skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the tragedy of the commons though. If I stop driving my car and go vegan, we won't see any measurable difference in climate change. The only measurable thing that happens is my quality of life going down. If enough people do it and we actually get a benefit I could even see Republicans arguing for more deregulation and balancing out all the sacrifice we made. The only practical solution is collective action. In fact I'd argue that non action of countries should be the number one reason for sanctions and if necessary military force. Our entire future is at risk here.
If you trust Gartner's judgement, the only major players are AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud and IBM Cloud. Can read their definition of "innovative" in the Magic Quadrant report at https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-50WJ5CK&ct=180525&...

As you can see, all the players with a global reach are pretty dominant in some industry or another: database software, Chinese e-commerce, and general computing. If you don't need the global reach, though, you get more options.
They just need to pull the Escher trick and draw a hand that can draw hands.
The vast majority of people I know (Texas) couldn't live a productive life without a car. Some people certainly could but not most. Meat, though, they could definitely do without—and for most of them it'd be healthier.
For someone who only wants a free service, which is better - Pocket or Instapaper?
It seems unlikely that the proletariat will overthrow the government because that government has not curtailed their own ability to buy plastic goods, drive a car, or set the air conditioning at 65F.
I jumped at the sight of Harry Potter
???

Are you seriously proposing that the loophole in the 13th was not placed there as a consolation to Southerners? I mean let's be frank here, the entire issue of slavery in the Northwest Ordinance was a compromise to Southerners. It wouldn't have passed otherwise. Fast forward to the end of the Civil War, and they chose the compromise in the Northwest Ordinance instead of the Sumner Amendment for the same reasons. Sumner's Amendment didn't even make it out of committee.

I don't see how anyone can say that slave states have not had an outsized influence on the slavery question as it is practiced in the US. They've had that influence, in my opinion, since our inception. It, (slavery), really was almost one of the original questions we had to answer at the founding of our Republic.
It's not individuals exercising bad habits that causes climate change. It's the fact that the current political, economic, and ecological landscape incentivizes behaviors that cause climate change.

The deterrent of trying to give people a guilt trip for driving in a hurry or for eating beef is not sufficient to counteract the tremendous tragedy of the commons that makes those behaviors happen. Regulations that associate financial costs with the ecological costs that people and businesses are currently free to ignore are the answer, along with technologies that use those funds to reverse the needs that remain.

Get your priorities straight: When the half gallon used while people brush their teeth is the most important waste of water, then address it! But when the farm down the road pays next to nothing to pour out three feet of water on its entire land area, any expenditure on toothbrushing habits is wasteful.
Eh. This is a coordination problem, probably the most difficult one humanity has encountered. Governments were basically invented to help solve coordination problems. 7.5 billion people don’t just start caring about the problem by themselves.
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Sorry, what does "ISTM" and "the ferry" mean here?
Ah that's possible, I don't have a kindle so that's not a thing I would be using.
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Modern construction methods have largely solved these acoustic/privacy issues.

Building codes throughout the United States require a measure of sound insulation between floors of multi-family dwellings. They specify a minimum architectural design standard of privacy of 50 STC (Sound Transmission Class) and a 50 IIC (Impact Isolation Class). The codes also state that validation of the minimum noise criteria can be field measured and the field measurements shall not be less than a 45 FSTC or a 45 FIIC.

Of course, contractors sometimes find ways to cut corners. But in general, neighbor-noise is a solved problem.
The next step is tort reform to prevent victims from receiving compensation for their suffering.
I will agree with this. I think the problem solving aspect is much more beneficial than actually programming. If you have great problem solving/critical thinking skill then converting those into some program is trivial.

I also think 5 is a little young... I'd be more afraid of turning a child off to the concept due to it being boring. My son is now 11 and they started doing some Scratch programming at school last year and he thinks it is pretty cool. It has also triggered some interest in him wondering what I do at work especially if I work from home and have something pulled up in Eclipse.
Leaded paint is only really dangerous if you pry it off the wall and swallow it. Who would do that?
Anybody looked at flutter for Haxe?
The "global cooling" thing is just throwing sand in our eyes- and you know it.

Everything you've heard about global warming has been true the whole time, and you haven't been listening. I keep trying to wrap my head around the worldview of someone whose commitment to ideology is so powerful that they are willing to condemn their grandchildren to such suffering. It has to be some kind of religious thing.
What is interesting, is this reply to the tweet mentioned in the article (https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee/status/1025424090184728576) where this former(?) fitbit employee says that actually there were women involved in this feature.
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There are limits to what individuals can do. Take automobile fuel efficiency. Cars these days are way more efficient and cleaner than they were fifty years ago, and they perform far better. Consumer choice would never have made this happen in response to market forces. You couldn't buy an efficient, high-performance car in the late 60s even if you wanted to. Companies needed an incentive to invest for the long-long term in technologies to improve the efficiency of their products. Short term price shocks weren't going to make that happen. Only multi-decade, ratcheting fuel-efficiency regulations that applied across the board and eliminated the risk to automakers for pursuing efficiency achieved our current state where we even _have_ the choice of buying cars that can achieve 50mpg or more with adequate performance.
Justice Dept. calls judge’s approval of AT&T-Time Warner merger ‘deeply flawed’
In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream
If you are interested in the craft of comedy then you might like British comedian Stewart Lee, he's liberal/socialist and gets pretty political but he clearly revels in the craft and is quite meta about it. He "explains" to the audience when and why they should laugh, and appears to revel in getting laughs out of stuff that just shouldn't be at all funny -- murdered babies for example. When I was younger I find him boring ("this isn't comedy, where are the jokes").

Latest tour "Content Provider" -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bdcnwq/stewart-lee-c...
This is absolutely not true. People don't know that. Ask 2000 people on the street in a southern red state what their contribution to climate change is. I bet you get 0s back. "Taht fake thing isn't real" - "My car doesn't pollute you schmuck" - "the Earth is here for us to pollute it, that's what god said", etc.

People do not know that their largest personal impact is cars and meat. They just don't know that at all because 1) they don't know that climate change is real thanks to Fox and Exxon, and 2) they don't think that their habits matter.
Your assumption that they do is dangerous and wrong.

Remember that Exxon Mobil has spent 40 years knowing about the dangers of climate change, but "educating" Americans through TV that it isn't a real threat. The primary education Americans get about this topic is from the megacorporations and mega rich people who are selling us polluting products with no alternatives, and is not a real education at all.
We're running pi-hole network wide and we just planned a trip with no glitches. The only annoyance (if it's really an annoyance) is clicking on a link in a google search and it's blocked. Go back to Google, realize is was an ad, scroll down a little further and click the real link. No big deal. Nobody in the house is complaining about not reaching sites.

So, yes, it is possible to do this in real world scenarios.
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new uses of asbestos. the use cases where we do not have evidence for its carcinogenicity. because we have never needed to look for it there before.

of course, we know that it is carcinogenic. the use case does not change that property of the material. the EPA is explicitly excluding environmental contamination risks, too. we know it is harmful to the environment, and, by proxy, us, again.

what a folly the EPA has made here -- for the profit of those who would prefer to make money even if it hurts people.
Yea I think article should have been called

* worst things that happened in last 10 yrs after crash*

not

* still living *

Because markets are not still at mar 2009 level.

What an idiotic article.
Where do I edit the hosts file on my iPhone? Or my Android device? Or my smartTV, etc, etc, etc
>Where will the hubs be located?

There are large shipping hubs that already exist. Vast warehouse complexes in most major US cities.

>Who will own and maintain them?

I would assume the gigantic companies that own fleets of automated trucks.

>This could end up costing more than just having the truckers drive the long haul.

Why? Two of the most costly things are people and downtime. Trucks with people in them can only drive so many hours a day. Going from hub to hub with only fueling stops would further reduce transit downtime.
They've been roundly made fun of here on HN (and elsewhere) but the current electric scooter + smartphone app deployment that is taking place is about 80% of that vision.
Yep I ran into a 503 twice. It looks like they just forgot to upload a release file.

I sent a message on their discord issue channel.
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Does anyone really think this site design is a good idea? The images are all dynamic anyway. It adds literally nothing to a traditional static page with captions below diagrams and images.
...everyone becomes an improvised teacher.

Swimming isn't actually hard. It's easier than a lot of things that people teach themselves to do. If multiple people offer to help you, pick out the person who seems pretty chill about things and follow her advice.
Especially if some believe the exact opposite and prefer "drill, baby, drill".
I really wish the more popular phrase were "global climate change" rather than "global warming." The delta in the mean might not appear to be huge (a few degrees C over a span of a century or two, perhaps), but the key concept is the variance or volatility of climate patterns.

As man-made climate change progresses, the average recorded temperature will likely continue to climb, sure--but the change in variance is far more significant in terms of the extreme events that will occur with increasing regularity.
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Cool! I got in touch on your Discord libraries channel.
And wait for us to discover all the wonderful side effects of ingesting or breathing nano particles of anything.

They are everywhere now.

E.G: salt now often contains E551, which is silica nano particles. It's silica, so the laws says it's ok because the raw material is harmless. Except we have no idea how the shape of it affects us. It will be able to go into places it couldn't before, interact chemically differently, and so on.

A lot of fun is to come.

It's the same with GMO: the tech is superb, the potential is wonderful. Can we wait 30 years of testing, and do said testing by independent, interest-free entities before spreading it everywhere ? Can we make testing on interactions ? On long term exposures ? On complete ecosystems ? And for each product ?

Hell no: let's say it's safe by default because mouses didn't suffer from eating it for a few months. Then use illiterate facebook mum posts to make sure any critics is regarded as unscientific. We got this.

The thing is, human has always did that. It's not being evil. It's our natural way of doing things: try it out, and fix on the way. It's why we made so many cool stuff.

The problem is, we are arriving at a point were the destructive potential of our actions is reaching such a scale, this strategy is way too dangerous.
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You can do both
>Think what would happen if tomorrow the government said from now on every doctor can see no more than 2 patients per day.

Well, if doctors were killing patients at the rate truckers were killing other drivers then, yea, hopefully we would. (Honestly tired doctors kill a lot in the US as it is, medical mistakes are the 3rd leading cause of death).
At least the system is working as designed.
For basic algebra, Dragon Box Algebra is nice. My five year old has gone through that and is working his way through geometry and the algebra 12+. (He just plays occasionally - iPad time is weekends only and he chooses what he wants to do.)

It’s mentally taxing, so I encourage him to switch to a different game when he starts getting fatigued. (It rewards by gradually drawing a monster and unlocking more skills.)

For assembly, you could try “human resource machine”, but it gets hard too quickly. Light Box Jr might be more appropriate, though. ScratchJr is also worth checking out (it is more open ended rather than just gameplay).
I don't really get how this can work. Like I wanted to try those udon noodles that are next to the ones I normally buy this week. How do I tell that to Amazon? Or I didn't really like the kimchi last time so I wanted to try something new but instead of cabbage kimchi I bought radish kimchi because it was next on the shelf. But I wouldn't have known to search for that. Or the big avocados look better than the small ones. I'll get two of those instead of 3 of the large ones.

Do you still have this kind of product discovery with Amazon?
> I don't think you should cast aspersions of laziness

You're right. I use laziness out of frustration, but in reality I know it's hard for me to make my own work fully documented and reproducible.

A large part of the situation is cultural. Software engineers are born into a world of version control, unit tests, documentation, managing complexity, reproducibility, debugability, etc (and we still struggle with it). That sort of culture and associated tools are missing from data science.
> Gaia theory suggests that the world is full of these stabilizing systems

Doesn’t it go considerably further, into almost suggesting the Earth is a spiritual or conscious entity?
I believe in climate change (and Dyson does too, he just doesn't like the alarmism) but Dyson is a very interesting person and clearly should be taken seriously.
The Wikipedia links are a new initiative Google is doing to combat fake news and misleading information [0].

0: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/07/building-better-news-...
Maybe it's an old broken passage.
You trace it back though; we voted for the people who did the gerrymandering, and we voted for the electoral college (our ancestors did, anyway).
A "no" vote was seen as a "leave from the Euro zone"

That wasn't what was on the ballot paper.
To be fair, I've recently gotten into typesetting anime fansubs, and I've found it to be highly rewarding.

It doesn't require any fine motor skills, as it's all done in a really janky scripting language called ASS. I can do all kinds of four-dimensional text transforms just by writing code, and I've been able to produce some wonderful-looking effects.
The most educated people I know take regular intercontinental flights and have huge carbon footprints. They also "hate" global warming but seem totally ignorant of their out sized role in producing it.
In my experience, they think they know you rather well, but in reality, they know only the image of you they constructed for themselves. Also, regardless of how accurate that image is, it's sometimes better to talk with someone who doesn't have preconceptions about you.
I think you're massively overstating the effects of gerrymandering.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941...

> while Republican and Democratic gerrymandering affects the partisan outcomes of Congressional elections in some states, the net effect across the states is modest, creating no more than one new Republican seat in Congress
I agree with the general sentiment of delaying teaching programming to young kids: what you can teach in one year to a 5 year old can be learnt in less than a week by a ~9 year old.

That said, Scratch Jr. Is interesting to connect art/story telling/scripting. Another one is Alice 3D (with adult help). For example, I played with my kids in Alice 3D where they put the characters and I, mainly, script the story including audio.
I've been thinking about versions of this ever since I was at AngelList.

A lot of companies don't get a good look from investors because they don't understand investor expectations. "Negative signals" kill pitches. It might be a sign that the system works – but I suspect it's an inefficiency. Not every company has access to the kind of advice that YC and other accelerators provide.

The underlying principle is that the bulk of pitch mistakes are common. So Deck.vc reviewers can have a checklist of the most common recommendations and generate the bulk of the review really efficiently. That's what makes it possible to price this like a product, instead of consulting.

My goal is for Deck.vc to be of value to every founder who goes out to raise. Feedback greatly appreciated.
I think we all know exactly why this comedian was chosen, and it has nothing to do with popularity or talent.
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Late to this thread, but I loved this article because it put something into perspective for me... my New England boarding school had a swimming requirement, and was proud of its longstanding tradition of requiring all graduates to be able to swim. It makes sense given the context of when it was started and the extent of people's ability to swim.
I always imagine myself how I would teach graph theory to a younger audience (middle school in my mind).

It's a good intro to 'abstract' thinking, it's visual, easy to draw, and can be use to illustrate a ton of things people deal with daily (streets, relationships on real life/twitter/facebook (bidirectional graph vs non), etc)

I think it was this[0] that made me start thinking about it

[0]: http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/
With Dart2 going through LLVM to make ARM binary code for iOS and Android (and Fuchsia), I imagine it would be trivial to emit WebAssembly as well. Writing Dart to make WebAssembly code is far more direct than writing C# and running MSIL on top of a micro .NET runtime (which is what the Blazor project is doing).
@mr_overalls:

>> simply a matter of engineering.

>Remember that these are hypothetical, untried mitigations.

They are based on well-understood science. Two that would clearly work are orbital sunshades (adjustable as needed via various techniques) and CO2 sequestration (great, but tons of energy is required).

>> Humans should also aggressively colonize elsewhere in the solar system

>Another idea that requires decades or centuries of continued technological progress - which in turn depends heavily on stable societies and supporting ecosystems.

Which has nothing to do with anything. My comment on space colonization wasn't intended to present it as a "solution" to catastrophic warming - instead, to present it as a reason for long-term optimism.

>I'm a bright green environmentalist, too - I think that the convergence of technological change and social innovation provides the most successful path to sustainable development - but you're being a bit overly optimistic here, I think.

LOL...if the two alternatives are global catastrophe, or aggressive geoengineering, do you really think geoengineering won't happen?

At this time, global warming is not understood well enough for accurate prediction, especially over longer timescales. As that changes, the best course of future action will become clear. In the meantime, the best focus is as outlined in the "In the shorter term" paragraph in the parent...
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I'd say it very much detracts from the experience... to the point where I can't be bothered to mess with any of the what look like beautiful presentations of data
i rarely comment. I was going to give a thumbs up on testing azure for k8s. I am removing azure from the list perm. After reading these horror stories, azure just killed itself as a cloud provider. GC & AWS. AWS support engineers bend over backwards for us.
The answer to stopping ubiquitous pervasive surveillance probably isn't installing more ubiquitous pervasive surveillance.

It's clear many people feel there are benefits to owning one of these devices, but it does seem all of the benefits you are listing can be achieved without making such a sacrifice to a giant multinational conglomerate with a poor history of user rights and privacy.

With your comment “Alexa, drop in on [child’s] room”, the point that immediately came to mind is that Alexa doesn't drop in. Alexa is always there. I guess a lot of it will come down to whether you believe that:

a) Amazon will honour whatever promise they have with the consumer not to monitor them/keep records of your communications safe

b) That normalising such devices will not lead to their expanding use in direction you do NOT agree with in the future

c) That the device, system and amazon servers your and your families information is stored in is secure from being taken control over by third parties.

Personally, I think b is the biggest concern, as I believe arguments similar to yours (you already carry a smartphone) will be replaced in the future with (you are already recorded by alexa) to justify further things I would consider to be beyond reasonable in a free democratic society (whats wrong with a little facial recognition, etc).
The EPA already allows asbestos to be used in a huge range of products. I simply cannot see what justification could be made for allowing asbestos to continue to be used in cement sheet, floor tile and brake pads. It might pose no immediate hazard when installed, but it could become a serious hazard at any point during its lifespan. Cement sheets crack and crumble, floor tiles become worn and get replaced, brake pads are designed to wear down. When you install any asbestos-containing material, you're setting a deadly man-trap.

https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos

In the EU, there's a blanket ban on manufacturing or selling asbestos-containing products under the REACH regulations, with an exception only for replacement membranes in existing electrolysis equipment. Member states can add specific exemptions where there is a valid justification; in the UK, those exemptions apply only to used acetylene gas cylinders, heritage vehicles and museum artefacts.

https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/574c30dd-398d-b3ff-cc...

http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/exemption.htm
One thought would be as a cement additive in marine applications.
Correct, it's a pleural cancer.

That being said, asbestos poses an even bigger risk of "regular" lung cancer compared to mesothelioma. It really is a formidable carcinogen.
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