skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've seen lots of comments on how she's a left-wing puppet, or why they didn't get some scientist knowing what they speak about up there instead of a kid.

But

- Why is caring about climate left-wing?

- It's the same people ignoring the scientists, that write this crap, so no, a scientist speaking doesn't solve anthing. Unfortunately. It wouldn't have come to this then.
This scheme was already in the news about a month ago:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-lend-founder-and-em...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/17/softbank-to-lend-up-to-20-bi...

I guess the whole WeWork saga makes it relevant again?

edit: Those who are hitting the paywall, try the 'web' link.
Yes it is.

And I can continue that all day long.

When you are standing on the rails with a high-speed train rushing towards you and your buddy next to you is yelling "LET'S GET OF THE RAILS OR WE'RE GOING TO DIE!", that's not alarmist. But you try to make it look like that.

Seriously. Looking at your history of comments, climate change denials seems to be one of your things, so trying to reach you is probably a lost cause.

Yes, the world is burning. Yes, the ecosystem is failing. Yes, hordes of hungry refugees will roam the planet (probably even Alberta!). Yes, civilization is going to collapse.

(If we don't get our shit together REALLY quickly, which I doubt we will).

Sticking your fingers in your ears, sticking your head into the sand, singing "LALALA" very loudly and calling people 'alarmist' is not going to change that.

But hey! Après moi, le déluge!

At least we will have had the most awesome orgy of consumption and self-deception, like, ever.

Awesome!
I'm a big fan of WWDTM, because I find it funny. IMHO, it's the second-best podcast I listen to. It's relatively light, doesn't take itself too seriously, doesn't pretend to be a serious quiz, and the guest panelists are good enough in the small doses that's dished out.
Sure, because only a capitalist would want to live somewhere or have something to eat /s
This was also in 1984, a time when language was much stricter. Nowadays I wouldn't expect 'hell' to be considered a swear word in the U.S.
For what it's worth, incinerating garbage is widely used in Switzerland/Germany. When done well (which is hard and expensive), it's a good way to generate energy without polluting the environment.

Basically, rather than burn petrol directly, you first turn it into plastic, so you can carry your yoghurt home, before you then use it as fuel.

What's not to like?? :-)
Because it’s available everywhere e.g. work/family/friends etc. and I can share it with family/friends as well. It’s a lot of fun to see people’s reactions when they see what the net can be like without all of the ads.
I run wireguard + pi-hole (docker) on a cheap vps. It was fairly easy to setup and does a good job. Still, not an ideal setup for non-technical users.
Now what i really want is a universal gdpr-cookies-prompt killer. Does that exist?
During extreme times, when money becomes just another idol in the face of ruthless nature ready to annihilate our superstitions, let's talk about the Necessity Defense https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-climate-necessity-... .
Unless your work doubles and you need to hire another dev.
One interpretation of the title could be that half of conspiracy theories are true.
If you go back to the earliest monasteries, it would be the Pythagoreans of southern Italy c.525BC. They conducted the first attested hypothesis-driven scientific experiments -- while pursuing a simple, spiritual and communal lifestyle. Josephus and Philo of Alexandria described the Essenes and Therapeuts as Pythagorean -- and those monastic groups are largely where Christian monasticism emerged from.
Chris Lamprecht
Maybe everyone already knows what you're going to say and they're going to ignore her but look at all the earned media she's getting. Maybe almost everyone in that audience is too jaded to care, but I'd bet that she's having at least some influence in creating a broader movement (or adding fuel to existing climate movements) globally around the issue. Even media circuses can be useful.
> I sincerely hope that there will be people in the FSF

There are: https://www.fsfla.org/%7Elxoliva/

But apart from being next in line, he's also next in line:
https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1174371580547223553
France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar
You didn't notice any other bias from NPR? I listen to it all the time and only for the bias to know what's in the minds of a certain slice of society.
Regardless of intent, the result is the same... Troll.
Breaking Pills Revisited
Exactly, I even thought of taking a break off Twitter for a few months. It's getting more and more toxic, just like our environment. How can people express such hate, for a 16 old stating what should be obvious?
Title is slightly misleading, it isss the mini-pci express connector but the FPGA itself can't talk pci-express as it lacks the necessary transceivers
> However, a different story emerges among Leave voters. The proportion who say that leaving without a deal would be a good outcome is 46%. This is well below the 73% who say they back leaving the EU without a deal, when offered a straight choice.

which is what matters if brexit is still the majority position.
They've said that every decade since ww2. I think China will have to pay off the US for their misdeeds, but they have built a valuable step in their progress in the world. They can go explore a new social role with their influence in the south china sea and with the BRI.

I would be concerned about China in the 2030s and 2040s.
There is a reason ad blockers are called "ad blockers", and not "tracking protectors" or "privacy protectors" or "malware protectors" (the latter three being their own category of software). It's because they exist precisely for blocking ads "just for the sake of blocking ads".

Ads are malicious. It's perfectly fine to block them. Privacy protection is just a convenient side effect.
I guess I'm just not sure what her work is that isn't already being done by others.

There are mobs of great people, scientists, activists etc... speaking truth to power about global climate change worldwide and have been doing so for decades.

I'm just not clear about what is remarkable about what she's doing aside from her being a teenager.

As a relevant counter example, Boyan Slat invented a plastic cleanup device at 16 and has made good progress getting it used in practice. [1] That seems like something that is novel and beneficial.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyan_Slat
Oh interesting, maybe I should look into this more, I feel like it would be useful, but one day it just showed up in my projects and spammed out and drowned all my debugs in the log so now I rip it out as soon as I can because it drives me nuts and I couldn't find an easy way to turn down the messaging.
That's a pretty big problem. Governments need to put in a big effort to remove the car dependence they created rather than let careless people go on killing because it's a convenient way for them to get to work and read the news at the same time.
> Do you believe he has alienated more women from FOSS than he has inspired people to contribute to it?

If I save a hundred lives as a doctor and then murder one person, does the calculus go in my favor?
It's going to end like the kids from "March For Our Lives" ended: swimming in complete irrelevance. The media are just milking these kids because emotions sell. All of this is boring and useless, and even the beginning of a worrying trend.
An intuitive explanation of the solution to the problem posted in a hn article from last week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024224
Don't you have to still reboot Macs to apply certain updates?
Building the next big productivity tool
Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity?
Hi there,

We are 2 co-founders - I own 40% and (let’s call him) Jim owns 60%. Jim invested $12.000 (funded the development), I’ve invested about $1.000. Most of the work except of programming (we hired freelancers to develop a sharing economy app) was done by me - I’ve done the initial sketches & app flow based on Jim’s idea, created us a website, got us a payment gateway, communicated with accountants, handled app submissions, marketing & social media, whole design & branding stuff, handled Android programmer, etc. Jim mainly handled the iOS programmer and a lawyer. The overall hours spent (and work done) are maybe in 85:15 ratio.

The app was released a few months ago, got some first users and great feedback from the startup community, but some huge bugs occurred so it’s currently in the stage of fixing them (it’d be done in like 2 weeks)

Now I’ve decided to leave after almost 2 years. I’ve proposed to Jim that my share from the potential sale of the startup will be reduced to 30% immediately and will be gradually reduced ever further over a period of 4 years to 5%.

Jim said that it’s absolutely unacceptable for me to retain ANY equity after I leave. He wants to pay me my share of the incorporation fee that I’ve paid and that’s it. He argues that once I leave the company I’m not entitled to any money he gets from the potential acquisition.

Do you think this is fair? I’ve tried to explain to Jim that what I want is a norm in the startup world and that the equity that I would retain is a compensation for the work that I’ve done to this point, but without any success.

If we don’t agree on my exit (taking my share of the incorporation fee) I think he will create a new company and operate the app like that - the thing is that he paid for the app development with his own money (not the corporate ones) so he argues that he owns the app.

I’d be really glad to hear your opinions & I will share them with Jim too

Thanks :)
Why is caring about climate left-wing?

Very simple, because it will be used to increase taxes, taking an even greater share of people's hard earned money. I Germany especially the left loves the concept of a CO2 tax. I hope this helps you understand.
I’ve found any vpn including WireGuard running on mobile draining battery too much.

Disabling third party cookies works much better, and for mobile safari using free ka-block.
I have a few thoughts about that.

1. If you look at the consensus in the field of psychology, human beings are probably not that good at making the kind of assessment you're talking about with any degree of accuracy. For instance, once you form a belief that there is a difference in competence between people of different races, you will become heavily biased to attend to examples which confirm your belief, and you will be biased to disregard examples which contradict your belief. Humans are just not perfect bayesian reasoning machines.

2. In the social contract of western, liberal society, we have broadly agreed that people should not be judged by their immutable characteristics. So in a sense, yes you are not allowed to "pattern match by race", according to the standing rules of society.

3. This rule helps protect us from the dangers of racial thinking. For instance, a belief about the relative merit or competence of one race can easily jump the gap from being descriptive to prescriptive when one goes around treating people by different standards based on their group identity. There is so much variance within every demographic group that even if there were some statistically significant difference between groups, you would be doing a massive injustice to so many of the individuals in that group to judge them by the "representative member".
Another child peddling wares. They should be ashamed for using her like this.
I'm not going to comment on the autistic piece because I'm not qualified enough to know anything about how a person with autism acts but as far as media responsibility, I agree - but I think it's pretty clear that media (at least from what I see mainly watching US media) has abdicated all sense of responsibility for their programming and is entirely driven by what sells. If this is what sells and gets eyeballs then this is what will be on the air.
Maybe 10% or less of Facebook's current per-user ad viewing time would be enough to sustain a service that allows to keep in touch with people (thanks to economies of scale) but the problem is, once you introduce ads, greed comes along for a ride and that's why we can't have nice things. Since "being reasonable" isn't a thing that ad people understand, I'm happy for their entire shitty industry to die and burn in hell.
Ever since raising the volume on ads was banned they simply switched to using using limiters, that basically boost all frequencies to achieve the same effect. They'll even use common ring tones or the buzz of a silenced phone to draw your attention.

Personally I mute or switch channels as soon as the commercials start and I've actually turned down at least one job offer because they had radio on the office floor.
i think everyone over ~35ish is quietly desperate in a corporate job (not just tech people). The fact that there are now more opportunities for remote/self-employment may make more people turn to it
I'm genuinely shocked.

Proroguing (suspending) Parliament normally happens every single year, just before the Party Conference Season, (i.e. right now). Any bills that have failed to pass are dropped, and there is a new Queens Speech for new bills in a new session.

It didn't happen last year which makes this Parliament the longest in recent history.

It is also very explicitly a political act for political purposes.

And it has now been ruled "illegal", without any mention of what LAW has actually been broken?

Yes, Johnson tacked on an extra week (4 Parliamentary days) of suspension.

A political act - by a politician. So?

What next? Are they going to rule that the Act of Voting is illegal? That's a political act as well!
>that took a weird turn

Well, you turned first. Here we are all talking about racism, and then you claim age inversely affects driver risk. In context, I thought you were somehow trying to convince me that circular reasoning and appeals to authority ought to dispel any doubts I have about the validity of racism, but it sounds like you were trying to say something else, and I could be doing a better job of understanding what you are trying to say.

>unless they are lying

They may just be ignorant. Maybe someone else lied to them and they are just parroting the lie. Remember, the people who price insurance exist in a world where polygraphs are admissible evidence in a U.S. court of law; misconceptions are everywhere and I think we must be cautious, lest our generalizations be hasty.
If you invent a great piece of software, you need to be paid for the time you put into making it. If your only play is a license deal or such, open source will kill your business. Or turn it into something that RMS agrees with. But it wont be "your" business.
Doubtful. Racism is way down since it became completely socially unacceptable to support among most social groups.

This reminds me of The Racist Tree: https://lardcave.net/text/the_racist_tree.html

> By Alexander Blechman

> Once upon a time, there was a racist tree. Seriously, you are going to hate this tree. High on a hill overlooking the town, the racist tree grew where the grass was half clover. Children would visit during the sunlit hours and ask for apples, and the racist tree would shake its branches and drop the delicious red fruit that gleamed without being polished. The children ate many of the racist tree's apples and played games beneath the shade of its racist branches. One day the children brought Sam, a boy who had just moved to town, to play around the racist tree.

> "Let Sam have an apple," asked a little girl.

> "I don't think so. He's black," said the tree. This shocked the children and they spoke to the tree angrily, but it would not shake its branches to give Sam an apple, and it called him a n-[censored].

> "I can't believe the racist tree is such a racist," said one child. The children momentarily reflected that perhaps this kind of behavior was how the racist tree got its name.

> It was decided that if the tree was going to deny apples to Sam then nobody would take its apples. The children stopped visiting the racist tree.

> The racist tree grew quite lonely. After many solitary weeks it saw a child flying a kite across the clover field.

> "Can I offer you some apples?" asked the tree eagerly.

> "Fuck off, you goddamn Nazi," said the child.

> The racist tree was upset, because while it was very racist, it did not personally subscribe to Hitler's fascist ideology. The racist tree decided that it would have to give apples to black children, not because it was tolerant, but because otherwise it would face ostracism from white children.

> And so, social progress was made.
I used to work for StorageTek and I was involved with government/utility/academic workloads where tape was very much still alive until a certain someone decided not to manufacture proprietary drives and cartridges anymore :)

I think Lto will continue to be an awesome standard for anyone doing PBs or more with multi decade requirements. I am maybe a little surprised to hear that disk hasn't been completely replaced by SSDs yet but I really do think that SSDs will just continue to drop in price.
Would you please read the guidelines and make this a 'Ask HN' ?
He needs a new deal first (this parliament has rejected existing deal, like, 3 times already). His main negotiation tactics (and what May failed to do and was repeatedly criticised for) is to present a viable alternative, a credible No-Deal Brexit option. That can serve as a BATNA in any future negotiations with the EU. Proroguing the parliament might have to do with preventing them to stop BATNA, but it's unlikely to make them not vote for a good new deal.
Emotion-driven politics.
The other reason that nuclear can't compete with natural gas is that combustion turbines are just inherently cheaper than systems based on steam turbines.

Steam turbines requires at least two systems to transfer heat across solid/fluid boundaries. In a coal burning power plant, these are the boiler (where heat is transferred from the hot combustion gases to the water/steam) and the condenser (where waste heat is transferred from the low pressure steam to the cooling water). PWRs have three such boundaries (fuel rods, steam generator, condenser).

In constrast, simple cycle combustion turbines requires no transfer of energy across solid/fluid interfaces. Combined cycle plants do, but for only 1/3 of their output. As a result, the power density of a combustion turbine based power plant can be very high.
> It's probably best to redo whole thing.

How many times?
You realise the electoral commission just lost their court case against leave.eu too?
im talking specifically about waste that was supposed to be recycled. From the UK, the majority of it isn't. It's incinerated in China, or more and more, we send it to them and they send it back.
Super Solutions for Shiny Architecture 1 of 5: Using Session Data
"The Norwegian government reiterates its commitment to the One China Policy, fully respects China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, attaches high importance to China’s core interests and major concerns, will not support actions that undermine them, and will do its best to avoid any future damage to the bilateral relations."

I guess this is what you are referring to. It is called diplomacy. You apply diplomatic pressure on the other party until you reach a resolution. In this case Norway ok with One China.

On the other end there is the rule of petro dollar and the US military in case you do not understand that you cannot question it. List of countries severely impacted[1]: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Russia

This is what I meant by the differences between the Western world vs China. Maybe I was too vague.

Here is the complete list of countries where the US committed some sort of intervention[2]. This includes shooting down airliner, invading countries without declaring war, financially supporting terrorist, supporting terrorists with arms, and so on.

This is what I see the fundamental difference between China and the Western world (more specifically USA), Chinese are not trying to overthrow any government or support any terrorists, they want to do business. As somebody put it nicely: "China's business is business, USA's business is war"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare

2. https://www.globalpolicy.org/us-westward-expansion/26024-us-...
> The government is not directly elected.

Almost no government is.
Until people vote correctly?
Right but in the foreseeable future we might be able to factor numbers as large as like 24. Not 24 digits. 24 the number.
sales is just as important as tech
As a Finnish speaker, to me Estonian sometimes sounds like I'm having a stroke. Like I'm supposed to understand what is spoken but the words just don't resolve into their meanings.
Amazingly, when voting time comes, the country tends to appear center right. Could there polls be wrong?
`content creators who really care would find a way to make it work` is a terrible way to think.

All that means is the barrier to entry increases from anyone, from any background and means to people who can afford to produce content already. You lose the young kids starting out, you loose those from poorer backgrounds, you loose the creatives working on their side projects while working a 9 to 5 because they can no longer afford to make content.

If _you_ don't want ads don't consume the content, you're not entitled to it. Quality might not be quantity but quantity (being able to continue to produce content without a huge financial burden) develops quality.
I'm not sure the idea that "100% of the population were extremist Catholic zealots" is really true. Rodney Stark [1] argues that people overestimate the religiosity in past decades and centuries. The genuinely devout have never been the majority. The difference is, that even if the average person back then wasn't hugely interested in religion, there was strong social pressure to give the appearance of caring about it. Nowadays, that social pressure is gone, in many countries, and people who are disinterested in religion are free to be honest about their disinterest.

And should big families in Catholic-majority countries 100-200 years ago be attributed to Catholicism? Well, other countries, with completely different religious beliefs (e.g. Muslim-majority countries, India, China) also had big families. Most people back then, whatever their religion was, had big families due to primitive contraceptive technology, high infant mortality, economic value of child labour, less years spent in education, lack of educational and career opportunities for women, etc. Nowadays, there is a correlation between religiosity and family size, but that link is historically novel; for most of human history, the devout and the non-devout had big families alike.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3711936
Another show of absolute political incompetence.

As an outsider from the UK, brexit has been a good show of how far politicians are from the real world.

Imagine how awful it must be to be a puppet in this circus of missing action.

EU should put the foot down. Out with the UK, done deal.
Even though I don't really listen to radio or podcasts, this looks great. How does it handle blocking ads when listening to live radio? Just silence?
If China can ever be persuaded to stop building new coal fired power plants, then there would be reason to be hopeful. If the rest of the world was willing to sanction them like crazy over it, China would likely cave and focus their efforts on solar. Despite the current state of affairs, Scott Adams is an optimist about the future...

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/09/23/a-message-for-chil...