skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have agreed with you twenty years ago: back then implementing a global tax of $10 per ton on CO2 and increasing it to $100 per ton over a 20 year period would have been an excellent and extremely cheap solution.

Only I assumed that the "dirty" lobby killed that.

We're now at the point where if we want to keep a similar quality of life without destroying the planet something like the Green New Deal is going to be needed. Not necessarily from a technical standpoint but from a political one - such as change drastically improve the situation for a lot of people and will greatly decrease the risk of amoral fanatics winning again in the biggest economy in the world.
Python Crash Course is not a steep curve learning at all. If anything, the book can move a bit slow at times, making sure to reinforce each lesson.
Assuming the failures are deterministic across workspaces (is that true?) Slack has been down for over an hour for some workspaces, since the problem started at 10:54 AM EDT.

What is the A part of Stack's SLA?
Check out https://css-houdini.rocks instead. Really well put together.
I still think that, for the most part, Go doesn't need contracts (yet). I think it's common, coming from the object oriented world, to expect polymorphism to be intrinsically tied to method overloading. But it doesn't have to be.

Of the 12 examples at the end of the draft, there is only one real contract used, `comparable`, which could be easily done without contracts (but with generics) by passing in an extra argument `lessThanOrEqual func(T, T) bool`.

The other kind of contract is harder to do without contracts, as it is the contract which combines all numeric types. However, most of the examples would be possible to write, albeit a little more messily, with a parameter `toDouble f(T) double`. Alternatively, we could go the route of baking in a few special contracts into the language, such as a numeric contract, just like how map and slice are baked in polymorphic structures.

What do we gain from writing code this way? It leaves the Go language with more freedom from the future. Everyone agrees Go needs polymorphism. So add polymorphism. But as we can't agree on contracts, we can just leave it out. We'll get 90% of the benefits upfront, and then we can wait and see what are the actual edge cases we run into with contracts, and decide where to go from there.
They should rebrand the feature as Copilot, not Autopilot.
>removes the hot water droplets suspended in air to cool air temp

First of all, most of the water is in gaseous form, i.e., vapor, not droplets. But even if it were in the form of droplets, the droplets would have to be small enough to remain in the air, and consequently just like the water vapor, they'd be in thermal equilibrium with all the other molecules of air with the result that removing them would not lower air temperature.
You’re not wrong. IQ (or more generally intelligence tests) are very useful to diagnose people with some mental disabilities. That said: a) the IQ part of the intelligence test is sort of unnecessary for that purpose, and b) That’s usually not what people are (righfully) criticizing IQ for and you know it.
Option 4: Use msys2 which lets you install/build a bunch of Scheme implementations, e.g. http://wiki.call-cc.org/msys2.
Slack is a multi-billion dollar valued company, we're not kicking them while they're down
Taleb is, as usual, a bit over-wrought and goes too far but this area has been a long-time interest of mine and I think he's directionally correct in that IQ is too often misapplied or misunderstood in practice. In general, laypeople tend to think IQ represents things it doesn't.
No, but that may not be true for all schools.
Disney, Sony and their many tentacles randomly steal from youtubers ALL THE TIME, then are expected to review claims of wrongdoing by themselves on good faith, and this is about as "creator friendly" Google will ever get.
Those rules suck. It's time to leave for greener pastures.
The algorithms are a proxy for some youtube engineers' tastes
Having to live somewhere where you hate the culture, politics, climate, geography is soul killing. The Midwest is cheap because it doesn't offer the benefits the expensive places do. Most people are here because they were born here. I never met anyone who chose to move here for any reason other than economic or family obligation. They convince themselves its great for a time because their dollar goes a lot farther, but the reality sets in soon enough. People from amazing places don't dream of a grey/beige house in a suburb in Kansas, or having to drive hours into some Iowan "town" to get to even something terrible like strip malls and big box stores, they don't have post cards of these places on their walls and don't visit them on holiday. You can usually find a place that's cheaper than where you are, but it's cheaper for a reason.
It's only down in the US
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20551615 has been on front for 10 hours, yet has # comments exceeding # points, which usually buries a story quick.
If you want to better understand the argument take a look at Bjorn Lomborg's talks https://www.lomborg.com, basically the argument is that even the strictest regulations are going to have a very small effect on the climate in 100 years, and for every dollar spent now we save merely cents in the future. So instead of implementing economically non-profitable measures, it is better to invest much more into research, and into helping poor countries, which will allow us to find better technologies to fight with climate change.

I am not sure what i think about this argument yet, but it seems like it may be reasonable.
Wow https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-the-next-ein...
> I do know that there's a lot of people who have just slapped together programs to ride a money wave, and offer relatively little in exchange

It's not clear if you're intending to criticize Lambda School in particular here, but given the context that's how it comes across. If that wasn't your intention, it might be worth clarifying your comment; otherwise it might be worth providing some supporting evidence. I'm not associated with Lambda School, but am a fan precisely because they have always struck me as a really sincere organization that works hard to maximize value for their students.
> They simply need to add more humans into their processes

As usual, how many ?

In particular if we are talking copyright claims abuse, could you give a ballpark number of the number of humans you think youtube needs to hire ?
That amount of paperwork sounds for a lack of a better word – insane. I can't see it being easy for any side of this quantity of paperwork being able to get it right easily.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for some start-up to help solve this.

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On a different note, I love what you folks are doing and keep pitching lambda to folks who're stuck in long uber/lyft rides with me.
Sendgrid is pretty spendy, going by their public pricing and assuming the aveage usage is half the peak usage, the Sendgrid bill could be around ~$2500 usage.
That's fine and all but at the end of the day,unless you're a rich kid playing with money you need to eat ,and take care of your family before changing the world,that is the ROI I meant. If that's not the case then you have messed up priorities.
The problem is that anything which would make this scary clown scarier would necessarily be true. So if having claws and being able to fly would make this scary clown scarier, then a flying clown with claws would necessarily exist. At least if you follow the logic of the ontological argument.
We use Zoom for that.

But we still rely on Slack for general messaging and chat rooms.
I would imagine rolling your own also puts you at significant risk of being distracted by yak-shaving.
Yeah I believe so as well. All languages having the same features would also be a downside. Just make a choice and stand by it. (Like Haskell, they are not pressured into doing things just because Java does so).
A bunch of countries are going to force them to do it anyway.
Being somebody who was always labelled as “smart” growing up - I was in the “gifted” program in elementary school, so there’s that - in a way, I want intelligence to be something that can be quickly, easily, and objectively measured, even if it turns out I'm actually not as smart as I’ve been led to believe I was. I can understand why this would make a lot of people uncomfortable, though. If IQ tests were ever shown to be perfectly correlated with that nebulous quality we label “intelligence”, it’s also not something you can improve. Your IQ, and likely your income level, are going to stick with you forever, just like your height will. Still, from what I can tell about this Taleb guy (other than that he seems like a difficult personality) is that he’s just trying to figure out how accurately IQ tests correlate with actual intelligence; he’s not railing against the concept of trying to measure it in the first place, as many others do.
Oh, I underestimated total sales. For some reason I thought the US was closer to 15 million sales this year. I do think that estimate may be slightly undercounting Tesla this year, but I could be wrong.
No, of course not. Neither adding some minor extra features (that make a huge difference for the end-user) nor profiting from it is bad. My concern was that there is so much good tech that is not being utilized just because it lacks enterprisey look and marketing attention.

Take slack as an example: ircd with logging enabled + elastic search/sphinx/lucene + web frontend (use any existing web irc client and integrate that with elastic search results). MVP really seems as a one guy one weekend project. And that was lying underutilized for decades. While my original comment was just a snarky remark, I really think that there are other areas where such a (relatively) simple MVP could allow huge productivity boost to many businesses and allow them to use an existing tool that right now is just too hard/too complicated to use by a wide audience.

And of course the market will reward those that will find the right solution and come up with a great UX improvement to that tech. The hard part is creating the GUI that is both efficient and easy-enough , and the hardest part is of course finding the right tool and the right problem to solve.
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So you're arguing that it's okay to force people to pay bank fees and give up their privacy if the US has been doing it for a while?
Taleb argues against R^2, and the author of this article seems to just ignore those points. I think Taleb has valid points, but the author here seems to be doing just the same conventional analysis that people writing psychology papers tend to do, which Taleb specifically argues is an invalid way of doing things (because assumptions built into linear correlation measures doesn't apply in this situation).
>Can you clarify whether that was indeed your assumption, please? Can I see your calculations? I've linked to mine.

I don't have personal calculations, I just go by what I've read about the market in various outlets (like the above "the party is over" which was widely reported at the time).

>Presumably even Luo's prediction of a 15% price rise over two years is predicated on the continued exponential growth in demand for utility-scale photovoltaic installations, not on a constant demand level.

Note that our whole discussion is about the case where the world would go for "continued exponential growth in demand" (e.g. whether photovoltaics could realistically replace fossil fuels in the near future or whether it would take decades).

My original comment in fact was "Even if everything was great (costs, externalities, energy storage, etc), the cost and scale of replacing existing fossil fuel based infrastructure would be ginormous. It's simply not possible in any scale smaller than 3-5 decades..."
I’m pretty unconvinced by this, the author makes a number of leaps that lost me. For instance, at the end of the article, the author says that Taleb’s claim that IQ only measures unintlelligence well isn’t true because at higher IQ, income continues to increase. This could be easily explained by numerous other third factors, like (hypothetically) IQ being a test for WASP culture and knowing WASP culture being correlated with better job opportunities.
I think this is a concrete example of why to blindly trust legal advice.

There are some laws explicitly written to say that ignorance of the law is an excuse. "knowing an willing violation" (I don't know if this is one of them though)

Taking that to the logical extreme of having a legal opinion with every email puts you in a very privileged situation with the state

It exponentially increases the cost of the state to investigate. The state now knows you have a lawyer already, but doesn't know the contents of the advice and doesn't get to use things under attorney-client privilege even if a judge approved a fishing expedition that exposed your digital artifacts. And in the meantime it lowers your compliance burden if the advice says you don't have to comply, depending on how you compensate your lawyer your costs were super low.

If there is potentially criminal liability, but the burden of proof is a knowing and willful violation, then you're practically exempt because of the lawyer on payroll.

So in this case they negotiated the fine and get to improve operations.

Costs of investigating and prosecuting aside, the state likes to see a rationale for compliance. The lawyer also provides that, which you would prefer to have some case law to support it. This doesn't result in sanctioning the lawyer, its just not worth it to the state.
They do apply humans but not where it matters to creators. A lot of creators hate their automated compliance schemes.

Curation is terrible too, when it comes to kids content. I won't let my kids use YouTube kids anymore, it's awful. It used to have mostly appropriate kids content, but now people have gamed it.
To be clear, my estimate for exposure time was for handmade cyanotype paper, not "real" photo paper.
We’re lucky enough to have enough time/money to assign people to it full-time. I don’t know how a small school would comply.
I can attest to having a similar issue in a startup that got large, we used one of the big firms for 100% of the work and should have been doing 10% of it with a specialized firm. It's not really startup advice you get, but it can be very costly later. Glad you got it sorted out.
> deceive people at scale

Without want to slander my own profession, but: "marketing".
I'm not quite sure where I stand on the regulation vs. lack thereof when it comes to these types of operations either, but between working in a hiring capacity, serving as a mock-interviewer, being courted as a potential instructor, and being friends with both instructors and unsuccessful graduates (across ~5 years) from my local, now defunct code camp - there are a lot of folks who go into these programs, often going into non-trivial debt, and coming out with nothing to show for it.

I will never forget watching a grown man cry in a mock interview because he could not solve FizzBuzz. I made sure they understood the relevant operators, the problem, inputs and expected output, gave ample time, kept things very casual and relaxed, and told them to ask any questions they needed. This was practice, after all.

I suppose I would cry too, if I wasted months and ~20,000, likely banking on a great new life as a programmer.

At the same time I've worked with great entry-level developers who used the code camps to jump from "bad" positions, e.g. young dead-ended professionals, folks with complimentary degrees but no job prospects in that industry, etc. The common thread with these folks is either prior background programming, a personal support network of programmers, or both.

What kind of regulation would help for this? Mandated entrance exams with a hard-cutoff?
Slow and steady "wins the race" though. An average car is parked more than 12 hours a day. (The average is even closer to 23 hours than it is to 12 hours.) You easily cover the average commute even at 4 miles range added per hour (and as sibling post points out, some EVs do even better than that in a Level 1 charge) even just charging a car ~50% of the time that car spends parked.
> Those are large swathes of parents across the country who've made a decision that they wont live to see the ramifications of, with those younger generations almost entirely voting in the opposite direction.

Disagree. Leave/remain is just as 50/50 among my generation (young people) in my area. Anecdotal to be sure.
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Off topic, but how does one go about to measure his/her IQ?
This is the elephant in the room that explains why IQ is such a controversial topic:

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-14/nobel-prize-winner-ja...
Is it even possible to scale a human operation to this level, even with youtube's checkbook?

It's not that AI needs to replace empathy alone, it needs to replace culturally and legally nuanced judgement about copyrighted works, among other things. That's hard to teach fast to a mechturk type workforce, and staffing a team of people competent enough to understand that nuance at youtube's scale has to be prohibitively expensive if it's even possible.

Humanizing operations buys quality at the expense of putting a upper bound on scale. Few companies are willing to accept that ceiling for fear of losing market share.
What's your point? You don't need to be in the EU to link up to your neighbours. See for example North Sea Link for a project which is actually relevant to the discussion here.
I would be an even bigger fan of Lambda if you guys fought this or left CA all together.
The uploader chooses the amount of ads.
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My Tesla asks me every single minute to shake the steering wheel while on Autopilot. Are you telling me the guy fell asleep between one of those? Maybe, anything is possible.

Also we go through this every single time. Journalists often insist that Autopilot is a misleading name, when it is a PERFECT name for the feature. It is exactly like Autopilot on an aircraft.

Autopilot on an aircraft doesn't absolve the pilots from being at the wheel (yoke), nor does it automatically take off or land a plane. It is literally "I'll follow this heading and altitude until you tell me otherwise, and will make glide path and heading corrections as needed", which is EXACTLY what Tesla's Autopilot feature does. There are other warning systems for air collisions, etc.

Tesla has a name for their autonomous driving – it's called Full Self Driving. And it isn't out yet, to anyone.

The media needs to do a better job of not misunderstanding this feature, and better educating the public instead of just writing sensationalist articles.
Interesting that the article barely covers the reason for the decline of life expectancy. Instead he goes on a very long tangent about the second amendment. Murder rates are continuing to decrease, so the murder rate has nothing to do with the decrease in life expectancy.

It could be as simple as overprescription of them and aggressive marketing and sales by manufacturers.

This article goes into the actual statistics which are impacting the life expectancy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-li...

Chomsky asserts (without evidence) that opioid abuse is a disease of despair and that it is a result of unemployment and the wealth gap. He doesnt provide any data or citations demonstrating this link.

It seems that it is more likely that opioids became over prescribed as a result of aggressive marketing and sales by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Ironically the factor protecting nonwhite communities from opioid addiction is the lack of health insurance to meet with doctors that can prescribe them.

This paper supports prescription as the possible underlying cause.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

<<Conclusions and Relevance The race/ethnicity and income pattern of opioid overdoses mirrored prescription rates, suggesting that differential exposure to opioids via the health care system may have induced the large, observed racial/ethnic gradient in the opioid epidemic. Across drug categories, controlled medications were much more likely to be prescribed to individuals living in majority-white areas. These discrepancies may have shielded nonwhite communities from the brunt of the prescription opioid epidemic but also represent disparities in treatment and access to all medications.>>
25 lbs of paperwork to register an online school? Sounds less about protecting students and more towards protecting incumbents and cronies.
Why hasn't Slack built a P2P fallback for Enterprise teams?

Slack server knows at least which clients has recently been active in a chatroom, so the server could send that information to clients (per privacy opt-in) who can then make a best-effort attempt to send their new messages to the recently-active clients.

Perhaps that's just self-hosting with extra steps. At some point, isn't it cost-effective to offer customers a SaaSBox that they can deploy as a minimal-functionality on-prem backup to the cloud service?
Ask HN: Passive income ideas from content website?
There are many posts here about people making money off side projects or businesses they manage on their own, but it seems like almost all of them are selling a product or a service. I'm wondering if anyone is making substantial money from a site that just generates content (and isn't selling a service/product) ? (Looking for examples of people doing this on their own, not big companies running news/content sites)
Completely misunderstanding NNT's arguments' basic premises in rebuttals to him seems pretty common.
Enough so that a human can review every claim. I don't know how many claims they process in a day so I can't give a hard number.

But I suspect the number of copyright claims would go down significantly once they have a bunch of people reviewing them, because the erroneous claims would become unprofitable, assuming they punish entities that make too many erroneous claims.
Because, eventually, the place they were built would become uninhabitable for humans.
Robotic contact lens that allows users to zoom in by blinking eyes revealed
How exactly is that scenario going to play out?
Why are business paying Google and Facebook for those ads?
The most fascinating thing for me in the article is bimodal distributions in the last grap, where lower peak is ~same as the peak for low-iq distribution. I wonder what is the cause for this.
I think they're in the business of teaching people, not fighting anti-government crusades.
I think you are correct, there is definitely more stigma attached to AC than there is to heating. That said, I think the use of AC to the extent that staying inside for too long is uncomfortable without putting on more clothing is probably excessive, in the same way that setting the heating so that you need to wear shorts inside would be excessive.

I think a lot of common sense has been lost in the design of homes. In the south of Europe homes are often comfortable with minimal or no air-conditioning because they have designs suitable for the climate. However, this means having small windows which aren't directly exposed to sunlight, tiled or marble floors etc.
The difference between IQ at 20, 60, 100, 140, and 180 are all noticeable. However, the gaps become less impactful as you go up the scale. Simply because fewer activities are really impacted. Digging a ditch with a shovel for example is only so difficult.