skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does it mean India is unlivable ?

No, of course not. The headline isn't to give a yes or no answer, but to simply explore the question, list some things we know and some studies.

I guess as Indian you get to read a lot of patronizing shit on the web, and I totally respect your resentment, but this article was submitted by someone from MIT, it wasn't written by their staff.

> how often has CNN published USA being unlivable ?

Not unlivable, but literally searching for "cnn when will the us become unlivable" I found these for example:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-rep...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/hothouse-earth-war...

> More than 200 countries pledged to take action on climate change under the Paris Accord struck in 2015. The agreement pushed signatories to work together to keep temperatures from rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. However, there are no binding targets, and the US later pulled out, dealing a blow to global efforts to form a united front against climate change.

I have no love for the CNN either (mainly for their cheerleading for and getting fat off war, as I see it), but here I have to say, fair enough?

> There is also a undertone to 'India being unlivable' that rubs some people the wrong way.

As I said above, in general being pissed off by that is something I totally understand (not as in "I know what it's like", but you know what I mean I hope), but this is about the wet bulb temperature, so "literally unlivable", not colonialist attitudes.

> So CNN should try to be neutral and informed in their writing - they could have said "North Indian cities like Delhi are becoming unlivable".

I agree that most headlines suck (and that's not to excuse it), but just as I checked the article to quote the relevant bits (which are more nuanced than the headline was), I realized they changed it to "Are parts of India becoming too hot for humans?", which is at least something.

By the time this shit really hits the fan, however bad it gets, the people who caused the most harm will be dead and gone either way. Even you and me won't see the worst of this, this could get centuries deep, and industrialized civilization might as well get used up in war, leaving "us" (humanity) with fuck all.

FWIW, I think "the West" kinda owes a lot of reparations, to a lot of countries, I don't hold your anger against you at all. But we need to be sober and fierce more than anything, though not for us little people to bicker, and not to be bitter. I guess it's patronizing and easy to say for me, but I can't change where I was born. We just have to roll our sleeves up wherever we are, and then we'll still get enough people who will genuinely resist the inconveniences (or taxes) coming out of the woodworks. There'll be plenty of battles ahead, let's not have needless ones.
For the ones interested, here's something in Wikipedia about this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
Politisation or polarisation is not the issue. The issue is regulatory capture, which American ISPs have heavily invested in. In other words: corruption.
Unfurling these ancient scrolls could destroy them
Sadly this is one of those arguments that are basically impossible to refute with large enough timescales.

I don't like the argument because it's unprovable with any degree of reliability (i.e. we can know the ice age was cold, but how cold? generally... this cold), but to outright ignore it is not fair either.
How did Boeing make miracles in civilian aircraft? In short, the the civilian engineers were in charge. And it fell apart because the company, due to a merger, killed its engineering-first culture

Uhm, this makes me think about the engineering-first of Google. I wonder if Google will end in the same path...
Remote pair programming best practices Q&A – Part 2
Unless you plan to kill the ex-employees after closing the bank, I'm not sure why this is applicable ;)
A lot of modern formats - jar, Apple's pages, etc, come to mind - are just zip files with a different extension.

So which of these files which are really zip do browsers or mail programs auto-open? Anyone think of any?
Why doesn't this link to the original article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hacker... instead of this shady businessinsider.com website?
I don't think there's a better choice today than 'they' but that 1794 example doesn't show that this was a natural use back then. It was a conscious and intentional deviation from standard usage just as it is today, as was noted by the contemporary 'mansplaining' commenter and the contemporary response to him.
> The information in the database belonged to Orvibo

Would things meaningfully become more secure if we had a legal framework under which the information in the database belonged to each consumer? Or would a simple click-through license make that moot?
True, which is why it needs to start with people choosing to be called ‘it’. It's yet to happen, but I'll do my bit if/when I'm ever asked for my preferred pronouns.

Also, as someone currently leaving in a place rich with Scousers I would put forward ‘yous’ as a second-person plural pronoun that rolls off the tongue a bit better (and, I would conjecture, makes more intuitive sense for learners of English).
Then aren’t those services/products partly to blame? There should be very few legitimate reasons to leave those things unsecured, no?
Podcast on the Identity and Access Management: 2FA, SSO, Password Manager etc.
Well the CT200h is still on the same gen 3 Prius power train as when the model was originally launched and on the actual Prius they’re up to gen 5 where the fuel economy is about 50% better.

And luxury car but lack of plug-in hybrid option despite Prius having one ...

Don’t get me wrong it’s a lovely car way ahead of its time, everywhere in the cabin (especially the UX), but outdated under the hood.

Source: I design truck EVs.
The first consumer router that supports a VLAN specifically designed for iot devices should sell well. Who will be first?
Vimeo recently banned Project Veritas (which is still up on youtube), Alex Jones and plenty of other channels. Not sure it's a less censuring alternative.
>How do you know the bloggers aren't "controlling mass opinion, propaganda, and promoting particular interests"; how do you know who funds them?

I don't. But the beauty of it is that there are no gatekeepers there (online), and the cost of having one's voice heard are zero. And the public has the same power to call them for it (either in their own comments, or from similar outlets).

I don't care for propaganda being peddled to the public -- as long as it a voice among other voices.

I do care for private interests (e.g. like Heart or Murdoch or today's moguls) having the only means to publish theirs, and having a faux-prestige because of them being "official", "press", etc.
Russ Cox answers to an open letter about the ‘try’ proposal
>I'm tired of arguing with denialists

I don't think that guy is denying anything. He's merely stating that the earth has gone through drastic changes _many_ times in the past.

What makes this change the final one before earth is incapable of sustaining life?
This article being on BusinessInsider sort of hides the true nature of Gennie Gebhart's complaint[1]. The targets of her editorial are not businesses that pay for using Slack. (It's also likely that business users such as the company's sysdmins and programmers don't care if their corporate chats are saved on Slack's servers; they actually want their chat history saved on the cloud so they can later search it.)

She's targeting the non-business oriented users such as:

>Slack’s users include community organizers, political organizations, journalists and unions. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where I work, we collaborate with activists, reporters and others on their digital privacy and security, and we’ve noticed these users increasingly gravitating toward Slack’s free product. [...] Instead, Slack retains all of your messages [...] , they are all still indefinitely available to Slack, law enforcement and third-party hackers.

Yes, if you're doing Edward Snowden type of communication that requires cloak & dagger protection, using the free tier on Slack is dangerous. She then makes this suggestion to Slack:

>Slack should give everyone the same privacy protections available to its paying enterprise customers and let all of its users decide for themselves which messages they want to keep and which messages they want to delete. It’s undeniably Slack’s prerogative to charge for a more advanced product, but making users pay for basic privacy and security protections is the wrong call.

I think it's more realistic for political activists to be educated on choosing an alternative to Slack rather than hope for Slack to change its business model.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hacker...
Terrible title. Either I skimmed the end of the article or there was nothing about a bailout in there.
It's conceptually viable; it's just not materially viable yet.

In all seriousness, I seem to remember that there was a practice of testing for viability using very similar means – basically, are people interested enough to click through, then collect emails.

So perhaps this is a path to demonstrate viability by questionnaire.
Exactly, Go ranks better than C#, look at the Fortune section

> Exercises the ORM, database connectivity, dynamic-size collections, sorting, server-side templates, XSS countermeasures, and character encoding.

Wich looks like a better way to benchmark something, more talkative than raw data

And when you addition the deployement story (single binary, small package, etc) Go is way way way way ahead, not to mention the web assembly revolution, again thanks to these positive points, Go is again way ahead of C#

Now please comunicate this to your C# team at Microsoft, hury up before it is too late, i heard your solution to single binary distribution was to zip/unzip 200 files at runtime, lol
I'm close to walking away from Slack for a personal group chat and pushing to move to something with either full encryption (Keybase Teams), or proper retention settings/control of ALL messages. Slacks decision to not allow control of message retention combined with them also taking away the ability to delete messages beyond the latest 10,000 is a big problem.
The duties were also overturned in the end, but not before Bombardier gifted 50.01% of the C-Series program to Airbus so it had a chance of survival. The net result was Airbus rebranded the program the A220, committed to building US-destination A220 jets within the US to avoid tariffs anyways and while they significantly weakened one [small] competitor (Bombardier and by extension Investissement Québec) they massively empowered their real competitor (Airbus).

Ultimately, their plan backfired and forced them to acquire a large stake in Embraer to remain nominally competitive (I say that because the C-Series planes are much better than similar Embarer aircraft, both longer range and more comfortable) -- all while simultaneously empowering Airbus. They also significantly soured their relationship with the Canadian government jeopardizing both current and future military procurement opportunities.

This was an unmitigated failure on their part.

(EDIT) To be clear, Bombardier wasn't sold to Airbus, they gifted majority control of the C-Series program to Airbus. The new equity split is 50.01% Airbus, 31% Bombardier and 19% Invesissment Québec.
For a fair comparison, you'd have to match the current bank features first, and they're simply not available in current cryptocurrency.
Why necessitate? Businesses sometimes go under, that’s how the system works. The government ought not pick winners and losers.
You could say the same as CTR mode
> Tesla UI is only good because they're not afraid to continuously iterate on the design

I'm not sure this is a good thing. Poorly designed physical things will stick for a long time and might damage the reputation of your company. Tesla's reputation is not great precisely for that reason. I remember people were saying that Tesla would be "the Apple for cars" before their first cars left the factory. Nobody says that anymore.
No reality is usually boring. It came from an opensource github repo. It was an oversight.

Dial down the conspiracy-factor brother.
I'm surprised that this misses the distinction made by signalsmith above: the way Shakespeare uses "they" to refer to someone is unremarkable, but what strikes many present-day speakers as an error (even if they fail to explain why) is the use of it to apply to a particular person, especially a named person.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, the boy genius who became chess Grandmaster at 12
> It tried to force them to stay in the lane.

I think this is because the driver was being a bit lazy and didn't bother turning on the signal. If you indicate intent, then the system won't think you're messing up.

But a lot of folks simply half-change lanes when passing cyclists and then go back.

As a motorcyclist the half-change is annoying since (a) you're blocking both lanes, and (b) if they did a full lane change I could zip past since I can fit quite comfortably next to the bicyclist.
Both Boeing and Airbus have (somewhat credibly) argued the other is getting subsidies already. Would that really change anything?

Bombardier draw the short straw as it was smaller and wasn't able to combat the duopoly of Boeing/Airbus. (Embraer, Sukhoi and Irkut are also in the game but more in niche market shares).
iMac and OS X in a bundle is what saved Apple (along with the iPod of course)
Anti-trust enforcement was always going to be a political weapon due to the highly discretionary and interpretive aspect of who is truly a bad actor.
People also have other requierements that both Java and C# fails to offer

Java/C#(.net) don't understand what people need, they are closed minded, therefore won't survive web assembly revolution
Discussed at the time a couple weeks ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=FreeBSD%20Turns%2026&sort=byDa...
I don't know how viable it maybe be for you, but that is one of the goals for Apple News Plus, to bundle newspaper subscriptions in one place.
Sounds almost like the Ben Franklin effect,[0] which I don't think I've ever heard of being used in a game outside of this example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
This is why we run self-hosted rocketchat.
Likely, but that didn't happen. And "the other way around" could also mean what Chinese media would write about Cisco private keys found in Huawei gear.
Yeah, so they can defer the problem until out of warantee... like they have done with every single other defect in the past.

Some people catch on to this fact and kick up a fuss in store when there is a newer model available without the defect, if you are lucky they will cave and replace it with a new model instead of a new old broken model. At least, this used to work about 10 years ago with the first significant defect on intel based models (GPU failures), I haven't bothered with Apple since, not worth it.
Essentially you have to pay a fee (i.e. the minimum amount of paid service) in order to be able to purge message history - which looks like it’s $6.67. Does Slack purge data on cancellation?

> https://slack.com/pricing
Last couple of years have led me to err on the side of caution and assume that pretty much everything I use has backdoors. Also, Slack is so bloated that it doesn't even make it to the shortlist of the communication apps I'm looking to use. I understand that many workplaces require it, which is probably not fun. In any case, we should all assume that work related information is always retained, and someone has access to them even if the product is all about "privacy" and even if your bosses "would never do that".
I am fortunate in that I have a few acres in a tiny town in Central Europe and I don't need a financial return from the land. I now keep the back lot as a meadow garden instead of the giant cut lawn that it used to be. I made sure that the surrounding farmers were cool with it as I was worried they would hate a "pest farm" on my land, but they understand.

I own an additional 6 acres of farmland which I currently let a neighbor grow wheat on, but they spray all the normal ag-chems. I am looking at options for what to do with that as far as co2 mitigation and pro-bug land. My brother suggested that he could buy trees to plant as a carbon offset for every flight he takes out here. Maybe I could put the land in a trust, and open the tree purchasing to other folks that are looking for carbon offsets?

A large meadow and growing the forest seem like the best options at this point. I would love to hear any other suggestions.
Equidistant? The equivalent of remote alaska would be the antarctic peninsula.
Samsung in hot water over splashy Australian phone ads
Sure. But tv/press had an unfair advantage of being a gatekeeper, not offering a way for the public to respond (except for "letters to the editor" and such), having unique access to power figures, and so on.

Blogs did away with most of that.
Coinsquare Buys Controlling Stake
Luckily, its search interface is horrible, so there is some barrier.
I thought this was already known. I remember watching a show a few years back on Neanderthals that mentioned they used a form of glue. For context, if anyone else might recall this show, a researcher attempted to recreate the "spearhead" they found and determined it was more sophisticated than previously thought. They also had shared results of DNA sequencing which found a 98%+ similarity to homo sapiens. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I saw it, or what it was called.
That's not the point, the point is people who don't use it for work and are on the free tier. You can only manually delete messages back to 10,000 but ones older than that are stored and you have no control over them. Also, you can't set, say, a two week expiration unless you pay.
A profit motive is exactly what makes people work for money.
Governments should have predatory practice towards shareholders in these cases.

If company can't be allowed to fail (strategically important or government regulated sector like banking) there should be 'fluid bankruptcy' option. When they default or fail their obligations, the next day the government owns them without operations being disrupted. Shareholders lose everything overnight and any private debt would have standard 50% haircut (lenders would know this beforehand). Government would then sell the stocks back to the market within 10 years or so.

Bailouts are subsidies for risk.
> I don't think Apple has pursued design for the sake of design until very recently.

Most likely. But Ive saw that the senior layers being stacked against him and his vision over the past few years. I think this was best for everyone. Consumers included.
> Lane assists and emergency braking assists are going to be mandatory safety features in the EU from 2022.

I can see the use of emergency braking, but not lane assist. As someone with a 2003 Golf, I have never found it difficult to stay in my lane.

What is the "logic" behind mandating this? What problem are they trying to solve?
I understand the need to IPO now!
English is not a dead language and so it evolves. Consider 12th century English: Ealdred arceb hine to cynge gehalgode menn guldon him gyld gislas sealdon syððan heora land bohtan.
So it's not "what you do" but "who you are" or "where you are from" that counts?
Facebook, privacy activist Schrems face off in July 9 court hearing
or let the free market and invisible hand take swift care of it
Compared to programmers, maybe. Still much better than most available middle class gigs, and the "sky is the limit" once they have connections to power and influence.
Isn't there a danger it'll end up like streaming tv where you have to pay netflix, apple, disney, amazon etc etc because it's not all in one place?
The biggest thing for me is experiencing my own emotions almost like coming upon landmarks while driving. They stop being "you" and start to be just part of the scenery as you drive along through your life.
Too bad alternatives often have subpar UIs, Rocketchat included. But still worth considering imho.
Moving away from magic – or: why I don’t want to use Laravel anymore
EOS Market Capitalization Will Soon Exceed Ethereum’s
There's a good chance you can have the battery replaced as part of the ongoing recall.

https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
I’m old enough to remember people complaining about the chiclet keys on the unibody MacBook Pro compared to the old PowerBook keyboard. Kinda funny that’s now considered the halcyon days of MacBooks. ;P
Dynamics-Aware Unsupervised Discovery of Skills
> Bombardier draw the short straw as it was smaller and wasn't able to combat the duopoly of Boeing/Airbus.

It was able to compete though on the merit of its products before the duties came into play. The duties were designed to kill its momentum and it did -- look at the loss of orders in 2017 compared to 2016. But once the issue is resolved, the orders in 2018 are huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A220_orders_and...

This was a classic case of stifling threatening competition via government regulation.
I love the low travel and the feel of the keyboard on the 2018 model, but I’m not overjoyed that I had to hand my machine over for repair. Still, at least I got a brand new battery out of it too, thanks to the sketchy design choices…
I was joking (to make a point about the elitism of the parent), but still, that's like your opinion, man.

He is still considered one of the biggest thinkers of philosophy in the 20th century, personal warts and all.

Plus, as a European, I wouldn't trust people with analytical/anglo-saxon philosophical tendencies to know philosophy when they see it (e.g. re D/G and Lacan).
Maybe a case of making your mark as a designer by hunting for seemingly low hanging fruits. So every newly hired designer will try to get some of his ideas squeezed into a new model. Instead of a conservative approach less "revolutionary" approach. At least that's my theory for why UX of almost anything nowadays seems to decline with every iteration.
There are already online only banks without physical presence in most places and many countries don't tie their currency value to gold. The payment systems are not great on either side of the issue.
Bombardier was not sold to airbus, but major share assets of one type of its airplane, the CSeries to airbus. Bombardier the company still holds 30% of the CSeries, while other types of planes not affected by the deal.
Failure condition - your conceptual exposure and, at least in the US, legal exposure is more favorable in the face of fraud.

Would you rather have someone thieve a dollar from your wallet or fraudulently assign you a debt?
It would depend on context, if you ask me. The bank robbery was across the street & half a block down? Completely unremarkable to say "they". The clerk is complaining about sexual harassment, hand on thigh? Avoiding "he" implies a careful choice not to say, either to hide an identity, or because the customer was obviously confusingly gender-ambiguous.
It's so nice to learn that back then, as now, trans people at some point in their live transitioned and then tried to live out their lives as the other gender, and were successful at it. Some only being found out after death or by becoming really ill. Luckily we're more open about it now. Also, now, as back then, most trans people just want to fit in and not be labeled 'other', or 'trans' for that matter.
Alaska Has Never Reached A Right Angle has a nice ring to it.
How much stuff do you see in newspapers that is not alarming anyway?