skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but you could say that in order to hit 0 by 2050, you need to be at X by 2025 and Y by 2030...then commit to those.

And of course, the article states: "New York will be required to get 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and shift entirely to carbon-free power a decade later."
wow, that is super uninformed and sad. The problem isn't high paying jobs, the problem is only a portion of the community has high paying jobs and the people that do critical jobs like cleaning and service jobs can't afford to live anywhere near where they are required. It's fantastic that people have high paying jobs. But if we are being honest those high paying jobs are only high paying when compared to jobs outside of the region. For example I live is a less saturated and less high paying market and make maybe 2/3 of what I'd make in the bay but I have twice the buying power. Concentrating all those jobs in such a small area is throwing money away.
Maybe someone could bore tunnels underground to alleviate traffic problems.
Too many muslims on this site
I found it much easier to just read it on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/987052536883...
That's the joke right? Even if you could tell me exactly what worked for you, it wouldn't work for me.

If there was a formula for success, we would all undertake it.
Malthus wasn't debunked. The planet doesn't have the resources to both provide a high standard of living and continual population growth. There are physical limitations to how much food we can grow.

Saying growing populations disprove Malthus is like saying since smoking one cigarette didn't cause cancer, cancer from smoking is a myth.
Show HN: Arcamens) Kanban Boards, Super Backlogs with Cut&Paste on Django
I think it probably comes pretty close - my friends with parking spaces in Manhattan pay $500+/mo
Libra is another WhatsApp moment for Facebook. Regulators must not let it happen
Very comprehensive. However, it is missing how the client machine will ARP the gateway for the MAC address if it is not in its tables.
What about traffic? Adding this many new homes without an increase in transportation infrastructure is going to make things much worse for people already living in the bay area.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638988

243 comments from 6 years ago
Nice! I actually just released a Chrome extension that makes it really easy to render a grid–that includes a baseline grid–over any site. I hope others find this as useful as I have.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grids-by-color-set...
> A ban on transacting on the Bitcoin network would be extremely difficult to enforce

1. I disagree. There are many effective methods a government could utilize to enforce a ban on transacting on the Bitcoin network. I could think of many technical examples, like the use of weaponized malware and 0-days to spy on the population and uncover users. Yes, some technical people could evade detection, but most people (including most programmers) would be caught up quickly due to opsec mistakes. There is also violence, which would be very effective unfortunately.

2. Even if they couldn't effectively ban transacting on the bitcoin network, the network itself is useless if the state makes it illegal for businesses to accept bitcoin.

3. Strong enforcement isn't necessary since the masses are already uninterested in blockchain tokens except as a vehicle for speculation. If the government made it illegal most people wouldn't think twice about it. Why bother?
Since this also mentions the HN account

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=voidnull

could any HN moderator comment on the status of that account?
Black Cube: The Bumbling Spies of the ‘Private Mossad’
I've known about sdf.org for a long time because they advertise in 2600. It's the kind of service that makes me so happy it exists to the point that it kind of makes me sad that I personally have no use for it :).
A few is not a full plane of Americans on American soil.
Pleasing Patterns
I don’t want to argue for cars, but a square of something you can park on should definitely be cheaper per unit area than something you live in. I don’t think I’ve ever parked anywhere I’d happily live.
mouse embyro zero-G experiments being referred to: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/spacebabies/
The cost of doing nothing is climate change and all that comes with it.
Yeah, if I'm reading this right, I feel like everyone buried the lead here.

Dropping support for 32 bit software is super sucky.
Ah, perhaps. That wasn't clear to me.
The Way Men’s Media Cover Dieting Is Weird
Yeah, hard to tell just looking at that data. I don't know what currencies each one of the trade relationships is settled in. The differences in balance with the US there is also similar to what they spend on oil (~11%). If all other trade is settled in other currencies and all oil is bought with dollars(from countries other than the US), they would be about flat in terms of dollar reserve growth from trade. My understanding is that most of their dollar reserves originated from buying dollars w/ yuan in the years after 2009 to help keep the value of the yuan depressed for the sake of trade competitiveness. So that does seem to imply that investment balance is the factor tipping the balance here. Which is probably why the Chinese government has set stringent rules on currency controls for individuals.
Stop the hyperbole. I'll be on backpages side way before I'm on some puritan's law enforcement side.
Very cool, will try it out. As a startup experimenting with a free plan, I found the "Badge required" to be a cool idea to get some promotion from free users

Also do you mind saying what network graph library you use? (first gif on home page) Looks like neo4j but unsure, we do Slack network analysis and have been exploring different libraries
Well, there is some metered parking; admittedly not a whole lot. But street parking is not "copious" which implies an abundance relative to demand.

If there were "copious free parking" in Manhattan, there wouldn't be hundreds of parking garages charging up to $70 a day during the week, would there?
Ah, gotcha. That's pretty cool.
I can certainly understand spending less than two years at a job if things don't work out. But jumping from job to job with an average tenure of under two years? It's not really enough time to learn the technology and build relationships in the company. What the hell are these people actually doing?
I'm pretty sure E3 started being rote 2 decades ago.
There is the FreeWrite [0], which seems to be targeted at just writers, which is in some respects the spiritual successor to the TRS-80 Model 100. I could swear I saw at least one other Kickstarter with something similar, but this was the only one I could find.

[0] https://getfreewrite.com/

Edit: Here’s another similar product called the AlphaSmart [1], but this one was ultimately discontinued.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
My first job, 8 months on relatively fresh to software dev. They announced we were going to have a pizza party the next day for all of our hard work this year. The next day come around and about an hour or two beforehand I see managers running, yes literally running, around the office and taking people aside. Turns out half the company was fired and there wasn't even pizza. They pretty much just said, we fired some people no big deal, back to work everyone.
People who are unfamiliar with WeChat Pay in China, are underestimating the potential for the FB cryptocurrency. The integration of social media and payments by WeChat strongly facilitated consumer adoption of their payment service. Everyone already had phones, everyone had WeChat installed on their phones. When payment services later became available through WeChat, there was a minuscule barrier for customer adoption. As people started using WeChat Pay they quickly found it more convenient for physical and online payments, money transfer between friends, and financial management. Next services like taxi hailing + payment became integrated into the WeChat app, increasing the convenience. The combination of convenience, preinstallation in the dominant social application, and low barrier to entry was a killer combination. In my estimation it turned out to be a stronger combination than Alipay, which started out as a payment service integrated with TaoBao (comparable to the Ebay / Paypal).

Since Facebook has a dominant social app and messaging app position worldwide, their payments service will have worldwide penetration from day one. Since Facebook can do software, the service interface will be more convenient and user friendly that existing services in the first world, and infinitely more so elsewhere. Money can be made here and evidence suggests people want to adopt when there is a no effort road to adoption. There are vested interests to deal with and satisfy on the road to market penetration, existing market players and governments, but American entrepreneurs like Gates and Jobs were able to overcome vested interests in their time and I suspect Mark is equally resourceful when he wants to be.
The DIY version would be a PCB with an ATmega32u4, an SD card slot, a similarly-sized LCD screen, and a lithium-ion battery. You'd attach a portable USB keyboard of your liking.
The justification for dropping 386 support was that it was a maintenance burden specifically for SMP locking primitives, IIRC. Dropping support for other 90s microarchitectures would mean not needing a workaround for the Pentium F00F bug, and having access to SIMD and prefetch instructions that can make things like a memcpy more efficient.
Zuckerberg: Every Zucc Buck will be worth 5 British pounds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shxiy7l5b_4
Money isn't green paper rectangles, it is a store of value. It represents tradeoffs. It represents man-hours, other investments into our future that we could make, etc.

Pretending money isn't that important is just an ignorant thing to do.
Besides gameplay, what else is there? Trailers, that have never and will never capture whether a game is fun to play? Good luck.
Her enthusiasm and joy certainly is infectious.
Yeah, this gives me temendous nostalgia. SDF was my first introduction to Unix, must have been 12 or 13 years old at the time. I'm almost giddy when I find these sorts of early internet systems / services are still online.
Have you considered buying your own scooter [1]? You can fold it and keep it in the trunk of your car. I bought a Xiaomi clone for $250 on Los Angeles craigslist and take it from Venice to the climbing gym in Culver City every week. It takes about 45 minutes which is faster than traffic on Venice Blvd or the metro.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Xiaomi-Mi-Electric-Scooter-18-6-M...
> I don't understand. Is your entire point in this discussion to somehow justify talking down to other people?
> My point was that the OP's use of the phrase "only $12,000" is offensive, classist language

OP wasn't talking down. They used "only" to compare the difference in housing cost to the much higher difference in wages between rural and urban areas, as in $12K housing cost increase < $40k salary increase, not to imply that $12K is inconsequential in an absolute sense.

$12K out of most people's pockets is a lot of money (including if it were out of mine), but the OP wasn't implying that it isn't.

They were making a simple observation that:

big city salary - big city housing costs > rural salary - rural housing costs

Looks like they even responded below stating precisely that.

There's real classism out there, often expressed across the rural/urban divide, but this isn't an example of it.
Ask HN: Can I do a POC at my current employer and then start my own company
I work for an insurance company. I have an idea for a product that might be very valuable to other insurance companies. I am thinking about proposing a POC to my manager to implement this solution. If I do this and it is successful, would there be issues if I decide to leave to create a startup based around my idea?

My employment agreement does not include a non-compete, although there is a conflict of interest clause.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I find the GADT syntax used in the article hard to follow... Normally this is what I see, straight out of Jannis Limperg's insanely helpful compilation of language extension examples[0]:

data RestrictedMaybe a where
JustInt :: Int -> RestrictedMaybe Int
JustString :: String -> RestrictedMaybe String
Nothing :: RestrictedMaybe a

Maybe the intention was more of a "from scratch" implementation (without using extensions) but the above syntax is a bit easier to follow in my opinion IMO.

It might also be a good idea to make note of where the polymorphism is happening (the "a") and note how it's ok that the a is "resolved" in some of these constructors but not in the others.

[0]: https://limperg.de/ghc-extensions/#gadts
Huh? I've used Firefox Quantum in a VM with 512mb of RAM, it works acceptably on simple sites.
Many reasons. Mainly to get feedback and reviews as mentioned by another user. I don't have a prominent blog or social media account, so getting users is quite difficult for me. I'm inspired by people like Al Sweigart and Allen Downey who provide excellent content on Python for free. I'd also like to open source my books sometime in future.
This is dope -- didn't know about it, thanks
This is more true in the outer boroughs. Lots of circling the block in Flushing, for example.
You can get the pay increase associated with "cyber" in the name without having to live in the costly DC area. That works for me, supporting 12 kids on a single income. The work-life balance is to be appreciated as well, with 40-hour weeks (or paid overtime) and flexible hours.
It’s funny to tell this story in a thread about bad incentives, but the “managers not there” part reminded me of it.

I worked at a startup that did citizen identity management for government (think SSO for an entire province). Because of gov’t IT policies, we often had to deploy after hours, in a kind of weird “managed IT” process. We still automated the process, but couldn’t press the button without being on a conference call etc.

Anyway, we had a deployment go south on Friday night, rolled it back, and decided to come back and try again Sunday. The CEO himself showed up about 10 minutes after we did with a big box of Dilly Bars. Normally that would put this in the category of this thread: “thanks, I’m working overtime for ice cream...” but what he said made it all better: “I know this sucks to be here today. Help yourselves to ice cream. And I’ll be in my office all day, stop by if you need anything. And please let me know when you’re done so I know I can go home.”

Awesome awesome dude.
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It has an RS-232 port, you should be able to hook that up to a USB-RS232 adaptor with a null modem.
Google Pledges $1B to Tackle Bay Area Housing Crisis
Also point out the high doesn't last that long usually. Not like Phoenix where it'll be 90 degrees at 1am and you have trouble sleeping. When I lived in San Jose in August and September I'd just open the windows at night and close them in the morning. Usually the house would stay bearable though the afternoon and early evening.

I remember May and June weather as 'nice'. August and early September as 'hot'. And then October through early December as 'nice'.
You are not correct

Source - I've been licked by ponies and cattle more times than I can remember at Grayson Highlands VA. I've also camped at a former highland cattle "sale" pasture where ranchers herded their cattle for sale in Western NC. Not really done anymore, cattle is too $$$ to raise there when chilled railroad cars exist, but it was a thing.
I assume the reason for doing this is to confirm the symmetric key now in use is known between both parties?
ELI5 description?
I worked with the guy who wrote this repo. He's one of the smartest, nicest, and genuinely curious guys I know.

He also ran teams and his leadership style was very humble and encouraging in a workplace that was, at times, the opposite.

So glad to see he's still publishing awesome content like this.

Be sure to check out some of his other popular repos, great stuff!
>Honestly it just seems like neo-puritanical hatred of the idea that the motor makes it too easy.

More likely people are tired of clutter and blocked sidewalks. And riders who act like idiots.
Hazel, a live functional programming environment featuring typed holes
yes, their whitepaper heavily suggests that access to finance products for the poor is a big motivation behind Libra. However, it does feel a bit like white washing as the majority of the profits from Libra will obviously be the convenience of paying via facebook owned messengers etc.
I cringe whenever I hear someone talking about "what pattern to use here" (I cry if the answer is "singleton").

Patterns are a way of describing code. They are meant as a common language to use when explaining a codebase to another dev. If you are writing code with the express intention of "using X pattern", you're doing it backwards.
Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission
Bay area weather is not that great. The air quality suffers from smog or worse, forest fires (last year was quite bad). Infrequent rain means everything outside is covered in a thin layer of dust, and nothing grows except those silly geometrical 'xeriscaped' succulent gardens. For some people, low humidity is not great for their skin or hair. Longer term, increasing severity of drought will impact water supply (already PSA campaigns shame you for flushing the toilet), and ruin the surrounding natural environment.
The original comment was blaming overpopulation, but that's simply not an issue as I've explained. There are very dense cities that look and work fine because of proper planning and infrastructure. India can do this once it gets over the corruption and outdated politics but it will take time, but again has nothing to do with population size.

I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make but optimism has nothing to do with the discussion.
Sweatshops can do a good job though. They must have have used particularly poor workers for some reason.
Look, I am an ultra lightweight pilot and fly experimental planes a lot. FAA requires, and doesn’t F around with, that all airframes must be aerodynamically stable. So let’s throw that out right now, the airframe is not the issue.

The engines push the cog forward which causes more lift at high thrust. This is not an airframe issue but a loading issue. FAA requires load limits and practical methods to check and resolve loading issues. Let me pause here. We can simulate the 737MaX design by taking an older 737, filling with 1/4 passengers and load them all in the front of the plane. Tada we have a forward cog scenario. Could the plane fly? Sure but the plane will want to nose up more than usual. What does the flight manual say? Reseat passengers to fix cog over limits, or limit throttle inputs if not over limit. So would a properly designed MCAS system solve this problem? Yes. But Boeing didn’t properly design MCAS the second time around.
That makes it sound like local governments should just fight harder against companies growing more?

At present, companies adopt strategies which require them to undergo rapid growth, including headcount, without planning for or making affordances for the other effects of bringing those people to the area.

Why is unreasonable to suggest that companies should be required to plan for and mitigate those effects at the outset, rather than one or two companies making feeble gestures several years later?
If I understand correctly, H1-B visas are actually tied to a particular location, so the employer would have to file additional paperwork for an employee to transfer to another state.
I have lived and traveled a lot outside of the city, in North America, Australia and Europe. Trust me when I say the vast majority of rural areas do not have public transport that is remotely comparable to what people enjoy in large cities. I am talking buses, trains, bikes, scooters, all available within a few minutes to take you anywhere you want to go. There is a whole expanse of North America - notably west of the Missouri - where you can't even get into or out of the small towns because Greyhound doesn't run there any more and Amtrak never did.

I have lived in the country. I don't want that lifestyle. Billions of people around the world do not want that lifestyle. They do not want to own a car. They do not want to own a bicycle. They do not want to own a house. They do not want to maintain a garden or have a forest on all sides. They do not want to go to the one nightclub for miles around. They want to have bars and restaurants and theaters and all those things that you are lucky enough to have in upstate New York, but they want it 5 minutes walk from their front door. And they want to choose from 20 different options. They want to get vegan food or bubble tea or something a little more interesting than Dunkin Donuts at 2am.

I understand that there are people who really appreciate the rural lifestyle, but please also understand there are many people who do not.
Soo... What’s the catch?
Bad and awkward presentations that make executives and marketing people feel fuzzy and self important
Here in SF, I use my electric skateboard almost everyday to commute.

The infrastructure has not caught up to them yet though. Many roads are in a terrible state. It is ok for cars or bikes, but skates have small wheels so you have to stay vigilant at all times. Even on the same street from one day to the next, some extremely large pothole might have appeared.

If bikes and skates had reserved lanes with :

- a barrier ! So cars can't park there and crazy drivers can't try to kill you (sadly it happens)

- good smooth pavement.

it would be way safer and could encourage many more people not to use a car.

Especially since SF does not have a good public transport system (that would be another thing to improve drastically)
Like that time a bunch of teenagers beat the australian women soccer team?

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/australian-womens-...

Or when the ~200 men tennis seat, a smoker, beat the Williams?

http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/T...

That magical way exists already, and it's called gender.
Is it not allowed to have an anonymous HN account?
E3 is a marketing event for big publishers, if cinematic trailers create more consistent hype than gameplay trailers then that's what they will do. Critics very frequently point out the formulaic, rehashed gameplay of big budget titles and they probably want to limit that.
It's fine and was always fine. Probably it got affected by a software filter at some point when it was new, but a moderator marked it legit so that wouldn't happen again.
This was a previous comment from that user:

> Looks like the HN account is working again.

> There have been a couple of quick updates I posted on the linked page. First, SDF does accept Bitcoin for validation.
Second, SMJ is personally upping the prize to $100. See the link for details.

> I am very happy with the result of this stunt. So far this page has gotten over 100,000 which works nicely towards the goal of driving more users towards Tor and SDF.
Very cool. Is there a way to add thumbnails or similar to the datasets/UI, to help someone who is trying to find the right dataset spot it more easily without having to go in and open individual files?
In the grand scheme of things, is a pilot that expensive? I understand the reasons for driverless taxis but for an airplane carrying hundreds of people that's hard to justify.