skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then next great "innovation" is to speed-up transactions for USDC by using a centralized server. /s
It seems like Armstrong just isn't that interesting of a movie character. There is nothing wrong with that and isn't meant to take anything away from his accomplishments. No one lives their life with a goal that their biopic will be interesting. It just makes me wonder why this movie needed to exist in the first place. There are plenty of better stories to tell about the space program if you are determined to make a movie about that.
Decades aren't really a long scale, though. 3 decades ago almost nobody in the Czech Republic spoke any English, today it's a common day-to-day language in Prague as many foreigners live there, even the homeless speak good English.
Actually, my idea would be the following:

1. Automate tree/crop planting

2. Reform regulations stipulating that planting of trees/crops/plants should be required on any and all uninhabited lands, as a matter of "imminent domain" regardless of the land owner. Perhaps even as a tax incentive to land owners.

3. The development of a maintenance and management policy and system around all that is planted

4. In conjunction with the RFS for flooding deserts, develop a multi-stage water transfer to desert desalinization ponds, then to be used in irrigation of the tree planting efforts.

We already have autonomous farming combines with excellent ability to harvest crops and plant seed. They should be put to use at scale in panting trees.

Further, we could make an effort to employ the vast amounts of humans with little opportunity to be productive to build, plant and deploy a massive effort such as this.

We dont need to try to do everything with robots, when we have millions and millions of humans.

If we are so progressive and smart, maybe learning how to manage a labor force in the millions to accomplish a great work such as terraforming a desert is someting we should attempt again.
My point was that American free speech is not based on the belief that all speech is good or that no speech is bad. It's based on the idea that there's no one we trust to distinguish the good speech from the bad speech. Pointing out examples of obviously-bad speech doesn't disprove this, because it's not the existence of bad speech that's in question, it's the exact location of the borderline separating good from bad.
The only viable carbon removal technology yet identified is leaving it in the ground.

This isn't a smart-arse answer given every additional gallon of oil dug or gas fracked makes the problem worse, the oil industry hasn't yet accepted defeat, and politics still promotes and subsidises fossil.

How then to take that problem out of the realm of political corruption (lobbying) even faster?

We know what to do. Slightly facetiously, simply copy Orkney, we know how, and the cost. Save a little oil for chemicals and plastics that cannot be replaced. Yet we don't. Lobbying and politics is the problem.
A dictatorship is useful for quick taking of lands, hiding deaths of workers who are killed in construction projects, and manipulation of currency to make the projects cheaper.
You're overpaying. Wingo will give you very good network coverage, a gigabyte of data per month and free calls for 25$ a month.
Ask HN: I made a JavaScript library called NippleJS and people are getting angry
It all started with an issue on my library, https://github.com/yoannmoinet/nipplejs/issues/80 which is cool, because we can discuss about the issue and the point raised was fair IMHO.

But it all went to shit pretty quickly, so I locked the thread and decided not to change the name.

Now the guy is just insulting me on twitter.

https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1054658757228195840
https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1054768005249462272

I still think NippleJS is a funny and innocent name.
Everybody has nipples, so it's pretty inclusive too.

I don't know anymore... is it?
I'm really looking for advices on how to handle this before it goes sideways.

Sorry for the drama.
A killer feature for the Ryzen2 series is PrecisionBoost2. The 9900K is still based on Skylake, which has a 2 core boost limit as 1st gen Ryzen did. See the red line on this chart[0], while clocks will be different, that describes the 9900K's boost behavior. Intel's chips have a two core turbo and an all-core turbo speed, then base clocks. It depends on which SKU as far as the values.

I had the 1700, 1800X and now a 2700X. For most people that want a desktop and really utilize it in a way where it's just shared computer for general home usage, I'm recommending Intel's NUC lineup. When willing to build, for productivity and gaming I'm recommending Ryzen, and while the 9900K is going to be at the top of some charts, the combination of outdated Skylake architecture (plenty of examples like this boost example), high price that borders on Threadripper pricing, and increasing the die thickness to nullify a lot of solder's advantages[1]. Publications are starting to add all this up and naming the 2700X the best gaming CPU[2]. For a long time I would've said Intel but I'd have to agree with their findings in their entirety, I also really like the i5-8400.

[0]https://i.imgur.com/IPhCh1G.jpg

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Doo-zgyQs

[2]https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-cpus,3986.html
To summarize, neologism Canary MacGuffin represents one likely, visible event (to the requestor) the requestee would have to do while Shaving the Yak (?)
I'm having the same camera issue with mine, I read somewhere it was a known issue and they're working on a fix but who knows when that will come.
This is a horrible idea.

I can imagine some compelling reasons for using drones as an automated delivery mechanism, but this - food delivery, isn't one of them. On the contrary, I think they are particularly bad for food delivery.

However, I do harbor a sense of amazement at how competition drives businesses. For Uber to invest in this seemingly stupid idea and openly declare such goals hints at how clearly they realize the importance of keeping on moving over stagnating.

Uber being uber has no soft corner in my mind, but I do like seeing things move forward.
WW2 era Germans were dangerous. Speech didn't kill anyone.
Grassland, if properly managed, can sequester more carbon than a forest. This is related to the (unintuitive) fact that grasses are more efficient producers of organic matter than trees.

Joel Salatin has done some great work related to this and collected decades worth of data.

So the irony is that we could grow more beef and pull carbon out of the air at the same time, only if we cared. But we don't, it's easier to slash and burn then to also take the environment into consideration...
I think people in general are freaked out about drones; there's been too many stories of hovering drones with cameras while children play in the pool. FUD or not, it's a concern.
As an electrical engineer with 15+ years in global enterprise software sales, a track record of 100MIO$+ sales in the past ten years and 2 failed software startups as an experience i can share following:

- A company only has excistence with paying customers.

- The global economy excists because of supply and DEMAND. So start preaching the benefits of your products or services, because there is a very high likelyhood there is potential client in the 70 Trillion dollar economy.

- Sales has evolved to being the trusted advisor and filling the blind spots for your clients with facts, value and business cases.

- Don't sell a drill, sell the hole. Clients are not looking for the specs of the drill, but the size of a hole.

- Before you start building your MVP, sell the value proposition. If you are not able to sell and validate your value proposition, you will struggle selling your MVP.

- Selling can't always be expressed in metrics. It's like sex. You have to do it, to get better in it. So stop talking about how to do it, just do it...

- You think you can't do sales? Have you ever applied for a job, sold yourself to your current girlfriend, husband or wife, challenge a friend with fact or a value creation discussion? You have done sales...

- The conversion rate of off-line sales is higher then on-line sales (for B2B complex sales cycles). So start engaging with your clients face 2 face.

- There is an absolute relation between your activities and your (revenue) results.

P.s. If you are in 1MIO$+(global) B2B (SaaS) enterprise software sales: Complex sales for global matrix organisations with multi-level stakeholders can't be achieved trough reading a book.
Landing on the moon seems like a pretty interesting story.
I don't see the value in unikernel-as-a-process. Most of the syscalls save time by e.g. sending a bulk payload and having the kernel space TCP/IP implementation break that up into fragments and handle sending them to the interface. Moving the barrier halfway down now means you did all of the work and got negative performance benefits - seemingly under the guise of security... but isn't the whole point of unikernels to run hardware assisted VMs as your segmentation barrier instead of relying on software ferrying calls and data between hardware trust levels?
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Universal Economic Dynamics
"That's a load of old bollocks."

In the UK I'm free to say this in public, following a magistrate court's decision in a public obscenity case against the Sex Pistols, caused by their album, "Never mind the bollocks (...)" that the word, bollocks, means "nonsense", not "testicles"; and is, therefore, not an obscenity.

And that is how free speech is protected, in the UK, and other modern democracies.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Mind_the_Bollocks,_Here%...
OK. What if you have a dinner party for 6 guests, but your recipe is written to give 8 portions?
To put this in context [1], Socrates is repeating a story about an Egyptian king responding to an Egyptian god who invented writing. Socrates does mostly agree with the king. I disagree with Socrates that wise teachers would only put their thoughts down in writing for amusement, but his general point is that you can't ask books questions and they can't defend themselves, and that they aren't the best way of transferring knowledge from person to person. If you ever read a book critically, or if you appreciate a lecture or a live teacher to understand material instead of a textbook, you agree with him in ways. Also, the entire world has had oral traditions outside of writing for the millennia since Socrates that have only been recently stamped down by radio and TV.

[1] http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.h...

edit: There was more time between the invention of Egyptian writing (which the Greek alphabet was ultimately derived from) and Socrates than between the death of Socrates and today, so it's not like he didn't understand the use of writing, or thought it was some new-fangled thing.
How many of these people do you think would self-identify as 'mediocre'?

One of the most important words in the OP's sentence is 'mediocre.' Of course great engineers will be in demand, regardless of age. But the big push towards CS education today is going to bear fruit in 10 years, at which point, wages and opportunities for older, less talented workers will decline.

I'm seeing this already among my older peer group. Even in a what is seen to be a tight job market, they are having to interview much, much more often to get even one offer.
Exploiting deep learning and volunteered geographic info for mapping buildings
It wouldn't. Meritocracy, on the other hand, certainly threatens the SJW crowd. Being measured by your accomplishments is terrifying to somebody who has no accomplishments and who measures their worth by their identity (race, sex, political affiliation, etc).
As someone from the UK, where atheism is so uncontroversial that people barely talk about it, it is kindof baffling how much everyone in the USA seems to go on about god, and atheists in the USA seem to have some sort of uphill battle to be recognised as people who could be vaguely competent at anything.
I think the IPCC does have some scenerio's where there is an overshoot but that can be 'recovered' using carbon removal tech. You can find some graphs on these projections here: https://chemconnections.org/Global%20Warming/After%20Paris-S... (second page)
> Can’t you just do a private transfer to a fresh wallet?

Isn’t the point of Bitcoin not to have private transfers?
In the programming world, another name for the crystal key could be an unshaven yak.
Anything that blocks that much light is going to be a huge solar sail and need a lot of station keeping.

The only reason ionic propulsion might be considered is the they are already going to be solar panels. If you make a large chunk of them from solar panels you then have crazy energy for space based industry and plenty of energy for ionic propulsion.

Also, with that much mass in orbit you are going to want some way do move dammaged segments.
Another thoroughly underwhelming post of Rachel by the bay makes it to the top of hackernews. It is a mystery to me.
Well, that's roughly how it's supposed to work in theory for graphics, but in practice the kernel ends up having to do fairly deep parsing of GPU command buffers for security.

See, for example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.11/gpu/i915.html#batchbuf...
> What advantage would they get by developing their own tech?

Same with every company in the current climate. Develop every damn thing yourself for fear of anyone having financial power over you.

It really is tiring. Yet, I can't blame them too much. This is where I wish the government would step it. What do I care which company has the best self driving AI? Ffs, define best? It's likely the safest. So we're literally letting them compete for safety - knowing that some will be less safe than others.

There should be a government program here to share knowledge, license startups and ensure equal progression for the benefit of public safety.

I really hate that our safety is being handled by Uber of all companies. Especially since they've already killed someone.
What's the difference? AFAICT the idea that when a website gets big enough it becomes de facto infrastructure and gets governed by different rules is pure imagination.
Atheism also seems to wrongly be a catch-all for things like Agnosticism which is nothing like Atheism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

"Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. An agnostic can also be one who holds neither of two opposing positions on a topic."
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More than that, articles like https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizing-ocean... indicate that the sequestration efficacy varies widely based on a variety of parameters that we do not yet know enough to control. In particular the type of diatom that blooms matters. A lot. And it isn't obvious how to get the one that you want.

Furthermore there is a question of what happens when deep ocean currents turn over the ocean. Does that CO2 come back out? We don't know. And that is the difference between solving the problem versus kicking it down the road for a few centuries.

But still environmentalists have moved to get all research into the topic shut down. Which I think is shortsighted at best. We have a big enough problem and few enough plausible options that I don't believe we should shut this one down.
> If we actually had a government run system

We do! Buy a domain, point to your home server, and go to town. Any unlawful messages you spew will be met with seizure of your domain and/or servers, but otherwise you're free to promote or discuss any ideas you see fit.

If you're talking about a government-run social network, that's an interesting idea. I was actually talking about this with someone a few days ago, but with regard to a government run (or government funded) news/journalism publication that reported on facts (as opposed to felings and clickbait).

I think these government-run services would eventually become victim to people's calls for them to be removed...either they are too biased, or not biased enough. A social network in particular...I cannot imagine a social network built and run by the government that ANYBODY would actually want to use.
Efficient how? Finding the leader of the grand "race to the bottom" and moving the work there?

Maybe the workers should be as free as capital in seeking a country that benefits them the most. Then it'd be a race to the top because people can just leave your abusive country for a place that sees them as human beings.
Fivestars (YC W11) is hiring an accountant
Solar power and large scale battery storage are still dropping in price though - I would assume that by the time we hit peak natural gas, the more dirty energy sources will not be economically attractive as solar will be simply cheaper even without any incentives.
The tokenizer is. `ab` is different from `a b`.
Darpa wants to build ‘contextual’ AI that understands the world
I am a black person and I have similar feelings even though I grew up middle class and privileged.

I am very afraid of police, become anxious in any federal building, and I am nervous at airports and their security setups.

My brother and I were forced to grow up early, given we could be accosted by police at any time for any reason.

The first time I had a rear headlight out and was stopped by the police, I was put in handcuffs and placed in the back seat of the police car. There was absolutely no reason whatsoever for this precaution.

When I go to my hometown, I go back to feelings of isolation and loneliness, and where I was never invited to parties, and spent entire summers alone at the library.
Hey, auther here.

I posted the first version of this a few months ago, but I've now revamped the website and added examples with https://github.com/kentcdodds/react-testing-library, which I discovered recently and like a lot!

Also new are examples of using https://github.com/skidding/react-mock, released just a week ago.

Finally, rewrote the about page to explain the project's goals better and made the repo more contributor friendly.

Let me know what you think!
> So what do the pay and prestige look like for female fields, vs male fields?

What is the payoff for pay and prestige and is it the same between genders?

I think the overwhelming evidence suggests it is not the same and that women value different things than men.
Fracked gas is about as bad as or dirtier than coal.
Socialism means costlier pickup trucks, Trump's White House warns
But not, I think, cheaper than a cab company setting up their own fleet.

Being a bigger player, a cab company is better-positioned to take advantage of what few economies of scale exist in this space: The power to negotiate a lower per-unit cost, and the ability to operate your own garage so you don't have to pay retail prices for maintenance and repairs.

The cab company would also be the more vertically integrated option, which gives them additional opportunities to economise and pass the savings on to the customer.
Have you ever even found a USB-C hub that has more than one USB-C port on it?

The closest I've mananged to find is https://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F4U090/ which has a whopping two whole ports on it.
>No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime

facebook DOES censor Messenger.
Is that total comp or salary? Any tips for negotiating for above-market compensation?
You're not wrong, but that's the fun of neologisms. Their meanings don't always stay anchored.

I think to maintain the significance of the term, it should be limited only, as you point out, to only objects of meaningless, exchangeable value. Kinda drives home the point that the MacGuffin is not part of the plot in any meaningful way, it just serves as a motivation to get things moving.
> Raw olivine is currently ~$20-$25/ton and the average us person puts out 15-20 tons of CO2/year.

Globe-scale carbon sequestration would increase demand for olivine massively. Would mining operations be able to scale appropriately without prices going through the roof?
I absolutely loved the film and thought it was an incredible piece of art and a piercingly realistic depiction of a certain VERY REAL type of masculinity. You're lucky that you find it unbelievable / overdramatic.

Anyway, when I was a kid I used to love seeing those burnt capsules in the Science Museum in London. So crazy to see the story rendered to beautifully, along with the politics, the oxygen fires, the bouncing off the atmosphere... I couldn't have asked for anything more.

I thought his portrayal was a realistic vision of the pitfalls of masculinity, and not melodramatic at all. My dad's like that, except he smiles instead of having the blank Gosling face. My dad didn't cry even at his own mother's funeral.

Seeing Gosling/Armstrong closing up the notebooks where he'd been trying to figure out how to cure his daughter's brain cancer, seeing him cover his face to cry silently, seeing him snap at his friend "Do you think I left there because I wanted to talk?", his fear of his emotions... It was just so true to life. I cried multiple times in that film. Of course films are always a bit romanticised - I have to say at no point was the illusion broken for me.

I think that film gets into my top 3 films along with Gattaca and The Matrix.

I love Drive but it was really Blade Runner 2049 that made me realise that his "silent" roles are actually a deceptively simple comment of the state of masculinity, kind of like American Psycho (film > book IMO - interestingly the screenwriter of the film was a woman and the directory of the film was a woman, and the film & book are a critique of that version of masculinity).

Also Ryan's performance in The Big Short made me realise that he is CHOOSING to do his "silent" stuff when he does. He's a very talented actor.
I'm working on a way to bring dollars to carbon removal, whether as simple as planting trees or investing in these more advanced upcoming technologies. It is an app with a personal pledge to balance the negative impact of your own driving and flying with a small payment. Cheap at just a couple dollars a week, with the potential to reach a significant scale through companies. In fact, I look forward to hearing back from YC later today!

If anyone is interested in keeping in the loop on progress: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/pledge-balance
I'm a lot more sanguine about communities muting someone because they don't like that person than about companies muting someone because it's profitable to do so.

You can hypothesize a future in which Mastodon gets very popular, and in which a single for-profit node or a coordinated group of such nodes monopolize it and end up wielding censorship power similar to traditional centralized social media sites, but that's not what it's designed to do and there's no reason to assume it's a fait accompli.
> what happens when Focal goes bankrupt...

I'm not being flip when I say : the same thing that happens when other companies go bankrupt. They're products may or may not work anymore, may or may not be serviceable anymore, may decline in value to zero (or not), returns for defects not possible and so on...

Different people - early vs late adopters - will have different tolerances for these things.

> satisfied without smart things in life

Does your home have a thermostat?
Does your car have an engine control system, automatic heating and cooling system?
Does your lawn-mower have a mechanical throttle governor?

I am being a little flip in this last part - obviously you're not defining those as "smart things" but talking more about the modern "internet of shit" definition ..but my point is "smart things" today are different from what they were in years past and will certainly be different tomorrow..

:)