skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I opened the link with JS disabled and not a single item on the page appeared.
There are other measures that could help, like actually policing the region and promoting economic alternatives for local population. Sadly, the currently Brazilian government decided to stop both of them
Better than nothing. But it would have been a magnanimous gesture to give them the choice between houses in Saudi Arabia and, say, Switzerland.
They didn't really achieve that either.
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Probably the clickbaity title -- It's only partial truth. How many do you count would read the entire article? Losing Amazon is a disaster, and as the OP mentioned it will eventually lead to diminishing oxygen supply sooner or later(though not much later).
It depends on the region. Here a lot of people drive part time and I am yet to meet a driver who does it full time and doesn't drive for multiple companies.
> the temperature rose to those levels over millenia, not just hundreds of years

We don't actually know that. The time resolution of the data is not good enough to tell us. It's quite possible that it happened faster in the past as well.

> we might not survive long enough to witness the adaptation

Quite honestly, I don't understand why people think our ability to adapt is so poor. We already have more than 5 C variation in average temperature across different regions of Earth, yet people adapt to living in all of those different regions.

Also, all the alarmist rhetoric about the supposed impacts of changes in temperature is not based on actual knowledge or on models with demonstrated predictive power. It's based on very crude extrapolations of trends that assume that people will do nothing at all to adapt. In other words, they assume people won't adapt and then complain that we can't adapt.

What's more, the two main things we can do to adapt are things we should be doing anyway: (1) bring more people out of poverty--the richer people are the easier they can adapt to change; and (2) make our infrastructure more robust. The second, in particular, is exactly what "green energy" should be marketed as--making energy more decentralized, which makes the entire system more robust. And doing those things benefits us regardless of what kind of change happens--whether it's climate change or any other kind of change.
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Um the GP is talking about credit card purchases for their business, not their personal expenses.
Ah yeah, hooks are strange at first..

They didn't click for me until I read this netlify blog post: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/03/11/deep-dive-how-do-rea...

If you think of them as mostly just syntactic sugar for closure state variables wrapped up in the module pattern, it's not so bad. (This is how some of us have been writing D3.js code for years!)
Why do you think this?

This is absurdly regional. Do you live in the region considering the legal change and take uber regularly enough to know if it's their fte?
It's regarding server implementation. My aim was to use built-in IPsec IKEv2 implementations for Windows, iOS and macOS.

Regarding security: I had to reduce cipher strength to allow Windows client without further configuration. I'm using aes128-sha1-prfsha1-modp1024 which IMO should be relatively secure for home usage, but it's not very secure against governments. It's possible to use stronger ciphers, but you need to use some registry changes or powershell snippets for that, and I wanted to keep configuration to GUI dialogs. I have no idea why Windows by default does not accept strong ciphers.
Dreaming of a job doing absolutely nothing? It's not what it's cracked up to be
This means that a bootstrapped start-up cannot temporarily hire a graphics designer or a coder in California anymore, without the budget to make him an employee.

This is so completely wrong.

You know what the difference between a temporary, part-time employee and an independent contractor is, from the business' financial point of view? They have to pay payroll taxes (and in some states unemployment insurance levies) for the part-time worker instead of forcing the worker to handle those costs themselves. And that's it. They aren't required to provide benefits or anything else until they exceed a threshold size in terms of employees (generally 50) or annual income (usually >$10 million/year).

In your specific example, the startup could hire both the designer and the coder as employees or as contractors, so long as both were allowed to work on other gigs while they were temporarily contracting with you and your startup wasn't in the business of graphics design or software. (If your business is a software business, the analysis is more granular: is the coder working on the revenue-generating part of your software, or on a supporting part of the software like the networking code?)

Since the 2006's "web2.0", progressive California regulators are at it for real, pitching entrepreneurship as an enemy of labor: it's no longer a place for small business and non-VC startups. Those have been fleeing.

California went from being the world's 8th largest economy to the world's 5th largest economy over this time. Has lead the nation in small business growth for the past decade. California's regulations basically just filter out all of the fake businesses that don't have enough backing to at least attempt existence.
Java finally goes all in on open source with the Jakarta EE 8 release
Strawman of what? The article isn't titled "there is no problem with deforestation, go nuts". The first paragraph describes the hypothetical loss of the Amazon as a "planetary historic tragedy beyond measure", and says that it'll make the Paris climate goals impossible to reach.

None of this contradicts the premise of the article, which is that a commonly-held and - expressed belief about the Amazon's role in our oxygen supply is not supported by the science.

Strawman doesn't mean "talking about a different topic than I'd prefer".
You trust Google more than ex. ProtonMail and Rackspace?

Curious about the thought process that made you arrive to this conclusion.
It sounds like you are using your homenetwork for this with a 10mbps connection, which means your max down speed is 1.25MB/s, which is fine for most things. But most home-networks are asymmetric. Your upload speed may be around to slow to realistically be able to do anything.
Normal AM/FM radio still needs a way to send the audio data to the transmitter. Either the studio was in the region and their internet uplink was affected, or the local transmitter was using the internet to receive the audio feed.
> So basically desperate people ruin everything?

What a perfect distillation of the empathy-deficient and contemptuous attitude that a large fraction of rich, fortunate techies have towards everyone else. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.
How do you know it's the exception? You have hard figures?
Part of the NSA's mission (which they have failed at, and an acknowledgment of that failure is conspicuously absent from this article by the NSA's general counsel) is to help secure domestic information infrastructure against attack. They are supposed to lead the way in developing security standards, scanning for vulnerabilities, advising businesses and local governments on how to protect themselves.

In a perfect world, Project Zero would have been based at the NSA.

Instead they have let the wiretapping crew take over everything.
Singapore please! I'm guessing there are plenty of companies targeting the Asian market that are headquartered here, which might hopefully push it a little higher on the priority list.

(Happy to chat more about this.)
Even governance in the absence of utility can't stop human nature.
In Berlin most cars sit on the road not in parking garages, blocking two lanes of every street.
> Why does it matter who calls out the falsehood?

Because if Fox News were to call out this particular falsehood, they may very well sum it up with some bullshit like "and that's why liberals are dumb and we should burn more coal." With the Altantic, we instead have reasonable pleas to remember that climate change is a very serious issue.

As for the matter of the given title: https://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1166446298897289216
The Uber Visa card also includes up to $50 in credits for popular recurring services, including Netflix, Hulu, Apple Music, Sirius, and others.
> Say I use Uber to take advantage of HOV lanes going to and from work (and make a little extra cash)

No one does this. This argument exists in a fantasy land.
Blood money. How about putting the killer who ordered the killing in prison.
on the roads != in the city

People don’t spend very long driving their cars in the center of cities.
> people will not recognize the real changes needed to build a more sustainable world

I'm a bit more pessimistic. Consumerism and over-consumption is an open-eyed march toward doom. Educating (even by collapse) doesn't change the failure to coordinate. When the incentives are structured to trade values for temporary rosperity "The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse." [1]

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
FB does not want people to know how invasive they really are with their app and its tracking capabilities. People will be able to disable FB functions for better privacy. Win win for the consumer.
It's been delayed again "WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline" https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuar...
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If a typical car spends more than 80% of its time parked, then the math works out.
it's not uncommon with hypey vc funded startups. I've gone to two different startup camps, it's very much so kool-aid drinking exercises
If you are tech savvy yourself, I would use a very controlled environment with only creative-ish app allowed (drawing, programming etc.). Games should be vetted by you, and bring something to the development of the child (heavy story telling, puzzle mechanics etc.).
Regardless of all that, limit screen time, allow the child to be bored (which is important for psychological development).

Lead by examples by not looking at your phone every 5 second, and use the computer for active activities.

Once they are old enough to understand why something can be good or bad for them (idk, 10 years old?) regardless of whether or not it is enjoyable, you can give them a bit more control, while still being involved. Do they like a specific youtuber? Ask them why, watch some videos with them. Keep controlling the time spent though.

This is what I would like to do in the future. I am currently childless so this comment is purely based on what I want to do and not on active experience. Can be food for thoughts though.
That's not been my experience playing with this on FB with photos restricted to friends-only viewing. Right-click, open image in new tab, copy that URL and you can view it from an incognito window that has never logged into FB on any account.
There were always computer-dispatched car services in New York, decades before Uber. The reason people prefer Uber is because Computer Car costs $60 to go to the airport and Uber, by contracting with desperate amateurs and their unmaintained jalopies, undercuts their price.
You can do encryption without mesh - the digital radio standards all support it.
It's possible. I would go further and say that the idea that smoke and vapor -of any kind- might not be great for your lungs is also suppressed by people who want marijuana legalized. I'm one of them, but the idea that breathing non-gaseous things doesn't have negative health effects is just weird.
This is incredibly naive in a reality, where the POTUS can contradict himself on social media – with traceable evidence dating back often not more than a week – and absolutely nothing coming of it.

Right now, when it comes to public opinion and action, volume clearly beats a good signal/noise ratio. This is not an isolated issue, this happens all around the globe. Populism is on the rise. Simple beats true.

Yes, you can argue this is not the way it is supposed to be, but it is how it is. But if you really care about making a change for the better, then this is most definitely not the time for deliberate narratives.

You might have the peoples attention, but not their patience. If you want change, do not squander it.
>>If I steal some old lady's purse, is it "self-justification" if I find some medication in it and return it to her while keeping the purse?

Yes.

What I'm saying is trying to say "well at least he was nice enough to explain the security problems after extorting this man" isn't a helpful comment. It seems to imply that this isn't the worst thing this guy could have done. So what? Who cares? A bad thing was done and pointing out that a worse thing could have been done doesn't help anyone or anything. It's a bad take on the situation.

>>You seem to be saying...

No. IDK what that was, but that wasn't what I was saying at all. I don't think you really seem to be grasping the concept of what self-justification is, and how it's an enabling behavior to allow bad people to do bad things. The whole idea behind it is that the "clearly less reprehensible than it could have been" thought allows you to justify whatever bad things you do.
Before WeWork, most people weren't aware that coworking spaces were an option

I remember co-working spaces and “live-work units” in London in the 1990’s.

I’ll admit that WeWork has a certain cachet, Millenials can’t imagine anything cooler than getting an Uber from the AirBnB to the WeWork, but that’s just a fashion and they’ll move onto something else soon.
But they have other benefits.
This. But who cares in this attention hunting, consumerist world -- More clickbaity(and controversial) the title is, more shares all leading to more profit.
Stupid idea: tax meat and use the money to purchase tracts of farmland in the Amazon and such places, preventing them from being explored. That would reduce the drop in prices, by increasing the cost of productive land.
I had this entire giant post written out for you.

I looked at your history and you are growth-hacking your HN. You admitted the game in this post.

You are re-posting old content like it is new content, to build your points.
Where did you get that? I think you misread that paragraph from the article. The author did not equate 6% to zero.
> The ocean contains a LOT more than 1 km^3.

Is not so simple. There is not such thing as "one ocean", the sea is composed of several water masses, that are layered and often travel thousands of miles without mixing with the rest. In some parts this water is streamed directly again the coast in a narrow band that extends 1000 Km long so instead to face the open sea your water visits each small village in the coast one by one. At other times of the year the same water will travel to US. It depends a lot of the location, wind, month, year, etc...

But people don't want to hear this normally.
What would be an example (even if unrealistic) for drivers to earn sufficient income if there's no limit placed on the number of companies and drivers?
I could be "forced" to do a whole lot of stuff for $200k/year, plus a zero-deductible health plan and fully-matched 401(k), that also doesn't require living in California, NYC, or DC.

I won't compromise my personal ethics, though. Not at that price. I'd need another $300k/year, a real defined-benefit pension, family gym membership, company-leased car, tuition benefits, and a bullshit story that I can tell myself in order to sleep at night.

And in order to set aside my personal vendettas, such as by actually propping up AT&T or Bank of America in some way, I'll need 8 figures and a 30-hour work week. And unrestricted common stock--not so much that the CEOs have to kiss my ass, but enough that I don't get automatically ignored.
Nice. You’re a better programmer than I, though.
the reason its left in the open typically is both for interoperability and police accountability. Both P25 and DMR support AES256 encryption.
I think it's entirely possible that he's just selling high after a few decades of hard work.

Ousting to me doesn't mean getting thrown out of the building with your things in a box, it can happen peacefully and gradually. Jack almost certainly has ties to the CCP and a good dialogue with them--it's a necessity to grow a business in that country. My guess is that there was a good amount of pressure gracefully imposed by an outside group to step down.

But maybe he just wants to start a university/cure malaria and move on before China exports slow down.
Don't forget the "no eating meat" on WeWork business.
This is the second time Stripe has been at the top of HN in the last week. Any theories on why? Is this really that novel of a business?
Have you seen the ReactConf talk on hooks? [1] It's absolutely worth the watch, even if you're somewhat familiar with hooks. They go through the pitfalls of class-based components and how hooks solve them.

It more-or-less boils down to: 1. class-based components force your lifecycle logic to live in disparate locations. 2. Class-based hooks are obtuse with hidden gotchas whereas pure functions tell you exactly what they're doing. 3. A whole class of unergenomic solutions disappears when you use hooks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpw9EHDh2bM
Much of the Assault on 'Big Tech' Is Being Driven by 'Big Telecom'
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> This is yet another JavaScript paradigm to learn. For the record, I am a 49-year-old React fanboy. I am a freelancer and use other frameworks apart from React, and this gives me fatigue.

Amen to that. The fact that still are in "here's a 'better' idea, let's try this" landscape in JavaScript is depressing.

I no longer jump on these new frameworks when the bandwagon flies by. I ignore postings for jobs saying they are rewriting their system in "new Framework Y!". I don't care how "pure" your new design is, I care about having it work well in the trenches.

I, too, am tired.

And old.
Cool, thanks for being responsive!
America banned beef imports from Brazil a couple of years ago. Leather could still come from Brazilian cattle though.
> - I don't want regulations to keep smaller competitors out of the market. There's a real risk of this.

The market has a giant moat, via the mind blowing amounts of VC and IPO cash that they used to buy market share.

The “risk” of regulation stopping new entrants seems so laughably minor compared to this that it makes one question the impartiality of the whole argument.
All our 'digital' signals are ultimately transmitted over some analog channel. "Digital" is an abstraction. There's no reason you can't encrypt a radio transmission without relying on intermediaries to relay it as in a mesh network.
Thanks. Somehow I failed to create clickable links :(
https://www.businessinsider.com/khashoggis-children-are-repo...
A common argument for SUVs by soccer mums that can't drive properly in traffic. No matter that cars are more expensive to run (fuel, tires, brakes etc.), far worse in every measurable driving experience (heavier, much higher center of gravity doesn't lead to much fun), but also more prone to rolling in case of accident (which can be deadly easily).

The fact that they can see more ahead in dense traffic gives them a feeling of more safety on emotional level. I would argue against this and nothing beats good driving skills, no matter what car is driven. Worst thing is, some guys also jump on SUV trend.
They won't. They'll build costly surveillance into everything and attack individual liberties for the sake of social control. They'll sap potential for positive disruption, out of paranoia, and ironically ensure the unsteerable inertia of existing institutions takes us all off a cliff.
That's what I quoted. That's the exact article that points to Mozilla's (seemingly non-existent?) privacy policy:

> The data Cloudflare processes for the Firefox Private Network is subject to Mozilla’s Privacy Policy and is not covered by the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Visa/MC is the payment network; cards like Stripe run atop it. (Just as Stripe relies on that network for its transaction processing)

This product is more of a direct competitor to American Express.
Fighting lies with more lies is short term thinking. You will ultimately erode the public's ability to recognize the truth at all. When the truth can no longer work for you because you've either divorced yourself from it or rendered the public unable to recognize it, then what do you have left?

Nothing matters more than the truth.
On the Psychology of Price
Then you would still need to figure out what ISP your doctor's office has?
> Yes? Why do you think we need things like minimum wage and OSHA? Because there are desperate people and people who exploit them.

Nobody is intentionally exploiting anybody; desperate people exploit themselves.

So the solution is either gatekeeping or rate limiting.

a) only allow people that meet a minimum economic status to make money from the app.

b) limit the amount of money/time that can be spent on the app so it is clear the intent is not to provide full-benefits careers.
I wasn't just referencing jp in my comment. Just one single observation. The rest were unrelated due to me having a macaw for thirty years.

Thanks for incorrecting me
What is the best way to collect karma?
As above in the title, thanks for your replies
I took a step back in my career to work from home, and bring my kids to the kindergarten with my bike some days, and take a late lunch and eat their "dinner" with them, and it has been totally, totally worth-it.

Remote work being a set-back is possibly a side-effect of how I selected my new gig, but it has suited me so well, I don't care about the (temporary) career stagnation.

Beautiful story, I felt it hard.
Completely differently origin stories.

nodejs is JavaScript bindings for libev. http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html

Other comments listed npm modules with Rails equivalents, so I won't repeat.

The one thing I got out of nodejs is becoming reacquainted with working closer to the metal. Minimalism for some HTTP endpoints (what the kids call REST) can be fun.

Rails, PHP, nodejs et al, J2EE, etc. I've got no dog in this fight. Each is uniquely terrible. I hate them all.
> If the oil runs out or the demand for oil drops low enough, we can expect to see an entire country return to the empty desert it came from.

I think that's the least of the worries. If oil runs out it has the potential to cause a massive upheaval in the Islamic world with can have dire consequences for the entire world.
> Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster as long as the base station batteries hold out and that’s with cheap base stations serving very large amounts of idiot users using the cheapest of the cheap handsets limited by regulations.

Why "idiot"? Are they idiots for using cheap handsets? I really can't tell why you added that word.
The tragedy of the mundane reality is that more cyber systems will be put out of commission by things like botched patch tuesdays and techs pulling the wrong cable because they were mislabelled than any hack.