skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why not actually destroy roads and housing then? Won't that make things better?
I wish you didn't get downvoted for saying this. You are wrong, but it's a fair perspective because most people wouldn't know why an extra 4-10 C is such a problem.

There are a lot of reasons such as whether food or water scarcity might trigger nuclear war. But the biggest reason is that it puts us into the territory of previous mass extinction events on Earth. This article does a good job of illustrating the worst possible outcome. It does belong up with the others on the existential threat scale.

http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...

Give it a read and let me know if you think industrial civilization could adapt to these conditions.
The Libra reserve, discussion of background documents
FBI warning: Foreign spies using social media to target government contractors
How rich you'd be if you bought random amounts of a tech stock a long time ago
> and people who have had higher testosterone for most of their life retain all of these advantages.

Transgender woman here.

The lack of testosterone in my blood resulted in my muscle mass reducing to the point that I cannot do regular push-ups anymore. Granted, I could have trained if I wanted to retain this muscle mass but didn't.

I also have to take supplements as prescribed my by healthcare provider to retain bone density.

Both of those facts are well documented.

IMO athletes should be weighted & tested and then put in devisions as is done in boxing. A heavyweight will never fight a light flyweight. The same concept should be applied independently of gender.
Why does having more than two choices mean we must abolish all categorization?
Great write-up, I really appreciate it.

Don't worry, I won't ask any more honest questions about climate change ever again.
That half trillion net export includes oil imports.
There’s a huge difference between having your primary business being services projects basically as an extension of the government and your revenue center being unrelated private sector funding. Your corporate structure and business incentives are completely different as a result. I know Lockheed spend many millions of dollars trying to build a DoD-centric IaaS as AWS was being built and it didn’t really matter in the end because so many projects are going to GovCloud. Sure, lots of TS projects are not ever going to be in AWS but boy are people trying. VMware was bought before to try to contain the sheer sprawl of configuration in the Pentagon (your cost is almost entirely around organizational complexities rather than compute / storage cost due to being so heavy on labor costs in most enterprise orgs so the math is fuzzier but usually results in layoffs / workforce optimizations if successful).
A reply on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ccatalini/status/1141089260486811649
I just had to pay my one of my staff members in Mexico a severance of approximately 50,000 pesos. She doesn't have documentation or a bank account, so I had to pay her out in cash. 1000 peso notes are not widely used, so I had to get 500 notes out of the bank. That's about 100 bills--pretty bulky. She's going to have to spend a few hours getting home on 3 different buses with that huge wad of cash somewhere on her person, and risk being robbed.

Having some sort of electronic payment system that worked for her would be amazing.
Sure, it's possible they have a net negative dollar flow because of investments. But that's a lot different than having a net negative dollar flow because they're importing oil.
Gold would be extremely deflationary.

It is what made the great depression worse.

If the Fed didn't "print money" as QE1, QE2, QE3 then you would have 25% unemployment in the US alone.

Having half of society unemployed just so that you can "hoard gold" would lead that half of society taking up guns to take it away from you.

Be careful what you wish for.
To me, it has always seemed like face-to-face is very useful to get to know people and get the process started, but after that, following up via messaging and video conferencing is fine. But a similar timezone remains pretty important.
> It’s not hard, it just requires you have politicians capable of dodging the huge piles of cash MasterCard and Visa throw at them whenever talk of breaking the duopoly hits the table.

Ignoring the difficulty of avoiding lobbying money, yes, it'd be difficult. This is a large scale financial change and there are always, always loopholes that will come, not just from politicians who make those because of lobbying money. With how giant the economies are, and how often these cards are used, it isn't a simple move at all.

Look at credit card chip readers in the US. The amount of backend equipment change it took to get something "that simple" in action was a lot. I'm not defending them for it not being quicker, but a move like a duel card is absolutely difficult.
That's clearly the goal, after seeing the massive success of WePay in China.
> So, after vaccines started, measles mortality grew an order of magnitude worse? (According to presumably conservative government's estimate). Am I the only one who thinks, that anti-vaxing has nothing to do with perceived safety of vaccines, and mostly reflects perceived safety of vaccine facilitators?

You imply that vaccines cause that increase, but wouldn't a more plausible explanation be that people who contract measles despite being vaccinated are more likely to be people with subpar immune systems?
Harder, I think. We have the technology to live on Mars (not to terraform it, just to survive on it). We have some ideas from physics about how to get to a planet 12 ly away, but not the technology. Nor, I would argue, do we have the social and political setup required for such a project, which would most likely take hundreds of years to get to a basic colony.
> This capability is pretty pointless when the bank can indefinitely suspend your ability to make transactions.

You beat me to it: Having cryptographically signed transactions simply does not matter when you have to submit the transaction to what Zuck calls a "validator". The validator will just refuse to validate if your address is on a blacklist.

The net effect is that the coins are frozen. And since this is a backed currency, the backing will then be reduced by the amount corresponding to the frozen coins. This has the exact effect of lessening a user's balance.

Naming it "Byzantine Consensus" in their white paper turns out to be surprisingly apropos.
> "You don’t go home to Greenwich from your Park Avenue office in a good mood when the market makes it a point to remind you of how vestigial your skills have become, day after day after day."

This is poetry.
That's probably because systematic bank failure to you is just a fairly tale and you don't understand the risk exposure you have at an actual bank. Open your history book!

To be clear, I wouldn't prefer to put my money with either. But if push comes to shove, would you prefer to have an account at a failed bank that holds 10% in reserves, or a private company that holds close to 100% of reserves, because it is not a bank?

Before you answer, please imagine for a second that you had a decent amount of money to retire on, not whatever FDIC and the already bankrupt state promises to reimburse you with.
i've always wondered how web and functional programming interact. there's, for example TypeScript and Elm. These are not designed for mathematical proofs.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/
https://elm-lang.org/
Hah no.
> Except a single factory in China emits more CO2 than all the readers of this HN thread combined

This is just not true. World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions [0] I would guess a fair share of HN readers are in the top 10%

[0] https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/mb-ex...
My impression of what Libra is to FB is equivalent to that Silicon Valley episode where they did an ICO to found their business and get more users at the same time. I don’t believe FB’s altruistic intention for one second.
I didn't find it so much "How not to write a book" as a description of what writing a book felt like. Maybe there are people who have systematized the writing of a certain type of book to the point where it's just a routine few hours they put in every day. But I think the experiences expressed in this post are more common.
Yeah, bony growth <> horn.
Livestock pasture on top of an Appalachian mountain? Not happening. At these altitudes on the east coast forests are mostly left alone.
I wonder how different this would make life. Would you experience seasons, or would the temperature be fairly consistent all year around as it wouldn't be long enough for the atmosphere to cool down.
It’s a nice theory, but unsupported by evidence. In the US since the FDIC was set up there have been far fewer bank failures than there were before then. In fact, having that oversight short-circuits the mechanism that makes bank runs happen, since getting your money back is no longer a function of your place in line.
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Yes, upstate NY.
When Plaid originally launched, their value proposition was much higher-quality connections to the top dozen or so most popular institutions in the United States - fewer data quality issues and better integration with MFA than you could get by screen-scraping. Since those banks have about half the bank accounts in the US, that's pretty nice. They later started supporting long-tail banks (the 15,000 or so other institutions in the United States), although without the same data-quality advantage as they have for the big banks.

From the perspective of a new startup, Plaid also has a much more modern API and treats documentation as a much higher priority than most of their competitors - you can get up and running in an afternoon, which is absolutely not the case for every provider in the space.

Plaid also had much better support, at least in the early days - level 1 support was a native English speaker with deep technical knowledge of the product, level 2 support was a founder of the company.
Word docs, Sharepoint. (Though I didn't have that experience with images.)
It's only good if you have the cultural capital to back it up, and the institutions to push it forward. It will always come under attack because it's very inconvenient to the few who want power -- not every population can handle it well. It also requires a good amount of education, freedom and a willingness to discuss beliefs, etc. It also needs to be compatible with ones cultural identity and the history of a nation. The idea that you can just apply it everywhere universally is silly.
"* but good" is the vast majority of successful tech companies. iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. Facebook wasn't the first social network. Google wasn't the first search engine. Etc.
The other way to view this is as rich software developers asking the rest of the world to pay to upgrade their hardware, or else forgo security patches. That may be hard if you're in a poor country, or are otherwise living near the poverty line.

Commercial interests have little incentive to serve this demographic, due to their lack of buying power. That leaves open source projects that were created for the public good.
They have the capability to do whatever they please.
Women compete in NASCAR and very occasionally the PGA.
I mean, not if you give them your username and password
Are the credentials you’re providing them, they’re storing, and then using to scrape data scoped to read only permissions? They are not.
Less than 3% of Minnesota teens did not identify with traditional gender labels such as "boy" or "girl." That's bimodal. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/141/3/e201716...
I'm not going to change my mind just because of mindless downvotes. If you want to show that global warming could cause the end of the human race, you have to give some plausible argument.
> IMO athletes should be weighted & tested and then put in devisions as is done in boxing. A heavyweight will never fight a light flyweight.

That's certainly an option, but if that's it, then that's the end of women's and girls' leagues. I don't particularly enjoy watching sports, and I can't name more than a couple athletes of any league, but it seems to me like a lot of people will be very disappointed by that.

> The lack of testosterone in my blood resulted in my muscle mass reducing to the point that I cannot do regular push-ups anymore. Granted, I could have trained if I wanted to retain this muscle mass but didn't.

This takes time, is more what I was getting at. I didn't write it all that well in my original comment so I guess it's going to get ripped to shreds. ;- )
>And I am sorry to say that, but I don't think that a global framework enforcing the same environmental restrictions on every country in the world, regardless of its economic state, is realistic. Sorry.

We don't need a perfect global framework. We just need to shift incentives to some extent. The market is already coming up with some non-carbon alternatives. Adding a carbon tax will shift incentives further and increase tech development.

To mitigate the effects, business need an energy source. Either it's:

* a replacement to carbon, or

* still carbon

If it's still carbon, you can't reverse the causes, and mitigation gets harder and harder as you worsen the problem.

You're effectively arguing that:

1. There's no use trying now, it's basically impossible, but

2. Despite not trying now, we will solve the impossible problem at some future point.

You're perhaps arguing that the problems of global warming will help us. This seems rather like Bastiat's parable of the broken window.

Negative changes will only hurt us, and individual solutions can't fix a global atmosphere.
"Web browsers helpfully apply default CSS styles..." Totally disagree with the idea that this is 'helpful.' Pretty site though. I think there's some good stuff here - but it's not how I'd teach it. Side-note: I love how wappalyzer says 'zero technologies detected.' That's rad. "Each layout in Every Layout is intrinsically responsive." Everything is intrinsically responsive before you force it not to be. Big respect for tackling this though. Lots of good stuff and just a bit of maybe not great stuff.
Do you understand "bimodal"?
> the Rust developers I've spoken to seem to earnestly believe that an order of magnitude improvement is possible

I'd like to believe this is the case, but has that ever actually happened - as in a programming language seeing that much speedup in its compiler? There're quite a few cases of languages that are generally taken to have long compile times (C++, Haskell, Scala, etc) but I don't know of a case where any has been able to improve by as much as an order of magnitude.
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1) You'll notice I didn't put nuclear war in my list of existential threats. That's because it also will likely not cause human extinction.

2) We are probably already in a mass extinction event. That also has little change of causing human extinction - we're the most adaptable species this planet has ever seen.
I would assume most of their early customers were not using Plaid exclusively, because they only supported a handful of very big banks. Every company that I've seen select Plaid as a vendor has either done so after considering many alternatives, or used Plaid data alongside data from other providers.
Henrique - this is super cool. Really fascinating and inspiring to follow your success.

Unrelated to today's announcement, but curious if you could share a bit about your origins in "making a new credit card from scratch" at all: forming a relationship with a bank, card network, etc.

How difficult was it to even enter the space at all - any top takeaways or learnings? Non-obvious struggles you may have had to overcome?
As of today, Libra is not open either. You need $27MM and your name on the short-list of 27 validators. Lots of coins have come along and made lots of promises, they need to be judged based on what they actually are today.
A carbon tax that replaces income tax, dollar for dollar, is almost a pure win.

To the extent that carbon use is absolutely necessary (read: inelastic), the tax will be passed on transparently. It'd be theoretically efficient in the same sense a land tax is efficient.

To the extent that carbon use isn't necessary (read: elastic), it'd drive people to substitute it for something else.

Even efficiency of implementation is trivial compared to income tax. The government knows where companies are extracting fossil fuels, and it knows which companies are extracting fossil fuels, and fossil fuel extraction requires large amounts of hard-to-move capital.

Policy-wise it's as pure an economic win as we can imagine in this world of ours, as we'd be moving away from distortionary income taxation.
< less capitalist parts of Europe.

If you want socialist paradise see Cuba, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. Come live here and you’ll see how well it works. Government doesn’t have a special power with future vision, nobody does. Let people decide their life, where to live. Move to other places if you want cheap living costs.
> voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming

"Credible" is one difficult part of that, and the situation is also exploitable even if they are credible in that one regard.

For example, a person or group could produce a candidate who is credibly stronger on global warming than the competition, while at the same time the secret goal being to sell out constituents' fiscal interests or rights in some other regards.

(It's not far-fetched -- without getting into contemporary partisan examples, it's fair to say that this seems to already a strategy and tactic, on other single-issues, in some contests.)
The response to the last question, "What is your commute to work/university like?" really surprised me. I thought the overwhelming majority would be by car.
I've lived in China and seen how this plays out. Facebook's new Libra Blockchain will be a centralized bank but way more dangerous. It will allow for a worldwide social credit system. If Facebook decides to remove you for wrong speak or wrong think, your money and many services will be inaccessible. Further, they have no mandate like the central bank does to increase employment. Their mandate is to make money for corporations. This will lead to global social unrest.

This will put some third-world countries in complete control by Facebook. I mean, whoever runs the currency, is the country. But in this case, it will be completely controlled, as it's also many of those countries main source of communication.

Therefore, if Facebook's Libra is a countries main currency and social network, that country will be owned by Facebook.

Finally, the regulations on crypto and blockchain are still new. This is in Facebook's advantage as they can start lobbying to have these laws in their favor. They can argue for less transparency, as they are a bank, and this fits with their new privacy marketing message.

This is extremely subversive and Europe is already rightly pushing back. America will be next. On one hand, I love seeing the existing financial system panic when new technology comes out. On the other hand, under no circumstances will I accept a world where Facebook started the one world currency.
There's an industry of writers providing advice to other writers about writing. Think of it like self-help but for writing.

I used to attend some writers groups, but everyone was always looking for a method that would make writing easy, instead of just writing.

Almost nobody knew what they were talking about. Figuring out what works for you is writing.
This is a topic upon which it is impolitic to express an honest opinion, so I flagged.
Just going to hop in and give a bit more information regarding this situation. I assume you're referring to John Deere and their attempts to stop anyone accessing the software on their machinery.

The situation is complicated because John Deere leases out a lot of their equipment in a financial lease (they do operating leases too but they're not affected by this). In this sort of lease the ownership is technically with the lessee. So I can see the reason John Deere wants to stop people who legally own their tractor from tampering with software. It's still a lease and at the end of it John Deere might get back a working tractor (depending on the life of the lease), so they don't want it to have been used in any way that could damage it. It's a legal protection and I don't think it's as malicious as every journalist and commenter tries to say it is. If you look into their financials you'll see they have 10s of billions of dollars in machinery out that is leased out, they're just trying to protect it.
Google wants to disrupt the inefficient legacy government.

You won't even need to vote. They will already know how you feel about the candidates. Much more efficient!
Yes, to an adult, it's a choice because he/she knows the difference. But to a kid, it that a choice by himself/herself or by his/her parents, or by the ideology group he/she is in? To some extent, we chose a kind of education to be mind washed.
>You can point at an asteroid and say "That thing. It's going to melt half the planet."

How do you get people to believe it up until the day it gets close enough to make out with the human eye that it's approaching the planet? It's too late at that point. How many people have a telescope with that type of resolution, cameras that can pull out something likely low magnitude? We present scientific evidence to the public on Climate Change and many just don't care enough to actually do anything, why wouldn't the same happen with an Asteroid?
I spend time with them every day. Hello from Seattle!
The whole theory of going to a”hub” is being around other smart people that makes it easier for companies to find people and funding and make it easier for people to find a job and being in the ecosystem.

But if you are in the “cloud industry” you don’t need to be anywhere near Seattle to either find a job, find funding, or find “smart people”. I don’t know the movie industry but I do know the cloud industry from the consulting side. The cloud consulting industry is much larger than the development industry.
I think per hour of use would be a better metric.
New version of react-fetching-library is available
Please don't post pure politics here.

Submissions with political overlap are ok if and only if there is an intellectually interesting aspect to the story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: What are some good resources about CLI and shell design?
I'm looking for works that explain the design decisions behind shells like bash, ash, zsh, fish, etc. I've recently become curious about OS abstractions, the differences between Plan9 and Unix, off color shell implementations like Powershell, and so on.
> The consequence of dissolving women's leagues is that, in most sports, no women compete at the top of any sport, except for the most extreme outliers.

But when we watch any big sports event, we're already looking at extreme outliers.
> In berlin, the rent limits don't work, because of various reasons, one for example is that companies simply rise the costs that are not rent for appartment, force the people living there out and then raise the rent.

Do you have examples of this happening? Nebenkosten are controlled by the government or the responsible agencies as well, and you get a detailed invoice of any costs so the landlord can't just bill whatever they want.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for stating an obvious fact. Climate change isn't the only factor in central American migration but it's definitely part of the equation.