skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Replacing lots of good working cars from the street is not environment friendly.

This is generally the reason why most legislation of this type tries to dictate new car sales rather than actual usage. That route would yield slower results, but it is a more efficient approach.

That said, we also need to keep in mind that these electric cars aren't going to be replacing 5 year old vehicles. The strong secondary market allows those used cars to flow down market to push out much older and lower quality vehicles. Those low quality cars are also likely the worse polluters. Think of the Cash For Clunkers program. That was a failure on many levels, but one of the successes was modernizing some of the vehicles on the road which led to both better fuel economy and safety (although I should note that other aspects of the program had negative environmental impacts that might have made the program a net negative overall).
Yeah this feels like second wave hate where people post about it for the clicks

All the comments are the same too
It's a point light infinitely far away. So light rays are parallel, and shadows are exactly the size of the object.
Very complete. I've not noticed any deficiencies at all. They added a lot of features too: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/wiki/Changes-to-origina...

If you're a fan of the original games, I can't think of any reason to not play them using OpenRCT2.
> The point I am trying to make is that time is just our perception.

So is causality—I'm not really sure what your point is.
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Ask HN: Why extremely big companies acquire other companies in their own space?
On the surface it makes sense. Small company had something good so big company bought them as it'd be cheaper than to build in house. But I'm talking Google and Facebook big. To me acquisitions are signs of failure.

Big company already has..

People: lots of them and highly skilled

Money: to fund different ideas

Customers: potential customers already use one of their products, it's a matter of cross sell .. which is easier than finding new ones.

All it has to do is to build a product.

Yet companies like to throw billions in acquisitions. Why? Am I missing something? Is it seen as cost of failure? Are they not logical decisions to begin with?

Like if I already have the customers, manpower and know what they want why should I pay billions when I can have it built in 10th of cost
What is the difference between her and an astrologer? If she is so sure, they should return all their clients money(invested in tech) or put them in defensive stocks.
I kinda envy her for making a lot of money and being on TV for i don't know what! no one can predict what's going to happen. Golden state winning yesterday was a sure thing. But then didn't! and now i finally realize that i or nobody has any idea what's going to happen.

Looking at the past we can say with certainty(if we assume it will repeat) that stocks will crash someday. When that happens some money that can be risked should be used to buy a well diversified ETF. Till then if you can't hold on to cash then keeping buying every month.
The Palm Pre launched 10 years ago today, here’s what it meant to me
I honestly haven't read more than three articles since most of their content went behind a paywall when I used to read one or two a day.

I wasn't aware that the publisher got to choose if they wanted to put up a paywall or not.
That's $9.99 x 3 (3 months of Stadia Pro) + $69 (Controller) + $69 (Chromecast Ultra) = $167.97. Just with that, it's a 30% discount, roughly.

I'm not counting the cost of Destiny 2.

And it appears as though it will be compatible with other controllers. (Probably not the Chromecast version, though.)
Damn dude, that guy is like Walter White.
Huge ecosystem also have issues. Your are tempted to use a library when a simple 100 line "replacement" that just does what you want will do.

I think the biggest problem in programming we have right now is people using libraries upon libraries not knowing how they work and drowning in complexity.

Huge ecosystems are almost like bureaucracies that eat productivity in their wake. They fool you into thinking they add value when instead they take it away.
Why is progress in renewables a bad thing for utilities? Just in the past 10 years or so, coal prices have increased by ~50% while natural gas prices have dropped at an even greater rate. Churn in the prices of underlying energy generation technologies seems both inevitable and 100% normal for the industry. I don't see any reason why this can't be profitable just because the churn might be renewable during the next cycle.
I'm wondering the same. There's another company that does the same[0] and probably several more. I know I've read reports of police departments getting more lucrative access into private facebook posts. Perhaps it is the same for a company trying to "help" a school district as well.

0:https://geolistening.com/
My understanding is that the controller supposedly connects directly to Google through WiFi rather than going through the device you're playing on.
Homeschooling has very few actual requirements, and they vary from state by state. Here is a map of them:

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/homeschool

The majority of the states don't even require the parents to have a high school diploma. Many don't require any assessments, or impose any penalties if they are failed. Eleven states don't even require the parent to notify the state they are homeschooling the child.

The idea of your mandatory requirements is not correct. One of the big dangers of homeschooling is simple fatigue; if the mother gets weary and skips lessons she will face little to no sanction for it.
I don't want to violate the Prime Directive, but quoting from $that_site: "The idea that someone could just rent space in a colocation facility, install a web server, and start posting information onto the internet is, sadly, one hundred percent impossible, and can never happen."

So we have to go to Medium to publish. Not even Wordpress.com. (gasps) Blogspot!
The article addresses this in the "Why not just do x?" section.

> - Why were you only hosting one JUST ONE cloud provider?

> - Why didn't you have backups outside of JUST ONE cloud provider?

Telling them to just use two cloud hosting providers sounds easy on paper but when you're a cash-strapped startup it's a significant ask. Especially if you need to have the same architecture replicated across both, in order not to have extended downtime.

This is much bigger issue than having external backups (which every startup should still do).
OK, I think we really need to investigate protecting the
privacy of our youth. This is effectvely acclimating our
children to minimal privacy as enforced by authoritarian
organizations.

If they're posting publicly, then they're posting publicly. Privacy isn't a thing.

My advice to my son will be don't use social media; if you must use it, don't post publicly on it. If you must post publicly, know that everything you say will be visible forever to _someone_. And post accordingly.
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I used this app. Google is infuriating. Like many here, I've been migrating off of as many Google products as possible. I just don't trust them for anything related to privacy or reliability. Gmail is the tough one for me. Looking at moving everything to my Outlook.com address or paying for additional iCloud storage and using my iCloud.com email.

My end goal is to limit my exposure to Google to an as-needed basis, using only Youtube and Maps.
For Google Maps, I'll likely start using Apple Maps more and Tesla's service when I get my Model 3, leaving Youtube as the only Google product I use with any frequency.

"Google it" has become a pejorative to eff something up.

Trips, you've been Googled.
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Location: BC, Canada

Remote Only

Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, JS/Typescript, Rails, PHP, SQL, Many CSS preprocessors, AWS, Heroku

I'm a competent C and C++ programmer. The C++ spec weighs a lot, so I'm hesitant to call myself an expert, but I have a good working knowledge of the languages. For a previous employer I worked on a commercial Windows IDE for ~3 years.

I've been working on the foundations of a 3D game engine for ~3 years, which has taught me a great deal about C, systems and graphics programming on both Win32 and Linux. I chose to build it without libraries (Handmade Hero style) which began as a learning exercise, but ended up turning into a way of life. I'm in the process of porting to WebGL.

I can configure and maintain webservers, proxies and load balancers having worked with the web for 10 years.

I have a good understanding of the Linux network stack and APIs at the systems level - I've worked on several custom TCP + UDP protocols in the past.

I love building tools. Sometimes I feel like I was made to build tools. I build all kinds of tools - tools for computers, tools for automotive maintenance, tools for making tools. I've been building a game engine, which I would consider a collection of tools, for years and I still enjoy working on it.

Lastly, and I think this is interrelated with the tools thing, I'm a systems programmer at heart. I love having direct access to the chip and needing to understand the hardware architecture, as opposed to the internals of an interpreter, to write well-working and well-performing code.

That's the cliff-notes on my technical background. As a person I'm friendly and easy to get along with. I like the phrase "Have strong opinions, weakly held".

I enjoy backcountry skiing, snowmobiling, rock-climbing, hiking, biking and beer! I live on Vancouver Island, BC Canada and would strongly prefer to work remotely. I've been working remotely for several years for companies in the Bay Area and just love it.

If you think I could be a good fit for your team and would like to chat I can be contacted by email at jesse.hughes.it@gmail.com

Cheers,

Jesse
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Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent's products is related to Node at all?

But oh, they're cancelling the public cloud, which I assume was the hosting service? Then what are they now? I went to their site but I totally didn't get it, I'm obviously not the target audience.

So, what does Joyent really do, how to they make money, and how does it make business sense for them to do all that illumos/zfs/node etc etc stuff? Are they an AWS competitor? A Heroku competitor? An Oracle/ex-Sun competitor? I really can't place them.
I'm excited/hopeful about Nim's prospects. The list of "high level languages with garbage collection and exceptions that compile down to an efficient native binary" is very small.
How do you know? Can we go to Mars today? What if earth gets destroyed before we can emigrate to Mars? (assume that Mars is a clone of earth i.e. the same conditions we have in Earth)

Also it's possible earth wasn't suitable for Venisian life back then.
I'm just so happy that someone actually mentioned the laws and at least vaguely alluded what each one does instead of just saying something like how "IP" laws (I don't like this term) forbid copying and they're therefore all pretty much equivalent.
How can I start my own e-learning business?
I grew up during the 90's and 2000's. I would hate to use Silicon Valley as an example for a normal american life. In most of America, you could give your kids pretty good opportunities without earning 500k. As for the immigrant mother struggling, this was true even 30 years ago when things were supposedly better.
I'm a one-man startup and I couldn't disagree with this more.

If you want to "play" startup, feel free to put all your eggs in one basket. If you actually want to build something meaningful and long-lasting, and you have Fortune 500 customers, take a breath and invest time in an infrastructure that can't be destroyed by a single rogue algorithm.

After all of the horror stories we've heard over the years, how is that time investment (and ability to sleep well at night) not worth it?
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I've often wondered the same thing!

A little while back two NASA scientists published a paper on how you would detect the existence of a previous advanced society on Earth. Apparently, over a long time scale it's actually fairly difficult.

Not at all my area, but it doesn't seem like we can actually answer that question you posed. It's fascinating. Carl Sagan's COSMOS might be the first time I'd ever heard about Global Warming, and he explained how it was through the study of Venus that we really began to understand it.
To add to sibling comment[0]. As I grow older I marvel at how the world behaves as if we are still in high school. Where I went to school there were definitely cool kids and most of us guys aspired to be in the football/rugby team. Our excuse back then was being teenagers. Now in hindsight, I realise there is no such thing as better. It is all relative. A man working a thankless corporate job for a lifetime only to be given a watch, to be managed by an MBA who knows nothing about the actual work isn't better than a woman who spends time raising her children. Man ends up with a watch and not so great relationship with his children and the woman ends up with deep love of her children. It is all relative. Some people love corporate life others find it suffocating. I wish people would stop saying something is better. By all means, doors should be opened for everyone so they have a chance to try it out. Maybe being a stay at home mom isn't for all women, that's fine too. We also need to grow a thick skin and learn to ignore people who make it seem like their chosen path is the right path. There is no such thing. Everything has pros and cons. There was great post on HN the other day, "What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy".

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20113726
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074303
You have 24 hours to respond and why would you have a business and not be on at least their business support plan?
Similar stories:

http://devernay.free.fr/paradoxlost/html/the_end.html

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.sh...
I suspect your comment is not super related to the article, as very very few people die from biopsies.
I thought you talked about physical infrastructure (roads and highways) needed for cars to ply on. After re-reading your comment I realised you are talking about infrastructure needed specifically for electric cars (like charging stations). My bad! Apologise for that!

Either ways, I don't see how the Government can help in this! Isn't this the prerogative of the companies manufacturing their EV to setup? The only place where Government can help is providing land and electric power for these charging stations. That should not be a big deal.
We can’t even fix the climate where we live, with much easier solutions.
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Microbes require water, and there isn't enough for them on/in Venus
Destiny 2 is going F2P, so it's $0
How are they overcoming the jarring effects of input latency? Even 20-30ms in input lag would turn a lot of people off, or is this primarily for casual games where this won't matter too much?
I think its https://takeout.google.com/
where I got the data.
Then its just a json which is relatively easy to parse.
Then save it locally as well? There really isn't an excuse to having DO or any provider being your sole backup.
I'd like to do something like this eventually. But how would the crowd sourcing work? There needs to be a way to weed out the ones that aren't actually the same story.
It is extremely unlikely in this case that the employee was also the proprietor, so there is no "their". It was an individual decision, not a business decision.
The school district I graduated from, around the same time, hired some consultant who used Brazosport, TX as the role model on how to improve their NCLB related standardized test scores. It did not turn out well.
I have, yes. However, I don't believe it's always necessary to have experience doing something in order to understand how it works - humans developed pretty well in ways to enable us to share experience with one another.

Anyway, as I see it first we should agree on what exactly the problem is; in this case, it appears this was created to solve the problem of mass shootings in schools.

If that is the problem, this solution goes well beyond what is necessary to solve it. Further, it remains to be seen whether this solution actually works to solve the problem at all.

So you have something that might work but definitely does a bunch of unnecessary things. At best, you have an incredibly inefficient solution and at worst something that actively harms people.
Which have, also interestingly, never been transferred.
For the same reason BSE is rare, we stop higher risk spinal columns entering the food chain at any point. They are removed and incinerated.
End of an era. Lots of good stuff to come out of Joyent and I hope we don't see the end of their OSS contributions.
Manatee (the state machine behind Manta PostgreSQL HA), the SmartOS KVM port, Triton itself - huge body of great stuff in addition to Illumos contributions that they are perhaps better known for.
That's a very good question for their CTO. Maybe we should ask him on Twitter.
> So, that makes ~15 minutes standing around waiting for the bus and $2.25 spent on a fare, in order to save a 5 minute walk.

I did something similar the other day, and it wasn't because I was lazy. There's 2 key points that you miss, the existence of monthly bus pass and the fact that the bus was late. If you are close to a bus stop, and the bus is going to be there on time, you could save some time. Let say it takes 5 minutes in bus and 10 to walk, if he is in time, you saved 5 minutes, if he is 5 minutes late, you lost nothing, but if he is 10 minutes late, well, you just lost 5 minutes. The thing is, that's always true at any given point. After waiting 5 minutes, the same rules apply because you still have the 10 minutes walk.

In the end, I started walking about nearly 10 minutes later. I should have done it before because there was others stop on the way (and could have taken the bus at theses stops instead) but I neglected that. I did the right choice by about 30 seconds though, because I reached my final stop just before the bus. It was a 7 minutes walk.
I don't like the Google account being tied to everything, email, youtube, stadia, analytics, photos, etc. I won't use it because of this
> Breast MRI had a cancer detection rate (CDR) of 10.8 per 1,000 exams compared to mammography’s CDR of 8.2 per 1,000 examinations. However, breast MRI had a biopsy rate of 10.1%, double that of mammography’s 4% rate. [emphasis added]

What's going on with the biopsy rate? Is it something as simple/nefarious as recouping the cost of the equipment?
> But I still do business with DO because it costs ~half the price of a comparable EC2 instance

I'm curious why people who don't have massive scaling and variability issues choose DO or AWS for their hosting.

For 34€/month, Hetzner will rent you a physical server (i7-6700, 64GB RAM, 2x512GB SSD, 1Gbit/s networking). That's a monster of a machine and can run most sites out there. And if you need more oomph and better reliability, rent three.

I looked at this many times and still check the pricing regularly, and it just doesn't make sense for me to switch from these physical servers to virtualized offerings, not in any foreseeable future.
I do not have all the details, so caveat lector, but apparently it was due to spinning up a dozen droplets and running a batch job.

If this is considered “abuse” Digital Ocean is not a platform you should be running a business on.

If you can’t afford to pay for reliable big boy infrastructure, you might need to rethink your business plan or how much you charge.
So like RSS?
Hmm. Does this mean that the controller is the "brains", and after sending and receiving the game play data, then needs to beam it to your device? Or do the two devices (controller + screen) work together to handle some of this?

I fear for the latency in general.
> If the controller is indeed "dumb" (just sending inputs), why wouldn't there be compatibility with Xbox or PS4 controllers?

The controller is not dumb, it connects to Google.

Also, as I understood it other "supported" controllers can be used (per https://youtu.be/k-BbW6zAjL0?t=683) but then you need to use another device/platform that does the connect-to-Google part, e.g. Chrome on PC.

edit: http://stadia.com/faq says USB HID controllers are supported on Chrome and mobile.

edit 2: and https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9338852 explicitly says PS4 and Xbox One controllers are supported.
There is debate within the scientific community about changing other planets in general. Not everyone is convinced that we should alter or terraform to suit our needs.

Some related links:

https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/intpolicy/

https://www.astrobio.net/mars/should-we-terraform/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_terraforming
> Life in temperatures that melts lead?

Why not? It'd have to have different chemistry, sure, but even on Earth life exists in some pretty extreme temperature and environment ranges.
The whole comment was fiery rhetoric against a political enemy. All that people are doing in that genre is shooting flaming arrows at each other. The arrows are predefined talking points and the flames are aggressive language.

Here's something I've learned by studying HN voting data: people's reactions to such posts are determined entirely by which side of a topic they're on—nothing else. Such posts exist not because of curiosity where we might grow or learn, but purely for repetition in which an existing feeling gets confirmed. The feeling might be pleasure (finally someone telling the truth about this important matter!) or pain (yet another asshole propagating lies!) but it's the same mechanism either way, no doubt with some hard core biochemistry behind it. If we want to have a site where curiosity can flourish, which is the point of Hacker News, we have to moderate that in every way we can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Curious to know why that is. Would you mind expanding?
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Either. It does seem unlikely, but the truth is we just don't know.
Yes, that is a reasonable line. The big difference that I see is, if someone is waving his genitals in my face I may fear he may come unto me, rub his penis against me or whatever else.

A dick pic is just that, a picture of a penis. I'm not sure what we're enforcing when we ban other people from exposing themselves to others is 'showing genitals to others' but rather 'behaving very sexually aggressive towards someone else'. And you can't really argue that with an anonymous dick pic.

Of course dick pics are rude, but arguing they are just the same as exposing yourself in public seems ingenuous
It was clearly a joke - he means the opposite of what was said, but thanks for spelling out the obvious
In America, yeah? As in, your regulators might be shit, but other countries might be better. The FDA have hardly been covering themselves in glory.