skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The trick, of course, is that neither of these techniques compound for the individual nor a startup. They are pure charity for the planet.

"Doesn't concentrate wealth exponentially; BZZT rejected!"

At some point, we apparently forgot that wealth/power inequality itself massively contributes to environmental problems.

* If you have no political power, you can't defend yourself and your land from pollution.

* If a large portion of the society has no political power, a large portion of the society cannot defend themselves and their land from pollution.

* In a society with extreme wealth, the price mechanism can't "kick in" to protect increasingly-scarce renewable resources (ie saving a species from extinction). Donella Meadows gives a much better explanation than I can, using fisheries as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg&t=18m48s
I grew up in a Christian family, went to church and/or bible school every Sunday, but was never taught that atheism is dangerous. I was taught though that atheists are going to hell and that I should try to help them to come to believe in god, but I wasn't taught to fear them or feel that their belief is dangerous.
> Does it likely lead to a place America loses the good parts of its national identity because the amount of people coming in can't be assimilated into our philosophies in our constitution?

The people who have most challenged U.S. principles of liberty and democracy, and 'all men are created equal", have been those whose families have been in the U.S. for generations. They've supported slavery, segregation, lynching and other oppression, voter suppression, and, whether one agrees with the policies or not, the Republican Party's current policies of being anti-immigrant, voter suppression, supporting partisanship in the judiciary, and in foreign policy ignoring human rights and democracy while supporting dictators.
The kind of quick scripts I use Perl for involve picking interesting bits out of text files. Honest question: Would you use Haskell for that? If so, why? And how?
I would agree, however bundler & rvm are incredibly easier to setup and use when comparing to Python’s virtualenv (and the few other alternatives frequently brought up). I’m not sure there is even an equivalent for the Perl ecosystem, as I gave learning Perl an actual effort a while ago (no idea why) and all it’s quirks and weird syntax immediately turned me away and I’ve never looked back.
HTC Launches Blockchain Smartphone ‘Exodus’
Perhaps you would benefit from a good teacher. I've found that some topics I find confusing when taught by one person are obvious when taught by another.
Bullshit, and your claim doesn't reveal any inherent hypocrisy in this person's complaint.
You can use elastic beanstalk (puma + nginx), Heroku, countless other ways. Docker container, nginx, on a server, etc.
Why do you think the plastic production has much to do with CO2 emissions? While it takes energy to produce the oil and transform it into plastic, if that energy is CO2 free, producing plastic won't put CO2 into the atmosphere. Unless there is some trick to plastic manufacturing that requires blasts CO2 into the air like steel production does that I am not aware of.
It’s just an abbreviation for million, supposedly from Germany.
I think that when people like me say, "Node is easy to get up and running", we're coming at it from the perspective of, "well, you don't need to do any of this crazy stuff with Babel or Webpack." It's easy to forget that for the average newcomer just getting started with JS, there is an enormous pressure to start out with something like React+Redux with a special transpilation step that runs through some kind of Grunt config with a niche linter that the tutorial writer decided they were going to promote one day.

So when I talk about Javascript being accessible, I'm talking about this perfect world where you don't have all these people constantly telling you that you're doing it wrong, and where you're coming at it from the perspective of, "a tool should just automate something that I already roughly know how to do and don't want to repeat over and over." I'm thinking about this almost fictional world of Javascript where you can clone a Github project and the ratio of config files to source code is relatively small.

Again, it's not a criticism of anyone who feels overwhelmed or wants to acknowledge that it's a problem, because it is a problem. I just want to take every opportunity I can to point at it and say, "you don't have to do this, the insane setup is a cultural thing, not a tech thing". And that's not to put anyone down who uses those libraries or to make them feel like they're doing it wrong -- it's just to push in the opposite direction of that cultural pressure.
Good article, this line made me smile: "[a failed entrepreneur] would sneak into his alma matter’s cafeteria to steal food to extend his runway."
Is anyone aware of measures of public acceptance of carbon removal vs carbon reduction (emit less)?

My thoughts are that people may be more willing to invest in carbon removal as it allows them to continue to live their same life. They see it as "I can continue to pollute since we can just remove the CO2." Similar to how some people may view eating and dieting... "I can eat bad now, I'll just go on a diet later."
> It's a problem of business viability and long-term expectations.

Agreed.

But then I am surprised about the whole Wall Street para. People don't like surprises. So a company has to always set expectations correctly, to both employees as well as the markets. If a company is open how the initiative is going to affect revenues there wont be that huge loss of market value.
> That is what they do with impact crash testing

Eventually

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

I stand by my assertion that this is just how capitalism works
> Trump is quintessentially American

I and many other strongly disagree. They might say that George Washington is quintessentially American, and Trump is similar to populist fascists in Europe such as Mussolini. A point of evidence is that he varies so greatly from every other American president and almost all other political leaders.

> nationalist. ... Is that good? I guess it depends on who you are and what you want.

It's not just a matter of opinion - not every option is the same - it's a very serious choice and a matter of outcomes. If nationalism leads to war, death, loss of liberty, loss of democracy, and loss of prosperity, it's bad. Many leaders during WWII, including Churchill, thought nationalism was a significant cause of it, and many have continued to think so since then.
Tl;dr: a modern, non-naive implementation, much faster than previous.
> or you limit upload capabilities for smaller creators (which would be the death of the internet)

Would it? I feel like it would actually spark innovation in the host-your-own space. Which is closer to the original vision of the internet than submitting your content to a third party host that pre-screens it for approval.
Making machines that make music – Strangeloop 2018
Would probably be the tires first.
Yeah, and it's great! Can't wait for Edge and Safari support and further maturation.
Yeah, but where is the hype in that?
You can protect against reverse voltage, ie, voltage from the ground line.

A simple diode is the easiest way, using various power MOSFETs can reduce the voltage drop induced and you can even build a circuit that allows charging the battery and supplying power on the same connectors while also protecting against reverse voltage.

It's neither hard nor expensive.
Also, because false positives dont matter when it affects "other people"
Let me ask you a related question: how much injustice would you personally tolerate in exchange for simplicity?

For instance in your divorce question: why not excercise everything at the date of divorce and split the proceeds 50/50? Is that outrageous? Or simple?
When “Hacking for fun and profit” meant more fun than profit.
Call a couple. Ask some questions about their experience working with startups / dealing with your particular situation. Make a judgment call once you’ve talked to a few. Or get a recommendation from someone you trust.
If you need help with packaging there's a small group of people who are extremely helpful over on r/packaging

It's somewhat not very active but whenever people come with genuine questions that need help will get pointed in the right direction by people in the field doing what you are looking for.
Where's the profit in global eco-suicide?
The editor of the NYT editorial page recently explicitly stated the goal of defending capitalism:
https://fair.org/home/top-nyt-editor-we-are-pro-capitalism-t...

If you read the NYT it is at the very least staunchly moderate on capitalism, if not (in my opinion) a doggedly fierce advocate for it, especially at a time when much of its readership is pushing to the economic left.
The Python Paradox (2004)
> I'm not sure exactly how that fits your model

It only takes a written test to get a permit. You don't have to demonstrate safety, only knowledge of the rules of the road. You also need an adult over 21 years old to sit in the passenger seat. It is the lowest of bars
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18269846
About 75% according to this: https://www.essilorusa.com/newsroom/vision-impact-institute-...
Possibly apropos of nothing, but I just got back from a tech conference, and ... talking to vendors and hiring folks was odd. Whenever asked "what do you do?", even after a few times, I still... paused. I heard plenty of folks saying "I do full stack development" and then struggle to communicate basic ideas and tech stuff (not everyone, but more than a couple times). And yeah, i get it, we all start some place, and no one is perfect, but... I don't want to be using the same words as people who demonstrably struggle with some basics. But that meant that I struggled with quick 5 second definer intro statements.

More interesting, I found, was on 3 separate occasions today when speaking with some tech vendors, they all mentioned "file descriptors". "When installing, you gotta make sure you up your default file descriptors - system defaults won't work". A MySQL tuning guy said "almost no one ever has enough, and almost no one knows about these - you need 60000 minimum, but distros usually default to 1024". And I nodded, because I've hit that issue many times in the last 20+ years, and now recognize symptoms and that's now in my diagnostic bag.

"Senior dev" seems to mean 3+ years of work, and "full stack" seems to mean they know "npm install" and have built create-react-app samples. (I'm tired and cynical, I know).
> there is propaganda everywhere

The propagandists would love you to throw up your hands and believe this; their goal is to paralyze you, sow chaos and despair.

It's like a liar saying to you, after they lie to your face for the 10th time, 'everyone lies'. It's a false attempt to justify and normalize their bad behavior. Technically yes, but it's meaningless; some people are far more trustworthy than others. The trustworthiness of information and politicians varies greatly.
You can call it whatever you want if it makes you feel better. It won't change that person's belief (or lack thereof) though.
> it doesn't necessarily make us any safer.

As the Nazis demonstrated, a government so inclined could use this information deluge to make segments of the population infinitely less safe.
Sharing concrete compensation numbers with co-workers and even peers at other companies is a good way to stoke resentment and bitterness--both in yourself and with others. Especially if you're not prepared to move on if you find you're making less than those around you. I learned long ago to actively avoid learning others' compensation.

It's a real dilemma. On an individual level fair pay is whatever you're willing to accept; what those around you are paid is completely irrelevant. On an aggregate level lack of transparency helps to persist systemic discrimination.
Maybe the US could designate some areas for "free towns" in northern Nevada and western Oregon (currently almost uninhabited) where all national, state, and county laws (except maybe pollution laws) are not enforced. People there just deal with the local laws and taxes. Would be cool to see how some of these areas would develop.
Honestly curious: can you give an example of what kind of issues you run into? Asking because I basically never have versioning or package issues with Ruby. And on the rare occasions when I do, there's usually a good Stack Overflow answer or Github issue.
Nik Graf releases this free egghead video course a couple weeks ago on Rust and WASM. https://egghead.io/courses/using-webassembly-with-rust
This is way more cliche than I was expecting. This could be the average /mu/ list. Also, not a list of albums as much as albums containing a particular song. Dissapointing on all fronts.
We'd be bailing it out in 5 to 10 years, guaranteed. That's what happens when utilities that should be public, are privatized.
No action is recommended. It sounds like someone disappointed her, and she's writing about it parables to avoid open conflict.
This would align with some of their other recent questionable moves, like the hiring (and defense) of a ridiculously racist editor.

These moves kind of smell of ideological possession to me.
There is local lib and if you don't use RHEL or some other OS with ancient Perl it works just fine. Or just install what you need from the OS if you have root. Or use plenv and cpanm and whichever Perl version you want to create a local environment.
yeah its different here in the US. :) Everything is more polarized/political. Everything.

> Just the odd individual going off on one on some Facebook post or other net forum from time to time.

I discuss theology on a fairly regular basis ;) and philosophy. ;) lets just say there's a fair amount of "ex-Christians" who are looking for something new to latch on. Same old shit (hate/misanthropy), just wrapped in new cloth.

> "no belief in god" as an equally valid box to tick as CofE

Just leave it blank. What to your mind, is the purpose of having an explicit box? I'm curious.

> Humanism, some sort of earth centred belief, or Buddhism thanks to its philosophy and lack of creator have all risen as religion has become increasingly irrelevant for most.

Eh. I know Buddhist philosophy well. Few people get it. My friend who is an atheist (in the truest sense) is a humanist. So am I. Thats why we're friends. :) But he respects my choice to follow a religion; same as I respect his choice, to follow none.
Also concrete industry produces huge amounts co2 so chancing concrete to less co2 intense options helps lot.
Canada's largest province Ontario tried to implement it, but it was so unpopular the next government reversed the decision. News stations used to call out the location of hidden photo radar vans in an act of mass civil disobedience.
> I blame the media

Amazon isn't responsible for its own decisions?
We use it for application-wide stuff that would need to be drilled down several layers, and isn't state. So -- as a contrived example -- if we have a form that submits to a configurable URL (configurable at build time), then we wrap that URL up in a context. The eventual FormComponent will then consume the URL from context, rather than being drilled through n-layers of React components as a prop. Redux isn't the right answer here, because that URL's never going to change, but it used to do the job in a pinch.

Other examples are react-redux itself (which uses the legacy context API) or react-intl (which uses the legacy context API), or a themeable widget set. You put a wrapping context at the top of your tree like <Provider>, <IntlProvider messages={someMessages} locale={this.state.locale}> or <ThemeProvider theme={myEmployersColours}>, and then nested deeply in the application you use a <Message> that will look at the context provided by the IntlProvider, or the context provided by the theme, to pull out the actual message/colors it should show.

Basically, context is useful for encapsulating cross-cutting concerns :).
Spotify was downloaded 25M times from the U.S. App Store this year
As a pedestrian and cycling advocate, more regulation of cars seems like a good idea for me. That said, the analogy is just that, an analogy so I don't think it's fair to nitpick it.
> the original posters words

Since those words never mentioned contributing back, I was, understandably confused.

> I am saying that contributing back doesn't happen magically because of the GPL.

I don't see where anyone was saying otherwise, ergo you're arguing against a strawman.

> keep the context of the argument in mind rather than keep focusing on being pedantic

That only works for making a (counter-)argument, not attempting to understand the argument(s) in the first place.

In the instant case, I'm now convinced that any disagreement was based on a flawed premise, or there was no disagreement at all. My understanding of hwo the GPL functions (and is intended to function) remains unchanged.
Privacy: An Operational Definition
That's kind of moot, at least where I live. Less than 3% of deaths were caused by this so its not really significant. Pedestrians killed were many times higher for example.
I see thanks!
I like the singular they; it can be easily integrated and isn't a radical change as "pers" or other similar neologisms. Anyone will understand what you mean, whereas they will have to look up the meaning of "pers".

rms writes that this "violates the grammar of English so deeply that it feels terribly wrong"; I don't see how; the grammar of most languages is inconsistent anyway. Perhaps it doesn't feel as "wrong" to me as I'm not a native English speaker, or because I'm younger.

He is right that it can be used in confusing ways, but the same holds true for a lot of language. "It depends on what the meaning of is, is", and all that ;-)

Either way, it seems fairly clear to me that the singular they is the way to go for gender-neutral language in the foreseeable future. Is it perfect? Perhaps not. But it's practical, achievable, and a good improvement over exclusively using "his" or using the clumsy "his or her". Don't let perfection be the enemy of good!
As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, however, there is a big difference between performance marketing, where it's relatively easy to track conversion, vs brand marketing.

In fact, a huge reason Booking is so successful is because their sites convert at a higher rate than their competitors (which they themselves attribute to an early and maniacal focus on A/B testing), and thus they are able to bid more for travel-related search terms on Google as each click is worth more to them. It's pretty easy for them to track what percentage of Google AdWords click-throughs result in a completed booking.

Brand advertising, though, has much fuzzier metrics, and the incentives for brand advertisers is to show that they have a larger impact than they actually do.
Upwards of 2% of people kill themselves officially, so approximately 500 not accounting for demographics. What a socialite.
This is probably why Jefferson thought that periodic revolution would be needed to put down the barbarism of the previous generation
I use plenv instead of perlbrew. It's written in shell script and bugs are actually fixed in a timely manner.
Reload in incognito mode if you have reached your article limit, or read the same topic at the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/22/micropla...
If this technology is worse than ICE agents indiscriminately asking latinx people for their papers then it adds no value. The hope is it is better at identifying people.
I'm a small to medium sized publisher and I've had to travel through Google's compliance funnels more than I would have liked.

I've never had any compliance issues with any other advertising network.

Google works hard to keep the ecosystem healthy because it's good for their long-term interests. But of course, their systems are not perfect.
An anti-troll conversational AI with the sarcasm and ad hominem insults of Avon?
everything in python is a dictionary. That is what i needed told to start to grok it.
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Horray for Free market!
Introducing the Nvidia Self-Driving Safety Report
coe.amazon.com if you're inside. Larry must have paid for this article. Some things it doesn't say: Large database migrations are hard -- especially so when there's been many years of accumulated dependency on the prior data store/model. Amazon conducts a lot of CoEs -- I suspect more than 1000/yr. Hundreds of prior CoEs implicate behavior of relational databases (and particularly Oracle) at scale -- there's a reason Amazon has an expensive multi-year program to get off Oracle.
The complete report [PDF] :

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/self-driv...
The cost of a McDonalds meal is $7 in Kansas City but only $8 in San Francisco. See https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/kansas-city and https://www.expatistan.com/price/big-mac/san-francisco

Housing is what makes the coasts costly. Other expenses are roughly similar and more than compensated for by higher earnings. Sometimes they can even be lower, like health insurance or certain goods or services. Because housing is so variable it's difficult to say which is more affordable without specifics, but the higher your disposable income the more likely it is that working in a coastal city makes more sense. If we both can save 20% each year for retirement or kids' college tuition, my 20% will be much larger than your 20% given the often times huge disparity in absolute earnings, and even my 10% or 5% might be more than your 20%. The price of a condo in Florida or Arizona is the same for both of us. State college tuition is also much more similar across states relative to earnings differentials.

Most people rationalize their decisions to stay put or somewhere familiar. If they didn't, most retirees would have moved to Ecuador--social security and pension payments are the same no matter where you live.
We are based in Turkey for now. Our database is full of public event photos. Surveillance in Istanbul is not good enough to make a good face recog search. We are too fresh and young for a warrant canary.

There is too many face spoofing prevention techniques. We are actively testing one right now.(Currently on A/B test) Especially after iPhone X which brings depth camera someone should replicate your face in 3D to make a face spoof. More info about face spoofing techniques: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09868.pdf
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No, my point is Google allows and/or enables fraud and they could be doing more to fight it. Source: the article we are discussing, "How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions". And my experience with scammers using Gmail.
These are awesome. :)
I don't see how either considering using singular they goes all the way back to Chaucer or earlier (1400s).
The fact that Apple and Amazon are willing to go on the record adamantly denying it is more than just a gag order. That’s a serious breach of both SEC rules and public trust if it turns out they’re lying.
Pentagon launches cyber operation to deter interference in midterm elections
After seeing the headline, I really was hoping it was a lawsuit over Maps, just for the pun.
Is there a comprehensive list of citizen science initiatives anywhere?
Seems like a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18283821
Perl is no longer my first choice for scripting. Once upon a time perl was preinstalled on almost every Linux box and was a default package on most distributions, now you can't assume that. Also it is a bit difficult to use cpan - often the c code for a module does not compile for some reason during installation and you have to go and figure; on the other hand I never had any problems with pip. (Though I still don't quite like Python)

On the other hand bash has maps so it is possible to use that more for scripting.
Most Amazon employees don't make enough money to meaningfully contribute to those retirement plans, though.