skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't done a quantitative study either, but here are two examples of extremely influential open source projects that the internet runs on:

The spring framework has contributions from many volunteers, but most big contributions and all of the integration work come from Pivotal.

The contributions to the linux kernel are graphed here:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/175919-who-actually-de...

80% of new contributions are from companies. That shouldn't be surprising at all, because these companies are also the biggest users of the project.

As for myself, in the rare occasions I contributed a patch to an OSS project, most of the time it was to solve a problem I encountered at work, so I have anecdotal evidence that at least some from the category 'volunteers' also got paid to write that code.
You’ll love their take on net neutrality.
I know about energy intensity, and yes it is going down, but not by enough to compensate the growth of consumption, which is the fallacy i'm pointing out. It has another name: Jevons paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
You appear to be quite accepting of misinformation. Nobody promised a $30k electric car. It was $35k and they delivered it.
Rational indeed
Only if staring at boobs and failing to make eye contact with women is sexist

Edit: that's a yes. Because apparently that isn't obvious to some folks around here
Thank you, Donald J Trump. :-)
Have you been to a major European train station recently?
The article isn't actually that trivial; it makes a very provocative and bold statement towards the end, essentially declaring that all stated progress in image classification in the last 5 years is questionable.

I don't know if I necessarily agree with that, but there is definitely a danger in evaluating models purely based on their predictive power when many models are being evaluated on a common dataset - which is exactly the mainstream practice in the world of deep learning research - and it is therefore wise to be wary, not just as individuals but as a community.
This pretty much already happens but the police are used instead. They just shoot a few protestors and the media frames it as "they were resisting".

Look at how fast "good guys with guns fighting the government" got shut down when the BPP started carrying.
Ew, that is... really not great. Yikes.
There's a theory that "the solution to pollution is economic growth"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku...

It is controversial (and I'm uncertain about it personally)
I watched an interview with him and what you say definitely feels true to me. I mean that guy snitched on the good guys, and Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his. Who the fuck does that? You can really see that he was plaqued by mental issues....
Is it, though? (That's a bit of a meme, sorry.)

No, seriously. Why would I choose this over Alpine? Or, given the failure modes of Alpine as a container image, why would I even choose Alpine? Everything in this space is absolute shite.
"the West"
Relevant take on this narrative: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/colt-ar-15-production-...
Tangentially related, but is Scientific American worth subscribing to? I really like reading paper magazines and am a subscriber to Science, but feel like I could use lighter reading if it’s not too sensationalist
He won it BEFORE green lighting the Afghanistan surge.
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I agree with just about everything you said but you still have to ask yourself if 28,000 dollars a year is worth it. There's a lot of people coming out of school who just don't really know how to code, you can fumble your way to a CS degree but if you can't put any of that into practice then you wasted a lot of money.

I mean ideally before you entered school you should have had some type of idea about programming. I know many people who started writing code very early but even if that wasn't you you should have at least gave it a shot before you dedicated a major to it right?

Therein lies the problem, if you're intelligent enough to start learning on your own, at what point does the opportunity cost of college outweigh the benefit? If you don't have the initiative or desire to start on your own, then you probably won't make it very far in this field anyway because it requires constant learning and experimenting on your own.

I guess that's why so many companies look for "self-starters"
The vast majority of internet and smartphone users have no idea whatsoever

1) how much information is being collected on them

2) what that information is being used for

3) how much harm could be done with it

4) how little governmental regulation there is in this whole space.

If they knew, then I think we would see some action.
Well, like I said, 30 cents per kWh gives you a huge budget. If you can add one hour of capacity per year, and the battery facilities last 30 years... seems affordable.

Also wind does not stop overnight. You don't need to supply all the power.
Here’s an encouraging story for New Zealand: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZSJKbzyMc

“Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.”
What does this mean? They talk about consumption of goods and services and while taking the debt might be included, the paying of the debt won't be.
All of these argument apply to national sovereignty in general. When different countries can have different laws, it does indeed mean that France can have tax laws favoring French companies, a US company might have a harder time setting up shop in Germany, and North Korea can oppress its people with impunity.
What’s the problem with alpine?
The Favorite and Recommended Books of Elon Musk
It an interesting new field.

Get stolen digital goods and clean them with AI.

Not saying these where created from stolen goods at all, but there's no way to tell anyway so whateves.

I'd be shorting stock photo providers.
tobacco 'tea' is a very effective pesticide, and is pretty easily removed by water. Great in dry areas, less so in rainy ones.
If it wasn't slack, I'd be at your desk doing it for sure.
I don't mean that as a matter of fact but a matter of personal opinion. I am as likely to go there as N. Korea.
I have move to UK, and to my surprise it has exceptionally poorly insulated and leaky homes, even new builds, even compared to ex-Soviet Europe.

It's really a colossal waste of money, as insulation would pay for itself very quickly. A government program is needed to rebuild a lot of older homes. Combined with general shortage of new housing and quality issues, housing in UK is quite a sore point for me.
The second decile in the US had in 2017 a wealth of $4798 (-962 for the first decile), while in France in 2015 the second decile had E12900, E4300 for the first decile.

And, you know, access to health care :-)
> What I object to is the "you must continue to provide service after opt-out".

Well, I quite like that part. It pushes content providers to look for surveillance free business models, such as content based ads that aren't personalized. Why should selling your data vs. paywall be the only options? To protect Google's ad cartel?
I'm curious as to why this is being downvoted; do people think it's untrue? Seems like it's very useful contextual information
I saw a ton of people sleeping on mattresses and blankets in German train stations last time I went. Were they just enjoying their freedom from the pressures of society?

Maybe we should look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...

So what are you talking about exactly?
Petrol bombs are more effective, though small arms can restrict vision and mobility.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=taHFUKKKmJM

There are reasons IEDs have been the preferred mechanism in recent decades. Now drones.
So I downloaded this last night, thinking I'd give it a quick go.

Ended up blowing eight hours building spinning laser death platforms. 10/10
One of the more baffling statistics I’ve seen lately is that consumer debt continues to increase and credit card interest rates are at multi year highs despite the fed funds rate being at historical lows. Things don’t add up.
> Current battery production is tiny, services small consumer electeonics and some cars. It's at least two orders of magnitude.

That is 100% fine. It only has to scale as fast as the power production. If they're both scaling two orders of magnitude, they should work hand in hand just fine.

> Day to day drops are realistic, but buffering from summer to winter is out of question really.

Good! Day to day is all you need. It's ridiculous to use batteries between seasons, and there are far better technologies to use.
No kubernetes will be a bad choice for your use case. But if you learn all the intricacies and manage a behemoth besides your own application it will help in your resume to brag that you are a modern devops and a fashionable one using kubernetes.

If you need a practical suggestion use simple solution like LXD [1]. But as you are already using docker stay with it and ansible.

As you are using ansible you are already doing infrastructure as a code, you are way ahead of curve already.

Probably when you grow a bit bigger use packer [2] and terraform [3], but I think ansible will do just fine.

Kubernetes was designed for Google kind of problem the burden to maintain is quite high with lots of moving parts, unless you use Google GKE or Amazon or managed kubernetes service. So don't fall for it unless you need it for your resume.

[1] https://linuxcontainers.org/

[2] https://www.packer.io/intro/

[3] https://www.terraform.io/
The high quality airsoft guns imported from china are already illegal as they copy real gun brands like Glock.

The gas powered guns with hard plastic BBs do a similar amount of damage as a .22 rifle. 500+ ft/sec is common, and the rifles go over 1000 ft/sec. You could kill someone with an eyeball shot.
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Well, then, I suppose that's where our disagreement lies. I would prefer to minimize regulation controlling people so long as harm is not being done (hence I'm pro-CCPA in the ways it protects people from being harmed and disagree with it where does not actively protect from harm) and you have a different bar.
Ok, the US is a little more dramatic it was 76.2% services in 2010 and 77.4% in 2018.

But, I was using global GDP to avoid the outsourcing question.

PS: Using 2010 as the start date as these energy trends are fairly recent. Though I agree comparing say 2018 numbers to say the 1970’s would need to account for more systematic changes.
Depends whether you use median or mean. Switzerland is #1 by median, which is likewise not something I would have guessed.
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Debt increasing when interest rate is low sounds completely normal to me, although credit card interest rate being high is interesting.
This sounds like a politician's cannabis story.
also their support for startups via their communities, atlas, and weekly free feeback is what truly makes them shine. keep up the great work!
This article as well as others are a bit thin on that particular detail, with some saying "will be ordering" and others speaking of Rivian "receiving an order" or "a deal being announced".

But, in any case: do you actually have doubts that this is real? I can see scepticism regarding the timetable and targeted number of vehicles. But for Amazon to just nope away now would be catastrophic for their $750 million investment in Rivian, and their general image. It would destroy far more than whatever this announcement may get in terms of good PR.

And isn't investing $750 million into such a company enough "skin in the game" to make accusations of "virtue signalling" nonsensical, even by that cheap insult's own definition?
The joke is that Microsoft has a beautiful software stack and no hardware.
The fact that people are comparing countries like Austria and Switzerland, tiny tiny German places, to a country that loves to readd the same piece of wood 20 times to it's GDP speaks for itself.

Any statistic pushed out by the US government is as irrelevant as Kim Jong Uns personal yachts interior design material. Anyone taking official US statistics serious should get a purple star on their chest reading "Mental defect"
> We can only take action and in the long run everyone is dead so why not take righteous action along the lines of what you are good at and thus fulfill your duty to society and God.

If we're all dead in the long run, why bother with righteous action now?
Maybe creditors are having trouble finding attractive returns, so they are lending to riskier individuals. Similar to the 'reach for yield' phenomenon in the bond market.
Mortgage and auto loan debt are probably significantly larger components of consumer debt than credit card debt.
I appreciate your honesty, it's rare in discussions like this. Do you want semi-automatic handguns to be regulated the same way as semi-automatic long guns?

Exactly what problem would licensure solve?
ITT: People got angry over a passenger got detained in a third-world country for bullshit reasons
> The only reason those services are being provided at all is to get that data.

If people don't find your product valuable enough to pay for, then your company should go out of business.

Companies have been exploiting people's privacy behind their back, and now that they've been called on it they're throwing a tantrum.
"EDIT: Several comments below point out the innumerable businesses operating in such a way as to make mine an impossible claim."

They have no clue about the Robinson-Patman Act amendments to the Clayton Act.
I know you are alluding to climate change, but paying money for security is perfectly fine.
There should be a separate channel for this stuff.
The article mentions, in the passing, that Llamo probably thought it was a trap by the Feds, who he thought were constantly surveilling him.
I mean, it's not like they were wrong about that. I don't know what to conclude from this other than most of history is terrible and the present often isn't so great either. Until we live in a utopia, there will be no shortage of targets for whataboutism.
Those are called Airsoft BB’s. They’re sold in the toy section at walmart.
Congratulations, you found a libertarian blog to validate whatever viewpoint you needed support for.
The most egregious such company (WeWork) actually being an NYC company.
"Demonstrably untrue."

Robinson-Patman Act says "Please read me, and understand me and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act which I amend."
Perhaps we should come up with a convincing answer to that question, rather be unprepared in the moment and the act indignant after the fact.

Here, I'll start:

- Science gave us antibiotics a hundred years ago, savings hundreds of millions from certain death since then. Now would be a good time to listen to science again, or we will be facing a catastrophe of biblical proportions in the next hundred years.

Please add your ideas in the comments.
Wikipedia uses Credit Suisse and this news uses Allianz.
You Shouldn’t Use Truthy Tests (2018)
They initially approached me and I pitched an idea I thought they'd reject out of hand (an op-ed about tracking on the page you're reading). I thought they wouldn't get back to me after that, but they did, and they were wonderful to work with.

Otherwise, I don't think process has changed, it's mainly about personal contacts, being accessible, and taking the time to talk to people and explain the tech in a way the target audience understands. My rule is if a journalist doesn't understand my research it's because I'm not explaining it the right way. I get annoyed when academics complain journalists get their work wrong without making an effort to actually talk to any.
The US is resolutely fighting the War on Pesto !

(They ran out of other things to fight.)

They arrest people who share pesto recipes, or search for pesto on the web. New technology is deployed to detect and suppress the Improvised Pesto Dishes found in roadside cafes, especially the deadly Rocket Pesto.

There are small Caribbean islands where Pestofarians openly consume pasta with pesto. The Colombian Green Pesto Cartel has entered a bloody feud with the Red Pesto Brigades. However, I understand some US states are legalizing pesto now.
Sounds like the credit card companies are expecting a vanishing fraction of the people for whom credit card interest is relevant to actually pay them back...

(At least among my family, common knowledge is to treat credit cards like debit cards or charge cards - make the full payment, every time, and if you can't make the full payment you shouldn't have made the purchase)
>I'm not sure there's really much of anything that it owes to C.

Rust's default behavior of ignoring integer overflows when not in debug mode -to put an example-, put it very close to C.
I could see his comment, logged out or logged in (i have showdead the default of off)

(maybe he got fixed in last 3 hours?)
I say this with best intentions and based on seeing similar patterns among a lot of my friends and myself: you seem to be in the very early stages of a burn-out. Take some time to relax, maybe see a therapist, exercise (if you don't right now), and hang out more with friends and family.

Best of luck :)
I think there's a debate to be had around whether or not the plastic BBs are considered pellets for air guns.

I have a feeling the law is referring to the metal air rifle pellets, but I don't know that for a fact.

Typically, pellets for air rifles are made of metal:
https://www.pyramydair.com/images/PY-P-1144_JSB-Diabolo-Exac...

"Airsoft" pellets are plastic beads:
https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1AVsePVXXXXaQXpXX760XFXXXN/Air...
No. But in the HN context, your user id is. If HN decided one day to monetize the site by showing you ads based on your posts, the kind of discussions you frequent, or your location, then it's a profile of personal info.
This kind of conspiratorial speculation isn't really appropriate here.
Currency conversion fees are also quite cheaper on Adyen 1.2% vs 2% on Stripe
Stripe has an actual product that businesses actually use. They aren't playing the underpants gnome game of:

1.) Light money on fire to grow

2.) ???

3.) Profit!
I read this from my chair in an office in Tokyo, and found it to be pretty dramatic and kind of silly. There are definitely cultural differences, but I don't feel like this article does a good job of representing them. Some of the linguistic points are a bit misleading too.
But if consumption capacity was equal in Europe, that consumption would shift to something else, such as food and entertainment. People in New York City don’t consume less because they don’t own a car—they spend more money eating out, etc.

And Europeans are hardly ascetics. It’s fair to assume that in both places, if people had more means to consume they would.
Visit Zurich. Prices are ~2x what they are in my (fairly pricy already) area in the US. That's the direct consequence of high median income: businesses charge what the market will bear.
> To be successful over the course of a career requires the application and accumulation of expertise. This assumes that for any given undertaking you either provide expertise or you are just a bystander. It’s the experts that are the drivers — an expertise that is gained from a curiosity, and a mindset of treating one’s craft very seriously.
The article didn't mention the lack of version control, which AFAIK is impractical due to the sheer amount of HTML and layout-defining configuration WP stores in the db.

In spite of WP's revision history feature on Posts and other models, I've always found this to be a major issue on WP sites.

Obviously there are numerous other problems with WP, that's just one I didn't see the author touch on.

I try to talk clients out of WP whenever possible, and most let me build using a proper MVC framework.

I like to think I'm making the Internet a little better, one not-another-WordPress-site at a time.
This is a fantastic concept and I’m excited to give it a whirl.
Sexist is probably not precise enough. I find the logo choice strange though.
If Edward Snowden couldn't convince you of the existence of a deep state serving their own interests as opposed to the public's, I doubt anyone can.
I've no opinion on this source, but here's the actual, non-Google/AMP URL:

https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...
If so then government can take part. Government "technically" buys content of 5+ years old (at fixed price or whatever-measurement they have) to provider, then streaming sites pays a set of price to government to access those content.
It's probably coincidental, but it's definitely weird. One of the Spacey accusers also died under unknown circumstances this week.
Maybe an arch sibling
Battery production needs to scale about two extra orders of magnitude- current production can't backup current renewables.

The current battery prices are reflective of relatively small spale, high value needs of consumer electronics industry and a nascent electric car industry.
Hopefully the price will drop massively, like it did for solar panels, but currently we can't even produce enough for cars
Yes you can get a 4k TV for $400
Time to start the job hunt.
Never heard from Rivian before. I'd have expected Tesla to get that contract, but I guess if Amazon invested in Rivian it makes sense to order 100k vehicules and make sure that company is successful to get a huge return.
> I would prefer to minimize regulation controlling people

That seems like a weird spin. Businesses are being regulated here, not individuals. I don't see how the law would control me.
>In 30 years

More like in 30 seconds.
> Because if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so

That's nonsense.

Nobody can make an informed decision because nobody knows exactly what data Google collects or exactly how it's used.

And unless you've actually run a survey you can't even speculate about whether people are okay with it or not. If your claim was true, why would this law even exist? You're okay with it, but privacy is a highly personal issue.
and affordable highspeed internet.
One issue is that they do not keep an archive of packages, and often you'll end up finding it really difficult to downgrade or use a different version that once existed.
A billion people is a lot. Does literally every action taken by anybody in China have to be part of a government plot? Do you honestly think that this tiny, random event is going to have any bearing on trade negotiations, or are you just looking to ascribe any sinister motive you can?
The point is that it's nothing but a deflection tactic, and I don't believe the people doing the lynching were typically the same people concerned about human rights abuses in the USSR. It's an oversimplification used to prevent discussion about real problems.