skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not remarkable. I simply made them, with one wife, in the traditional way. In case you were asking about how I afford them:

I have a BS degree in computer science from UMass Lowell. I started the family, married, moved into a place of my own, and started an OS kernel developer job just a bit before finishing the degree. At that time, back in 1999, my starting pay of $48,000 ($73,628 in 2019 dollars) was more than my wife's parents made together. You can wait forever trying to get your life into a perfect state for starting a family, or you can just get on with it. Once we had two kids, my wife gave up on that same degree with 75% done.

I currently work for a government contractor, doing low-level software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088647

I mostly stick to living in small affordable cities like Melbourne, FL. The area I'm in now is just large enough to have commercial jet flights, 4 each way with Delta and 3 each way with American. Houses have a median price of about $150,000 here. I paid about double that to have a big house (3500 sq ft, 0.39 acre) less than a mile from the beach. I paid it off in 8 years.

Unless you count opportunity cost, there are no child care expenses. My wife does that. The kids are homeschooled, with dual-enrollment providing free AA degrees that have fully transferable credit to state universities. There is a scholarship that should cover the rest, except that we botched the application for the first two kids.

Food is the big expense. We seem to spend over $40,000 per year on it. About half the time we hit the out-of-pocket maximum for health insurance, which is something around $11,000 if I remember right. (skull fracture, major rib cage surgery, more rib cage surgery) After that I don't know, but it might be electricity or home insurance.

My state has no income tax. I don't really pay the federal one, due to the kids.

Maybe the important point is that I just went for it. Sensible career and expense choices help, but the main thing seems to be this: You can wait forever trying to get your life into a perfect state for starting a family, or you can just get on with it.
Relevant thread: https://twitter.com/stdlib/status/1136629930060636162
Globally? No, not even close.

China and now India coming online as industrialized nations with increasing quality of living can't possibly happen while reducing global emissions. We're talking about billions of additional people shifting towards the western quality of living.
Oh hi, I've seen your posters posted throughout Cap Hill.

I'm curious, with these kinds of apps, do you use it yourself? I've always wondered if dating as a Tinder/Grinder employee would be weird, and here I'm curious if it's weird in a more platonic world.
I'm reminded of something a smart engineer said at work today. "Our customers don't care how we implement the system, they just care that it works"
Thats definitely the wrong read. This is a direct competitor to Microsoft's PowerBI. Google will need Looker to get large enterprise data management deals on Google Cloud.
Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, researchers say
I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like of people for/opposed to each of those two things.
There a re CLI tagging tools like this: https://tmsu.org/

It's mostly driven by folders and symlinks, so you could create your own with a few shell scripts.
Nope. It should be prohibitively expensive to own any other car but an electric car. Because the externalized costs of carbon should be fully reconciled in the price of fuel. With the extra tax revenue here, a government could subsidize electric vehicles.

If your fix is waiting on people ( that are wealthy enough ) to choose an electric car over a gasoline car so they feel good about themselves we aren't going to get where we need to be in time.

The economically viable thing to do, needs to be the right thing to do. This is a place for regulation, not the free fucking market.
I am very far left and I definitely deny the solution of "don't have kids". A below-replacement birth rate would destroy civilized societies. We need to figure out how to reduce emissions per person, rather than just reducing the number of persons. Otherwise we end up in a world with a declining birth rate but a still-increasing median standard of living that continues to destroy the environment
“Research has shown that modal dialogs that cannot be closed perform the best”
> I was under the impression that we were reducing emissions.

Outsourced would be a better description.
That solves nothing.

If youtube doesn't moderate, then the extremist content they want to ban won't be banned.
That does seem questionable. They should be able to detect who was affected in the first place.
> Slack is really focused, performant, and an absolute joy to use in comparison.

I never thought I'd live to see the day where Slack was the most performant of any given alternatives, but I suppose that was short-sighted.
I am a network engineer and I had been using Termius in the MAC for about an year now.But whenever if there is a need for log collection, I have to use MAC Terminal. Because I cannot scroll with the mouse and select the text. This is a big disadvantage for me. (I don't want to press cmd+A and do a select-all)

Also it will be better if the list of connections (and folders) are displayed readily accessible always in the left or on the top.

I have not used the app in mobile. Because I am skeptical to store the hostnames and IPs (and definitely passwords) on a third party application.
What’s Coming in Go 1.13 [slides]
Frankly, this one patent is worth a lot of money. This is the magic by which Looker casts out duplicate records in joins.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
You don't need to teach the kids this. They are already moving towards peer-to-peer, encrypted, and ephemeral forms of communication. They also lock their Instagrams, have secondary fake Instagrams (finstas), and obscure their identities.

All the EFF privacy advocates who desperately hope that people will listen to them miss the forest for the trees. The kids are smart. They're adapting. Just like we did.
That's a very interesting approach in the article, and yet something like that will likely never see the light of day. In my opinion much of the blame for the decrease in public trust of experts lies with the experts themselves for their lack of epistemic honesty and apparent disinterest in self-improvement.
The engineers have a pretty bad creative track record, and really have no idea what's in right now.

Like for example the decision to pick up in the valley of the gods.

Why? Women/lgbt are playing hero shooters, we don't need some bs exploration game.

Fact is: engineers refuse to believe that creatives spent the same staggering amount of time honing their skills - it's just inconvenient because that means engineers possess about as much creativity as we do oop skills. That is a deep chasm. And it shows, pick a metric. They have had a near 0% success rate in creating new games outside the Orange box era.

Which is incredibly unfortunate, because these guys think because they can build engines/hw they can make good art because it doesn't involve math, so easy.

I see Activision valve in the decade if they don't make some pretty radical changes in the near future.
Thanks for giving this suggestion, somehow missed the name of that principle until now.
Change that "grep" to "sed", and you will get a solution that works even on ancient machines, like HP-UX from 1990's. Grab msys, and you'd have your solution for Window-based systems as well.

At the same time, installing "flex" and "cc" on a random machine would be much harder. Old Solaris boxes, for example, come without any C compilers, not to mention lexers.

And finally, what are you going to do with the results? It is very likely that you'd want to pass them through sed/grep anyway. So you will have to worry about differences in shells and versions anyway.

So sorry, I see no advantages of this, just disadvantages. Of course no one cares if you run them yourself, but posting them for other people is just evil.
How much of it is actually us though? I thought most of our emissions are going down overall its overseas developing countries with few if any regulations and little enforcement of the ones that do exist causing most of it? WTH can we do about it?

All we can do is plant trees.
I use weechat on a mac. Works just fine with iterm2. I press cmd-~ and it pops up on screen.
Ask HN: Side projects initially developed for personal use that became products?
Michael Shellenberger really exudes this appearance of a credible, reasonable person, with clear ideas and a sound mind, but man. The guy's words are stunningly stupid.

About 150 people will
die from thyroid cancer.

"Uh, there were... several thousand. Increased cases of thyroid cancer..."

Yeah, so there were estimates
that the number of thyroid
cancers could reach something
like 16,000.

The thing about thyroid
cancer is that nobody should
"die" from it. It's easy to
treat. You just remove the
thyroid gland. And then you
can just take a synthetic
substitute.

Wow. No amount of heckling can address the cognitive disconnect here.

Like, hey, no biggie. You remember Mr. Furley from Three's Company, right? Don Knotts was such a good actor, and thyroid problems didn't slow him down! Just chop that little tidbit of throbbing gristle out, and march boldly into the nuclear future!

Okay, bro. We see how slippery you really are. You try and trim down those casualty numbers by two orders of magnitude with a wink, like maybe your interviewer will let you get away with it...

But then when you're called out for cooking the books, you still try to downplay cancer rates like it's nothing.

We can see how your mind works now. That will be all. Thanks!
Is exim installed as an active local MTA on desktops? If so then this is a trivial local escalation, if not then it's probably most significant when a box is already breached by other means.

I think the main place I'd worry about this is web hosts using a default cPanel config - if they're not already patched past the vulnerable version then compromise of the whole server may take nothing more than a script on a compromised WordPress site.
This is great. How did you collect this?
I assume we need to tack on an extra 3 0s to each of the figures there?
It shouldn't. Amazon believes in strict regional isolation, which means that outages only impact 1 region and not multiple. They also stagger their releases across regions to minimize the impact of any breaking changes (however unexptected...)
This all sounds pretty exciting. I’ve been using dat/beaker and I love how easy it is to make a site right in the browser. It made me realize how many barriers there are on http to just build a personal website and host it for free.

This update to beaker makes sense to me as it was pretty hard to discover new sites on the network though I’d love to see dat become a bit more stable. I’d often make a site and a friend wouldn’t be able to connect to it. I think if these issues could be resolved is some way the whole network would really take off.
The title should actually be “Google Public NTP: Leap Smear”.
Both of you need to watch this talk by David Foster Wallce immediately: https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI

It’s incredible and very relevant.
not sure why you are downvoted, good take.
> Although the team’s work breaks genuinely new ground, Meekes cheerfully admits that the circumstances under which the melting-point suppression occurs are so specific that the research is unlikely to have useful applications.

Whenever I hear of something extremely sensitive, it makes me want to turn it into a measurement device.

Not clear what you'd use this to measure though.
Top level await has made it to stage 3 of tc39
> I just don't get it. Why, why can't we have both? Why is decentralised, open source, configurable, modern and easy impossible to achieve all at once?

Because you don't do it. If anyone who wants a different user experience than IRC chooses to use a proprietary system, then how do you expect that user experience to come about as Free Software?
I mean, you're straight up incorrect.

Apple has been officially UNIX '03 certified for over 10 years now.

Why you'e trying to argue against facts that are just a single search away, I don't know.
Check out the startup Plaid, their whole business is to be the API for services like Mint and YNAB.
Slightly off topic rant follows:
I don't see a lot of tech sites talk about the fact that Azure and GCP have multi-region outages. Everybody sees this kind of thing and goes "shrug, an outage". No, this is not okay. We have multiple regions for a reason. Making an application support multi-region is HARD and COSTLY. If I invest that into my app, I never want it go down due to a configuration push. There has never been an AWS incident across multiple regions (us-east-1, us-west-2, etc). That is a pretty big deal to me.

Whenever I post this somebody comes along and says "well that one time us-east-1 went down and everybody was using the generic S3 endpoints so it took everything down". This is true, and the ASG and EBS services in other regions apparently were. BUT, if you invested the time to ensure your application could be multi-region and you hosted on AWS, you would not have seen an outage. Scaling and snapshots might not have worked, but it would not have been the 96.2% packet drop that GCP is showing here and your end users likely would not have noticed.

The articles that track outages at the different cloud vendors really should be pushing this.
It's probably too late for population reductions to save us. If we want to stay below two degrees of warming, massive change needs to happen over the next fifteen years. Not having children, or delaying children can only help a little with this. You won't see a 90% reduction of the population in that timeframe, even if nobody had kids. Keeping population levels approximately constant or falling is important in the long term, but the climate catastrophe is by now a short term problem.

The only realistic way is a huge investment in renewable energy and storage, paired with a steep price on carbon emissions.
Hmmmm. Insight almost dawning.
Yeah, good point. We're doing a fair amount of JavaScript (Node) -> Go.
PUREVPN
"Pure nothingness" would be the empty set, not a set with something in it.
Ripping Huawei out of US networks could be a nightmare for rural providers
Coming from India, one of the things I deeply cherish about our culture is the deep family bonds we have here. Ironically, it was when I came to the US that I realized the importance of it!
One of the reasons GM was bullish on lead was it made engines wear out very fast. Good for sales.
Is your computer a Mac? I just plug my phone directly into my PC to move files.
Did your friend come up with any solutions to the trusted associate issue? Seems like there are two obvious approaches: the carrot (pay your employees well above market rates) or the stick (a literal stick, in the extreme) to encourage loyalty.

But there are presumably other ways to engineer your account permissions so that one or two rogue associates cannot clean you out?
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Every single day. I hang out on #pocoo on freenode. It's the channel for the Flask python framework and related libraries

I lurk and help out the people new to flask. There's new people all the time
Tesla is not creating eco cars. While electric cars are better than equivalent ICE cars, Teslas are still too big and too heavy and have a pretty big impact just being manufactured. It takes many, many miles before a Tesla's manufacturing emissions are recouped by the electric drive.
Don't worry about it. It's a trace gas, meaning not a lot of it. In typical office environment you'll find four times that trace amount.
> How do I hide my IP?

Why would you want to do this? For me IRC is mostly synonymous to technichal discussion on freenode. And my quasselcore runs on cheap rented machine in the cloud. So I honestly fail to see the risk with revealing that IPv4 address, even if it is a public one.

I have not measured whether that machine receives more port scanning than any other, because honestly I did not think that any port scanner would work just through a list of IRC users. Even after thinking of it, it sounds unlikely.
Everything I quoted was 2+ providers. I never claimed 5+ was common.

"Two long-term competitors are not enough for meaningful competition."

That is a legitimate argument.
The act of creation requires there to be something there beforehand. You can't create something from nothing, it doesn't make any sense.
If everyone keeps eating steak and pork at the levels we do, then all the political effort won't be able to make up for it. At the end of the day, our individual actions need to happen or we won't be able to change the trajectory.
Globally, meat consumption contributes more than transportation to climate change.
A little surprised to see that there were no lightning deaths in Hawaii during this period, as I know a fellow who was struck by lightning while on vacation out there. People sometimes underestimate the danger that lightning poses - make sure to stay safe out there.
Our emissions aren't going down fast enough by any measure. Per capita "the west" is still outproducing China and India by a very large margin. We're doing basically nothing to meet the goals of the Paris agreement.
> most of our emissions are going down

I don't think so. [1] Besides, we're still #14 in emissions per-capita. [2]

> developing countries with few if any regulations and little enforcement

Not sure where you're getting this idea.

> All we can do is plant trees.

On the contrary, we can do much more. The first step is to organize your workplace. The second step is an industry-wide commercial boycott of polluting firms. In solidarity with similar worker-led movements in the Global South, we can collectively bring the Climate Change Industry to its knees, allowing sustainable business to thrive.

1. https://i1.wp.com/fabiusmaximus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
We Will Protect the Children Until There Is Nowhere They Can Hide
Which is to say, 2^n-1.
Logic like this leads to no one addressing the problem, ever. Buy local products that use less energy to transport. Reduce, reuse, recycle -- in that order. Pay for energy efficiency. Lobby your government. Stop blaming other people when you are part of the problem too.
Well tbh, it seems 2^k-1 does actually match the sequence as far as it is shown. Perhaps there is a proof that n=2^k-1 for the numbers where 2^n is divisible by (n+1). I'll have to see.
"Some environmentalists".

Others, not so much.
> the reduction of our population

What a dangerous idea.

Besides, it's not the issue of absolute population: it's emissions per capita that we should care about.

We could be doing a lot better per capita in these dimensions:
- plastics & packaging,
- energy use,
- military pollution,
- advertising & marketing bullshit,
- bullshit products manufacturing

There's a lot of inefficiency in current economy, which is supported by industrial consent manufacturing.
The author had a lot of interesting things to say, but I wish they were a lot more open about their biases. It's pretty clear that they are starting from the position that marriage and "traditional" family values are important, and therefore hard to tell whether or not they are glossing over or ignoring conflicting evidence.
Most note taking tools allow all that - organize content, tag, and search. They differ in user experience. Try Evernote, OneNote, Zotero, but there are many more.
Fix the Health Care mess and we'll call it even.
1. Organize your workplace.

2. Enact an industry-wide boycott of unsustainable firms.

3. Enjoy the weather.
Emojis.
AWS Lightsail charges $3.50/month for a vm with 512MB RAM.

Hetzer charges €3.00/month for avm with 2GB RAM.
The Queen City Burns: The Great Seattle Fire of 1889
"How to piss off everyone"
Chaos Monkey: https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
Pilots are generally only paid for actual flight time. At scheduled airlines, dispatchers do most of the pre-flight prep.
> mov ah,al is

One byte for [mov Gb Eb] and one byte for [modrm sp ax] (ah == (byte) r4 (word) == sp). x86 is pretty good about code density.
This reads like an ad for Brave.
They actually do have the right to do this and a technical implementation. Essentially they've escrowed enough cash to run the drm for many years in the future even if they went out of business so they keep their agreements and their customers happy.

Also, having worked in game sales, it turns out that buying "drm free unlocks of long tail" games is not expensive. How do you think things like PS Plus Free Games works? Essentially game devs book revenue now for possibl future revenue lost. It's a smart trade for most games unless that game is say skyrim.
Global emission limiting treaties with robust incentive mechanisms are it I think. Once there's a good majority of countries on board, cajole and pressure the rest into the treaties by using trade agreements and other foreign policy casino chips.
Entertaining, but ironic that I got no less than 3 pop ups from Medium to read this post.
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After doing accounting for my business, a medium-sized non-profit, and our personal finances, I keep coming back to Microsoft Excel. Using someone else's accounting software feels like trying to do an Iron Man with a straight jacket. At least with Excel, you can code VBA/C#/formulas/etc. to your heart's content and make it do exactly what you want. That's what I love about it.

Want to import bank data? Well, you DO have to export the CSV manually from the bank, but then you can code something to make your financial reporting do exactly what you want.

Need graphs or reporting? MS Excel, well, excels at that.

Want to munge the data in a special way? Easy to do with formulas, coding, excel builts-ins, or some combination thereof.

Want to pre-process data before you suck it into a finances program? Write an external munger that exports to a .txt file, and then link an Excel Data Range to that .txt file.

I wonder sometimes if I have blinders on for choosing Excel, but hey, it works. And since I like coding, it actually makes doing finances kinda fun.
I'm an old Solaris diehard who grew up on Solaris, which was my first UNIX®️. I'm also a Solaris 7 and a Solaris 10 certified system administrator. So for me SmartOS is a walk in the park to use. I even prefer SVR4 tools over GNU.
You can ensure that people vote for politicians that enact environmentally friendly policies. Most of us don't have the money to convince politicians to change their minds. But convincing 100 people to show up and vote is something everyone can do, through precinct walking, writing postcards, and just nagging your friends.
Happy to see slatestarcodex classic
That's true. Political effort is to implement policy that will disincentivize meat eating, among other things. Social effort is to persuade people to stop eating meat, among other things.
The reads a bit... snappy and back-and-forthy, but it resonated with me a bit. I like that it connects regrets with eventual achievements.
You think these schools and teachers want to educate kids? These people want to just get their salary at the end of the month and eliminate all potential liabilities that could get them in trouble.

They would ban eye contact and speaking to each other, if it would bring them more peace of mind and job security. Kinda like dictators do...
What is the likelihood of Beaker running on Android?
It was held by everyone in the department including management.
It isn't a worst-case though. They should have had the capability to resolve this issue with no network connectivity, which would be the worst case failure of the network control plane.