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Anecdata: the less time I spend on my phone/computer the more social I get. Everything interesting in my life so far happened organically when I went out of my comfort zone or when I wasn't expecting it.

> How can we use technology to remove some of the work in facilitating these ... and make us less lonely.

I don't think we need more tech to solve this issue, just go out, talk to people. Online communities help shut-ins to stay shut-ins, not to open up. It gives you a sense of being part of a community but it's not anywhere close to the real deal. Anything more complete/complex than meetup.com is already too much.

Use the web to find a local DnD / movie / wood working / whatever club, then switch off your computer and go there.
> To own a home is to be in a state of constant stress over the value of your home, and the more levered up you are, the worse this gets. This source of stress is why I believe NIMBYism is so prevalent.

This is a major argument for living in a low cost-of-living area. While in Silicon Valley, house prices are 10-20x a developer salary, in my location in the midwest, houses are 1-2x developer salary.
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You know what also disproportionately impacts the poor? Catastrophic climate change.

At least a tax can be structured in a way that poor people are less impacted.
> manfluencer

Was unsure if the article would have any substance after that and, indeed, no substance.
To be fair, it’s also below the article, and neither a pop up nor interstitial. At that place in the page, it’s rather unimportant how big it is.

It is far less annoying than, say, Wikipedia or even NPR. Everyone should be happy about these results, as it is vastly superior to both paywalls and the ad-infestation other free sites have seen.

(I would also guess it’s rare for the box to actually take up more vertical space than the article. Maybe in breaking-news scenarios, where they start with a single-sentence item, then update it)
Tools may provide ironclad certainty that computer bugs are a thing of the past
Do you have a ref? I haven’t seen any notice of change, though of course the actual law is classified.
Wikitorial History: The Los Angeles Times’ Failed Wiki Experiment
Analytics Data Isn’t Real and It’s Only Getting Worse
I got an EU passport a month ago, they have a photo of my face thats all the biometric data they wanted.
> consumer demand for the goods those companies provide is unlikely to go away

consumer demand is a very artificial phenomena that requires a massive propaganda campaign to keep it alive. I am talking about marketing of course. All we have to do really is to ban advertisement (wishful thinking of course). Without it consumer demand will wane super quick.
`numeric` is a decimal type with an optional fixed-precision mode, so it works fine with decimal currencies.
How did you come up with the name? It reminds me of "spieël", which is an Afrikaans word for "mirror".
I am also very interested in this. Mind sharing some of your ideas?
If you're in the EU, you have the right to work in the UK

Brexit hasn't happened yet
It has to be geo-engineering. Where are you going to find energy to recapture carbon? Renewables and nuclear are a joke compared to carbon fuels:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
One thing the Guardian gets right (in my opinion) is their online subscriber model.

I subscribed to it, the cost is reasonable (£5/month) and it was easy to sign up and is easy to cancel.

Recently I wanted to get some news from a more right-wing perspective, so I looked at paying for the The times.

Their site advertises a two month £7.99 subscription, which is fine.

However what you don't find till you go to sign up is after that it's £26/month which isn't cheap and, far worse, to cancel a subscription you have to phone them.

This kind of classic dark pattern (easy to sign-up hard to cancel) was enough for me to cancel out and not complete the sub.
Wouldn't "big business clients" be TSA pre-checked, have global-entry and all the magic keys "big business clients" use to not have to suffer through the same awful things regular peons have to stomach?

International incident with whom exactly? What was the fallout of the "incident" when the world found out that the US was spying on NATO allies and heads of state?
I can't read/watch any news outlet anymore. It's become utter trash (regardless of your political leanings.) Half the time I feel like I'm reading a tabloid publication instead of a news site.
"the idea of a ‘methane time bomb’ coming from warming sediments and permafrost is one thing we don't have to worry about in connection with global warming,"

"The researchers believe that soil and marine bacteria that feed on frozen fossil methane as it melts may explain its limited release, by preventing the methane from ever reaching the atmosphere."

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/natural-methane-time-bomb-unli...
> Renting...generally doesn’t work in old age

Can you expand on why this is the case?
Does a fixed token count work when the voting is iterated and future bills are not yet known? It seems challenging.

For instance, you could incentivize your opponents to spend their tokens early on things they care about, and reserve your voting block for a later bill. So while it does cost you considerably more to spend your tokens this way, you've already weakened your opposition so that you might be able to pull it off.
This is just deciding the order of business - not voting in the sense a civilian understands it.

The other way this can be done in parliamentary systems is to have a lay member body sort through and produce a draft order of business.

This body also decides which motions are in order which are duplicates and which need to be composited (ie a merge in tech speak) and also works out any conseqensionals (eg if Motion A passes then Motions G X and Y fall)
Brexit hasn't happened yet. You still currently have the right to work in the UK.
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Putting the money in an endowment is shockingly foresighted. I almost feel like good journalism needs that type of support going forward, and it seems the Guardian gave it to themselves. (The alternative would be inviting in people like Bezos, but that has the potential of strings attached.)
When discussing the media, it’s singularly important to speak of “citizen”, not “consumers”. The importance of media is far larger than entertainment. You could never read a single newspaper or magazine, neither in print nor online, nor watch TV or listen to podcasts, and still you would profit immensely just from others having access to quality news.
So for you this is an issue of property rights? Facebook owns the platform and so they can ban whomever they like for breaching their policies, which they should be free to choose without interference?
But does not support "across the aisle" cooperation, which is where the concern is.
Definitely! I'm not against big picture solutions -- I just don't see then need to postpone action on an individual level until a big picture solution has been put in place.

The changes we need to do will require a large cultural change in order for people to accept them. We need to accept collective AND individual responsibility for something that affects the entire biosphere. Increasing taxes on fuel won't change the way people think, any more than getting rid of plastic straws will. After all, most large changes can be summarized as a long sequence of smaller events (not sure if that last part sounds right -- English isn't my first language).
This was actually one of the more benign operations of rubber extraction. The previous efforts (not by Ford) in the Congo and in Peru were absolutely atrocious. The book The Dream of the Celt by Vargas Llosa does a good job of describing the horrors that went on in those countries.

As for US companies, they really have a long history of misdeeds in Central and South America. Guatemala had to endure 40 years of dictatorship because of bananas. That's just absurd.
The Guardian has been using this technique intensively, and is now profitable, so I think we can expect to see a lot more of this.
Citigroup Forms Lab for Traders to Code and Coders to Trade
The paper is not published yet, as this work was done for my dissertation, however we should publish the paper in coming few weeks. As for the results they are not as good as state-of-the-art methods, but they seem to be pretty competitive when compared to other open source libraries. The current problem is that complex nodes like add and skip nodes are not implemented yet, so it can only generated sequential structures. Once the paper is published I will update GitHub readme file.
Should've gone with Jimmy-Wales-puppy-dog-eyes instead. That's my go-to for heart strings.
Spend double digit percentages of our annual budget on decarbonizing the economy.

Have for example a look at how much the Iraq war cost over seven years and imagine how many batteries and solar panels could have been build with that money and how many homes could have gotten improved insulation. And that was really just a minor blip compared to the efforts that went into WW2.
Ask HN: What are you afraid to ask in your workplace?
What's common sense and what's out there depends on the reader.
Mideast Insurgents Enter the Age of Drone Warfare
Sorry that English is my second language?
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I've setup a yearly donation of €12. As someone outside of the UK, The Guardian has proven to be one of the few sources of reliable, in-depth reporting on the Brexit shambles (I do miss ColinCaserole though).

Ideally, I would be able to set up an all-you-can-eat subscription to a number of well-regarded international newspapers for languages that I am proficient in and access them at will from both a single portal (like Blendle, but absolutely not paying per article) and the newspapers own websites.
They just stratified online shopping. Everything is becoming more and more stratified, from airline cabins to online content to education.

I'd argue that copying this trend and tweaking the spreadsheets to extract money in a more fine grained manner while just cutting every dime on the lower tier is not exactly innovation. Holding this up on a pedestal as the great moment of triumph and creativity in tech is not really on the mark.
It's not speeding or misdemeanor, it's whether you will show up to court or not. Illegal immigrants are not citizens, don't have the same rights, and don't have anywhere to be released to since they cannot be in the country in the first place.

However they do have due-process and have access to lawyers and communications. Detainment is the only answer if you want their cases to be processed, and detainment may sometimes result in families being separated.

Homeless people can be in the country and have the ability to show up in court but they do often spend time in jail and sometimes even commit crime because it ensures food and housing.
My opinion is that open-source contributions stems from passion. People do it and implement something because they're passionate about it.

When you attach any money to it, it becomes tainted with responsibility and emotions. Such as, "should I work on this an extra hour and burn myself out and get those extra 40 bucks for dinner tonight?" That formula doesn't make individuals want to work more on open-source.

Sure they push them towards doing stuff in open-source but that usually almost never leads to creating great pieces of work.

One great and amazing thing that open-source thought us is that individuals can group together and work on amazing things without any economical reward. To me it was always a fascinating experiment outside the usual realms of politics, economics, social-studies.

Nobody would have ever imagined it to work without "money", but it does and it will continue to work. In fact, instead of pushing capitalism mentality inside of open-source we should be doing exactly the opposite: push open-source mentality in other parts of our society.
I suppose you also think there was no behind-the-scenes orchestration behind the hounding of Aaron Banks etc., that the Remain campaign was whiter than white, and that the Electoral Commission have been completely impartial..
Because of a few great wins in history, we have a rather romantic and rosie notion of civil disobedience, protesting, marching, and general civil disruption. And so they've become well-worn tools of the modern activist. Its worth questioning whether these are the best tools to use in so many circumstances.

Its a very real possibility that the gamble doesn't pay off. It might even drive polarization and skepticism among the very people you need to reach the most. It may just create civil unrest and reduce our resources, leaving us less able to fight climate change. Or a few smart people who might otherwise be able to contribute to a solution, end up spending their valuable time in jail, instead.
please do not encourage panic

try https://exponentialroadmap.org
> Often brought up as an example are the topological notions of “open” and “closed” sets. It sounds as if they should be exclusive and exhaustive — surely a set that is open is not closed, and vice versa? — but no, there are sets that are neither open nor closed and other sets that are both

For a rant on this see "Hitler Learns Topology" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyD4p8_y8Kw
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>Software as a Service is impossible to pirate and generates continuous income rather than a single upfront fee. That’s all you really need to know to understand why there is less and less desktop software coming to the market these days.

I'd argue that the increasing complexity of the stack involved in any given product has also brought us to a place where the kinds of thorough QA we had 20 years ago isn't really viable anymore, at least for most smaller orgs.

The ease with which you can fix a deployed product in a SaaS situation is a huge boon.
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SongMarkers is a tool for annotating moments in songs. It's a useful tool for learning guitar solos, but you can use it for whatever you'd like! Stack is React and Phoenix (Elixir).
What option doesn't exist? You can take PreP regardless of what kind of sex party you go to.
IMHO, that's the fault of publishers insisting on DRM. I should be able to walk through an Indigo take a book to the counter and ask for it as an ebook that will work on my Kindle.

I think books are special enough that there should be some legislation to get rid of DRM on them or at least require DRM be cross platform, be transferable, and expire when the book enters the public domain.
> in the long term housing can only increase an amount equivalent to inflation or wages.

This assumes the lack of a bubble created by anti-competitive regulation, like SV's cap on new development.
Do you have a link to any of these stories? I have heard of US citizens being detained and bullied at the border, but they were always eventually admitted into the country after a few hours of "purgatory".

Where would you even try to deport a US citizen? "Here, Spain, we don't think this guy is a US citizen, his passport doesn't look legit enough, can you take him?"
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If one of my friends gave me "reading socks" I would laugh in their face. If they had reading socks I would probably rethink my friendship with them.
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You articulate it better than I.
Here's some NLP text summarization of the Mueller Report in action (by yours truly): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815506
But killing an ant with a nuclear bomb is moar funnier! Don't stop the fun!
Condoms break, despite whatever trust I have in them. That's when it's time for Plan B.
Thanks to this OCR'ed version, I was able to put an NLP text summarizer of the document into production yesterday. Check it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815506
The fact that you have to link to an archive copy, because even the loony bin that is “counterpunch” has chosen to disassociate with the raving anti-Semite author, speaks volumes.
The problem simply shifts from pandering to advertisers to pandering to power users.
Even when I was a lefty in my naive years I found the Grauniad smug and offputting in it's tone. Now I'm older and wiser I find it ridiculous too.
That was a Global Load Balancer outage. Not a GKE outage.

When that GCLB outage happened, GKE would still be able to get traffic if you used ngnix ingress and/or regional load balancers.
There is Blendle, but I hate paying per article — it places a restrictive barrier on freely browsing articles. Blendle also misses a lot of quality newspapers (like the Dutch NRC).
It’s happening to many women scientists. It is targeted harassment.

PS: Downvoting eh? Nice work dudebros. I wouldn't expect anything less from Hacker News.
It’s not a linear process, it’s chaotic. I’ll attempt an analogy: We ended up in a Goldilocks state where this freezer emerged to keep things cool. The freezer is beginning to malfunction; it’s starting to melt. We discover it’s because we never cleaned the coils. So we clean the coils. But now we discover that the dirty coils led to the freezer overloading. So now the coils are clean but the freezer is still busted...

There are ideas out there to clean the coils (carbon sequestration). But in terms of fixing the broken engine, we’re just kind of hoping it restarts itself once we put things back into a state of normal operating conditions. But it might not [depending on how long we wake to take action; we’re hopefully still in a stage where the coils just need cleaning]. Or at least not at a time scale that matters for humans and a huge chunk of the world’s biome.
But the stigma must remain until the disease is defeated. We should not allow infection to become normal, an acceptable part of life. Diseases evolve. Within a population of hosts they can mutate and struggle to survive just like any other species (as opposed to within a single host). A drug-resistant strain may one day emerge by the same principals that give rise to an antibiotic-resistant bacterium. HIV may today be under control but we still need to eliminate it. The only path forwards on that, at the moment, is to reduce transmission. The stigma, people being at least somewhat afraid of infection, is part of that campaign.
This is an interesting debating point in itself. The problem isn't extreme preferences - the extremist wing of any political party tends to be motivated, visible and small. The problem is that the extreme wing wields a lot of power through their persistent and single minded effort.

Quadratic voting weights power away from my-way-or-highway voters towards voters who are willing to consider more than one option. Without thinking too deeply, it would make it easy to tease apart large and awkward alliances. Even if it didn't formally fracture the major parties, it would de-facto moderate politics by increasing the risk of holding extreme positions.

Basically any other form of voting is an improvement over the US FPTP system; FPTP's only advantage is that it is very obvious how it works. Nothing to sneeze at, but not mathematically satisfying.
TL;dr A nameless former Boeing test pilot speaking on background recalls saying something vague about the general way that test pilots were integrated into the aircraft development programs.

Go WSJ! Get those clicks! No need for actual facts, dates, documents, names, or any actual evidence.

Let's whip the peons up into an even greater frenzy so we can get those sweet, sweet advertising dollars.

Hurrah for our post-facts world!
Clickbait has changed a lot of the landscape. But this is good news for self-aware people. It encourages to look for alternative and down to earth news sources.
It'll be up to the good citizens of Houston to work out how to solve this problem. I imagine electric transportation would still work there. But, I do also think that a lot of American cities are going to have to work out how they're going to stay inhabitable without requiring a massive refactoring of their landscapes.
I think humanity has a built in "we'll figure it out" belief. I've seen people even here go "well, we'll just get used to the new normal". I think that, as things aren't immediately catastrophic they aren't that bad, and we'll figure it out at the 11th hour, like the race of superheroes that we are. Because nothing has ended the world so far, this one won't either. We'll just figure it out.

I don't know about this one. I really don't.
No, children don't like shots in general. Vaccines are generally delivered via needle, which means that they don't like those.

I don't know of anyone who likes sticking needles in themselves (aside from addicts, but that's another story), only those who understand the value of what's in them (I suppose that addicts would fall into that category, too.)

I distinctly remember my mom explaining why I was about to get stabbed with needles when I was four. I didn't mind.
This is a strikingly nihilistic view. "Just consume what you want, some of it will be propaganda, so it doesn't matter whether any of it is accurate or not and it's not worth trying to strive for anything better. Just lie down in front of the tanks and enjoy the show."
"no failures noted" != "no failures".
The question is what do you do if you really don't know the original timezone because it wasn't recorded? You don't want to guess at data that wasn't there.

Obviously a new system shouldn't do this, but old data is messy.