skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many people get killed walking into traffic while staring at their smartphones?
Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System?
When wealth increases, less and less of the investment income is consumed. It's not fixed income anymore, it's added to the capital creating compound interest.

Rentier with a real investment income of $100,000 may have just few million in wealth
> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? I'm sure it has its bubble-living adherents here. Then again, so did Quora.

You weren't serious, "like, ever" is obvious false. Of course there are good things.

For me: Tech support both ways, job offers, knowledge of latest releases and new developments in my area of expertise. It's awesome.
> Silly to advocate for population reduction when people in the developed world (esp. the US) emit multiple times as much as those in the developing world.

It's true, and it's enraging. But at the same time, are you wishing for the people in the developing world to keep producing so few emissions per capita? Because they would emit as much as we do if they could, and I'm sure they dream they'll be able to do it one day. And it's fair: but then we need to think of a recipe for sustainability that factors in much higher consumption levels for the now developing countries- instead of much lower ones for the developed world.
One of the interesting sociological aspects of humanity is that mountain people by and large don’t want to be told what to do. It’s why escaped slaves for centuries have fled to mountainous regions, and why alpine states have been among the first to reject federal rules around marijuana.

Psychologically, it appears that introverts prefer mountains and forests, while extroverts prefer plains and beaches.
Personally I can say that psilocybin helped me get out of depression a while back. It felt like a brain reset.

There is some research going on, although not enough IMO. Here's a good introductory article:

https://www.livescience.com/48502-magic-mushrooms-change-bra...
UBI can work as long as it can spawn an internal market and micro entrepreneurs in that market. For accomplishing that UBI needs to be delivered as crypto that works within an internal market.
Mozilla releases Firefox 66.0.4 with fix disabled add-ons issue
Trouble is, it's actually not all that easy to purchase a legitimate 18650. My normal port of call, Digikey, doesn't appear to carry any actual name-brand cells [0]. I see adafruit & sparkfun, hopefully they source decent cells but who knows. There's also Jauch Quartz, who I've never heard of. Their datasheets [1] certainly don't inspire confidence, this is definitely a rebranded cell and I have no idea who actually manufactures this. So while I'm into hobby electronics and have done lithium powered projects, I don't immediately know where I can go to get a genuine Samsung cell that I can trust to meet it's specs.

I think this isn't so much a battery problem as an Amazon problem. Banning the sale of individual cells just means that the only batteries available to the average consumer are the worst-of-the-worst aliexpress grade garbage. People are obviously buying these cells, banning them just means that the only remaining sources will be illegitimate. And Amazon has this problem with a lot of products; searching "Arduino" returns entirely knockoff boards for me on the first page and I have heard it's nearly-impossible to find an Apple charger that meets electrical standards. I wonder how long Amazon can burn through goodwill before consumers begin to regard them as equivalent to Ebay/aliexpress?

So while I personally really appreciate being able to cheaply source things directly from China, I also understand what I'm getting into and temper my expectations. I think many people have the false expectation that if they purchase something from a reputable retailer like Amazon the product will be safe & within spec, which for certain products isn't the case.

[0] https://www.digikey.com/products/en/battery-products/batteri...

[1] https://www.jauch.com/downloadfile/5bf56dddc28a94cce2e93a717...
"red meat and particularly of processed meat"

Long story short: the findings are NOT about meat consumption.
Plugins also provide support for new video codecs. Plugins are definitely the wrong place for it but I would be so happy to see codecs factored out of individual browsers.
on one hand, she writes that

'universal basic income (UBI), the scheme that would give everyone regular, unconditional cash payments that are enough to live on.'

and then follows with

'what’s been tested in practice is almost infinitely varied, with cash paid at different levels and intervals, usually well below the poverty line and mainly to individuals selected...'

so, no studies were conducted where UBI was given to all at above poverty line? accounting for reduction of government bureaucracy that's currently decides who gets and who does not?
Believe the Python3 change is a bit of a red-herring, everyone learned from that.

The breaking point was PEP 572 (ie :=) which was quite controversial. The lesson here: One shouldn't attempt to reverse 25-year old design decisions, not even GvR. Python is too big now.

There was a compromise (and more congruent) alternative, reuse of the "as" keyword, that was thrown out immediately, and proponents rammed 572 thru despite significant objection. That's when things got ugly. Personally I disagreed with that decision, and tried to support the compromise design.

In the end, didn't think 572 was the end of the world (will be occasionally useful, if ugly), and tried to stay polite, but sadly many didn't. Then he accepted 572 and stepped down, as if one last poke in the eye, unfortunately.
I think there is some reversal of cause and effect. The fact is that the US has always been much more violent and less stable than Western Europe. The murder rate in the US was 5-10x higher than in the UK over the entire 20th century. That includes during the period before prohibition and between prohibition and the drug war, and before there was meaningful gun control in either country. So it may be that US attitudes are the result of a more violent and less stable society.

Good evidence for that is the fact that there was a trend toward increased focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment in the 1960s. Capital punishment was illegal in the US from 1967-1977. But crime started to skyrocket at the end of the 1960s. Following about a decade behind that, particularly in the 1980s, you saw a “war on crime” that led to longer sentences, increased incarceration, etc. But all that was a lagging indicator—it was a response to increasing crime rates. The increase in incarceration rates followed behind the increase in crime rates, and incarceration rates didn’t actually catch up until violent crime peaked in the 1990s. That all suggests that harsh attitudes towards punishment are a reaction to high crime rates.
Human bodies naturally decompose on their own, even without a tree. The problem is that no one is burying people unembalmed, everyone insists on mummifying the corpses of their relatives before putting them in the ground and this is just impossible to sustain. Furthermore, they are burying people in these thick, elaborate coffins that take forever to decompose as well.

Lots of people think cremation is environmentally friendly, but they don't realize the amount of fuel being burned and how much carbon it puts into the atmosphere. It's not clean by any stretch of the imagination. They also don't realize that crematoriums are not cleaned well and that they are often not getting the ashes of just their relative but probably other people as well, but that is a separate issue.

The answer is for funeral homes to begin offering expedited burials that use natural preservation techniques on unembalmed bodies. The new expectation would be that the burial occur within 24 hours of death, 48 if absolutely necessary (something that would be inconvenient for funeral preparations, but worth it) and bodies placed in freezers and on dry ice (in the coffin) to prevent decay and odor from setting in.

This works, it's being done in certain parts of the US and in lots of places around the world. My family is Eastern Orthodox Christian and this is the traditional burial method for us. A simple wooden box, an unembalmed body, and into the ground ASAP. Nothing better for the environment than to return yourself to the earth.
Living in Munich, got the first 'Hello, I am from microsoft, please grant me access to your computer'-calls three weeks ago. Blocked the number, scammer tried to call from this number 10 times again while blocked, then tried it on a new phone number. I've blocked the new one after the second call. Since then, my phone is silent again.
1. Use PGP / GPG and encode the key as 2D-Barcode for easy key-sharing.
2. AES or better block cipher for the payload.
Google Voice will transcribe any VMs and send them as a text. The transcription is good enough to know if it's someone you need to call back or add their number to your block list.
Great. Mushrooms have been a great influence in my life, and I recommend them to anyone with a little introspection who feels a lack of perspective in life.
It's a cheap, potent opioid which its users tend to enjoy. It is just hard to dose accurately because of the extreme potency. It's a race to the bottom: How cheap can we make the product without accidentally killing all the users?
I can give away the entire game here. I was in her class when Jae-Rhim designed this project. It was a class taught by [sic] Kzysztof Wodczizco called "Interrogative Design." He was at MIT then and is at Harvard now. [a]

The whole point of Kzyzstof's Interrogative Design practice is to design something half-ass and make it seem serious as hell to get people talking and improving the idea. It "asks a question." It's not taking the piss out of the audience, because the audience is already lulled into a consumer trance of evaluating every possible purchase and can generally be led into doing the problem-solving work. In fact, it's mainly taking the piss out of the artists because half the time they think their design will actually work.

Wodiczko has incredible cache from being part of the resistance to Communism in Poland. He impressed me, but made me incredibly cynical. Like many designers, he practiced an ideology that brought his audience so close to understanding life through aesthetic and psychological principles (bit of Jung, bit of Deleuze, bit of Steve Jobs), but ultimately left them cold, positioning himself as a thought leader, expecting the rest of the world to complete his projects, using their imagination and the money he gets from universities. For instance, when I took the class, he was obsessed with Moses and viewed the bible as a design exercise. He wanted us to come up with something as persuasive as the stone tablets. I guess I'm just another idealistic geek who thinks technical facts matter and people can do the right thing without being led around by fairie tales.

[a] https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/krzysztof-wodiczko/
Or have someone lay out your corpse on the ground, cover it with staked-down chicken wire to keep large scavengers from moving the body around, and dump some Dermestid beetles on it to accelerate the process. Between the beetles and the corpse flies that show up naturally, the soft tissues pupate, molt, and fly away a few grams at a time, leaving a cleaned skeleton.

I'm putting that in my next testament, along with artfully arranging the bones in a clear polyurethane casting resin, so that I can creep out generations of my descendants as a plastic heirloom.
A 40-page “Summary for Policy Makers” of the forthcoming full report (expected to exceed 1,500 pages) was released May 6 in Paris.
For those of us in the GIS space, 2.7 will be with us for a long time, as it's the only version that is supported by ArcGIS 10.x series. To say that people aren't rushing to ArcGIS Pro (which support 3.x) is quite an understatement, I expect to be writing Python 2.7 code for 5 years at the very least.
Of course it’s both. However more people means more clear cutting. More meat as more people can afford meat also means more clear cutting. We can consume less disposable products and also manage population growth responsibly (neither rise to fast nor contract too fast as both are destabilizing).
This is such garbage.

>Most men feel increasingly devalued in a society where student debt, declining job security, firsthand experience of the instability of modern marriages, the ravages of increasing obesity, and wacky dating space have put them on unstable ground
>but the problem is "toxic masculinity"

The usage of "toxic" has become toxic itself!
Why would I be an anti-vaxxer? Mercury is not in any childhood vaccines.
Perhaps we should prohibit alcohol, can’t imagine that going wrong.
TypeScript does and it’s one of my favorite features.
> 1) Automated tests are software

Which is assumed to be free of defects because people are suckers for circular reasoning.
Can you give an example of a society you’re describing? One with power structures not “subverted by the amoral”? One that produced the positive vision of cooperation at scale that you say existed?

I can’t think of any.
You know that, I know that, probably most people reading this have enough chemistry to know that and understand. However the average person doesn't know that. I wouldn't expect the reporter to know that.

Calling the contents an acid which the average person knows is dangerous is arguably better than being precise but confusing people into not realizing the true danger.
It is based on a report by this group:

https://www.ipbes.net/

The report will be published "later this year."

You can access a "summary for policy makers" from this press release:

https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment

Edit: The summary for policy makers indicates that species extinction estimates are based on data maintained here: https://www.iucnredlist.org/
It was accepted but that PEP caused the whole kerfuffle correct? It became fashionable to have a strong opinion on assignment vs equality.
Understood there must be many practical issues, what I'm wondering is if there is an issue, and what is the main issue of using the syntax of Lambda calculus as the basis of a programming language, how is it worse than say Lisp or JavaScript?
> Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever?

There is no doubt that Twitter dramatically changed public dialog. It was/is revolutionary. Whether this revolution was a net positive or negative remains to be seen.

I'm highly doubtful. I actually believe that, despite the benefits, the net effect on public dialogue will be catastrophic. The overall attention span of people seems to have been limited to 282 characters, with a lifetime of perhaps 48 hours or less.

The argument that rises to the top is rarely the intellectually most valuable one, not that it would live on for more than a day or two anyway. Instead it's just the best punch line, one-uppance, or outrage fodder de jour.

Ironically, the best example of this deevolution IMO was Kara Swisher's interview of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, which was just a train wreck no one could follow [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/its-i...
The first words are "A study published this week sheds"....

Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.
Fish farms are more environmentally sustainable than chicken farms. Overfishing is a problem but it's not the only way to get fish
That’s exactly it though. Conservatives are no doubt irritated by environmental jeremiads because they know revivals and camp meetings when they see them. Usually when this seaweed reducing methane stuff gets mentioned you hear crickets from the hair-shirt crowd
And they say that mushrooms can’t cause permanent damage, but here we are with a permanent carpet stain.
Came to say this. Asking "Do Elephants Have Souls?" is the same as "Do avocados have mana?" or "Does yeti catch cold?"
I'm already being down voted and I've said nothing but what has been rigorously verified as the root cause of my illness. It's impossible to discuss this intelligently on public forums.
If you’re on a phone, here’s a web version: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1905.01051/ (now with linked citations!)
A 21 “Game of Thrones” Characters That Have Changed Since Their First Appear
> I’ve always considered the existence of “Type 2 fun” as a bug in our brain hardware

Not the way I see it. Adversity followed by salvation gives you confidence that you can overcome future challenges.
I think Python 3 isn't that relevant for this. The nastiness was way more in more recent, smaller decisions than in the Python3 migration which has been a decided thing for quite a while.
There seems to be no paywall in WSJ for this article from where I read (India).
The problem is unless you have a home phone, you already can't rely on cell phones to have every call come through. Calls do not connect all the time, and end up going to VM anyway.
Yeah if only we could figure out how it got associated with obnoxious people in the first place.
AWS_breaking_changes: List of AWS changes announced that may break existing code
I strongly suspect this is intentional. It feels as if amazon is doing the subcontractor/gig-economy scam, just slowly.

Amazon is attempting to shift everything to being 3rd party. That way they're a middleman who gets a cut of everything sold, but without any risk. The risk is all on the sellers, who are can be at Amazon's whims, and on the buyers who get garbage from scammers. But sellers can come and go and the customer can't keep track of which sellers are actually trustworthy.

We can already see this gradual slide with how counterfeits work on Amazon. You can't tell if or when you'll get a counterfeit. Even Sold By Amazon is no guarantee since Amazon will mix 3rd party seller goods into the same bin.

This is pure MBA thinking. They remove risk to the business and the need to have buyers of bulk goods to list them. They don't have to keep their own stock anymore. Sure they run a warehouse business too, but the risk of holding good too long is someone else's problem: The 3rd party sellers. And still they keep getting a cut of everything sold.
Thanks for this, I just started getting into and writing Go code.

I have a question that I don't remember being answered in any tutorial I've done so far. I've written a lot of C code and I typically make memory managed lists, so if I need a new common object I grab one from the list to avoid free/malloc as much as possible. Does Go do this automatically, or should I still do this on my own? I'm writing a long-running server, not a utility or something short lived.
> Housing is less volatile

It's for the same reason that PE returns are less volatile. The assets are illiquid and don't get repriced often. They're sold when it's convenient for the seller, which tends to be when they can make money, so the returns appear more less volatile then they actually are.
its more like the first thing you imagined was anarchy and ignored every scenario that accomplished what I described that is not anarchy where order and productivity is maintained
Actually the question should be... why is the lambda calculus such a great programming language in practice? The lambda calculus is unique among other theoretical models of computation (automata, turing machines, etc) in that it is the syntactic and computational basis of several popular languages (lisp, Haskell, ML, etc). In all these languages, you can essentially write lambda calculus terms in a way that you cannot write turing machines in imperative languages.
> Amazon declined to discuss any of these specific cases, but has denied the allegations in court filings, saying it was not the seller of these products.

So Pirate Bay is responsible for posting a link even if it's not serving the illegal content but Amazon is not responsible for doing the same and even shipping the offensive items?
I meant “use in a way that’s detrimental to them or others “. How is abuse defined anyway?
If I go to sell an item on eBay (or a pawn shop) and accidentally enter $8 in the price rather than $800, I doubt there is any recourse for me on legal or moral grounds when that item gets bought. Caveat venditor.

Dropping a wallet on the ground is a completely different story where neither party is taking part in a bona fide transaction.
I'm really struggling to understand the logic of this. You create a currency that you pay everyone with, but the only thing that you can spend it on is...initially nothing? If it's plentiful and universal, why would anyone be eager to get more of it?
I’m not sure what you mean by your comments around C vs. C++/Rust. All of them have no required runtime. All of them generally have libc supplied by your OS, which is a runtime.

Even in C you must restrict yourself to the runtime your building on, i.e. your target might not have libc. Rust and C++ are the same in the regard that they are capable of doing this.
The price has me leaving to Walmart Online.

I recently wanted a blue alarm clock. Amazon was 20$. Walmart Online 10$.

I still use Amazon to price check, but I've started price checking numerous competitors.

Here is a study we did for baby items, but it was clear online>brick and mortar. Walmart>Amazon https://efficiencyiseverything.com/target-vs-amazon-vs-walma...
> - Start working part time, and part of that part time remotely.

With the number of people currently having to work more than one job, it's hard to see how they can switch to part-time.

I know some people who pay >50% of their income towards rent, and their rent isn't especially high. It's that their income per job isn't very high, and housing is set by competitive demand in areas with jobs, not by cost of provision.

We're going to have to solve the cost-of-basics problem somehow, before many people can reduce their work hours to part time.

But that doesn't stop people who can do it from doing it, and maybe that's enough to turn the tide for everyone.
It seems to be: lots of #3; a fair amount of #1 (people shorting spare batteries carried in pockets, for example); and a not insignificant amount of #2 (protected vs unprotected cells is not something people should need to know).
You can easily find 3 other people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19834432
I really like Lambda Explorer [0]. It's an in-browser interactive tutorial that does a good job of nudging you towards the next idea so you can discover it yourself, but it's there with a solution if you get stuck.

[0] https://lambda-explorer.net/
Tails 3.13.2 Is Out
In the UK it's free to receive calls. When travelling abroad you have to consider people leaving you a voicemail costing you if it rings you phone first, then they go to your voicemail.

The downside is you can't really get free services that forward to your mobile.
AR Lenses: One Billion Served
Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
It used to be. For years, you just knew a few things. One, Amazon would probably have it. Two, it'd be a good price. Three, you'd reliably get what you wanted in just a few days.

Now its a mire of junk and finding something solid is hard. And even if you find it, you get to wonder if you got a counterfeit or not.

I imagine in other countries Amazon largely skipped the build up phase where they bought and sold everything themselves. Now they're just an ebay without the auction.