skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't give it efficiency in some areas and hope it stays inefficient in others. I would rather have a government that is incapable for preventing the next major civil rights battle and let a bad corporate actor emerge every now and then, than have a government that is able to crush even the slightest populist uprising without missing a beat.
Only the person you want to talk with at that moment needs to be on an Apple device.

For example, my wife and I both have iPhones, so we use FaceTime because it’s easier. My niece doesn’t, so we use Skype.

Just because you personally aren’t using it, doesn’t mean it’s “dead”.
It's at least supported by my own personal experience, which inclines me to believe the narrative. My wife & I were considering installing solar on our residence. The payoff was marginal, but it was there. We were going to save for a year, and begin after prices had fallen a little further.

Then, the tariff came up, and the cost/reward equation went up in smoke.

Anecdata of course, but part of why I'm inclined to believe. Solar appears to be right at a tipping point where it makes solid financial sense even if you don't care about saving the environment- but it's marginal, enough that a tariff could easily wipe out the benefit. (Which, the cynical side of me says, is exactly what the administration was aiming for)
Wow, hadn't realized it was a dark pattern. After thinking it through though, is it really a bad way to update a page? I realize we have the tech to easily dynamically update content without user consideration, but that ends up leading to people clicking on the wrong thing (the order suddenly changed on them as the finger went down).

So given that an explicit refresh button either takes up screen space or is another action (say full page refresh?) should this really be considered a dark pattern if you're say, in your own inbox?
Great thoughts, I agree 100%.
> The problem with sequestering CO2 as hydrocarbons is that you need to put a whole load of energy (embodied in the hydrogen you're combining it with) into the ground and leave it there.

Why would you be putting energy into the ground? If you're producing hydrocarbons, those will presumably be burned or used for something else (e.g. plastics).
> But in that alternate universe Apple would still have been a huge success

Replace iPhone with iPod and Apple never reaches this sky it's currently at. It the product that put it back on the map, open the itune cash valve and paved the road for the iphone flag ship product.

The situation is never _exactly_ the same. But you can see a pattern. And history is written by the victors.

> Theranos made VERY negligent statements such as the military using Theranos products(they did not).

Musk, Jobs and the rests lied as well, just on a different scale.

The scale does make it worse, but the mechanism is the same. If Theranos had delivered, nobody would recall this lie.
Do you also get frustrated when people say "decimate" when they don't mean "remove 10% of something"? Words change meaning, and that's okay. There's way more people talking about bitcoin than AES, it would be more efficient for them to get the shorter word. Cryptographers shouldn't get to keep a prefix forever just because it makes more sense etymologically and they used it first.

You probably understand all of this and this is you exerting social pressure against change you disagree with. I say best to just get used to it. Wait until these get-rich-quick schemes stop working and we can have our abbreviation back. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up waiting decades or longer though.

https://xkcd.com/1108
271:1 (down from previous years) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/heres-how-much-ceo-pay-has-i...
> A woman may struggle to find a job while an equally qualified man does not. The woman may exit the industry. She does not become part of the 'pool' unless she stays.

No, she joins the pool the moment she starts and she leaves the pool when she leaves.

If a company wants to keep people from leaving the pool, then the company should focus on reducing attrition. Hiring more diverse candidates doesn't necessarily reduce attrition. Remember Uber had 23% of it's workforce women at one point, it didn't help their environment.
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> ...and as one of them incompetent developers in India, I feel the need to defend myself.

Is there a typo (or 2) in here somewhere?
Ask HN: How to handle telephony ddos?
A friend runs a local business that relies on it's hard telephone lines to take orders.

They have recently been getting ddos-ed with robocalls for 20-30min periods and received an email with a ransom notice asking for BTC payment or that the calls will escalate.

They tried blocking a few of the numbers, but obviously the attackers are rotating lines regularly.

They can't only accept calls from a whitelist of callers as many customers are new.

Can you think of other solutions / services that can help out?
I have wanted for awhile to build a site which trained a machine learning system on the various data made available surrounding Congresspeople and information on members which were eventually found to be guilty of adultery or other similar crimes - then produce a score for every member of Congress rating how likely it is that they are cheating on their spouse, or taking bribes, or similar. Give them a sneak preview into the types of systems they are aiding and abetting in the creation of. I am uncertain of whether it could be considered defamation to have a brainless machine learning system decide there's an 85% chance some random member of Congress is an adulterer. I don't actually believe that any such system could ever reach any reasonable level of actual effectiveness due to the fundamental complexities of human behavior and circumstance, but that's not stopping the law enforcement side of things from moving forward so I don't see why it ought to stop the side trying to point out fundamental flaws in the strategy.
Yeah, I can accept that some startups live by "move fast and break things", after all, if I think that their approach is dangerous for me I can choose to not be involved, I can't say the same about being run over by a car that has shitty hardware/software.

Autopilot software that are not safer than human pilots shouldn't be allowed to be sold to the general public until they fix their stuff. And even if they are safer most of the time, we are at least used to how human drivers react, most of them don't accelerate just before a crash.
https://www.depositaccounts.com/checking/reward-checking-acc... is a good start. You can also just look for Kasasa in your area.
Most have some requirements, like 10 debit purchases a month. A lot of people just buy amazon refills 10 times.
For no requirements, Memory Bank does 1.6% up to 250k.
But sometimes you can't get enough sleep. One example is if you have a newborn baby. Ask me how I know.
I’ve always found it odd that house construction is so bespoke. All that pouring and sawing and drilling and slathering of raw materials to do one-off designs for houses that are then filled with standardized ikea furniture which fits the custom room shape poorly. Manual labor is too costly for such a bespoke approach. Either we make carpenter and bricklayer robots to do the bespoke work cheaply, or we build homes from standardized parts.
Hangouts has been noticeably dropping off in my life. I realized I was talking to fewer and fewer people on it once one person responded that she missed my Hangouts messages because she didn't even have the app installed anymore.

On the flip side, I'm seeing a lot of non-technical people start to use Signal.
>Say what you will about the NSA, but I am not worried about them in that space.

We know from leaks that the steal industry secrets.
My kids (aged 9) use it pretty much daily to keep in touch with family and to set up their own playdates in the neighborhood. Hardly dead - Apple has enough market share to make it compelling in plenty of cases, and there alternatives for talking to folks on other devices.
That's what you do when you sequester it with calcium oxide.

This article is about using carbon dioxide to produce usable fuel, that you would burn. Scaled up it would provide a carbon-neutral solution to long-term energy storage.
Gasoline generated out of thin air is as clean as the supply chain used to make it.

It's hard to compete with liquid hydrocarbons for energy density (and therefore efficient of transporting energy to where you need it).
This exactly. Someone in another thread mentioned worker turnover. Turnover is a result not just management challenges, but incredible job mobility that comes with the demonstration of skill.
I don't necessarily think you're wrong, I am more addressing your rhetoric that suggests your informed opinion invalidates the story, especially because the anecdotes you present are examples of companies deliberately lying to the media for their own personal gain. Yet the problem is the media...

FTA: President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported solar panels has led U.S. renewable energy companies to cancel or freeze investments of more than $2.5 billion in large installation projects, along with thousands of jobs, the developers told Reuters.

So are the developers lying? Maybe... but it's still totally legitimate to report that this claim was made. Some things you just have to take at face value because you're not privy to secret boardroom meetings where plans to deceive the public for profit are conceived.

Here is another article from another publication about a different tariff story.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/391185-three-arkansas-comp...

Based on the reasoning you presented in your OP (pre-edit), I should just assume that they're lying and are really just appealing to Trump's ego in order to maximize profits. Right?

In either case the media can't really know the truth so they just report it and maybe spin the story to one side based on readership.
We're using it in prod at Workwell.io - thanks for building & releasing pulltorefresh :)
Why was the AMA posted on /r/AMA instead of /r/IAMA? Certainly the future CEO of GitHub is notable enough for the latter subreddit.
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No shit, I taught myself programming and I'm an engineer now. Not everyone is capable of doing this, and the fact that I managed was down to just as much luck as it was skill and effort.

It also doesn't change the fact that we are taking money from society and giving it to companies
We don't have exact numbers for Tesla but there are 2 confirmed casualties in what is conservatively over a billion Autopilot miles. The average casualty rate for human drivers is something around 1.25 death per 100 million miles. Those numbers are not directly comparable given that Autopilot is not something that is used during 100% of all driving miles and Tesla drivers are not average car drivers. However, there is nothing that screams "Teslas with Autopilot are a death trap" like some people in this thread are implying.
I'm surprised they didn't mention China's recent announcement to slash its subsidies for deploying solar at home.

"Bloomberg New Energy Finance expects expects module prices to drop 34 percent this year and a further 10 percent to 15 percent in 2019 after China cut financial support to developers and halted approval for new projects in June."

The estimate of 34% would make up for the tariff.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/china-s-n...
I think this is proper usage of "by design". The design part is that it uses a camera and low resolution radar and can see lanes and other cars and not obstacles. So this is an unintended edge case but the result is per the design.
> Avatar is probably the closest thing to "CEOs trashing the environment" that's been a hit.

What about "Erin Brockovich"? PG&E is a power company, though the hexavalent chromium was used to fight corrosion.

I did not see the movie, but the Wikipedia summary says the decision was traced to upper management.
"With this new set of powers, we saw a Cambrian explosion of open source that coincided with git's adoption. [...] That's where GitHub stepped in, providing elegant, centralized solutions around all of these new problems."

Did the author live in a parallel universe? There was an insane number of small open source projects way before git was created. And there was a clear place where to find them: SourceForge.

The cool things about git are the ability to sync repos and the ability to handle merging branches way better than SVN.

Everything else we had. Sourceforge dropped the ball and that allowed github to take its place.
Even if personal vehicle gasoline consumption fell to zero, it would only reduce overall fossil fuel use by about 25%.

(And that's assuming it wasn't simply shifted from gasoline ICEs to natural gas power plants.)
In the long term solar is hardly interesting either. In fact if green is what you want, nuclear (or if we are lucky Fusion) is the way to go but the environmental organizations are for some reason worried about that.

It's not just a matter of the market and political will, there are some fundamental limits on how much energy we can get from solar and wind.

They are linear solutions to exponential problems so to speak.

I have yet to see any calculation based in realistic metrics (not just wishful thinking) that outphases oil. I hope for it as much as everyone else but I am not prepared to do it at any price.
The U.S. just had its warmest May in history, blowing past 1934 Dust Bowl record
It's a more politically viable solution than large tax increases or nominal benefit cuts and a much less painful solution than default. It also "solves" the impending student loan crisis by writing down all those loans.

Maybe people didn't get my rationale around housing. Put more simply I see housing inflation as the leading edge of a giant wave of inflation. Housing has inflated first because QE money first went to banks and coupled with historically low interest rates this allowed banks to pump massive amounts of money into the housing market via cheap mortgages. So the housing market is where the big wave of post-crash re-inflation money went. But houses do have a turnover rate, so the money is not going to stay there forever. All those people who made 200-600% profit on their homes will sell those homes and use the money for old age care and other personal expenses or pass it on to their children who will likely spend it. Housing may fall a bit but it's more likely that the rest of the economy will just inflate to meet it.
In addition to hydrogen, the Fischer–Tropsch requires carbon monoxide and not carbon dioxide. It can be produced from carbon dioxide, it just requires even more energy (comparable to hydrogen production from water) and potentially rare catalysts.

Energy wise this process might still be favorable to producing biofuels from plants or algae, so I hope they're successful.
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Cryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).
I don't see why the patents made an open standard impossible, or even relatively difficult.
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I agree with everything you've said, but it's still not an "appeal to authority" argument.

For example: "You should vote Joe for Sheriff because my uncle--who is a private detective and knows these things--says to."

That said, logical fallacy discussions are irrelevant to your actual point: Keeping logs implies you trust the government entirely. Not keeping logs implies you trust your users entirely. Neither option is healthy for the other in and of themselves and requires "everyone else" (aka civilization) to be doing their jobs to stop bad guys and/or governments.

Tricky stuff.
The article title is simply wrong. Jobs promised to make open standards, not open source.

To people talking about Virtex and server hosting: an open protocol doesn't imply that that a server must handle traffic for free. Your webserver runs an open protocol (HTTP) but only allows connections from authorized clients.

Video-chat providers could sell access to their chat-hosting, or make peering agreements with other providers, like the regular Internet.

But Jobs wasn't really interested in that; he was riding a marketing wave making promises he didn't have to keep.
I imagine a future where an industry exists that is federally subsidized and pulls CO2 from the air.

However, our need for carbon sequestration is ultimately surpassed by the industry’s “output”, and we end up heading in the other direction.

Because regulators tend to be captured, we end up with one industry generating CO2 (for all the positive reasons we need CO2) so that the sequestration industry doesn’t kill off all the plants, etc.
> So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.

Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.
This is completely false. Encryption is just a single branch of cryptography.
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> To be clear the driver is absolutely partially at fault

I'm... not so certain. Why? The autopilot had likely exhibited proper behavior every time that the vehicle had passed that particular section of road prior, and if the driver was paying full attention to the behavior of the vehicle, he would only notice the problem around the 5 second mark.

Five seconds, if you have no reason to be concerned about the vehicle's behavior, is not much time - especially if you consider that alert drivers are recommended to give themselves a minimum of 4 seconds of reaction time (i.e. follow a vehicle by at least 4 seconds).
>"RL is quite hard and math heavy"

Is it really math heavy? Its not like people are working out these algorithms by hand. I haven't done RL but would assume you just need to download some libraries and tutorials then play around with it to get an understanding. This may go faster if you already read a book about it, worked out the math behind how it works, etc but that shouldn't be necessary.
Abandoning is the only thing that seems to teach the right lessons. We can just effortlessly switch to reddit which already offers better stuff than Hacker News.

Hacker News is more of a throw away forum for their ease of throw away ids and how does having some karma here mean anything.
The article didn't talk at all about what the limestone is used for. What happens to the carbon in the limestone (CaCO3)? Is the limestone reusable? If we have to keep mining limestone, it just converts the problem, although I assume there isn't really a shortage of limestone at the moment, given how the ocean has been making it for billions of years.
It seems like its a brutal nickname. The "Gore" zone seems to refer to the area after the emergency-cushion is damaged.

Normally, that area has a barrier designed to save lives, by slowing down cars and providing cushioning. However, the emergency-cushion was already damaged from a prior crash.

Without an emergency-cushion, running into a straight concrete barrier has known, lethal consequences.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm just guessing.
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I yell at websites with lots of expletives when it makes me click on the wrong thing.
Exactly... when an uncovered parking space rents for $400-1k/mo it's hard to see how building practices are going to help. Outside of towncenter land costs are lower, but transportation is lacking. Really, it's driven by a combination of growth in high paying tech jobs, restricted geography, and tax/financing structures, as much as, zoning laws or building costs.
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normal driving requires anticipating the behavior of other humans who may or may not entire your path of travel or anticipating unseen obstacles. it has less to do with "reaction times" than one would think. Humans routinely over-drive their vehicles capability to safely stop for an obstacle in front or adjacent to their path of travel.
> Why do they think they are kings of the world if they are on the lowest chain in the tech world?

I can't help noticing that this is the same stereotype as young finance guys in NYC, and it's not hard to imagine it's the same dynamic. Young, motivated, wealthy, but new to wealth and powerless in their field. They're working long hours, on call, making no decisions, poorly paid compared to other people in their field - but outside the office they can throw around money and make demands. And, yeah, often grossly inexperienced with acting like adults and having control of things.

Obviously there are plenty of people at the top of the finance world who are terrible, but note that the stereotypes there are different. Some end up dignified and anonymously super-rich. The ones who don't are defined by egomania, ludicrous risk-taking, and behavior that moves from rude to grotesque and illegal. Not all that different than some of the wilder SV stories, honestly.

Being the bottom of their professional world doesn't contradict that behavior, it explains it.

(Of course, I still have some major frustrations with the stereotyping of software in general as being like this. It still appears vastly less bad than a lot of less-maligned fields, but it's a newer bogeyman that's more interesting to yell at.)
Nobody is talking about free - I’m happy to pay if I was given the choice.

You may not have the choice or free cars, but you have a choice of plenty of paid cars, including ones that don’t stalk you everywhere you go.

I don’t have a choice between a free Facebook and a paid Facebook that doesn’t stalk me. I have to either take the free Facebook and be stalked.... or not take the free Facebook and still get stalked by their like buttons everywhere.
Man that's a comment I really resonate with.

I wish I had sql or something hn submissions. If it has crypto in the title but block chain in the article, I'm not interested....!