skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 years is too soon- more like 20 in my worldview (still a very brief life for someone born today).
Here are a few things I see in 20 years:

- Human population in decline

- Industrial output per capita in decline

- Food production per capita in decline

- Resources in decline

- Pollution will ultimately peak

We have not meaningfully deviated from the collapse predicted in 'The Limits of Growth': https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...
> Don't confuse human, power-hungry implementations with the underlying philosophy

Why not? I mean, when the philosophy is actually put into practice, more often than not it leads to totalitarianism and millions of deaths. I really don't care what it says on paper. That doesn't mean a damn thing lol. I care about the concrete results when it's actually carried out to conclusion. Most people don't like to be micromanaged to that level. It goes against the human spirit and that usually leads to bad things.
$ gcc -v
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
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Please keep ideological flamewar off HN. It's repetitive, therefore predictable, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336050.
I dug into the collapsing code recently because I wanted to make a script that collapses HN threads by default. In other words, only the top-level comments would be shown at first. To me this makes more sense. If I am interested in continuing a thread, I can expand it. If I am not interested in continuing, I don't want to have to scroll past its children.

According to the comments here, maybe I would be better off implementing my own collapsing scheme.
I read a bit of the first one years ago, but didn't get very far since I was busy with other stuff.

I'm still busy with other stuff. I haven't been able to prioritize such career-unrelated leisure reading in years. Maybe in one or two years I'll give it another go.
> How many ordinary people would be more likely to carry out attacks or harbour resentment towards the USA because of policies like these?

Someone who hoards beheading videos is not ordinary and it's perfectly in line with the international norms to be able to exclude undesirable people from entering into a country. E.g. Canada won't let people who have past criminal convictions enter, like a DUI.
Then your electricity will probably be more expensive than that of the people who will utilize the night's cheaper rates and will get rebates for installing a device that will turn some devices down on unexpected peaks.

If you still "really don't want the power company to control my thermostat" after seeing your potential savings, that is.
Tangential, but is there a way to scrape this page or an API to access it? I'd like to be able to automatically pull my highlights and haven't found an easy way.
That's a great, small, single example. How often does it work out like that?
I take it you're not much of a "cat person."
Well, Boeing on the other hand is having trouble building reliable planes.
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Parent comment isn't a dictator. He can't 'dictate' whether you procreate or not, but he's arguing that it may be unethical to cause more suffering by doing so.
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> If it's your own server you can do whatever you want.

This is not at all true. For example, say I'm a user in a dorm that uses a proxy that I have no control over. If you make your GET request modify things, that proxy may cache the request, or worse, may repeat the request later to maintain its cache.

My point is, you don't know what is between your server and their client, and even well behaved infrastructure will sometimes make or modify GET requests on your behalf, but won't do that with POSTs.
His digital bookshelf is great too

http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

I've read most of those books but when it comes to math/electronics I unfortunately only understand some of it a big fault in my choice of areas to study.

If I could do it over again, math would at least have been as important to me as the arts and philosophy.

I'm always a little envious of people who are able to read the kind of books on his 2015 bookshelf and actually understand them.

Then again we can't be good at everything.
What we're talking about is putting a halt to expending political capital on shaming people into being "green," "eco-friendly," or "sustainable" to save "the environment" and instead recognizing that we need drastic action to remove literally billions of people from grave danger. We're not going to ask companies to reduce footprints, we need to decimate the fossil fuel industry as fast as possible or we're cooked.
Sensitivity Conjecture Resolved
If you don't mind me being negative here for a moment:

1. It's not your website, why spend so much time and effort on dissecting the issue? If one did this for every webpage they visited it'd be a more than a full time job.

2. Does it really look like Hacker News has had any serious development effort poured into it anytime recently? What incentive does YC have to put time and money into a forum that generates zero revenue?

3. Do we really expect web browsing to be pleasant on a 3 year old budget smartphone with a Qualcomm 617?

The Moto G4 Plus is solidly in the bottom 25% of phones listed here:

https://www.androidbenchmark.net/cpumark_chart.html
Climate warming or not, every human lives briefly and dies.
Reminds me of a scene from Mars Attacks
Yep. In Germany, afaik, we have Aluminium plants that are very precisely regulated like this.
I would disagree, the Gen1 Nissan Leaf has sold well in North America and the Honda has a 30% range increase over the Gen1 Leaf.

Whenever I talk with people about EVs, they're always quick to suggest how an EV would never work for them. I was talking with a coworker the other day and he talked about how he needed a truck to tow his boat and how an EV could never allow him to travel 500 miles to the coast. And went on with a myriad of other use cases he thought made EVs non viable. I said something about the poor gas mileage of a truck for daily commuting and parking downtwon, his response was "well I just drive my Mustang".
I don't have any problem with the usual tourist attire, but still appreciate if people are dressed nicely. Parent may have a stronger view.
I didn't mean for the automation to be primary - I meant for it to be a llast-ditch collision avoidance system, like the steering wheel nudge on my car.

Humans should still pilot the ship, but if they are going to let a collision happen, then the ship should try to avoid it even without human intervention (unless they press the "I know what I'm doing and want to do it anyway" button after the ship sounds the alarm saying it's taking evasive action)

So the system doesn't have to handle all of the edge cases, just the "We're on a collision course with that ship ahead" case.
No it isn't. Nobody thinks, "even hotter than Hadean??"

It is explicit in the headline this is in the context of modern recordkeeping: hottest month ever recorded.

This is a distracting argument and doesn't add any value. If you read the article, it's clear that it's at least the last hundred years, and, "this study shows that temperature records haven’t just been broken. They have been obliterated"
The typing thing also happens on 4chan and reddit for me. I wonder what's causing this.
Well, if you would be using Turbo Vision, then there was mouse, callbacks, events, the whole stuff. And async would just be a couple of chained interrupts.

I also used CA-Clipper, Summer '87 and the OOP variants 5.x.

Most of the stuff did use a mouse and some TUI navigation, with menus and stuff, we had a couple of libraries for it.

Now doing those forms it was pretty neat.
Actually the mails just discuss normal data processing issues, they just sound like cherry picking when taken out of context. https://skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.h...
This absolutely does work. If you get outbid normally on eBay, say at least half an hour or so before the auction ends, then people get irrational and you quickly end up in a bidding war. This way, as a bidder, you set the maximum price you are willing to pay outside of a heated 'damn, I missed out' mentality and people don't have time to respond.

Also this helps when placing bids on auctions that end when you're asleep and you want to effect the above. I've tried to do it manually in the past but naturally life intervenes and you're somewhere with no signal or in the middle of something. Having tried it both ways sniping is definitely better than regular bidding.
If you can figure out an interface you could back up memories on some non-organic system. If you split inputs to both brain and storage the brain could learn to access data from the backup when it's one memory is missing or unreliable.
Hindsight isn't exactly heka in C; it's useful for data processing but not as a general-purpose log shipper. Currently we're using fluentd for the latter.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla on the team that runs services used by firefox users and developers)
That answer was definitely worth the wait.

(there's a "Forgot Password" link somewhere here).

[do you always look at poster's activity? sounds time consuming.]
I commented about this before: [0]

A lot of people seem to misunderstand the 12 (now 11) year deadline. It's not that suddenly an apocalypse will occur in 2030. It's that after that point, we'll no longer have any realistic hope of avoiding the worst effects of climate change that will arrive in the following decades and centuries.

Maybe we need to explain it to people like cancer treatment: if we'd caught it early, maybe chemotherapy alone would have been sufficient. Today, we need invasive surgery, plus chemo, plus radiation therapy, and we also need to hope that untested immunotherapy treatments will work.

If we continue to leave it untreated, then our prognosis is very grim indeed. We won't die immediately, but our cancer will be inoperable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20262089
It's fine for Reddit's purposes. Randomly losing 10% of voting interactions wouldn't be a big deal for them. Of course, that wouldn't be ok for many other applications.
Because Java eventually implements everything that was done years ago in Smalltalk. Despite some having said it was unnecessary back then. Also, expect that a feature that was implemented in Smalltalk by a single dev as a library (this applies to continuations) will take a small team in Java. (Though the Java implementation may well be more robust and faster than the Smalltalk one from years ago.)
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2nd car?

Id need that range very rarely, certainly not for the 2nd car.

The stats for commuting distances would seem to back that up.
> At the moment, most of our transactions are done the latter way (get billed by airline/hotel/etc and then separately charge the customer)

One concern that comes to mind about this is if the credit card companies would consider this purchase as "travel". Like where Chase Sapphire Reserve gives triple points for travel purchases, and also has a $300 travel credit, but either of those things would only work if Chase considers your service as "travel", rather than "online service" or whatever.

You may have already worked this out and gotten it classified as travel, and if so it would just be a nice thing to put on a FAQ or whatever.
I'm pretty sure they save it in the cookie and fire off a POST at the same time in an async thread and then don't check if the request succeeded. That way it's a backup if you're on crappy internet or the server was down or something.

The cookie isn't the only way the vote gets there.
"Whataboutism" breaks the HN guidelines against shallow dismissals and calling names in arguments. This word is a lazy way of saying that comparables aren't relevant, and is invariably used to block information that others are trying to add.

In reality, comparables sometimes are and sometimes aren't relevant. You have to make that argument case by case for it to have any meaning. Invoking a generic word as if it magically decides the matter is just the sort of thing the HN guidelines ask commenters not to do.

To pick an example from another, hopefully distant enough, flamewar topic: if someone complains that dynamic programming languages have runtime errors and someone replies, "what about null pointer exceptions in $static-lang?", it's reasonable to argue about whether and how that is comparable. What's not reasonable is to exclaim "Whataboutism! The topic is errors in dynamic languages. Stop trying to change the subject." That amounts to "you can't say that because I spoke first", and that's not how conversation works. The question of what's relevant is an intimate part of the discussion itself. It's not something that whoever-spoke-first gets to control. Indeed, if anyone did control that, they would have the power to control the entire conversation. Past explanations for anybody who wants more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19862258

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17802156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17748301
Link to preliminary publication (PDF): http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~hhuan30/papers/sensitivity_1.pd...
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I literally bought it into, both as a customer and investor. :-)
That may be true but they're not really competing for archiving. As an end-user, I prefer an easy-to-read format, and outline is superior in that regard.
Pardon the shallow sarcasm but aren't we paying for things people used to do ?
Probably not a coincidence that they have such a similar name as the much older blog realclimate.org, that features actual science.
In healthcare, the most common EMR systems (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc) use IE11 in iframes as the platform environment for 3rd party applications embedded in their UIs. So convincing a few large vendors to upgrade would make a huge difference, but the hospitals themselves don't have the option of upgrading some of those browser environments. (My company makes apps that run in the EMR platforms)
Can it take into account climate changes as well? And reduce/optimize travels, favor train, ..
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At my previous company, I was once told the reason was integration with their accounting systems and enforcement / guidance around travel policy. e.g., don’t spend more than $X / night at a hotel in a certain city.

Definitely seemed like these middleman agencies were a solution to a problem faced by the finance team.
Here's what's great: all you have to do to make your lawn more bee-friendly is literally nothing. Just stop dumping chemicals on it and flowering "weeds" will grow (which can be beautiful, by the way).
> The more wind/solar you build, the more backup from coal/nuclear/wind you will need.

The more road you build, the more rail you will need.
Not if the alternative is Amazon. There's old-school corporate bad, and there's the terrifyingly horrendous. Never mind that Amazon is a company that's destroying most of retail without direct cache infusions from the US government (other than tax relief), it's a company that terribly mistreats its employees and eavesdrops on its customers.
Rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat
Feels like the kind of thing one would write if they wanted to keep track of whether to serve you "retina" @2x-sized images in the future or something.

In fact, that's pretty much what it is. This looks like it comes from an older version of the Adaptive Images WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adaptive-images/ (there's a very similar version of this code in the adaptive-images-front.php file).

The WordPress install would use this cookie to resize an image to send to your browser.

Could that itself be used for tracking? Sure, but you'd need at least a few other signals as screen size and DPR aren't all that unique across most devices.
It's instantaneous on my old iPhone se. Is it a budget android only issue?
At my last place, in the mountains, if you did not spray outside the house, you would have ants and spiders up the wazoo in the house.
If you don't ship it you don't know if it is good or bad.
Not quite correct. You are not allowed to yell fire in a movie theater if there is no fire and the yell is likely to cause imminent harm. It's a "myth" only in the sense that this simple rule (can't use speech to cause physical harm) is use in an attempt to justify things that are not imminent. For example, in the infamous Supreme Court ruling, it was used to justify banning Jehovah's Witnesses from distributing pamphlets encouraging people to lobby the government against the draft. That was an incorrect and stupid use of "shouting fire" because the speech does not cause imminent harm, nor does it cause physical harm except through legally changing public opinion.

So it's a "myth" only in the sense that it is a sure marker of a dishonest argument: if someone uses it in speech, they are almost certainly using it to try to justify something which is not the same thing at all.
As for your first point, my answer would be because it can be fun to do so.
I don't know D; I also don't currently know what Kotlin's plans are.
> Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument

Like GP said, it derails discussions into talking about a different bad actor than the actual one committing the bad behavior, while (intentional or not) minimizing said behavior. In short, just because the bad behavior exists elsewhere does not justify doing the bad behavior, or makes it any less bad, and the act of pointing it out can be a poor attempt at distraction from culpability.
Down or just high latency? For some folks that is the same thing.
And it's well-known since early eBay days that many bidders are irrational, including but not limited to competitive impulse to "win". Plus you sometimes have shill bidders.

Sniping approximates sealed bids, with the highest-bidder the second-highest sealed bid amount or a small increment above it. (Unfortunately for eBay, that would tend to decrease their cuts, unless the appeal of the sealed bid format brings in sufficiently more bidder activity.)

Another advantage of the software/service is that it automates. If you want to buy a Foo, you can look at the search lists, find a few Foos (possibly of varying value in the details), say how much you'll pay for each one, and let the software attempt to buy each one by its auction end until it's bought one, then it stops. If eBay implemented this itself, it might be too much headache in customer support, but third-parties could provide it to power users.

(I don't buy enough on eBay anymore to bother with anything other than conventional manual bids, but I see the appeal of automation.)
"Generates zero revenue" is silly. Hacker News has certainly generated tens of millions of indirect profits for YC; probably much more. It's tremendous marketing value for the organization and its companies.
It’s not very hard to configure (neo)Mutt to display html only emails with w3m in the terminal. Makes it even easier to parse/read them
yes, that play button is confusing to me too. It actually plays a sample of the voice you choose, not what you have typed.

I think the website should provide a sample of what a user has typed.
Does HN ban trolls?
If you guys would condense this list to the absolute essential must-reads, what would be left on your list?
For NDK users that is what it feels like, a 20% project from Android team, given how slow it progresses.

It only took them 10 years to fix the header file mess.
I didn't modify any ALSA configs. The ALSA input [input.alsa(device="plughw:CARD=PRO,DEV=0",bufferize=true)] was based on output from the "arecord -L" command. The audio interface is plug & play. Good luck!
I feel like I'm watching Martin Shkreli code an app
1: legal

2: legal

3: legal, unless there's intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate which would tip it into being illegal.
Why does this website want to send me notifications?...
Now this is a far more useful source than the opening post. Thanks for the concrete data.
The asymmetric harm that is possible makes skeptics irrational. The downside if we over correct for climate change is wound down or restructured oil companies, restricted products and production, but in exchange there is a cleaner more technologically advanced global society that has the ability to coordinate to address global scale problems and is on a good path to having the social cooperation necessary to colonize space.

Worst case if skepticism is wrong; civilization collapses as mass extinction creates scarcity and thus violence.
> I would assume that Tesla’s pace clashes with what people are used to in the auto industry, and it might be hard for them to adapt.

Or that Tesla is playing fast and loose with the rules and compromising safety, and they felt ethically compelled to leave.

It's sort of hard to make either assumption from the outside. But it definitely says something about Tesla.

Edit: My point here is that three VP departures implies nothing in particular, only that something is changing, and it's quite a logical leap the author is making assuming it is their "fast paced environment".