skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
resistance to atb come and go, if there is no pressure to have defense then its abandoned over not so many generations
Is it hard to dig yourself out though?
Citing average GDP numbers is ridiculous, No billionaire is going to materially suffer from global warming, plenty of very poor people are. And you can bet the billionaires wont be lining up to help "even things out", so measuring as if they were is broken methodology.
Population of the UK and Ireland 1900: 40m

Population of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 1900: 295m

Population of the UK and Ireland 2019: 68m (+70%)

Population of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 2019: 1,700m (+576%)
In this case a large number of their creditors, indeed the ones that should have highest priority, are the people who are currently stranded because they’ve already paid the company for travel they are now not going to receive.
Assuming the people who would have flown on that airline won't chose another option. Seems like a big (and incorrect) assumption.
The debt to GDP ratio has been a major concern for years. That's why I recently moved me and my family to Texas. Texas is a no income tax state and I need to keep more of my money and then reinvest it in gold. Maybe I am a little paranoid but also now have all of my info going to a PO box like a company, https://physicaladdress.com just in case gov goes crazing with trying to take more and more of my hard-earned income.
Some people are also trying to help the Thomas cook employees find jobs via this sheet i came across:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnTzcqQn3NyqreuZrAlt...
Previous adm deported more people:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-im...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449665-trump-dep...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/politics/obama-trump-deportat...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trumps-deportation-numbe...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/biden-immigration-...
Would you care to explain? I’m a renter and I find it be a great arrangement. I have no interest in owning the property that I reside in. I can move anytime I want, I don’t have to fix anything and I can park my money in things that return far more than a house.
That's quite the stretch. Equating the moral issue of detaining children indefinitely to producing a beverage is really something.
I'm not sure that decision required integrity as much as it did understanding Disney's place in the market. Disney makes big, uncontroversial, safe mass-market entertainment products for the broadest possible audiences. Twitter is the exact opposite of all those things: it's a product covered in sharp edges that appeals to a relatively small but enthusiastic-slash-rabid niche. Disney would consider it a failure if a group of people walked out of one of their movies or theme parks yelling at each other, but Twitter's whole engagement strategy is based on pitting its users against each other. It's the least Disney-like thing you could imagine.

The amazing thing isn't that the acquisition eventually fell apart, it's that it got as far as it did.
>Strange as it may seem, when your livelihood comes from livestock, you put a lot of attention, science, and technology into making sure they are as healthy and happy as possible, so they make you the most money when sale time comes.

This seems like such a huge conflation of terms -- of course there's a lot of attention, science and technology put into animal farming, because it's a huge industry. Making sure animals are healthy makes sense, because you can't sell animals that die before slaughter: but happy? Where did that come from? Since when does the happiness of animals factor in anywhere in the equation of industrial slaughter for meat?

I'm by no means a vegan, and neither am I overly skeptical of markets and their value, but please let's not fall for the siren song of pretending that the market has already made animals as happy as they can be, because "of course they are, because nothing else would make economical sense".

Abhorrent conditions for animals make economic sense: that's why they exist. And this doesn't even address the glaring point of the "game theory" aspect of antibiotics in animal farming.
well... do you generally subscribe to consequentialism?

potential story that gets told by future historians: we were doing pretty well as a civilization, harnessing powerful technologies, spreading western-style democracy and freedom around the world, and figuring out how to make a better, more fair and just world. then, we invented the internet. within a generation, we had become pettily obsessed with image and fake internet points. massive amounts of disinformation from powerful self-interested sources stifled debate on the important issues of the day. climate change went unchecked, even while far-right nationalists rose to prominence around the world by harnessing the worst forces of racism and bigotry which had been successfully repressed by the mainstream media that collapsed after the internet became widely adopted.

not saying this is what i believe, but i definitely think this is a viable narrative and may become dominant, especially if things continue to go downhill from a fake-news, polarization, and "society-of-the-spectacle" perspective. the kids living in the rubble left over after right- and left-wingers go to war over some really convincing fake video might really wish the internet hadn't been invented.

actually, imagining this kind of stuff is exactly what the original article is asking of us, the community building the technology. like, at least admit the possibility that it's not all daisies and sunshine and things might turn out -- less than optimal.
Somewhat off-topic but the article photograph of "Doane’s Oyster House" with the "Ladies Entrance" led me down a rabbit hole as I've never heard of them before. Really interesting stuff.

https://www.phillyhistory.org/blog/index.php/2018/07/saloons...
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

The Jungle is different now, more clean maybe but also more dangerous.
Dupe (as in similar stories and discussion have already been taking place).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998993

And

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21004068
Exactly. Rent controls simply redistribute the spoils of an inefficient market from rentier to renter. New York's strictest rent controls occurred during the period of fastest house building (post war). Note that they're not presenting data like this because the data is inconvenient to their theory.

If the Economist were serious about encouraging property development (they're not) they'd encourage making land a tax liability rather than an asset, so that inefficiently used land (e.g bungalows in sf) would be voluntarily yielded for more productive use.

The Economist has always taken the side of rentiers though, and probably always will.
> It's not like the earth is on fire right now.

Sure. Fires in the arctic are normal things [1]. 100+ degree summers in Germany and France are totes the norm. [2].

Reality has a climate-crisis bias.

> In fact, living conditions are better than they ever have been.

This is a false dichotomy - that improved worldwide living conditions don't indicate a looming climate crisis. It could be argued that it all gets better until it starts falling apart rapidly.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190822-why-is-the-arctic-o...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2019_European_heat_wave
According to Wikipedia, 20% of Ryanair's revenue is ancillary (not tickets)
This announcement is for the new Mac Pro, not Macbook pro. In addition to the waver Apple received to manufacture this with imported parts, I'm sure the vertical targeted by the Mac Pro (see $45k top spec) and the relatively low demand makes this viable.
You're the only one talking about not giving a crap. Don't strawman my argument.

50-100cm of sea-level rise over a period of 100 years is a non-issue really. Most places won't be affected and those that will be have time to employ one of the three strategies mentioned. Everyone alive will be dead before it starts to really bite - that does not equate to permission "not to give a crap" to be perfectly clear. It's also not climate denialism to talk about the facts, which I shouldn't need to say.
It's the same in desirable European cities with rent control like Berlin and Vienna.

You read about people renting huge apartments there in the city center for decades paying something around 600/month while if you'd want to move in now into a similar sized apartment in a similar area you'd be paying a lot, LOT more.

Rent control makes it affordable for people that have been living there long term but makes it more expensive for the ones trying to move in now.
Chech Not Renewing Contract After Code-Deletion Protest
People without underlying disease generally dont need or get replacement organs. These are all complex cases. Only in the most rare of circumstances does an otherwise totally healthy person need a new kidney.
Donald Trump won in the rust belt, at least in part, by promising those people he'd bring back their manufacturing jobs. People do want those jobs.
I think it's a combination of monopoly effects plus the benefits of open source: back when .NET was closed-source and only available on Windows, the only way to ship a performance improvement was if an individual developer at Microsoft could convince his boss it was worth it. And it was rarely worth it, because .NET only ran on Windows, its only customers were .NET-only enterprise shops who weren't about to move to an entirely new framework because of perf problems, and there was always a long list of feature requests that PMs would give priority to.

But now that .NET runs everywhere, it has to compete with projects that have been shipping performance improvements all along. Happily, since it's now open-source too, it can accept those changes from anyone.
Fargate is slow to spin up and can only run 50 simultaneous instances. But they can run "forever" and have much higher memory constraints.

Lambdas relatively fast to spin up and thousands instances can be run at once. But they are time limited running for at most 5 minutes and using 3GB of RAM.

You can do most of the same things with either (after all, they just execute code), but you cannot ignore their very different limitations and that they are conducive to different workloads.
Heard it’s being championed for C# 9.
/s ?

Obviously, there is more personal freedom and choice in choosing beverages vs needing to wait 10+ years for a green card, etc. Most companies have negative externalites and we have to draw the line somewhere but the distance between the Coca-Cola & ICE lines is miles apart.
That line is critical because it means they will effectively be manufactured in China but some token amount of assembly will happen in the U.S. so that they appear to be seen to be manufacturing in the U.S. when in fact they are made in China in any meaningful non-political sense.
Don't travel 6,000 miles on a strict budget, and definitely not on an airline in an iffy financial position.
care to elaborate then? almost all decisions aren't as seemingly easy as you've stated. genuinely curious as most decisions straddle the whole "good" spectrum pretty seriously.

one thing i just went through: should i pick up the contract from a slightly less "good" org, or let 2 1099ers go, whose families will go without income for some period of time?

what's the good choice here in your opinion? or by good do you just mean non-cheating? is incorporating your company in a lower COL/higher talent area cheating in your eyes? etc. gets hairy quick.
Simply use the squeak VM as your starting point.

If there is a C compiler and sufficient memory to hold the image, all of squeak can be ported to a new processor in a few week.

Alan Kay's original Smalltalk team did that with the MIckey Mouse PDA when they were working at Disney — they knew who they would be working for next and so named the opensource Smalltalk-80 project at Apple "Squeak" in honor of that venerable old mouse.

Even after the team left Disney, the name stuck (and now you know the rest of the story).
Not at all and I can't imagine "climate change activists" seeing it in that light (and really, we should all be activists at this point). More likely, the demand for traveling will remain unchanged but suppliers will.
This is a whole part of the problem. Globalisation and the offshoring of manufacturing to the east has meant a corresponding offset of emissions from the Europe and the US to China and other places. We in the West have to take some responsibility for this. You can argue that globalisation does have a noble goal - i.e. to reduce global inequality by raising the standard of living of all to that of the most well-off nations - but the now obvious trends of climate change, global heating and emissions, are showing this to be a dangerous and unobtainable goal. It seems to me that we have to start looking at reductions of living standards in the West (to maybe what we had 30-40 years ago) with corresponding reductions in global trade. I have little confidence that we can actually achieve this in an organized and equitable manner.
They do this in New York too, I'm not sure of the scale or laws around it, but for new development I think they need a certain percentage of units as income restricted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwS3R20IoMk
I don't see the point of talking about the $23T number, which doesn't account for unfunded liabilities.

I guess the thinking goes that we can it's easier to renegotiate social security and medicare benefits than to renegotiate the interest payments on a bond. Not sure that's true -- it seems like inflation is the only reasonable solution to either of those problems.
Yes, rent control doesn't magically solve the problem by itself. But it shores up the defenses of less-advantaged renters. Of course some opportunistic high earners will insert themselves into this system. There should be something in place alongside rent control to minimize that.
They were never profitable in an operational sense and just coast on very generous public subsidies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125704
Things won't move that quickly, and hopefully they won't get that dire. We can't rule it out either though. There's plenty of good reasons to worry and take action. It is still a tragedy unfolding. But it's not necessarily as doom and gloom as many people believe.
The fact that you pay a premium for the Apple brand shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. I've been proudly buying $200 Android phones and $500 laptops for years.
I'm using firebase as it was best choice for single developer application. No need to worry about server side parts, and a healthy free tier means no need to worry about few mistakes you make about architecture. Sometime I worry as my app constrained to single supplier, but I doubt I would be large enough to actually worry about it, and when I will be that big, hopefully I would be afford to hire to move to better solutions or optimise to better suit to existing platform.
When you start you don't need to handle millions of customers worldwide. If all you need is to handle a million customers per month digitalocean can handle that on a single server and you wouldn't hire a single let alone many developers to manage that.

If you ever reach the point where you need to handle 100s of millions of customers a month / hiring someone can save you money but perhaps serverless makes sense.

99% of businesses will not reach that level.
When land is provided for free or at cost, at a certain point some users engage in anti-social behavior that makes life hell for the other users.

This is something that the current system claims to fix by making the price so high that only "civilized" people are able to rent. But rich people can be anti-social too, it's just rarer.

The real issue is that land within commutable distance to good jobs is scarce.
Controlling a Browser Extension with Puppeteer
Cisco Selects Blockchain to Decentralize Artificial General Intelligence
> There's never been a bait and switch. It's always been proprietary.

Originally, the iPhone app ecosystem was supposed to be html5-based via Safari and the open web. https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
This is the territory we get into when we pressure tech companies to not work with very specific politically unfavorable customers. Does helping ICE with their CI/CD stack do more damage to children than advertising freebase sugar to them? I'd say probably not, especially since ICE is just going to migrate to a new stack.
This is really cool to come across, but you're not getting the whole experience if you don't read the author's "Why" page:
http://keyhut.com/why.htm
That’s not a great post title IMHO and doesn’t match the article.

It implies that farm animals are refusing to take their tablets...

Why not just go with “Alarm as antimicrobial resistance surges among chickens, pigs and cattle” as per the Nature article?
Interestingly, antibiotics like Rumensin are used to kill off methane-producing gut bacteria and promote other gut flora that are more efficient at digestion.
I actually went from C# (WebForms) to Ruby (Rails) and then back to C# (MVC).
exactly. You have public education, the press, and friends. This is what you are shaped by. Now we have a new global consciousness that can also shape you, and exists somewhat within those old borders, but also redefines them. People should take their duty as members of voting society more seriously, incentivising us to dig deeper than our surface tribes starts with a simple "read this not that" type link blog. Horse before the cart means you need a horse before you can pull a cart.

We absolutely need a "you should read this, not because youll enjoy it, but because its good for you and us."

Drudge report meets http://aldaily.com and http://redef.com
>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? They certainly benefit from all the European infrastructure and academic research

Not entirely sure how they benefited European Infrastructure and Academic Research if we assume Apple made 100% of its R&D in US.

And it is morally OK fo me to not paid a single dollar of tax if I didn't make ANY profits.

A lot of people seems to have an idea where Tax should be based on Revenue and not Profits, which is basically what GST or VAT really is.
The Coming Exodus from Slack to Zoom
Outstanding. I learned the Flex layout by playing this simple game: https://flexboxfroggy.com/ (from the same author I believe). I wonder if there are examples of learning through playing a game that are as effective as these two.
Sure it will. In Denmark we actually have a split because of this. Buildings built before 199x have rent control, all new buildings can have “free” rent set. If you believe you are subject to an unfair rent, you can go before a comittee that can reduce or enforce it. A landlord can also get the rent preapproved by the same comittee, to avoid any risk. Any rent contract has to follow a certain format, and rent increases have to be listed in advance, such as “the rent for 2019 is x, and will increase each year in january by 3%”.
They were having problems before that, but the 737-max exasperated them. They even used a 787 to fill in some gaps, but that's absurd.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2019/03/14/nor...
We specifically had to switch to MyISAM for some things when upgrading from 5.5 to 5.7, in 2017. We were hitting InnoDB’s 4k row limit in many cases (without clobs). Fortunately the tables in question are filled once, updated a couples times right after, and from then on only read, so lack of ACID is ok just for that. (All the real transactional tables are InnoDB.)
Yup. You can log into the AWS console and generate an example test message. Copy that into your unit/integration test and bob's your uncle.
I used to use Chef, have mostly switched to Ansible. Not sure about "dead in the water" but my experience has been that Ansible is a better tool.
Ask HN: Y/N? Greta Thunberg and her generation protesting they own existence?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/23/world-leaders-generation-climate-breakdown-greta-thunberg : “If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them“

Yes. They are protesting their own existence.

A woman pregnant with her first child is preparing to expand her carbon footprint forty times. Greta Thunberg should be taking it up with her parents for the 58.6 tonnes of CO2 emissions PER YEAR that her existence has contributed to climate change.

Having children is the one of the most destructive things you can do to the planet.* link url at the bottom

Just when I am beginning to think that I do support Greta but it’s the media that drives me crazy..she spouts one of those dumbass lines again.

Bottom line is that her generation is protesting their own existence. They are protesting their parents for begetting them. If there weren’t children, people won’t be working hard, communities long distances to be close to good schools, leave a bigger carbon footprint instead of farming or creating art or just sitting at home and existing for themselves.

It’s for them. All this giant footprints for the children to come to this world. This isn’t climate strike. This is an existential crisis.

Words are important. Because they have meaning. Whoever is feeding this child these words must learn the meaning of words. If they are hers, then she must learn it enough to understand what they mean.

*https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html
D'oh! I think you're right. In B&W these would be identical. I think one could use the same trick with lightness in this case, rather than hue. Still, colors generated that way are going to look like ass on a screen. It seems like you're already doing media queries, though, so doing two variations of this technique wouldn't be too bad...
> you, personally, likely have a severe trade deficit with Apple

Yes, but I do not have a trade deficit on the whole as well.

I understand the analogy of a single trade deficit doesnt matter. But the deficit on the whole does matter, no?
Obviously. Same thing with Palantir -- ICE could just move their data to a different solution.

This isn't about affecting change, it's about feeling good about ourselves.
Chatbot in Python Using Flask
Fantastic news? I would rather concentrate on the other 96.5%

"The IPCC has estimated that aviation is responsible for around 3.5 percent of anthropogenic climate change".

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...)
Like I said I was providing largely that pattern years ago to devs.

Not very net new for me, except I’m tethered to AWS.

As usual: ymmv