skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that we can't or won't. It's that we should study and debate it before we do anything to change the environment. Given how humans have run roughshod over so many environments, I think carefulness might be warranted.
Amen. I feel so bad about how much I look forward to the occasional travel I do for work...
> if the basic axioms of math are true

Isn't the problem that you can't prove axioms. We intuitively "know" them to be true but without proof.
It is not realistic to expect that children will live without carbon emissions when it is clear that billions and billions of people don´t do that.

We have too many people on the planet. Carbon emissions is only one of the many huge environmental problems we have. Creating new consumers to the planet is clearly the most devastating act for the environment what individual people can do.
Are they?
They come out fairly comparably here. I think Lightsail is a T3 instance "under the hood".

https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
> What kind of cool things do you envision the curious beginner to write, using only the current preinstalled Python/Ruby/perl, that they can't do with the remaining interpreters that I mentioned?

What about the iconic 4th grader "greetings and cool things" script? Here's something like what it looked like for me (on the IBM PC in my classroom):

5 CLS
7 RANDOMIZE TIMER
10 PRINT "Hello there. I'm a computer. What is your name?"
20 INPUT G$
30 PRINT "Hello "+G$+". You are welcome to computer land."
40 PRINT "What would you like to do today?"
50 PRINT "1) Make noises"
60 PRINT "2) Make a maze"
70 PRINT "3) Exit"
80 PRINT "Enter your selection:"
100 INPUT S$
110 IF S$="1" GOTO 200
120 IF S$="2" GOTO 300
130 IF S$="3" GOTO 400
140 PRINT "Try again."
150 GOTO 40
200 SOUND 20+(RND*20000), RND*3
210 GOTO 200
300 SCREEN 1
310 IF RND>.5 THEN PRINT "/"; ELSE PRINT "\";
320 GOTO 310
400 PRINT "Bye."

That kind of stuff is perfect for Ruby and Python. I don't envision kids getting that far with shell scripts, awk, sqlite3, or elisp. They might with HTML and JavaScript, but that requires learning HTML as well as JS and is sandboxed in the web browser; it's also not as "Cool! Look what I can make the computer do!" as messing around in the terminal. (Note, I’m glad BASIC isn't as available anymore -- we're not getting kids into certain bad programming habits early-on, like use of GOTO. But BASIC would still be more approachable than shell scripting, awk, etc.)
Predicting Acquisition – Coda, Document Collaboration – Enterprise B2B
I have personally recorded my predictions on technology acquisitions. These are my personal views & it doesn't represent any specific organization or individual.

This is quite evident when -
- The startup embarks on a journey to fill a small technology gap in a large product category that is left by an incumbent in the market.
- The startup is improving an existing product in the market that was recently acquired by a large company. For e.g. Quip by Salesforce
- And when the product by itself is not able to become a large category or eco-system within the Enterprise. For e.g. a task management app

There are always exceptions such as Dropbox - who entered the B2B market after a huge B2C growth. Typically such startups get acquired if they can't achieve their unicorn status within 2-5 years (or in other words some sort of valuation in the billions).

The prediction on the acquisition that I'm making here is on the fast growing app called - "CODA" - https://coda.io
From my point of view - CODA is a document productivity, data collection, team collaboration, task management tool.

Prediction I made in 02nd Aug 2018 & now again in June 2019 - CODA will be acquired by a B2B vendor.

MICROSOFT should acquire CODA because - Microsoft should acquire CODA as it can kill many minimal viable products in Office 365 suite. It may will end up with a competitor like Dropbox, Box, Slack, Google, IBM. It will not be Salesforce as they already acquired QUIP.

Workplace by Facebook, Dropbox & Box should acquire CODA because - Very simple, they don't offer online documents like Quip, Google & Microsoft and they store a lot of documents in their apps. If they had the focus, mindset and skills internally they would have built such an app before QUIP did.

There you go, I have given you a roadmap - Mr. Satya Nedalla, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Aaron Levie & Mr. Drew Houston
> Whatever it is today, I fear the future will be much worse.

This is an easy trap for humans to fall into. "The sky is falling" type stuff.

Humans have faced lots of problems over the millenia, but the reality is that our lives continue to improve as a whole..not get worse.
Thanks for staying on an even keel despite how frustrating some of these replies must be.
Yeah according to Speedtest.net I'm getting 2ms ping.

http://www.gcping.com/ to the closest Google data center puts me at 12ms median.
> Make driving more expensive, and people drive less.

"If we tax the poor, they'll decide to be less poor"

It won't work. The suburbs are predominantly filled with people who could not afford to live places with functional transit in the first place.

If you make driving more expensive, the few people who are wealthy enough to choose the city, will do so (driving sky-high prices even higher). And for the 99% of suburban people who already can't afford cities, these people will have even less money for housing, so they'll be forced to buy cheaper housing, which will be even further away from the city, and you'll exacerbate even more sprawl than already exists.
I guess I am going to be the only person to defend this statement. I see where you are coming from and I’m willing to give you the benefit of a doubt that you meant the “hypothetical you”.

But to use the old cliché- it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
Can Firefly III import data from brokerage firms like Schwab, Fidelity, etc?
While there's nothing wrong with being skinny, if his partner is encouraging him to go to the gym to take care of himself, that's A-OK.
In your defense, I'd highlight the scene where Hank carries the mortally wounded wet nurse. Or the persistent help that Roark offers to Peter whenever Peter visits him. Or the final scene between Roark and Wynand where Roark continues to extend an olive branch in the hopes of restoring the friendship.
>Unlike Twitter and the other social networks, RSS never tried to capture the social graph, likes, comments, annotations, retweets, and etc of its userbase. It limited itself to posted content (mostly blog posts) and that was a missed opportunity.

>missed opportunity

Maybe it's just me, but RSS being all about content is the best thing about it.
Hahaha sorry bad use of pronouns. I meant his daughter.

My fiancée on the other hand still has time to figure out she can do way better than me.
If you're comparing walking, driving and public transport, then at least pick realistic scenarios.

Waterloo to St Pancras will never be a 12 minute drive, even at 4AM - that's practically impossible with the amount of traffic lights.

Let's presume that you're a wealthy Lloyds Group banker(City of London office) living in Holland Park area. Your commute is 35-1:30 by car or 27 minutes by public transport.

Or you're not so wealthy Canary Wharf worker living in Southwark - stable 20 minutes for PT and 30 minutes driving.
>The feelings of “you’re a white male and you work in tech and you are wealthy you are a SATAN” is just becoming too much :(.

Yeah this literally doesn't happen.
You talk to him. Drag him out to sit in the yard and talk for an hour. Demand he ride with you to the grocery store.

You listen to his reality. You ask him about what games he is playing and how they work. You ask him about what he wishes for more of. You respect him and love him and build trust.

You tell him hard truths, gently, when he needs to hear them.

You accept that he will need to wander in the desert to find his own truth, and might end up somewhere other than you.

You reach back out when you miss him.

You expect him to know things you don’t, and you take joy in discovering new things about him you didn’t know were there.

You tell him when he is hurting you, draw the line on abusive behaviors. Explain why his behaviors are wrong and describe what you need from him to feel great about the relationship.

You tell him about your own struggles and weaknesses. You talk about your hopes for improvement. You are self deprecating.

You laugh at his jokes. You are playful. You try to make him laugh even if he doesn’t appreciate your humor.

You treat him the same way you treat the adults that you love and respect most, so that he grows into one.
This article states that:

"Bitcoin’s initial code had a poker client included."

Does anyone have more information about this? I had no idea this was the case.
> Race is a made up thing (created by white people) to give white people more power. To criticize white people for that is to critisize the system itself and critisize them for creating and continuing to allow the system of racism to exist.

This is actually a very good description of many places in Latin America, and perhaps even of some parts of the U.S. (particularly the southern parts, where privilege hierarchies were always quite strong even in colonial times). It's not a sensible way of thinking about the U.S. as a whole, much less the wider Western world. To the extent that some people identify as "white" (however silly that might be from an 'objective' POV) it happens purely because self-identity is important to people, and shedding one's self-identity is really hard. Expecting people to "criticize the system" is just wishful thinking when one doesn't even understand what that "system" actually is, and where it applies!
The use of the word “infection” is usually deliberate and an attempt to taint users view of GNU’s software licenses.
At the same ambient pressure, an O2 would float, but just barely. It wouldn't float like a hydrogen/helium balloon does on earth. If the pressure is the same on either side of the balloon, lift comes from different atomic weights of the gasses. Helium weights much less than air. But the O2 inside the Venus habitat doesn't weigh all that much less than the CO2 outside. As a practical matter, you would probably need lift balloons filled with something other than breathable air/O2. [1]

Then think about what you want to do in this habitat. A solar/nuke-powered refinery for producing rocket fuel? It would need lift bags the size of cities. Not the Goodyear blimp. Think bags filled with cubic kilometers of lifting gas.

[1] This is why balloons wouldn't work on Jupiter/Saturn etc. No balloon can float in a sea of hydrogen. We would need a 'balloon' filled with vacuum, or at least hydrogen under vacuum pressure in comparison to the hydrogen outside. Soft-sided bags wouldn't work.
You mean besides the "everybody besides the almighty hero class is stupid and ugly" meme he build Altas Shrugged upon?

I assume the down votes are because nobody took your question serious as it's so obvious. Taking it for a bait.

Edit: an here come the hero class for me ;)
Seems pretty competitive if you care about graphics fidelity and plan to play on more than one screen.
Not a IllumOS/SmartOS user, but can you comment on how good the man pages are? What you state is sometimes a complaint I hear about OpenBSD, but from my experience using OpenBSD (which was mostly almost a decade ago now) is that's because they actually put a huge amount of effort into making sure the man pages were not just correct, but comprehensive (to the point of requiring code patches to include an accompanying man page patch if it added/changed a feature or changed functionality).

When first using OpenBSD this was jarring, because I just wasn't conditioned to expect that system level features would have useful man pages, as that was almost never the case in Linux.

As a simple example of this, here[1] is the OpenBSD man page for ifconfig. Note that it contains liberal references to other man pages of similar quality and completeness where a protocol or functionality might be better explained. Once I learned this, very little outside help was required to setup OpenBSD firewalls stateful failover of firewall connection state as well as VPN tunnels with automatic IP failover with CARP. All from a handful of man pages.

So, that said, does OpenSolaris have good man pages? If it does, it might be that RTFM is the correct initial response to most questions, as it would be the up to date and definitive information about the what and how of things. A simple comparison of ifconfig[1] makes it look somewhat good, but that doesn't mean it's kept up to date and accurate. Can anyone comment if this is the case?

1: https://man.openbsd.org/netstart.8

2: https://illumos.org/man/1M/ifconfig
Darwin would be a extremist.
Freud would be called a pornographer.
Copernicus would be banned for fake news.

I do not honestly care for propaganda, but if it has something new- aka, something atrocious but never heard before to say- spare it. How can a Algo actually classify novelty?
Well, surely being either reliable, unselfish, or considerate will suffice. Fortunately, as someone notoriously unreliable and selfish, being considerate seems to be enough.
> Just as a shuttlecock has a diameter of zero at its bottom most point

As a lay person this - right from the starting block - is what messes me up. I.e. something that exists cannot logically have a zero diameter part. Anything zero does not exist.

Most related theories have similar kinds of initial premise that you must just accept.
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> young people go to the cities for high status, high paying jobs to pay off student loans and/or save up for the future in an increasingly uncertain world

The current world is very capitalistic - high risk and high reward. Smart people are aware that there are paths that will allow them to retire at 40 or earlier, and are trying to pursue them. Unfortunately, these paths often require lots of dedication, so people neglect other areas of life. Whereas in earlier days, there were perhaps fewer good paths to financial independence, and people just accepted being in their jobs until old age, and tried to find comfort in family, friends etc.
I see your point here.

On the other hand I wonder if we've prematurely jumped to this conclusion that non-immigrant Americans have this horribly individualist culture where we shun all our relatives once we have a professional job. Like, what actual evidence is pointing us to that? Is it just feelings, or is there some kind of metric we can look at?

I don't have an answer, just thinking about it.
Anyone have a bittorrent hash for the data set?
> The observation does nothing to further the debate because it assumes a broad unified opinion about a group of individuals

These objections are exhausting. Yes, there are exceptions to every generalization. Generalizations are the only way we can reasonably describe large groups of people. In this case, the individuals in question are more or less defined by this shared opinion, so it's definitely a fair, constructive observation.

> Do third wave lesbians want chivalry?

I don't know what a "third wave lesbian" is. Also, to be clear, I doubt any third-wave feminist would say they want chivalry; but when you look at the things they advocate for ("believe all women", etc) and how they treat each gender, it looks like chivalry taken to extremes.

> Could just live in a more courteous and gallant world and leave out the gendered nonsense?

Sure we can, but it's not consistent with a traditional or third-wave-feminist worldview. Note that this isn't a criticism of any particular worldview.

> Also the idea that a specific gender is inherently moral / immoral is also ridiculous generalization and shouldn't be made my anyone.

Sure. I'm only making observations about different worldviews, not prescribing any particular worldview.
Uber Is Integrating Uber Eats into Its Main App
By provider I mean the registrar (which typically provides both services). Moving to another registrar requires an authorization code, and good luck getting that on a short notice if your provider doesn't talk to you.
There have been several "feminisms" in history, each with their own motivations, supporters and attitudes.
>For 34€/month, Hetzner ...

Hetzner is only available in EU and specifically Germany. And my bet most of these people want it within US.
The fact that the only mentioned benefit of being married that you decided to name was "real food" is a giant red flag to me, lol. Sounds like you're not interested in your second wife just a vessel who can provide you things you want.
what if their claims only hold energy?
Oh, I'm sure an overgrowth of trees or fungus would lead to a net negative for some living thing somewhere.
Roark rapes his future lover (but it's apparently ok because she liked it, though she gave no sign of such at the time). He blows up a building that he doesn't own. He tells his colleague who wanted to be a painter that it's too late for him, that he's wasted his life on the wrong thing and there's nothing he can do about it, without any other words of encouragement or alternative suggestions. He is always described as not caring about the emotions or reactions of anyone else.

Edit: it's always couched in rhetoric about how people are supposed to be free from unnecessary worry about other peoples' problems, but she often takes it too far and causes characters to cross the line from self-actualized to selfish, and sometimes harmful to others.
Isn't Satoshi Nakamoto supposed to control >5% of the total Bitcoin supply currently available? But they're inexplicably not tapping into the large amount of wealth that'd seem to be available to them?

It's a bit hard to believe that someone who'd go to such extremes for money as Le Roux would simply choose not to enjoy some payday from the Bitcoin hoard.
It's also critical if you land late and are scrambling to your next destination and don't have service in this connecting country you are in and there is no wifi at all and your phone is on 10% and the ramshackle destination airport has exactly two plugs, one of them broken. I still print my itineraries and tickets and it's saved me plenty of times when my phone has failed me.
"Corporate speed bump" is not how I would characterize any of what you did. Quite the spin!

I mean, if you want to publicly comment on your time at Joyent, please! I'm still pretty angry about it, and I left the better part of a year ago.
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That's a very shallow understanding of incentives.

Case in point - his twin sister moved out as soon as she got herself a steady income to live on. But she also chooses to stay in town, and spend time with us multiple times a week. Why is that? Why did she come out differently?
The psychology of Rand's protagonists are terrified control freaks. They insulate themselves from the pain of human emotion by only caring about the self. They hedonistically gobble up pleasures (wealth, sex, food) to fill gaping emotional holes. They don't believe in God because that would mean something had agency over them or their future. Randian characters are completely alone in the world, wielding shields of power.
Whilst I was in China two years ago, someone mentioned that you can swap out the memory of an iPhone with one from another iPhone (e.g. water damaged) to get around an iCloud lock. So although it's quite sophisticated as a method, it's definitely doable.
There was no "before" as time itself was created with the universe.
> perhaps it's a big enough crisis to motivate a re-evaluation of some old ideas about the sanctity of individual human lives

You say this flippantly, but if we don't eventually reverse the trends, this will happen. It will be camouflaged in the garb of warfare against the "enemy", as it always is.
Well of course, a woman's sexual value plummets after her mid 30s (also known as "hitting the wall"). However, 25 is still young and a 25 year old girl has an almost unlimited amount of options if she tries online dating.
Not sure if you already accounted for this, but the monthly subscription only includes a subset of their catalog. For any game outside of that you’ll need to pay for the subscription plus purchase the game.

So yes, if the game(s) you want to play one of the included games and the service goes bust you don’t lose much. If you purchased a title and service goes bust then you likely lost that money.
I keep telling myself I'm being criticized by a bunch of people who have obviously never raised children. :)
There is a free version that's limited to 1080p/60fps coming in 2020.

Games on the Pro subscription aren't free by the way either. Pro subscription just allows 4k/60fps streaming and some limited free games like Xbox Live and Playstation Plus. Most games whether on the Pro subscription or Free will still have to be bought by individuals.
Seems reasonable. Interesting thought.
As it turns out, if you ask children with little to no experience living independently and managing money to do something predicated on living independently and managing money, they make poor decisions.
GeForce Now is streaming like Stadia. You don’t need a great PC. You don’t need any PC.
It seems that's also impossible to register an account without revealing name and last name. I'd like to use services anonymously as is only possible.

ToS gives me very restrictive vibes - it feels like it's oriented to work for provider and not users.
Is there a risk that they increase the subscription price and hold all of your games hostage if you’re unwilling to pay the new premium?
Otherwise it's just a tree falling in the woods.

That's a GREAT metaphor!
Good story, and good point.
You gotta kick them out. Unless they get cancer or are struck by lightning this kind of babysitting of 25 year olds does more damage than good. And with Mom and Dad around taking care of things there is zero motivation to make mistakes, learn from them and figure anything out.
That's a very good question. It has two answers.

The first answer is that a system is never 100% in any particular state because that would violate the uncertainty principle. When we speak of a system "definitely" being in a particular state that's an approximation/simplification. It actually means that the system is in a superposition of some range of states that for all intents and purposes we can treat as being the same, and the probability of it being in a state that cannot be treated the same for all intents and purposes is so close to zero we can ignore that.

The second answer is that whether or not a system is in a superposition depends on your point of view. A system can only ever be in a "single state" (according to the above approximation) with respect to some observable, and if it is in a single state with respect to that observable then it is necessarily in a superposition with respect to the complementary observable, e.g. a particle that is in a definite state with respect to position is necessarily in a superposition with respect to velocity.

So the whole process is everywhere and always continuous.
Strike a deal with your other. We both take solo 1 week trips each year.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116089, except for the ones about this title.
Sometimes dudes need something to 'flip' them into activity, saying this as a dude myself, so I can't speak for the ladies.

A family member of mine smoked pot and lived in a van a skiied the backtrails for 10 years (!!!) and then poof got his CA way late in life and is not 'caught up' in his career.

Another peer worked in marketing, hated it, went to work stoned. Then one day 'poof' he got serious, was a manager (it was a rapidly growing company), Director then VP within a few years.

Sometimes I think 'guys need a reason', and for many it just comes along.

If your kids are safe, healthy, decent people and not in existential trouble with the law etc., consider yourself fortunate in a way, it could be much worse.

'20's are the new teens' anyhow. 25 is still very young.