skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not my ideas. Ideas in general. I have noted that most people don't like ideas and aren't capable of dealing with them without getting really emotional. But my personal observation is backed by data. In the Milgram experiments, 65% of people will apply a deadly shock to someone who is agonizing just because an authority told them so.

So I think it's safe to say that given we are herd animals, 65% just want to go along and get along. If this subset of the population don't care about people literally agonizing and killed without reason, what chance does privacy stand?

I'm hardly a bastion of uniqueness by being part of the 35% who isn't semi-drone-ish in following authority.

Interesting that the idea I brought wasn't addressed, though you did take the time to try and attack my character. Oh, and put words in my mouth by implying it is MY ideas that should be considered, when I never mentioned such a thing.

Anyway, even if your cartoonish depiction of my perspective were true, maybe you could be so kind as to inform this horrible patronizing person why his though process is wrong?
Yeah I think half a percent or some such of the energy in bunker fuel is from sulfur.

One thing that is often missed is large ships are very fuel efficient compared to trucks.
I still love forums. But indeed, nerdy.
Seems to me like a good-faith effort to understand. And respect for the experts isn't the same as unquestioningly accepting all of their assumptions.
I actually like your idea much more! Due to the black box nature of the NSA though, I don't think we could verify that they had actually repurposed to that end. I imagine that the NSA would create a new group that would occasionally make improvements (very much like SE Linux) and highly publicize it, while continuing operations status quo.
The author of the article (who does not appear to be an expert in anything) overlooks that renewables only address part of the emissions picture. Even if the U.S. switched tomorrow to 100% renewables and 100% electric vehicles (including trains, cars, planes, and ships), and you ignore the CO2 emissions of making all those new power plants and vehicles, U.S. usage would only go down by 3.5 gigaton: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica.... 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.

And even the U.S. and EU going to 0 carbon emissions wouldn't offset the growth in India, China, and Africa. And those places are a long ways away from electric cars and solar power plants. (Also, where would you put them in say India or Bangladesh?) Carbon recapture can do a very important thing renweables cannot--allow the developed world to suck out the developing world's CO2.

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. At that price it would cost $300 billion annually to remove the extra carbon India will be adding to the atmosphere by then. That will be just 5% of India’s GDP by then.
It’s a problem for lots of things Python is used for, but maybe not vfx (whatever that is).
I quite disagree. It's not the "position" these give you, but the mind set. The mind set is what differentiates highly successful. I know quite a lot of people who are multi-millionares, don't have to work - and came from very middle class positions. I once met a billionaire who said "Anyone can be homeless, or rich beyond their dreams. It's their mindset, actions, and opportunities that they seize to set themselves apart. Do what everyone else does, to end up no better"
So you want to be a freelance developer
This is cool and it is great that the software is all open source, but randomly clicking around it does seem that an awful lot of images all come from Flickr, with the images even being hosted by Flickr. It seems to me the interface could make the source more clear.
I'm sure there are many people from humble beginnings that have biographies. However, they often grew up in different times. There might be some takeaways from their story, but I don't think you can reverse engineer their success path. On the other side of that, I like the quote often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, "The harder I work, the more luck I have." Combine that with "Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity," and I think we are on our way to something.
I love FFMPEG and everyone that contributes to it. For the really old farts (of digital media), I also loved the old AVISynth contributors. I've noticed a lot of the old plugins for that are now available as FFMPEG filters.
Social Media and Influencer Marketing for Video Games
SQLite is definitely not ideal for high volume and high transaction frequency. Postgres will be better at that. I have used it for quickly getting a single table database up that I can just dump into and then query through linearly afterwards. It is better than dumping to JSON or some other purely textual serialization.
GPL licenses tend to discourage adoption due to their onerous restrictions, which is why most projects today choose anything other than the GPL family of licenses.

The virality of GPL actually results in most companies explicitly banning the use of GPL tools and code to prevent the GPL from "infecting" their own code.
> Internal research is useless.

> The only way to know whether a new idea will work is to try it: put some minimal form of it in front of people and see if they actually get use it.

And in the face of a universe of potential ideas how do you determine whether you invest time into prototyping pre-sneezed tissues? Internal research. You’ve just moved the goal post.
There's empty parking garages and private lots throughout the city. If you price something ridiculously below market rate, of course there will be high demand for it.
Not yet! I’ll have a paper on skin cancer diagnosis out soon though, stay tuned or reach out directly for more info!
Sama's post as you say is only within three purview of a very narrow industry and career niche. For those who are knee deep in it, it resonates strongly.

But not everyone is in said industry And applying perfectly good advice for one industry isn't necessarily appropriate for others.

That's something that I dislike about a lot of advice posts out there -- that there are few disclaimers about for whom it is written for.
"Because if there is a "run on the bank", someone will end up short. Either the first people out will get 100% of their money and last 26% will get zero, or everyone will get 74% of their money."

I'm not clear on whether they have discovered fractional reserve banking or whether they are insolvent. There's a big difference. If they are insolvent, I'd tend to assume tethers not trading at a discount just means people are idiots. But if not, not.
if there was literally one reason to have a flying car

I'll give two: reduce traffic jams, and less need to build/maintain roads. The average commute time* is about an hour a day. Giving people back that time to spend with their family, to work, to play would be an amazing boon to society. The real issue is that the technology to make practical (cheap, fast, quiet, safe) flying cars doesn't exist. A practical flying car would also solve the housing price crisis in cities as people could fly in from the exurbs.

* https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/650061560/stuck-in-traffic-yo...
yup that's how I remember it as well
I actually don't believe that, but I find it very dubious that you can simply reverse-engineer someone else's career path.
Re: brokerages, no it doesn't say you can't open one, but good luck finding a foreign brokerage that'll open an account for you. I was denied by HSBC in Canada because while I'm a Canadian citizen I'm a US resident and that was the address they had on file. This is common corporate practice the world over. The letter of the law is irrelevant if nobody will play ball with you.

> So here's my question: wouldn't the right thing to do be to distribute all of the revenue equally to the whole world? Is that fine?

If you're still alive feel free to do so subject to the rules and regulations of your jurisdiction. If you die with an estate, it'll get handed out by the government of the place in which you were last resident. It's not that complicated, it's how it works right now, just with a higher rate and a lower exemption. I'm not exactly breaking ground here.

> In summary, what I can say is: all of your ideas and arguments are truly shallow, poorly thought-out, logically inconsistent, and incoherent. While leaning heavily towards communistic tendencies, and an utter destruction of personal freedom / individual liberty.

This entire block was logical fallacy, simply attacking me instead of the argument. This is a great way to lose a debate, so when you're having a consequential debate in your real life, I suggest you avoid this line of attack.

It's interesting that what I propose was the law of the land in the US for much of the 1900s. The US estate tax was between 70 and 80% from the early 1930s to the late 1980s. This included the entirety of the so-called "second red scare" (1947-1960). Clearly the neo-McCarthy-ites didn't consider this to be "communist" or an "utter destruction of freedom and liberty." During this same period the top marginal tax rate was between 80 and 95%. You'd think if it was classically "communist" leaning, that might have come up? This isn't meant to be an appeal to authority, nothing I've suggested furthers the Communist agenda of "advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs." I'm pro- wealth inequality and pro- income inequality so long as it's coupled with social mobility and people start out more or less from the same place in each generation. [1]

To quote Wikipedia, "free market supporters of the tax, including Adam Smith and the founding fathers would argue that people should be able to get to the top of the market through earning wealth, based on meritocratic competition, not through unearned, inherited handouts, which were central to the aristocratic systems they were opposed to." [1]

I posit to you that having generations start off on even footing is the definition of meritocracy and the American Way, and you're representing the post-1990s modern neo-con mentality. That's fine, and I don't think your arguments are "poorly thought-out and inconsistent" -- I just disagree with you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
I can't tell what Cilium is, from their web site. Clue?
Are there many/any government agencies that quantify things to validate their existence?
> Transhumanism is based on a wholly materialistic conception of reality. In effect it says, “What we now understand about the mind and consciousness is all there is to it; there’s nothing left but to fill in the details of how the brain works.”

Woops, I detect a straw man being set up! The view in opposition of "we already know everything" is not "woo must be true", but merely "evidence rules".

> For millennia the majority of the human population has believed...

...that the sun was pushed across the sky by a great scarab beetle. Oh wait...that isn't what you were going to say? Oh. So maybe believing things doesn't make them true.
I would not make it number one. Being generally pleasant is absolutely beneficial to yourself and everyone around you, but it is not a replacement for competence. Faking it with pleasantries is toxic, a form of lying with misdirection.
I tried Facebook in, IDK, 2009 or so, for a month or two.

I have productively used, for significant amounts of time: every desktop Windows since 3.1, maybe a half-dozen Linux window managers under almost as many distros, BeOS, Solaris CDE, and more, a half-dozen GUI word processing programs, at least as many instant message programs, forums of all sorts, maybe a dozen image and WYSYWG HTML editors combined, and so on off to the horizon. I've figured out how to use obtuse UIs for games like Shadow President and Crusader Kings II.

Facebook's UI was too confusing so I stopped using it. I couldn't figure it out at all. Recently I've been exposed to "Facebook Work" or whatever, and it's just as bad. What's this? Where does this post go? To whom? Why are these in this order? Is this thing the same as that other thing with the same name, and if so why's it on the page twice and grouped with different things? WTF.
Surely in that case the man accused of the crime would have known they previously had messages from the accuser that were like to be critical to his defence?

Did he not make anyone aware of them or did they just ignore it?
> I have relatives who managed to convert their dad's brain cancer outcomes from a couple of months in palliative care (which the doctors were recommending) to five more mostly-good years

That's literally NOT how this works and this line of thought is VERY dangerous.

You have an N=1 sample size here.

Doctors use probability distributions when making prognosis and recommendations for treatment.

It's far more plausible that he was just an outlier.

By all means take care of your family members but you have NO idea that this behavior changed his outcome.

Correlation != causation.
> Fishing expeditions are not allowed.

That's exactly what a criminal investigation is. They keep fishing until they find probative evidence. The creative ways police investigate certain unsolved crimes puts most fishing expeditions to shame.

Unless of course you aren't interested in the truth but want to railroad people accused of very specific crimes for political reasons...
I'm uninterested in having the 'Whole Foods App' on my phone. I'm similarly uninterested in having the 'Amazon App' on my phone.

I offer my phone number to verify my Prime membership. Works fine.
Your car doesn't need a mix of lots of hydrocarbons, it would run fine on pure hexane.

Gasoline is a mix because it's made from natural crude which is also a mix... and there's not a strong reason to purify it further.
I have an official flight cover from the challenger space shuttle.

These covers didn't make it to the moon, but they flew on the shuttle and were officially sanctioned.

They are a plentiful and inexpensive piece of history - you can get them on ebay for about $20 (search for "STS-8 cover" or similar)
Anyone interested in this should view Louis Rossmans many YouTube videos on the topic.
It feels like this should work over a local network without requiring an internet connection. Or are you focused on just using SSID as a form of authentication for chat rooms on the internet? If so, what's to stop me from setting my router's SSID to something like "AppleCampusInternalWifi" and getting access to something that might be assumed to be private?
> the last thing I'd want is for the police to say that they can't continue to work on my case unless I grant them access to my device(s) ... If anything this should be part of a policy in which victims elect to volunteer information when asked if there's anything that could help the case

My understanding is that the police in the UK have always been required to pursue reasonable lines of enquiry, including those that might contradict the complainant's evidence. That means when investigating a crime they must consider the possibility that the victim is not telling the whole story (where it is reasonable to do so, eg. there is no way to corroborate the victim's account).

The new guidelines (which, unfortunately, I can't find the full text of) apparently tell the police when they should exercise the power they have always had: to tell victims "we don't have enough evidence to justify putting further effort into this investigation, unless you agree to hand over your phone to us, because that would increase our confidence that you are telling us the truth."

Police have competing priorities and it is inevitable that some crimes go unpunished because the witnesses are not believed by police, or refuse to voluntarily provide information which could affect their credibility. I am sure I would agree with the police doing this in some extreme cases, but as another data security conscious person, it's unlikely I would fully agree with the police interpretation of "necessary and appropriate." [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/PoliceChiefs/status/1122757012859904002
Robin Washington is replacing both Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene.

Press release: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0430/
Facebook has been talking about this in the quarterly earnings for a while now. They've been very clear about it.

Last winter I made a messenger bot[1] that was driving revenue ($5k/month for a CPG startup). Give that a try.

[1]https://www.nicholasjrobinson.com/blog/branding/three-ways-t...
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_Works_Technica...
Does anyone else find things like this from sites like 80000 hours really alienating? Do people really think like this? I don't know anyone who takes their career so seriously.
The V-2
Interesting article. When I was studying the elf format myself in the past I've also found very useful this poster.
https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/elf101/el...
The author has made many more for similar binary formats.
YouTube has been a bustling social network for years. Not everyone gets involved with the social part of it, but it's there.
Batteries have the disadvantage that they require heavy resource extraction and wear out. The advantage of hydrocarbon fuel is that it is basically instantly fillable (no charging), doesn't decrease in capacity (or minimally I suppose), and energy density.

The use here is that we could use a renewable energy source, like solar, and then use the hydrocarbon generated as an energy transfer medium rather than fuel itself. Actually, this is what we do today, since the hydrocarbon in the earth is actually just naturally captured solar energy.
Yes. Facebook says the future is private, and I agree. I just don't think they're the ones that will do it right.
Not sure, but I imagine it means testing on a small percentage of users.
It's still a band-aid solution. Should pursue - but don't have high expectations. It wouldn't address the other pollutants due to fossil fuels. It doesn't address methane (which are a quarter of GHG). If it makes energy more expensive there will be massive resistance and aligning governments worldwide will be intractable. You're not going to convince developing countries to increase their cost of energy.

Root cause solutions will have to be part of the mix.
Is anyone part of a Facebook group that they like? I've never seen a modern place online with better discourse than HN.
Tangentially related, it kind of reminded me of Snapshot Serengeti which labels images with animals. Interestingly, these labels aren't used to train models. They're just used to filter pictures taken by automated motion sensor based cameras. The pictures with actual animals in them are used to study animal migrations.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/snapshot-sere...
I stopped reading exactly there.
This is such wow!
Just leaving this here, earn crypto by doing tasks
https://coincircle.com/l/50VVxbObg3
I would contest "materialism being absurdly reductive" with a quote from Feynman:

> I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

I think that even if science can reduce processes to simple understandable components, this doesn't take away from everyday life.

The fact that a book consists of characters doesn't make it worse.

The fact that you're simply a specific configuration of atoms* doesn't devalue you as a human being.

* or evolution of this configuration in time, but that's a story for another time

The fact that your neural system is entirely responsible for your thinking (conscious and unconscious) doesn't make your mind less fascinating.
Forum software has also had a dip in convenience in my opinion; I prefer phpbb over discorse. I don't care about whitespace and infinite scrolling, I need my catalogical organization
Not really - each astronaut was specifically given a weight allocation (in grams) for personal effects, to be chosen at their discretion, for non mission related minor cargo.

It's more like your work giving you written permission for a free 1RU of space and 2 amps of power and a DIA feed described for a personal test/development/project server, you installing a personally owned 1RU server in it and doing something useful with it, and then your work trying to claim the revenue from it.
Reddit is basically a forum where threads are organized as trees (where the visibility of each branch is based on user votes), and users can create their own subforum.
> of people whose job you’d like to have and figure out how they got it.

I would extend this a bit. This could be people you worked with, not necessary to be any famous people with a published biography. Check their profile, see what kind of training, education, and jobs they had will help you understanding how get to where they are at.

Everyone on linkedin has a biography.
I think this piece of advice is pretty invaluable and I suspect that you might have the wrong impression of what this means.

I take it as a call to learn how to communicate your thoughts effectively as well as understand what motivates other people. I worked in a technical consulting company and the most effective people were the ones that could sell their ideas to customers/ within our organization as well as deliver technically. I don't think it's enough to purely be a technical person or a good communicator, developing both skills are pretty crucial to getting ahead as well as work effectively in teams.

The working out part is definitely a flex, but it something that most people should do but don't.
Nasa head: Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime
> I still read a lot about technology, but at the margin I probably get more value from reading histories of institutional disasters and near-disasters, and the biographies of people who helped avoid some of those disasters.

Anyone know of a reading list or a website that collects 'institutional disasters and near-disasters'? e.g. stuff like the recent Accenture/Hertz article, breaking then saving healthcare.gov etc.
> in a French restaurant, he will take your order and leave you alone until you finish eating

Moving to France!
I like many groups, although they don't have better discourse than HN.
At least as far as I managed to stomach, this reeks of "woo". It uses vague wording and suggestion to avoid making concrete supernatural claims, but supernatural premises seem to be the only real arguments it poses against the idea of transhumanism.