skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no, this is really, fundamentally wrong-headed technology. We already have more than enough petroleum to catastrophically ruin our environment.

As AOC put it, climate change is our World War II. We won't solve it by sitting on our hands and being negative about the real solutions that are out there.

> But the rest of the world has added 15 gigatons since 1990. That 15 gigatons represents a shift from desperate poverty in Africa, India, and China

Citation needed. But just taking China alone, they are shifting massively away from carbon emitting technologies and into alternatives.

Carbon recapture is a nice dream. But I'm skeptical it will deliver anywhere near the level of impact needed. Much better is to stop carbon emission at its source by making more industries sustainable... case in point, transportation should transition to electric so it can draw on the ever increasing sources of sustainable energy in the grid.
“Invoking AWS Lambda Functions
... I can invoke a Lambda function for each object, and that Lambda function can programmatically analyze and manipulate each object. ”

Wow thanks!
Converting carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons consumes energy. If the product is simply burned for fuel, I can see no benefit to this effort at all. Energy will have been consumed and carbon will be re-released.

What am I missing here? All I can see is a battery in the form of gasoline. And its efficiency remains to be seen - assuming the process actually works and can scale.
Direct charge from the cc I used to purchase the warranty!! They didn't ask me.
>> native Youtube donation/subscription/tipping service

This exists, already competes with Twitch, and is part of an even bigger portfolio of media services from Google. You're arguing for Google to do something they have been doing for years.

https://www.youtube.com/premium

https://support.google.com/youtubegaming/answer/6304294

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7277005
I was heavily involved in the startup scene all through my 20s, now in my 30s and still loving it. Turns out you can both be involved in tech and startups in your 20s and have it be the best time in your life. Everyone has different interests in life and we all have our own paths. I agree, enjoy your 20s, but you don't have to avoid tech, startups or hard work in order to accomplish that. Some of my favorite memories from my 20s are in the office late at night with my co-workers/life long friends trying to change the world. I'm still very close with many of those people and it doesn't feel like any of that time was wasted.
Thank You for doing this. I hope one day we will see a similar search for CC licensed music where you can search based on license type, and e.g. music style, beats per minute, length, audio format,...

I was recently trying to find music for a side project and searching for CC licensed music appears to have gone from somewhat onerous to very in sites like Jamendo.com, free music archive, etc. This is off topic but if someone can point to a website with CC licensed music where it’s possible to search based on license type (e.g. BY-NC-SA) I would love to know.
The way I look at it, interest rates are around 2.5%, so $5/month x 12 months divided by 0.025 is $2400 of capital you would need for $5 to be literally "nothing" to you.

By the same arithmetic, $20/month equates to $9,600.

So I think in a meaningful sense, your idea of "super cheap" is equivalent to "the price of a used car" if you look at the economic value of a monthly payment.
Okay - good riddance to him and the rest of the valley :-)
Day 1 of F8 (Facebook Developer Conference)
Kroger (Ralphs, etc.) sometimes sells grass-finished prime ribeye at $8/lb...as a loss leader to get people to buy the high-margin condiments, etc. they would eat alongside the meat. The sales only usually last a day or until supplies run out, but it does a pretty good job of bringing the keto crowd in.
>> 16. Some jobs in government may be easier to get than you imagine.

I will add to this my observation from reading Michael Lewis' book The Fifth Risk: if you can tolerate the bureaucracy, it's often possible to get to work on hugely impactful and highly-resourced projects early in your career by going into government.

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/132400264...
Yann LeCun did not, otherwise he’d be a coauthor. As it is, this was a collaboration between NYU and Facebook AI Research, with multiple authors working at both institutions.
> From there you don't need to look far to realize that the brain is really all there is. Just look at all the brain malfunctions. You've got people forgetting from dementia, so clearly the brain has most of your memories. You've got people with all sorts of weird phenomena from strokes.

We observe many correlations between the neurological and the mental, and it seems likely that in the years and decades to come we will learn many more. Materialists argue that this is evidence that the mental is a product of the neurological. But what about the idealist alternative, that the neurological is a product of the mental? An observed correlation between two phenomena cannot, by itself, tell us which of the two is more fundamental.
>It won't change the CO2 emissions created by home and commercial heating, agriculture, and industrial uses, which add up to another 3.5 or so gigatons.

So address each one in turn, or in parallel. You give no reason not to.
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I do not see where, in the proposed legislation[1], the requirements on Apple to honor or not honor warranties due to mishaps occurring during self-repair is changing. It seems like whatever they are (legally) doing today, they can continue to do.

What the legislation does do is require them to provide technical parts and details. Currently, my understanding is that Apple is strong-arming shops into either losing access to parts and knowledge (you don't become an Apple Authorized repair, and thus, lose access), or forcing them to lose business (you join, but Apple forces you to send them business as a condition and limits the types of repairs you, as a repair shop, can do).

My personal opinion is, if damage occurs during a repair: if it was due to error on the manufacturer's part, then it's under warranty. If it was your error, then it's not.

[1]: AFAICT, this is AB 1163, which is not cited nor mentioned in TFA: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
Stoicism as a Philosophy of Life
> I'm fairly sure the gitlab ceo commented before that they don't want to pay people way way over the local average because it could cause them to have people who don't want to be working there staying because they could never find a new job thats competitive where they are.

This is a lie. They pay people that live in lower cost-of-living areas less because they have greater leverage over them and can get away with it. End of story.
When I interviewed there a couple years ago (decided to stay in phx), it was a polyglot culture... the team I was interviewing with was largely node/js. I'm not surprised to see a lot of Python, Java or anything else that leverages existing tooling. For that matter, I wouldn't be surprised by custom C++, Go or Rust for some pieces.
> It's a comparable example.

But irrelevant. That one entity is doing something bad in no way means that it's OK for another entity to do the same thing.

Besides, the right to repair movement is not focusing on computer products. It's covering a wide variety of products, including Teslas and (perhaps the most egregious) farm equipment.
I strongly suspect that manufacturing hydrocarbon fuel out of air, water, and electricity is going to be a pretty significant part of the fight against climate change.

The reason is fundamentally political. Newly industrialized countries have a lot of vital economic activity dependent on internal combustion engines, and cannot afford the luxury of replacing them with alternatives. The West does not have the political will and power to worsen starvation in India in order to lower the CO2 emissions caused by engines manufactured and used in India. It's a lot more feasible to subsidize carbon-neutral fuel generation schemes until it's cost competitive for Indian consumers.

In other words, this kind of scheme can be used to essentially ship CO2 emission reductions from one country to another. It replaces a wicked problem with complex political and social components to a mere application of staggering sums of money and resources.
Haha I think theyd clock I wasnt the guy they thought I was when a tattood kid in his 20s walked in the door
Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath
For the specific situation of "parent currently lives near kids, kids can afford expensive house, parent can't afford a new house near them" I have sympathy. But it's kind of a niche case. If the parent lived anywhere else it would be equally sad, but locking tax rates wouldn't help them the tiniest bit. And anything that stagnates supply makes it harder not only on unlucky parents buying houses near kids, but on all the kids that want to buy houses near the parents.

If we were regularly pushing people out with huge paydays, and then putting in denser housing, they'd be able to afford to move right back in with the only downside being a smaller yard to offset their pile of cash. And people that didn't win the housing lottery would be able to move in too.
Lots of things existed in, say, 1996 that were more or less equivalent to modern things on the internet. But the size of the internet was a tiny, tiny fraction of what it is now, so I think it's very plausible that reinventing the wheel was part of growing it and if we went backwards it might indeed mean most of it would stop existing.
What does this comment have to do with the article? There are no mentions of Apple or Nvidia..
The issue is not that each one in isolation is particularly problematic, the issue IMO is when they get assembled by an end-user into a pile of mixed metaphors.

fmt::memory_buffer out1;
std::ostream out2 = std::cout;
auto out3 = printer(stream);
auto out4 = my_printer();

format_to(out1, ...)
out2 << "Hi..."
out3.print(5);
out3 += 6;

These all do the same but it's a total mess.
> Often when children go missing the parents are responsible or complicit in some way.

In that case, they are being investigated as suspects and should obtain all of the due process that suspects are afforded under the law. Reasonable suspicion, warrants, etc. should all be obtained - not "we won't investigate the crime unless you surrender your rights and permit us to investigate you as a suspect without warrant or cause."
Not sure if you know this or not, but I assume you aren't willingly misrepresenting the situation.

People will ship GENUINE/ORIGINAL apple parts, with lets say a cracked piece of glass, but otherwise good screen assembly, back to an OEM to have them replace the glass. When the REPAIRED part is returned to the company who sent them to an OEM, customs will destroy them as counterfeit, even though they aren't counterfeit parts, just repaired.

I'm oversimplifying, but if repairing something makes it a counterfeit, then the same logic could be applied to a dell computer that had its HD replaced while overseas and should be destroyed, using that logic.
>wouldn't offset the growth in India, China, and Africa. And those places are a long ways away from electric cars

On the contrary, China is going crazy for electric cars. And the U.S. and EU are starting to turn as well. I wonder where you are getting your ideas.
That's why I went with the Bose SoundSports. The two ears are tethered to each other, can be clipped to the shirt collar, and securely fit against the concha. I don't see being sweaty and bouncing around on rocky trails leading to anything good with those fancy airpods.
> it's tree-shaped threads

Tree like threads existed on forums long before reddit. But this is one of the reasons I'd say reddit is more like a mailing list or a newsgroup.

> and it's subreddits.

Again, like a mailing list.

> What defines Reddit is it's ranking algorithm

This is it's big difference, I'm still not convinced ranking algorithms do more good than harm though.
At best, useless. At worst, detrimental to the experience. It's a good way to drive me away from your site. I can't think of anything I hate more (in design terms) than the current trend of auto-playing videos following you down the page.
It's not really an issue of sufficient reserves so much as it's an issue of co-mingling corporate and client funds.
People should do what they want to do. You don't want to be anybody else otherwise you would be that person. I know how I would do my life over, but I don't think anyone else other than me would like to have my current life nor my hypothetical do-over life.
New Features in Visual Studio 2019
I think the difference is that in the end a Bank is backed and regulated by the US Government.

Tether is not. So it is solvent or insolvent.
Some people seem to be missing the context in which this article was written: 80000 hours is about effective altruism, in the sense of deliberately building a career that does the most good in the world (whether that be charitable work, politics, or "earning to give" as a software engineer / banker / etc). The article itself doesn't explicitly state this unfortunately.

So yeah, the advice is very nuts and bolts, and several of the points don't make any sense without that context (e.g. picking the low-hanging fruits). It's assumed that the reader is already highly motivated to have an impactful altruistic career, and that this motivation is a primary source of self-fulfillment.

Just pointing this out because there seems to be a bit of confusion in the comments here.
> It's a bit of a shame that Librem Tunnel doesn't use WireGuard, though I imagine they'll switch once it's in mainline.

It's a bit of a shame that WireGuard still requires out of tree components to work.. I'm rooting for it to get accepted/merged, but until it does it just becomes a greater risk to build a business off of it.
> Carbon recapture can do a very important thing renweables cannot--allow the developed world to suck out the developing world's CO2.

What would that look like? Pipes on top of smoke stacks in China? Big mesh blanket clouds in the sky?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_...

"In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Russia then annexed Crimea after an unlawful referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, according to Russian official results.[12][68][69][70][71] In April, demonstrations by pro-Russian groups in the Donbass area of Ukraine escalated into an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In August, Russian military vehicles crossed the border in several locations of Donetsk Oblast.[31][72][73][74][75] The incursion by the Russian military was seen as responsible for the defeat of Ukrainian forces in early September."
This will be nice for legacy cars, but I would prefer my Tesla to pretty much any ICE car. Even if it was running on solar powered gasoline. The quiet, the torque, the instantaneous acceleration.
Another factor is that cancer cells act more aberrantly under stress. Fasting (not sure if this also applies to keto) creates resources competition by which cancer cells neither compete as effectively and make theme-selves more apparent to the body’s immune system. Lot’s of anecdotal information here with some evidence but as a hypothesis with reasonable with reasonable biological justification it makes enough sense to me that I’d be personally comfortable taking some of these risks for my self or my family.
As long as I can completely remove, 100%, their 'add-on' services, and still use their OS/hardware, I'd be happy.
> The current cost of carbon capture is about $120 per ton. If it follows the same trend as improvements on solar panel cost, that could be $40 per ton in a decade.

This sounds reasonable to me. Do you believe this will be the way forward most likely?
If you're interested in the systematic reasons why congress as a whole is not tech savvy, you should probably skim through the Congressional Research Service's profile of Congress: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44762.pdf

Among the tidbits:
- the average age of Reps in 2018 was 57.8 years and senators was 61.8 years
- 167 Members of the House (37.8% of the House) and 55 Senators (55% of the Senate) hold law degrees
- There are 6 software company executives in the House and 2 in the Senate

In direct response to the original question Ron Wyden of Oregon pops up a fair amount in tech and tech-related questions.
Snitches get...their phone confiscated, apparently.
I don't want it on my phone, so I only use the Messenger client there, and only use the rest of FB on my laptop.

My understanding is that the hip and with-it (or the under-30s) don't use FB anyway nowadays.

For me, it's almost purely a slightly better version of SMS.
One UI, one login, verified(ish) identity of peers, one notification source
What you’re basically denying is the soul; when phrased that way, are you still surprised by the people who don’t agree with you?
Show HN: Anya (v2.1), chatbot to free RAM and CPU in your brain
Anya is a chatbot that lives on Facebook Messenger and Telegram. She's designed to provide you with cues at relevant times of day to either review your progress on your life procrastinations, track your sleep or meditate.

I'm a big believer in self-automation. However, before we even start talking about AI completing tasks for us, I believe we should already start with freeing up cognitive capacity. This bot allows me to go about my day whilst capturing small pieces of information at relevant times. It then resolves that information back to me so I can critically analyse it and take action.

My favourite feature: The procrastinator. This tool takes up to 3 goals at any time. Each day I fail to complete a goal, I have to add an excuse and over time I see them piling up, which provides me with material to ensure I can't reuse them

Backstory: After spending a heck of a lot of time building discipline and habits and trying a bunch of apps, I decided to build something that focuses on the essentials. Conversational approaches spoke more to me than all these apps that try to be impressive but ended up distracting me

Feedback welcome: "Evolution favours not the strongest, but those who are the most adaptable to change"

https://www.anyalife.org
Glancing through the paper it seems like they use the recent Transformer model. Does whatever underlying stack they use expose something to share RNG seeds and the exact hardware optimizations your environment applies during training? Otherwise "publishing the seed" sounds nice but might not be as trivial as the phrase suggests.
You don't have access to Apple-supplied parts and especially don't have access to Apple-supplied training. Even if Apple did make this publicly available, the overwhelming majority of people are not remotely qualified to follow along, and making this available to end users just ensures that people will damage their own devices.

If you want to risk damaging your device, that's fine, but it just doesn't make sense to demand that Apple then turn around and provide warranty service to a phone that was damaged by an unqualified user opening up their device and mucking with it.

Apple should support a phone after a third-party repair if the third party uses Apple parts and is qualified to do so using Apple training materials. The alternative is that Apple should be on the hook for providing at-cost first-party repair within a reasonable distance of their entire customer base around the entire world, but Apple doesn't seem to want to operate enough stores to adequately service the repair needs of all of their customers.
How about dogs? They are smart and friendly but they was used for military purposes for ages, and I believe they are used today. How about people? They are smart but they are used for military purposes even today. Governments use different stimuli like patriotic ideas or money to trick people into killing others and risking their lives. How about this?

How can we speak that using animals for a warfare is less humanistic than using people for that purposes?
Who is “they”? What is your point?
Next: a protest to protest the retaliation for the protest against retaliation
It's almost as if publishing the thing was more important for the authors than the scientific value of the content.
Generating Wideband Speech from Narrowband
Yawn ... let me know when they redesign their core business.
> so that we can maintain the status quo indefinitely.

Is that good enough? I've read that in China, they have some days where there are warnings to stay inside because there are random green substances in the air?
Or nuclear. A big nuclear plant could be built somewhere with cheap land, no earthquakes, and minimal weather. You don’t even need electric transmission infrastructure.

If the capital costs are low enough, cheap or free spot electricity could be used, too. California regularly has excess production.
Oh I’m sure they do know.
Is there any benefit to that? I mean, does it convince anyone of anything, like that you're not using an ad-blocker? Or is it a pure public service?
The U.S. Jobs Disappearing the Fastest
Waymo is looking like it took the wrong direction too. So bad news all around
I'd agree that outside of California it might be problematic, but we have so much renewable in the grid it'd be trivial to do properly. I also think using excess power to remove carbon is ultimately a good idea.
Find the biographies of people whose job you’d like to have, and figure out how they got there. You can effectively reverse engineer their career path.

I highly doubt that one.
They want you to use matrix, not SMS or XMPP.
Direct, targets Russian accountants with assorted malware
An episode of Shark Tank recently featured a camo design made out of real photographs of natural backgrounds. Does the military not know about this option?
>I strongly suspect that manufacturing hydrocarbon fuel out of air, water, and electricity

If you already have electricity, that is all the energy you need. There is no need to use it to produce a toxic, polluting fuel that is used in highly inefficient internal combustion engines. Simply use electric motors, which are way more efficient.
I use a fake identity generator (search for “fake name generator”) to play along and give them real-looking details and then ask them for the company’s details for whatever scam they’re shilling.

They’re never telling you that upfront but they’re usually more than happy to say after “closing” (or so they believe) their deal.

At that point I can go after the company in small claims court for calling a number registered on the TPS (equivalent of the do not call list in the US).
Fascinating, thankyou
And I (after using InteliJ for nearly 7 years) switched to Spacemacs and never been happier.
VSCode becoming so popular, people think you're crazy if you're not using it.
Monoculture is never good in any environment. It's great that we have different tools and everyone can find something that frustrates them the least.
No.. sales tax (GST in Australia) is passed on to the consumers and the companys do not pay any of this so they pay very little tax on Their profits

Most invoices even point this out by putting their total price adding on the GST to the invoice for a total
And yet it's still 1:1 on coin market cap and everyone is all "what me worry?"