skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As long as we are burning fossil fuel for low-intensity heat use anyways, (e.g. combined cycle heat/power plants), giving the fuel a temporary role as packaging before burning doesn't seem such a bad idea. Emissions treatment has come a long way. Alternative packaging solutions don't have zero footprint either (e.g. ferrying around reusable containers)
This is key. Finance companies love playing bait-and-switch games once they have your assets and build up sufficient friction to keep you from moving to greener pastures when they decide to reign in profitability again.

ERs are a pure marketing gimmick once you get down to early 2000s-era Vanguard fees. Beyond that the devil is in the details with how incentives are aligned for those managing, including security lending practices which can either juice returns to completely offset those minimal fees or buy those yachts that the clients never seem to have, and especially for index funds you have tracking error which adds several basis points for/against you depending on manager competence in accurately sampling the index while minimizing several forms of risk, latency/frequency in updating positions that are a discrete approximation of continuous compounding, and the hugely overlooked problem that large institutional investors have to use complicated derivative orders, exchange dark pool agreements, swaps, and other methods of obscuring huge pool transactions where HFT will gnaw away at basis points here and there knowing that those large blocks of shares must be rebalanced at specific times to meet predetermined liquidity demands.

Don't misunderestimate the activeness of passive index funds. :)
Assuming the article is valid and the facts check out, this is pretty astonishing and incredibly troubling. How can profit at any cost be justified?
I believe the OP was talking about welfare services (taking from the productive and giving to the unproductive):

> food stamps or health insurance or whatever.

The services you listed benefit all members of society:

> the 911 services they value, the fire department, roads, water, plowing in places with snow
Even with perfect prediction, who is to decide, for everyone, what is good and what is bad?
Google has free collaborative jupyter notebooks at https://colab.research.google. They also have Datalab in GCP
I’m posting this in the hope of generating a discussion about the organisation of society. The Dutch have for several generations organised themselves in vertical societal pillars according to their religion or ideology. Catholics, protestants, socialists and liberals each had their own political parties, newspapers, schools, sport clubs, unions, etc. This still echoes through Dutch society today.

What I find interesting is that this is very similar to filter bubbles, but it was explicit. Aren’t we still doing very much the same, but more covertly?

I’m also curious to hear from older Dutch people or people who live(d) in countries with similar systems in place.
Ask HN: Have you been able to apply your programming skills for charity?
Recently I've been looking for a side project and thought that it would be nice if I could leverage my existing skills and interests in a charitable way.

Have you been able to use your software engineering abilities for charity? If so, how did you find the opportunity, and what effect were you able to have?
I went to the YC hackathon a couple months ago and got to meet Sam, Adora, and Michael. They're all super cool and friendly. What stuck out to me about Michael were his thoughtful questions during everyone's pitches and the fact that he stuck around way after the hackathon ended to hang with everyone. Super chill, down to earth guy.
I wasn't complaining about the lack of product, which is what the warning on the box is for (so people don't call up and say "hey you gave me a half filled bag!"). My complaint is that there is clearly an inefficiency in packaging which is leading to this waste.

And again, my complaint with clam shells isn't that they are frustrating; it's that the product I purchased was far smaller than its packaging, again a huge packaging inefficiency which leads to waste.

I'm not asking companies to make their own boxes or reduce frustration. I'm asking consumers to stop buying shit that comes in boxes and plastic. I didn't need those crackers, we could have happily snacked on homemade bread. Why couldn't the SD card come in a small dime bag in an envelope?
I don't get that impression. Maybe I have selective reading but the following things get little controversy here:

1. Sugar bad

2. Eat less

3. Find good eating-habits that you can maintain indefinitely

Point three is where people will naturally have different outlooks. I don't read that as disagreement as much as diversity.
The operative phrase in that last one is "for logged‑in members", because in that case the cookies fall under the earlier

provider of an information society service explicitly required by the user to provide that service.

For a user logged-in to a social network, the user clearly consents to the social network providing a service. Note that it is not allowed if the user is not logged in to the social network.
Grew up in a rural area. 45 minute drive to nearest recycling center. My father would collect an entire truck load of bagged recyclables and bring it there. He would walk away with maybe 5$ if he was lucky.

5$ to bring 15 bags 45 minutes away... I don't see an incentive here for people who live in rural areas, which is quite a lot of people.
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Except complete hypocrisy I suppose, which it falls upon the judge to assert as vice or virtue.

Better than invective is a genuine and sincere mutual examination of the facts — actual content rather than mindless reputational slander of an entire field of study.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
> You can lend out the fund’s stock to short sellers, and share some of the fees paid by the short sellers with the fund, while keeping some for yourself.

Wait a second. Lending is not a risk-free activity. These index funds are supposed to be low risk. What happens in a short squeeze situation?
Critical thought != precise thought.

You can think critically while simultaneously using exaggerated figures for emphasis. Especially when the figure cannot be precise.

The argument is that these people are choosing to do this. They can choose to spend their time however they please. They know the full terms of the offer, and they choose to accept. There are people in the world who would cross oceans and deserts just to be able to have the opportunity to accept a similar job.

The poor in the USA live better than kings in other parts of the world.
You are thinking of the Mars Climate Orbiter crash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
Either you are incredibly naive or you were born yesterday!
Without knowing too much about PFOA specifically, I would hazard a guess that the chemical itself is not necessarily dangerous - it's the delivery via aeresol that would worry me. Namely, spraying down pans to apply Teflon and spraying it as Scotchguard. There are plenty of chemicals that are perfectly fine inert, but when you push them into the air haphazardly they get into really bad places and create negative environmental effects.
- the diet of Okinawans is irrelevant because they are not eating the refined carbohydrates that we do

I think you missed the point the parent was making. No one is forcing you to eat refined carbohydrates. People conflate carbohydrates with "refined carbohydrates" and end up thinking that eating a bowl of brow rice, lentils and veggies will make you diabetic because "carbs".
This a tough one, since researchers don't control how their technology is used.

And it's very difficult for even the experts to balance the positives against the negatives: facial recognition could be used to find a serial killer ... or a missing child.

As one example, RMS has long advocated against the "ethics" of certain technologies and companies, while Emacs and GCC have greatly accelerated the adoption of technology, generally. And those tools have almost certainly been used directly or indirectly to build some very, very bad things.
He means eating on Saturday,Sunday,Tuesday,Thursday but fasting the whole day on Monday,Wednesday,Friday...
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Where can I buy a good quality Nikon camera around Orlando FL or Miami?. Also which one do you recommend for photo of products for an online store.

Thank you so much. Really appreciated.
Not parent, but I wouldn't use these funds because there's a fundamental conflict of interest. Fidelity is a private company that seeks to profit from its customers. Vanguard is a company owned by its customers.

What happens in the future if passive indexing falls out of favor, there's an exodus out of index funds, and Fidelity jacks up fees? If you're investing in a taxable account, you'd (presumably) incur a capital gain to leave the fund. At Vanguard, expenses may increase, but they won't seek to profit off of you. In a tax-advantaged account, I suppose the Fidelity funds are fine.

I'm curious to hear tanderson92's answer, though.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055

It's pretty well supported?
Tried reading the information, but can't understand if RCE is on the printer fimrware or the PC host. Anyone know?
The oldest building in this list is from 1190. Almost 300 years older than your example.
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Same here. If I decide to eat only between 5:30 PM and 10 PM, that's a resolution I can generally keep for many consecutive weeks, and then seamlessly resume after an occasional midday meal. If I eat my breakfast at 8:30 AM rather than 5:30 PM, then it is a Sisyphean effort for me to fast through the rest of the day. No way could I establish that as a permanent lifestyle.

I figure that if my appetite spikes while I'm sleeping, I'm very unlikely to act on it.

If I eat breakfast at 5:30 PM, I generally want another meal around 10 PM, which is about the same interval as breakfast at 8:30 AM, lunch at 1 PM. But with the latter, I also want another meal at 5:30 PM, then maybe a snack at 10 PM. For the delayed meal schedule, that would probably put increases in appetite around 2:30 AM and 7 AM, which are easy enough to ignore if I'm not awake.

So my stomach timer runs at about 4.5 hours. If I'm awake, it's difficult to ignore when it times out, and it takes about 12 hours for the "eat now" alarm to stop screaming so loudly. So skipping a morning breakfast (with some effort) and midday lunch (easily) is about the only way I can manage to skip any meals without driving myself crazy from attempting to ignore the constant "eat now" appetite signaling. It then takes maybe 20 hours before the hunger signals start, which is not so much an "eat now" imperative as "get really irritable and impatient, be more stupid, and stop enjoying whatever it is you're doing". And that seems like a good a time as any to eat. If I ever push past 24 hours, I'm just not fit for participation in civilized society for a while.
I agree. Also, having a security guard inside the building all night long would have deterred this group. You'd think the insurers would do some oversight on the security.
Radiator's link is broken, should be: https://radiatoryang.itch.i/radiator1
> To expect that they are more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped to see what it means...

At least in computing, this seems to have been largely false. Whatever my respect for the expertise of creators, their track record on predicting the future uses of their developments has been genuinely bad. I don't think that's an indictment of their skills, just an acknowledgement of how complex and rapidly-changing systems really work.

Understanding the future impact of ARPANET was impossible without also anticipating the rise of home computers, but the creators of ARPANET had no special expertise on that point. Computability experts and chip designers got predictions about topics from weather modeling to AI Go play totally wrong because everything from GPU computation to neural network advances have rendered their accurate domain knowledge misleading. And the track records of AI experts predicting the real-world role of AI is so infamous that I don't think I need to elaborate.

Honestly, I expect that this would be computer science's Modernist moment. Corbusier and friends were genuinely excellent architects, but the move from "designing on sound principles" to "trusting that we know all the future uses of buildings and designing for those" was disastrous. The result is a legacy of inflexible building design, hostile urban planning, and government-embraced block housing that caused real harm to the people it was inflicted on.

"A better grasp on their topic than everyone else" is presumably true, but it's not enough. Complex systems are often beyond what any one person can predict, and that only becomes more true when they're also rapidly changing from many directions. I don't think most creators in computer science can make predictions good enough to act on until their creations have been exposed to the world for a while.
Perhaps a more structured class name would be better, such as "legal-eu-cookies"? Then similar names could be used for other legal notices, such as "legal-us-children" and "legal-eu-gdpr".

Then someone outside the EU could block everything that starts with "legal-eu-" to get rid of everything added to comply with EU law, and someone outside the US could block "legal-us-" to get rid of everything added to comply with US law.

(Do the major blockers allow blocking based on a prefix of a class name? If not, the same effect can be achieved by giving the element multiple class names such as "legal- legal-eu- legal-eu-cookies").

People might want to block by subject regardless of what jurisdiction's laws caused something, which suggests there should also be "legal-gdpr-eu", so if the US passes a similar privacy law someday that could by "legal-gdpr-us", and someone could block "legal-gdpr-" if they don't want to see any of these kinds of notices. But the US probably would not call its similar law "GDPR", so may it would be better if instead of "gdpr", we start with "legal-eu-privacy-gdpr" and "legal-privacy-eu-gdpr"? Then a similar US law would get "legal-us-privacy-x" and "legal-privacy-us-x" where "x" is whatever tortured acronym name Congress comes up with. (And probably cookies then belong under legal-eu-privacy-cookies).

This is getting complicated enough that it might be better to go to some kind of tag based system, with tags implemented by class names of the form "legal-NAME-VALUE" (for now, I'm assuming this is all for blocking regulator imposed legal notices, hence all tags started with "legal-").

Tags that might be used for the earlier examples include:

legal-jurisdiction-eu
legal-jurisdiction-us
legal-category-privacy
legal-category-children
legal-law-gdpr
legal-law-dumb_us_acronym
legal-law-cookies
legal-law-copra

So GDPR notices would be tagged "legal-jurisdiction-eu legal-category-privacy legal-law-gdpr". Notices about protecting children in the US would be tagged "legal-jurisdiction-us legal-category-children legal-law-copra".

For this to both be useful and not become an ungainly mess to deal with, it would need probably be carefully thought out beforehand, and have some group maintaining and managing a registry of supported tags, and making sure any additions to the list are well thought out and consistent. It could be a lot of work.
The battery to power Uber's flying car dreams doesn’t exist (yet)
Have you been to a landfill? We shouldn't be doing that to our planet even if it was twice the size.

The amount of garbage piling up on this rock is mind-blowing, and there's literally nothing we are doing about it once it's in the ground. It just stays there seeping out heinous juices into the surrounding area.

People are worried about tens of tons of radioactive waste material that we're sealing inside special containers and putting in specially designed vaults when hundreds of tons of trash are being dumped per day per landfill. I'm not worried about people getting cancer from radioactive waste 10000 years from now, I'm worried about people catching the plague from all the footlong rats crawling over their local landfill.
> "..they made him wear a radioactive exposure badge and fired him when the badge tipped over the safe range."

Not to defend the company in this case, but I suspect he reached the annual occupational dose limit [1], so unless they had office work for him there probably wasn't anything else to do. This is something migrant radiation workers [2] need to be vigilant about, to make sure they aren't out of work for a year after one job, or at least make sure that job pays them appropriately.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/p...

[2] Commercial nuclear power plants generally shut down once every 1-2 years for a several-week maintenance and refueling outage, during which time the plant will bring in several hundred extra workers, often contractors, to help. This has created a community of highly-skilled rad workers who travel around the country.
If forced to use Fidelity as a brokerage I would prefer iShares; however, I would prefer to not use Fidelity. I do most of my investing in non-retirement accounts and as a result tax efficiency is a concern. For this, ETFs (by any provider) and Vanguard mutual funds are typically superior to straight index mutual funds. The reason Vanguard mutual funds are unique in this respect is that they hold a patent allowed assets to be comingled between their ETF and mutual fund share classes, so the superior tax efficiency aspects of the ETF can be shared with the mutual fund (and vice versa).

Also, Vanguard as a corporation is owned by its fund shareholders as opposed to external shareholders while Fidelity is owned by a private group. I don't trust any company enough to lock up my money with them and possibly have to pay capital gains tax to switch later, if they decide to raise fees or make the investment not align with shareholders in some respect. As whitepoplar says, they're a profit-seeking entity. Due to the inverted corporate ownership structure of Vanguard this is not a concern. This argument also applies to iShares.
Yes, please. The Fast Company post is blogspam.
well, when you use technology to uncover problems, you open the door to both fixing them and exploiting them. knowledge is power, and power can be used for whatever you want. and yet no one is thinking about pulling kids out of schools.
Google and Facebook models are pretty simple too: they make stuff people want and companies give them money to put inject their ads in the service.
Unfortunately we are not at this time.
A what point do we consider it immoral for the government to consume 40% of GDP, given the catastrophically poor efficiency with which that money is spent?

Take a look at the homelessness, trash- and isht-strewn streets of San Francisco. Then observe that SF is one of the richest cities in the world, with a ten billion dollar budget for a population of less than one million - more than ten thousand dollars per person. How can we accept this tragicomic failure?
That's like asking, "what's the value of TCP/IP?"

Well, the value isn't really TCP/IP, it's the network (i.e. the internet).

Bitcoin isn't the valuable bit. It's the network of millions of nodes that has value.
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> Engineers are not philosophers and should not be placed in this role. We do not have the tools to do it. As with any human we have a duty to consider first order effects - but even the most astute philosopher will have trouble anticipating second order effects. This burden should not be placed on those least qualified to perform it.

Here are two rebuttals to the above statement.

1. At the level of projects it's asking engineers to think a bit more broadly about solutions. For instance, when designing a user comment service for social media you can trade-off between designs that encourage informed debate vs. ranting flame wars. In many cases both designs have similar implementation costs and meet business requirements, so why not pick the one that is more socially responsible? As these choices become better understood they should just be part of user experience design.

2.) To develop the trade-offs we should address more research to social consequences of technology and take the results seriously. Great engineers are philosophers or at least more broad-minded about the interactions between technology and society than some of the current leaders in Silicon Valley. Andy Grove, David Hewlett, Bill Packard, and Bill Gates were/are not just problem solvers but examples of engineers who have thought about how to benefit society as a whole.
This is a built in feature of `kubectl`:

kubectl config set-context your-context --namespace some-namespace
I don't think it matters when you fast per se, big lunch vs big dinner vs big breakfast. Some people claim a big breakfast and light dinner is better because you aren't digesting at night. If you do eat a bigger dinner it should be eaten earlier in the evening.
Pages are not specific enough. We need RationalArgumentRank.
A recipe for cronyism.
Combine that with 30s+ mayurasana for a total intestinal workout. (Work towards 5 minutes)
I agree with you. How much you should worry about a company is relative to how that company makes their revenue. Here's a breakdown for Apple I made for a friend: https://imgur.com/a/uujaLjS

Even with the growth in services (this doesn't reflect the recent quarters numbers), the hardware sales just dominate their numbers by so much.
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Laws operate differently than code. If nobody actually associates session info with anything outside the application then that's enough, if you do then it's a problem.

Think of it as a 3rd dimension of what's going on where you can retroactively change what you did to something else. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
The problem is at least twofold:

- some foodstuff is optimized for addictiveness, with far too much sugar, starting at the craddle.

- nutrition science has been purposefully sent in the wrong direction for decades.
Fat (edit: typically) causes type 2 diabetes, not sugar.
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You are truly right and this is definitely something I personally would like to implement as soon as possible. Thank you so much for bringing it up.

I think that the solution would have to be just using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to get a text transcript and be able to overlay it on the video.

Please contact me via jp at standups.io as I'd love to hear more details on how it'd a good way for your friend to easily use this feature.
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I agree as well the Intercept post has way more content.
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