skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might, if you wanted to make the number sounds more impressive... the smaller the perceived value, the stronger the point he's making, so he's trading clarity for more punch. Not saying that that's a good move, but I think it's more likely he's trying to use impressive sounding language than that he's off by three orders of magnitude on a topic that he's clearly reasonably well versed in.
Eh, maybe? It "worked" in that they're choosing to not renew the contracts over the next year, but he admitted that over the last year employees have been fighting for this and have been ignored until now, which is pretty shitty. For revenue that appears to be only $95k USD (the amount they're earning from the contract that they're instead going to match to charity)?

https://twitter.com/DannyPage/status/1176155955173552133
War and enriching military contractors, creating the TSA, subsidies to businesses that don't need them, etc. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FiW5I95R5xg/hqdefault.jpg
Would be really nice to see performance comparisons against a chromium equivalent for the same UX.
Look at that sally, a false equivocation right out of the gate. I'll just change your text so that it represents what I actually said ....

>How exactly does taking steps that have previously been used in civil suits to demonstrate due diligence such enforcing password requirements going to demonstrate due diligence?

Well I'm glad you asked billy! The answer is tautology. Thanks for playing.

This argument is stupid. You want to talk about yak shaving, theoretical nonsense. FWIW I agree with you and think that password requirements are dumb, but you live in the real world. These are the legal realities of IT policy.
I hate to be a party pooper but I don't see any mystery here. The maze generator is a cellular automata with small amounts randomness thrown in. The rules were picked by hand and tweaked to get the desired look. The rules were encode into a lookup table, which was an unexciting, mundane optimization at the time.

I've written very similar code for my 6502 roguelike game.
Considering a climate change spokesperson has nothing to do with technology on a technology-oriented forum.
I found that plot strange as well. I wonder why they didn't take a few minutes to redo it rather than sketch it out if it were going to be published?
The deep and rewarding purpose necessarily must be separated from the carrying capacity of the world. There are plenty of families with 12+ kids, but this clearly isn't something that would be possible to sustain for all couples.

This is a fundamental tragedy of the commons. I feel guilty about even wanting to have two kids at some point due to the climate impact. Everywhere I look I see people having large families without caring. This has to be balanced long term for our species (and others) to survive centuries from now.
You are right. Lot of people traveled in 20th century. But a lot more could have traveled if there was Internet in 20th century. Internet has reduced the friction to travel abroad by a lot. You know more about the world now. You can plan travel and book flight tickets, hostels and bus tickets in multiple countries by not even leaving your room from a small city in India.

> What's the difficult / tragic experience one has in a different country if they don't have constant internet access or GPS?

hmm. I think having an Instant access to Internet is like a super power. You feel more in control as well as save a lot of time. Some examples

* Finding exchanges that gives you a good rate in a new country. Lot of exchanges just rip you off and sorting by negative reviews will help you a lot.

* I think Google maps is pretty helpful especially if you are on a tight schedule. I had to get a bus late night in Budapest and had only 1 hour to reach the bus stop from hostel. I am pretty sure I could not have reached the bus stop on time if it was not for Goole maps. The maps told me that half the train track is not working because of maintainance and I have to get down at station X and start walking. There were hardly anyone in road at that time and it would have been super scary If I didnt have Google maps.

* You often need to use an App to unlock a rental bicycle. Ofcourse there are other ways to rent a bicycle but this is much more convinent and acessible.

* Need to contact emergency services but dont know/forgot the number.
It looks like the globohomo bureaucrats have found their next pseudo science to scare an uneducated, susceptible populace into believing that a planet closer to mercury than earth was once a utopian paradise and that if we don't start taxing basic life processes and giving our money to them we will burn up faster than the ozone layer.
Because it's a coordination problem. So you can't actually add marginal value by adding marginal contribution.
As another commenter said, "perceived to be" is the key phrase.

This administrations rhetoric is bombastic and often times xenophobic. That rhetoric creates a different perception and generates mistrust.

Imagine you had two co-workers. One was incredibly clumsy, and constantly, accidentally, stepped on people's foot. They always apologized, and generally tried to make it right, but every day, someone's foot was stepped on.

Another co-worker walks around talking about how they're going to punch every one in the face. They punch a lot of people in the face, more often than not people who don't deserve it.

By the numbers, the first co-worker is harming far more people.

But the second one is the guy who gets fired.
Why did we move away from VB? Great for writing for a single platform.

Cold Fusion had issues that would prevent it from taking over.
1. If there is nobody who knows how the previous conf mgmt system was configured, or how the technology works.

2. If there is nobody willing to adopt a cluster using conf mgmt that they do not prefer.

We had an admin that set up an ELK cluster with cfengine. All of the other admins do not claim to understand it, and hesitate to maintain it, update it, make changes to it, and otherwise perform their job duties. One of the admins is partial to Chef, and the other wants to maintain the ELK cluster with Kubernetes. Only problem is neither has done so, and they have made little progress. I hope to see that change.
Speak for yourself. My laptop cost almost $5,000, my desktop cost almost $3,000 to build, and you can bet that another $1,400 would have made a huge difference either way. Not to say things wouldnt have ended up the same way, but I definitely would have cared about another $1400.

When you're talking about numbers like that for individuals, 15% is a lot. Even businesses would care about a 15% increase in costs
All 50 of them.
That's due to agriculture and lack of synthetic fertilizer, not antibiotics.
We're getting close to the point of no return when it comes to losing all of the ice. That melting process may take 1000 years, but becomes inevitable once there is sufficient CO2 in the atmosphere.

https://www.businessinsider.com/greenland-approaching-thresh...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-identify-melting-thre...

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102017/antarctica-sea-l...

I couldn't find a source for "all the glaciers will melt" but it's a pretty safe bet that if Greenland ice is gone in 1000 years, then so are pretty much all worldwide (mountain) glaciers, and the ice caps.
... with stolen IP from America.
You're being driven into mass hysteria by shitty research and a pop-sci bias which only selects for you the absolute worst possibility under the weakest academic standards.

Take this paper for example. See figure 2? Those numbers come directly from the trend lines on those figures. But look closely at the data. The shading effectively represents how much data they have each year. In the "Chickens" figure there is a box plot in 2000 that is barely discernible, but if you look carefully you see that the distribution matches recent years. How convenient that that data was hidden, since it directly refutes their conclusions.

In fact, the fact that they used bar graphs here is extremely questionable when a scatter plot would far better represent the data. We'd easily be able to glean what the box plots are trying to hide: that the data is extremely noisy, that past data is almost non-existent, and that every year the range of their distribution is nearly 0%-100%.

While there might indeed be an effect in the data over time, the fact is that the effect is far smaller than year-to-year variability.
i hope you're right, but available evidence points the other way:
* glaciers are melting at unprecedented rate, even glaciers previously thought safe like the ones in Antarctica
* as a result, drinking water is running low in many densely-populated places; even groundwater is being exhausted
* we're in the middle of a mass extinction
* coral reefs are under threat, and higher ocean acidity may destroy the ability of new corals to form in the future

not sure about arable land and coastal cities underwater (certainly some will be), but even without those it's looking dire.
Because there is no world overpopulation. People talk about overpopulation since ancient times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#History_o...

Currently standard of living are growing almost all over the world and human population is predicted to pick and stabilize at around 11 billion.

I really recommend "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

What's also interesting in his video is the fact that people tend to be very misinformed about state of the world affairs. E.g. when asked questions about certain statistics, they do worse than random. And the better educated you are the more misinformed you may be.
While technically correct, this distinction is often muddied in colloquial speech when saying that a particular point is "in" an Xth percentile. I suppose it might also depend on which direction you orient your scale on the axis ;)
I don't agree with this analysis. It sounds like misinterpreting their points.
A 100% compatible donor is a identical twin or clone.
Besides the MHC haplotypes which govern large parts of the immune response to ‘self’ there is the actual makeup of the rest of the genetic material which may be presented as antigens and then recognised as foreign
I know some of the face transplants were funded by the department of defense.
Why listen to a child, specifically, and not the scientists themselves? Unless it is another attempt to portrey kids as the symbol of purity and truth.
> Frankly this kind of doomsaying view has no basis in reality. While it's true that unmitigated global warming will impose a very large economic cost, it's simply not the case that it's going to turn the world into some unlivable hell-scape. There's just no basis for that belief in the actual evidence.

There's plenty of evidence for an unlivable hellscape, some of it is in your post, you just fail to see it.

> The best estimates say that global warming will lower per capita GDP by somewhere between 5-20% by 2100. That's a tragedy, because in aggregate it represents a huge amount of unnecessarily lost wealth. But a 5-20% in GDP per capita does not mean that we'll be dying in the streets.

A 5-20% drop in global GDP is not going to be a temporary drop, like what we have in a recession. It is going to be a permanent drop in global GDP. Bear in mind that the Great Depression was about a 15% drop in GDP over a few years. Think about how much pain and misery is represented by a drop as big or bigger that is permanent.

Furthermore, it's not going to be 2% year-over-year then suddenly in 2100 it goes backwards. Growth is going to stagnate, and start reversing as the consequences of climate change grow worse.

> Unmitigated global warming will make the people of the future substantially poorer. But not nearly by enough to cancel out the effect of continuous economic growth and technological development. It's almost certainly the case that the people of 2100 will enjoy higher living standards than the present.

I don't think you're grasping the scale and impact of destruction that is possible and indeed, probable if we don't address the problem. Ocean acidification and warming oceans means that coral reefs not only will die, but they will dissolve. Entire ocean ecosystems will collapse because a wide swath of plankton that forms the base of the food chain, will not be able to form their calcium carbonate exoskeletions. Overfishing is already a problem, when fisheries start collapsing, overfishing will finish the job. Today, 2 billion people rely on the sea for their primary source of protein.

Some regions are going to see heat waves that are several degrees above the 2 degrees C average rise. Heatwaves and droughts will drastically reduce crop yields and outright kill crops. Heatwaves can and will kill livestock as well. Disruption of global food supplies and water supplies will create multiple humanitarian crises.

And that's not even getting into the fact that something like 600 million people live in coastal areas around the world. A much hotter climate will not only result in several feet of sea level rise, it will result in much stronger storms and flooding that will destroy trillions of dollars in real estate, not to mention that it will kill people.

Put all of those things together, then think about how hard it's going to be for governments to maintain order. Especially in parts of the world that are already unstable.
a 386 at 40 MHz run Windows 95 perfectly
This logic is textbook whataboutism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Climate change is a big potential ecological disaster - for us. Earth has had periods of much hotter temperatures than climate change is likely to induce. During the early Carboniferous period, the average global temperature was almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today. It would take a long time to turn Earth into Venus, or even something similar to the Carboniferous
Or, they could just start voluntarily respecting the DNT header.
Idle thought: if musicians are being slowly replaced by algorithms, the future might not look like streaming individual tracks, but like apps that generate an endless amount of music locally. I think there'd be demand for such a thing from people who just want something on in the background. Possibly currently supplied by the four-hour or longer sets of electronic/classical music one sees on YouTube.
I think you might want to factor in the fact that when you're going on to TPB, your goal is to get something for nothing.

Add to that the fact that people might feel strange giving donations to TPB for not giving money to the creators whose bits you are downloading.

Finally, I'm pretty sure donating bitcoin to TPB is a good way to get yourself implicated legally. It's non-trivial to launder bitcoins, no matter what the film industry wants you to believe.
It is more about backwards compatibility than anything else. Remember that .NET Framework is something that ships with an operating system (Windows) and has components built on this shared runtime: not only devtools like SSMS and Visual Studio but core Windows components like MMC applets and things like ADFS / Remote Desktop Gateway as well. This puts up a bar regarding backwards compatibility. Not only code that is written against the runtime need to be compatible, but also code hosting the runtime, debugging the runtime, the profiler API, and I could go on.

This yields some constraints in whatever is possible changing. Want to add new IL instructions? No can do. Need to change the debugger API? No can do.

Please also see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18364032
I'll never forget the experience of drunkenly conversing with an Argentinian friend I made in a Parisian hostel who spoke not even a lick of English by both of us taking turns speaking into Google Translate on my phone.

I'll travel with a phone, thanks.
Your description comes somewhat close to the initial grand vision of Facebook as a global community uniting strangers of different cultures in a shared, positive effort of cooperation.

While everyone probably has a few examples of friends they otherwise wouldn't have kept in touch with, that is so far from those optimistic hopes that we stopped debating the possibility about five years ago and don't even make fun of it even more these days.
I really like this concept, and you've done a nice job stripping away everything except the bare minimum essentials.

That being said, are there any plans to support markdown? Also it may prove helpful to be able to download posts before the site is destroyed.
It depends. If you are buying high priced stuff (i.e. Borders wool) then it is going to be high quality.

What people don't realise is that in the North there are people working for 50p/£1 an hour making clothes for Primark et al (some of this isn't even branded as "Made in the UK").

So the reason quality is lower is because no-one will pay for quality anymore. These jobs go overseas or they done here under illegal/slave labour conditions (the UK is a bit like the U.S. in that there is basically no oversight of these breaches).

Also the "skills" required aren't that high. That is why the jobs went to China.
The Dangers of Hiring for Cultural Fit
Except Thomas Cook is out of business and you need a place to sleep or a way to get home. Whatever the legal niceties that may be resolved or not over the next few years, sort of makes it your problem.
I have been developing in .Net MVC 5 and now the last 6 months in .Net Core 2.1. Core is pretty awesome, I would say the learning curve is pretty high, but I'm very satisfied. Previously, I used Java in school. The .Net stack offers a lot of jobs in enterprise companies, if you are someone that dislikes SV mindset.

Also, Visual Studio is an insane IDE. Although, I recently did have some nasty bugs but updates are coming out pretty quickly.

Edit: Microsoft has also added many new videos to help beginners, these cover various topics https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/videos.
> What is being asked here is

"...can you appease the mobs with their pet issue of the day that has gained public attention?"

If we do not care about the gravity of the action, then that is what is being asked. It is not being moral, it is not about doing the right thing for society, this is just about making a small group of privileged people feel good about something that will not help the kids crossing the border.
So you're just making a slippery slope argument then?

I think it's a pretty farfetched stretch from human rights and internment of children to soft drinks that people choose to consume.
Yeah, I had a question around how to stop people from claiming "legit" brands and bashing them? I could easily see someone take a brand like Uber or Airbnb and start creating content that could get the actual brand in legit trouble. Cool concept though! I like the simplicity.
I recently bought a domestic vehicle. What a mistake. The assembly quality is awful. I don't know how they assemble the body panels I thought it was all done by robots, but robots would not miss spot welds or misalign parts and retry welds after a miss. I think there was just a bunch of drunks manually assembling that Ford vehicle. The paint is peeling on the roof of a NEW car.

From my experience, don't buy made in the US. It is too expensive and the quality is bad. I think the pay structure in this country is such that nobody is paid "enough" to do quality work.
She knows what she is doing. She took two months to sail to America, but she shall fly back, and others shall sail her boat back (the boat can't even be towed for some reason).
Write to Express, Not to Impress
It just means someone else is going to pick that contract up.

Disclaimer: I bid on federal gov projects. The work is fairly fungible.
But things do move that quickly. Current projections [1] have global sea levels rising from anything between 0.3m and 2.4m by the end of the century.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
Thank you German tax slave that gets to pay for the externalized costs of the ruling class.

Here's to you ... German tax slave that pays 30% an average effective income tax, 15% (7.5% employee/employer share) "free" healthcare, 20% sales (what VAT essentially is) tax, and 100% gasoline tax, and works while freeloading third world immigrants live off you by the millions while drawing "welfare" under three different fake names and living in three free houses for their three wives and the dozens of children that will disown the children you never had of the country and lands your forefathers created ...

Here's to you ... pathologically altruistic self-destruct fool
... just the way they intended it for you in revenge.
> We place too high a value on human life

I don't think this is quite right. More accurately, I think we need to the risk assumer and risk accepter may need to be making the informed decisions.

Too often there is someone making a decision that someone else pays for. You want to strap yourself to a rocket and go into space and you have been communicated the risks and accepted them, that's one thing. It's entirely another when you get into a car running on software that you have no clue about. In the latter case, you aren't making a risk informed decision because the person/corporation determining that the risk is acceptable doesn't flow that information down to you (or, there's limited bandwidth that any one person can make an informed decision about). That's where regulation levels to playing field somewhat to ensure perverse incentives don't cause risks to be accepted by those who don't have to bear them. I or [insert relevant company name here] shouldn't be the decider on what risk you should be (perhaps unwittingly) accepting.
Agreed. But ... can there be A Beautiful Deleveraging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI0bUuQJN3s ? I don't think so. It is all a dynamic system. I think there will be no inflation for a while, and when it appears it will be massive and almost uncontrollable. It is hard to "trade" on it, because I could imagine even a decade of politicians and CBs struggling with a deflation, until they winds change, and all their efforts finally start "paying of" and we have a period of a very high inflation. Or alternatively ... a severe stagflation for a decade or two, where it is hard to pay mortgage (afford a new one) despite prices generally falling - because eating comes before investing.
The idea is to avoid normalizing the actions of ICE. Public perception is one of the largest drivers of change in government. Look at things like marriage equality and marijuana usage have driven legislation over time.

Whether or not Chef dropping ICE as a customer directly saves one kid isn't the only marker of success. The combination of hamstringing operations along with increased public awareness are steps along the path to shutting them down for good.

I also agree there is a moral obligation in advertising unhealthy foods, but equating the damages of that to ICE just undermines the efforts of both avenues.
People choose to drink soda. It's a far cry from separating children and locking them into cages. Not remotely comparable.
> And the argument that luxury housing prices out lower income people from housing is like saying luxury cars price out lower income people from cars.

No, it's not, since the resources needed for housing (land) are heavily limited, while the resources needed for cars are not.