservative dares to talk.

Or maybe you spend just the right amount of time LOL. Ignoring those kind of liberals probably helps one's sanity.
Google.

> - by preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems based on the Android open source code;
Nuclear power is now arguably too late. We've got enough renewables manufacturing capabity to add a lot every year, while nuclear power plant starting now (e.g. Hinkley Point C, which has been in planning since 2008) won't be ready for at least 5 years.
He was kicked out of HN. You underestimate how petty the mods here can be.
Look at it from the other side: with those principles written down, executives will at least have the option to adhere to them, something to point at when they do. Without, shareholders might give them a very hard time for every not strictly illegal profit opportunity they preferred to skip.

Google might be in a position to not get bullied around much by investors though, so that line of thought might be slightly off topic here.
In Python we deal with @decoratorDecoratorMetaClassProxy instead.
Their bias is fair, you see.
There are likely just as many structural reasons that people in coal country are still there as there are reasons for people in like income city neighborhoods to be stuck there. You are vastly oversimplifying both their responsibility and yours for the situation they are in.
Homeschool is rather involved, we do hands-on learning so lots of field trips, lots of "Coop classes" with other families, we also do art/music and tutoring and there are park-days for kids to play and so much more.

I live in Austin Texas, you need a second car to survive. Getting wife and 2 kids around town for everything in uber/lyft isn't economical and my wife also runs a not for profit and volunteers with charity and runs events and I have after work activities such as volunteering for first robotics, girl scouts and such.
Of course FORTRAN still matters. Somebody has to write real neural network code. We can't all be Python script kiddies!
> Nim in my opinion seems to be more complex than Zig

That may be so, but Zig is still in a very early stage of development. A language may look simple and fresh in the beginning, but the real test comes when 1.0 is right around the corner. Nim is at this stage now, I am one of the Nim core devs and I will even admit that it is by no means simple, there are features that I would like to see removed to reduce the complexities, but how do you do that when a vocal percentage of your user base loves the feature?

Do keep this in mind when trying to compare a language like Zig (which is just starting out) to a language like Nim (which has been around for a while). Perhaps Zig will do a better job than Nim in this regard, but only time can tell.