skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ER founders chose nonviolent civil disobedience (which of necessity 'inconveniences' people) following decades of empirical research (eg. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780...) claiming to show that it's the most effective strategy for effecting fast & large-scale social change. I don't know the research well enough to assess it, but I'd trust it over lay guesswork (my own included!).

The only further point I'd make is that less 'inconvenient' strategies (organising, lobbying, campaigning) have already failed. They've been tried relentlessly for 3 decades, and it's a done deal: they didn't work. Our civilisation is accelerating its path to global destruction (of which climate change is only one component). Emergency last-ditch strategies are all that's left.
We're nowhere close to MLK's dream yet, because of people who think like you.

And no, I don't want revenge on anyone, stop focusing on yourself. This is about giving people who don't have resources more of them, and in so doing finding the true bright spots on this planet.

If you think this has anything to do with individual punishment, you're a lost cause...
Or alternatively, it's evidence of the kind of ethics that helps you succeed in business, and the VCs made the most profitable decision. Consider, e.g. Steve Jobs scamming Steve Wozniak out of the bonus for Wozniak's Breakout circuit board design.
This might be a dumb question but can you sell a treasury bond to a 3rd party before the terms are over without losing too much money?
There aren't many students fit for grad school (in the sciences) that are held back by poor secondary education. Obviously, some specialized programs could accelerate top kids farther, faster, but they're mostly already grad-school capable.
Not if you value political freedom
A vast majority of the Chinese international students I met in college were:

Already incredibly wealthy (if you think inequality is bad in the US, you should see Shanghai or other parts of China) and had no intentions of staying in the US and were just here for education. It was extremely common to see Chinese students driving around in BMWs, Mercedes, Audis, and very often nicer cars, and it became something of a stereotype with most of the people I knew. Not to mention my university was taxpayer funded.
>“It’s not correct to attribute that to any single item.”

What a lying sack of shit. A single failed sensor caused the plane's automatic systems to nosedive it into the ground.
This clickbaity, sensationalist opinion-headline is, as the headline puts it, a slap in the face of journalistic integrity.
I implemented hot reloading once for a game scripting engine. The gain was totally worth the work I put in (and had the side effect of discouraging use of globals).
Thank you for your offer.

One of the advantages of holding on to this idea for so long is that it's given me time to save a bit of a runway.

Hopefully the fabled Product/Market fit materialises before this runs out :)
Admitting sociopathy (outside of financial & real estate circles) is generally a losing strategy.
Series 3 and Series 4 watches are also the most visually distinct due to the S4's significantly larger screen. S0-S3 are all identical, aside from the red dot on the side of the LTE S3 and minor (1-2mm) changes in dimensions.
Note that the asf infra is - at best - insufficient. Cassandra relied heavily on donated Jenkins worker VMs for all tests because the asf donated VMs couldn’t run the test suites. Recently we started moving tests to circleci... because it was better than waiting 24 hours for tests to run in Jenkins.
It is the same situation for Indian students, but due to visa and green card quotas and long processing delays. I'm hoping this leads to a boon for the Indian technology sector, which has already seen a resurgence over the last few years.
COM files are great... no headers, you just sort of start. Data, code... whatever.
Someone taking your idea is annoying. There's nothing you can do.

Someone taking your deck is copyright infringement. You could sue but you'd wouldn't win much if you won at all.

Someone using your deck to successfully raise under the pretence that it is their own work is fraud. If you feel strongly about it you really should contact the police.
For a tool that has the high goal of "mapping human knowledge" and use A.I., I'm just not very impressed by the lack of APIs and no mention of a data model.

I feel that to map human knowledge and make it accessible and understandable for machines, the data model should be put front and center. For me that means a knowledge graph (preferably with SPARQL/OWL capabilities).

Were's the metadata? The wiki pages don't even have schema.org data! I'd be more interesting if golden provided UI improvements over the querying and presentation of data from Wikidata and/or DBPedia, or if golden's editor would make it easier to annotate the content of the wiki pages with RDF data.
Deconstructing Serverless Computing Part 2
Rich in the US means best healthcare in the world, best education and eniterely risk free from political persecution.
Great! A book length biography of Wheeler is long overdue.
Thats a low compression mower engine. Modern automobile engines are indeed quite sensitive to predetonation from slower ignition times offered by most alternatives without being designed for them.
cool! I look forward your write up :-)
It does whether or not they're trustworthy. You may think the loan will not get repaid...but it's in their interest to repay it. They're making plenty of money at Bitfinex. The idea that they're going to run some elaborate ponzi scheme to steal money, when they're making several hundred thousand dollars per day in fees is kind of silly.
There's a difference between running a side game on your own time and smuggling schlocky trinkets on a mission of national significance under a international spotlight. I suppose you can spin it as a triumph of capitalism, but most people would consider it an embarrassment.
As someone who agrees with your point about not taking your career so seriously I agree with point 1 on the post.

> Don’t focus too much on long-term plans.

As someone who has just worked hard on the thing in front of me without long term planning it has paid off pretty well. That along with being pleasant seems to go a long way. I didn't need a list or a philosophy to figure that out I just happened.

12 was where I felt alienated.

> Avoid spending time to earn or save money.

When the author starts talking about their time being so valuable that they throw money at things and don't cook etc. to me they sound like a rich out of touch robot and not a normal relatable person.
Realistically they've run out of blockbuster new products and are just hoping high-end phone and tablet sales will keep growing enough to keep their stock from cratering. Acquiring Disney makes no sense since they are completely different businesses. Stock buybacks and dividends are fine if they can't spend their cash reserves efficiently. If I were them I'd do more to encourage and help high quality software development for their hardware and hope someone develops a killer app that drives more sales.
I cannot see how you could take CO2 and make gasoline out of it using less energy than what the gasoline contains. At best, you will need to supply that energy via something like solar panels. Then it becomes a question of efficiency: how many Watts of gasoline can you produce per Watt of electricity you have? My guess is, not many.
Most people alive have children or descendants, and therefore have an incentive to care. You're in the minority.
The opposite: 'mobility' is the fundamental reason people leave their home country (China) to have a significantly better standard of living - which they do have.

Mobility problems are mostly for Americans, not for ex-pats.

Geopolitics is a little important, but for most people, it's about their job, their opportunity.

It's troublesome because 99% of US companies and Chinese ex-pats just want to do work and are getting caught up in geopolitics.

But to be fair: this is a real problem. Espionage, influence, interference is a thing. Here in Canada, the Chinese gov. is directly influential in student activities etc. - at Ryerson in Toronto, a young Tibetan woman was elected head of the student union and it met with fierce and organized resistance from Chinese students, supported by tentacles of the state. As a small example.

That said it'd be nice if there were better ways past this problem, because it's not a problem for most of us!
Point sources won't scale to the size of the problem. Easier initially, but to replace fossil fuels for transportation and heating, will need to get the CO2 from the air.
This is exactly how I package my python scripts. The answer to your question: Memfd
https://magisterquis.github.io/2018/03/31/in-memory-only-elf...

And zipimport pip package
Sea and air transport, as well as remote-location generation, and several industrial processes, rely on or benefit greatly from fuel or hydrocarbon-based inputs.
>Tether is a fundamentally a risk free money making concept, it works just like gift certificates. T

No, it actually works like fractional reserve banking, which for some reason, nobody has a problem with.
Its actually new. In the past year trump can basically unofficially prevent chinese student from getting visas
Well obviously. A CEO admitting such a fault would be a CEO committing career suicide and would cost the company many billions.

Public discourse such as it is means never showing volnurability because you will get slaughtered.
Which of the issues do you think that addresses?
That’s so true. Everyone has an idea, do you have the grit?
OpenCV launches kickstarter campaign for new AI courses
You would have go back and look at the whole century to see that it's just part of the normal cycle.
" I'd argue that China is even better to live in if you're rich."

? If you're rich in the US, you stay rich as long as you keep your money.

In China, your RMB is worth what the Party says it's worth, and you can be arbitrarily destroyed for political reasons.

Excepting issues like 'cheap labour' - on most other secular issues, America is a better place to be rich, once you're rich. (ie notwithstanding non culturally secular issues like the fact most people generally prefer their home country for obvious reasons)
It is the question. You need to break up the CO2 molecule and reconstitute it as gasoline. That will take more energy than the gasoline had initially. So you have a process where you take say solar energy and convert it into gasoline chemical bonds. Great, what is your efficiency of this process? Because if it is close to 100%, great. But chances are it is much closer to 0, at which point you’d be better off just using that electricity for something else.
I want to reiterate the earlier commenter's words: focus. You seem to be spread thin amongst various roles in a typical software/tech company, from product manager/scrum master to developer. Hone your attention to what you really want and if you aren't sure, then start anywhere. You won't know until you try!

I'm not sure if LinkedIn is big in Australia but recruiters in America will scramble to you with offers for possible jobs if you update your profile with the latest tech and frameworks. Your non-standard background definitely will attract interest so give it a go.
Thanks! Working on answering questions now. (Rob)
That isn't true. You might want to take a look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Fractional_rese...
EU belittles U.S. claims as 'frankly childish' at WTO Airbus hearing
If I wanted to assess my carbon footprint, and the cost to offset, and then pay to actually fund mitigation, how would I do that?

Eg this doesn't seem fully credible, but is responsive https://www.terrapass.com/product/productindividuals-familie...
The admission would tank Boeing stock, and invite a barrage of lawsuits. This is a delicate line to tow, that of providing for tens of thousands of employees, versus providing closure to loved ones of the dead.
Bragging about your luxury car that costs more than my home wins you no friends, and is not even on topic.
Unfortunately no. The corporation has to either buy or rent the building and it is not allowed to rent it from the owner of the company (and rent it back again at a loss -- for obvious reasons ;-) ). I could potentially buy a building, sell it to my company and have the company rent back my living space. But my company doesn't have anywhere near enough money to buy a building outright. Also in Japan, new companies are treated as toxic waste by the banks, so no loan is possible (and probably "I'd like to get a loan to buy a building and rent it back to myself at a loss to the corporation" is not a viable business plan as far as the bank is concerned anyway...). I can't even get a corporate credit card! We do all of our transactions in cash, if you can believe it.

What I could do is rent a building with the corporation now and move the corporation. The problem is that you have to reincorporate the company at the new address (which would cost me about $3K). Japan is the land of bureaucracy after all! (Edit: I will likely do this if we decide to move since I'll have to pay that money anyway).

The tax break is really to accommodate companies that build a new factory and then build housing for the factory (or a house next to the factory for the owner). It's not really intended to be used the way I want to use it (to literally live in the work space).
Working with Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code
Any examples of rich people doing things in the US that’d be persecuted in China? Donating to the Libertarian party perhaps? Most of the time I’d imagine the rich are aligned with the status quo.
It’s funny because HN acts like a little bitch and flags comments for no reason.
Doesn't work without JS either.
From Wikipedia: According to Robert Hannigan, former Director of the Government Communications Headquarters, Chinese hackers have engaged in economic espionage against British universities and engineering companies, on behalf of the Chinese government.

What better instrument than a graduate student?

Sure, we want to be open and inclusive to everyone, but don't be stupid. Don't let the country that literally partners up with North Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93North_Korea_rela...) and have hacked and infiltrated other countries before have open access to cutting edge technology.

During university, I've heard from a chinese student (From China), who's dad owned a high tech factory. He told me the plan was to get a job at the most reputable tech firm in that industry, and learn from it, then bring it back to his dad.
Don’t know if it’s just me but looked at Bazel a few weeks ago. Insane levels of complexity for just building multiple NodeJS projects.

Anyone know of anything similar but without that steep learning curve?
Eh no. You are talking about carbon capture as a way to offset fossil fuel consumption. I'm talking about reducing fossil fuel consumption by instead producing non fossil fuels. Apples and oranges. The point of that is not to capture the carbon but to utilize it as fuel. With this technology, that is neither impossible nor prohibitively expensive/unecomincal. Unlike the six schemes you outline that are about not producing any fuel whatsoever so we can continue to produce it the old way while hopefully removing some of the CO2 that we are thus putting there (hence the need to capture it).

You're using numbers to categorically dismiss what seems to be a pretty well reasoned case for doing this as "impossible" because 'numbers' for various carbon capturing schemes.

If you are capturing carbon, you might as well do it in a form where you can actually utilize it for fuel. That's a pretty nice proposition. Prometheus seems to be one of several startups with some plans for making this happen.

You're saying they are wasting time. I'm saying that layering the cost that you outline on top of the existing fossil fuel production cost only makes their value proposition even more attractive than it already is without doing that. Bottom line is anything that reduces the amount of oil we pump up and burn is a good thing. Carbon capture schemes seem more like an excuse to drag our heels doing that than something that is actually likely to produce results on a timescale that isn't measured in centuries.
That is problematic in areas, including much of North America.

http://energyskeptic.com/2016/electrification-of-freight-rai...
Indeed, it is not hard to see this reverse brain drain as a reflection of relative under-representation of East Asians in tech management.
The primary issue is that Facebook has more access to the worlds' private data than anybody except for the NSA. They have proven time and time again to be untrustworthy, and they need to be neutered.
>Easier initially...

Then start with point sources initially.

Considering a good portion of transportation and basically all of the heating can be replaced by electricity directly, you will not need to go beyond point sources anyway.
> And I think we can start this today. We need to focus on accuracy above any and everything else. When you want to enact global change you first need to establish yourself as a reliable authority.

Is anyone making more accurate predictions? Most people that disagree with NASA seem to saying anything from it's fake news to blaming other sources. How do you explain the observed warming?

> The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown."

Hard to tell without units but this line leads me to believe he was talking in degrees Fahrenheit and your comparing it to degrees celcius:

> The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.
No. You never know when the commie nomenclature decides you're the enemy of the state, strips you out of your wealth and sends the execution bus at your front door.
> it’s a mistake if you consider v1 as outdated; those two should be different products... and should not be deprecated but marketed as a different service

I'm not sure if your intent is to express your own opinion, or reflect Zeit's official position; but their official position last I checked at the end of the 1400 post monster Spectrum thread, was that Now v1 is dead and won't be supported after some point.

And I think that is an utterly insane decision to be making, and is the reason we are leaving. If I can't trust my host to not get "shiny tech syndrome", then I need a different hosting service.
Vastly, and more scalable to boot.
It is super relevant if it happened before because, even if no human witnessed it, there could be proxy data that shows how this unfolds. It could explain past sudden changes in climate change (and accompanying mass extinctions) that are not yet well understood for example.
God forbid, a kid who wants to work in the family business! He must be up to something no good, being from an evil Communist state. Wait, how do family businesses exist under Communism? head explodes
I think you will have to go ahead and provide that proof, since you made the outrageous claim. Some of my favorite colleagues happen to come from China - some spying may happen but to suggest it’s anything but a tiny amount of people demands evidence, not innuendo.
> And I think we can start this today. We need to focus on accuracy above any and everything else

I'm not sure why the onus for absolute accuracy has to be solely on the side that's urging action against climate change. The opposition has no such regard for accuracy or even basic truthfulness - and they've been brutally effective so far in squashing action. Are you really saying numbers are the reason we haven't won this argument yet? Most people don't go by numbers, they go by their gut.

At least the climate change predictions have been in the right direction - temps have actually increased, just not by as much as they had previously thought. EDIT: It seems like the numbers weren't even that far off - other replies have pointed out the discrepancy is largely due to Fahrenheit - Celsius conversion. And climate around the world really has worsened.

> we've seen the temperature increase by 0.62 degrees since 1989.

Let's count ourselves fortunate, and not waste the time we've been given.
NZers drink 8.8 litres per person aged over 15 years.

The state with the highest consumption in 2016 was New Hampshire, with a total alcohol consumed per capita: 4.76 gallons (18 litres).

Wow.

Comes from the following writeup for NZers:

From the domestic figures released by Statistics New Zealand, in the year 2017 [7]:

476 million litres of alcoholic drinks were available for domestic consumption:
289 million litres of beer
111 million litres of wine
77 million litres of spirits and spirit-based drinks

By volume, we drink almost three-times as much beer than wine. However, by alcohol content or standard drinks, 12.6 million litres of pure alcohol comes from beer, 11.5 million litres from wine, and 10 million litres from spirits. This totals 34.2 million litres of pure alcohol per year, or 8.8 litres per person aged over 15 years. On average, this means that every New Zealander drinks almost 2 standard drinks per day. However, in reality, we know that rather than New Zealanders drinking small amounts daily, around half of all alcohol in New Zealand is consumed in heavy drinking sessions.
Crikey
I didn't even know Japan still had emperors. That's kind of amazing
A prominent Beijing scholar who recently fled to the United States has warned that China was sending "spies" to American universities, and urged US institutions to tread carefully on academic co-operation.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1437005/expelled-pek...
I've heard that AI and semicon are going on the export control list, and even a US national communicating knowledge with someone is a "deemed export". Does this mean all Chinese H1-Bs are going to be barred from working at Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Qualcomm?
> I bike to work through gridlock

Occasional gridlock for my commute (London) and it often is the hellscape I make it out to be because, uh, that's the hellscape I'm experiencing - pedestrians will step out without looking, even if you're ringing a bell; taxis will change lanes without warning; there's a large number of construction lorries with blind spots; and many drivers don't understand the concept of "leave room".

> but they are either [stereotypes]

Alas, I am none of those stereotypes (although I do ride a single gear, it's not fixed.)
A lot has changed in the world of ELF executables, this information is just soo misleading.
I sort of feel like it can have a big effect if done well or poorly - secondary school is the intro to biology, chemistry, and physics. A very poorly run school can really harm students interest in those subjects.
Har har... but seriously, look up his story. It's not hard to see other Chinese students today in his (figurative) boat.
Correct me if I’m wrong but stuxnet was designed for a purpose and it accomplished that purpose. Eventually being discovered was no doubt an understanding from the authors.

Compare that to unauthorized access to a machine and cleaning the logs behind you... One doesn’t have to be more brilliant than the authors of stuxnet to do something illegal without getting caught.