skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? People used lead paint widely, and many 100+ year old houses were painted with it.
Once you start to manage people for real, you’ll realize that the truth is often very subjective and it’s easy to appear awesome to your boss without being so when he has 8 other people to evaluate.

Getting to the bottom of it all is hard, if not impossible given the power imbalance. So yeah, virtue signaling is important when different cultures teach you to show virtue in different ways.
Rekognition crawled and annotated millions of images of different celebrities to train their face recognition model. Once you have an accurate model for a lot of classes it's much easier to add new ones with just a few samples.
There are places that do factory assembly of things like framing then ship it out to the job site, google or search youtube for preframed wall factory. It's becoming more popular precisely because labor and time are in short supply.
I grew up playing The Sims so my ideal housing situation is essentially the same as your comment.

There are companies that build custom manufactured houses, like Carina Construction[1] in Ithaca, NY. I haven’t looked into how modifications like those you mention might work, but the prices are competitive and the modular customization is pretty extensive. All-in-all a good deal, if you don’t mind a house that looks slightly plastic.

[1] https://carinaconstruction.com
Sadly, the job market is pretty simple: when you make a job easier, workers earn less.

And it's true for pre-fab, which replaced unionized trades with automation and non-union factory workers, cutting wages drastically.

One can imagine the salary difference.
Extremely disturbing, deeply terrifying? Please try to reserve phrases like this for the many actually terrifying situations in the world, not minor inconveniences.

You absolutely do not want members of Congress using an open network at a "global powerspot". Hopefully they use a highly secured network that is not open to anyone who can get press credentials. Seeing an open unsecured network at the Capitol might actually be deeply terrifying.
You could also show any Quicklook supported file in the iChat AV video stream. I remember doing some remote Keynote presentations that way. Resolutions wasn't great, but it worked. Ten+ years ago.
Kind of sounds like the URL for a site about open-face sandwiches.
VS Code is based on Atom right?
No, but some people do; And some C programs written 30 years ago do support it, but no Pascal program does (not from 30 years ago, not those written 20 years ago, not those written 10 years ago, and not those written yesterday unless Pascal now has 64-bit length strings).

Furthermore, using mmap (which was always the right way to do it), it doesn't matter if it's 512KB or 1GB or 5GB or 20GB, and is supported by C string practices but none of the Pascal strings (or those suggested on this thread).
You could use a block cipher for the actual video stream with a single key, and encrypt that key with all 31 public keys.
Really? Can you point to a single security token issuance that was an exit scam?
> Yo, you gotta tell me when you’re working.

Sure, have core hours, and make them known.

If I know someone won't be "at" work for the next 20 hours (part time, different timezone) I can factor that into how the teamwork will... Work.

Is something on fire, and only a single person can put it out? A) that's sad B) sometimes happens anyway (and then you can try and fix A after the fire is out) C) depending on what's on fire, contracts etc - you can always call and wake someone up.

But mostly it's just nice to know people's schedules - so one can plan work.

Maybe there's some pair programming to be done (via shared screen session or whatever) - obviously try and schedule that when both parties are available...

It's really not that different to chasing after a manager that's busy with meetings or a co-worker who's part time out of the office doing on-site consulting work.

Even in a shared office, developers need to plan "deep" time when they have time to focus - or nothing will get done due interruptions.

Just because someone is sitting right there does not mean they're "free" for a chat. They could be deep in the debugger chasing a bug.
Yes, some users upvoted it and other users flagged it. The flags greatly outweighed the upvotes, and that represents the community verdict on the topic. This is how HN's system has always worked. There is no evidence of abuse, and the comments users posted, disagreeing that the story was serious, are clear evidence of what the bulk of the community thinks of it.

Indignation posts routinely get lots of upvotes. That's a weakness of the upvoting system, not evidence of a good submission. This is one of the reasons why HN needs flags in the first place.

Since this whole discussion is a non-story—HN working the way it has worked for over ten years—I don't think further comments are likely to add anything new.
Exactly, that new plant design is a much bigger deal. It gives you the CO2 for "free" as part of its normal operation without a power penalty.

This article tries to make a point about how if the gasoline is made from CO2 from the air, it makes burning it carbon neutral. This is true but it misses the point. You want to get the most CO2 reduction for your money, so do the cheapest carbon capture first. Its cheaper to collect it from large point sources, so do that first. Once those emissions are being captured or simply ended from the plant retiring then move on to more expensive DAC.
was always mesmerized by the copy protection on some of these disks.. which begs the chicken-and-egg question of how these disks were written in the first place, since it sounds like these copy protection schemes are above the threshold of what is 'addressable' by the system..
Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient 'Building Blocks for Life' on Mars
I think the usual advice is to "sleep when the baby sleeps", because they actually sleep quite a lot, just not when you want them to! What I really need is an algorithm that would predict, when I put the baby down, how long I should expect her to sleep (and therefore if I should grab a nap).
China has been able to do this for at least 7 yrs now.
30 Story building in 15 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY
It’s more that there are people who could be rockstars, but because they weren’t immersed in startup culture or entrepreneurship since childhood, they don’t know what’s important to the business. That’s why clear goals and responsibilities are important.
See my replies to the other 2 comments adjacent to yours.
I am old enough to have participated in the pre-SF days, and can say that "the quantity and quality of open source software [...] increased drastically" with SF.

Ditto with Python.

Ditto with pretty much everything computer related.

It's as if the extensive shift in education starting in the 1980s or so, to emphasize training with computers and programming, has lead to a large number of well-trained, competent programmers.
I found spending time learning economics and marketing changed my understanding of the world.

I think it would be very beneficial for everyone(especially HN crowd) to learn this.

Your sentence isnt important.
Ideally it would eventually dramatically speed up the border crossing process and reduce visible red tape.
> That’s worrisome, because small business was traditionally one of the main gateways to the middle class. Without the option of starting a corner store, Americans without high skills or advanced degrees will find it that much harder to maintain comfortable lifestyles. Instead, many will have to seek jobs from large corporations, depriving them of personal autonomy and possibly driving down wages due to the increased competition for jobs.

oh please.

> But it’s also possible that the high-tech sector is becoming dominated by a few big players, leaving less room for innovators to break in. Tech titans like Amazon, Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Alphabet (Google) and Microsoft have grown to staggering size

Bingo.

Conglomeration is just awful.

> regulators might take a second look at options to reduce the dominance of the big players.

Nope. After Microsoft the big tech companies learned to pay their bribes like everyone else. Too much lobbying now.
Ask HN: Is there an email service that sends email by entering/clicking a URL
I'd like to be able to send an email by entering a URL like someservice.com/api/send-email?email=bob@home.org&name=Robert&template=job2231 - then an email is sent based on a pre-configured template that takes in the email, name parameters.

I would have logged into someservice.com via their web UI, so ideally authentication is handled in the background - wrt to sending the email. Of course if not logged in, the email isn't sent.

Do you have any recommendations for someservice.com or an equivalent product?
When the sitcom Silicon Valley recently used it to refer to cryptocurrency I considered the battle lost.
...said the frog in the kettle.
Seems like with ten thousand years of time to learn about the stuff, we humans haven't understood politics at all yet.

So I'll go with "No, politics is complex and hard".
Huf Haus has been around a while.

I first saw them on Grand Designs where they put up a beautiful house in 7 days. (only thing that had to be done on site was groundworks, the house turned up on a couple of lorries and efficient germans (tautology possibly) put it together, cleaned up and left.

Expensive though.
Scott Santens – Cutting the Gordian Knot of Technological Unemployment [video]
The majority of people I know, would disagree. It just happens that "own goal" coincides with what I think is a good idea. Not to say that all the decisions are good enough to vote for, but these tariffs are a solid move imo.
Do you have a citation? Because that is exactly the opposite of what a quick search that I did just found.

According to https://www.nature.com/news/ethanol-fuels-ozone-pollution-1.... there are contradictory theories, but experimental evidence says that it increases smog. According to https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reduce-air-pollut... even ethanol in the quantities used in the USA is worse for public health than straight gasoline without anything added.
It is easier to feel empathy in a smaller communities than larger ones. i.e. it's easier for British PersonA to relate to British PersonB, and to that affect, British PersonA is more accepting of taxes which benefit British PersonB.

For perspective, California has 60% the population of the UK.
Agreed. Their 3% market share would be arbsorded into Xiaomi, Samsung, and Huawei within months.
async/await is powered by promises
Isn’t that besides the point? The applications you list are a very small fraction of the oil dig up.

And you could get those hydrocarbon from renewable sources. They just happen to be practically free when we’re extracting and burning such massive amounts of fossile oil/gas
It's good at determining whether something is moving towards it or away from it, but bad at determining where that object is; whether it's directly in front or slightly to the left or far to the left. Its "vision" in that sense is blurry.
It uses Electron (the embedded Chrome wrapper) just like Atom does, but as far as I'm aware they dont share anything else that actually makes them an editor.
Sure let's get John and Jane Doe to acquire a secure crypto, securely access a website over Tor, and manage to maintain OPSEC. Then we can have them setup their own Dropbox clone with rsync and some trivial bash scripts!

Alternatively, we can create an easy-to-use site for the common man who is willing to pony up some petty cash for whatever their version of "justice" is. At sufficiently high levels, in sufficiently corrupt societies they can trace things down and disappear you. This idea isn't for those places, and likely wouldn't even work anyway.

However, in nations with reasonably sound rule of law this could potentially work.
Yes, they build 30 story building faster then most single family homes take to do the foundation.
If we always followed that logic we'd still be using first gen OS from the 1970's, or perhaps we'd still be using the Code of Hammurabi. Reevaluating legacy systems in the face of paradigm shift is a crucial part of natural evolution.
Schema design and UI design should both be done at the beginning and designed _concurrently_. UI requirements can inform schema design. But there's always going to be an impedance mismatch between the two: schema design optimizes for performant storage and retrieval of data - it's data that has been optimized for machines. UI design optimizes a users ability to conceptualize and use data - it's data that has been optimized for people. Code is the glue that helps mediate between these domains.
A new york billionaire who was born wealthy convinced millions of middle class (or worse) Americans in the midwest to vote for him.

and yet somehow I don't think we are even close to the peak.
Honestly we should be looking at consumption rather than income. Of the ten poorest communities in the US by income half are college towns. Most college students have low incomes but I don't think it's right to consider them poor either given that this is generally a temporary state and they're frequently living better than their age-mates who aren't are working full time instead of attending college and thus have higher incomes.
> Is there any truth to the rumor that Clippy will be joining your team? I think "You appear to have a merge conflict. How can I help you?" is a good fit for Github.

> His name is actually Clippit, and you will address him as Mr. Clippit.

Classic

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman...
> The flags outweighed the upvotes.

Are you saying there were more flags than upvotes and that this is the trigger for the non-linear movement to page 3?
> “This opens up the possibility that we could stabilize the climate for affordable amounts of money without changing the entire energy system or changing everyone’s behavior.”

Regardless of whether this technology works as promised, the last part (and possibly the first part too) does not show the right attitude to solving this issue, I think. It's not just technology that got us into this mess. It's also how we decided to apply that technology. Silver bullet or not, we need to change that.

It's one thing if the necessary changes don't have to be as drastic and doom and gloom as predicted until now, but if everyone thinks "oh it's fine, we fixed this!" we'll be hit by Jevon's Paradox[0] so hard that we somehow manage to destroy ourselves anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
That IS a small number. Consider the context.
Trends in Third-Party Service Providers Transitioning to Digital Services
An online toolchain would be a nice concept in theory, but at least on my laptop, performance is still an issue.

Online IDEs still eat up a lot more resources.
Yeah, even the high-end new developments around here seem to be made up of a repeating set of 4-6 different standardized designs to pick from.
One day jobs will be a dirty word. If something creates jobs, then we don't want it. Something that creates work out of nowhere is a bit like nagging. Nobody wants that!
Avast released RetDec as free software not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15912595
Same way you discover anything on the internet.
Not at all, politics is often a question of values as much as one of logistics, even assuming AI can handle logistics.

For example, consider homelessness. No one has any clue what, if anything, is the best solution, because there are tradeoffs of values.

One possible solution (these are examples, if your personal pet solution is not included or is misrepresented, I apologize) is you ignore the homeless and just let them be, and allow individual communities and cities to address charity and enforcement. Another is for states to house all non-mentally ill homeless for free, for, say, a year, and, in mental health instutitions, house the repeat homeless, the mentally ill homeless, and those that after some period of time cannot or will not find work.

AI can help you diagnose the problem, and make predictions about it, but those two solutions above have VERY different outcomes, have very different pricetags, and accomplish very different goals. An AI can’t think about the high level moral tradeoffs of questions like “is 100% getting homeless off the streets worth a fraction of the population being held at significant cost to taxpayers and against its own will?”

Somebody, at the end of the day, must decide which, if either, of those plans people will use, and that somebody is a politician you elect. AI is not going to replace that.
It would take several years but we can build factories in rural parts of the US(you know, where people voted for Trump) or even in Mexico.

The section 201 solar tariffs apply to crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules made in Mexico as well as in China. And to those made in Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Canada... every country but the USA. This aspect has been under-reported outside of solar industry outlets. "Countering subsidized exports from China" is often tossed into mainstream news about this issue but the tariffs are curbing imports from everywhere. It seems crazy to me, and reminds me of the crazy steel and aluminum tariffs that have recently been imposed even on US allies.
Twitter's stunning turnaround
This is correct. VS Code is based off their Monaco Editor [0]

0 - https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
Houses have almost always kept ahead of inflation, and carrying expenses replace rent.
> I'm not going to be the next Zuckerberg

What does that mean?

If I'm not getting rich, what the hell is the point? I can work half as hard doing bullshit for some big tech company.
Thanks for the Video Link. It answer a lot of the question I had previously.

One problem I thought that was not solved were finishing. It turns out they actually do all the finishing before it is shipped. And because the finishing, construction, are all done indoor and in house, my guess is that with Air Condition they will / could work much faster, higher efficiency, and more importantly, there should be less sloppiness.

But then Another question I had as shown in the video, wouldn't all the room be limited by the 40Ft Container Size that fits in the truck?

How much of those labour, once moved indoor, could be full automated?

Can you built a 50 floor + building / Hotel with these modular tech? How does it work in area where you have special construction requirement like earth quake zone.

Are the factory mobilise? i.e, Assuming this take mainstream, would a manufacture of those unit have to ship 100s of containers across the country to have these fitted? Because all the time saved are now bottlenecked by transportation of these blocks. Are we going to ship them overseas?

Making the hotel from 2 years to 9 months sounds like a big Win. But in places like China or Japan. No one has 9 month to wait for a construction. China has a 30 floor hotel built from Zero to fully working hotel in less then 3 months.

Other then time and quality, are there any actual cost savings?
I see. For some reason it was updating the database but not the software itself. I had to dowload the installer again.
It's worth noting that until the deal closes, Nat isn't actually part of GitHub. That would make it the Microsoft PR team or his deal -- not GitHub's.
I don't know for sure, but some possible reasons include: 1. I've read that a lot of universities have adopted it as the first language to teach CS students (the local high school also uses it to teach programming to students), 2. When I read questions about what to move to from PHP for a web backend there are lots of recommendations to use Python, 3. It seems like a lot of people use it for data analysis tasks, 4. Python is often used with hardware like Arduino, 5. It is often used for scripting tasks.
Ah, thanks for that! This is the sort of observation where I always worry that I've just got a biased sample, so any unrelated take on the topic is helpful.

I see a handful of very on-topic films there, Trouble in the Peace in particular looks like an environmental version of Hell or High Water (mortgages) or Legends of the Fall (local government corruption and mistreatment of Native Americans). But those were high-profile films with famous casts, while Trouble in the Peace looks like a sleeper labor of love.

Honestly, I'm really surprised we haven't gotten any good "oil companies ruin our lives" dramas this decade, you could do fracking or sea level rise or drought or... It feels like a weird gap in the set of popular narratives.
Atom also added the Language Server Protocol (developed by VS Code) that provides a common API for implementing IDE features (completion, refactoring, etc).
i assumed that only small repositories that nobody except the author is using can be moved in such a small timespan of a few hours. Heavily used open source projects have issues indexed in Google with permalinks, their users probably hardcoding git urls, connections to package managers, heavily customized Travis CI integrations and the like.
My tips on becoming an independent consultant
Tesla claims their cars have all the hardware required for full self-driving, but their cars do not have LIDAR. Every serious self-driving outfit understands LIDAR to be necessary. Tesla's marketing department would have people believe otherwise of course.
Maybe he also wants to connect with the user base and answer questions on a moderated popular platform.

He may even be interested in taking the pulse of some of the community and learning from interesting questions.

I know I would.
Some, enough to know that if it says "$1 pledge" that in no way limits the patron to only pledging a single dollar.

If people are willing to give him more than that without him offering additional incentives, there is a downside to providing other levels in that there is administrative overhead on the back end to make sure people get the incentives they paid for and distinguish those who gave $5 without wanting other incentives from those who gave $5 because they did want those incentives.

Etc

If the point is to free up his time to focus on Zig, more pledge levels potentially distracts from that without necessarily increasing his take, given that the developer community is already willing to give him more than a dollar just to support letting him work on Zig, without anymore incentive to them than that.
Obviously someone shaping stats to their own biases. They want to compare Tesla and Mercedes Benz crash rates because they are in a similar price range?

Mind you he has no data on automated driving crashes.

Ridiculous and short-sighted, the goal (IMO) is for all cars to be automated. And he assumes that just because lidar is expensive now, that it will be in the future, which is just naive.
Poor angular resolution means you can't tell if an object is at 12 o'clock vs 1 o'clock. It means you can tell there are things, but you don't accurately know what angle they're at.
It burns carbon that was in the air to begin with though. An attempt at a closed loop with gasoline is better than a one way road into the atmosphere
Read the post I'm replying to, we're talking about a house that went DOWN in value.
>The only issue is that the language server seems to have a memory leak or something that leads to it taking a huge amount of memory and getting sluggish over the course of an extended development session.

that is not good advertising!
Before I discovered Elixir, I actually had every intention of building something along those lines.

I was going to have an index.php that was only used in dev for routing, but when you wanted to go to production it would generate paths that you'd load into nginx...which when directly to each individual .php file behind the scenes.

Entire goal was back-to-the-roots speed.
We took to the sky in Kitty Hawk's flying car