skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool base idea and could become something interesting.

Initial thoughts:

1. Even assuming both person A and person B use the service within a week of each other, the odds that they both use the same hastag are astronomically low. Person A says '#wannaGoOut', but person B says '#IWantToGoOut'. There are way too many possible permutations of a single thought.

2. As another commenter said, the design is clean but feels like it belongs in 1995. It will not get off the ground looking like this. The basic layout is fine, but the colors and fonts need to go.

3. Without an app, I think you'll have a hard time gaining critical mass. If someone has a thought and all it takes to get it out onto Thoughter is to (i) open the app, (ii) type, (iii) and send, then it will be way more likely to be used.

4. This feels a bit like Craigslist Missed Connections. Not saying that's a good - or bad - thing, it just does.

5. What if I see a cute girl at a coffee store, we hit it off, but I don't have her email address - or even her name? What then?
I am actually surprised I even have 300+ karma points in first place given my opinions.

The weird part is I haven't really said anything that is even remotely indicative that I do not care about the planet or I hate electric cars etc. (The holy values that invoke the pitchfork mob of HN).

The reason why most people are skeptical of electric cars in todays market is because a second hand $5000 corolla beats that $40K Tesla any day it terms of affordability. Sure we can all speed up the adoption of electric cars saying the households that own only electric cars need not pay taxes at all for next 5 years. USA might soon have 100% electric cars.

I merely pointed out that the cost of electric cars in Norway is being paid through taxes and hence 60% sales is not impossible but fully predictable.
I think you are suffering a little bit from analysis paralysis. I don't think anyone has a good answer on how much bootstrapping is needed. Even if we had a good estimate in mind, it's going to be wrong at some point. Even if we have a bad or no estimate, it is neccessary to move forward with an optimization method of following the derivative on actions that reduce carbon. It's not a closed form world, following promising trends is the best way to collect more information. And the world is a big place, we can trace multiple paths forward in parallel and continue to reduce carbon, as well as collect data to find more optimal paths.
> 1. Wages are a small portion of the total cost of everything. For example, for a place like Walmart, the bulk of their costs is the products themselves

The investment retail makes to obtain goods which will be sold for a profit, is Not comparable to doubling the cost of having those goods put onto the shelves.

> 2. Only 2.3% of hourly workers are paid the minimum wage.

My kids were paid about a dollar over minimum wage to scoop ice cream at their summer jobs, according to some estimates [0] this slight amount over minimum wage accounts for 30% of the workforce.

[0]:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/04/5-facts-abo...
The underscore is fairly pleasant to read:

[1,2,3].map{_*2}

I think that's what Scala has. For multi-args, perhaps:

[1,2,3].reduce{_1+=_2}
Of cause the carbon footprint is stationary, since both nuclear and renewable are good on that front. Replacing nuclear with coal wouldn't be stationary and graphs [0] look like renewable has decently taken over former nuclear. I don't understand where you see something not working. I do understand nuclear advocates arguing the carbon footprint could be even better.

Also keep in mind some rural areas fighting tooth and nails to keep brown coal use/mining running, since these areas don't have much other economic prospects.

[0] https://energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&perio...
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font-family: 'AytwitHeaderFontEmbedded', 'AytwitHeaderFontFromUrl', Comic Sans MS, Comic sans-serif;

I would reconsider this decision.

Edit: To be clear, a font sets the tone for the content of a page and unless your project is an invitation to a clown orgy then Comic Sans sets the wrong tone.
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Society is changing. You don't have to.

People will judge you for what you say, the same way that you judge others for what they say.

What it seems here is that,
while you judge others,
you demand for the right to not be judged by others.
Interestingly, the logo is a direct copy of UCF's academic logo: https://www.ucf.edu/brand/brand-assets/logo-identity-system/. I wonder if there is a connection.
This has nothing to do with your age or the "kids these days" or social change. Just because you can't see yourself using something doesn't mean there's not lots of people who could use it, or that something is wrong with society.
Another plug for: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
Fridges: energy loss isn't that bad, especially when your fridge is decently filled. Most of the heat capacity is in the contents, not in the air. My current fridge is already off for multiple hours at a time. With a couple degrees of margin and a little bit of high-heat-capacity padding, this is realistic to do.

Clothes dryers: Agree, don't start a wash cycle, then wait 8 hours after finishing to start the drying cycle. But delaying both at once does work.

Hot water heaters: Already being done at a smaller scale, look up Quooker. Given known usage pattern, the replenishment of hot water can also be delayed.

Ice cooling: The math checks out. The temperature difference of 200 gallons of water from 5F to 70F provides over 400.000 BTU of heat capacity. A quick Google tells me that the upper size of air conditioning capacity is 14.000 BTU / hour, so that's more than enough. Given proper isolation, this can probably be lowered by at least an order of magnitude. 20 gallons isn't that much, in my opinion. Besides, this is already being done in practice, using the underlying soil as heat buffer. It has enough capacity for a whole season.

It's not ideal, but mathematically it checks out.
The Old Reader is compatible with a number of 3rd party clients, including GReader.
Yeah, this was reported in real time while it was happening.
That's most likely it, and also explains why I had trouble finding it on the regular archives. 220MB of text is a fuckton of random conversation to sift through if we want to do any meta-analysis on moderating styles however. At least it's a goldmine for serious researchers.
> Since nobody can get at the ssh key thats in the Yubikey, a short pin will be fine - at least that's what the system promises.

Short pin is fine because after 3 tries the token is locked.

On the other hand there are no limits with software keys.
If you come out of it reliably on your own within a few hours, that makes sense.
As far as pictures go, I've learned to be ruthless with the delete button and only keep photos that I really care about. Mostly, those are the ones with people in them, that record a meaningful moment in history, or with actually interesting subjects. Photography is somewhat of a hobby for me, so I still take a lot of photos, but I'm quick to delete them.

This has the side effect that I can store my entire photo collection (10 years/60 GB) on my phone's SD card where they are easily accessible. This has been valuable, because I refer back to photos I've taken years ago surprisingly often.
> To define what is a crime/wrong and what isn't, and to deal with the moral aspect of legal codes? Isn't this why we have laws?

The other thing that is provided by the government is how it applies justice, both in how it comes to its judgements and what the punishment should be. The keys being trial by a jury of your peers but most importantly the implementation of a framework for an individual to defend himself.

This is far superior to the more statutory and punitive corporate "conduct policies" are applied in the name of so-called political correctness, which is ideologically closed-minded and therefore arbitrary and tyrannical to begin with.

One of the primary complaints of the people who have been purged from the likes of twitter and youtube is that there is no court to appeal to, and when done all the way across platforms, no possibility to defend oneself at all. A cabal of corporate entities could simply decide to unperson someone, and it doesn't even matter why, because all evidence will just be erased and it will be impossible to hear from the person or group ever again. There is no trial, no record, no evidence, no possibility for defense or corrective action. Just summary judgement by a black boxed dictate into the memory hole.

At least the US justice system is designed to prevent this sort of absolute tyranny.

Also, what is this obsession with such a vaguely defined and subjective attribute as "harmful?" The logical conclusion of using the power of the State to "prevent harm" expanded to the emotional and psychological realms and basing its standard on the weakest and most subjective expressions of both will be to put every human on earth in a padding room, if not literally at least figuratively. Its like a new fundamentalist religion centered around Jainism, only with a bit of Marxist totalitarianism thrown in. Meanwhile, most animals are born, possibly reproduce, and then die. What the hell are we doing and why are people so fragile all of a sudden?
So basically what you want out of your jinja templates in python.

Does it handle line numbers correctly on errors?
I can't tell whether this is better or worse than header2whatever (piping C++ headers into Jinja2): https://github.com/virtuald/header2whatever
They used to - I remember pushing this feature hard when working on the search visual redesign in 2010, and getting the response that it was just a really hard engineering problem. The back-end teams delivered sometime in late 2011, and IIRC it was live in the left-nav (remember when Google had a left-nav?) for a few months to a year.

It was unlaunched eventually because nobody ever clicked on it. It turns out that disambiguation is a relatively rare feature for people to want when most of the query stream is navigational queries, and it's contrary to Google's goal of getting you to your answer as quick as possible (2 clicks if it were a UI feature vs. one click if the result were just in the results). AFAIK the backend is still live, but it triggers off keywords in the query rather than any UI element. If you search for [cloud weather] 100% of the results are about the meteorological phenomena, if you search for [thrush bird] 100% of the results are about the songbird, if you search for [jaguar car] 100% of the results are about the car, and if you search for [python snake] 100% of the results are about the reptile.
This is a pretty clever idea though the execution feels a bit off.

My guess is that this would appeal most to a younger audience but how many teenagers communicate via email?

I think it'd be a hit if it could somehow integrate with social media or even just SMS.
>It had a brief career as a party drug known as “Special K.”

brief? the author must not party very much.
A couple of people mentioned depression. I am a little scared of ending up in such a condition. I will maybe try to find a therapist to visit. It has been on my mind to go to one, but I have been and still am afraid it might go wrong ? Since I was little I've had this very active imagination - spacing out to some fantasy world is a constant part of daily life. I do it while walking, listening to music and often while I am around other people. Day dreaming helps me escape life for a bit and I am scared to talk to anyone about it. Because it's silly and sometimes concerning - I think about saving the world, climbing mountains, visitting other worlds, or hitting/killing other people during some conflict (imaginary people, not those from my life). It's a big part of me and I've never talked to anyone about it. A therapist might make me talk about it and that scares me.

Thanks for the advice.
"Electronics by comparison are a rounding error"

Big rounding error!

By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/25/semiconductor_indus...
I don't like this for the reason that it pushes people to use technology instead of hard conversations and personal contact, because it's so much easier.
Portable python for games...? Does it compile and run natively?
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I think we're in full agreement. It appears that we've figured out how to electrify automobiles already, for instance. That's a good thing.

It's just that some emission reductions are also open technological questions, and sometimes they're more or less open than the questions around sequestration, so hard-and-fast rules are hard to come by. Is it easier to sequester the emissions from space rockets than it is to build a Lofstrom loop? Is it easier to synthesize jet fuel from the atmosphere than to electrify jets? Where should R&D resources be optimally allocated, especially if we're taking a risk that certain approaches won't work out?
> No, he did not

Yes, he did.

> Under most copyright laws, lets assume worst case scenario for real life example of broken laws.

> If you send 100 wedding photos to your grandparents without paying photographer for copyright release. That's 100 instances of crime of copyright infringement per work, even if you didn't ask for money (commercial)

This is not a crime, it isn't a criminal offence, and so the criminal sanctions do not apply. It's a civil tort. For the criminal sanctions to apply it has to meet the criteria of the crime, and that includes commercial infringement -- in the example you'd have to sell the wedding photos to the guests.

Copyright law is stupid and it needs reform which is why it's important that people don't misrepresent what it actually says.
> Do _most_ companies follow DO-178C requirements?

No, because most companies aren't developing life-critical software.

I would imagine most companies that are developing life-critical software are familiar with those requirements.
Anything is probably too strong a word for me to use here. There's almost certainly some overlap with stuff like the 4th Amendment. But while you probably could use property rights as an alternative way to get at some government abuse, you've changed the overall nature of your argument.

TLDR, privacy is something that's intrinsic to you as a person, and property is something external that you just happen to have right now.

The typical arguments that are used to defend property rights (including the arguments that OP uses in this article) are largely centered around economic harm. In longer conversations this usually ends up being even worse than OP's apple example because the most direct analogy that gets brought up when discussing information ownership is copyright, which has a concept of fair use.

A pretty large component of nearly all existing IP systems is that there is a somewhat tangible value to information, and when someone takes your information they are taking that potential value away from you. And OP is probably right, if you tell an average person that Google is stealing from them, you will get a bigger reaction than if you tell them that Google is violating their privacy.

But privacy as I view it is not about economic harm, or even about my right to control how a piece of information gets used. Privacy is, very roughly, about my right to hide.

Right or wrong, if you go to an average person on the street (or even an average Congressperson) and tell them that putting all of your phone call metadata in a database violates your property rights, they're going to somewhat reasonably say, "that doesn't effect your potential market. It's not really harming you or preventing you from exercising your property rights. And if it ever does harm you for some reason, then you can argue it in court then."

But when I talk about PRISM in terms of privacy instead of property, the arguments I make are more direct. Violating someone's privacy has an observable chilling effect on freedom of speech and freedom of association regardless of whether or not future action is taken. In the US, we already have Supreme Court precedent on the books that a right to anonymity is often an essential part of exercising freedom of speech. We don't have any similar precedent that I'm aware of around IP or even general property rights.

Property rights additionally lead to undesirable questions like, "can the government tax your information?", or "if the government really wants your information, can it use eminent domain to seize it?", or "If you die, and no one inherits your information, can the government take it then?"
> I'd like those businesses to fail to clear out space

There's practically zero chance that will happen - either that the existing companies will "clear out" or that the same role would be filled by anything with a different business model. In the real world where Facebook will continue to exist, is there anything that the company or its employees could do that would meet with your approval?
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That thread is 2months old and GitHub/Microsoft still hasn't closed this security hole.
> Are you trying to argue that the process never does reverse itself? Because that does happen.

It does, but it is not guaranteed to - not even close. So to claim a tolerant society can't exist without censorship is reaching.
I host my email on my server for years. This is how email was designed. But unfortunately, most people tend to follow monopolistic, centralized services..
There's something incredibly weird about YouTube's algorithm, Jordan Peterson and Hacker News readers. That's a very common complaint. I've watched a few videos with him in and now my recommendations are also super-saturated with his vids.

I actually think he's OK, albeit not anywhere near as strong a speaker as his followers like to think. And to be honest I did enjoy watching Cathy Newman getting rekt by him when that video first came out. So I guess I contributed in some microscopic way to your current pain. But even for me, YouTube acts like I watch the dude every single day - out of the 8 videos it's currently recommending to me, 2 of them involve him. This is way out of proportion.

I suspect something about content involving him pushes lots of entirely legitimate buttons inside the recommendations engine. The organic growth in his popularity has been astronomical, and video comments are flooded with men saying watching his vids helped them turn their life around.

So if I had to guess I'd say watching one Peterson video is highly, highly correlated with watching tons of them. I suspect people who only watch one vid for a few minutes and then forget about him are a much smaller group proportionally than most YouTubers. I also suspect that this behaviour highly correlates with the same demographics that read HN i.e. educated western men who probably don't watch lots of celebrity music videos. It also wouldn't surprise me if JP videos are way more virally shared than normal, as he inspires a somewhat evangelical fervour.

That said, it's weird the recommendation engine can't pick up on being explicitly told "not interested". It makes me think the engine doesn't know the videos are JP related explicitly and it's picking up on other characteristics, so clicking "not interested" on these videos just looks kind of random and useless ("please don't show me this kind of popular video that strongly appeals to people like me" ... well ok mr youtuber but what else am i meant to do?)
Why would this be downvoted?
I agree with that approach in principle. I don't think "let's immediately replace everyone's housing" is a good instance of that approach being followed rigorously.
How is the big TV as a monitor? do you keep it on your desk or further behind?
I don't really see the point in using Python syntax and then throwing in a handful of random differences that don't have anything to do with the domain you're working in. Syntax level support for vector operations or for shader interopability I would get. Making for loops follow some randomly different syntax, I don't see the point of that.
Machine learning could probably be used to fuzzy-match the contents (probably removing the need for the hashtag altogether). Of course, false-positives could cause problems.
I think jq would be a better DSL for this, not least because it's easy to integrate libjq into C/C++/Rust programs.

I've also been thinking of building a trivial little library to use jq for configuration files, where jq syntax is more convenient than JSON, and too where you can always write or alter configuration objects using path-based assignments, so you get to choose JSON-style or TOML-style.
This is true regardless of whether you travel internationally. The converse is true as well: traveling internationally does not make it less secure to exchange information. Either way, we are well into tin foil hat territory here but if you do believe this, stop using (networked) computers.
Yeah, people keep saying that...IMO its huge and risky bet to hope for some future way to leverage the meta data for ML
I don't get your argument. In NZ, were very largely running on renewables. Hydro filling in the rest. There's a coal plant in Huntly which can be fired up to fill in any gaps. Most of the time it's not needed and this isn't a big deal.
> Hopefully these will be useful to others writing Yubikey-based applications.

Definitely! HMAC-SHA256 is nice and I was wondering if the TOTP feature of Yubikeys can be (ab)used for anything else that also uses HMAC-SHA256 (e.g. Macaroons).

I'll take some time to digest your code, thanks!
At least now they have to go through that effort again
This reminds me of processing.
https://processing.org/
I don’t really get it. Isn’t the opposite of this (restricting third party developers) exactly what people are furious at Twitter over, for killing Tweetbot etc.?
Looks similar to https://ivorylang.org/
Please link to even a single case where that actually happened.

You'll find that either people are monetizing the distribution; or they're distributing so much content the rights-holders claim it distorted the market.

I'd agree that neither of these should be criminal offences, but neither of them involve "simply receiving a copy".
> At the time that would have been a very difficult decision to make internally at Boeing, given that the 737MAX has $250 Billion worth of orders

That is exactly right and exactly why they need to be nailed for this.

No hindsight is required to know Boeing was focused on making sure the welfare of Boeing and it's shareholders was taken care of, with little or no regard to the welfare of the flying public.
There are 50 reactors under construction in 15 different countries.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
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Politically, I wonder if the best solution is the approach the other end of the development cycle, with dynamically scaling investment incentives that expand your "credit limit" to lend more if your projects successfully reduce carbon, but overall scale back as total carbon emissions reduce. Sort of a Green New Deal Fannie Mae type entity. Add in incentives to retire stranded fossil fuel centric assets like fracking rights, etc. This creates a psychologically different environment, more like a Fear of Missing Out on the development rush instead of a Fear of getting a Big Stick regulation.
All these services have to basically read your emails to send you notifications.