skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be more cost-effective than forcing everybody- including the poor- to buy brand new Teslas. Assuming that:

* It costs $0.50 per tree planted,

* trees absorb 1 ton of CO2 each,

* Teslas cost $15,000 more than regular cars

* Teslas emit 1 gallon of fuel less than regular cars per 25 miles (starting after 50,000 miles: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324128504578346...)

* 1 gallon of gas produces 20 lbs of CO2

* Cars will last 250,000 miles

Then we have Teslas saving us:
( (250,000-50,000) miles * 1 gallon per 25 miles * 20 lbs per gallon)/$15,000 = 10 pounds of CO2 saved per dollar spent on Teslas, compared to 4,000 pounds of CO2 saved per dollar spent on planting trees.

This is why I associate myself with climate skeptics despite their negative reputation. An economic analysis of climate change seems to suggest that the world will be worse off with climate change mitigation, as it's currently being practiced, than with climate change itself.

Edit: It's actually quite interesting to see that your username resembles the name of Bjorne Lomborg, a famous scientist who often makes arguments about the economics of climate change and comes to similar conclusions as I do.
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I think they're also lumping Android into the other category.
Why not both? The best solution is probably somewhere in the middle.
And now I feel like I have something to go on instead of just arbitrary vagueness and claims that I should be able to discuss the issue without knowing what the issue is. Thank you!
Any other recommendations in the category of long-term Japanese history and anthropology? I find this subject really interesting, but have struggled to find good sources.
I don't know about this specific case, but often the exact models are so complex that you can't optimize them analytically, so you resort to a global optimization best effort, where the results are not guaranteed to be any good - so you might as well try something DL-based too, to see how it would perform.
> Indigenous peoples have their own cultures, languages, traditions, etc. Unfortunately, colonization has oftentimes wiped out these things.

So what? Colonization overall has brought humans much further than any st agent culture ever would have. But even then cultures are not stagnant, so to suggest these people are the same as the "first" people is silly.

You really don't want culture to stand still, and preserving old cultures for the sake of them being old is also silly. They come with a lot of baggage. May of these older cultures would frown on things like race mixing, homosexuals, and trans people. Many of these older cultures also resist new medicines and technologies -- (hint, that is why they find them selves not in power).

All in all the notion of preserving a "culture" is silly. If any thing we should be documenting what we can for history and moving on.

I am not going to force somebody to assimilate, but I am also not going to give them special previsions to resist assimilation.

Then we have to get in to what culture is. Just because somebody long long long ago did X one way we need to respect it today? That is silly. The time of how long something has been done a given way is basically what we call culture. Many of the things if we started today make you a laughing stock.

For example, if I decided to not ware clothing (hey, that is how my ancestors did it and was part of their culture), I would probably be arrested. Little alone the ramifications of how poor life would be without jeans.

Its not that I don't have respect for culture, its I don't have respect for practicing old culture notions in modern day. We have many examples of areas left untouched by outsiders and where the influence of "colonizers" has been shunned. And yet, I bet not a single one of those seems like a advantageous place to go live.

In any case, "culture" is destroyed daily, yet nobody cares -- and that is a good thing.
>DataCamp did all they were told to do

There are three qualifiers on that in the original post.

>and yet, the complainers are not happy

It's very possible to be unhappy with how someone does something that you ask them to do, if they do it poorly. The post then goes on to detail what exactly the author finds to be lacking in what DataCamp did.

>the text basically doesn't give any real detail about what happened

What do you mean? It seems to explain what the company's response very clearly. If you mean it doesn't describe the contents of the initial allegation, that's not the topic of the post.
Don't compare 3000BC to internet times.
> That's a good point. What would it even look like if there was an official, authoritative list of things to be censored, with draconian enforcement? Xi Jinping isn't going to personally decide what goes on the list. He's certainly not going to personally adjudicate the myriad edge cases. Inevitably the system must devolve into a lot of individuals making conflicting decisions.

> I see no way to have a cohesive, official censorship apparatus with centralized control, unless the method employed simply involves cutting cables. That would be pretty unambiguous.

Social control and censorship is far more effective than governmental censorship. Being "excommunicated" or ostracized from your social group is enough to prohibit many people from making political expressions (or otherwise).

For a dumb but illustrative example, think about how your posting habits on social media might change if your relatives were receiving those posts.

The best part is that it allows the government to indirectly encourage practices and behavior that would likely receive criticism in the global community if done directly.
I don't think it's so much that they shipped with Mario 64 as that all the games that made more sense to use a dpad for wound up on the playstation instead, which didn't originally ship with any kind of 3d control stick at all.

Nintendo dove deep into 3d on the n64 and they knew they were going to, but they put the dpad there assuming they'd be as successful as they were with the snes and there'd be a much wider diversity of game types for the platform.

Really though I don't think the design is really much of a mystery and I always wonder how the people confused by it tried to hold it. Did they try to grip the outer handle and reach in to the stick or something? It was never unobvious to me how to hold it or why they did it that way.

Personally I'd rather play 3d games with the n64 controller than the dual shock/analog, in terms of layout, just because the stick is in (one of the) primary position. Modern controllers with stick primary and dpad secondary and two grips are, to me, superior to either for 3d games though.
> agriculture is the essential difference between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples

Isn't part of the history of Plymouth that the Mayflower pilgrims had no idea how to farm and were woefully unprepared and thus on the verge of starving, but the indigenous Wampanoag people helped them learn how to do it and survive?

Isn't there massive, widespread and overwhelming evidence that most indigenous societies in the Americas as an example practiced sophisticated agriculture and had an enormous variety of developed crops and techniques including selective breeding, biochar, terracing, enormous terraforming projects, large scale irrigation systems, special varieties of maize for arctic, desert and salty biomes, as well as developing massive trade networks that managed to get central american grown cocoa as far north as Utah?

How could it be that such cultures could possibly be described as being distinguished by not having agriculture?
> therefore we are not in a position to comment.

I did not read anything of the sort in that response. It stated that respondent disagreed with your conclusion and explained why. Are you conflating a difference of opinion with suppression of free expression? That does not seem a healthy attitude to have.
I eventually figured that out, after going through 3 different blogs, the last of which states (without linking, so thanks for actually providing a link to her posts) that the victim came forwards... but still there isn’t anything from the victim about what occurred or even reflections on the current public proceedings, just a recognition of her being he victim and a thanks for support.

I feel like if she’s supporting the mob calling for a firering, couldn’t she at the very least say so? And why are all these separate people that are writing long blog posts about “the incident” all being so vague about the facts? If the victim
Has come forwards why not just say so and link it? Why not ask the victim what she thinks should happen now, or what happened then?

I feel like every post i read raises more questions than they answer.
And the general sentiment seems to be “the offenses we are vaugely referencing are so severe that you should support our case without knowing the facts” which just makes me suspucius of what the facts actually are.
Considering this action is in response to a bunch of bombings of Christian churches (which happens in nearly every country with a Christian minority around Easter), maybe the problem isn't social media but a particular (Saudi funded) extremist sect of a certain religion?
That's a weird take, since huge sections of the report deal with Wikileaks, email server administration, and social media manipulation.
NFS is faster and it looks like a normal filesystem to the app so you don't need any special file I/O code.
Systemd – The Good Parts
Firefighters Are Warning to Never Leave Bottled Water in Your Car
At least in India, I believe this is generally done to help wash out any grit - the same process is used for lentils too.
Yep, the standard practice nowadays is buying Visa gift cards and then using them to purchase money orders. It’s usually only worth the time and effort if you have a good sign up bonus on your credit card. However, I’ve also been looking into some creative and profitable ways to utilize the “float”—the pile of cash you’re sitting on for 4-6 weeks until the bill is due. It’s definitely worth my time if I can use that productively and roll it over each month...
A similar thing happened with Chiron: http://maf.directory/misc/chiron.html

Quote from Donald Knuth for context: "[Floyd] was destined to be disappointed that his dream of a new, near-ideal programming language called Chiron was never to be realized--possibly because he was reluctant to make the sorts of compromises that he saw me making with respect to TEX. Chiron was "an attempt to provide a programming environment in which, to the largest extent possible, one designs a program by designing the process which the program carries out." His plans for the Chiron compiler included novel methods of compile-time error recovery and type matching that have never been published."
It seems like an ironic blind spot to me. Western liberals claim to be all about tolerance and diversity and multiculturalism, yet seem to have difficulty conceiving of the idea that maybe some other cultures genuinely don't want to turn into Western Liberal Democracies.
That is pretty cool. I have a friend who mentioned he helped another friend sell his company once. He was a business guy, not corporate, but it kind of piqued my interest.

Did you think of scaling your prqctice?
Zotonic (an Erlang based framework and CMS) was inspired by the movie and referenced it in their introduction video some years ago: https://youtu.be/r9cmWJvXIj4
Hybrid approaches have been getting some interesting results lately[0], and will probably continue to do so, but the approaches between statistical and symbolic AI are so different that these are essentially cross-disciplinary collaborations (and each hybrid system I've seen is essentially a one-off that occupies a unique local maxima).

I suspect that eventually there will be an "ImageNet Moment" of sorts starring a statistical/symbolic hybrid system and we'll see an explosion of interest in a family of architectures (but it hasn't happened yet).

[0] http://news.mit.edu/2019/teaching-machines-to-reason-about-w...
This reminds me so much of my own lost heritage.

My parents were Sami and Kven, but they didn't teach us, the children, their mother tongues. When they were growing up in the 50s and 60s, Norwegian schools would punish children who spoke their mother tongues instead of Norwegian. There was an explicit policy of assimilation and being Sami in particular carried shame.

Unlike the person in the article, I was aware of my background. However, I am as robbed as he is of any cultural heritage. Our parents raised us as Norwegian — a generic version of it with few local roots except for the accidental Sami influences that did slip through the cracks. It didn't help that I grew up in a central area mostly populated by people from the surrounding areas. The distinguishing trait of my home town is that it doesn't have one.

I feel mostly like a mutt. When I travel Norway, I see people with an actual culture, and I envy them a little. I don't have that kind of anchoring or rich tradition to draw on.
> To what end? It was 30 years ago. The Eight Elders are all dead. You really think a bunch of westerners tutting at China about lowlights in their history will do anything other than galvanize Chinese nationalism?

This makes me wonder if discussions of reparations for slavery have fueled a similar fire in the United States. In my mind, criticism of past wrongs would lead to resentment by those criticized. I'm not in any way saying that discussing past harms has caused a resurgence of these issues, but I do wonder if there is some relationship.
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Reminds me of the Norm MacDonald joke:
"When I was a child, they told me to crush the cans, recycle and plant trees. It's for your own future.

Then I grew up and 'here I am', and they said, 'not you, it's for the future generation'.

I know a pyramid scheme when I see one."
> ... When undergraduate students at Peking University, which was at the center of the incident, were shown copies of the iconic photograph [of Tank Man] 16 years afterwards, they were "genuinely mystified." One of the students said that the image was "artwork." It is noted in the documentary Frontline: The Tank Man that he whispered to the student next to him "89," which led the interviewer to surmise that the student may have concealed his knowledge of the event.

Reminds me of this: https://vimeo.com/44078865
I don't see how this is supposed to reduce violence. Censorship seems like it would be more likely to engender violence than suppress it. Also, trying to blame violence on social media is a little ridiculous when the entire history of the world before social media is nothing but horrible atrocities.

Al Qaeda seemed to organize just fine without social media.
Packetriot (https://packetriot.com) - around 4 months old and I haven't begun seriously marketing, but it generates $60/month and makes a tiny profit.

With it you can create a secure public endpoints (HTTP/TCP) from any network. The client can host static sites, reverse-proxy to other hosts, terminate TLS. It manages Lets-Encrypt for you. The higher-end tiers provides access logs, metrics, firewall rules, and service-health checks.

With a public endpoint you can pretty much do anything. I initially built it to reduce my hosting costs to something minuscule (which it did). I found alternatives as I developed it, but I was so interested in the problem I continued and created some features that aren't available in others. I still have more ideas in the pipeline.

I've been putting together video tutorials to showcase what you can do with it and how to use it. I'm focusing on people that self-host since most developers/hackers understand the concept. A lot of my registrations and customers have discovered Packetriot through my YouTube channel.
Loved the 2nd list but I wish all the people who lied got handcuffs too. Don’t let them off so east!
One easy change is removing sugar and just drink coffee black.
Thank you! That adds a lot of the needed context to the original post which feels quite important.
How to ruin a great hobby: make it your job.
Tried that. Unless you have a lot of properties or can get one who is also an REA, they aren’t nearly as motivated as your more “proactive” tenants will demand.

And forget about evicting an unwieldy tenant on any reasonable schedule in California. I have friends who’ve been foreclosed upon while trying to get unpaid tenants evicted.

If you’re willing to do this as a second job, go for it! Personally I would (with the benefit of hindsight) invest in a multi-unit income property or a vacation home with rental potential if I were going to buy investment properties, but that’s just me.
"Last year, the government briefly blocked social networks after viral rumors and calls to violence, circulating largely on Facebook, appeared to provoke a wave of anti-Muslim riots and lynchings.

Government officials had repeatedly warned Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, that the posts could lead to violence."

Sri Lanka isn't trying prevent people from communicating with each other or censorship. Sounds like they've been bitten by social media-driven violence in the past, which wouldn't be the first country to see this phenomenon (Myanmar).

It's so easy to assume a corrupt government motive here, but we've seen ethnic violence perpetuated on social media in the past. What's a government supposed to do when that happens?
This is great that we have many options. However, as I am reviewing the various build tools I can't find that suits my needs. Pretty much a lot of the build tools, such as bazel, nix, take over the native language dependency management and build operations. What I would like is a simple build dependency tool, similar to what Amazon has for their build tool called (brazil) that can manage pulling packages locally to build.

Here is what I would like to achieve in own projects:

1. Work on a NodeJS project A that can locally install NPM packages based on packages.json.

2. Have another Python or Go project that build depends on project B.

3. The build tool allows the dependencies pulled either from artifact repository or use checked out version locally.

This build system focuses on the WHAT to build vs HOW to build, which will be driven by project's own build tool, e.g. ant, npm, maven, etc.

I am considering creating my own simple build tool which is inspired by the Amazon's own tooling.

BTW, does not anyone know if I am allowed to develop my own tooling inspired on company's internal tooling? Obviously it won't be exactly the same but taken with lots of inspirational values.

Here is more details on the Amazon's build tool: https://gist.github.com/terabyte/15a2d3d407285b8b5a0a7964dd6...
TL;DR: Yes, dodge enemies and use shortcuts. Some levels require the use of glitches to make other monsters kill the final boss.
special treatment based off being indigenous

Not having your language and culture coercively erased is not 'special treatment'. Again, framing it like that is not some flinty insight into a hard truth. It's just making stuff up.
I read all so far comments, I don't think that blocking social media is to silence voices and block freedom of speech. I strongly believe (from a crowd-control/security standpoint) that eliminating social media, whatsapp, signal, etc, the hidden communication channels are removed.

So if the government knows that e.g. Henry Bemis is a known trouble-maker, it is easier to monitor his phonecalls, emails, SMS and find out what are his next steps of this bomber/terrorist/whatever. If Henry Bemis is using Signal, WhatsApp, Twitter DMs, Facebook messages, etc. it is easier to coordinate the next steps of an attack, awaken sleepers etc. without the government's security forces to be able to react equally fast.

Typical counter-terrorism stuff (or I just have a wild imagination).
This is awesome! I'm curious tho, is there not a trademark/patent that prevents you from making/selling these?
Facebook USA politics are discussed all the time.
You could consider ‘partitioning’ your DB when you migrate your schema so each DB instance only deals with a single bitemporal slice eg after 5 migrations you have 5 distinct database instances. This approach avoids bloat assuming the vast majority of queries would be served by the most recent instance, while not precluding serving verbatim responses from earlier instances.
> "genuinely mystified." ... "artwork."

It's all about plausible deniability. Funnily enough, that's exactly why censorship doesn't actually work - these things are precisely what people would say if they knew about the picture and its significance, but wanted to make an outer impression that they don't. I think it's quite possible that the Chinese nationalists "protesting" Leica's shameful, anti-Chinese campaign are playing a very similar game, even while clearly hinting that they do respect the government's authority. These things are not what they seem to be, there's a lot of subtlety involved.
Search past HN posts or look it up on Wikipedia, it's been discussed many times.
Common Crawl is referenced in the document.
There was even Television series many years ago.[0]

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0390792/
You are welcome.

Thank you for spreading his name, here and hopefully elsewhere. He and the people he helped deserve it.
> bombings of Christian churches ... happens in nearly every country with a Christian minority around Easter

That's quite a claim. How many examples can you think of?
No, denying that is at most failing to understand some connection.

Attacking others doesn't help you make others understand the problems you are seeing.
It seems like the idea is recommending the Open Web Index (has its own website).

I like a modified version of this. I think that it should be a p2p technology and not try to create one meta-index but rather be many domain-specific ones, with one or more tools or DBs to select which indices to search given a query/context.

Are there any decentralized alternatives to Google out there already?

I think that also this overlaps with the idea of moving from a server-centric internet to a content-centric internet.
Have you sold any of the managed properties? That seems to be where problems arise. A fellow landlord friend ended up having to dump his property manager and bring in a REA who whipped the place into shape for sale.

8% is not bad if the goal is income properties. However I would invest in a multi unit property if I were going to be a landlord again. Less concern about one bad tenant potentially leading to foreclosure if you get crunched from all sides. (Which seems to be how it usually happens)
It's pretty impressive how long firearms are expected to last given proper storage. I've got a No1 MK III stamped 1914 that still functions alright - doesn't group so well due to a less-than ideal bore but the bolt and magazine shoot fine. People still shoot martini-henry rifles.
I have asked many as well. I believe it is partly cultural pressure to conform, but mostly because they all have family back in China still and care about what happens to them.

I have also heard, but have not been able to verify, that any Chinese student who studies abroad must become a member of the Communist Party.
> Don't know why this is being downvoted

The key answer is contained in my comment -- to wit: "yet apparently no one is willing to do that [fundamentally change themselves]". Even most intelligently people, the demographics of HN, are unwilling ... hence the (mindless) downvotes.
Non pay title increase, that's like free to them... wtf.
You obviously have not much experience creating something.

They already did more than "an idea".
3d models, marketing ( eg. Video), product iterations,..

They mostly want funds to manufacture the product, because not everyone can spend money for a MOQ manufacturing run...

What they do is unethical.

Here's some more info: https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-...
We must do both.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708429