skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children should not be on this list.

The first reason is baby/bathwater: The reason we care about climate change is for the sake of children; simply denying them existence isn't much of a solution. E.g. You could equally solve homelessness by (humanely and painlessly) killing all the homeless people in their sleep.

But more importantly:

If the present is any indication, in the future, children of "coastal-American/Northwestern-European tech workers" are going to be the only people with the motivation and ability to address climate change.

Subtract them from the equation and think about who is left: Religious nativists (Muslim, Christian, and otherwise), supremacist ideologues and ethnonationalists, and a great mass of impoverished third-worlders too disconnected and ignorant to even use birth control correctly. There is no chance a climate change solution gets sustained without the high-IQ pro-globalist Western elite.

Basically if you're reading this you should have as many kids as possible to benefit the planet in the future.
I've had a similar idea. I am thinking of creating a service that would install OpenVPN for you on your own server, and send you an email with all the configuration details. Would that be useful, worthwhile doing?
A commenter there said that Bloomberg abolished this practice several years ago.
If you aren't part of the university then Oxford and Cambridge aren't great. I think the pressures from tourism force them to isolate themselves. They are expensive as well.

"Pursuing your own intellectual thing by yourself will be incredibly tough and lonely."

Yes.
Physical addiction (as opposed to psychological) is rarely the one that worries people.

It's not what keeps a drug user dependent for years as their lives unravel. If it was, then a simple detox would "cure" the addiction. We wouldn't have rehab programs and support groups, just hospital beds and observation for a week or two.

The addiction that is hardest to kick is almost always the psychological one. The one that sticks around long after any trace of the substance has gone from your system, and long after any withdrawal symptoms have subsided.

Sorry if I'm picking on your comment, but that phrase "isn't physically addictive" always strikes me as missing the point.
How bad is it there for sexual/gender minorities (aka gay/trans people). Is it livable if you are visibly transgender?
It's already above 400 ppm.
Prague, if you live outside the tourist area. Very healthy arts/music scene. And you're a short train ride from Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest, which have great scenes of their own.
Air New Zealand offers this as part of their checkout flow: https://www.airnewzealand.com.au/sustainability-customer-car...

I've never used it myself, because I don't feel like it should be up to the passenger/user to volunteer to pay for their carbon. I also donate to charities outside of carbon credits, and those donations are tax deductible, unlike carbon credits. I'd be more inclined to buy carbon credits for my travel if they were tax deductible like charitable donations are.
Ask HN: What are the engineering challenges in high frequency trading?
McDonalds would be out of business and a laughingstock.
isn't that just the definition of click bait.
You can use Messenger with just a phone number, like whatsapp

There is/was a Facebook Group app, where its just the groups
Article could start with a definition of SRE.
Gmail vs. WhatsApp: End to End Encryption Debate in News
I have been here for ten years and managed up until the last year with English speaking jobs.
Ah, but obscurity is one of the factors of nerdiness. If you're into sci-fi films, you're more nerdy than someone into action blockbusters. If you're into 50s sci-fi B-movies specifically, you're even more nerdy.
That's appearently the opinion of most high-tech companies. Why can't I criticize that here in a sarcastic manner? I thought this was about discussions... Or are you just talking about the sarcasm part? Can we not use basic rhetoric styles here?
I'm much more worried about the US right now.
Sure but adaptive cruise only helps you relax your leg, you're still paying attention to the road. I'm specifically talking about anything that lets you not pay attention for some time.
Not sure whether Chiang Mai qualifies for intellectual atmosphere.
I guess you are right. But that isn't going to reduce the role he played in India's Independence movement or the momentum he gave to the formation process of independent India. I will argue that the strength he gave to the peaceful formation of the republic later on facilitated the anti caste movements by later politicians in independent India.
Consider a small or even a larger city containing a large, selective state university. Madison, WI; Ann Arbor, MI; Iowa City, IA; Bloomington, IN; Tucson, AZ; Athens, GA; Salt Lake City, UT. There are many others.
What about the recent independence trouble?
Barcelona doesn't fit at all. Housing is expensive in comparison to local wages, people in Spain is not confortable speaking english. TBH Barcelona doesn't match any of the criteria, he should be living in the US or a commonwealth country.
And in addition to this renting is basically kafkaesque. You might be able to sublet a place for up to a year, but the rents are equally horrible compared to the average income. Getting a first hand contract is essentially impossible unless you know a private landlord who will give you preferential treatment, as generally the is a queue in which you need AT LEAST 10+ years to get something not nice at all
Dependence is similar to alcohol, so quite a bit less than Tobacco. But it is a lot less harmful than those two because you either smoke it less than tobacco or the damage is less severe than with alcohol.

But smoke is nearly universally bad, it doesn't matter much if it is from someone who heats with wood in the neighborhood, an open fire nearby, smoking marijuana or tobacco.

Luckily there are other ways than smoking to take the drug.
I'm actually a Durbanite living in Westville but I can't recommend Durban having lived in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mumbai and Berlin. Spend too much time in Durban and I end up feeling like I'm intellectually frustrated. A lot of it might have to do with my race group and the fact that it is a minority nationally with a high concentration in KZN. You probably know what I'm saying ;) There's implicit racism in Durban which is very difficult to live with if you are not expat or white ("English").

There are very few tech meetups and general opportunity for intellectualism/tech in Durban. Shoutout here to OpenDataDurban and Code4SA! I'd love for you to correct me, though. And if you're in Durban, maybe we can get a coffee? hnusername@gmail.com

That being said Durban is really cheap and has the best beaches in the world!
That your response to his personal, non-generalized story is as such in very, very curious and makes me wonder why you're having such a defensive posture.
McDonalds beef patties are like eating cardboard, they're entirely flavourless. There are a few things I miss eating since I became vegetarian, McDonalds beef is not one of them.

Personally, I've always liked vegetarian burgers better than meat burgers anyway. There's so much variation and flavour in vegetarian patties, whereas meat patties tend to just be a lump of meat, sometimes with some interesting seasoning.
When I downloaded my Facebook data few years ago, my notes were missing. I had to reactivate my account, save them as HTML pages, and queue account for deletion again. One should not think of profiles on these sites as reliable archive of ones data. There is no alternative to local backup for this. With deletion one loses so many little memorable things, for example comments.
> We are not going to get anywhere until ...

In most advanced countries, climate change is accepted and the problem and risks are being mitigated. AFAIK, the countries that refuse to act, such as the U.S., are the exceptions.
Nice, France

There's a technical hub in the area and multiple universities, along with a lot of English-speaking expats. The weather is amazing and the food is fantastic.

I'm from the SF Bay Area and I live here now. Best decision ever.
It is not an expectation of being ported to Linux, it is a statement of fact of being windows exclusive.

It was originally a DOS application, which was rewritten for Windows, and is used in game development.
Either time machines are impossible, or there are no people left in the future to invent one.
I am doing this in Taipei right now.

The living costs are low and there is a thriving intellectual community, but there is definitely a language barrier. Most Taiwanese can speak enough English to be friendly and helpful (which they are), but not enough to have intellectual conversations. If you are willing to tolerate the language barrier and put in the time to find the people who can converse intellectually in English then it's a good option. I can't say how much of an intellectual English-speaking community there is since I haven't explored that.

Otherwise, I can't say enough good things about Taipei as a city. You can find a nice apartment downtown for $600/mo or less, the public transportation is amazingly good, and I've never traveled anywhere with better food for the money, provided you're willing to eat Taiwanese, Chinese, or Japanese food most days.
East Europe is the most traditional family oriented area that I know. Politics and mentalities follow that trend. Despite being a piece of heaven to a lot of people, I wouldn't recommend it to everybody.
Just like beer.
I wrote up my own quitting FB approach here https://gaius.tech/2017/12/29/less-facebook-more-faces-and-b...

I still use Insta and WhatsApp tho’ so I am not entirely free but FB is the biggest time sink for sure.
Win-win!
Mediocre roads indeed, but you can manage to get around the city by public transport. While public transit can be sometimes late, or some buss lines use old busses. it's A+ compared to US public transport, but not as great as the London or Paris (tho the metro is newer and cleaner than Paris). Public transport card for all lines for 1 year is 365 levs - 185 eur.
Rent prices currently are on the high end and can run you between 300-500 eur.
For food, i personally eat take out twice a day and over the last few months my average spend for food & drinks is ~ 300 eur.
If someone has other questions about Sofia, feel free to e-mail me or comment here :)
> Well, it's not terrible nor worse than other dynamically-typed programming languages.

Not better or worse? It's got a type system with holes you could drive truck through, and more arcane edge-cases than a fantasy book of spells.

> And it's one of the few languages with async-everything.

Just because something is async doesn't make it better or faster, at some point the work has to be done, and for those cases where async does make a difference, pretty much every other language has an async implementation that is either just as good or superior.

> Let's not exaggerate nor underestimate the fool's errand of replacing a ubiquitous language.

Yeah, I think that horse has bolted, but we can stop making it anymore widespread than it absolutely needs to be.
I've recently moved to Chicago and am thoroughly loving it. There are tons of programming meetups here, seems pretty progressive, super good public transportation (at least for the US) and costs seem to be mostly reasonable.

My studio apartment is about $1k a month in a nice part of town right next to a train stop. I really like that since Chicago is the third largest city in the country, you can probably find just about anything here'd you want, without having to pay as much to live here as you would on the coasts.
Ask HN: Keyboard for Coding?
I used my macbook 2016 keyboard for the past 2 years and had a love/hate relation with the small key travel/etc. . Do you guys/gals recommend any external keyboard that you use?
Are you comparing that salary to US salaries? Because the still relatively low cost of living in Berlin makes that anything but low
Californians tend to overlook the Midwest(probably because of the winters), but we have some decent cities. Madison, Minneapolis, and if you want big, Chicago. All of them have universities and tech companies, and are cheaper than the bay area by far.
Agreed, super anecdotal but I'd be curious to know when your former boss started smoking - in my (also anecdotal!) experience, that is a key determinant to a lot of negative behaviors.
*cobol?
Macbook;
It's just more supported for a lot of software which made me make the switch.
We use https://thonny.org/ for Python.

I am a strange programmer, I think using a debugger is vital to understanding a program ;)

We start with things like Python and Turtle, drawing shapes and emoticons. Then we move on to functions and objects and stuff.
"GOOD MORNING!

Want to see someone getting killed by police and watch your friends quickly get baited by Russians to form to actual American protests related to their preconceived notions?

No? Well its already playing enjoy! but be careful where you tap because IF YOU LIKE ANYTHING you'll lose half of your friends in real life but thats okay because we were only going to show you more of this exact thing regardless"
> a problem with code comments is that it very easily becomes outdated

That's a red flag for code reviews being absent. (Or badly performed)
Rational Software started as a company selling Ada Machines, they then pivoted to other industries.
The fact that you call a traffic light a "robot" makes me suspect you're a South African or your parents are :)

I have never been hijacked, robot or otherwise. The worst that happened to me was getting mugged in a dark alley around 7pm in Cape Town. Rely shouldn't have been walking around that neighbourhood well-dressed.

In general I leave my laptop in the trunk and ladies leave their bags there too. The most common form of traffic light theft is "smash and grab" which is entirely mitigated by getting the right kind of windows and not leaving your stuff on the seat/where it's visible.

In ZA 80% of the crime is committed against poor people, which really sucks but which realistically means that only 20% of the crime stats actually would apply to the affluent/expats. Ultimately you need to be a little more vigilant and aware, but not much more than you would be in any major city.
Surely it should be possible to dampen the seat, so that it could become comfortable enough for at least day-to-day grocery shopping?
Ask HN: OpenVPN installer service: useful to you?
I'm thinking of creating a web service that would install OpenVPN for you on your own server, with x user accounts and then send you an email with all the configuration details for Tunnelblick.

My assumption is that there are people geeky enough to want a VPN, but not geeky enough to install it themselves.

I'm also assuming that using openVPN on your own server is more discrete, and therefore more difficult to block, than using the servers of big commercial services like Tunnelbear, which are shared by many users and therefore easier to flag.

Is that something you would use?
Do you agree with my assumptions?
Or is this a dumb idea that will never work?

Thanks for your feedback!!!
Depends on how visible it is.
Yeah, I think the key word in the parents post is "high school"... studies have shown people who start early have far more issues than functioning adults.
Many interesting events in my area are propagated on FB exclusively, including meetups of my friends :-/
That’s fair enough, I don’t think that process would work here though?

I also don’t understand why you would do that. Given the ceramic part in question doesn’t look like anything that would be on a motherboard, and has been identified as an RF component.
You don't know who's lying. And you have no way to at the moment.

Bloomberg would not be lying purposely but they might got "owned".
Those corporation might have been instructed to lie, and they might have an interest to.
A lot of cities in the Netherlands are easy to reach by public transport. Car is also fine.

Pay is of course lower than in the Bay area.

Culture wise it's sometimes hard to make friends with the Dutch. It depends on how you spend your spare time. Playing a sport, going to parties, going to group lessons in a gym, etc. is essential to make Dutch friends later in life.
Also worth noting: By their measure, the number of active sites has been pretty much stagnant since early 2012.

I suspect that we're actually going to see that number start to drop over the next ten years, as old servers cease to be maintained and fall off the Web.
Had to totally ban it from our house. Too addictive for me, and easy to fall back into stoner routines.
How has the file manager got worse?
You can’t « cut expenses » if you want to start a life and have kids ;-)
IMHO we should let Hubble die and take the funds that repair missions would suck up to deploy an improved replacement (i.e. the James Webb telescope). When Hubble was launched it could take better photos than any Earth-based telescope, but with improvements in technology that is no longer the case. We've become really good at filtering out atmospheric noise and the telescopes we can build on Earth are much bigger than Hubble.
Try Budapest

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Lots of stuff here to do and see, there are many expats all over the city. English speaking is low among Hungarians (¬20%), but in the inner city you won't have a problem with it.

I'd try a couple of cities for a few weeks then decide, Prague is also very beautiful, but as others suggested Berlin rocks too.
Lisbon, Portugal. English level among locals is better than France, Italy or Spain. Good Universities that provide you with well educated people to discuss your intellectual pursuits. Still affordable compared to most places in Europe or US. And the weather is good for most of the year.
If you would like to remain in United States and do not mind having proper seasons, I would strongly consider Chicago, the last affordable big city in the United States.

University of Chicago pulls a robust intellectual community (81 Nobel Laureates), but there is also a deep intellectual history around the arts and music that transcends the work of the university - something that I'm not sure I can say for a place like Cambridge.

The Art Institute has many of the paintings you might have seen in middle school history books, which is telling in of itself - and while everyone remembers Chicago's jazz, few know that it also invented house music (and a variety of other genres). It's home to many a political movement. It has unparalleled and extremely diverse architecture. The tech scene is doing great - and if any place will upset racial diversity in tech, it will certainly be this city.

People feel like they have a general sense of good will towards their neighbors, without losing the quick pace only a big city will offer you.

Most importantly and to your point - there is a respect for intellectual exchange no matter the discipline - Tech? Economics? Art? Policy? Medicine? Michelin-starred cuisine? I can't think of a field that you can't pursue with confidence in Chicago.

A completely trivial aside - one of the biggest complaints I hear from expats of the Bay Area is a lack of great Mexican food in Boston/Europe/etc. Thanks to a neighborhood called "Little Mexico" (which really does feel like being transported to the Mission), Chicago may be the furthest east you can go while still being able to find authentic Mexican food.
Tax evasion is illegal; tax avoidance is not.
Careful about the culture shock if you move abroad though...
This is free contents. You misunderstand what 'contract' and 'service' mean.
And, as already said, a website that provides free contents financed by ads has a legitimate claim that consent is necessary.
Actually only 4-8% claim "could not find other employment".

Source: see other commenter's reply, he looked it up.
Likewise.
I'm still on Instagram and Whatsapp... But in terms of controlling the content you see, Instagram and Whatsapp are a lot more manageable compared to Facebook - especially considering the state my FB was in.

I'm trying to win my friends over to use Telegram instead. It's miles ahead of Whatsapp in my opinion.
Nice work and the best way to learn about programming
I was about 4.5 miles from the launch/landing site for this one. Incredible experience. The "nebula" overhead was one of the more beautiful things I've seen in my life.
[1] this article speculates operation upto 2008 (article was dated 2005)

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7051-gyro-sacrifice-m...
Nice to hear from someone with experience in this area.

I wonder though, if the problem with existing platforms is in the environment and tooling, is a new programming language going to help? Wouldn't it make more sense to build better tools around one of the existing ones? Ones that are more "real deal", as you said? (e.g. TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, ...)
So that's how Apple and Amazon plans to discredit Bloomberg?
Plenty of people have reported deleting their account, creating a new one later, and seeing all their old friends recommended to them. It’s obvious that nothing is ever deleted, just hidden.
If you have worked for companies which let you develop yourself inside the company and use new tools, you'll be like a senior developer with life experience at least. Maybe you will be more relaxed to talk about things and can definitely mentor people and take more responsability. You don't need to become a manager, but doing a little bit of architecture and making sure your workplace is fair and nice can take you a long way. 40 isn't that old. It depends though, you could make it look old.

Somebody that goes to the gym infrequently and keeps their health above average will probably still be like their 30's, maybe 25(?)'s.

It is not so bad. I think by 60's it can get nasty, but by them, you will be stuck with some legacy crap nobody can understand. But there might be 60 year olds doing frontend in vue, why not. You chose if you want to age.
Stick with that attitude long enough and you, too, will care about the "politics game".
If comments are out of date you're not doing code reviews.
Filco Majestouch 2. Nothing fancy and built like a tank. Just don't go to Geekhack. You are warned.
Addict is the wrong word. He quit cold turkey after a revelation form looking in a car mirror. This is something a heroin addict or even most smokers would never say. You could replace 'smoking pot' with any number of other bad habits and not otherwise change a word of this story. Although I'm oversimplifying, there are few revelations with true physiological addiction, which is a despairingly tenacious neurological disease.

Some people should just stay away from psychoactive substances. Whatever the benefits are, it isn't worth it for them. This is partly a function of what is going on in their lives, but also partly neurobiological. Unfortunately there is only one way to realise you fall into this category. Maybe one day we will be able to predict who is at risk of abusing alcohol or marijuana well enough that you can actually make an informed decision about usage patterns.
If you look at the number of hostnames as measured by https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/09/24/september-2018... (switch to linear scale) it shows basically similar trends. The 75% boost in websites is entirely due to parked domains.

As for why, I suspect it's caused by the flood of new TLDs.
"Why would you expect this instead of people simply gradually moving inland"

Please read the article. The gradient of liveability is not away from the shores. It's away from the equator.
How is this F# code difficult to read?

let add n1 n2 = n1 + n2

Where do you spend time reading the types? Though it’s fully typed and if you pass an int and a string or some type for which the + operator is not defined you’ll get a compile time error.