skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that we know each other? That is pretty funny in a topical sense. We don't know each other fyi but as a keen reader of /r/HailCorporate I can see where you are coming from. Inauthenticity has dirtied the water for everyone. In any case I think my small plug is fair game to post on a forum about startups especially as it answered the question pretty directly. This is the alternative I envision will become the norm once millenials are old news.
Toronto business owner loses $14K to technical glitch at mobile payment company
Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.
There is a recent chinese movie along the same theme "Ash is purest white". A person is jailed around 2002 and released about 10 years later and the whole world has changed.
Oops, yes I did.

He either hates renewables, or badly wants nuclear.
"Verified" ceased to be meaningful as actual verification as soon as "unverified" became a thing.

I think making it a brand-coloured tick conveyed too much of a positive message so people took it as an endorsement, leading to pressure to "unverify" if that person did or said something bad.

Given that action, the "verified" tick then becomes an even stronger signal of endorsement.

Perhaps it would be better to call them "Partners" like on Twitch and make it an explicit contract with revenue kickback.
Funny thing, I frequent a few of the SE sites, and the only ones that have this problem are the tech ones.
a minority of followers didn't like what RMS did (from what i hear). Do we now aim to please every body, even if it means removing the awkward visionaries that would've otherwise have contributed more, and replace them with crowd-pleasing socialites that navigate people gracefully?
Although as an aside, the oceans re-releasing carbon dioxide is also desirable because it should combat the effects of ocean acidification which is a significant life-threatening issue in and of itself.

Nevertheless, it also shouldn't be the case that what you remove from the atmosphere gets released from the ocean in equal quantities - it should be seen as trees sequestering CO2 from both the atmosphere and ocean (and potentially other sinks) as according to however the equilibrium of the system works out, right?

I agree with your point that it's not a cure-all though. It might be overstated in the abstract but is still worth pursuing. The enthusiasm, I understand, for planting trees is that it's broadly seen as returning the environment to something that is more equivalent to an earlier point in history and so is seen as less likely to have adverse affects as compared to forms of geo-engineering with less of a precedent in nature.
Just as long as there's ocean basification to cancel it out...
Wait he sufficiently exiled himself and rejoined nature, survived (likely alone) for 17 years, and they take him back to prison?
I've found ReviewMeta (https://reviewmeta.com/) useful for Amazon reviews, though it still doesn't solve the issue of co-mingling products. So generally for buying items I use Amazon or a niche subreddit's recommendation, then buy the product off eBay, the manufacturer's website, or a physical store.

As far as "place" reviews, Google reviews in my area haven't let me down yet. Yelp has been hit-or-miss; I dislike their "not currently recommended" review system. TripAdvisor isn't too useful in my local area as there's not nearly as many reviews as on Google/Yelp.
What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
It’s done around the world, I don’t understand? Koreans use the German word for work arbeit for a part time job, for example while using handphone and sometimes say a Konglish term that uses hand in Korean and English phone. I believe Hong Kong folks do similar things as well. Heck, the Japanese term kimono is being used now in US fashion for basically a swim suit cover up (just like they did for futon IMO).
Why should we trust a company over the community? And how accurate could be the scanning? What if something is missed or if there are a lot of false positives?
That's a thing that often is misunderstood: Intent is not required to be a cultural detriment.

RMS still refuses to take any sort of criticism, even now.

People refuse to see the problem in this very thread.

That is what's wrong with tech. Not wanting to see the problem.
But government already has a hand in influencing private behavior by regulating industries. Think of what would change if American farmers were no longer incentivized to produce corn, soy, and dairy. Or if gas prices reflected the full monetary and ecological cost of oil.
For me what you write is hyperbole and such a loose application of 'rape of children' belittles a 'real' rape. It also kills discourse: if you risk such a toxic label (and thousand times multiplied by social media) you be quiet in future. There the society goes...
"[Possession of child pornography] should be legal as long as no one is coerced."

What do you think he really meant when he stated this?
> esp. true for SE due to the ongoing changes there

For the benefit of those of us who don't closely follow Stack Overflow meta-drama, can you explain what this is alluding to?
Do you have a source for Global Climate Strike rejecting a carbon price? The movement here in Germany seems to be generally in favor, since the experts are generally in favor and FFF for example explicitly asks politicians to finally listen to the experts.

Wrt cheap nuclear solving climate change: Nuclear is currently one of the most expensive forms of energy. How do you propose we make it cheap enough so that we can essentially waste the energy for unburning coal we could have left in the ground by a more aggressive buildout of renewables paired with improving energy efficiency?
Now that are you talking about it, I probably got the idea unconsciously from "Tool of war", which is the 3rd book in Shipbreaker serie (haven't read the first 2 books)
maybe, but that's also pretty unlikely. For reference here's where musk talks about it: https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY?t=3156

No real indication he means a spiral.

There are a lot of problems with a spiral. Thin sheets of steel, even hot rolled, are very affected by the rolling process. There's also the weld line going up in a spiral. That will cause uneven heat diffusion and expansion, which is a recipe for disaster given that the skin will be cold enough to liquify helium on one side and boiling hot on the other. Then red hot during reentry. Straight lines don't have the same problems.
Wing partners with regulators to validate the remote identification of drones
That doesn't address any if the legal risk.
So yeah, React may go away in three years. Do you think you would have been better off during those three years continuing to use jquery? Do you think the hours spent learning the new thing were more or less then the hours saved my the new thing having a better api?

(now, of course, you I may be wrong on the cost benefit analysis here. I don't think I am, and the ubiquitousness of the new stuff implies that most of the industry agrees... but no matter the answer, that is the way to think about whether learning something is worth it)
"Bimmer" usually refers to cars while "Beamer" refers to bikes. At least that's the general consensus on the forums.
> In the end I think this will only drive the more independent creators to adopt smaller and more open platforms and the big platforms that are left will be an echo chamber more than ever.

In an ideal world: Yes. In our world? Hm,... My intuition says "no".
I have a few reason why I almost exclusively shop online at Amazon. I try to trust as few companies as possible with my credit card details. Amazon having nearly anything I need makes this easier and convenient.

I prefer the convenience of a brick and mortar store (the convenience being able to browse the products in real life and take it home with me immediately) but it's not always possible to find what I'm looking for locally.

Lastly, for every person complaining here on Hacker News about their one anecdotal issue with Amazon there's thousands of products being shipped every minute that have no issue. Amazon mostly works, though I wouldn't trust it for very large fragile things.
> the two opposing math concepts .... The Zahir - An object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it

It's not immediately obvious the Zahir is a 'math concept'.
> So I'm genuinly curious: Why do so many people still buy despite an avalanche of complaints?

Personally, I do try to avoid them. Originally it was because I didn't want them to grow in market power; now its' because the results are a lot worse.

But it's not always possible. Probably 80-90% of the time I'm able to find what I'm looking for somewhere else. But sometimes what I'm looking for I can only really find on Amazon.

That, and people still buy me Amazon gift cards.
We call it, law-and-justice-as-a-service
Call me paranoid but it seems increasingly that Big Tech uses all their avenues to force conformity. The message is that if you don't do what we want, bad things start happening. It can happen anytime anywhere and you wont necessarily know why. It's about encouraging a helpless, submissive, fearful mentality.

Maybe they'll no longer show you as verified. Maybe your posts will be demoted a bit in the feed. Maybe you now longer show up when people search for you. Maybe your sub becomes quarantined for an obviously for an obviously false reason (facts don't matter). Maybe you see more captchas. Maybe pages start loading more slowly for you. Maybe for your subscribers. Maybe you wont be able to show ads. Maybe it's the comments that get revoked. Maybe your account gets frozen and all your funds stolen.

Most (all?) of those are actual things happening right now.
No idea where you are but I almost never see DS jobs which don't require PhD at least for proper companies.
I'm trying here, but you just seem to do all you can to avoid debate and confuse discussion
Hahahahahaha. I think you couldn't be any more wrong on this.
Do the terms of use say anything about discounting other people's words as emotional?
iPad Pro 2020 could use a screen type that’s better than OLED
I recommend rollup for libraries and parcel for web apps.
what you said can be applied to literally any job. Not a valid point when it comes to tech in particular
Maybe so — but the Attorney General himself is implicated by name in the complaint, so it’s eminently reasonable that people are taking his office’s opinions with a grain of salt. We are truly in uncharted waters here.
Corporate structures are designed to disperse liabilities in a tragedy of the commons sort of way. Therefore, what is the moral rationale for a “private” corporation, or for that matter any liability limiting instrument for private parties.

Public corporate ownership makes a lot of sense to me.

(I was hoping this would spur interesting discussion)
> and not taking "no" for an answer.

Citation needed for everything after the "apparently"; but in particular - even the gossip I've read suggests he took No as an answer just fine.

The stories on HN over the last week have generally been him asking women out in a bizarre way and then accepting a quite predictable "no". And even then most of the stories are poorly sourced.
YouTube Music App to Replace Google Play Music on Android
Reining in emissions and fixing our society are not separate issues. The scale of the change needed to substantially reduce or eliminate CO2 and methane emissions is huge.
it's SJW and cancel culture, with people who pile on as a virtue signalling that is causing this.

See how badly critics blasted dave chappel for his new show, despite the audience loving the jokes (even if they were edgy, they were done in good taste, and pin-pointed a problem that society at large refuses to comment or talk about).
Setting aside whether this is a solution (even a partial one), I applaud the effort to come up with solutions like this.

It's hard and sometimes impossible to get other people to change. Especially when they are in other countries where legislative changes aren't even possible. This means it can take a long time, at best.

It's easier to change ourselves. Come up with things we can do that have a positive impact is a great idea.
> often requires proprietary drivers

I think it's just Nvidia and GPUs for ARM SOCs. You need GPU drivers to use desktop anyway.
Is there any way in JavaScript to create objects/functions with named variables?

Eg
function(thisVar: 1, thatVar: 42)

I miss the instant readability of this so much coming from Swift.
How is "persistence" the correct characteristic based on which to select who gets to moderate? I'm also well aware of the thresholds, I don't think one user should just have only one integer value based on which one gets all the privileges.
AI on Trial – A Case for the Defence
I can think of one use case for de-verifying: when someone's account seems to have been hacked.
If you really want to find yourself digging into a lot of different features in the Elixir ecosystem, you can’t go wrong with collaborative tools. If you really want to play with the latest hotness in Elixir, and dig into a challenge or two, I’d suggest building a light multi-user blogging system that leverages Phoenix LiveView for real-time Markdown->HTML previews, while allowing simultaneous editing/previewing by two users. Put a DB behind it so you can also play with Ecto. Outside of the 3 lines of JS you need to wire up LiveView, limit yourself to writing 0 additional lines of JS. Do everything in Elixir and eex/leex templates only. Since you’re focused on learning, skip dealing with user auth stuff. There will be some challenge to deal with handling multiple edits at the same time. May as well play with doing DB persistence in your LiveView, without any refresh. :)

Online gaming can be a good option—if building games is your thing. Personally, I find game-based demos/exercises with certain tools to be a bit too far removed from my daily work to help certain concepts really take root.
> Stack Exchange could add a rule forbidding asking why

.. that would make the outcome significantly more frustrating, as the only way to discover the real requirements is then to post an answer which the questioner regards as wrong.
IME business cultures polarise along the politics/product axis.

When politics - i.e. status games and power plays - are prioritised over product quality, bad things happen.

Unfortunately SE seems to have chosen the former over the latter. I have suspicions that amateur modding is part of the problem.

I hope SE doesn't shut down, because currently it's still helpful in spite of itself - although probably more for experienced users than absolute beginners.

But I think a lot of people would like to see a saner and more concise alternative with a more generous and less confrontational culture.
Except almost every mainstream news source.. ever? Have you seen the amount of wrong information be blamed on Tweets?
There is no formula to succeed in anything. The more people know something the less it values.
It is just random, accept it. Just a tech flavor of random. You can always be a salesman but you can't be a good salesman and a good scientist.
Who said you have to feel guilty? It's just that you belong in a group of people that basically oppress other users, often unjustifiedly so.
No... Just answer the question.

You’re not there to babysit the question asker or convince them to change their approach/hair style/choice of library.

I know it’s frustrating to see people doing something wrong, or that you don’t agree with, but you know what you can do?

Just... don’t get involved if you can’t answer the actual question that was asked, and if it’s a bad question, let it die a natural death.
I don't recommend doing PhD in "theorem proving" as I don't see a lot of industry demand for it. Machine learning, statistics, optimisation, ... all better choices (if you know you're not going to stay in academia).

Having said that, I'd apply for PhDs in other countries as well. Hopefully some would offer you a place directly, not "1 year of free work that will potentially (a.k.a. "not") lead to a PhD opportunity".
> To stop climate change you need to plant a sufficient number of trees to effectively unburn all coal, gas, and oil and then make sure these trees never decompose.

Small correction:

To stop climate change you need to plant a sufficient number of trees to effectively unburn all coal, gas, and oil and then make sure any trees that decompose are replaced by new trees (naturally or as part of a managed system).
innerHTML might be faster (was true a few years ago).
"the HTML spec" is definitely not the same as "HTML in the wild", so your comment has relatively little to do with what the parent comment is saying. Real web pages contain all sorts of sins (or at least did, back in the 90's) such as unclosed tags and missing elements that are "required", and browsers were expected to parse those pages because other browsers did. As a simple example, <b><i>foo</b></i> is not valid HTML 4 (or even SGML) because the tags are not strictly nested, but it would be suicide to make a browser that rejects pages containing that.
text without paywall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190930123234/https://www.nytim...
But that isnt what you would see by eye or even a normal telescope. That is a long-exposure image. By eye you can only see the brighter/smaller core. Get a more sensitive camera, something able to see the diffuse gas and dimmer stars, and andromeda would be twice even that size.
Intro to Ansible Tower
Shipping to/from/through the waters of whosoever is doing the seizing is going to get a lot more expensive.
https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=448

Just found that site randomly looking for Solar minimum and global warming. The effect seems limited. Still I would be OK if we got some (temporary) 0.3° temperature reduction for "free". Or maybe, we would lose another decade of complacency...

At least 2019 was the summer where every temperature records were beaten in Europe, so if this should be associated with lower temperature, we are all gonna roast for the next solar maximum.
IPOs these days are more about "finding new and/or ultimate bagholders" than anything else. Up yours GoPro.
Millions of people believe they are.
While I sort of get your point: What would be your ideal alternative? Just let him keep going on?
I know I'm not supposed to comment on voting, but I'm honestly curious why this deserved to be taken down to -1.

The link seems entirely related to the original article and contains interesting information.

If I'm not to do it again, I need to understand why, please.
Justify(tm)

Sadly, both justify.com and justify.it are squatted it appears.
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>> There is a perpetual tension between those who want SE to be helping everyone, and those who want to curate a helpful resource.

I never understood this. Why have one or the other instead of both. All questions funnel in on a "everyone" area for a particular type of question. (Junior people can moderate those to gain experience if the senior mods don't want to. This will give them experience, insight, etc.) Even the most repetitive and/or superficial homework question can be answered and not closed as duplicate. (Or at least pointed to the duplicates but not closed until the questioner has accepted a duplicate as an acceptable answer.)

When "good quality" appear or new/unique questions and answers appear they can be refined and moved over into a curated persistent section for future reference. The senior mods can take over at this point to make sure the reference Q&A are as they like.

I always hated that "closed as duplicate" reply especially if I'd already seen the supposed duplicates and didn't think they applied. This approach would allow those to be answered by new people or ignored if nobody wanted to answer.
Gaslighting. Stallman never advocated for raping minors.
>(Men get thicker fabric.)

Hahahaha.
Not anymore sadly with most brands.
Profit maximization has fixed that in the last few years.
I wasn't trained in smelling, but I definitely agree New York is a smelly city. That's one of my biggest memories how smelly it was.

Berlin can be quite smelly, too. Not every big city is smelly though.
Since I started walking our dog everyday on the beach, for health reasons, I’ve noticed a definite improvement in my eyesight, I still don’t need glasses age 56. I also remember when when I had a job in London that required commuting on the tube my eyesight deteriorated quickly, when I switched jobs and drove to work, it got better again, driving gives your eyes a good workout because one constantly switches focus between far and close objects.
You know what's also a burden? Writing a good game. So I'll just write a shitty one to decrease burden.

Isn't burden the thing you're actually getting paid for when you sell the game?

If adding 2 steps to your build process is such a burden that it results in you not supporting an entire platform, you're either lazy or looking for an excuse.
It's called fashion.

Everybody using macs because it's well established that they are the best.
The solution is not to just close the questions though.
They still do it when they want to.
>Wouldn't carbon capture

- It takes trees decades to reach optimum uptake levels

- It requires more than just a tree to make a healthy trees. Fungi in the soil, insects, adequate rainfall and all sorts of other biodiversity

- [1] Young trees absorb around 13lbs a year of CO2 (this is going to vary considerably by species) and at a decade old around 48lbs a year

>better solution than slowing down production

It appears in the past 2 decades CO2 emissions are up 25%. In the past decade about 6%. [2]

>I don't want to be too pessimistic, but even if the US and EU become carbon neutral tomorrow,

Where did I say the US and EU. Climate change isn't a single country's problem, or a dozen countries, it's a human problem. Planting trees is being 'too optimistic'

>China is about to overtake US as the biggest air travel market in 2020

Between 1986 and 2012 aviation fuel usage more than DOUBLED going from 2.6 million barrels a day to 5.3 million barrels a day [3], and IIRC from past research for another thread earlier this year. 42 gallons per barrel.

1 gallon of jet fuel will prorduce about 20lbs of CO2 [4]. If we average out the above tree figures we get 30.5 lbs a year per tree. The United States alone used 17.866 billion gallons for air travel in 2018 [5] meaning, if my math is right, 11.71 billion trees are needed just to handle that. Just between 2017 and 2018 the United States alone used half a billion more gallons.

Trees aren't a solution. They are a dollar store bandaid that you've removed 3 times and them tried to press back onto your skin after you got out of the pool.

[1] http://urbanforestrynetwork.org/benefits/air%20quality.htm

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.co2e.pc

[3] https://www.indexmundi.com/energy/?product=jet-fuel

[4] https://paullaherty.com/2015/01/10/calculating-aircraft-co2-...

[5] https://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp
I took a quick scan through the source, looks simple and clean. Nice job!

There are some JSON that don’t correspond 1 to 1 to YAML and vice versa, how do you handle that?

I was curious because I have a similar tool: http://jtree.treenotation.org/sandbox/ but I explicitly state that it’s json/yaml subsets after getting feedback on that.
The "roller coaster" manoeuver: It's like reeling in a marlin, but everyone's life is dependent upon your success.
That's the same everywhere: in French, "parking" is a car park. "Shampooing" is shampoo, and gave the verb "shampooiner" (to shampoo). And famously, "talkie-walkie" is the French word for "walkie-talkie" :)