skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I own shares in a retailer and I decide that, say, soda is bad, I can try to use my shareholder rights to talk to them about how prominently they display soda and possibly reducing their shelf real estate for soda.

But what if I own shares of a soda company? What exactly should I do in that case? Try to convince them to exit their primary market and become an entirely different company? Why would I waste my time and energy that way?

It makes absolutely no sense to invest in one kind of company and then insist they become something else. Find another company that is conceptually similar to what you had in mind and invest your time and money in them instead.

Get energy companies to invest in not-coal and not-natural gas, sure, but investing in a petroleum or coal company so you can vote? What exactly do you think you are going to vote for? Suicide?
you already have that freedom

literally nobody is stopping you

maybe you should try protesting in saudi arabia then?
Simple? Anonymous? Sounds like a perfect money laundering scheme.

All governments in the world hate cash in hands of citizens. It's hard to track. It can be used for tax evasion, buying illegal stuff, financing of undesirables, any transaction that a government would not approve of, but cannot easily learn about.

Many countries evict cash from daily use, either leaving it for small-scale purchases ("we only accept notes of $20 and below"), or even completely.

The chance of an anonymous online currency to appear is nonzero. The chance of it to be widespread, convenient, and not under constant legal scrutiny is epsilon, for it to last, epsilon squared.
Crew have AI in Cosmoteer but it's not emergent like Dwarf Fortress is. Cosmoteer's AI is deliberately predictable so that you can use your knowledge and customization of how the AI will behave to optimize your ship's design.
Also I would argue that the smug truisms that people spout such as "divestment won't solve climate change" have a very damaging effect on causes that require concerted action by the public.

For example the "Penn & Teller Bull$#!@: Recycling" episode left many viewers under the impression that recycling is a waste of time because it's not mature yet and is sometimes mismanaged. That probably lowered global recycling by some small percentage over several years. A tremendous negative impact in the scheme of things, for a couple guys trying to be funny.

It's generally bad form to undermine causes via pedantry, for example:

* Nobody should listen to Al Gore about global warming because he flies a private jet!

* We can't raise taxes on cigarettes because people will just buy them anyway no matter how much they cost!

* Why bother preventing deforestation when nature does what it wants with forest fires anyway!

Yet we hear these sorts of arguments right here on HN on practically every submission.

Better to at least try to be part of the solution than use criticism as an excuse to do nothing, IMHO.
Don’t. HN is no better.
But some other investor bought the stock, didn't they?
However, simply having important pinned items, and the ability for colleagues to provide stable links to backchat is a useful part of making history of a company accessible.
This looks cool. How much space will this take up, to backup the entire site?
This works best if you start with some kind erotic fiction.

The body glistened in the sun, muscles [using autocomplete from here...] bulged with each heartbeat. His breathing became ragged and his body was beginning to shake. I felt myself becoming drawn into his touch, feeling his strong grip on my arm and the strong grasp on my body in his. I reached out and wrapped a hand around his cXXX [and now I'll start censoring...]
You're really reaching here.

If you don't like Israeli's government policies (and I don't either!), then yes, you/we disagree politically with some population that voted in that government. (Nevermind that governments never act as perfect proxies for their electoral base, so this itself is an oversimplification.) That is wholly different from detesting people.

If you can't understand that distinction, we can stop here.
These aren't the droids you're

looking for, and you are in fact in a very bad mood, which is why you should keep an eye out for such a small drop. (2)

In other words, even if you're in a good mood, you should keep an eye out for a small drop or a small drop of sadness , because this behavior can easily lead to you getting in trouble with your family (3).

However, this type of behavior is extremely rare, and it can make it difficult for the doctor to conduct research for patients who are in a situation where they cannot be properly treated with medication, and that their family member is in the mood.
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Now imagine working for him and you can see one of the reasons why Tesla's executive turnover is so high. Unfortunately, I think Musk needs to get slapped with a few more lawsuits before he'll learn to set aside the social media nonsense and just focus on being an eccentric innovator.
Too bad the total amount is fixed. I don't care about the $125. I want them to lose a substantial amount of money so that they and everybody else start taking this more seriously.
There are plenty of reasons their processes can't be as streamlined as an organization with hundreds of millions of dollars of resources.
I just got the warning on my browser too - thanks for the heads up, much appreciated. Looks like I forgot to confirm my contact email at namecheap and they temporarily changed the dns info. fixed.
have you thought that maybe lgbtq people are just harder to work with and then blame any fault on them being discriminated against for lgbtq?
FYI if your startup or company starts sending minion or any gifs to my inbox I'm done with your service and / or product.
Not sure why it is hostile to consumers. Consumers seem to be doing just fine.

One can make a principled argument to abolish all patents. (If you don't believe in intellectual property rights for inventions).

However, arguments to abolish so-called software patents don't make much sense. Software is just an implementation detail of an invention. It is not the invention.
There are so many cool personal sites out there. I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity.

I publish now from dropbox. Ofc using my own tool https://docs.montaigne.io. It's already helped me do add content more freequently
This is also why today we want mixed use housing and affordable housing together with market rate housing.
Divestment pushed South Africa to abolish apartheid.
The 1st Amendment only covers publications available in 1791. Anything after is not covered and people who want those ideas are lucky they slipped under the radar with these poor interpretations that wrongthink and hatespeech were to be covered by the 1st Amendment.
So, my understanding of first-to-file is that any public disclosure counts as prior art for anyone else. So the only time you would have to prove the troll literally stole the idea is if your disclosure to them was non-public.

In either case, it's likely that the USPTO isn't going to notice before issuing the patent, but under first-to-file it is way easier (read: cheaper) to show that "X document was published on Y website on Z date" than it is to start doing discovery to compare private lab notebooks or whatever to decide who really invented the thing first.

This only ever affected a minor number of cases anyway, and the change mostly just made litigation costs cheaper and more predictable.

It also seems really great for open source software (where I personally work), since everyone publishes everything they do immediately anyway.
The use of kittens was specifically specified by lobbyists as they knew that would make it impossible to change the procedure. Who’s going to vote against kittens? Squee!
Gates says divestment will not lower carbon emissions. This is very different from saying it will not lower valuation.

Has the reduction in tobacco companies' stock prices materially affected smoking rates? I don't think so.
What is datatype-generic programming?
True, I couldn't read the OP's post. And yes, there's no shortage of f*cked up people in the world in positions of power who's actions affect the rest of us but we don't need an "army of Snowdens". No "army of Snowdens" will save us from ourselves. There is no master plan, no global conspiracy, no deep state or ancient secret society behind the scenes working toward some nefarious goal that only the select sinister few are privy to. In reality they're just a small minority of sociopaths and corrupt egomaniacal degenerates that gained power over the majority. Which is usually what motivates these type of people. The corrupt few rule the the rest of us because we allow it to happen.
About 90% of the gasoline tax goes towards transportation infrastructure, its financing administration and law enforcement.[1]

About 50-60% of transportation infrastructure funding[2] comes from gasoline taxes.

Approximately zero gasoline tax dollars go toward healthcare costs and other economic costs related to auto emissions. "Meeting federal clean air standards would have prevented an estimated 29,808 hospital admissions and ER visits throughout California over 2005–2007."[3] This is not the full economic cost[4] of poor air quality, which would also count long term impacts on health, the loss in lifetime earnings due to cognitive deficits, and the effects of emissions above a baseline without auto emissions that is below the federal standards, but still causing illness and development impacts.

Transportation also has many benefits to the people and stuff being transported as well as everyone in general, but it is difficult to understand the perspective where shirking responsibility for negative externalities is virtuous or principled, and enforcing a more equitable accounting is somehow corrupt.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/01/gas-tax-where-does-th...
[2] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3572
[3] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9501/index1.html
[4] https://www.ewg.org/research/smoggy-schools/health-impacts-e...
Remember when people thought that selling unprotected mp3 files is crazy, and everyone woulDD just pirate them?

Well, yes, some do, and will do.

But in most cases buying is much less hassle, and costs very little, so there is no point to pirate just from the convenience point of view.

We need Spotify and Bandcamp for texts, with fast and frictionless payment, cheaply operated.
Well we are getting slightly above the target no? And some say that once we overshoot and target expectations too high, taming them might be hard.
He did not say Minsky was legally innocent of sexual assault (he in fact gave no opinion of guilt). He said that sexual assault is a poor term, for reasons of broadness and vagueness, and that we should avoid using such terms in order to avoid ambiguity. He brought up the definition of "assault" because, as a component of "sexual assault", it colors the term, shifting connotations towards the side of violence.

He didn't redefine the legal term, he just (tl;dr) said it sucks and we shouldn't use it (and instead should use something more specific).
Sounds like an argument against running an "unlimited" service.
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I'm from Southern Italy and I had tomatoes in Iceland years ago. I wouldn't call them particularly juicy. Or flavorful, for that matter. I've often noticed how the further North you go, the least flavor in the produce. Maybe they have figured better techniques and species since I was there, but even if you put that aside, Iceland is just so small and so far from most of the continent that it's always going to have a cost handicap. For the record, I love the country and food was the only sore point visiting there.
If they are not willing to contribute funding, this might mean that the project is not much important to them?

Anyway, the developer does not need to stress out too much about Amazon employees having problems with their code...
Also, add "(2017)".
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BTW, these opt-out options work by adding unique cookie identifiers to your browser (opt-out tracking is implemented by tracking you?). If you block 3rd-party cookies or ads, it won't work, and you'll need to redo everything if you clear cookies or change browser.

I'd say these "opt-out" options are not gonna work in practice.
>AdSense terms violation

That would be a minor PR scandal, taking someone’s phone number away would certainly be considered an excessive response.
How about the risk of parking TLDs on Handshake? Say, by taking every .{lastname} out there just in case someone wants it in the future...
I don't understand the "2 trips for one passenger". The car will pick up the closest human that needs a ride and the operator will optimize the trips globally based on where cars are, where humans are and where humans what to go. It's about as optimal as it gets.

Unless commute patterns change dramatically, in the morning most people will be going downtown to jobs, there will be a few that live in downtown and go to jobs elsewhere, but by and large, all of the cars will be bringing in commuters from outside of down and dropping them off in downtown centers -- there will be no other human looking for a ride from that car.

Without changing cars, we can put 4 people in a car, which is 2-4x better than the common commute of 1 person in a car.

We can do that today, but we don't. It's not clear why a self-driving car would change that. How often do people take uber-pool instead of having a car to themselves? (I don't know the answer to that question).

People don't want to share cars?

Maybe they won't want to, but as autonomous cars become more popular, only the affluent will make that choice - a car is expensive, especially when it sits in a garage at home and work (that you pay for) unused for 22 out of every 24 hours.
Doesn't that risk already exist with the current system?
Thanks. Missed that.
The thing about whistleblowing is that it's a gamble that exposure will bring repentance.
Dumping all of it online would have been like wikileaks, which I think would've been a mistake in that Wikileaks have been very open about aiming to use there releases to influence politics rather than merely releasing for the sake of knowledge e.g. "Maximum political impact" which does make them less credible (Aside from the dubious links to and decision not to criticise russia)
> In what cases is that useful?

Edit: whoops, I thought you were replying to the request to add 2017 to the title.

If you've possibly already read it and are wondering if it's a repeat, if you have knowledge that the topic has had changes since then which might make it less accurate, and any number of other things.

In the end, it's more information, if people want to assume something negative about it, I feel that's on them (as long as the information shown is accurate).
JC would just have to find a different/better way to solve the problem. Just like someone designing disc brakes or mouse traps.
I would suck as a CEO. The first time someone live-streamed an attack/rape/murder on my platform I would pull the live feature.
So where does the dollar to invest in climate innovation come from if you don't take the dollar out of the fossil fuel stock?

"Climate innovation" is also going have limited impact on global warming, if by "climate innovation" you mean lower cost power sources like solar or wind.

The problem is that lower-cost clean fuel is not drive hydrocarbons away since pumping already-found oil out of the ground pretty much can't be beaten in price.

The only that can stop CO2 pollution is states using their regulatory power to stop it.

One factor to consider is that pension funds and other funds with social impact would do well to divest if such a regulatory crack-down is to take place.

-- "CO2 pollution" is good way to phrase it too, since other pollution problems aren't handled with the kind of worthless half-measures that CO2/greenhouse-gas problem has been mishandled with.
I didn't like the build and fight game play: designs and then watch AI fight other AI.

Do you control your movements and shooting in this game? Looks pretty fun
Hasn't there been a large increase in non-tenured faculty, teaching assistants, etc?
You may have overlooked or forgotten that Backblaze charges a flat rate per client device, not per gigabyte stored or transferred.
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Yeah, but countries != companies.

Divesting from SA meant smaller tax base, fewer jobs and a fall from international prominence.

Divesting from a company/industry means that the stock price may fall. Assuming that the actual profitability of the company remains unchanged all divesting did was make the stock a better buy.
There are other comments talking about how he has a phobia to plants so women grow them in their offices or wear clothing with plant imagery. This may or may not be true.

I prefer to think that Stallman finds this utterly hilarious and encourages the behavior.
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I'm just going to reply a dead comment that I saw while using the HN app that shows dead comments by default. Looks like that comment got downvoted for some reason.

>It is fake jobs for women who didn't study anything useful and this phenomena is spilling into the rest of the economy. We hoped that the influx of women to higher education will help the economy but it is only a burden, the return on the money we spend on their education is abysmal, it hurts the whole economy and is part of the reason this debt crisis was created in the first place. Women almost don't start new businesses and they don't create jobs. Most innovations, technical jobs, dangerous jobs, physical jobs and creative jobs are done by men. Women fill up mostly secretarial roles with fancy names in the private sector. Those roles don't really need any education and it is a total waste of 3 or 4 years just to signal secretarial capabilities to employers. Armies around the world can figure this out with half a day test and can teach those jobs in 3 months max. The rest of the women work in care taking type of jobs in the public sector, funded mainly by our taxes. We wouldn't need those jobs had those women stayed at home and took care of their kids, their elders, their house and gardens. The education system is a good example of industry overrun by over educated women that is deteriorating and stagnating because there are not enough men to push it forward. So I think the first step we need to take is limit higher studies only for women who are exceptional and are willing to actually study and work in something productive. That's in itself will reduce the amount of people in the system and will solve a lot of the financial issues. There are also many men who don't have to be there, but the numbers are much lower.

I think even though your point appears very inflammatory at first glance, I think your point raises a deeper problem. The issue of why are we subsidizing poor value majors. So in an ideal world any major that doesn't have much value would automatically get culled as its graduates won't find jobs but with guaranteed federal loan money that's not happening.

So tomorrow, I could go and setup a "department of crystal healing and contemporary perspectives on it" and I'll start getting the federal loan dollars from my students. The only way I see to fix this, is to make loans dischargeable via bankruptcy to bring this negative feedback pathway back into the pricing of courses ecosystem.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. -Oscar Wilde (And Civ IV)
Really cause 10-15 is like one movie a night at ye olde standard def
Having a successful business for a decade and raising prices once in the smallest marketable unit of currency, sounds like an argument for doing exactly what they are doing with their "unlimited" service.
That's only a small part of the picture.

The amount of storage each customer occupies has probably gone up considerably in the same time frame. I know my HD size (and backup usage) has quadrupled over 10 years.

And don't forget that the cost of salaries, rents, electricity, professional services, marketing and well, pretty much everything aside from bandwidth and hardware have gone up. In some cases rather dramatically.
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The rich have a relationship to the NY fed analogous to a friendship?
Balance sheet runoff is over: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/fed-sets-end-of-balance-shee...
Most conspiracy theories are disinformation to spur people to action. Most "official" narratives coming out of our news organs and bureaucracies are disinformation to keep people pacified and complacent.

To the cautious man, which is more dangerous?
The NRA is a political organization and they know their audience.
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We have over 700 users on https://lab.civicrm.org (a FOSS CRM for non-profits). While bits of the project still rely on Jenkins and Github, having most of our community on Gitlab really changes the dynamics of the project.

At first people were worried about losing contributors because "everyone is on Github", but increasingly it's the other way around. We have a lot of accidental techies who start issue tracking, testing patches, etc, and so it's nice to have a clear project structure.
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It's really not. These situations:

1) Imagine you own 10 houses outright. Congratulations, you're worth $5 million dollars! You want to spend some of that on a boat, but it's not liquid fungible money, so you can't, not without some intermediary steps that inject liquidity into your situation. You're basically solvent, no bank owns a claim on you.

2) Now, imagine you "own" 10 houses, only they each have a $500,000 mortgage. You are worth negative $5 million. But it's okay! You rent them out, and generate enough revenue to pay the mortgages. Again, you're solvent.

3) Repeat #2, only without the rent revenue. You're insolvent.

This doesn't mean insolvency & illiquidity can't coexist, but one is not an extreme form, nor does it necessitate, the other. You can be insolvent but very liquid. You can be illiquid but solvent. You can be insolvent and illiquid (which is basically #3 above)
Though it'd be fair to point out that this article gets income repayment caps wrong, calling out the downsides without noting the fact that they also make large debts for the middle class more tenable.
A converse example is also possible: an one-by-one error can be critical,cause a game to crash or database to loose data.

That tiny fix could take minutes to a person that knows the code base, and weeks to one that doesn't. Its financial impact could be in millions.
If you sell a scarce popular product, soak the people first in line. If you build your business on the word-of-mouth advertised of the loyal customers who took a big risk on you, share the wealth they helped you accumulate.
We have a give and take, it's called a "protected class". It lists reasons you can't fire people and includes reasons like being black or being a woman. We can update the laws to protect people in other classes as well, but I don't see anyone clamoring to make "defenders of pedophiles" or "creeps who alienate their coworkers" a protected class.
Really? Are you interviewing for positions in your church, or early learning center?

Because if you screen people out because they use colloquialisms like "kissing butt" in amongst an otherwise professional web post, to be honest that doesn't sound like a fun place to work.
There is also a free and fair option, just let people go bancrupt on their student loans. We've already seen politicians bailing out loans to help their reach friends, but saying it's all for the people.

Don't let history repeat itself