skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, congrats!

Lots of great advice in this thread that is impossible to beat. But $8M means you can do whatever you want: including nothing. You can do absolutely nothing. Or! change your life. It's up to your personality and how you view money and time. You don't HAVE to work anymore... or you could go work at something that excites you. Or travel the world.

But whatever you do, use it to do some good in this world. Even if that's just being a great father to your kids.
Think of it as one pushes while the other one pulls.
From a simple standpoint massive multigigaton reductions are needed in all sectors and countries.

Which was true 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and remains true now with little change. Fracking has been pretty much the biggest net reduction in carbon (nat gas has half the emissions of coal). So far solar, wind, etc has made little dent.

This isn’t a political issue and politicizing it by claiming sudden urgency is an error - merely changing leadership won’t matter. Major changes are needed yesterday, and so far neither party in the US has ever proposed anything resembling the scale of change needed.
Now that Tumblr is dead there's some hope the alternative will offer better features.
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Thanks. I remember having to use a third party util to do that on earlier Mac OS X machines, but with the newer Macs you can just switch config by standard system prefs.
thanks for the feedback onur. i just installed the uBlock chrome extension, and i could not reproduce the blank screen. Could it be another extension that you are using? Device/browser details would be appreciated as well. thank you!
What does everyone think about an open source project to find and eliminate all personal nonrenewable carbon emissions? Something like a spreadsheet across all features that can be optimized, possibly with machine learning. For example:

* Best/cheapest/easiest rooftop solar parts and suppliers

* Best/cheapest/easiest electric/hybrid cars

* Most practical home greenhouse and hydroponic kits (for growing all non-grain fruits and vegetables at home)

* Most sustainable and local sources of free-range and grass-fed meat and dairy products

* Most feasible carpool/ride sharing services

* Most feasible group living arrangements

Etc etc etc (I'm sure I'm forgetting a few). I know that all of these services exist in various forms, but we need a plan yesterday that people can just jump onboard with. I have friends installing amortized solar panels paid for by the installer, others with backyard chicken coops, some with hybrid and electric vehicles, and so on.

Things are changing but not nearly at the speed they could be if we made this all more accessible. I used to be blocked by lack of income, now it's lack of time. For most people it's probably lack of information and willpower. None of these are technology reasons. Which suggests to me that these are logistical problems that we could finally solve relatively quickly.
> If they just steal a car: Responsible
>
> If they steal a car because someone has a gun to they or their spouse's head: Not responsible
>
> Why: Because the causal chain of events that have gotten us to modern humanity have resulted in our cognitive functions valuing human life over physical objects

Our values have little to do with the question of free will. A value system determines what we consider to be good or bad, it does not determine who is responsible for a specific good or bad outcome.

So if the thief is not responsible for stealing the car in the hostage scenario, then I assume that you agree that the hostage taker is responsible. And the reason you reach this conclusion is because you assign moral agency to the thief when he's acting alone, and you acknowledge that he has no moral agency when he's being coerced. In other words, he's acting of his own free will in one circumstance, but not the other.

Simply saying "we value life over property" does not enable you to absolve the thief for his immoral act.
Any phone with mobile device management (MDM) like SecureWeb or "Good" or others, can see at the least, all the apps installed on the phone, as well as the ability to remote wipe phones. Don't know if they have the capacity to read data for individual apps.

And if you have your employer manage your phone plan, I assume they have access to your call records.
US comments are pretty staggering: "We're probably not the biggest problem so we won't do anything."

Let's see how many decades it will take before we all find out that this isn't a country but a world problem.
> My theory is that a bunch of analysts need to justify their jobs with incredibly inefficient and error-prone excel workflows.

Even if you're right, pretty much any company whose customers aren't 100%, unimpeachably good is going to fail.

Another way of thinking of it is, as soon as they became even slightly an antagonist (think Disney rivals, less Autobots), it was doomed.

As an aside, an alternative interpretation would be that Excel workflows are more intellectually stimulating, so as a side effect they come up with better models. So even if your software had a superior UX for the task at hand, the objective of making money is better served by people using their brains harder generally.

After all, a lot of people practice violin and play chess because it feels good, and then those people make a bajillion dollars on the stock market. Consider that if Excel even remotely reenacts the patterns of those activities, which is almost certainly does, it makes money in ways besides calculating numbers in a user-accessible way.
It always amazes me how many people are willing to bash management over work chat. Like... you can be 99% sure they're reading that.
Doesn’t military spending have a positive effects on the economy?
Hold a new election in NC’s tainted 9th District
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It was the codename, it got rolled into Visual Studio and is now nameless (DB projects).

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/create-sql-server-data...
> unlocks based on the fob's proximity

Unfortunately, that would be vulnerable to theives unlocking your car and taking everything in it. For me, the biggest convenience of fobs is the ability to start the car and have AC on so that the car isn't burning/freezing when I get to it
> 2. Current US administration is going 180 degrees in the other direction, i.e. doing everything it can to support coal.

And apparently failing miserably in this effort:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/17/epa-cheers-...
SEEKING FREELANCER | Toronto (no remote)

Looking for an intermediate-level for a three-month contract. Must be based in Toronto, Canada. See https://gist.github.com/typewriter-software/bb6e7ced5ae54bce... for more info.
Yeah, it is a joy to behold. I hope it becomes even more powerful than it is already.
If it's anything like their 8tb offerings it's unreliable rubbish.
Why would you hang on to your own company’s stock if it is publicly traded? That seems like “Enron-ianly” bad financial planning. You are already super-exposed to the company’s health by virtue of being employed there. Why add additional exposure by owning/keeping its stock too?!?
And/or a fingerprint sensor (could even be in the door handle)
I wish DuckDuckGo had some better filtering features like this.
> XML is superior to JSON for text documents. Far superior.

Why do you think so? Is it because most structured texts are Trees?

If so I understand the appeal. Because hey, HTML is perfect isn't it? Except, it's really not. While HTML is great for rendering, it sucks at WYSIWYG editing.

Example:

<p> This is <span style="font-weight:underline;">a <b><i>formatted </b>text</i>content </span> </p>

Now good luck, finding/changing the formatting information for the 9th character ;)

The funda is - rendering is easy with trees, nodes and children. Editing though is easier with working with indices than traversing trees.

https://prosemirror.net/docs/guide/#doc.structure

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html#the-document

These write-ups are interesting reads on the topic.
This is on the Go 1.13 roadmap, tho hasn't been announced as such.

They dropped the dependency on Go 2 Generics described in the initial proposal.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
Yeah. I'm thinking the real issue with using a single set of probably bought/stolen ID and infecting a few hundred thousand PCs is that you attract just enough attention for the authorities to be motivated to track you down. And unlike cybercriminals attacking mostly Western targets, I doubt they're safely overseas.
> We normally start with problems.

I never said we didn't. Why would anyone collect data without knowing the problem that it will be used for? That's implicit. I don't need to directly state the obvious.

> Otter hardware seems good enough

Ok, here's a technical description of what I meant by "complex object": an object whose output is in theory capable of being represented by a universal Turing machine that is significantly shorter in length than the output itself but is still longer than the output of other objects that humanity has interacted with and is capable of observing. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the Kolmogorov complexity of an otter's brain is greater than that of a human's.
Thanks for the response. I do think about the issues you're touching on. While it didn't make it into this post because of HN character limitations, part of the “What’s Currently in Place” section on the page I linked to includes:

"Advisors that include one of the most noteworthy climate scientists in the world, the firm that ran data for President Obama's and Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaigns and a marketing strategist who developed a "primal branding" framework that's used by companies like Apple and Nike and YouTube"

And while energy was an obvious starting point for me, the aim would be to make ANYTHING that has an individual / consumer touchpoint and can significantly lessen the effects of climate change one or two or three degrees easier... and then scale it.
Yes but those reforms must come from within said country, not from an external force forcing it upon the nation. When an external force acts upon another country to "reform" it then often there are other agendas at play like power, control of resources and so on.
And federal government employees have a union, the American Federation of Government Employees, the vast majority of which are office workers. Something like 670,000 members.
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> Cars reduce noise compared to subways squealing and rattling, compared to commuter rail horns blasting, and compared to the big engines of diesel buses.

As a US citizen living in Germany, I have to disagree. I live one very quiet residential block from a nationwide major rail artery and do not hear or feel the trains. Noisy, squeaky, rattling, rail horn blasting trains are a choice made by underfunded, weak, and poorly organized governments and transportation organizations. In the US, it is only that way because the US has chosen to prioritize cars over all other means of transportation.
They don't issue recalls for every mechanical catastrophe, and they don't ignore them for software issues either. When an automaker has a problem that merits a recall, it's because very careful accounting has indicated it is cheaper to roll out the recall than it would be to litigate or settle in court, not from any kind of good faith action. Even Audi would have never had that recall if only just a handful of people were injured or died from the issue.
In the end, Facebook's success will be its biggest headwind. They had been on a tear for years since inception. That type of success makes it harder for people to switch gears when problems arise. It is fundamentally unclear how Facebook will navigate these turbid waters.
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What freedoms are people in America not afforded?
That kind of sounds like "rural people are better with money than the city slickers." But, when I look at places like Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri there seem be a fair number of bankruptcies. I imagine we can look this up if we're so inclined. Is there a correlation between level of education and number of bankruptcy filings?
They chose an inaccurate job title for me to justify my salary. Maybe I could have made more freelancing somewhere else, but I think I was at the top of what this role was willing to pay.

I was making $100 per hour with a guaranteed 40 billable hours per week.
Exactly, China emissions are also the result of European and American companies producing products in China for all the world.
It didn't break a law, but it also didn't comply with our sovereign parliament's right to investigate matters of interest to its members. In a manner of speaking in this sense, they are the law.
Well it's called the DoD, but really it's the DoW... and usually it fights for DOW Jones.
I imagine a lot of people don't use a key to get in their house, nor do they use the front door. Hit the button on the garage door remote, drive in, walk into house.
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What war are we (the U.S.) at? Would we consider it "war-time" or not right now? (Not rhetorical; kind of curious. I realize we have ongoing conflicts, but it seems like there are always ongoing conflicts.)
This assumes that the objects of opposite inertial mass are able to interact in the way you describe.
The protests in france are a little more nuanced than a simple reaction to a new gas tax. They are in the context of a larger budget debate. There is an air in all western countries that the highest earners aren't being treated fairly. New policies that favor the rich have become a norm. The people of france are rebelling against that trend, as they have done dozens of times in France's past.

The graph in this story is the heart of the matter. Look at who benefits most from the latest changes to France's budget. The disposable incomes of the vast magority of people are unchanged (+/- 1%) with a massive benefit to the very wealthy. In that context, fuel taxes become a far bigger deal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46437904
> Or do I have that wrong and photons merely follow the distortions and not cause any of their own?

You have that wrong in the momentum of massless particle has mass, independently of its carrier. Massless particles do not actually exist, what exist are particles with zero "mass at rest" and that are never at rest.
Tech protestors: “Wartime service is currently voluntary, get your own damn engineers.”
I see a lot of comparisons between unlike languages (Go and Rust for example) but it looks like D and Nim really are competing for the same niche.
If you are looking at pure economic activity then yes but all economic activity must be viewed based on "quality" of said activity. Do we want people spending time and resources building weapons of mass destruction or do we want that economic activity going towards exploring outer space, developing new technologies that benefit humanity positively and so on. Unfortunately, it is mutually exclusive because Earth only has so much "potential" human ability so we must determine where that human potential is being used.
I guess that takes care of any moral qualms anyone could have.
China's GDP is 13.5 trillion nominal USD and their annual trade deficit with the US (their largest export) is 335 billion USD. So not much.
"My take: The Big Tech employee resistance is driven in large part by people who have come into adulthood after the opening of China in the 1970s and the end of the Cold War and the fall of Berlin Wall in the early 1990s."

But before or during Saddam Husseins' supposed secret weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, "Extraordinary Rendtion" at "Black Site"s, Snowden, etc, etc, etc.

"This is not about doing something that’s unethical, illegal or immoral. ... We are the good guys."

While the CIA/military might be fighting for the good guys (though what does that even mean), I don't think they can claim to be the good guys. And shame on the leadership for turning the courage and sacrifice of individuals to such methods.
I don't know about Chuck here but I've met a number people who had stock stuck in the lockup period when the bust happened.
>In a dense location, each business can be reasonably expected to build parking... because the city requires it.

Well, no, thats my point. A dense location... is dense. There’s not much room for n parking per business, at least directly where the shop is located. You meet the requirement by doing as the article does: destroying dense locations and forcing them to be sparse. Pretending that they live in the middle of nowhere, when in fact they’re in the heart of the city.

Parking garages/lots (lots of parking, shared by all stores) is a clearly more ideal solution: its much more compact. And there’s no real reason parking has to be located directly next to the businesses themselves; just nearby enough to make walking (like, well, any shopping mall)

So then you have the question of who pays for it — in a shopping mall, its built in by the mall. In a city designated shoping center, its built in by the city. But those are totally pre-planned situation. In a more organic environment, where parking minimums are meant to operate, it would either be a collective decision... or its independent of the businesses, and expanded as necessary, as any private garage works. And I’ve personally seen examples of this situation in LA, chicago, mumbai.... and probably any city that manages to exist without minimums.

The only way you can believe that parking has to have a minimum is if you believe parking must be free. But thats nowhere near true. In most cities, but not in a mall, its not free.

The freeloading problem in a dense location is trivially resolved by looking beyond the individual businesses, and realizing that parking itself is a market.

And the belief that its absolutely required is trivially disolved by... realizing parking minimums are already not the default, and so pretty much any successful city/area will constitute an example of it not being a necessity

Home depot/ikea are self-incentivized to build parking for themselves, because regardless of minimums, they tend to carve out a huge plot of land for themselves and exist independently of other businesss. They don’t sit in dense locations by their nature, and I don’t think you really want them to, and they barely share parking by their nature.
I know cryptocurrencies are popular here but IMHO crypto should be immediately banned before they start generating more and more emissions.
That’s such a red herring argument, and based solely on current headlines about Google. And Project Dragonfly is generating PLENTY of protest of its own.
I imagine transgender women will find this technology most interesting. And they're already fulfilling any hormonal requirements of their own accord.
This category of standards for structured text will look simple and sufficient. But they break once you bring in more complicated formatting options like font-size, background colour, etc. Which is why we need rich-text standards that aren't opinionated on what formatting to allow.
> E-mail. The PSTN. Text messages. Actual mail.

Nope. These doesn't. But it's hard to understand if you actually haven't travelled the world.

These all miss the "discovery" part of the experience. People also change phone numbers and email all the time, but they keep their facebook account.
Same here. One is theoretically still good but a fragging firmware bug prevents it from being enumerated properly. Never again Seagate with your crap reliability.
> "At the center of Cold War 2.0 is advamced technology..."

Someone forgot to deploy their WEAPONS GRADE SPELL CHECKER
I worked for a company that was bought by blackberry and then split up. A large portion of our developers and engineers went to Facebook in Ireland and Seattle/California.

This is my personal experience, so I don't know how widespread this is, but I suspect its common.

I stayed friendly with many ex-coworkers on Facebook for awhile, and saw some attitudes move towards a harsh alt-leftist view and some went extremely violent. Anti-Isreal statements started popping up and some Jewish facebook engineers started to self-censor and talk in personal messages instead of posting, commenting to me if I was also seeing this attitude in posts.

Could just be how divided facebook made people, amplifying echo-chambers and enforcing views that "their side" is correct, but many of my old co-workers show a large political divide and a few just are wildly hardcore political in very violent tones. How this bleeds into their job, only time will tell.

I finally had to make facebook just for family and close friends and removed the app from my phone, and only use it in a web browser. I'm guilty of enjoying a good meme or political cartoon, but things are definitely more divided now. I would not doubt the documents reflect more political views seeping into their products.
Your flagged post began with an allegation of bad faith against the entire field of climate science.

edit: looks like it's not even flagged anymore.
Yeah but time is zero sum. Let's pretend school now starts at 9. Now everything is shifted by 2 hours. Extracurriculars are now 2 hours later, feeding your family is now 2 hours later, etc.

"Imagine having to get home from your commute, feed your family, getting the older siblings to/from extracurriculars and then getting the elementary school ones to bed by 9:00/10:00pm. It's easier said than done! School needs to start at 11!"

I must be missing something. How is your family life going to be less hectic after work with school being 2 hours later?
>> At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat

I've been telling my kids not to bitch about their teachers in public, as there is a good chance they will eventually be overheard by ... their teachers.

Come on, grow up! Don't say anything bad about your employer via your employer's systems. Ever.
That distribution being all the places that aren't normal matter particles. So primarily outside of galaxies.
It set a pretty awful precedent when Facebook spread misinformation so effectively that my country voted to cripple itself. We are going to have justice: no foreign intervention or dark money will stop us. I rarely feel pride like I did today, because for all their faults it is clear to me that the current crop of Parliamentarians will hunt down those responsible for weaponising disinformation in our politics.
Your prototype just became your product
About half of those problems don't really exist, in my opinion. I've washed the keyfob (it is waterproof), it has a built in key if the car battery is ever dead, I've never actually had to replace a fob battery. Personally I don't carry any keys so having a small round-ish object in my pocket that doesn't stab me in the leg when I sit down is a preferable situation.
If we're at war, then who are we at war with? Do they even pose a serious threat to the U.S.? Or is this just really about money? Because it seems like it's just about money. And in case you missed it, recent increases to the defense budget were more than twice what it would cost to make college education free and it had bipartisan support.
>They don't need to win every city, just take a slice of the most profitable city from Uber. Suddenly your 10 million per year profit is costing Uber 10 times that as they can't undercut you and still be highly profitable.

If Uber is operating in 100 cities and you turn up in their most profitable one, they can just drop the prices and make a loss in that city until you leave.

I agree with you, maybe they don't kill off lyft and don't get to the point that they have the scale to implement their strategy, but that doesn't stop it being a decent strategy to aim for.