skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even if climate change would be a hoax (which it is not), then why would it be a bad thing to make changes to prevent it from happening anyway? Why would it be a bad thing to get rid of air pollution? Why would it be a bad thing to switch to an energy source that doesn't run out in ~20 years simply because it isn't renewable?

If we look at carbon footprint, single use paper bags have the lowest footprint.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

So if we prioritized limiting carbon footprint, we would encourage single use plastic bags. However, we are not, we are discouraging them.

If environmentalists had signed on to encourage carbon free energy, they would have pushed for reducing the roadblocks to nuclear power even at the cost of making them more unsafe. That is not what happened. Instead, environmental groups were one of the biggest opponents to nuclear power.

If you really believe climate change is the biggest problem facing humans, you will need to do things and encourage things that may be dangerous or harmful but that can help slow down climate change.
> Buying disposable ... electronics ... made in China and shipped over the ocean.

I don't think that LG markets it's Android phones as being disposable. I do think that they should, and I think that if they won't do it voluntarily that consumers should be made aware of the fact that these purchases are for disposable "products" through any other available means. If that requires regulation, so be it. No consumers stood up and demanded planned obsolescence from these corporations.

LG's easy for me to pick on, since their phones are essentially disposable pieces of junk, and I've been burned by them three times, but you could drop in most electronic manufacturers here. If they're selling disposable electronics then they should market them that way. The fact that we all accept that they're disposable is a separate problem from the demand, IMHO.

I also don't think that anyone ever thought that when they spend hundreds of dollars on a smartphone or a laptop or whatever that they wouldn't actually own it or have the right to service it on their terms. And yet, here we are.
https://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/mc-allentown-amazon-comp...

> During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside, ready to treat any workers who dehydrated or suffered other forms of heat stress. Those who couldn't quickly cool off and return to work were sent home or taken out in stretchers and wheelchairs and transported to area hospitals. And new applicants were ready to begin work at any time.

> An emergency room doctor in June called federal regulators to report an "unsafe environment" after he treated several Amazon warehouse workers for heat-related problems. The doctor's report was echoed by warehouse workers who also complained to regulators, including a security guard who reported seeing pregnant employees suffering in the heat.
> Uber's entire valuation hinges on the idea that they will be in the big three of autonomous driving

No, not even close. Their valuation is as a convenience provider. Their work in the autonomous space it an alternative revenue model, something they can sell/ license to car makers. They can gather a lot of road and driving data through their apps. Anyone who invested in them because of their autonomous driving research is even dumber than those who invested because they'll take over the rideshare market. Uber is a good idea, but it's ALWAYS been a bad investment due to their burn rate.
As someone who worked as a supermarket cashier while in high school, having items come up on the receipt in the same order that you scanned them is incredibly necessary when sorting out customer issues.

Between that and changes in perception about spending, I'm certain that supermarkets would not want this. It's too pro-consumer for their bottom-line.
I wish but unfortunately I think Uber became "too big to fail". When there is that much VC and corporate money behind an entity you can be sure that the rules of the game will be bent so that the big players don't lose to much of their chips.
He's the second most right-leaning Supreme Court justice:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-conservative-is-bre...
Yep.

Unless someone comes up with a method of somehow listing all 18,000 or whatever entries on the front page, the algorithm has to choose which ones are most popular.
Where I work (Portugal), John Deere tractors have been sold for decades and this year Kubota made a record comeback.

Most contractors use New Holland tractors now.

I suspect the reason is a shift from annual crops to permanent crops, that do not need much of the high-end functionalities.
Great question!

For me, yes. I do think differently about these warnings.

We are in an interesting time. How we resolve these basics are going to impact people and the planet for a very long time.

It also impacts what I do. One thing is I am extremely reluctant to depend on things I cannot repair. Grew up rural, and repair was a basic skill in life.

I am thankful for it. Has saved me so many times.

Right to repair is a major issue, close to my heart.
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Our local supermarket has a bin to recycle these bags. Most probably don't use it, but we do! Certainly is better than single-use paper.
> Google included, wasn't either actively censoring conservatives or if "algorithm mistakes" always happened to apply to them

I disagree with your assessment about "always". Frequently Google results are very anti-liberal as well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/03/joe-biden-parody-website-is-...

https://www.mic.com/articles/165540/googling-martin-luther-k...

I can find more examples if you like. YouTube suggests awful right-wing content ALL THE TIME.
I have wondered before why it is that you can't buy groceries with a 'compelling receipt' that shows you other database fields. Everything has calories/sugar/salt/fat etc. in a per 100g form (measurements are different in USA). So you could checkout some online shopping and see how many calories you are getting for your money.

If you wanted to improve your shopping you could see what was being wasted on 'empty calories' and remove it from the order. Just being to sort the checkout by 'most salt/100g' would be interesting to me and plenty of people who do diets.

However, this would not help most people to click the 'buy now' button.

So it is for this reason this receipt idea has to go. Receipts only really have to be read by people who do tax expense forms. Fancy receipts have been possible for years now - you could have a full colour receipt with pictures of everything, all fonts 'on brand', as fancy as it gets. But no retailer has decided to do this, there is something for the receipt we know being the throwaway thing it is.
Stuff like this is why I don't feel bad about blocking ads. This garbage adds no value and just exists to get clicks from tech illiterate people.
Yeah and Lehman Brothers are too big to fail... Oh.
Does iOS WhatsApp not support backing up to Google Drive like the Android version does?
split up the plaintext box. change that to a number of questions. use these for your model. automate the entire thing. should get a response in less than a minute.
Degree was computer engineering - less calculus than mechanical engineering, but all degrees from that department had a base standard of some 200-level courses from the math dept. for science & engineering majors. Linear algebra was probably most lacking - as it only covered system of equations and basic matrix operations and properties. Eigenvectors, subspaces, etc. I've had to learn all that myself. Calculus never actually exceeded AP calculus as taught in a US high school. Statistics included a pretty similar set of concepts, though the problems were much simpler (fewer layers of conditional probability) and didn't cover quite as many example of tests & methods, etc.
Sounds like you'll be more effective and productive if you take off enough time that you get bored and bored for a few weeks until you're hungry enough to dive back into work.

For me that's about 3-4 months. I get sad and angry and bored and need need need to work with a group of skilled people again. I've heard from others that it takes about a season, no less than 8 weeks, no more than 6 months (except for people that are fine working alone).

Since you have enough money to retire this should be easy. Don't worry about this particular job. Worry about doing well in your career. If you're good head hunters will contact you.
But if you can repair your own tractor, that should be less issue, compared situation where every trouble needs dealer help? I try to understand situation here: so Deere is being several years unsupportive for third party repairs and still best option? Why other tractor selling companies don't try to capture that market or why farmers don't cooperate to bring some other dealers in? For me seems like there are other initiatives (values in Deere) or this issue isn't big enough to make farmers (and other manufacturers) react.
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I am still looking for a coping mechanism, because I'm not a people person, so recruiting a team and having other people focus for me doesn't feel like the right fit.
"The project is through California Polytechnic State University’s Capstone I/II class and sponsored by iFixit. Material on this site is protected from DMCA takedown by a DMCA exemption granted by the US Copyright Office."

Yes.
Wikileaks is not just Assange. Obviously there far more people were working in background to verify everything they can and make sure their data is legit before they show it to the public. Do you really think there was way for them to keep upcoming release like actually secret from US government?
Don't other countries have their own tractor makers?
One of my big fears is the fragmentation of society and a conservative vs. a liberal internet. The echo chamber could be ratcheted up without exposure to a different viewpoint. I understand catering to customers, but I don’t see the cola example as analogous to this. With the influence that google has on search, I think they have a duty to present a balance of opinion to end users and to be unbiased.
Isn't this to be expected when you're using links as your primary/major ranking mechanism? The largest companies will have the most links, therefore they'll rank on top, be visible to users, and get more links. Sounds like the Matthew effect, in a way.
Physical gender stereotypes are things like hair length/style, whether makeup is applied, eyebrow grooming etc--all things that these apps are doing. These are not determined by sex. They are physical gender stereotypes, and are social constructs. Apps like these are upholding those stereotypes.

I'll put it another way. If apps like these were framed with a right-wing narrative of "this is what men should look like" and "this is what women should look like," people would be furious. But that's exactly what these apps are implying right now yet I don't see anyone speaking out against them.
There is no limit to how high the price of an equity to go, which is where your unlimited liability comes from.
Quick tip to anyone taking Assange’s side in this: your argument will work a lot better if you leave out all the stuff about whether his alleged crime is really “rape” or is just some lesser crime involving his wiener and another person. It just makes you sound like a redpiller and will turn people against you.
what a bad precedent to set, if you ever have to defend a accused criminal, does that make you a criminal.
Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions
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So having an Amazon job is better than their other options - which is what my comment was saying (albeit poorly).
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I don't understand how a bubble chart based on percentage of the total from various departments fixes receipts? Knowing the percentage of my total that comes from a specific department isn't a problem I have, though maybe it is for others. I'd be more interested in being able to self categorize my purchases and breaking down the percentage that way.
FYI, this appears to be from 2009.
This comment might apply to cars 15 years from now.

Tesla is likely the closest to "car as a service" but it has been coming along for a few years across the entire auto industry.
? When comparison shopping all anyone really cares about is the price

I disagree - people care about delivery times, quality of goods (is it what I ordered), and in some cases, they are open to alternatives (I would like a cheap android phone, If you can give me a Nokia instead of a Huawei, I don't care).

Similarly for news, people may have some preferences in their browsing, but ultimately for breaking news it doesn't matter whether it comes from CNN or the India times if there's no opinion involved in it yet, and lets be honest, most short-form journalism has very little research/opinion

For long form/blog-like content I agree with you though.
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Take the time to add all of the important deadlines to your personal calendar. The days shift slightly year by year, so a repeating reminder didn't work for me. The last prepaid tax payment for 2019 is due on January 15, 2020 and any 1099 to contractors are due at the end of the month, so don't forget those as well. There's a couple of miscellaneous dates around there as well, so it really depends on the business. For me, I refresh the calendar once a year when I file my federal return and mark all dates until the return the following year.

Also, get an account with EFTPS (https://www.eftps.gov/eftps/), which makes it easier to make payments. They have to snail mail you a pin code, so register sooner rather than later to account for the delay.
Consumers favor sodas that are advertised to them frequently, too.

We are where we are, because most users have gotten us there.

> Pretending that Google is merely passively reflecting user preferences rather than actively shaping them makes no sense.

It has content and advertising just like a gas station does.

It's a market. Literally, it's a market.
> Better to keep some technologically-unnecessary jobs around than to live in a society constantly teetering on the brink of a violent populist uprising.

Is there any evidence that the United States is "teetering on the bring of a violent populist uprising."? Your entire comment is hyperbolic.
At one point, there was talk of the industry moving to a pay per hour of horsepower model or something similar where you are basically paying for guaranteed uptime. I don't know if there is still an effort to move towards that or not, but that would change this discussion quite a bit.
there are conflicting reports of cognitive impairment starting as soon as 700 ppm: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/indoor-co2-du...

ETA for 700 ppm is about 2080: https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon...
Well of course I was not talking about it in that sense. I meant that for about the same cost, they should be able to show the most relevant results from the best source, and not just a select few.
> So, the fact that his opinion was once popular is irrelevant if he still held it when it became widely unpopular.

It’s relevant to the decision of a company worried about associating itself with that opinion. The pro-life view fluctuates between being the majority and minority fairly regularly. A majority of Americans consider abortion immoral. A nonprofit that tries to provide alternatives to abortion would not be seen as a negative thing to a large portion of the population, so google has no reason to discriminate against them unless it wants to take a political view on the matter (which it would have the right to do).

> Did Google really give equally to something akin to Planned Parenthood?

Did planned parenthood apply for this grant and get denied? Google doesn’t discriminate against them in other contexts. E.g. here’s a news story talking about google matching employee donations to PP https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/20/google-c...
solar panels actively reduce CO2 emissions every day they are in use. They only pollute if they are dumped irresponsibly after their ~15 year service life. why would it be good to forego something that reduces emissions now, in order to develop recycling for something that won't be discarded until 15 years?
You make three major errors. The first is that you conflate "criminal abuse of office laws" with the "acknowledgement that completely useless/incompetent people must be kicked out from official positions." The U.S. government is not required to convict someone of a crime in order to terminate their employment. Federal civilian labor law is an entire field of practice that is... quite verdant.

The second major error is that you conflate the presence of such criminal laws with anti-corruption measures. In reality, the existence of laws that allow jailing someone for making mistakes at work ("incompetence," "failing official audit," etc.) is a tool of corruption. Simply appoint the right auditor and you can eliminate anyone who disagrees with you. Making poor job performance a crime, for someone with no mens rea, is inherently totalitarian and abusive.

Lastly, it is simply not a factually correct statement to say that the "USA has very little in terms of law on personal liabilities of officials and their scope."

(a) First, I'll address the support you cited. Your reference to 25 C.F.R. § 11.448 is inapposite: it doesn't support your position because it isn't a statute, and it is utterly inapplicable anyway because it only applies on certain Native American reservations. A Bureau of Indian Affairs regulation was not a good choice for you here. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.448 and https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.118

(b) I'll address the presence of the law you claim does not exist.

(i) Brief overview. Title 5 of the U.S. Code (5 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.) is the statutory law that governs federal employees (except uniformed members, who are governed by title 10, title 14, or title 32, depending on component and status). Additional crimes are in title 18; additional constraints are found in specific titles depending on subject matter (e.g., the VA is governed by title 38).

(ii) Specific examples (procedurally): Chapters 43 and 75 provide specific guidance on holding federal civilian employees accountable for malfeasance of any sort. Any lingering questions you have about the U.S. system should probably begin there.

(iii) Specific examples (substantively): Since criminal statutes seem to hold special significance for you, let me direct your attention toward 18 U.S.C. § 201 (bribery), 18 U.S.C. § 203, 209 (supplementation of salary), 18 U.S.C. § 205 (representational conflicts of interest), 18 U.S.C. § 208 (personal conflicts of interest), and so on. Additionally, take a look at 10 U.S.C. § 892 (military failure to obey an order and/or dereliction of duty).
This author either doesn’t know about Niklaus Wirth or forgot to mention him. Wirth’s main metric for assessing language complexity was how fast the compiler compiles in general and compiles itself. He ditched anything that slowed that down. The resulting compilers could never be as fast as C/C++. However, Oberon-2’s fast development pace with safe code was a major inspiration for Go. If anything, Wirth’s legacy went mainstream when someone finally did something non-academic with it.

Author makes another mistake which is widespread: that fast-moving teams need languages with fast compilers. Sort of a half-truth. The alternative I push is a combo of REPL or fast compiler with ultra-optimizing compiler. Most of the iteration happens with the fast one. Everything that seems kind of finished gets compiled in background or on build server with more optimization, followed by lots of testing. It gets integrated into the new, compile-quick builds. Plenty of caching and parallelization in build system, too.

See Section 2 in the pdf:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704806
Yes, at the very least it's consignment. Apple plays a huge roll. It's not like Craigslist or the pennysaver where people place ads and everything else happens off platform.
I do wonder why you're being downvoted. Regarding a naked short, you're entirely correct in this ^
The trouble with raw statcounter hit data is that it's hard to know what it's tracking. Even statcounter itself cautions that the stats should not be considered representative samples.

You'd need some in-depth analysis to distinguish any real effect from, for example, those that are an artefact of the sites that use it (and don't use it).
That was my positive optimistic reading: "You (Brits) can't extradite him to the US, he has to go to a Swedish prison under EU law [0] (for a month or so)"

Even lifetime in a Swedish prison would be preferable to solitary confinement torture.

[0] ... Which makes the Brexit soap opera a bit more interesting.
There are two parts here:

1. We've started using our own backbone of fibre links to carry traffic.

2. The Argo product for route optimization and working around Internet problems.

#2 can take advantage of #1 now that it exists. #2 is a paid product.
You make a compelling argument that Google is biased against new entrants into market(s).

How are people supposed to know about these products/services if Google is showing what people already like? i.e. incumbents. They are forced to buy ads!

This is just one example why it's so important to show "neutral" results to everyone. The good news is that politicians like Warren understand these issues. Regulation and possibly break-ups are coming.
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I'd love to know more. If you're willing email jgc @ cloudflare with details.
Having sex with someone who is sleeping is “real rape” and it’s “real crime.” It’s not even a close call.
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I pretty frequently see people answer these things with studies showing automation isn't (yet) causing structural unemployment.

And, ok, it's good to have those studies, but they're not a final word on the topic. We also know that people who are displaced into other industries mid-career generally see permanent setbacks in wages, are frequently forced to move, and take long-term hits to their emotional wellbeing comparable to other major life crises.

If automation is 'just' accelerating the sort of turnover that's always existed, that still implies we should be deeply concerned and start finding better ways to support the people it affects.
It's a trade off between traditional waste and carbon dioxide. You will be dead before you recoup the total energy costs that went into the likely exorbitant and absurd steps of building and shipping your cloth bag halfway around the world assembled from materials gathered thousands of miles apart, compared to the cost of using a plastic bag each and every time. But you're consuming less single use plastic that is possibly going to get dumped into the ocean and trash the food chain.
Somehow many of our cotton bags get lost probably well before they've seen 131 uses. :(
Gah, I've seen altogether dozens and dozens of hours of this show, to the point where I was hunting down "lost" or hard to find episodes.

Barakan is a treasure.
One reason for the choice may be encoded in the date of that post: April 2018. That was before the release of Julia 1.0. Were they making that choice today, I can't help but think the economics might be rather different.
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The other solution I've heard is shorter work weeks.