skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Planting trees isn't the answer, drastically reducing emissions immediately, drastically reducing construction levels (creating concrete is a huge source of CO2), cessation of paving over square mile after square mile of soil to create roads and housing additions, ceasing the practice of removing all of the top soil from ecologically diverse fields to sell and then throwing Kentucky blue grass sod down and putting up cookie-cutter houses, ceasing coastal fishing that has been damaging kelp and seaweed 'forests' and actively repopulating them via sustainable farming of kelp and seaweed which will drastically increase local marine species populations over time.

Solutions like these are so insidiously evil, I'm not sure where to start.

We currently have a major housing shortage and homelessness problem in this country. The last thing we need to do is build less housing. We can have a debate about construction practices, but we need more construction (perhaps denser construction) to support our population.
I believe you are conflating some arguments. You don't have to spend a large amount of money to have an outsized effect on the climate. I'd wager that a Burger King Whopper for $4.19 contributes more to climate change than a 8oz ribeye from locally raised cattle at a high-end restaurant for $39.

In this case you should spend more money on less meat. Just saying 'spend less money' continues to ignore the enternatilies that make meat production such a driver of climate change.
Higgs troika for baryon asymmetry similar to “electroweak baryogenesis”
Buffett's hypothesis (as I understand it) boiled down to (1) find successful businesses that are capital-starved, (2) pair them with businesses which naturally generate float (e.g. insurance), under a corporate umbrella, (3) invest the float in those businesses and thereby beat market returns (by only selecting quality businesses, and having the ability to provide mentorship / experienced leadership).
Consumers want to buy sustainably – they just don’t know how
Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about this in Inadequate Equiibria [1] when he analyzes academic research.

short answer - here you need researchers and grant makers to simultaneously decide to do what is not in the best interest for them.

[1] https://equilibriabook.com/an-equilibrium-of-no-free-energy/
The CMO-as-a-Service – What Is It?
Still in tech, but helping more people with products and content I create.

Prediction-wise:
- I agree with AI. I hope it will be advanced enough that we can have conversations with it, that it can anticipate things to help us with.
- I think banking as we know it will be different -- and the U.S. dollar is no longer the world currency.
- Hopefully, there is a cryptocurrency that is backed up with gold and silver.
- I really want Universal Basic Income to happen in the U.S. and also Medicare/healthcare coverage for all Americans.
> The US had ~580,000 bombing missions in Vietnam each of which dropped several bombs on average. Doing that with cruse missiles would quickly hit 10+ trillion dollars.

I rather hope the US never does anything like this ever again. To this day people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are still being injured, maimed or killed by the hundreds of millions of bomblets they dropped.
I wonder how widespread this really is, though. Before I retired I worked in IT, an my particular team was about 50-50 men and women. I certainly didn't feel anything like

> every male in the office becoming tense and extremely self-conscious in presence of their women co-workers, because of the perceived risk that they may be dealing with someone that gets easily offended about random things and is ready to create a stink with HR
'Can't Hurt Me' by David Goggins - Incredible. It's actually setup like a podcast. Every couple chapters, the narrator and David have a 5 or so minute discussion about what just happened, more insight, etc. It's a really cool format.
You don't need to buy land specifically. In fact, that's probably counter productive. A better bet would be to seek a lease or an easement in someone's plot for a fee.
You dont want to put all your eggs in the same basket, not in this age when a framework can become obsolete in just two years. It only make sense if you already have a small team - you want to use what they know best. But if you are growing you can have many small teams. You will also exhaust the talent supply if you lock yourself down to only one platform/language/framework.
If you have reason to suspect that the job market will be somewhat recessed in the coming time then getting a PhD might be a reasonable strategy to ride that time out.
TL;DR: For me personally Ph.D. has been the greatest decision I have ever made.

I am not going to cover the typical discussion regarding the diminished lifelong earnings of Ph.D graduates as I don't think everyone is optimizing their life 100% around money. If that's the case I would recommend looking holistically including choice of life partner and their earning potential as well where you live and the job market there.

I have a PhD in Computer Science from one of the top 5 schools in the world and Masters from unknown university in a medium size city.

Through the years I have struggled with being an outlier at my unknown university where people did not understand my passion for CS. I took part in open source projects, went to meetups and read tons of CS books just to satisfy my curiosity. at the same time there was nobody I could talk to regarding my passion.

When I entered Ph.D this turned out to be the greatest social experience ever. Almost all my current friends I have met during Ph.D. They are geeks in their own respective area (CS, Chemistry, Biology, Social Science, Theatre studies) and we can talk for hours about our research which never happened with me before. I met my life partner there and chances of finding of someone who I can talk to about theorem proving in a "normal" world are close to zero. On top of it she also understands the value of hard work and long hours I commit to work which has always been a struggle with my partners from general population.

Now the bad parts. You should expect that Ph.D. is a long and lonely journey that you have to execute by yourself. You are likely to go for months without any tangible results and you need to be happy with that. I did not suffer any mental health problems during the Ph.D. but they were fairly common between my friends due to pressure to publish and loneliness of the pursuit. If during Masters you are already dealing with some anxiety Ph.D. may not be enjoyable. In the end all my friends turned out fine and graduated but expect ups/down during the process.
Yes of course. But you have more than one counterparty. And not everything is a thing you're currently considering to trade. You might well use them to calibrate.
We're happily plugging along on KAZOO [0] since 2010 at 2600Hz. Erlang is a force-multiplier for us. Approaching 300K LOC and ~10 Erlang engineers (depends if Karl is writing code or CTO-ing that day) today.

[0] https://github.com/2600hz/kazoo/
'enemy combatant'

'disposition matrix'

'gitmo'

'enhanced interrogation'

These are all gross violations of both the spirit and letter of international 'law', and was done by the most powerful country in the world.

Who can possibly believe war has rules that aren't completely ignored? Do people just ignore the horrific crimes committed by their own governments?
This is great! Really shows what we have today is a reductionist approach to only using our finger on a 2D surface as opposed to utilizing all our motions, muscles and senses to interact with technology in 3D space.
I appreciate your dishing some reality to folks. I think the answer to your question lies in the fact that the faction that laments and is "outraged" at these types of things lies in the projection of their own guilt about psychological manipulation and propaganda efforts by the technology tyrants that control websites and public square of their services. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, HN too, they all are in the hands of unaccountable, censorious, authoritarian self-righteous people who abuse their control and power to silence things they personally or ideologically do not like or disapprove of, regardless of the factual basis in truth or reality.

Try going on any digital public square website like FB, twitter, reddit, YT, etc. and point out things like that blacks commit wildly disproportionate amount of crime everywhere they are, even with direct links to the FBI crime statistics that prove it; and see how fast you are censored, mobbed, silenced, shadow banned, or any number of other abuses of power for literally just stating fact and reality, regardless of reasons, causes, or anything else. Society is clearly and objectively insane on a massive global scale right now by every and all objective psychological measures.

That's the cause of that inconsistency and incongruence you are noting, the fact that they are projecting their own abuses on others and it causes the rage that comes from the cognitive dissonance they are experiencing from doing it.
Which brings a question - could it be that this entire thing was Softbank's play to control the entire company?

$6B to get the seat at the table.

$10B now as a down around for a wipe out?
Publishers have always been able to choose whether or not they want their content to be accessible through Google's search engine or Google News. We have just put in place more granular webmaster settings that allow publishers to specify how much information they want to appear as a preview in the search results. Publishers around the world can use these new settings to choose the type of preview best suited to attract users to their site.

This just proves that it was all about making Google pay and not about control.
They're not in support; they're reserving their judgment, staying neutral.

They did the comparison only to show how goatinaboat's appeal to trust is a logical fallacy. Before coming to a judgment, one should take the facts at hand, instead of relying solely on the trust you have of the people involved like goatinaboat did.

In this case, many details cannot be seen, so it's not proper to decide on a judgment solely on the fact that we trust Monica.
Could you define: "Position yourself defensively and react nimbly" means to an IC?
If the risk goes up as the science says it will, insurance rates will either have to rise substantially, or the insurer will lose lots of money to claims and potentially fail.

Insurance will also not protect banks from stranded assets if the perceived value of coastal real estate plummets and people abandon them as we saw in the housing crisis.
Thiel invests in Kobach, Hawley and rise of nationalism
I was going to include Uber, but there's an argument that creating a realtime, massively-scaled fare-setting infrastructure is a moat.

Uber's product isn't rides. Uber's product is being the market-maker between riders and drivers.
Yeah, I always check that. The part that says "There is no stdlib documentation yet, but it is planned for the next release" links to a 2015 github issue. That's why I was wondering if it's still a priority or if there were still high level concerns about stability/curation/etc preventing docs from being written.
The Mickey Mouse problem: religious vs. fictional counterintuitive agents
Are instagram users consumers or consumed? Isn’t the consumer the ad purchaser?
I've read your post. Your post is a reply to someone who is talking about "all the millions of people who are happily married to people they met in professional environments".

When you replied to that post, you stopped talking about MIT and Stallman, and you addressed a general situation: "Is it okay to have romantic relationships in the workplace". Maybe you should quit jumping on the opportunity to call people deranged/desperate/whatever and revise your own posts, because it's possible you're in the wrong.
Diaspora is a particularly good fit.
Seems pretty easy to write an essay saying "screens are old news, let's use our hands!" containing not a single word about how that would work, technically or design-wise.

I'm going to write an essay saying "screens are old news, let's use free-floating holograms like in Iron Man!" with no indication how that would even be possible, and see if I can get on HN.
No doubt there are already missiles in the works that will fly to a given location on internal guidance, and then attempt to home in on a nearby target. As others have pointed out, stealth is not invisibility.
I think that's an entirely valid experience, I don't think anyone is arguing having kids of a universal good, but it also can't be seen as a universal bad. Ideally, as close to 100% of people possible are in a position to make a good choice for themselves.
I'm not perfect, but I understand the need to use the correct pronouns. Ultimately Stack Exchange needs to make this new CoC public. People should know the guidelines to post on a site and not unintentionally break rules that one can't read...
Trust is the currency of journalism. When journalists make fantastic claims that turn out to be false, it tarnishes the credibility both of themselves and the enterprises that sponsor them and publish their work.

I don't think anyone is actually saying that everything Bloomberg publishes is suspect without exception (the quote above notwithstanding). Nobody would question, based on previous history, a Bloomberg story claiming water is still wet.

Where they do lack credibility now are stories claiming bombshells relating to technology companies.

In this instance we have both Alex Stamos, who knows a lot of inside information and is a well-regarded security expert, and the head of WhatsApp itself both denying the claims. And any time a company or one of its high level representatives makes a material statement of fact, investors are going to pay close attention. If they prove to be wrong, an army of shareholders' attorneys are going to march to court to extract a pound of flesh. If there were even a shred of possibility that these stories were true, these folks -- as well as the leaders at Amazon and Apple implicated in the earlier stories -- would clam up instead of going on the record unambiguously denying the stories.
mdcat: Cat for Markdown
The bigger issue with geoengineering is that it may have massive unknown side effects. Stratospheric sulphur spraying may cool the climate, but we don't know how it will shift weather patterns or any other unknown effects.

If things get bad enough we'll get forced into geo-engineering, but as you said, unilateral action could complicate things in unforeseen ways.
Fred W just wrote about this, with a fairly moderate perspective. Reality check, rather than reality crashing down.

I think wework just has too many things wrong with it. (1) Recent IPOs (eg uber), weren't great. (2) Financial performance from uber and other recent IPOs isn't great. (3) Theranos is old-ish news by now, but it's a good example of what public investors are looking out for: bubble excesses. Public markets atm are moneyed, but skeptical. Worried about this new, enormous private equity market pumping and dumping on them.

Once you add in the (4) difficult-to-understand ownership structure (with dubious scent), (5) complex leveraging/debt/liabilities and (6) complicated entanglement in the real estate market movements.....

It just adds up to too much, IMO. Every one of those 6 "problems" could make wework look like a "you should have known better" investment, CEO scandals cultural weirdness aside.

^IMO it's more about monopolies (thiel's definition) than software. Selling software doesn't guarantee "software margins" long-term. What uber, wework, etc. lack is monopoly mechanisms: lock-in or network effects. Even though uber is a market/network, the market can happily bear more than one ride hailing app. That means margin-killing price competition.
I also think it would be valuable to autoconvert long lines (rows or columns) of similar formulas into a mapping on an array. That would require some level of shape analysis on the excel file.
We have identical twins.
> The real question is: What is the alternative?

While I tend to ignore reviews on the likes of Yelp, TripAdviser, Amazon, etc., I do have an alternative: I turn to blogs and YouTube.

There is a lot that is problematic there, too, but at least with those fora, I can look at other reviews from the same person (which gives me an idea of the bent of that particular reviewer), and those reviews tend to be more long-form, where the reviewer usually goes into some amount of detail explaining why they gave the thing the review they did.
$16B is a lot to pay for a turkey, even if you wipe out all the other shareholders in it.
And when was the last time Twitter turned a profit?
I agree that a lot of the issues are with the dryer. So many expensive clothes and textiles are rack dry or hand wash only, that it's kind of unfair to compare something cheap that you treat roughly versus something expensive you treat delicately.
Would this really get us any farther than identical twin studies?
It's a free market. International treaties evolve slowly, so regulation is non-existent, and shipping is a race to the bottom industry.

Ships are flagged and "regulated" in Liberia, Panama or wherever, crews are Filipino or Indonesian, and the officers are from another country (Greece, UK, US, etc). The ownership is always murky and unknown.

The only exceptions are some intra-national shipping. US carriers are required if you're shipping from Alaska to California, for example.
I might kind of understand the valuation if they had some revolutionary technology that was projected to change the companies profitability profile. But they don’t have that. They don’t even have a revolutionary business model. They sublet office space. If you think the losses are bad now, I can only imagine how horrific they will be in a recession when their tenants start default en masse.
‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square miles
Great work, Please keep this going!
zig's C-interoperability is second to none and using libcurl works great for networking.

example:
https://github.com/donpdonp/zootdeck/blob/master/src/net.zig
The most likely answer the OP in that scenario needs is "it burned down". If they want to visit the ruins, they can easily say so in the comments and likely get an updated answer (or they can mention it in the original question; perhaps they'll think to do it the next time around when they've got an unusual requirement).
Can you though? I cant get cURL to work:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/988
http://archive.is/GcW6Z
Re-reading this right now.
All time favorite.
I don't think he is saying what you think he is saying. I took it more along the lines of we (free society) want to believe that anyone can be anything if they are given the right opportunities in life from birth. Someone could mistakenly take that to an extreme about whole classes of people but that's not what the comment was about IMO.
> Any offensive strategy you can think of that depends on simple numbers, can be countered with numbers at lower cost. If it's drones, I can build more defensive drones than you can build offensive drones for the same total cost.

Mobility can complicate that picture. If I have a million attack drones, and you have a million defense drones, there's still the question of where you put your defenses. If you have a hundred cities to defend, you might realistically need a hundred million drones.
Very true, I just want to make sure we aren't taking the "stealth used to be perfect but passive radar makes it mostly useless" claims at face value. Passive radar certainly isn't useless and it does tip the table towards detection.

It only tips the table, though. By using ambient RF it is very difficult to track, but very easy to spoof and mess with.

How well would it deal with a dozen drones omnidirectionally blasting the star-spangled-banner at high amplitude over FM with a bunch of wacky reverb (and maybe a few leads/lags chosen to look like scattering)? Traditional active radar wouldn't have the slightest problem rejecting interference at that sophistication tier, but most passive radar systems would have a tougher time.

As for stealth,

> Want to active-cancel the VHF signal? You'll need a transmitter for that.

Like antennas in the skin hooked to software radios with resilient analog front ends? To my ears, that sounds like a bet that payed off.

> How many can you miniaturize into your fighter

A few, probably. That's not enough to do active cancellation at microwave wavelengths, but it might be enough to do active cancellation at VHF.

> You have to detect the signal quickly enough and recognize that it's a signal

With active radar, that's the game. With VHF passive radar, you characterize the "ambient" radiation, which in this case probably boils down to mapping the FM stations. It's public information, and that is both the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of passive radar.
It's an unwillingness to implement documentation generation twice. Why do it in the c++ compiler when the goal is to become self-hosted?

I think there's a good answer to this which is, "because people really, really need documentation." So I am kicking around ideas of how this can be done without too much duplicate effort.
Until the last election, it was random crazies that weren't mainstream. In fact, McCain shut them down at rallies when they mentioned it. Romney didn't shut them down as forcefully but he didn't actively partake in it.
The more and more I progress in my personal philosophy, I see just completely dissolving the idea of this fear as essential to a live well lived.

It's crazy though, because sometimes I have streaks of over a week in a "fearless" mindset and then I can regress overnight and have a week living in fear. I wonder if it's physiological or something else? The same arguments that seemed so clear are now opaque and make no sense in the "fear mode".
In response to Trump's tariffs, China imposed tariffs. So they can't export. Mountain Pass only does basic processing right now; further refining requires a plant that's still being built. So they were exporting to China.

Tariffs only motivate big, long-term projects if you're sure the tariffs will be around for a while. If they're just a temporary bargaining point, building giant plants isn't a safe bet.
Are you using AWS Lambda to provide the sandboxing? If so:

How does the user code actually end up running on the Lambda? Do you have a generic wrapper Lambda which `eval`s the user code, or do you deploy an individual Lambda for each function, etc?
That's a bit of a myth actually. While they do get lots of their merchandise that way, they don't get all of it.

Check out bullet number 4.
https://fortune.com/2014/07/24/t-j-maxx-the-best-retail-stor...
"We're dealing with medievalism here! ...Chemotherapy! ...Fundoscopic examinations!" - McCoy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Large-Scale Multilingual Speech Recognition with a Streaming End-to-End Model
> now I pull up yelp or glance at Eater a few minutes before arrival.

Those have egregiously misled me too many times for me to look at them anymore.
I used that as an example of a somewhat middle ground. Its obvious hes being somewhat nice so the bike companies keep inviting him to try products, but he does give pros and cons, and the reviews appear generally unbiased. Like other people, I think I use the negatives more than the positives to make consumer decisions, and his site is so positive its saccharineness gives it the scent of pay to play, even if its not (in fact he charges every company he reviews a fee to be reviewed, so its equally pay to play. He mentions it at the beginning of every video and review.)
This is spot on, Ace Combat 7 pretty much hit the nail spot on, the future of arial war is mass production mid-scale drones that are incredibly hard to down along with rapid moving low-altitude stealth weapons.
I am, but that comment says nothing about "where Y Combinator stands" on anything except whether HN users should follow the HN guidelines. We stand for yes.