skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People HATE the maintenance requirements of cars. If Tesla can establish their cars as almost never needing service with a usable life of something closer to 1 million miles and decades of use then suddenly paying a premium for their models can be spread over much greater periods of time.

Personally, I wish they would decouple the platform from the comfort center. Have chassis form factors for various purposes (single person/roadster, crossover, truck, utility, etc) and branded “comfort centers” housing the human interface stuff. Make it so the comfort center can be changed out when ever and keeping the same underlying platform.
The UI is super broken on mobile, hard to believe it would perform as well as Firebase.
With free market he means that the FAA outsourced certification to Boeing. They did it in order to cut costs and save resources.
EmacsConf 2019 Call for Proposals
> I guess Excel is todays substitute?

Yes. And perhaps the last major remnant of this once prominent philosophy on what personal computing should be about.
The only situation when economics sanctions isn't an attack against the victims is if a fully democratic country decided to start a war.
Then make it even easier. Only apply the principle to services or products you pay for.
Want to see senior management laser focused on safety? Require forfeiture of all benefits, options, and bonuses, plus all personal cap gains from stock sales in the event of an engineering flaw resulting in loss of life. Claw it back from all senior management who worked during the lifetime of the airliner, even if they left or retired. You'll see the midnight oil being burned on walnut row, and fanatical effort going into testing and design reviews.
Ask HN: Why is service state management discouraged by the React community?
Injecting object instances (services) via React context which offer a flux-style API to modify and consume its own state seems like a pragmatic way to handle state management.

The idea seems to generate a negative response whenever it's brought up. Why is that? Is there something wrong with this method?

Example of the pattern in question:
https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-ts-tgzmnn
I feel like everyone has moved on from qmail to postfix; I wonder who is still using qmail. I was a huge qmail fan back in the mid '90s, it was a breath of fresh air in comparison to sendmail. But by the 2000s it was feeling largely abandoned, had a lot of hoops you had to jump through, and Postfix was on the scene and had none of those disadvantages.

The last time I used qmail, it was quite a pain to collect up all the required patches and build, just to make a reliable MTA. I'm thinking things like the TCP DNS patch so you could send e-mail to AOL.

I realize netqmail came along later to try to fix this. I guess I had just assumed that everyone had moved on to postfix like I had.
You are not wrong, but it's worth noting that this HN submission would probably not even exist if processed didn't imply bad in many people's minds.
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized Bert Pretraining Approach
He said that "they stay together despite living in the same apartment". How would you conclude he thinks co-habitating is a prerequisite?
I think both will happen in eventually. There's probably a lot more volume of plastic though.
> slowmovintarget

>No they are not. The U.S. doesn't sell nuclear weapons, nor saber-rattle about using them, nor sponsor the use of IEDs or send people into cafes with bombs.

No, actually they are financing the people behind those actions, as long as it destabilizes regions, whose unstability can then be used by the US to their advantage.

One could argue about only loading the weapon but not pulling the trigger, but that is hairsplitting in the end.
A tour of C++, by B. Stroustrup. Short (~250pages) and accessible introduction to the language and libraries. The second edition has been updated for C++17 and some parts of C++20.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Tour-2nd-Depth-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0...

C++ Primer, by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, and arbara E. Moo. Really huge book, 970+ pages. Covers almost everything from the language, updated for C++11. I wouldn't use it as a beginner though.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/C-Primer-Stanley-B-Lippman-ebook-dp-B...

The first one is really nice introduction, I picked it up a few months ago to learn the language. Quick read, simple to follow, I really enjoy this book. The second one works as a reference as it goes way more in details and covers a massive amount of stuff!
Sure, let's do that. And the money raised could be re-invested in technology / r&d to improve and cheapen recycling.
> Climate change is #11 in the list of top priorities for voters

I think you wanted to write:

Climate change is #11 in the list of top priorities for voters _in the United States_...

In many countries it is a lot higher on the list of priorities.

For example, in the UK it is on the 4th place for voters [1].

In Denmark it is the highest priority in latest polls [2] (sorry danish only)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/21/environm...

[2] https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/ny-maaling-den-groenne-dagso...
Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed
Having done a >20-day fast myself, multiple times, knowing a few others who have, researching the medical evidence AND discussing this with more than one local doctor, I can confidently say:

You have no idea what you are talking about.
It's relatively easy to avoid sanctions in the first place or have them removed: comply with US demands.

Most of the world does this just fine. There's a few bad actors out there screwing their countries and their people.
> it's github.

Are you naive enough to think the sanction is explicitly targeted exactly at github, and not any number of services, or part of a wider economic attack?
... or about a myriad other technologies.

It's sad that cryptocurrency speculation and hype sucked all the air out of the room vs other decentralized tech.

In the end its leading to a condition where decentralized equals Ponzi finance scheme in the minds of many people.
Yes, it is prudent to invest capital back into the company (R&D), but it may not be the best use of money or have the best ROI.

It should also be noted that share buy-backs are also useful to shareholders as an alternative to dividends. Whereas a dividend creates a tax event that an investor may nor may not welcome, the same investor can choose to sell their stock or hang on to it.

Financially speaking, if you start with $1000 in stocks, it does not matter whether you end up with $1000 in stock and $100 in cash from dividends, or $1100 in stocks (from the price going up).

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXI_Vd51dA

And yet companies that payout dividends are not vilified the same was as buy-back companies--in fact dividend payers are lauded in an almost fetishist way due to human psychology:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_accounting
There was quite an interesting take on the period by Moravec on how the hardware available had stagnated during that period (https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm). The 1 million instructions per second compares with say the $120 "Best budget graphics card AMD Radeon RX 570" today which does 5,100,000 million instructions per second so quite a difference.

>Funding improved somewhat in the early 1980s, but the number of research groups had grown, and the amount available for computers was modest. Many groups purchased Digital's new Vax computers, costing $100,000 and providing 1 MIPS. By mid-decade, personal computer workstations had appeared. Individual researchers reveled in the luxury of having their own computers, avoiding the delays of time-shared machines. A typical workstation was a Sun-3, costing about $10,000, and providing about 1 MIPS.

>By 1990, entire careers had passed in the frozen winter of 1-MIPS computers, mainly from necessity, but partly from habit and a lingering opinion that the early machines really should have been powerful enough. In 1990, 1 MIPS cost $1,000 in a low-end personal computer. There was no need to go any lower. Finally spring thaw has come. Since 1990...
IETF 105: Technology Deep Dive: How Network Interface Cards (NICs) Work Today
> how drugs impact suicide rates

Define drugs. Does it include alcohol? Does the (slow) deterioration of alcohol abuse count? If not, does the one from methamphetamine count?

Mind you, you wrote impact. Impact can be positive as well. Does medicine like SSRIs count?
> Syria: Using chemical weapons, sponsoring terrorism

Was there a single UN report that was able to prove with certainty it was from the government and not the opposition? The Syrian government and Russia were winning the war at the time and it didn't make any sense to cross Obama's "red line". As for sponsoring terrorism, I guess you're talking about Saudi Arabia and the US who funneled money and weapons that ended up in ISIS hands, right? Even if we put 100% of the blame on Syria government, many of US allies have done the same (sponsoring terrorism such as Saudi Arabia or Pakistan etc). The US also tuned a blind eye when SA slaughtered Yemenis, they even kept selling them weapons. Let's be real here, the US doesn't care about all these bad stuff, they only care that Syria is allied with Russia instead of them. Besides, the US used chemical weapons in Vietnam (napalm) and Afghanistan (white phosphorus) so let's not pretend they care.

> Iran: Assisting Syria; Actively developing nukes they say they will use, nuclear proliferation, biggest sponsor of terrorism, ....

Iran is Syria's ally so it makes sense that they are defending them. Why shouldn't Iran have nukes when others in the region already have them?

> Crimea: Illegal occupation by Russia. Ethnic cleansing.

Pretty sure the US has another ally that does some of those things and they seem to be best buddies.

Anyway, my point is not to say that any of these countries are not evil, it's just that the US and its allies does the same horrible things and don't seem to have a problem with it. The only reason the US is punishing these countries is because it won't bend to US hegemony. Not because of the reasons you listed. Let's be real here.
Is there an older Abrahamic organization? He did say organization.
I don't mean to be flippant, but it will sound this way.

I trust Oracles lawyers to know the law better than a wikipedia page.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/export/export-regulations-...
ArchiGAN: A Generative Stack for Apartment Building Design
It can't be handled in small claims court because the claims aren't small and exceed the limits of what a small claims court can rule on - I mean, if someone has spent 20 years in that 'common law marriage' then that generally comes to the full extent of divorce proceedings - how to divide up the house, car(s), other property and custody of children.
I'm sure when half of africa and south america will migrate north to avoid dying the carrot will be big enough. But it'll be too little too late.
HN readers quickly flag stories that are political or tend to produce heated discussions. Climate change stories are both, yet for a brief time there were 3 of them on the front page. Strong evidence that climate change actually is important to HN readers.
Observability – Big History
That's not true. There are already many non-US companies who are providing services to Iran in the same sense that Github is providing services, and those companies are also having US clients, proving that it can be done.

Now, if a Maltese-Github were specifically designated by OFAC, then sure. But that's fairly unlikely.
is UN imperialism better?
Yes, of course power sinks gain value from having their own power buffer, even if only to take advantage of fluctuations in energy cost. But why would this cause grid collapse? They still need the energy delivered, at some point. It puts whoever runs the grid in the quite enviable position of power market middleman. Far from collapsing, I would expect grids to do extremely well out of such a shift.
> It's just fascinating how they add or fix things without breaking the code.

In the same way it is fascinating to watch a forest fire from afar.
To the contrary, the constitution doesn't grant rights. It protects essential human rights. There's a reason arms are right up there with free speech and privacy.
The question is whether you'll have $3 in your pocket tomorrow and $4 the next day or $4 tomorrow and $8 the next.
It takes a lot of brains, time, money, failure, and just plain screwing around to come up with something like Hypercard or even the earliest personal computing systems. FOSS doesn't allow the time and money part, which is why they are stuck in making "open" tools for advanced teletype emulation. It is not a coincidence that Atkinson made this as an Apple fellow, where he had resources to work on whatever he wanted and could make whatever demands he wanted (and likewise not surprising that Apple could never make HC "profitable")
If you want deadly British tidal flats, try Morecambe Bay.
I don't think taking the plane to go to cheap generic touristic destinations, driving 2000kg of steel to move 1 human being, eating fruits and veggies shipped from the other side of the world or eating meat 2 times a day, everyday is intrinsically part of the human nature.

And if it is let's continue and end it all because it's just plain sad. What a way to go !
I agree with you, but I wonder what his answer to stuff like GUIs would be. There’s a tremendous amount of complexity and domain knowledge in stuff like drawing fonts, and in cryptography, and so forth — and very very few of us have the time to become competent in even one of those, let alone all of them. Then consider the amount of work necessary to have a modern browser: text parsing of not one but three languages, language interpretation, more graphics, more cryptography.

It would be awesome to get back to first principles, but modern systems try to do so much that I wonder how practical it would be to reinvent them — and I would how practical it is to say, ‘well, don’t do that then.’
Thanks, that paper is much clearer. It seems their argument is that deforestation was not a factor in collapse, as land use didn't shift and no big decrease in toolmaking was seen before 1800, post contact.

Certainly plausible. To know beyond that point we'd need a subject matter expert and possible original investigation.

In other words it's possible Diamond's tree narrative is correct but not his war narrative. I think that doesn't undermine it so much for the purposes of discussing the possibility that we may use all of a certain resource. But it is indeed a caveat worth noting.
Oops! Thanks for the heads up!
If instead of the US, it were Costa Rica or Iceland that are HQ for these cos. and they imposed these sanctions rather than the US, people would find reasons to find these actions or the countries bad of doing things ion bad faith. The US is a convenient scapegoat but it’s not about the US. People think these things are fundamental rights. But we live in a world of realpolitik.
What pre separation?
How to make your videos more catchy, interesting and get traffic
Start by reading some history. You can watch some of Noam Chomsky's lectures about US and its role in the Middle East and other parts of the world.

US has the upper hand in many political matters, and they force their allies to agree with them, even if they don't want to, (of course they benefit from it too). Why do they have the upper hand? Because of their technological advantages and resources. Since you are an ignorant, you'd probably say, of course, US is advanced and they do good and bad with it. Of course, but then read a bit more and you arrive at one of the very dark corners of history, slavery. Then, apply your logic, "how has the US illegally took so many people as slave in all over the world? Illegal under which jurisdiction? For that being consider as slavery, there would be only potential jurisdictions, no? International and/or their own. If it were International, the US would face sanctions. If it were illegal under US law, how could it persist?" (Quoting you while adjusting your logic to slavery)

Ok, now draw an example from today's world. Just look at the current Iran's deal and how US is ignoring the rest of the world. As far as I know, this is the first time that EU ever slightly has decided to -- publicly -- face US and stick to the deal. This is an exception only because Trump is _Trump_ and doesn't seem to respect anything, including EU, and EU had enough of him (and worked hard for the deal). However, if Trump was not as blunt about the whole situation and would have approached it differently, both EU and US probably dismantle the deal and escalate everything easily. Why? Because EU would have been convinced/forced, by a rather more rational US president, to get out of the deal. Again, look back at history, and you'll see that's what happened at Afghanistan and Iraq wars too.

Long story...
Oracles lawyers and Githubs lawyers then disagree cause Githubs CEO stated the same thing as the GP: They block people based on location, not on nationality. If you are banned but not in one of the banned locations you can fill out a form to get unblocked:

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1155311123467399168
That is not clear.
While it looks like you still do, the other advantage is that these are far more efficient than Peltier devices, which tend to be single-digit percentage efficiency.
Does anyone know how this works in the backend ?
> It turned out the taxes are not high enough. If people really were depended on cars, but were hurt by the high taxes, car makers would sell smaller cars. They don't. Extremely big cars, totally unneeded by almost anyone, are still the most popular models. Why? Cause the costs of having and using one are not as high as you make it sound.

No, no, and no. Cars are getting more and more efficient, and there are many affordable efficient cars today. It‘s just that people in rich countries like to display their wealth by getting a big car. But there are still people that live in the countryside, who have no other means of transportation, that‘d get hit pretty hard by even higher taxes on fuel. It‘s how they get to work, how they get their groceries, how they get to their friends‘ place.

It‘s easy to renounce something if you‘re not dependent on it.

> A problem which hits parts of the population that usually don't even pay taxes (or if they do almost none)

What part of the population exactly are you referring to? Low-income households? Tax evaders?
Airlines use your personal data to reduce delays and why you should let them
Looking at how much the top tax brackets (income and corporate) have moved over the last decades, I have an idea where to get the money to solve things.
Plus, done like that, it would actually be a relative benefit to lower income tiers.
Of course, that would still mean no flights or meat for poorer people, while rich people could afford those luxuries. But they need to be luxuries, at least until we figure out how to provide them in a climate neutral way.
Solid-state cogen that is simple to include in heating furnaces would be very interesting for old stock high density residential in cold regions. Mire modern heating options than gas furnaces (various variations of heat pumps, usually coupled with solar) don't scale down to individual flats and anything more central (ideally district heating) is effectively impossible to retrofit in a free market economy. But the very high efficiency electricity conversion component of cogen is just too good to skip, so a smallest-scale cogen option would be a welcome addition to the energy mix.
In 6th grade I connected a 9V battery to my mechanical pencil lead and lit my science folder on fire. Basically the same thing...
I'm pretty sure there's still 5 years worth of exponential growth potential from people who do have garages or otherwise will have the ability to pay for getting a plug somehow, and from new construction that's already set up for charging plugs (I believe it's required in some places like California now?)

Then what will happen in the 5-10 year time frame is that EVs will be significantly cheaper than ICE vehicles (maybe not purchase price at first, but certainly TCO).

Is there electricity anywhere near where you park? Think about what it would cost to set up a plug. It might be quite a bit, but unless electricity is really far away, it's not a crazy amount either.

If buying an EV would save you a significant amount of money over a 10 year period, it's likely that you'd be willing to use some of that savings to pay to have a plug set up. Maybe you can't set up that plug yourself, but as long as you're willing to pay a bit extra over the cost of electricity, there's going to be companies willing to set up plugs along the street. Once investors see that the transition to EVs is guaranteed, I'm certain there will be a rush to put up chargers, since the company that gets a street is likely to keep a monopoly on that street for a long time.

The other way to get street side charging is simply to get governments to do it. That's what Oslo has done. They started out being free, but now there's a reasonable fee on them, and I think that's much more sustainable. With some luck in the elections I could see something like that happening in several areas of the US. It'll be much easier to sell this policy once EVs are a bit cheaper, so I think it's possible if democrats gain some control, especially if they gain some support for some kind of Green New Deal. It's a great investment to boost the economy long term. Generates lots of decent work in the short term, and massive benefits to the public in the long term since it'll guarantee them cheap charging, leading to big savings to operate their vehicles.

There's another way to think about it: setting up a plug for your car is a very tiny fraction of the work/infrastructure required for your apartment, which somehow you found the way to pay for (either directly, or through renting). This kind of work is relatively easy to finance if the demand is there, since it's an investment that's likely to last a very long time and generate a lot of value.

There's also the fast charging model, which can be OK if you have a car with a fairly large battery and don't drive too much. You might be able to get by with charging once a week, and you could probably do it at a location where you'd spend some time anyway, such as a supermarket, near a restaurant or exercise studio. It causes some extra wear on the battery, but not an unreasonable amount.
Not that I know of, or that I could find. And if there were, I suspect many men would try to use it. The absence of this phenomenon implies that the substance does not exist.
Clojure has much to offer which isn't available in JS or Python. Immutability and real concurrency for a start. I'm not sure what you mean by "pushing some customer". That's not how I do business.