skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your understand of the issue is a bit fuzzy.

For example, the business insider article seems to imply that we can't "plant our way out" using trees. But you interpret this to mean "we can't do it ourselves". But no one ever said planting trees is the only thing we can do to stop climate change. We can also: change our crop and animal yields, use less fossil fuels, etc.

Same thing with the arizona article about dead forests releasing less CO2 than expected. That isn't to say that they don't release any. And it also isn't to say that live ones release more (live trees consume CO2 and produce O2, if you recall). That article is from 2013, so any climate scientist is going to already be using those findings in their models, so it's ridiculous to assume that a 6 year old article with a minor tweak to a variable means that today's cutting edge scientists are uninformed.

[edit] I'm not even gonna touch the thing about the "cold sun" conspiracy. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/01/the-na...
Then why don't at least people in the EU simply get a bank account for such donations? Outside of charities, I don't recall seeing that on websites or elsewhere, really. Why is that? Did it just not occur to anyone yet, or is it maybe a legally thorny issue? How do banks feel about it? I sometimes wonder about this, and I assume there's gotta be reasons, but I don't actually know.
I think it's important to define what "learn history" means. I think a lot of these pop history vidoes are good to supplement or replace poor high school history.

However, studying history at a university is a different beast. My experience was an incredible focus on context-building to understand what the sources are actually saying. This usually means building up a large amount of background knowledge (historical, literary, cultural, etc.) before even beginning to study the target period. It also means more critical thinking when looking at the sources themselves.

I've found that most podcasts and youtube videos, although good entertainment and better quality than a lot of high school courses, deeply lacking in the kind of critical thinking and study it takes to make the generalizations that they're making.

This makes it difficult for me to listen or watch pop history video/audio, since the methodology they use is usually poor (the only exceptions I've found thus far are: /r/AskHistorians (usually, not always) and the Revolutions Podcast (his methodology is good)).

I suppose the point that I'm trying to make is that these popular medias are a good at what they do and function as a great starting point. However, they contain factual errors and conclusions, and they should not be confused with the study of history.
For me it's areas a few blocks around Times Square. The only thought I had (and maybe the Oculus is the same) is that the sheer number of people also using Airpods in the area means everything gets confused.
I'm not sure there are Australian cert providers... at least the government (gov.au) uses common ones such as Entrust and Digicert, and companies like Atlassian use Digicert.
Check out “The Last Ringbearer”[1] for an alternate take on the LotR mythology where the orcs aren’t monsters but instead citizens of the renaissance state of Mordor.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
"No new functionality" and "nothing new" are two different things. Improved developer experience, decreasing the surface area of bugs, etc - all examples of definite improvements that are not technically new functionality.
Wasting the time of people with other duties.
> Life is better here.

But Europe Socialism bad.
Just compare TFR and average IQ tables. The pattern is obvious.
Yah, this is probably true. Another good reason to mention it if you're writing a blog post! :)
I really like my AfterShokz Trekz Air headphones. They work with all my devices. They reliably pair and don't oddly lose pairing status between any of them [0]. They are comfortable and sound pretty great once situated correctly. Not the greatest sound (a bit thin in the bass if they get out of alignment), but they are bone conducting and I generally use them to listen to music and still be able to hear the outside world. The behind-the-head band also makes it really easy to use them with all sorts of other head-mounted devices I have, like my brainwave sensor or my VR and AR headsets. For about 100USD, I've used them a lot more than my Sennheiser
HD 4.50 BT headphones, which have a very annoying, periodic click when used in BT mode.

[0] Having worked on Bluetooth devices, this basically happens in devices because they reset their own hardware ID on complete power loss. Which is stupid. The hardware ID need never be reset unless explicitly requested by the user.
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Choose FI. Being exposed to the concept of financial independence, retiring early and providing a framework and mindset for achieving them has completely transformed my life from aimless working for money to working for a goal.
Consider replacing "made" with "has created".
All cars I've used that were bluetooth enabled (Volkswagen, Peugeot and Toyota I think) just required one pairing procedure once, and after that they would automatically connect to the phone as soon as you put the key in.

It's not so complicated and works fine. It's also much more practical to use the steering wheel controls for your phone's music rather than fiddling with its screen to skip a song.
My understanding is an Australian cloudflare employee could be compelled to, yeah, hand over certificates, without telling their boss they did so.
Some people dislike automatic charges, while others don't want to be bothered with renewals, so it's best to support both. For historical reasons related to payment processor limitations Liberapay was launched with only manual renewals, but we're working on implementing automatic charges now.

See our recent blog post “The third year of Liberapay” for more details: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa...
It's not up to the customers to improve this state of affairs. It's entirely in the hands of the companies.
To ghost somebody is to make them like a ghost to you.
Human Performance Outliers and Peak Human podcasts. Really changed the way I looked a nutrition and ate, so far with excellent results.
> missing...nonverbal communication

Screen sharing?
Revisionist History. I broke up with a very old friend of mine after suggesting that The Lady Vanishes episode is hinting gently at jewish exceptionalism.
Total chaos.

Even when we were 20 people in an office folks coming in for interviews or to fix the WiFi/Coffee machine/plumbing would either be totally lost, or the person sitting near the door would be significantly burdened with constant distraction and less able to perform their primary function.

Furthermore no one would set up those maintenance tasks because they’re focused on the product not on making sure the office is functioning properly.
Article forgets sociologists, gender/race students and political activists
Filing under bullshit books.
I haven't read the book but based on the summary it seems like the author does not have a firm grasp on the fact that advanced economies are transitioning to being service based.
This makes me sick. As a Bay Area resident I was happy when I heard South Lake Tahoe passed a VHR ban in residential areas.

People who buy homes only to Airbnb them do not care about neighborhoods or their impact on community.
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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson. Told chronologically for the layperson, with consistent tone and running jokes about Buster Keaton. An ambitious project, valuable resource, relaxing, illuminatung, and logical.
That's working under the assumption that even the tiny scraps of privacy we have left shouldn't be safe from the government. In light of stuff like police helping blacklist union organizers (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728) or sharing data on protesters with the company they're protesting against (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Desalination_Plant#S...), that's a very poor assumption to make.
I went to a warranty provider of a well-known tech company, was turned down, then sent an e-mail to the "global warranty support" or whatever. Some Russian basically told me to go fuck myself. It was kind of funny (the response fit the "stereotypical Russian" image), but I'm never buying products from that company ever again.
WeWork is a real estate holding company, not an office renting company. They just happen to be able to monetize their assets by renting space.
Good to know; thanks! I'm kind of suprised; given how tiny Alpine is supposed to be and how they're muscl based I assumed they would have taken that philosophy into the userspace tools and used busybox or something. Not that I really know anything about Alpine except that it's nice when you just want something small.
Ill take it even farther: Buffet isn't statistically different than average. He just found a strategy that happened to work, was stubborn enough to stick to it through bad times, and used copious amounts of leverage to juice returns.

A really interesting paper called "Buffet's Alpha" talks about this, and was able to replicate his performance by following a few simple rules. They found that he produced very little actual alpha. To his credit, he seems to have been observant enough to stumble into factors(value, quality, and low beta) before anyone else knew they existed, which is his real strength and contribution.
Running any kind of p2p client is more feasible with ipv6 if your v4 is behind a CGNAT.
Code can never be written "correctly" whatever that means. Even if it was, library changes will break it.

And none of the other jobs mentioned are bullshit. They are all required in various degrees.

I call it bullshit book
I feel like the most important one is pipe weed which many characters, especially Gandalf smoke a lot of. Saruman was a huge fan too, he had barrels of the best Longbottom Leaf imported from the Shire.

Judicious quantities of pipe weed would also keep your appetite sharp for all the other food you're going to eat :)
Do you not have a small claims court in your area? Here in the UK if a product is not as described then you are entitled to a full refund from the supplier (not the manufacturer). As they are the ones you have a contract with. The supplier can take it up with the manufacturer. No help from the supplier? Then sue them, I've done that several times, it's cheap, easy and quick. I've never had a failure suing a business for a consumer protection issue.

https://www.smallclaimscourtgenie.co.uk/money-claim-online/
It's not stupid to be "out-bred": you're enjoying your own personal life more by keeping more resources for yourself, rather than sacrificing your time and resources on kids with the goal of continuing your family line. Your kids, grandkids, and descendants aren't likely to be of much help after you're dead.

This is an individual vs. society issue: having few kids is better at the individual level, but for society it's not sustainable unless we can figure out how to significantly extend lifespans (i.e., reduce the death rate in-line with the reduction of the birthrate).
Cortex and Hello Internet: cortex has very much shaped the way I physically operate (work ethic/process etc.), HI has shaped the way I mentally operate (although that mostly came from a select few episodes, most of them were just entertainment).
They're not saying they want it to be easy, they're saying they don't want to do it and don't have to (which ties into the rest of what they're saying)

I think you're missing the point of the comment.
The drop in donations is because our original payment processor backstabbed us. See https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa... and the two previous posts linked in there for details.
My understanding is that it would not due to the different app signing certificate. This would be a new application unless Apple or Google signs the app using certificate forgery or similar.
I think the implication is that Vodafone later doxxed mywacaday's work persona and retaliated.

Classy.
In some ways the world of Idiocracy is far superior to ours. In no future of the real world would the government be willing to find and give authority to whoever is deemed the most intelligent person on the planet.

If we did that today things would look very different.
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EconTalk.

It covers everything. It has helped me sharpen my decision making.

It exposed me to Paul Graham, which eventually led me here [0].

It is a collection of conversations, the quality of which is unmatched by anything else I’ve come across.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/graham-on-start-ups-innovation-and-c...
Pandas got 3x faster
Actually, much more than 40 years. Many of the practitioners acquire their practice and knowledge from their parents. And the parents from their own parents. I am talking from what I've seen and experienced first hand. They also learn Vaastu and Astrology among other things. In addition, Ayurvedic Colleges are also there supported by the Indian Govt.
Another anecdotal data point: I've been remote for about a decade and I've never expected to be on a call (visual or otherwise) outside business hours for my timezone (9-5). I work with folks in SF, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalaru.
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It should be obvious that there is a third meaning..

Amateur is short for "Amateur Radio operator", eg someone who holds an Amateur Radio License.
I went through a really bad burn out and depression a year and a half ago. I was dealing with layoffs at work, a failing relationship with my wife, death in the family and having to support two people financially when their health was failing.

At the darkest moment I was incapable of sleeping and eating. I lost 17 pounds in about 2 months. I stopped work for a month and a half and worked 2 days a week when I came back, slowly raising that to 4 days over a period of 5 months.

I broke down my problems thusly:

1) Professionally I wanted to either accept my situation with the layoffs or find a new job. Things changed at work and I decided to stick around. I offload a lot more work to my team and delegate way more than before. My team accepts their new responsibilities because it allows them to prove themselves and I get to manage my energy levels.

2) Socially I needed to accept that I had little control over outcomes even if my decision process was the right one. I read Marcus Aurelius as well as books to deal with divorce and separation.

3) Physiologically I went to cuddling events and connected on deep levels with people. Took up meditation (even got a Muse Headband which I recommend) and do sunbathing once or twice a week to keep energy levels up. I also have co-workers pair with me on brutal intensive workouts once a week.

4) Mentally: Therapy helped me deal with death and other aspects of my life I was unhappy about and it's continuing today.

If I were to be totally frank... I'm still not 100% and I'm still considering reducing my work hours some more so I can spend more time fixing my new house up and doing projects that bring me joy. /edit formatting
Rich Roll. Absolute fave. Not even vegan.
One of the problems with achieving a good bluetooth experience is that there is not really one thing called "bluetooth", but rather a big stack of specifications that are implemented by different parties. A USB 2.0 BT adapter is very generic and probably well supported by more bluetooth devices and software stacks than integrated BT adapters.
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I'd also recommend the Calyx institutes unlimited plan for $500 but that is Sprint backed.
https://www.calyxinstitute.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?r...
I think the implication is that despite contacting the CEO through a personal email address, Vodafone looked up his employer on LinkedIn and complained to them. From the sound of it, this would be petty revenge from the customer service department, who didn't like having been put in the spotlight for poor customer service.
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I think official release is more interesting. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...
I'll check him out. Im not sure what your definition of mainstream scholars is but most evangelical christians i speak with in the US don't doubt the accuracy - and they compose a large group of people.
Yeah, what's all this hype with AI anyway?
>That's part of being an adult.

As countless adults these days have proven, no, it's not. You can just opt out of the whole thing.
Another example is maintaining home-grown code that could be replaced by an off-the-shelf solution, but nobody is willing to pay the price for it or risk change.
Unless I missed something, if it works it'll be with the SBC codec and it's not very good.

For music the BT profile is the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). But this is just a transport, and on top of it there can be many codecs. The only mandatory codec is SBC [1], which is BT specific and not very good. YMMV, but I prefer using a wired headphone than BT SBC.

There are other options, but then you need support on both ends. The best are AAC (Apple world), LDAC (Sony, all recent Android) and AptX HD (Android, Win10 I believe but TBC...). Those are supposed to be transparent, and for LDAC at least (the only one I have personal experience with) it is to my ears. Unfortunately last time I checked only SBC was supported on Linux... So I stick to wired on my Linux laptop, and use BT with LDAC on my smartphone only.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)
Yea, I'm not trying to argue that eating right after exercise is not important. I just don't believe it's essential. Your body will use nutrients from the post-workout meal to help rebuild muscle and help your body recover so it's highly recommended. If muscle mass and density is a top priority than you may consider it essential for sure.
> Suck it up. What, do you want having kids to be as seamless as an Uber Eats order? It's not. It's hard work. I'm sure your parents gave up on a lot to have you, too. That's part of being an adult.

Seems wiser to remain childless than to have and raise kids that you never wanted. How would that work out for the kid, otherwise? Or are we going on the assumption that once the kid is born, OP will no longer see it as a burden?
I just ping google.com when I need a quick sanity check.
Late Night Live, Phillip Adams. The smartest people in the world, all of them, 3 a night, 4 nights a week for 20 years, with humour. This is the most remarkable lifetime achievement in radio anywhere - better than Studs Terkel.
The only thing that still keeps me there is old.reddit.com

If support for that ever gets removed, I'll be gone as well.
That's precisely why I don't want them. I don't feel it's worth the time and effort.
Yeah, same here. I can't use any other Bluetooth headphones now, after trying AirPods. It's at the point where I've been thinking of buying very fancy wireless NC headphones, but haven't done so because I can't bear the absence of a W1 chip in either the Bose or the Sony (and obviously am not spending $350 for suboptimal Beats NC), so I'm just not buying anything.
I hear this argument quite often : "Smart people aren't having so many kids now because they don't have to."

Depends on what you're counting on in the future.

If you want to be taken care of when you're older, and almost no one has children, then your future is bleak no matter how much you earn now. Inflation will eat most of your savings that you'd want to spend on care. Of course there's immigration or you can move but you're going to be lonely nevertheless.

It may sound controversial but it's a bit like not getting vaccinated and counting on herd immunity. Who would be writing all those HN comments now if our parents hadn't had children?
If Paris is burning, New York is a room full of gasoline.
>And it's been decades since he's been able to match the great returns he had very early in his career which he built his reputation on.

Keep in mind it is much easier to get great returns when you are smaller.

Put another way, there are _significantly_ more opportunities to turn $1 million into $10 million than there are to turn $1 billion into $10 billion.

At buffet's scale the opportunities are few and far between for hockey stick growth.

As for his performance relative to the S&P 500, fair point.

UPDATE: Just saw that my comment is basically a clone of a reply you had already received... Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm looking at Africa in the graph you've provided and the fertility rate quite clearly drops as the number of years in education increases, with a few notable exceptions that (I believe) can be explained:

* DPR Congo. By most accounts a failed state, although some would rather call it a violent kleptocracy[1] on account of the very successful exploitation of resources by the ruling elite.

* Gabon. Very underpopulated and underdeveloped given its size. It's not necessarily a poor country in terms of natural resources, but their massive debt and so-so management of resources and spending basically keep the population poor but healthy and well fed. In the case of Gabon, infant mortality rate is not that high (compared to neighbouring countries which almost double theirs) so I wouldn't take /u/pasta's suggestion that infant mortality or access to food has anything to do with the high fertility rate per mother. I would say that in Gabon it's simply the opposite: infant mortality rates have really dropped whilst traditional roles are still in place. There's also no pressure to have fewer babies as women (and men) don't and can't have much higher aspirations, economically and socially.

* Niger. Okay, literally one of the worlds most impoverished countries.

* The Gambia, perhaps the one I can't quite narrow down a reason for. I've been to Gambia on a few occasions, and I'd say that whilst it's still a very poor country (relying mostly on tourism, which isn't much, and agriculture -- not much land for it), it always felt quite safe. I would say the main reason for Gambia's high birth rate would be education and poverty. Most people still live in poverty and education is still not at desirable levels. In fact, the main reason I've visited the country was to volunteer with some non-profits involved in education.

I've also noticed that a few countries are not in that graph, for instance Ghana and Nigeria, two west-african powerhouses. I'd be curious to see what the line would look like for Ghana as this is one of the success stories of west africa. Extreme poverty has dropped to under 30% (from almost 60%) in two decades and it's one of my favourite destinations in west africa. Unfortunately, I couldn't find figures for female average mean schooling years to compare with their birth rate and infant mortality rate.

I do agree that there has to be a bigger picture here. I believe that the more choice an individual has, the fewer children. Economically successful countries will tend to have fewer children, depending on how their social structure supports them in raising the children. If it's something that may put a halt on your career aspirations, you'll probably delay having children or not have at all.

1. http://time.com/4545223/why-you-cant-call-congo-a-failed-sta...
I'm curious which headphones they were? I have the Active 85t and I've been pretty impressed with how they stand up to the interference on a busy NYC street. The (non-Jabra) headphones I had before that had to be in a chest pocket to avoid interference. Sometimes I can forget my phone until I'm a few steps out the door because the connection goes that far.