skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's interesting to see how some factions are now claiming that Greta is merely a puppet, following some hidden power's agenda

Please. She's a 16 year old child with no evidence of any particularly exemplary understanding of climate change or its impact on the world. She clearly has support from people with deep pockets, and the fact that they've chosen an approximately average child to deliver this message shows that they're elevating appeal to pathos over logos. You may agree with what she's advocating for, but that doesn't change the fact that this is literally propaganda, and choosing such a condescending messenger is going to turn off a lot of the people whose minds you're trying to change - and rightly so, I don't think adults should allow themselves to be shamed by children into making decisions.
Why does serverless make things a lot harder? I'd argue that the stateless nature of serverless actually makes it much, much easier to debug.
That would mean less livestock farming, which means people would have to accept a life with less meat. It's simply not going to happen. Humans are way too arrogant and inflexible to impose the smallest inconvenience on themselves unless faced with tangible, immediately harmful effects. Not to mention the complete shift in the global economy that it would demand. I've been a vegetarian for about 4 years and the cognitive dissonance you start to see is remarkable. People claim to love animals and hate animal cruelty through mouthfuls of burger and pork.
having started by-the-book (software) businesses in both Thailand and the USA I agree.

In both countries it's very easy to build/run unofficial businesses. But running a legal business is very different. In Thailand, I needed to hire a full time bookkeeper plus 3 weeks/year of an accountant just to run a 5 person business, and still needed to suffer through 2 weeks/year of government audits. In the USA, I can do everything myself (about 2 weeks/year of tax/bureaucracy overhead)
There was a post on HN a week ago that was agreeing with some statements Greta made about climate change, it has flagged and removed.
I don't always agree with everything she says but found little objectionable about the article.
Strange that it was taken down, it seems like HN does not respect any opinion unless it was mined by a block of cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
It would be helpful for you to list in what ways Apple is the most hostile and anti-competitive companies, as opposed to say Monsanto.
> globally harvests will go down and we will see a lot of refugees and hunger as a result.

The science predicts these with some degree of uncertainty but surely in the past 100 years of warming we should have seen some of that already? Harvests are up lately, hunger is very much down and the regions where population growth is highest are among the hottest in the world, closest to the equator.
This seems to answer it https://www.sciencealert.com/this-protein-could-explain-why-...

Dendritic cells 'teach' lymphocytes what a foreign invader is, right most of us know that from high school, but here's where it goes beyond me:

>They found that differences between the mice donor's and recipient's SIRPα gene correlated with the recipient's immune responses.

SIRPα isn't an unknown protein, already understood to bind to another protein called CD47 that triggers a range of immune responses in different white blood cells.

>Joining the dots, the researchers believe CD47 on monocytes – the white blood cells that grow into dendritic cells – interact with SIRPα receptors on foreign tissues, setting off the entire ID check process.

>"Once these cells are activated, then they turn around and activate the rest of the immune system, and that leads to the full-blown rejection of the organ," lead researcher Fadi Lakkis from the University of Pittsburgh told Liz Reid at 90.5 WESA.

Here's the paper https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/2/12/eaam6202

This seems to be the relevant bit

>Using an elegant positional cloning approach, Dai et al. have identified polymorphisms in the mouse gene encoding signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα) to be key in this innate self-nonself recognition. They show that SIRPα receptor CD47 binds SIRPα variants with distinct affinities and propose this affinity sensing to be the mechanism that triggers dendritic cell maturation, the first step in the initiation of the alloimmune response. Given that the SIRPα gene is also polymorphic in humans, it remains to be seen whether human SIRPα variations influence transplantation success.
Exactly. That's what doomed it. Same with Facebook. There is no way to run an ethical business when your core business model is advertising. It's hard enough when you run a company whose income relies on advertising (like a newspaper), but impossible when you yourself make advertising your primary feature.

I honestly, personally, would not care much if Google had a lot of information about me if their goal was something other than influencing me to buy products and services. I know many others are uncomfortable with any sort of privacy loss, but for me, it depends entirely on the end goal and exact nature of the data usage. And for others, they should have an easy universal opt-out (e.g. disabling all Google Analytics tracking without having to install a Google browser extension: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881).
But still produce plenty of Carbon Dioxide point source in the middle of traffic.
Cars have a section in their invoice that breaks down the value of the car’s make on a percentage basis. My Acura is around 70% by supplier/assembly standards. Perhaps the same could be done for electronics, though I wonder if anyone would really care.
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There are whiteboard markers that show you how much ink is left: https://www.amazon.com/Erase-Markers-Indicator-Chisel-Black/...
Isn’t the MSRP also 2x of the precious gen Mac Pro? ($6k vs $3k)
Yeah, I was about to respond with this too. British cars have been infamous for terrible reliability for a long time. It's frequently joked that Jaguars became more boring, but much more reliable, when Ford bought them.
Very readable two-pager. Not sure I like the styling of the graph though.
Yep, I agree with him. Without the right incentives we are dead in the water.
I mean, given that there is no carbon tax, carbon use has been increasing, and the federal government of my nation is stripping a state's stricter gas emissions laws for vehicles, I think lobbyists against climate change activism have been wildly successful.

And "they" means "your lobbyists". "They" is a pronoun referring to an arbitrary number of people for which have already been declared in English grammar.
Probably overreacted to the expired cert message, and having not actually read the warning, assumed the worst.
Cows are expensive, unless you’ve got some way of subsidising them, e.g with rainforest
The Mafia is not a business. Apple does well in their core businesses.
IMHO the major threat does not originates from any natural effect of the climate change but rather, as parent has tried to illustrate, from the wars that are likely to erupt for resource/land/water/migrations control.

I mean, when you see how easily we set the world on fire because of some oil or water today, it is not unreasonable to assume that this is going to become even more violent when resources becomes more scarce.
I switched from Boogie to Rocketbook and it's a better user experience.
> It's a company's job to be anti-competitive

No it isn't, it literally isn't. A company's job is to be competitive. While there may be all sorts of libertarian apologists out there anti-competitive action is still... anti-compeititive.

Apple's walled garden of an app store among various other tactics aren't about producing a better product - they're about preventing competing products.
>when one country is run like a trillion-dollar mafia.

Which country are you talking about, China or the US?
The whole point of this, evolutionarily, is so that a parasite that thrived in one human body won't necessarily thrive in another.

This is also why many species reproduce by sex.
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No, non-gmo seeds can be and are patented (see https://eorganic.org/node/382#.VZ7hhvlVikp). In Europe it's to the point that some traditional and old seeds can't be sold. See the kokopelli case https://corporateeurope.org/en/news/closing-our-seeds http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-59/11&language=... and https://blog.kokopelli-semences.fr/2017/05/retour-sur-un-pro... (french).
Microelectronics, both cheap and expensive, is really the same technology. You move out the high volume base, engineering careers become dead ends and low volume high value products become problematic too.

"Let's move production to China and keep R&D here" is a pipe dream.
Thailand is a huge market for pickup trucks, though more often of the smaller variety. The HiLux is made in Thailand (and exported to places like Australia from there).
Look at the data. Even within the EU, Germany is behind the level you would expect based on every indicator (institutions, education, productivity, etc.).

And this is basically a function of Germany's economic development. Germany industrialised quickly by extracting from consumers. Forced savings, cheap loans to entrepreneurs, etc. The model isn't optimised for competition and new entry.

Germany hasn't really moved on from that point. Industry and banking is still heavily concentrated (the level of corporatism is far beyond anything outside of East Asia). Capital markets still don't really exist (amazingly, given current ECB policy). Consumers are still paying a massive surplus over to the corporate sector (through low wages and forced saving).

Rocket Internet is the kind of exception that proves the rule. They were successful but only by doing something totally inexplicable in any other context (i.e. their shareholding model is a function of the awful state of finance in Germany).

Definitely, the govt have trying very hard on this for a while. But with no real results because the model seems to produce what voters want. There are signs that things are coming apart (particularly in banking) but before that point, nothing will change. It just makes no sense to compare Germany to an entrepreneurial society, that has never been the goal.
I have to agree with the other commenter, I think you're definitely overthinking it. A keyword search is clearly what they meant for the user to do.

They're not expecting 5% of the population to train a word2vec model and produce prediction interval estimates. Just a simple back-of-the-envelope check.
This is a straw man. No one thinks climate change is the only thing a government should spend money on. Many do think it has not been taken as seriously as it ought to be given the significance of the harms it leads to.
Do you believe mass migration from whole world to Canada Russia Greenland and Antarctica would work out without war?
Very true, I think there is a big difference too.
How would a privacy-preserving payment system (like GNU Taler) obviate the need for Javascript?
I just spec'd out a HP Z6 to the min spec of the Mac Pro - it came to about $4000 (and that is EU prices, I am sure the US prices are less) - so 20% difference.

An maxed out z8 is $50k - but that is way over what most people need, or you can do with a Mac Pro

If you look at other manafacturers - you can get insane performance for much cheaper.

2 x AMD Epycs (64 cores per CPU, 128 cores / 256 threads in the box)
1TB RAM
2x2TB SSD
2 x Quadro RTX 6000

Is $38,000. It is not even in the same sport, let alone league as the mac pro
One way developers and product managers can help craft the world you envision is to exercise good moral judgement when confronted with choices that may lead to degraded sovereignty of personal data. The same way a civil engineer ought not sign off on a bridge design that's compromised.

I realize not everyone is in a position to take a stand, and some will argue others will inevitably step in to do the shady deed. Keep in mind bold actions of integrity will often inspire others.
I subscrbe to the idea that the Fairness Doctrine era media ecosystem produced a diversity of voices, not necessarily opinions engaged in healthy debate.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not sure it is the business of government to be deciding what is or isn't healthy debate or trying to encourage it. It's far too easy to decide that healthy is things that agree with you, and unhealthy is everything else. This is routine in a number of places in the world that I would rather not live in.

This is quite aside from the practical questions of how a person might square the constitutional questions around the Fairness Doctrine with the internet. The considerations that allowed it to apply to radio and TV don't work in an internet context.

Call me an idealist, but I don't see why we need to structure things around deciding for the public what speech they are and aren't allowed to be exposed to. We're mostly talking about adults generally capable of making their own decisions, aren't we?
Oftentimes when traveling we use our phone to select our meal. We use Google/Yelp and just pick a place with good reviews in English (because we know they will cater to our American sensibilities if other English speakers had a good time there) and then just go.

We've found some real gems that way. Places that were so good we purposely went back again the next day. Without my phone, those meals would have never happened. We would have walked into the first place we passed by, which maybe was good or maybe wasn't. At least with the phone our chances of finding something are much higher.

Also, I totally look at old photos of trips all the time. Especially when Facebook reminds me that it has been X years since I was last there.
There’s so little of substance in this post and so much xenophobia and hyperbolic thinking I’m surprised it’s not been downvoted to smitherenes.

China is the second largest economy in the world. They’ve got many smart individuals in business and engineering and everything in between.

And for someone writing on a tech board like HN to think that tech won’t pull China and India and the Philippines and other countries onto the same plane as western powerhouses is just myopic. Tech and education over time lifts all boats.
> “We all know we are in uncharted waters,” Tarleton said. “I would rather not have to go through a catastrophic failure.”

If anyone hasn't been through some tragic medical shit in their life, pay attention to that. You'll understand it later.
I'm pretty sure that it's referring to the requirements to state that a product is "Made in the USA". Typically it means that atleast 51% of the components are USA-sourced.

I think that Apple just got a waiver from the Govt to say the Mac Pro is "Made in the USA" despite not meeting whatever arbitrary guidelines to fulfill that requirement.
Not to be pedantic but the Dell machine is on sale, and Apple isn't.

It's list price is $4,420.29 which is still about $1500 off. But that comes with Windows that supports 4 cores so you would need to upgrade to the 4+ cores one thats another $100 so more like $1400.

So basically $1400 is the difference between a top tier Dell and a top tier Apple. Still a fairly large margin, but after a certain number the amount matters less. People who are buying $4500 computers typically don't care about spending another $1000.
It has everything to do how pharma develops drugs and what are the incentives around medicine that we give to them.
Agreed. At some point we have to realize that as a species we don't all have the "right" to reproduce as much as we want.
Technically the earth together with technology should be able to support quite a bit more population, but given that we're not willing to make any sacrifices in the behavior of the living, limiting growth until we do is the other option.
But telling someone they can't make babies is the only thing worse for a politician than saying you can't drive your big-ass car around or consume and throw away all the crap you like...
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Manufacturing is a ladder. You use the previous generation manufacturing to create the new. Once you lack certain manufacturing processes by moving it over seas you are in a sense kicking your own ladder out from underneath you. The trade wars now are a response to realizing large pieces of the ladder are gone.
We use PostgreSQL date RANGE partitions in our datamart DB for exactly this – functionally instant deletion of old data, without leaving dead tuples in the main table.
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Narrative violation! Good things aren't supposed to happen under this administration.

/s
Steve Jobs made a similar offer to Dropbox.
If you are using this for your shopping website I would definitely agree. If you are building a managed database service like DynamoDB or Aurora then complexity may be warranted. Great for companies like Google and Amazon that need something that will work best for them and have the engineering talent to make it stick.

Projects like this are how we get solutions that blow existing stuff out of the water. Although a lot just end up being fun projects that amount to nothing but an entertaining blog article.
If we are on the average smarter now, we have to see higher achievement rate on the average too. Doesn't seem to happen.
That exemple was from a time I worked on a project for a big Telco, and support was (supposed to be) provided by a very large database company which database and file system we were using. I think the guy who wrote that code was very long gone.
I think you have to disambiguate two types of "breakage". One is suspending the thread, so to speak, and the other is functional destruction. I think perfectly non-destructive suspension of the process should not influence identity at all. Does an algorithm change its semantics if we pause the execution for a millisecond?

This also assumes that duplication requires either type of breakage--for thought experiment purposes you may assume that cloning is possible with 0 delay and with 0 destructive change.

If you care about which physical substrate the process is running on specifically, this is the bias towards physical continuity I noted.
Probably because the subject attacks the fundamental instinct to procreate. How do you tell a couple that they legally can't have children? Many of my friends define their lives around having a family, it gives people a deep, and rewarding purpose.
>I don't know anybody getting $6.6k/mo from Social Security...

Of course you don't. The maximum benefit in 2019 is $3,770/mo for people who retire at 70. If you retire at 66, then the max is $2,861/mo. And these are only what you get if you maxed out 35 years of SS payments. Besides, SS is designed to only replace 40% of your pre-retirement income.
Yep - a minimum wage of 7.x is murdering American jobs still. Not because low skill labour pays that, but it bases its increases on that incredibly insulting baseline.

You can survive on welfare rather than eke out a miserly living on shit jobs that take up your life, which also allows for black market income. Either go for a living wage linked to food and housing/leasing costs that is evaluated periodically, or go for a universal income minimum - it would at least be more honest than that.

Our political system is incredibly dysfunctional and the main cause of this. Instead of forming alliances like a multi-party system in Europe, we're forced to choose between ideological (not practical) extremes. It serves to further cement that disparity.
Oh no, a 16-year-old child with a basic understanding of climate change. This must be the work of the fucking Freemasons!
That Venus may once have had an Earth-like climate, until it hit a "runaway greenhouse gas state", is a scary thought considering our current challenges on Earth (and melting permafrost and methane bubbles). Sometimes people say "we might pollute enough to kill all humans, but nature will continue just fine without us." - Unless we do enough damage to trigger a runaway state and turn Earth into another Venus.
Not when it's illegal to export your IP. Those are the contracts where America makes money. All the non-descript brown buildings you pass by on your way to work are the manufacturing/heat-treating/welding/plating shops that make every piece of machinery that flies overhead.

Name me one piece of a commercial airliner that you are allowed to source from China. I'll wait.

So when you consider what we're currently making, Apple Computers in a massive factory with suicide nets over the windows is a race to the bottom. Nobody wants to compete with Chinese manufacturing on their home turf of cheap Wal-Mart goods. We'll be living in dog cages too if we do that. We want to make airplanes and spaceships and meaningful technology.
Mafia is straight up a business buddy
For example EU not implementing carbon tax in the 90s because of the lobbyists
I don't have any proof or even tangible evidence of this, but anecdotally I wonder if, even though Seattle has a lot of tech workers, they're a self-selecting population of tech workers who don't want to be entrepreneurs.

I'm in Seattle, and I've worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and a couple of smaller companies, and I've run across quite a few people who could've gone to either Seattle or the Valley, and deliberately picked the former because they didn't want to participate in the startup rat race and just wanted a stable job.

And of course, this trend would be a positive feedback loop over time: the more the Valley is associated with entrepreneur culture and Seattle is not, the more that potential entrepreneurs go to the Valley and the day-jobbers go to Seattle, which reinforces the original perception.

Again, this is all guesswork, but it does line up with my anecdotal experience.
> A world depleted of its glaciers, lacking in drinkable water, lacking in animal diversity, lacking in arable land, lacking in coral reefs, coastal cities with all their rich history and culture buried underwater and on, and on, is EXACTLY a hellish nightmare.

None of these will be true though?
Is Alaska a big outlier inside the US regarding equality? Because the US as a whole is nowhere near the level of Norway in terms of equality. As a matter of fact Russia has a lower Gini coefficient. Even in the Americas US is below Canada, Uruguay, Argentina among other and almost parity with Venezuela.

The problem in Venezuela is that the state has been weak and ineffective. Weak != Small, you have this suffocating bureaucracy which does nothing.
> given that there is no carbon tax

There is in some countries and more and more are considering one.

> carbon use has been increasing

Where? Not in the EU and USA if you mean emissions and not something like paper use...

> I think lobbyists against climate change activism have been wildly successful.

But why are they practically invisible? How can the news / the MSM report on climate change every day despite all that lobbying and not a single authoritative voice against it is heard? Except Trump, sometimes and other politicians shunned by the media.