skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thanks in the sibling to this comment still stand.

However, some of my original concern stands too. To quote myself:

"Debt that must be repaid by a future generation [...] will _always_ be worth it to the borrower."

The concern is that the public debt may tend to balloon to a point where the only means to service that debt involves hyperinflation and then the nation faces a choice between economic meltdown due to catastrophic inflation or economic meltdown due to defaulting on its debt. Or maybe that can be avoided if people muster the will to enact some kind of crazy austerity measures in the 11th hour but that could be awful too.

A wealth tax can ensure that everyone is just about equally bad at surviving the ensuing chaos rather than having a few elites who make out somewhat better than everyone else when it all goes down. But it won't avert the chaos altogether, will it?

Is this concern totally ill founded?
Interesting. When does water turn from liquid to beverage? Is it when I pour it in a drinking glass? Because I guess when it is used to flush the toilet it is not a beverage?
If France ever experiences a baf nuclear event, that nuclear power won't feel very cheap.
I think that the Free/$1.99 price trend actually cheapens how much value you think apps provide you with.

Does this app have less value to you than a Starbucks? Does it have less value than a bridge toll or a few hours of city street parking?

I think that to many users, this app would be more useful than those examples above. But when people think about the value that apps provide, they tend to compare the app to Facebook and other free apps made by large companies, which have incredible scale and advertising pipelines on their side.
Doubtful? It's credited to Dr Steven Ostro, who specializes in near-miss asteroids and passed away in 2008 [0], I suppose that makes it more likely to be a generic render?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_J._Ostro
4) Reduce demand.

I'm Argentinean, if I stopped eating meat my passport would probably be revoked. I grew up thinking that it was perfectly normal to eat meat 7 days a week. Even with this background, I started reducing the amount of meat some time back. I'm not vegetarian by any means, but I reduced my meat consumption about 80% without even trying. I'm sure there are lots of people that could too.

> Less humans due birth control or fortuitous events (e.g. a plague)

Like everything, consumption follows a Pareto distribution, where some "whales" drive most of the demand. You can focus on them instead of hoping for lots of people dying.

Also, reduce poverty and the amount of newborns in this planet will naturally decrease precipitously, without any need for a mandate from anyone.
The channel tunnel actually are three tunnels: two train tunnels with a service tunnel in-between. The train tunnels are connected to the service tunnel at every 375m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel#Tunnelling)

So, there are no exits to the surface, but there are ways to get out of each of the tunnels.

I would guess this kind of construct would make Musk’s design at least 50% more expensive per kilometer (in Musk’s design, a service tunnel can’t be less wide than the real ones. You could make a setup where tunnels can serve as service tunnels when needed, but even than, you need to build all those connections between the tunnels)
What we have here is yet another long list of vapid platitudes that attempt to create out of the blue some kind of fake morality. Morality is meant to be system of rules; not a collection of haphazardly-concocted, virtue-signalling feel-good statements. Atheists, who often viciously criticize religion, are themselves the absolutely most imbecile source of bullshit. As far as I am concerned, they can stuff their godless crap where the sun does not shine.
Someone gave me a tip to being CTO: consider what the ideal CTO would do here and see why you can't. Surprisingly, I found it effective. Odd but I'm not one to throw out a functioning tool.
Hinckley Point C in the UK has a contract for £92.50MWH [1]. Given that some other operators have pulled out suggests that isn't overly high, but as wind is currently getting priced in the mid £50s then yes it is expensive. Further, nuclear isn't a particularly good match for renewables because it isn't as dispatchable as other options.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/hinkley-nuc...
> Except for the fact that in this case the "something illegal" is the user's own data, which they should get to decide what to do with.

And what websites have been open with their data collection before the GDPR forced them to? When I opened the data collection dialogs introduced by the GDPR for the first time I expected maybe two or three entries, and it was near consitently closer to 40! WTF. Calling it "user choice" when the site owner deliberately ommits that kind of information is dishonest at best.
> > Dominic made no promises to anyone

> Not by putting his code up on github, no. But that's not all he did.

I don’t see how putting your code on npm is fundamentally any different.

No one is entitled to free maintenance of gratis software forever, just because someone once said “npm publish”.

That’s not how open source works. It works by people contributing and getting involved, as opposed to entitled freeloading.
I did see your point, I'm trying to get you to consider what those '3 parties' actually are, and that there are actually other participants as you would like to define it.

"There are two other stakeholders in a corporation who get shortchanged because of this principle."

There is at least one other obvious group: suppliers.

There is a buyer/supplier relationship equilibrium on both sides not just one side - is my point.

For example, if you 'contract' for a company, well - you're not an 'employee, shareholder or customer'. But you are 'part of that equation' as a supplier, as important as customers.

The other major party that's missing is the lender - this is very much like the 'investor relationship' and so they can't be left out. Remember that financiers who provide debt to a company have senior rights to assets, above and beyond the investors. They can also have special covenants that give them incredibly control. Those financiers can even be individuals (i.e. many 'bondholders' are individuals).

They are not investors.

So you talk about 'investors getting the advantage' ... that's actually not quite true - many cases it's not the investors, it's the lenders/bond holders who are making bank.

Lastly are the externalities. While a company has 'responsibility' towards it's employees and customers, it absolutely has a relationship with every entity that it doe any kind of business with - and those parties matter.

The 'economy' is basically a big web of those entities: buyers, suppliers, investors, lenders, workers, externalized entities (+government +NGOs).
Rerun that analysis for everyone on the planet with an IQ of 90 of higher - who could actually use that energy - and you will end up with a more reasonable end point.
At the risk of seeming unduly negative, I'd like to take a swing at this last question of yours:

> is the email address info at stripe dot com the best email to reach out for further questions such as these?

I do not work for Stripe, never have, but I can state with near-certainty that the answer to this question is "absolutely not."

Stripe are not going to give you advice on how to violate U.S. immigration law and not get caught. If you are living in the U.S. on a visa that does not allow employment beyond the terms of your visa, you are asking Stripe to give you advice on how to break the law and there's zero chance that any business--especially one so deep into financial services like Stripe are--will be OK with doing that.

If you have to ask questions with a caveat like this:

> there can't be anything (that's discoverable by the Dept of Homeland Security) tying me to the U.S. company.

then you are playing with fire, particularly under this administration, running the risk of being deported and receiving a 10-year ban on reentry at all (to say nothing of destroying your chances at ever getting a work permit again) and I strongly suggest you reconsider what it is you are considering doing.
I hope you realize that your post looks super sketchy. It seems like you are walking the fine line of potential tax evasion as well as potential immigration violation(s).

I strongly encourage you to see an accountant and/or lawyer -- it would strike me as cavalier if anyone answered your questions completely in a public forum such as this.
Sum-types and an exhaustive pattern-matching construct. It's borderline criminal to design a language with a static type system in this century and leave that out.
Yes,VMware has a free (as in beer) windows tool to update (downgrading is not possible) the microcode.
Telling China to get over colonialism is like telling black people to get over racism.

These inhumane policies have been in place for centuries so after 3-4 decades of half-heartedly treating people as equals, "get over it" isn't going to fly.

Generally the victims decide when to move on, not the attackers.
If you build using server side rendered HTML then progressive enhancement with JavaScript is not actually that difficult. It takes a different mindset that most webdevs don't have. Getting the UX nice for the fallback is hard.
That sounds like a reasonable goal, I'm just at a loss for what old applications or protocols will benefit. Many of those old applications get stuck running on old kernels which would prevent this type of change from helping them.
This is me. I have a track record of making good, rational decisions that I end up regretting because it wasn't what I actually wanted. recently I've been trying to do a better job of checking in on my feelings to ensure present me don't make logical decisions future me will be aggrevated to follow up on.
There are a couple of tricks. It'll be more work than what it would take if you were a stereotypical high achieving individual but its still possible to increase the likelihood of achievong your goals.

One is habits. Start with a low effort commitment that establishes the habit. For the gym that might be going to the gym. Not working out, or even entering the building. Literally just driving to the gym twice a week. And most of the time you'll end up working out anyway.

Another is planning. Plan exactly exactly when and how you'll go to the gym in detail. Ok Thursday I will leave work early to make it to the gym on time.

Another is imagining how your life would be different if you worked out and what you need to do to achieve it. Imagine all of the benefits as wellnas the sacrifices. Imagime how hard its going to be to motivate yourself to drive the gym after a hard day. Imagine rescheduling friends for dinner to work out.
An app that collects all of one's Contacts by definition has contorted Data privacy standards.
What kind of metal? I thought X-rays couldn't penetrate lead.
My comment applies in general, but yeah node/npm is particularly shit in this regard.

I wonder if the node community will ever revert on the terrible idea that single functions should be separate packages.

I bet moving away from that model would make node dependencies much more sustainable.
Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice [pdf]
Humans are also consumers. Modern businesses think about people as consumers first and human second.
This paves the way to many perversions, such as, huge industries bases on exploiting human weaknesses (e.g. addiction based online gaming) . This is enabled morally by marginalizing the concept of a human to consumer first.
In this moral outlook, as long as you get costumers to buy your product, everything is AOK morally.
Being human oriented means you don't create a product that which manipulate humans into self or social harm even if it'll turn a profit.
I think this viewpoint originates from a stunning lack of imagination.
I did a late application as well, and got a reply about 2 weeks later. But it was in April, so I think it wasn't as late your application which is why I got a quicker response.
“We’re all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there’s still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse. All war depends upon it.”

— Speirs, Band of Brothers (2001)
How has serving impacted you?
" By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where they hold the phone"

Along with the rest of their body.
Concur. I got a very 'Upworthy' or 'TED Talk' itch reading this.

I don't think it's an agenda to sign up to, but worth a read and reminder from time to time.

The most problematic issue with these statements is that they miss the underlying reality of what makes up the bulk of the difficult decisions:

You want to reduce CO2? Buy an electric car, to start. Wait, almost nobody wants to pay $20K more for their car (!), and would rather just drive a gas engine? Whoops! Nobody wants to pay for double for electricity? We can also reduce C02 substantially with Nuclear. Whoops, to spooky!

And the ultimate: I detest Facebook, but it's the only channel that comes even close to giving my businesses the ability to target as I need to. And it's not invasive: just basic demographics! It's surprisingly inefficient to do elsewhere. So as much as I hate Facebook as a product, it's the 'only game in town'.

The equilibrium of all of these dilemmas is why we are where we are - there are very few easy hanging fruit that we can just go and fix.
Changing people mentality is the less likely way methane is going to be reduced; I'm sure you tried to convince your family but you had little or no success, some parts of the world are even having trouble making people believe that vaccines are good don't think they gonna pay much attention about methane.
Show HN: Social Network for Code Snippets
Having tried the app, some honest UX feedback:

1. This app doesn't have a good reason to depart from the usual Apple UI style, so don't. The gradient buttons in particular feel very Web 2.0, and out of place in 2019.

2. You need to persist content in the app when I close it, or switch between apps. Ideally the app would work away in the background while I do something else, but if not it should at minimum not need to start again from scratch every time I open it.

3. When I tap on a photo to preview it's not obvious that I need to tap on the old photo to get back to the list. Offer a close icon in the corner.

Good idea, useful, execution could take some polish.
> how can there be two selfs in a single mind.

Oh wow, do I have a YouTube video for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

(You Are Two, by CGP Grey)
DTP was a major revolution, even if it's rarely called DTP these days.
I also grew up eating crazy amounts of meat here in Canada. I'm steadily moving towards a vegetarian (though with some fish and other sea life I harvest) diet despite still absolutely loving meat. I just can't justify it anymore. To me (and I know others don't need to feel the same way) it's practically immoral to eat in a way that wouldn't be sustainable if everyone else did. It's incredible to be born in a place and time where I can afford dry aged sirloin, fresh bacon, roast chicken, or smoked duck breast with my meals... But to partake in it is a serious disservice to everyone else in the world, however minute that disservice may seem at the global scale.

Having kids robbed me of the selfishness I required to isolate myself from the externalities of my lifestyle. To be honest, some days I wish I still didn't worry about it.
At what point do these 'influencers' become entirely computer generated, applicable to any business or situation in the world? Nvidia already has the tech.
The question is, can they have negative effects on insects. Given that under the right conditions a microwave oven can create plasma in a grape, it seems like something to look into before we fry insects, populations of which have already declined significantly.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/insect_numbers_declining_why_...
According to Buddhism, is there truth that a self can hold?
Minor nitpick, but > is universally used to indicate quoted text, and you've reversed the meaning here.
That's the guy who does quick time stuff at Apple
Honestly, when you're dealing with the scale of the Internet, ie. billions of people, do the disgusting comments of a few dozen, hundreds or even thousands of people matter? It's not something you encounter in the "real" world, but it feels like we need to change our scales logarthimically when talking about Internet comments.

Probably a million people read about that article and 99% didn't think those horrible thoughts, but maybe less than 1% did and commented on social media. Just by sheer numbers, you're going to get a lot of terrible comments, it seems like this is the "new normal" and growing thicker skin is something we all need to deal with, unfortunately. To a regular person, a few dozen shitty comments will be hard to take from real people, but when considering the scale of the Internet, it's probably not significant and it's something we all need to learn, unfortunately.
This is applies to software too.

Software that comes out before your professional career is natural.

Software that comes out beginning and mid career is revolutionary and exciting.

And software that comes out late career is obviously an over engineered solution in search of a problem.
Engineering Management Philosophy at Elastic
What is the point of this comment? It is very loaded. Are you talking about fear? Because all evidence shows that nuclear is the safest next to hydro power (yes, even more than solar). Like I just don't know how to interpret your point.
The parent may have more direct insight, but the article does discuss the rules: "The rules were few, and clear. Respect the past of the catacombs. Take out what you take in. Resources are to be shared, even with strangers. No selling and no buying: barter exchange or gifting are the only acceptable modes of transaction. Help is to be given wherever necessary. Create with care—and do not destroy."
Seems like microwave energy going into water could be a problem if the water is in a gnat or moth or butterfly.
Seems like it's close to what a 'normal' household would consume: https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/2201126...
If you are going to eat red meat go Kangaroo, it's healthy and sustainable.

There are a million articles on the internet arguing either way. I would start with this one for an interesting angle: https://theconversation.com/from-pests-to-profits-making-kan...
One thing to do is to consistently shout down voices who routinely fall back into the outdated "population growth is good because we need it for my comfortable pyramid-powered pension" argument, not realizing how much it is at odds with whatever environmentalist views they might also hold. And even if they are convinced "fuck the planetists": the old trick of deriving comfort from growth will stop working at one point, and the only open question is how close we are already or maybe even beyond.
Chess is probably the clearest example of this. Chess is not especially difficulty to become quite strong at - even as an adult. But there is an important catch there. Your improvement is nonlinear and difficult to predict. You can spend 6 months working tirelessly at the game and see no improvement. One extremely typical pattern in it is 'stair stepping.' You don't gradually increase in proportion to your efforts, you instead go up in spikes. You wake up and suddenly you're e.g. 100 points stronger than you were than when you went to bed.

This goes all the way to the top. Magnus Carlsen is currently the world champion, one of the most dominant we've had in a long time, and arguably the strongest player to ever live. And he had phenomenal success. He achieved his grandmaster title at age 13 and was nearly the youngest grandmaster ever. But here's [1] what's interesting. That's a graph of his rating progress - a much more readable table is at the bottom. Carlsen was advancing meteorically rapidly. Looking at his relative rating gains between each period:

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10/2001: Baseline (2072)

10/2002: +178

10/2003: +200

10/2004: +131

Then, as always, it happens:

10/2005: -11

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A player meteorically rising and spending immense amounts of energy on the game suddenly manages to achieve nothing but an 11 point loss over more than a year. Imagine if you, as an adult, were in the position and in spite of all your efforts over the past year - you did nothing but lose 11 points. I've coached people in that exact situation. And they tend to rapidly give up. Oh, they just don't have the IQ for it. Maybe they're too old. Maybe they're doing something wrong and start engaging in genuinely wrong study habits. And so on.

These 'plateau' type events happen to literally all chess players. So it leads to the interesting thing that you'll find most chess players are both humble and arrogant. Humble as years of sport against much better players (as is required for improvement) will make you, but arrogant in the sense that they will never say never - even when things look incredibly grim. In effect you end up simultaneously humble and arrogant. I would expect that successful entrepreneurs and successful chess players share many of the exact same characteristics, as it's the same game in both endeavors.

[1] - https://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=1503014
Sequestration won’t do enough soon enough. This could be methane deposits evaporating from long frozen stores (permafrost and other sources). Methane is a much bigger problem for the atmosphere than carbon and sequestration won’t touch it.

If quitting meat sounds tough, consider that I’ve heard the only effective thing to do would be immediately cease all ICE production/use. But oddly feeding cows seaweed would cut their methane production something like 90%.
How will this help with the catastrophic release of methane from melting tundra and gas hydrates?
Are there other countries with a US-like debt ceiling? Australia had one between 2007 and 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_government_debt#Deb...) and the EU stability and growth pact (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact) limits debt to 60% of GDP, but its measures are a lot drastic than what the US does, and its limit was softened in 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact#Refo...)
Not all meats are equal https://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-the...
> downgrading is not possible

Sure it is. I've done it myself.

Microcode is stored in volatile memory on the CPU. Updates are applied on boot, every boot. "Downgrading" is as simple as not applying updates, or applying an older update.
The concept of a hyperthreaded 6502 is intriguing, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter...
A self-host solution by its nature requires some investment in the techniques and would take greater effort (that's how most open source projects make money).

Look, I'm not trying to sell my solution here. This is Hacker News, I'm simply share my setup and hope can help someone who's capable and willing to invest the time. I understand this is not for everyone, that's why I suggest nextdns.io as hosted solution in the README.
One of the 'features' of nuclear power is that it the marginal cost of running the plant at full capacity is low compared to running it in line with demand. That's why the UK have large interconnects with France.

If instead they could turn the excess power production into fuel then I'm sure that'd be a nice side effect.

Solar power has the peak load problem too, though I'm not sure how economically these systems could be built to run a fraction of the time.
They key is to understand who you are.
That is more difficult than one might expect.