skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno, in my experience there is a long tail of use-cases where it is a more practical to work closer to system level (for different reasons: less complexity, political issues, legacy systems, etc.), so I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be. But I agree that there is a threshold after which 'everything API' is the way to go. Where that threshold is if often guesswork.

Overall, I don't think our tooling is quite there, and we haven't found the right abstractions yet. Terraform and Pulumi are nice enough, but to me it looks like they are only treating the symptoms, instead of looking at the issues on a more holistic level. I don't have any good solution for that, but I think we'll need to try to look at everything we're doing from different perspectives than the ones we are used to. That's hard (at least for me), and it's getting harder the deeper we dive into the current layers of complexity wrapped into more complexity.
But the solution for consumers is for the industry to be tighter regulated and pay more for goods, not for consumers to become ascetics. Consumers can't simply make industry change how they serve other consumers.

You can't stop murder simply by waiting for anti-murder people to stop murdering.
SpaceX Shows-Off Latest Mars Rocket Prototype
Preposterous. Where exactly did I suggest this? What I'm saying this in no way will "fully solve" the climate crisis and I'm afraid that presenting this approach as a complete solution will lull people into a false sense of security and complacency.

A lot of the claims made in this piece are very exaggerated re: potential to address climate change
Because I only know Python.
You can opt out of the new design and still access that.

Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/

I have disabled the new design entirely in my user preferences, so I get the old design even if I don't put "old" in the URL.
> based on additional info here and elsewhere, it seems Stallman has a long history of questionable behaviour towards women

Those are also lies, probably. Read all the comments here - or link to an actual instance of "additional info here and elsewhere" and I may be actually able to link you to a denial/ proof that it's fabricated. Eg. the most egregious stuff I've read against him was published by Gruber aka "daringfireball", and were all proven to be shameless lies (and rather obvious and easy to dispel ones, after one learns a bit of history about RMS. Like, that he was never married, wasn't on the board of VA Linux, etc)
So what is an effective deterrent if not punishment?
Read a Paper: Automatic Patch Generation Learned from Human-Written Patches
"verified" has essentially become the social media equivalent of airline companies' "preferred members".
So much politics about that. I go on on SO from Google, find solution to my problem. Sometime add my own answers. And sometime I post question when I can't find solution. End of the story. Why the fuck it need to be so complicated?
The Paris Agreement, as part of the way as that's going to get us, is by-and-large being globally implemented. Rising awareness about climate change has contributed to pushing for all sort of policies from more fuel-efficient cars, to state subsidies in dozens of countries for things like renewable energy, electric cars etc.

If your view of people pushing for something being done about climate change is that of a dooms-day cult you're going to have to admit that it's a rather politically successful cult.
And those people are rich, on a global scale.
By "Executive", they mean a PR Editor.
Author here. Rx is actually built on WGPU[0] which will eventually have OpenGL support too. However, I don't really see much of a future for OpenGL - so building a graphics application today - I would pick something like Vulkan over OpenGL, given the choice.

[0]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
There's two ways you can interpret the situation.

No there are 3 ways, the third being that the guy’s day job and his reserve role are unrelated. What if he had been say a Chef in the Army and a Chef in a restaurant? No one would think that was weird.
>Post helpful answer that actually answers the users question as asked without berating them for wanting to do it that way

>Get yelled at in the comments for creating noise?

Problem is: SE can edit and rephrase the whole question in order to be more helpful (both the question and the answer) for future visitors. The original question and intent from the OP doesnt matter that much to SE.
> But if your ID has been "verified", why would you all of a sudden no longer be verified unless the verification was fraudulent?

From what I understands, the previous verification was merely reaching 100k, nothing more. I wouldn't call that fraudulent, but considering many people may expect it to means that their identity was actually verified by Youtube (and not that they simply reached a milestone in subscription), I wouldn't call that being verified.

> To verify yourself on instagram etc. you need to submit identification etc. . Once you have done that there should be no reason to take that away from you if valid.

I agree, but we aren't talking about Instagram now, but Youtube.
Failed due to Homogeneity, Centralization, Division, Imitation and Emotionality as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Failures_...
Perfect for my children though. the pace at which it breaks closely matches them growing out of it. Probably not so good for the thrift store market I guess.
It's also using passive voice.

Consider:
"We will terminate your verified status for adding links to one of our competitor's sites."
This somewhat related but Instagram has started doing some shady shit, for starters if you browse without an account they now cover the page with a sign up splash.

The one that really grinds my gears is that I made an Instagram to follow some artists I really enjoyed browsing, and for whatever reason their algorithm flagged me, and so they deactivated my account. In order to reactivate my account they requested a picture of myself holding a paper with the ID code provided in the email (which I refused to do). When I tried asking why I was deactivated I was simply given a canned respond requesting that I give them a picture of myself with the code proving that I am indeed a real human being.
This post couldn't have been more timely in my life.
That's crazy. I recall a good pair of Levi's being about $40-50, though I'd have 2 pairs and put them to work for years.
This is applicable to 90% of gesture-based UI's. iPad makes it even more confusing as it is the 4th UX overhaul in 4 years.
Which also happens to be his role at Twitter, never mind the clickbait "Executive" in the headline.
I really don't like the idea of keeping people in boxes, and agree that even in the case of the most wretched human being I'd rather have them free and alone than locked in a box without a goal besides punishment. However, this man's crime was human trafficing. Do you really want a human trafficer living in the woods like some kind of troll monster, ready to capture more children? That sounds like it could potentially result in more captive humans, rather than less.
Well, at the very least, if something's happening in countries as different in their politics and economic policies as France, the U.S., and China, then you should not be looking at the specifics on a country to find the cause. It seems more likely to be something that is global in scope.
Counter points:

Diversity - I'm fine with a lack of diversity of opinions on whether or not minors can be willing participants in pedophile relationships.

Inclusiveness - Really? Nobody ostracized him because he is an aspie. It is disingenuous to even say that.

Fairness - Nobody fired him, he resigned and let's be honest, the backlash he received was fairly minor. Yes old statements were dug up, but most people are not okay with the statements he made then, they just didn't know about them.

> holier-than-thou hypocritical tell-tales and people who enjoy yielding power over others by drawing lynch-mobs

Who does this label apply to? Anyone who gets upset at a public figure's viewpoints? Where are you personally drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable.

This isn't just about Epstein. Epstein is what brought Stallman's views to the spotlight, but the focus is primarily on former stances on pedophilia he made that are far more damaging things to say than whatever people were saying he said about Epstein or the girls involved with him. Stallman doesn't seem to believe that people can be groomed into appearing like they want to do something when they really don't or aren't aware of the consequences of it.
Aren't CSS grids supposed to be the better solution for this kind of problems?
people bring this kind of thing up in every thread as if it's a useful comment for either the reader or the poster (presumably project author). it's almost as common as "this page sucks on mobile".

who cares? we all know how to use Google by now to narrow results by adding qualifying keywords to the query; it's not like I'm just going to search "rx" or even "rx rust" when I'm looking for this project (probably "rx rust pixel"). it's a complete non-issue.
That isn’t really true either. We don’t receive masters degrees unless we do a gentleman’s withdraw, then it’s only an M Phil. If you come into a PhD program with an MSC, you can still take 8 years to finish, ya, you get to skip some course requirements, but that isn’t where the majority of the time in a PhD goes.

MSC’s aren’t offered as much anymore because they had the same problem as PhDs (it could take 4 years to finish one) without the prestige of a PhD at the end. They don’t even guarantee much of a jump start on a PhD. These programs have mostly been replaced by professional non-thesis or thesis-light options, along with “5th year” programs at universities that tack on a few courses and a straightforward thesis to an undergrad program (MIT is famous for these, many universities have copied that).

European universities often have the latter 5th year programs as well where they are considered even more crucial because many of them have only 3 year undergraduates.
Summer of Reading – short book reviews
> Why you're doing something is part of the conversation and its context.

...and is often a way to shift the conversation to an argument about why the asker is doing it that way instead of giving them the information they actually asked for. I don't have time to argue about the sequence of events and layers of requirements that led to me asking the question, it doesn't matter if this "isn't the right way" to do it, it's the way I need to do it.
All this nonsense started with online agitators from Breitbart. Instead of having the gumption to just ban people like @nero, they instead unverified him for some reason. Probably because he was making money for them.
I don't know in China but in many countries not only do they take you back to prison to resume time where you left off but evasion is a further offence that gets you extra time.
You don't need to modify the kernel or iBoot on disk to inject a patched OS (or malware). redsn0w didn't, it would boot over dfu every time.

It's totally possible to rootkit a phone and have it reboot just fine (with the rootkit removed).
I got downvoted to oblivion for reporting a bug to them, with several SO devs trying to explain it’s not a bug, this doesn’t surprise me.
If exile was seen as ruinous enough in the public eye, that could provide a humane alternative to imprisonment.

Racist sentimemts could be exploited for this in a very humorous way. Imagine hackers being exiled to Mexico, and being let in on the precondition that they spend the first X years working on improving Mexico's public infrastructure.
Why absurd? We've removed 3 trillion trees since the beginning of agriculture and replanting 1 trillion is absurd? Or do you think its infeasible?

Estimated cost is a few hundred billion dollars. A lot cheaper than most methods of carbon sequestration. It also has the benefit that it could restore ecosystems if done well. People who focus just on carbon emissions miss that the are more systemic problems with destroying ecosystems i.e. in the long term biosphere collapse.

The larger problem is that it takes 50 years (or longer) for most of the carbon sequestration to happen.

https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/
Weird, so we're teaching our kids how to live in a Social Credit system now? Why do we create totalitarian horror shows for our kids that we would never want to live under ourselves? The only consolation is that this generation is probably going to value their privacy after the spyware they have to live with in school.
Don't know how I missed that. Sorry everyone.
Isn't parcel a front-end for webpack?
If you want java to be non blocking I sugguest using the DeferredResult feature in the Spring React 5.0 framework.
Not giving any advice, just data; you can draw your own conclusion.

As an IT manager doing recruiting, a PhD is irrelevant, both for hiring decisions and for salary & career. It will be your skills that matter, not your titles. If the PhD is helping you acquire some useful skills, that matters.

As someone who knows a number of people with PhD's: except for MDs and people working in universities, nobody is using in real life more than 1% of what they did for the PhD. But most of these people did the PhD after they got a job, in parallel with working full time, it took a while to complete but it was a passion/hobby and I appreciate that. One of these people is a lady that has a low level job, but interacting mostly with people in Germany: as Germans have a higher appreciation to titles, her PhD is impressive to them. Well, if they ever ask and find the PhD is in German literature (completely unrelated with her actual work), then it becomes less impressive.

For academia, I find PhD requirements to be more of a bureaucracy than real positive, but I confess my lack of expertise in that area and I am open to learn different.
Not having to accept terms is the point, or one of the major points, though. As an employee, you're beholden to the company, whereas as a volunteer, you don't owe them anything.

That doesn't mean exploitation isn't real and shouldn't be combated, but I think there's also a grey area that should be acknowledged.

By the way, what do you think of open source, and companies which use it?
To some extent, it's not about reducing emissions as so far as voting with your wallet. If a large enough group unsupported the meat/airline/etc industry, they would go bankrupt.
Good question. As I define it no, a tree language uses white space and only white space for syntax. While both python and yaml use white space for a portion of their syntax, the bulk of their syntax is traditional BNF.
> has high confidence by the community

Could just be that you've gamed the system.
Mona Eltahawy says the time for being civil, peaceful and polite is over
>Why don't climate dooms-dayers not see that their very tactics of spreading irrational fear (instead of rational solutions) is antithetical to their desired outcomes?

It's not irrational fear.

Why do cynical eye-rollers like you always try and crab bucket people's attempts at changing things for the better?
Answer X first, then explain why typically Y is what you want so I can safely ignore it.
Something similar happened to me once when submitting a scientific paper. The publisher merged a line number into the number I was trying to write. Caught it in the proofs, luckily.
i loved the line when she is returning home in her car, she isnt listening to songs or podcast but sitting in complete silence.
How Lyft Operates Apache Kafka Clusters 24/7 Without A Global Ops Team
Flipping your Disk (1981)
People need to start thinking of natural regeneration / rewilding as an option because "planting trees" per se does not create a self sustaining balanced forest ecosystem. Forestry plantations are often pretty much green deserts, like any other agricultural monoculture.

There's a pernicious influence from government here. It's unhelpfully easier to get funding for "plant 1000 saplings" than for "leave an area to transform into thorny scrub, pioneer tree woodland, and finally full woodland".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/26/wildwo...
The best info I can find, trees soak up ~45 pounds (tops) of CO2 in a full year after it's about 10 years old in optimal conditions. Different trees, different amounts along with growing conditions. That's just optimal hopes and dreams after 10 years since germination.
you can still buy quality products that last, you just have to pay more
> I stopped participating because of the push to be more “welcoming”

Because it's somehow hard to be welcoming? I guess it is for some people and now instead of a snarky comment they're just voting down, making everyone feel much better (/s).

> as answers or those that can’t be bothered to search for anything, just want a solution HERE AND NOW.

If only privileged users on SO closed such questions, but they don't. People are very rightfully complaining.

> but people are complaining a lot more these days than before. That, too, says something about the community.

It's always fun to blame users/someone else I guess.
> If the summer heat, followed by Hurricane Dorian, hasn’t convinced you that climate change is real, probably nothing will.

Saying that is as dumb as saying global warming isn't real because there's still snow in winter.
Here's another one: https://terrapower.com/

Read about TWR (Traveling Wave Reactor) designed by these guys, financed by Bill Gates. It runs on depleted uranium, not enriched uranium. It's amazing how it works.

There's so many solutions being developed like this on so many fronts. But we're not doing any of them. I don't understand it. Government is not even being asked to finance this, but yet they won't approve it because of politics.
What Does This Street in Zürich Mean?
5% is a significant percentage.
Isn't instagram participation voluntary and free of charge? Monopoly over what? Everyone is free to move to another platform or start his own.
I agree. Some of the posters say that software would have been better if the people he made uncomfortable weren't made uncomfortable by him and thus continued making software. That is extremely implausible. People who do software because it is something they are passionate about would not be so fragile, and that is necessary to make ground breaking changes.

I sometimes hear people say "if tech wasn't stereotyped as a bunch of nerds, there would be more women in it". This ignores the fact that there is a strong causal relationship between being perceived as a nerd and having a serious interested in software. It's like saying "if I didn't hold people who do software in contempt, then I might have done software!".
Stallman isn't pro-paedophilia. He stated years ago that he didn't see enough evidence to believe sexual relations with children are harmful for them if they are consensual.
That's _not_ believing sexual relations with children can be ok if they are consensual, that's believing you don't have enough evidence to believe the opposite.

And why are you arguing he is pro-rape?
When someone is lying, the passive voice is a very common choice of words.

(Source: I took a forensic linguistics course as part of a comp. linguistics program. One of the case studies we looked at was lying-- the data sets were comparing legal cases where documents were available that contradicted testimony, like the Enron case.)

Edit: Here's a research paper that talks about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/
A Unified Finite Strain Theory for Membranes and Ropes
Nor is it speedy on a local scale, the article even admits this route has been done faster in 1977.
I want to see discussion here on HN as this is a special community that has participation from some of the brightest and most influential engineers, lawyers, -- many disciplines and backgrounds -- in the world.

This should absolutely be a topic of discussion amongst us.

Do we, as individuals with leverage and influence, support these actions? And if not, what can we do to help change the status quo and insure this doesn't happen again so easily?

Crafting a response or opinion piece to submit to lawmakers and the FTC could hold a lot of power, especially if it is undersigned by many of us in the field.
That's not at all why global warming deniers exist. The reason they exist is because the fossil fuel industry managed to make believing in climate change a political issue rather than a scientific one, which is why the denial is embraced by one party but not the other.
The actual "arguments" don't matter, this one especially since it's impossible to tell if Dorian would've even existed or not had the climate not changed.
Your statements are at odds with observable reality.
https://globalclimatestrike.net/#

Can you share your sources of information?
It's interesting to me that people think of Vulkan as a "heavy dependency", when it's actually the thinnest layer available between an application and the graphics card.
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You're literally invalidating all the effort put into the question with a single downvote without consequence to you. How do you not see that?

Don't try to process more question volume that you can adequately rate, it isn't that hard. The path to hell is paved with good intentions (to make SO a better knowledge site).
Top Google hit, apparently from 1996
http://www.arrl.org/here-comes-the-sun

Some other sites
http://www.solarham.net/index.htm
https://hamradioschool.com/sunspots-and-propagation/
The people who believed that weren’t going to vote for Obama anyway. I honestly don’t see how Trump won’t win the electoral vote in 2020.

Honestly, I’m as far as you can get from Trump’s base, but all of the Democrats scare me as being too far left. I would love to see a Democratic President and a Republican House (the Senate approves judges, etc.). The fewer laws the government can pass the better.
Show HN: BerkananSDK – Empowering crowds with cross-app offline chat
i actually asked a NOAA weather scientists about what would happen if we plant billions of tree where the winds of hurricanes root from?

He told me it's always good to plant trees BUT know that by altering the environment, chances are you will be redirecting hurricanes to other countries and be ready to get sued!
You'll note in my original post I talked about 'changing our lives' that doesn't necessarily mean wearing hair shirts. So, energy consumption can certainly be helped by mandating insulation standards in building codes, by outlawing incandescent light bulbs, by introducing stringent emission standards for cars or introducing carbon fee and divided regulations.

None of those mean "austerity", or unemployment, but they do mean adjustments. Moreover fee and dividend produces a nice market-driven mechanism to speed up the adoption of clean energy.
A British train actually arrived and wasn't late. This is huge news.
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