skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else feel like we'll fail to make reasonable progress on climate change? I'm naturally inclined towards pessimism, but I feel that the political solutions aren't going to work out and that the market isn't moving fast enough for humanity to get ahead of it.

Edit: to clarify, I think that political solutions won't work not because there aren't good ideas or that we couldn't collectively do a lot, but because there's too much money and power held by special interest groups that pollute.
Unfortunately a lot of people (including the US president) are still on the fence about the existence of climate change, so to them there is nothing to react too. Also their denialism is more of a mouse wheel than a ladder they climb, the ones that say "of course climate change exists but it's natural" tend to end up back in the non-existence camp.

Aside from that, if it was a natural thing then should we interfere with it? If it was natural I'd be much less inclined to act.
SpaceX Aces First-Ever Rocket Landing in California After Satellite Launch
Awesome, so what are some things that are not on the help page you think would make this more useful?
Jeff Atwood/DHH’s conclusion regarding Speedometer 2 is not completely true according to Filip Pizło (https://webkit.org/blog/author/fpizlo/): https://twitter.com/filpizlo/status/1049132270773198848

In this case I’d trust Filip more :)
Supermicro was delisted from Nasdaq a month and a half before the article for shady reasons. They did a pretty good job damaging their brand all on their own. I'm sure they don't want to file a lawsuit where discovery shows what's really happening inside the company.
They were changing things all the time anyway, in 6 months I had maybe 3 complete redesign of the home page. And if you were on Android like me, you know testing and stability certainly wasn't part of the company motto, Snapshat was easily the most buggy mainstream app I know.
Programmatic banning of sources takes power away from editors to determine legitimacy. It censors the conversation that would have otherwise taken place. Wikipedia cannot claim impartiality once it picks and chooses sources at an organizational level. Due to having little interest in keeping up to date with Wikipedia's ban list, I certainly will no longer see it as impartial from this point onward.

I'm not concerned about the downvotes when I don't see a clear reason for them. As far as I can tell, I raised a legitimate point. I'm assuming that it's legitimate because none of the downvoters commented to explain why they disagreed with my point.

(I shouldn't have to say this, since it neither aids nor harms my arguments, but I don't read Breitbart.)
It seems clear from your account history that you don't want to use HN as intended, so I've banned the account.

If you decide you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Its just a joke about baking the drawbacks of javascript into the hardware. Its a good change that's probably overdue at this point.
Netcraft have been tracking active sites since around 2000.

Latest chart is on https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/09/24/september-2018... (note log scale). They reckon ~180M active sites.
Seems likestreamsets don't include a visual designer in the open source core? And no price, which seems standard with ETLs

https://streamsets.com/subscriptions
There's the story about how Bloomberg pays its reporters if they "move markets".

Would that create the appropriate incentive to explain this behavior?
Actually, their whole “disappearing messages” thing was perfectly positioned for the teen market as the polar opposite of “post once and it’s there forever” Facebook. I never used it myself, but for a certain subset of people, not just dick pic senders, this was a pretty big differentiator/selling point. Enabling a whole new class of behavior for millions of people.

So yeah, although the innovation never progressed beyond a killer feature for some users, it was still... innovative.
After the right wing wave took over the world I think many are concluding no corrective actions to be taken.
I'd also prefer a C version, but I think it's possible to call a Go function from C [0]. I don't know how well that would work though, since Go requires a runtime.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/cgo#calling-go-functions-f...
"Annual January troughs are due to more homes coming on the market after the first of the year"
Imagine if Apple had its own operating system running its own static compiler!
Technologically maybe - but I think it did define the idea of a social network being primarily (if not entirely) phone/camera based. I had been off social media for years but found Snapchat fun and interesting enough to rejoin (for a few years)
If you find this cool you might also like Ouroboros[0]

[0]: https://ouroboros.ilabt.imec.be/index.html
> the phrase "yellow journalism" is over 100 years old

I don’t know if anyone has studied the longitudinal accuracy of journalists. The 19th century brought unique economies of scale to mass-market journalism (through industrialised printing and steam-powered rail transport). “Realizing that they could expand their audience by abandoning politically polarized content, thus making more money off of advertising, American newspapers began to abandon their partisan politics in favor of less political reporting starting around 1900“ [1]. Quality thus increased, and remained increased, until the Internet made niche journalism profitable again.

Journalism 150 years ago was crap. And a lot of journalism today is crap. It does not follow, however, that the intervening years were similarly dominated by dumbassery.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism
P.S. I am awfully glad that in those 51 years I was never again put in a polygraph situation such as an investigation. I just know I'd fuck it up.
Agreed. It's such a unique name for a classic algorithm and is so thoroughly established in symbolic pattern matching for production systems that I'd seriously recommend against adopting it for any other purpose in CS.
I had seen a few HN articles posted on reddit. Discussions seemed more interesting and educated.
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Hopper raises $100M for AI airfare and hotel rate predictions
True. The worst part is that they won't be around to see the consequences of their actions.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163552
Not without wholesale political change in the US. It will happen but probably not in time to matter if this report is correct :|
Interestingly the problem tends to be economical rather than technological. A 5 years ROI would normally be sufficient to get traction. Apparently the current system of charterers is holding it back.
> just pointing out why a story dated "Dec. 11, 2013" might have been posted

And in the intervening years, Bloomberg News won itself a Pulitzer [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/bloomberg-wi...
Hanlon's razor.
Planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change, IPCC warns
Helpful hint: Thanksgiving day is the best day of the year to buy a home (offer accepted) in the US, provided you like what's on offer. It's the slow season but there's less inventory.
I would love to know more about this. I extensively use scraping and crawling at my startup and it's too much one consuming
Tackling Misinformation in an Open Society [pdf]
California recently completed its 4th Climate Assessment task

http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/
I think people overestimate the bad consequences and underestimate the good consequences of such things.

1. I see amazing potential in AI based content creation. Imagine a world where you can have all the music/movies you want, personalized to your specific taste. I would love to have an AI watch Avatar The Last Airbender and invent a few more seasons for me (find out what happened to Zuko's mom :))

2. It is true that we should be more careful about what content is genuine vs fake, but cryptography has you covered, anyone can easily digitally sign the content they create with their private key and be able to prove the authenticity of their content.

3. One thing to note is that AI cannot be used to distinguish reals from fakes because the fakes are generated (using GANs) precisely so they can't be distinguished from the reals.
69% increase in 2017? ... What would not make this change dubious?

> It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains or similar

Ok, so who's buying domains hand over fist?
What a strange metric. It's not 'prices are falling' even though doomsayers really want it to say that. IMO what it mostly says is 'Sellers have been posting really high numbers and slowly walking them back.' Which is effectively a time-based auction, so it's not a completely irrational price discovery model.
What are some concrete examples for which this would be useful?

Near the end it says it's being developed by people in the IPFS community. Does anyone know for what they plan on using it?
In theory, yes. In practice, no.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/06/house-prices-and-...

"There’s no strong correlation between interest rates and home prices,” said Douglas Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae.
Yeah I think I was still confused about how it works, but I've just decided to snip out my comment instead.
Accounting issues are internal issues and can be sorted out - they do not affect a customer who is paying money to buy a server. If however someone spreads a rumour saying your server does surveillance for China - people will just go to another vendor to avoid the fallout.
I feel similar sometimes and my next thought is usually, “what part of the system is breaking down such that engineers at small companies don’t understand the scope of their projects?”. Is it a lack of experienced/authoritative technical leadership? Is it bad blood from the rails monolith days? Is it a symptom of a high density of top-tier minds mob-engineering solutions? Are engineers just lazy and prefer the industry status quo framework and some config scripts to the work of actually building software?... Is it even a problem that can be quantified (small company x could be here instead of here if they hadn’t spent resources following the giants)?
What laptop are you using for your day to day work and why?
I wouldn't want to be the lawyer at apple found guilty of contempt of congress.

Weasel wording is what a bad salesman does. It doesn't fly in court or in congress.
The Pentagon is studying an insect army to defend crops
I think we're just bad at predicting the future. You can go go fast and sling code at the wall because the odds of ever reaching FAANG scale is low and you want to be pragmatic, and then one day you accidentally do hit FAANG scale and you're in the news every week for security breaches and outages. You can also do everything DRY and micro-serviced from the beginning, run out of runway and crash. Or you could get to FAANG scale and realize you need to rewrite everything because you didn't foresee X, Y, Z requirements and technology has shifted 20 yards to the left. My approach is the gardener mindset. Think about organic growth up front when writing the code, but also be pragmatic and start with a "minilith" with interfaces in the right places.
I feel like the changes are too slow for the majority of people to take any remotely pressing action or vote accordingly. Losing coral reefs sadly won't matter to the majority of people. You can watch Finding Nemo on TV in air-con comfort and ignore the dust bowl outside. I don't think people get a clear picture of how broad the mass migration issues is likely to become.
It’s really disappointing that the political systems we have don’t encourage long term stewardship of our resources.

I don’t see any kind of reform happening in the US until negative consequences are felt by a significant chunk of the population.
> The nature of science being what it is, the science probably has to come first, with the art emerging from it

Most of science fiction kinda disputes this though. A scientist has to have the imagination to construct the experiment.
This is pretty neat. I would prefer the ability to edit the content on your page that way I don't have to get into another editor, but maybe that's just me. I like the component add feature and so on, but I got stuck with the pricing table being yearly/monthly with 2 payment options. I was looking to make an alternative to www.marketgodfathers.com as it looks really basic, however, I ran into issues here.

Neat platform, maybe I will have to look at it when I am wide awake.

Edit: Also, I think you want it to say Sign up, instead of sing up.
> Quality thus increased, and remained increased, until the Internet made narrow-niche journalism profitable again.

I basically agree with your overall point, but I think you may have that part backwards, actually. Advertising in general (and for newspapers, classified advertising in particular) represented an enormous torrent of money. The internet killed that. It's not that the internet has made narrow-niche journalism profitable again (it never stopped; there have always been niche magazines and newsletters), it's that the internet stopped newspapers being profitable at all, and now all we're left with is the narrow niches that never went away.

Are we worse off as a society now that all that money flows straight to Facebook and Google instead of the Village Voice and it's kin? Sure, maybe. But was journalism magically more ethical during that period? I see no evidence of such. And I don't think lying for a Pulitzer is any more noble than lying for some page views.
Did any new information about its accounting irregularities come to light on Wednesday or Thursday? If not, why would they have driven the stock price decrease on those days?
Lenovo stopped the whitelusting with the 50 Models. I tried two internal wifi m2 ngff cards that are not listed as compatible in my x260 and both were working.
Dvdisaster
Wanting JavaScript to win is like wanting Donald Trump to win.
Source code available too
https://github.com/OMS-NetZero/FAIR
Alternate title: Lady does a job.
Are you sure you need to sell it? Could you rent it out?

There is pretty much no way you won't lose money unless the house went up in value a huge amount since you bought it -- enough to cover all of the costs you incurred when buying it and when selling it.

On the other hand, you might be able to cover a large portion of the mortgage payments by renting it out, depending on the rental market in the area.
Wasn't ARM's choice directly related to (or maybe influenced by) Android though?
“No longer in operation” - not strictly true. Looks like it will return to operation soon, but in 1-gyro mode, which means its operations will be restricted.
It appears that Bloomberg News pays reporters more if their stories move markets:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440

One can only wonder if this story is due to the other.
They've stopped this practice, in part due to this article (note the date - 2013). I have friends who were journalists there at the time who told me about it.
Yup. There's just no way us humans are going to 'act now'. Any response at a global (and, in the US, national and state) level will be 100% reactive, and 0% proactive. Since there are still people arguing over the cause, I'm starting to think it might be more productive to move the conversation from trying to be proactive (which requires everyone to agree on the cause) to reactive (which does not).

In other words, start preparing for the outcome of this. We, as a species, cannot seem to be able to stop what we are doing.
In the game of Prisoner's Dilemma, if the game is played for only one round, the optimal move is for both players to betray each other. If you modify the game by playing many rounds of the same two players choosing whether to cooperate or betray, cooperation continues as long as neither player knows how long the game will last. The moment either player learns when the last round will be, it once again becomes advantageous to betray, and to do so immediately, before your opponent gains the same information. You want to betray before you are betrayed, but to do so at the last possible moment.

I think there's something to be learned there about the connection between climate change, and the charge towards mass surveillance and authoritarian government.
Banksy shreds his own Girl with Balloon print – after it sells for £1m
What to me is troubling is that we're just getting started as a species. This whole industrialization thing is maybe 400 years old, the species around 30,000 years old. Things have existed on the planet for hundreds of millions of years. The future does not look bright for our species.
It's disappointing that such a political system is necessary for individuals to act responsibly, ethically and morally.
Loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world
Part of searching is knowing how to reduce your search space. This is not just a prolog problem but a CS problem. Knowing your data, using cut, swiprolog might not have tabling support but it's easy to memorize with assertz.

I've used prolog on production systems, there's odbc drivers, he could have connected directly to the DB and ran his rules. Checkout the swiprolog libs, they are quite extensive
I was reading a blog post about problems in academia which said the following in the first paragraph:

> There’s a narrative I find kind of troubling, but that unfortunately seems to be growing more common in science. The core idea is that the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and sufficient reason to knowingly behave in an antisocial way, just as long as one first acknowledges the existence of those perverse incentives.

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-inc...

As a cyclist who's slowly switching to a mostly vegetarian diet, partly to reduce my carbon emissions, I find this quote to apply equally well to people who believe that climate change is a problem but seem to want to wait for the government to act before they do much.

Yes, maybe my efforts are "wasted" in some respect, but I don't think I'm missing much anything valuable anyway by cycling for example, so that eliminates the downside in my view.
That sounds to me like the market is plateauing.
My house has icynene foam,

https://www.icynene.com/en-us

which doesn't support mold. I've been very pleased with it. My house is shaded by large trees, so solar would never pencil out.

I'm just kinda sad that my idea of concrete "batteries" with variable pricing never gets any traction. People just can't seem to get past the notion that consumer electricity rates must be constant 24/7 despite enormous expense to make that happen.
From what I read in "Bad Blood" (the book about the Theranos fiasco) of what WSJ does before publishing investigative reports, you can be 100% that they did.
go read: verizon supercookie
I question whether the cost of doing this in new novel naval architecture isn't excessive. You can have a green ship without installing Magnus effect rotor sails:

A) install a massive ground mount photovoltaic system

Or massive wind farm on land.

B) use the kWh from it to crack water into pressurized tanks of hydrogen

C) transport the hydrogen to the ship, store it onboard, and run it through fuel cells to drive electric azipods.

This require the engineering resources for on board hydrogen tank system, fueling system and fuel cells. Less mechanically complex than massive rotor sails, and something that all of the subcomponents exist for "off the shelf".

This lets you use otherwise useless, non arable land for the energy generation. Even if the electricity to hydrogen process is extremely inefficient. At a certain point if you plot the ongoing price drops for massive grid scale PV, when PV panels hit $0.20/watt, it will be economical.
Wet Streets Make Rain(tm).

Not the same thing, but the psychology is related.

Ref: Michael Crighton; Gell-Mann
Revolution of Smart Technology
Talk about sensationalism, and attaching specific changes in values to individual news..
He's way too young for that :-)
Britain has just approved restarting fracking. Germany wants to demolish ancient forest to mine more lignite for power stations. The US wants to save the coal mining industry. The North West passage is almost ice free in summer. Australia's coal exports are booming.

IPCC thinks it will need 2.5% of global GDP for 20 years to fix.

Act now? It still doesn't seem like any of the world's electable politicians even believe the problem yet. Just in greenwash and talking about GDP growth.

The next generation is fucked.

Edit: That's very disappointing to see. Submission goes from top 5 on front page to nowhere, yet isn't flagged.
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‘1 in 12 Americans Own Cryptocurrency’ Finds New Market Study
> It's not that the internet has made narrow-niche journalism profitable again

I think it has. Before industrial printing, printing a broadsheet was expensive. Before steam locomotion, quickly shipping it far was expensive. That limited the addressable market. Add in lower population densities and you have a narrowly-distributed product for which a high price must be charged.

Enter industrial printing and steam locomotion. Economies of scale emerge. Those operating with scale can outcompete narrow operations on price. Apolitical news becoming cheaper meant partisan rags had to fight harder to justify their price premium. In the end, scale won.

The Internet makes production and distribution cheaper. At the same time, it gut punched the majors by taking away their ad revenue. It’s the reverse of the above happening, and it’s newly enabling small, partisan publications to turn a profit. (They needed to appeal to a broader market, before, to pay for their fixed print and distribution costs.)

> It's not that the internet has made narrow-niche journalism profitable again

This is a red herring.
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Bunz is another platform and couchsurfing. Maybe build something that integrates with all the platforms, i.e. if scrape all their data in your platform, and post all your entries on theirs, then auto update your posts with their auto replies. I think there are many platforms for this and it's a good market if you can consolidate it.
USD has a 225 year head start...not surprised BTC hasn't hit that level of adoption yet. Credit cards took a few decades to hit mainstream too to the point where you could literally use them everywhere.
3,000 Amazon Go Cashierless Stores Planned by 2021
I guess baby steps might justify your approach. But I think a rethink on the level of global civilization is needed before we can make any sort of realistic progress into an actually sustainable species that might live 1 million or more years. Barring that with our current societal approach and trajectory we may go extinct at any time and the system is generally set up to support such an outcome. Eating different food or bicycling does not fix how society is set up to function and behave.
The target audience was a type of reader who would look something up when not understanding it.

The whole point of this site was to enter it and to extend one's comfort zone.
Star Trek had just the right amount of childish optimism to work well as critique of the current state of affairs.
Far more plausible that alien stories though.
In this case (assuming intent) they would get charged by SEC, wouldn't they?