skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In full hindsight, the sheer efficiency of the HQ2 gambit is striking.

It was obvious from the beginning that framing it as a "competition" between a short list of cities was a ploy to make gullible politicians bid against one another while Amazon waited to see who could offer the most enticing deal.

What is perhaps less obvious is that now everyone who participated has shown their hand: Amazon knows exactly what concessions each city can afford. With their HQ2s "selected", Amazon can now offer far less glamorous satellite offices or warehouses to those cities and drive a murderously hard bargain doing so.

In one fell swoop: a free media circus, leverage on every location they might want to move into in the future, and heaps of public funds, in exchange for opening the offices Bezos already knew he wanted.
I understand your point to a degree, but how will not suggesting people do their part help? I understand why you feel this is not helpful, but the start of your comment seems to suggest you think it's counterproductive. Is this simply because it will potentially motivate people to take more productive actions?
This is a universal quality, and necessarily so, or society would crumble due to instability.
Honestly, I broadened my perspectives more at community college than at my state school, and that was just general education classes.
Yes, people are driving the biggest vehicles they can afford to drive in any given economic climate. That’s what I mean.
In command economies, someone needs to do the commanding. Unsurprisingly, the revolutionaries that install such systems often choose themselves for that role.
This is an appalling comment that shows you have little knowledge or interest in physiology, and contempt for people who develop obesity as a symptom or a side-effect of medication for serious illness.

A school-friend of mine, who had been an elite athlete during high school and was as healthy and fit as anybody you'd find, developed schizophrenia during his twenties and needed to be put on strong anti-psychotic medication, which caused dramatic weight gain.

He's continued to need various medications for schizophrenia and anxiety ever since, and despite relentless efforts to keep his weight down with the same kind of exercise and diet that kept him in good shape when he was younger, cannot return to an ideal weight.

The reason for this is to do with the way neurotransmitters and hormones alter metabolism, and it's straightforward to understand with a little research.

The question "How do antidepressants create matter from thin air?" amounts to trolling and doesn't belong on HN in my opinion.
>Most people are going because movies/TV/peer pressure tell them they should go. They might say they're doing it for a better career, but they haven't thought that far ahead, not really

I agree, but that's even further away from going college to broaden the mind than for a lucrative career.
Credit where credit is due: It was because of the Bush administration’s policies around the strategic reserve and opening drilling that got us off of our dependence on middle eastern oil. I’m no fan of the Bush admin, but this is one of the few things they probably got right.
​Waze-fed AI platform helps Las Vegas cut car crashes by almost 20%
I agree with the sentiment but more rigorously the current analytical techniques (fMRI, dissection, etc.) simply do not allow sufficient information - from a Shannon entropy POV - to decode the biological 1's and 0's. When/if the physics gets to the point where biological computation becomes decipherable, I have not doubt brains will both be accurately modeled in silicon and that these models will contribute greatly to AI development.
It's getting very complicated to understand everything that happens when you click on a link in a browser. And I wonder if these UDP protocols are better than fixing the issues with TCP. Of course, it may allow loading from several servers simultaneously a la bittorrent.
Have at it, boys https://outline.com/yjBMZc
The idea is that these are trained independently with no interconnectivity, a la https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_neural_network
Why the monarchy needs Meghan?
> A bike gets you quite far in 10 minutes.

Not when there's a foot of snow on the ground, it doesn't.
I do know some rich guys use Huawei phones in China. But I don't know poor people that uses iPhone in China.
A guy had a job in the private sector, very much like most others before they go into public office.

- What did you do before?
- I did [stuff]
- For who?
- Not telling.

Yeah, that sounds legit.
You are completely missing the point.

Meat is already expensive, indicating people would eat more of it if they could afford it. If conscientious people reduce meat consumption, that supply will mostly just be consumed (at a lower price) by people that don't care.

The goal here should be to make things like meat, car fuel, etc. more expensive (via taxes, or otherwise properly pricing in the costs). It might very well be the case that some people that can afford these increased prices continue to consume exactly as much meat and fuel as they do now. So fucking what? The overall consumption will go down, which is what we need. Overall consumption will not go down significantly if you just convince some fraction of people to voluntarily reduce their consumption.
Ends up Blaze was just playing the field to extract resources, and use the grift to extract every penny from the studio he knew he would ultimately pick? We’d assume that Blaze lacks character.

Huh? Since when is initiating a bidding war immoral or lacking in character?

A party might come up with an attractive offer you never considered or thought possible. And even if you knew you wouldn't take their offers, it is rational and logical to get the best deal you can with something that is expensive and one-off like this.
Well, it could be worse as seen in such "formerly wild forests" of New York.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manhattan,+New+York,+NY,+U...
Why stop at defeat?
No. China regulates the importation of "radio transmitters, radio receivers, communication security equipments." Some will get though, but so few that it won't make a bigger impact than VPNs, etc.

http://english.customs.gov.cn/Statics/88707c1e-aa4e-40ca-a96...
What is the Non-Aligned Movement? N.A.M
Disgusted by some roads?
I'm consistently amazed by the diversity of folks that post on HN. It's why I keep coming back!
Thinkpad buyers use the other Lenovo site - http://psref.lenovo.com/
This model won't wane until the entire world is developed with strong workers rights everywhere. Until then, the demand for cheap labour will just shift to the next poor region.
One of the best quotes from the article...

"And in a world full of shifty bullshit, being able to prove something is true is a radical development."

Coming from most anyone else this would just be glib cynicism.
City of Industry, California
> it certainly wasn't a great place to live during the crisis

No, not really.
City of Industry, California: Fake TV McDonald's
That sounds like goroutine, you can call any regular sync function with `go fn()`, and a goroutine is started.
$15 an hour comes to around $30,000 a year. That's mana from heaven anywhere outside of the top 20 or so economies of the world
There are 8GB soldered, 8GB soldered + 8GB DIMM, and other options http://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T480s
Imagine your neighbor's house is on fire. You run outside and see him throwing dirt on his porch with his kid's plastic shovel. You gawk at this decision for a second, then run back inside and call the fire department.

When you come back out and shout the fire truck is coming, he yells at you for wasting time inside instead of picking up his other tiny shovel and throwing some dirt.

Except... the problem clearly won't be solved with twice the tiny-shovelfuls of dirt. It needs a qualitatively different type of action.

On climate change, you have two choices:

1. You can moralize about the sucky people who won't grab a shovel, essentially complaining that the problem isn't of the form you'd like; or

2. You can do the thing that's most effective.

You can also help your neighbor shovel dirt until the fire truck arrives. That's fine, it doesn't hurt. Just understand it doesn't make a difference.
I just learned about another three letter federal agency I don't care for... Sigh
For the record, I didn't downvote you. Simply having a disagreement is not what that button is for.

But I'd love to see another example of a recent comment where I told someone their idea had no basis in reality, because I definitely don't do that. My comment here was specifically rejecting the notion that OP could form such conclusions with only weakly described, negative-biased anecdotal evidence.
I believe we are already at point of no return and our grandchildren will live in mostly sterile world compared with what we have now. Probably only external expansion to the Solar system can save tiny bits of wild life they will have at that time.
Why did they stop using Cloudflare?
From what I can tell, the Lister was banned because of carbon particulate emissions, not due to efficiency. However, very slow turning engines like the Lister tend to have a more complete combustion and lower emissions.
AE1379-ND Cable Assemblies
So there isn't really a distinction between the OS and the API? (That is, the Linux kernel, say, is a monolithic binary. Then we have the OS utilities that make up the GNU/Linux OS. And then we have the C - or whatever - standard library API. If I understand you correctly, those distinctions would not exist in a Lisp OS.)
Pearly Penile Papules Removal Review
https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar.html
You can hit MacBook Air -> Buy and the old non-retina model is on the same page as the new ones. You at least have to scroll down though, and comparing the features list makes it pretty clear that this is a cheaper old version.
From the Original Post:
"Not the cost you could get online. Nope. The "cost" we've put on our special price list for insurance companies."

Sure sounds, at least scam adjacent or abusive in the least.
I guess he gets a pass then.
The history of IIS vulnerabilities with in kernel execution and the time it takes to get comprehensive patching seem like pretty substantial disadvantages.
> they are clearly arguing that climate change is a factor in the epidemic.

Yes, because they're failing to even ask the question of why there is no clean water supply in the first place. That's not a climate problem. If it's not OK now when the temperatures are a degree or so warmer, it wasn't OK before either.
You have to walk a lot farther when the roads are bigger. All that road space has a cost.

Straight roads make people drive faster, which makes not driving worse for everyone else.
I mean, yes, it probably was. But this article offers precisely zero to substantiate that opinion beyond our own private speculations of same.
Particulates – is that smoke from forest fires caused by hot dry weather?
This is why taxing carbon is better policy than patchwork regulations.
That's neo-traveller, a different breed than the past. They do ruin the concept for others, as profit now leads enlightenment and disentanglement.
what kind of website is this?
Ask HN: How can I learn to be funny?
Hi all, I'm looking for resources on how to learn to become funny at conversation.

Any books, thoughts, blog posts, ideas, videos, etc, are welcome.

Hopefully language agnostic since I'm a native spanish speaker.

What has worked for you?
> These days, it’s easy to make subway systems because we have amazing tunneling machines, which will bore a train-sized hole like a giant rock-eating worm. So, no excuses.

I wouldn't say "easy". It's possible. Here in Seattle, we're building a new 2-mile tunnel (for cars). It was originally scheduled to open 3 years ago, and will finally open in 2019. It was planned to take 29 months, but took 67.

We're not so great at bridges, either. One of my managers observed "We've got 4 floating bridges, and we sank 2 of them." That was back when I was on the Boeing 7E7 project (first flight: 28 months late).

Is it any wonder we can't get excited about the prospect of an "easy" new rail project? We can't estimate big engineering projects to within 50%, and we can't keep existing infrastructure afloat (literally). I always vote for public transit on principle, but I'm also aware it's always going to take longer and cost more than they claim, so I can't really blame people who don't.

Want broad support for infrastructure projects? First, demonstrate you can execute on them reliably. Nobody wants to agree to pay for a tunnel that might end up being the next "Big Dig".
Things you should never do part I (2000)
They were not instincts. They were heavily researched and strategic to maximize money saved and minimize transit times. I still stand by where I live and have thought about moving closer, but the data never suffices.
If you have not seen it, highly recommend the original film this was based on, La Jette as mentioned in the article. It is a (shortish) masterpiece of French SciFi, all in black and white, shot almost entirely in still scenes, and fully narrated.

And i would argue it does follow fairly closely in terms of script and meaning to the remake than the article suggests. It is much more subtle and nuanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e
To Cope with Digital Distraction, Embrace Digital Neurodiversity
How Hacking Got Hacked
I prefer that US universities teach you have to learn. What you learn doesn't really matter.
Can you help me understand this? I keep hearing about expansion to other planets but it seems to me that no matter how inhospitable Earth becomes, we’ll be starting off from a much worse position elsewhere.
This only helps if you can fully audit carbon released from burning rainforests etc.
If your reviews are that bad, and you've actually built something decent, you can just change the name, and get a clean slate (although depending on the app store, maybe just a new version number is good enough)
Did you use Vista pre SP1? That was a terrible OS to use. Also Microsoft approved Vista for pre-install on devices with specs that could barely use it. Finally the approve/cancel security elevation implementation (which was finally fixed) was a cluster.

Many reasons why it was received poorly and deserved its reputation.
The majority of construction regulations I've run into are relatively flexible. It's expensive but if you want to try out a new material or technique, the path to validating it and getting it approved is well defined. The problem is that few construction companies operate at that kind of scale and outside of churches, flagship venues (i.e. Disney hall), and palaces there just isn't enough money to develop new technologies.
Thier map is also missing the Kyushu shinkansen down to Kagoshima which opened partially in 2004 and fully in 2011
What if Facebook is exploiting the same weaknesses that cigarette companies or drug dealers or casinos do? Have you ever walked into a casino and seen truly sad people whiling away their time and money? Have you ever walked past a homeless heroin addict on the street? You might argue that those people have revealed their preferences, but to me it appears that they are trapped in addictive cycle reinforced by unscrupulous predators. That billions of people might be trapped in such an addictive cycle that feeds them intellectual poison is at least cause for alarm if not a full-on crisis.
It's laughable to even think I'm ever going to HAVE kids.
Logitech in talks to acquire headphone maker Plantronics – sources
> This only helps if you can fully audit carbon released from burning rainforests

Murder laws aren’t rendered useless by unsolved murders. A carbon tax makes sense even if only large-scale domestic production is initially covered.
It's definitely a difficult issue. I think your perspective works out great in a world where all people have free will and their decisions are consistent and intentional, reflecting their "true self". In a world like that, additional freedoms nearly always lead to better outcomes, but I don't think that's the world we live in.

I, personally, have come to the sad conclusion that I cannot trust my mind to act in my best interest at all times. In the past, I have made the decision to kill myself, and if I had access to a gun, I likely would not be alive today. I'm happy to be alive, and I'm grateful to live in a culture where guns are rare. I worry about getting into that mental state again, so as one preventative step, I make sure to never own a gun and never live with people who own guns.

There are plenty of milder analogies that I think are relatable to a lot of people, like limiting the amount of unhealthy food you have at home to avoid mindless snacking. If unlimited Cheetos were available to everyone all the time, it would probably make the world a worse place.
Titanium 3D-printed wheel provides a glimpse of the future
When all of your profits come at the expense of the local residents who don't get a vote on the matter, I think it's a lot stronger case for immorality. A moral business has limits at which it drives for profit. I'm not sure where I stand on it myself, but the bidding war itself is not the moral problem, it's the context of the bidding war. I certainly don't view Amazon positively for doing it. At its core, this is Amazon profiting at the cost of American citizens. If every corporation did this, America would take quite a big hit. I would love to see the practice of making such a bidding war become illegal.
Ah sure. I wasn't making the point not to have a carbon tax. Just that it would help here unless carefully thought out. A bit like the biodiesel law.
This doesn't make sense. Slavery is obviously a particularly bad form of taxation.
Fuzzy searching still doesn’t work for me. I have a path starting with lib/ and if I write “lib” there is nothing anymore
A huge part is not about energy. As the American Chemistry Council are delighted to tell, $200bn has been invested since 2010 in increased production from fracking for ethane and other products for plastics and chemicals[0].

Yet they still find it necessary to campaign against chemical regulations and restrictions on plastic carrier bags.

So we're still accelerating nicely towards that precipice.

[0] https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscr...
Blade Runner 2049 was not supposed to be a documentary
We should simply stop referring to MVC as a "pattern", and call it what it is instead, a high level, abstract, general idea on how to structure an application. There isn't a right or wrong interpretation or implementation, just different applications of the same idea.
Best individual action if you’re serious about fighting climate change is to not have kids. Has the bonus of not subjecting kids to the future if we’re as fucked as it looks.
I see lots of people claiming this, but haven't seen anyone that can point to their articles published before the announcement predicting it.
You (will) run HTTP/3, because it is more efficient, meaning that your servers will be able to service more request.

You run HTTP/2 and HTTP/1, because a lot of people are still using that, and you don't want to lose them. This especially applies to mobile devices, many of which are stuck with software that cannot be updated for various reasons.

There's no threat of the majority of websites going HTTP/3 anytime soon. By the time that might be a possibility, Tor will catch up.
How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross
> But confidently wrong is completely on brand for this magazine, so thumbs up for them

I don't think that's fair. Yes, I disagree with this particular article, but The Economist makes more effort than most to offer non-partisan, fact-based and insightful analysis. And yes, they have a particular worldview, which they wear on their sleeve. In general I don't have many bad, and have a lot of good, things to say about them.

If you have a better recommendation to fill their niche I'd be interested to hear it.
All the distance in the world means nothing if a traveler is still mentally tied to their home country. There's a good number of expats in [country] who hang out at Irish pubs with other expats, bitch about [country], and don't bother learning the language.

You have to be willing to unmoor yourself, which I think deep down a lot of people aren't seeking to do.
> Professor Karl Friston (University College London) speaks at the University of Edinburgh, 31st March 2017.

> Abstract: This talk offers a formal account of insight and learning in terms of active (Bayesian) inference. It deals with the dual problem of inferring states of the world and learning its statistical structure. In contrast to current trends in machine learning (e.g., deep learning), we focus on how agents learn from a small number of ambiguous outcomes to form insight.

> Karl will present simulations of abstract rule-learning and approximate Bayesian inference to show that minimising (expected) free energy leads to active sampling of novel contingencies. This epistemic, curiosity-directed behaviour closes ‘explanatory gaps’ in knowledge about the causal structure of the world; thereby reducing ignorance, in addition to resolving uncertainty about states of the known world.

> We then move from inference to model selection or structure learning to show how abductive processes emerge when agents test plausible hypotheses about symmetries in their generative models of the world. The ensuing Bayesian model reduction evokes mechanisms associated with sleep and has all the hallmarks of ‘aha moments’.
Robert de Niro Linked to Child Sex Trafficking Ring According to Court Records
There's no understanding it because it doesn't actually make sense. Lasting solutions to earth-scale issues like climate change must ultimately be social solutions (regulations, taxes, treaties, and ultimately alignment of incentives). Terraforming Mars seems easier than developing social solutions to some people, so that's what they fixate on. But trying to spread into the solar system because we're afraid of having the hard conversations about social solutions is a gross misapplication of imagination and resources.
Five Below, the Amazon-Proof Store
Sorry you've been in the army
Cameroon’s President takes Swiss vacations as his country grapples with crises
I strongly disagree.

You get nowhere when you let people push blame from their own actions to the actions of others (or conglomerates). The people who feel most responsible for the future of the Earth are those most likely to take action: both individual action and political action.

Eating your vegetables is the answer. (Well, part of it.) It simply isn't possible for us to fix the climate unless people start eating a whole lot more vegetables, fruit, nuts, and legumes. If we were in a society with a benevolent dictator, maybe we could force people to eat more vegetables. But how, in our democracy, are you going to get our corporate-owned politicians to pass very heavy taxes on meat? It's simply not going to happen until you have a massive number of people pushing for change. Imagine trying to legalize gay marriage in a country where 95% of people oppose it. It's a nearly hopeless endeavor.

If you are one of the people who eats steak and drives SUVs because you don't feel personally responsible for your contribution to climate change, then you're the problem. Personal responsibility is not opposed to political change, it's a prerequisite for it. The people who get the government to pass meat taxes will almost certainly be people who don't eat a lot of meat.
I would advise reading the paper, if possible. It seems that this is the Economist's hot take from reading a few of the figures rather than the authors' conclusions.
Disagree at least depending on your circumstances. A robust powerful US economy and workforce can do way more to fight climate change than an enfeebled, aging one.
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