skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumers complained, sure but most businesses understand that it costs money to provide services. If a software vendor had no plan for funding maintenance that would be perceived as a supplier risk because it’s unsustainable.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the answer, however. Xinjiang and Tibet are complicated, China has obviously improved their economies and has obviously trampled on human rights. Both of those things can easily coexist (the same could be said about western colonialism, one doesn’t excuse the other).

The western media does report those things, it’s just that the Chinese media only focuses on those pieces from the western media that it wants to be defensive about. Call it tunnel tunnel vision if you will.
I replied to this in a reply to someone else up above. You may have the the last word. And I do hope a peaceful solution is found. I especially like every Iranian expat I every met. I want to see every sanctioned nation prosperous and with a vibrant democracy. Have a good weekend.
I just gave it a try... It has ligatures listed as a feature, but don't seem to be seeing the conversion of char sequences like I do in Fira Code. (E.g., in Vscode or VS with ligatures enabled, => turns into a "fat arrow", === turns into "a 3-bar equiv", etc.)
This was a really good read. It's a thoroughly enjoyable peek into the private lives behind influential careers.

I especially enjoyed the parts about Margaret Mead and her efforts to simultaneously sort out her relationship to herself as a misfit seemingly unsuited to the world into which she was born and the question of how to have a serious career as a woman in a man's world.
No, it's not at all. Look, crop yields are way up in the past few years:

Rice yields are up 40% since 1988:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...

Corn's up 60%:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...

Wheat is up 48% since '88:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld....

Cattle inventory looks steady:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattle/inv.php

Yeah...hmm, not seeing a reason to panic about food supply.
One thing about human life that is remarkable is the dramatic range of climates we can survive in, compared to other species. Makes us forget that it is entirely possible to have climates that we CAN'T survive in (and even more that we wouldn't thrive in).
Yes, it happened after the bronze age and can happen again but nobody is 100% sure why and how it happened, they think a combination of some climate situation around Greece pushed the people there to immigrate or invade the fertile crescent civilisations which were interconnected and very developed. After this invasion the whole area collapsed and went back to the stone age for at least 500 years. Saying that, I don't think anybody can predict the climate situation, let alone predict the outcome of it, I also like Trump, but that's me.
The problem there is that meat doesn't come in dollars; it comes in kilograms.

If you are paid in meat, you get something like 100 kg of pre-formed frozen ground beef patties. That doesn't have a dollar value unless you can find a buyer for it. Which is pretty easy to do if it's a commodity.

So let's try a more broken example. You get paid in sandstone triangular prisms machined to be 31 mm on the two longer sides, 19 mm on the short side, and 9mm in height. These then have a square(-ish) hole drilled in them, slightly off center, and then the sides are grooved, and the faces engraved. These triangles are called fubaar.

Fubaar have no fixed exchange rate with the dollar. For a job, you are paid 1000 fubaar. The value of a fubaar is very stable. One has been able to purchase the traditional formal attire of Barbazia for exactly 5 fubaar, for over 800 years. But you can't buy much with them on the international market except quuxfruit--which bruises easily, and smells like durian crossed with feet after four days.

At the end of the year, I could report that I earned 1000 fubaar since last year, and mail about 250 of them to the treasury. It's not my problem if the government can't convert them to dollars. They can go buy quuxfruit with it. But the treasury won't take anything but dollars. My only recourse is to say the fubaar represent $0 in income, because they really are essentially worth $0, having no inherent value.

The problem is that the gov't is levying taxes in dollars on income that is not dollars, and exporting the inconvenience of conversion to those least able to get a good conversion rate. Congress has the enumerated power to regulate the value of foreign coin. Why not use it? The Treasury also has the ability to accept foreign coin. For a good length of US history, much commerce was conducted in Spanish silver dollars, not US-minted coin. Those were acceptable for payment of taxes.
I'm Chinese, I think the trolls (50 cents army) is mostly just a joke/meme. But I might be wrong.
Magnets have the ability to pull things. This is energy being expended. But we know energy cannot be created, so it must be depleted after some time.
During the investigation into the Trump campaign, they didn’t have other warrants?
I need it to be online because that was the underlying motivation for me starting the tutorial in the first place, and if you haven't shown me that, your tutorial failed to address the actual purpose.

Growing up, there was nothing worse than the tutorials or classes that didn't actually do the thing you wanted: "learn to program a game! *will not actually be able to have a game anyone can play at end of tutorial".

And since computer science isn't about the web, and university is a pretty bad place to learn programming, respectfully your advice is the opposite of mine.
Well that headline was a journey. I feel like the author was going for sort of a Hunter S. Thompson kind of style, but the underlying story unfortunately just wasn't interesting enough to pull it off.
Update

This ended up being due to SNI getting enabled on our HTTPS binding in IIS when using a Let's Encrypt cert. Apparently, the GCP HTTPS LB does not like SNI.
Anecdotally, Hong Kong is extremely air conditioned (to the point where it gets a little chilly) and the outside is unbearable when I've been during the summer months.
I felt like 6% was quite low.

A/C is one of the highest wattage circuits that homes have, and it runs for a lot more hours than similar circuits (hot water or cooktops/ovens).
Or more charitably, the life of light bulbs was artificially shortened to avoid a race to the bottom with long-lasting but inefficient bulbs. Hot-running incandescent bulbs emit more of their radiation in the visible spectrum instead of infrared, but they burn out quicker. Colder-running light bulbs last longer, and that's obvious to consumers, but power bills aren't itemized so they're less likely to notice the wasted energy. The actions of the Phoebus cartel were arguable in the interests of consumers.
Why would you pay to install and maintain AC if we (in Central Europe) literally have 2 weeks of real hot summer (about a month recently though)?

It would literally be a waste of money.
The question should really be "How are many national economies keeping innumerable people hungry, even though there's plenty of food to go around several times over?"

In most places in the world it's easy and cheap enough to produce food and distribute it. Actually, it's so easy and cheap that many world states artificially subsidize agriculture/livestock farming/etc. to prevent them from collapsing due to low prices.
> Resolving global warming is actually possible with our current resources and technology.

Really? We'd all love to see a plan.

Or by "resolving" did you mean "holding it to only a 2 degree rise"?

> They most likely aren't going to.

Yeah... I think that's kind of andrewstuart's point. They aren't going to. So, given that they aren't going to, what's the next move?

> You seem to be missing out the bit describing which non-governmental actor can fix this.

andrewstuart may not know. I certainly don't. But if the government isn't going to fix it, then the correct move is to stop expecting that the government is going to fix it. I don't know what else to do, you don't, and andrewstuart doesn't. But maybe we ought to start thinking like we've got to figure out how to solve it, because the government isn't going to.
Look at the Case-Shiller city indexes. Cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, others, are close to their 2008 peak, but haven't yet surpassed it.
Yeah, I've been through a similar experience, didn't file RSU income correctly one year, they thought I owed $7k or something. I could have just paid it, but the amount was large enough and the issue simple enough to be worth arguing over. Wrote back with the correct adjusted cost basis to show I already paid the taxes when I sold them (I had done this correctly in other tax returns..) and ended up getting a check from the IRS for around $100 since there were some other minor ±couple dollar irregularities in a liquidated portfolio I inherited that were in my 'favor' with a capital loss. (Odd since I used that company's online tool, so the numbers should have been identical, but who knows.)

If you pay them, they go away. Or sometimes they pay you and go away. (My first IRS letter was after my first semester of college, which was a bit disturbing since my whole income that previous year was ~$1k, but opening it revealed that I had neglected some sort of new education credit and they were giving me a small check to account for it.) My only remaining "fear" of the IRS is the scary Audit, because I know my record keeping is terrible and I don't want the anxiety of calling places and hunting down receipts or getting sworn letters from people that such-and-such checks were used for rent sharing not income/paying for services, and so I only hope that any audit could just be resolved by paying a lump sum even if with a bunch of effort that could get reduced...
>It's funny; to my parents and relatives in China I'm perceived as having a US bias, but everywhere else I get characterized as being too Chinese.

Haha, I can relate. I'm as white as they come but I spent some time living in Singapore and traveling the rest of Asia. In Asia I was obviously "the American", but when I got home to the US I can remember a few distinct times where I was called a "wannabe asian" or something similar just because I was talking about how phenomenal public transit is in major Asian metros compared to the abysmal state of US public transit.
I’m still not seeing it. A lot of my generations introduction to Singapore was via articles like wired’s Disney Land with the Death Penalty (still banned in Singapore to this very day). The Singapore being apart of China is even weirder for someone who knew nothing about Singapore (why would they even know it was populated by mostly ethnic Chinese?).
"Negative" here sounds like it should mean something objective, but that can't be the case because curbing population growth makes the world better for everyone in it.
Ugh, when will people learn!
Also more CO2 means increased plant growth.
Lies have to be knowing and wilful [1]. It shouldn't be easy to knowingly and wilfully lie about something when you don't understand all the facts, implications and details. Did you have a example in mind of someone who had been wrongfully convicted of this offence due to an innocent mistake?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
Chinese domestic media threatens to nuke US just any godly day, but saying that, you should also know that quite a number of Chinese media personas were sacked for wrong gestures towards the West in their English language medias, and their military bamboozlers were few times sent to jail over unauthorised threats to USA made in small, nobody known military newspapers.

I heard once that 50 centers were at some point prohibited to do anything English language, to avoid Western ire.

Though, it seems to become much less of a case today.
I suggest you spend some time reading the following thread before making a decision about Digital Ocean:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
Git provides forking/commit/etc. federation, and GitLab can automate some of that, but it doesn't have issue federation support.
> I remember that it would generate MORE heat outside to cool my bedroom.

That's not really an issue: "For a 2014 paper, Francisco Salamanca and colleagues at Arizona State University modeled the effects of air conditioning on surface air temps in Phoenix. They found a nighttime increase of about 2°F (and nothing much during the day)" [0].

If it is powered by gas or coal though, that wouldn't be good.

[0]: https://www.popsci.com/ask-us-anything-does-using-ac-make-it...
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I agree, but I think science isn't the right word. I think people use the word science as some sort of proxy for objective truth. But the reality is that science is a messy process that often goes through many drafts before it arrives at something somewhat resembling objective truth. Sometimes that takes centuries depending on the subject.
"The Chinese media is constantly telling their people that the US is plotting against China and is hostile to them"

But the US is openly hostile towards China (and not just president Trump) - you don't need the Chinese media to notice that. Also, if you follow US media a bit carefully, you'll notice things like the "Pivot to Asia" (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/14/pers-m14.html), the layout of US military bases around China and so on - which, well, kind of constitutes plotting.
If this sort of thing concerns you, you might want to consider supporting this organization:

https://b612foundation.org
I'm guessing you're American. It saddens me that so many of you over there seem to have this view of your own government and institutions.

Anecdote time. Having been stopped by police in the States four times (that I can recall offhand) over the years -- with a legitimate justification in each case -- my experience has been that courtesy and cooperation have served me well. On a couple of occasions when I could quite reasonably have been ticketed and fined, I have instead been sent on my way with a friendly warning to be more careful. I strongly suspect taking a strict "don't talk to the police" line would have cost me quite a bit more stress, time, and money.
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> Personally, I don't agree with this redefinition because I think it is at least _theoretically_ possible to get to a state where those who lose their jobs due to layoffs etc. are employed again extremely rapidly and the rate ends up being much closer to zero.

This has never happened though.

U3 being the Official Rate appears to because it's the metric comprised of orthogonal data points. The U4-6 rates are linearly related to the U3 rate; when the U3 doubles, so does the U5 and U6, likewise when the U3 halves. Which makes reporting the U4+ pointless for trending, it doesn't matter if you pick the rate that goes from 4% to 8% or the one from 7% to 14%.

The U1 & 2 rates do not demonstrate this correlation. The U1 can remain flat while the U2 spikes because they represent different pools of people.

So while we intuitively think that including discouraged workers make since, from an analytical perspective, including them doesn't give us any more predictive power than we had before. Calling sub-5% U3 unemployment "full employment" is more of an empirical definition than a logical one; it just happens to be the lowest point we've ever measured.
California has many other issues impacting housing costs and I am not sure interest rate is the main one
My sincere apologies
I was about to buy one as a spare, linux-only laptop, I was hoping they'd have 16GB-32GB RAM options (for a price of course), but they don't even have 8GB let alone 16/32... they seem to be stuck with 4GB!?

That's not going to be much good for browsing modern Javascript heavy websites and doing anything else at the same time let alone having a VM or a few apps running in the background.

I'm all for cheap laptops for kids to learn on, basic word processing and things but - this is going to struggle.
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ALL permanence is relative, due to entropy, as you tried to say. We still use the word permanent as a useful term.

Permanent, in the headline, is certainly meaning something like a ferrite magnet or ceramic magnet. "Permanent" meaning it does not naturally lose it's coercivity in any perceptually measurable way. This is different than saying a substance can't have the coercivity reduced.

> https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae472.cfm
Window mounted AC units are $100 - $200. It sits in a closet except for the 2 months a year that Seattle requires AC. A proper central air system would be overkill, but the small one is worth it.

I wonder if window / removable units factor into the DOE's 75% number. From a real estate recordkeeping perspective, my home does not have AC, despite the previous owner permanently building a window unit into the side of the house. If they're not counted, the real number of American homes with AC could be well north of 75%.
Nothing can be proven like that. They can’t even run studies, so without any further information, usage among kids will grow anyways (because kids think it’s fun and lots of parents will ignore suspicions).
Between Lightsail, Hetzner, Vultr and OVH - which one is better in Europe?
I’ve moved many people to it and more people away from it. It isn’t worth the cost for most people.
The submitted title was '“There's this myth that treating cancer is expensive,” says Christian Rusangwa', which broke the site guidelines against editorializing in titles. Would you mind reviewing them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish there was a way to down vote your ass for irrelevant information
If the world were a fine place worth fighting for, maybe you’d have a point.

But increasingly, I just look around, see the news, see the social media, and think why bother? Humanity will never be anything more than this. Things seem to be wrapping up, don’t have kids, don’t try to save the world, just savor what is left till it’s gone.

In the coming decades we will begin to see a loss in the knowledge of mankind, as people become more dependent on machines and fewer and fewer people know how to work them. Progress will begin to slow down, wealth will continue to consolidate, and people will be left working hard back-breaking jobs to sustain themselves. The world of the future will have more farmers and less engineers, and even fewer people who even understand code and how to write it.
Crypto like bitcoin is necessarily an appreciating asset because it is deflationary by its very nature. Over a long enough time period, if BTC were in fact behaving like a currency (that is, as a medium for the exchange of value, rather than a store of value) the value of BTC as expressed in exchangable goods must rise, unless the global production of goods contracts, and there is no reason to expect that to happen.

Just like any other good, there is a fluid rate of demand for money. If the supply of money is unable to increase with the demand for money, the relative value of the money increases.

This is exactly why USD is a poor store of value (it reliably depreciates by 1-3% annually) and a good currency (well-managed supply vs demand results in long-term predictability about the value of 1 USD, making it reliable to transact in).
I don't agree that I need to come up with anything beyond raising the idea that we should stop thinking that government can/will solve this.

Once many people come to accept the truth of this, many minds will think in directions other than obsessing about government and what it is not doing.

People tend to disagree very strongly with new ideas. You can see that right here - this thread is voted to the bottom of the HN topic. That's OK. It's an idea that once planted cannot be unthought - the government is not the solution. Let's start thinking of how we can solve this without any dependence on government.
This is why products are different than services. You don't own a service, and if they want to change it, that's their business.
The productive and habitable locations will move and our governments will probably not keep up with migration crises. The issue is that there well be a dramatic reshuffling, even if total output remains strong.
More like pooping on the bikeshed, and then spreading that around and calling it "paint".
>Even worst case predictions for climate change don't imply the human race will be threatened.

I mean some obviously do
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/world-climate-ch...

here is someone who denies that it is an existential threat but provides a lot of nice links to people saying it is https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/06/04/i-denier-human-...
Your comment reminds me of this comic: https://extrafabulouscomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/U...
https://localbitcoins.com/
> We've got tons of resources for energy (more than ever in history).

Europe is already past its peak, and it already has some effects on its economy. (GPD is roughly proportional to the energy we spend: less energy, less stuff.) Unless we have some technological breakthrough, available energy will go down, and the economy will soon follow.

Malthus was wrong only because we found fossil fuels, allowing our crop yields to follow the exponential growth of the population (the growth used to be linear). If we're not careful, we could very well face a Malthusian collapse.Hmm.

> I'm really not seeing a reason to panic.

Certainly. Panicking only makes things worse. And the "time to panic" is precisely the time when we must not panic.
> How practical is bitcoin as a currency for day to day use. I thought the transaction time was 10 to 30 minutes. I get frustrated at the checkout counter when my credit card takes longer than 10 seconds.

It is, but there are additional technologies being built on top of it that get transaction times down to < 1 second (lightning network). It's definitely still rough around the edges, but it's at the point where it's usable for day to day use.
Read Red Plenty. Here's a good review, though I recommend reading the book first: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty...
It's extremely debatable that Haskell is compute-oriented. I know that Haskell people like to talk about doing numerical computing in Haskell, but in reality it does not seem to be a thing. No one has ever used Haskell to implement large scale scientific computations on supercomputers, for example.
SkyScanner and RedEye in the same niche in airline logistics including ticketing?
From Datamation: https://archive.org/details/CompilerPessimization

It's tagged as an April Fools' joke. 1971 seems really early for that in a professional publication! Were there earlier ones?
Yes, I trust them to act in their own selfish interest.

If my interests align with theirs, then I also trust them to act in my interests.

If my interests do not align with theirs, then I do not trust them to act in my interests.

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Individually, people have things like religion, families, love interests, mental disorders, etc. There is no singular, easily definable reason for their existence. Each is driven differently. Trusting an individual is a case-by-case thing.

Capitalist businesses, on the other hand, have essentially one universal, defining purpose: to add financial value to their owners. They exist insofar as they accomplish that purpose.

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FWIW, Adam Smith had enormous trust/faith/whatever that groups of people in the market would act in their own interests. It's why he thought of the invisible hand as so reliable.