skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why don't we make everything more expensive

What is wrong with making things expensive? There are too many things being produced. If we are staying with a market solution then the only way to reduce consumption and its consequences is to price appropriately to achieve the desired behavior.

a problem that is global, is caused mostly by other people

Europe is a leading contributor to GHG emissions. It absolutely needs to reduce its own emissions. This will have a major impact on the developing economies.

a continent that has much more serious, immediate, specific problems

A decade to avoid the destruction of the comfortable, profitable and cosy climate we have known for millenia seems pretty damn pressing to me. You won't have to worry about any of the other trivial issues you list if it isn't sorted out.

I honestly do not know why there is not mass panic right now.
It's hard to make a statement about average quality without a lot of data, but the total variance in quality is certainly increasing. Owners/companies that have strong engineering processes and standards are still building high quality projects and with the benefit of improved technology, it's much more reliable than circa 1970s stuff.

But there are also a lot of failures caused entirely by project management SNAFUs, poor communication between contractors on a project, inadequate testing, etc. that are completely avoidable and I personally as being largely caused by the diffusion of responsibility that occurs when a company is no longer capable of turning a wrench without hiring a contractor.
If you ever want a fun simple math problem. Calculate how much hashing power you need to accumulate in order to 51% attack some of the lesser quality cryptocurrencies. It is very feasible for the right actor.
> Especially the old german manufacturers are so so similar to Nokia's leadership

no coincidence.

one of Nokia's major R&D sites is in Ulm Germany (well where Siemens used to be until the merger). BMW & Continental have created R&D sites around 3 mins walk from the Nokia offices and absorbed hundreds of ex Siemens (ex Nokia) staff during the time that Nokia merged with Siemens and laid off a lot of staff.
COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report
As long as it worked, who cares?

That statement is a declaration of assent that you find the outcome acceptable.

It doesn’t examine the manner of resource usage, and the returned benefits for each cost.

In one case, they built a car and a garage to fix many cars in.

In the other case, they built a car off some value and drove it off a cliff. For the price, could we not have also obtained a matching garage?
Sorry i dont believe that. Its the only place it can ever get solved if at all. Putting trust in people has so far proved to be flawed.
Again had you made eg waybackmachine immutable then we hadent seen recent discussions about who Said What. Again look at eg bittorrent... how succesfull have copyright holders Been at preventing filesharing...

In regard to bitcoin it works pretty well for a lot of things and not so much for others. Just as everything. Personally it served me well.

And Having background in lottery abd payment industries i Can tell you we are already using it.. current systems are a terrible mess Which Anyone who ever had to implement against visa mastercard banks etc can tell you All about. Private blockchain ledgers like in the mentioned corporations is already in use and even more in the future.
Spirit's song Taurus, which Led Zeppelin allegedly infringed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHLO_2_THg

There's some strong similarities there.
Wow.

I'm sorry to be snarky but if this level of reasoning is representative of the cryptocurrency community then there's a reason it's failing.
Just to be clear: I didn't buy the book or upload it to libgen.

But I don't really agree with you. The author will do what the author wants to do, it has no bearing on somebody else uploading something he bought to libgen or not. I view libgen as a tremendously valuable resource and I try to contribute as much as I can to it. Not everybody who could benefit from a book can afford to drop 10 or 20 or even 5 dollars on it.
Yes, it is. The law of Canada says this woman should be arrested. Thus, independent of what Mr Trudeau thinks, she will be arrested, and tried, in accordance with the law.
Totally depends on what you're thinking of modifying and how you want to modify it. Some experience gained through one modification also carries over to others, even when done on different programs. I've done modifications that only take a few minutes, and I have my systems setup so it's really, really easy to pick a package by name to modify it and distribute the mods to all my machines, complete with version control. I very much appreciate the ability to modify the free software I use.
The problem with this approach is that the “division” is so fundamental to the performance of web applications that it can’t simply be abstracted away. When real applications encounter latency and unreliable connections at scale the abstraction will leak. At that time teams will be forced to dedicate efforts just to overcome the deficiencies in the architecture.
https://rebellion.earth/
It's far more common to see upvoted hacks for bypassing content access controls here on HN. Tools for unauthorized access to software are generally either explicitly described as for research only or flagged to oblivion here.

> There's also plenty of evidence to suggest that these industries more often than not benefit from the increased publicity the unauthorized content brings

Seriously? Talk to the people whose songs and films and games are being pirated. The idea that they benefit from it, statistically speaking, is pure nonsense and the exceptions to that rule are so far from the norm as to be the most extreme of cherry picking examples.
I use it for systems work (compilers, debuggers, etc.), but I may not count ;).
The Big Phish
haven't ordered anything from Amazon since 2013, and I wouldn't work in a company that utilizes AWS in any kind of way.
Make sure to also calculate the upside of attacking a small cryptocurrency. I suspect the upside is generally less than the cost of the attack.
Ironically, this is a pretty good example of why tickets end up the way they do in jira - overly specific and concrete. Even the hypothetical situation is getting misinterpreted.

I would still love it if user stories were implemented as the "why" (or even "what") instead of "how", though.
Apple Watch’s ECG feature is already proving its worth
Code and all at https://github.com/amingilani/project-care

We didn't win, but my app is fairly polished and feature complete for an MVP so Show HN it is.

Feedback and questions appreciated. Hopefully you'll help me understand how I lost to apps that weren't as polished or as practical.
It's very interesting to read this. I've come around to the exact same ideas, with the same perspective, and for the same reasons you've listed here. I've also had the same experience. These docs are critical for my team at this point. Without them, we'd go back to languishing for any number of weeks while we grapple to understand the larger context. All of that said, it takes me at least 2x longer to get these documents created. It's easily a 1-2 day affair for me. I'm also on a small team, with only 4 engineers, and the projects we work on tend to run 1-3 months. I wonder if this process scales to larger teams and projects.
Unless looked at Dianetics at all, and it's historical weirdness, I'm going to refer to your response as 'glib' if anything.

If you did, you'd see there are glaringly obvious relationship between what is discussed in the article, and the basis of Dianetics; not just 'similar' they are effectively describing the same thing.

" resemble something else that has been debunked aren't part of that."

'Dianetics' has not been debunked so much as it hasn't been studied because it's full of all sorts of things that don't make sense (it would be pointless). But - there are some interesting and possibly valid points in there, for example - the idea described in this article. And consider that everything in psychology seems to be 'debunked' as we still don't have a good framework for understanding the human mind. To boot - most psychological 'science' can't even be reproduced in 2018. And I literally mean most [1].

Dianetics is mostly nutbars, but the similarity between what is described in the article, and what was popularized by Dianetics long ago is not superficial, it's quite strong. It doesn't matter that L Ron Hubbard was a hustler.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...
Awesome, TIL about Ctrl-Shift-L!
AI desperately needs regulation and public accountability
I hope so with all my heart.

But for example, this[0] (triangular!) lot is 1.6 million. So developed or not, low rents seem unlikely even in that neighborhood. At the risk of heresy, dare I ask if real-estate markets as they currently work have failed their communities?

[0]
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8134181,-122.2745241,3a,75y,...
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have a notable underclass that's pretty much for all intents and purpose slave labor. Russia's living conditions improved but you're still in for a big surprise once you step outside of Moscow or St-Petersburg. The average (or more accurately, median) Russian or Chinese is not an affluent middle-class urban dweller posting loftily about the downfall of the West, they're a rural worker living under what would be considered miserable conditions in any Western country.

It's almost as if authoritarian rule was inefficient and wasteful in resources due to having to spend most of its energy staying in power and favoring corruption and political favoritism at the expense of good policies. Sure you may offset that with incredible amounts of natural resources (oil and large territory) but inequality does not go away. Also, sooner or later natural resources run out.
"Brands are giving the masses the illusion that they are consuming luxury, when in reality they are doing nothing of the sort, argues Eugene Rabkin."

This approach to serving the midmarket has been around for a long time, especially in the consumer goods sector. Very lucrative indeed because the margins are so much higher when you charge premium for a mediocre product that cost correspondingly little to make. A good example is the Victoria's Secret underwear brand. It produces mediocre products but pumps huge money into marketing itself as a luxury brand. Worked well in N. America where until recently, there was little variety of underwear brands available.

I've also noticed over time that European fashion products tend to have a higher quality threshold even at the lower ends. I attribute part of it to the region having longer history with haute couture (high-end luxury), which in turn established higher quality expectations for the aspirational and lower end brands, as well as more choices of brands including within the underwear sector.
In South Sudan, assualts against civilians seeking food aid escalate
Have you tried calling them up and asking for a better deal? I’m paying £16 a month for 40gb with BT, so surely o2 could give a better deal!
diversify into what exactly? The entire cryptocurrency ecosystem seems highly correlated. Take a look at coinmarketcap.com, the charts are essentially the same for nearly all the listed coins.
You're joking, right?

All the banks in the world expend far, far more energy than any small country, probably any medium country as well. And banking is only one of the many things that could be changed by blockchain tech.
The problem is that the design you dictated at the outset isn't informed by the details that the coders are privy to. So it becomes a liability as much as it was initially an asset.
And if you don't want to bother doing the math, go to https://www.crypto51.app/
I might not have time to continue this discussion.

Try this:

If standard vesting terms make you nearly indifferent to your co founder leaving, or to being fired, then they are perfect for you and you should definitely go for it.

Otherwise, you want some other kind of agreement with your co founders. It's not likely that the ideal agreement is one you can enforce through the weak economic incentives you can put in your corporate agreements (constrained by enforceability, tax considerations, what would totally freak out later investors or acquirers, etc). You will just have to rely on loyalty, integrity, etc. And it's fairly well known that adding weak but salient economic incentives to strong moral ones has a perverse effect. I don't think I can explain this any more clearly.

(And if you can't completely trust your partners, why worry about them leaving, but not about them colluding to fire you and repurchase a bunch of your stock? And isn't the prospect of a high stakes negotiation that could blow up your company a stronger incentive than losing some predictable fraction of equity?)

No matter what you do, there will be risks. I think what balance of risks is best depends on you, your partners, and your situation. We are in full agreement that you should address this issue, in one way or another, early.

(It hasn't been that long since I've raised money from a "real VC", but who knows? I'm happy to leave that out of the conversation)
In an ideal world, people are free to buy and sell what they want. You feel patronizing to the people who need to be "regulated", but I feel that people should have their own agency.
This is such completely false clickbait - Tesla doesn't have anything to gain from having a combustion engine assembly line because they don't make combustion engine cars. Arguably BMW is still losing out by not having a pure next generation EV platform - all this does is allow them to support existing technologies.
“Coinbase Abandons Cautious Approach” seems a bit hyperbolic as a title. In fact, it sounds like they're still being cautious. They aren't saying they will list a ton of new “currencies”, they just listed a number they might want to explore, and they are going to take their time deciding which are reasonable:

> Coinbase recently revamped its policy on new token listings. [… Coinbase] now goes public with its intention to “explore” the potential to list new assets in order to lower the impact of a listing. It also doesn’t guarantee which, if any, will make it through and be listed.

> “Adding new assets requires significant exploratory work from both a technical and compliance standpoint, and we cannot guarantee that all the assets we are evaluating will ultimately be listed for trading,” the company said.
I'm confused - are you trolling us? You do realise that computer science is based on math right? All the calculations that that OpenGL does are mathematical calculations. Even databases are based on relational algebra. AI - linear algebra, probability, multivariate calculus, optimization etc.
There would be no computer science without math.
I would say use one of those brushes that are for flossing in between teeth, that’s what I use and it works great.
Mostly this. Obviously, this assumes shared understanding of assignments as "things I'm working on" rather than "queue of things and also commitment do to everything".

Combining the original "one open ticket" rule with the second approach is rather bad. That's why I hope it was used in the context of the first approach.
Cancelling my prime was one of the best thing I did for my future self. I really didn't need half of the crap I ordered from Amazon. It's mostly overpriced, poorly refurbished or low quality junk that I could get for half the price directly from aliexpress.

But more importantly, without 1 day delivery on tap it makes you think harder whether you really need to waste your money on yet more junk or if you can live without it. Unsurprisingly, you don't really need it most of the time.

And if you're not buying from Amazon, you're not complicit in the company abysmal treatment of its employees, or total disregard for intellectual property laws (fake items are everywhere on amazon)
I don't think there is any reason, in principle, that Kweb can't be just as efficient as any other web application.

This is because Kweb doesn't entirely abstract away the client/server separation in one important sense. When you attach a callback to something you normally do it like this:

button.on.click {
header.text("They clicked!")
}

This is less efficient than it could be because it is needlessly doing a server round-trip. So for situations where you're only modifying client state you can do:

button.onImmediate.click {
header.text("They clicked!")
}

When the user clicks it will be instant, as the instructions to modify the DOM are "preloaded" to the client on page render.

Does that alleviate your concern? If not, can you elaborate on where you think the bottleneck is likely to emerge?
off-topic but using Jira (developed by Australia based Atlassian) sounds like a massive security risk due to "aabill".

checking twitter there isn't even a statement by Atlassian or any critic of the bill. looks like Australian tech companies simply don't care
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40atlassian%20aabill&src=typd

Btw FastMail too is based in Australia (and in comparison to Atlassian is at least vocal against the bill).
"Taxing the hell out of CO2 emissions", which I take to mean taxing it so much it forces producers and consumers to significantly curtail C02 activities, would not necessarily be a self-fulfilling solution.

Tax obviously works, but it can only work to a point. At a certain point we need technological solutions such as solar to make up the rest.

Extremely high taxes would lead to a lot more outsourcing of C02 activities to countries with less controls. If a widget produced X tons of C02 released into the atmosphere in the UK, it may well produce 3X tons of C02 in Asia or Africa. Then it also costs C02 in transporting the widgets to the UK. In this instance the UK does not get tax revenue, and C02 emissions have tripled. A lose lose situation.

Consumers may also revert to unhealthy and C02 producing activities such as burning coal at home for heat.

So then you would also need to tax imports for perceived C02, and also tax precursors for C02 (coal) rather than just emissions.

Meanwhile the poor are rioting in the streets (see Paris this past week).
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I think "High-tech jackal-dogs" would make a better submission title. It's used in the article as a section title and it seems like it better represents the content.
Update: A 2017 find appears to be another piece of the mechanism.

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/11/15/has-a-missing-pi...
In "The Rommel Papers," (which is incidentally a really splendid book that you should definitely read if you have any interest in tactics at all), Rommel himself claims that the ratio was in practice closer to 500:1 in the African theater.
You act as if the cost and availability of oil has no impact on the pace of electrification.
Seems like a rather superficial discussion of possible motivations for the behavior of the most greedy among us. Articles like this may sell magazine subscriptions but they don't teach us much that is useful.
What I got from the first article you linked is that Thorium reactors produce less radioactive waste but are unproven technologies.
This is a very American sort of story. The long hours, the lousy paychecks, the lack of universal healthcare, the reliance on fast food. It's possible to not live like that, but America doesn't want to.
i've seen plenty of people that tried to tackle a big problem at once and the result was way more ugly than just split the problem up.
at my work place my boss always writes down the complete issues/features and let the people do them however they like, but most of the time this is bad, because doing something at once without a certain structure will yield a way bigger mess than if the thing would've been splitted.
Why are you “quoting” something I didn’t write and then claiming it means I find the outcome acceptable?
Nice site. This isn't the first visa site like it i've seen, but they all focus on travel visas it seems. I suppose that's the low-hanging fruit.

What would be interesting to see are work visas, entrepreneur/freelance visas, working holiday visas, and so on. Obviously a much more complicated ask but that is what I have not yet seen from a site.

Main reason being this: If you want to travel somewhere you can pretty much go on government websites (either yours or theirs) and see what the visa requirements are. If you're looking to relocate to another country but perhaps don't have a good idea where you want to (or can) relocate to or how, it can be a steep hill to climb. Having something with a bit of a hint as to where to start looking would be nice for people I think.
“I don’t perceive it, therefore it doesn’t exist”.
US, Saudis and Russia block climate report
Niue launches legal action in Sweden over .nu domain name
You may have skipped the lecture on the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy.
> I have a pair of powered studio monitors (Mackie MR5), and I completely relate to this problem. Many PCs and phones will emit an audible hissing noise while plugged in. I've tested on a dozen different devices, with integrated and external DACs, five hundred dollar sound cards, massively shielded cables, practically every modern OS you can name, tweaking every audio setting exposed to me. The only devices that work perfectly are (1) my TV output, and (2) every single Apple product.

If almost every device has poor audio quality, maybe its not the device but the headphones that are your problem?
Diversify in the trading fees that come from listing other coins.
Funny thing about this is that lessor rock stars and performers used this as a license to act like jackasses without having the context as to why the brown M&M thing was important. My friends are a reasonably famous touring DJ/production act on Anjunabeats and they occasionally stick some rider-stuff in that appears a bit nonsensical. If the promoter doesn’t have a yellow, 6ft, 16 gauge extension cord placed on the left side of the mixer and taped with a strip of red electrical (not gaffer) tape, there is a good likelihood that the monitoring system, mixer and everything else is likely half-assed connected. They won’t trash anything, but that’s a signal that they need to more carefully verify their connections. For a massive stadium show, David Lee Roth is completely correct: a failure to follow the plan precisely could lead to actual tragedy.
Like hardcore drugs and guns?
Just because a tool gives you enough rope to hang yourself with, doesn't mean it's a bad tool.
> But i guess then i have to build a company around this

That was my problem too, and it's why I eventually dropped the idea. Check out my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643591

I'm not sure if crowdsourced data would work, and I think this probably needs a team of researchers and immigration experts to give people enough confidence (especially if they're going to be paying for something.) Or at least a license to use the Timatic data. I went down this road a while ago and realized that I would probably become either a Timatic competitor, or a visa agency like https://www.visahq.com
I see how such tests can filter out people who blindly agree to everything (and then don't deliver). On the other hand I think this is a bit underhanded? disingenuous? to have fake requirements in the contract just to test the other party.
It's a global problem, you need a global solution backed up by treaty commitments, and presumably an inspection regime (similar to the IAEA).

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm pretty fatalistic that anything will actually be done, but pretending for the sake of argument that we cared about the world our children will inherit, what would you propose?
Care to elaborate? Why AWS?
brb, going to go corner the dentacoin market.

I'll be the only one with clean teeth in all the lands.