skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there might be a very good point somewhere in this neighborhood, although how one might articulate it to get the point across for consideration I don't know.

Just as famines and what not are popularly characterized as "crimes of communism" (certainly true to some degree, using simplistic thinking), I believe an unbiased entity could make a similar argument that the current climate issues are in a sense (can be at least partially attributable to) what we loosely (conversationally, simplistically, ideologically) refer to as capitalism, or more specifically Western Democratic Capitalist Systems.

Western democracies, for the most part, seem to have enable a long (long enough) period of relatively peaceful (peaceful enough) cooperation between individuals and nations, and within that climate Capitalism unleashed the ingenuity and hard work of scientists, industrialists, and the common man to produce the amazingly advanced societies that most of us are fortunate enough to live in today.

But both Democracy and Capitalism are double edged swords. Capitalism enables tremendous technological innovation and progress, but it is largely amoral - it deals only with whether something can be done, with no concern for whether it should be done. Democracy (the flavor currently practiced in most of the world) seems to strike sort of a pragmatically useful middle ground between individual and collective rights and responsibilities, under certain sets of circumstances at least - but is it safe to assume that it can do so under all sets of circumstances, particularly considering the infinitely complex and inconsistent societies we live in, composed of millions of individuals each of who have all sorts of known and unknown quirky beliefs and behaviors, all interacting in a recursively unstable system we have little understanding of? Recent history seems to be increasingly hinting to us that perhaps this assumption (overwhelmingly undisputed, based on my reading of sentiment anyways) may not be be technically correct.

Under current conditions (the way the world is, rather than the way the world should be), I continue to overwhelmingly believe that we are trying to solve this and other problems in impractical ways, based on simplistic, ideological, and willfully ignorant thinking thinking, and I would argue that observable evidence is supportive of (but does not prove, obviously) this theory. It's completely possible I am suffering from some sort of delusional mental illness, but it seems absolutely clear as day to me.

But how one might communicate this idea, let alone get some momentum behind it if it just so happens to have some truth to it, is completely beyond my abilities. I have poor communication skills, plus I too suffer to an extremely large degree from the undesirable behaviors I allude to above, resulting in people not liking me, and therefore my ideas, so it seems.
Just another test.

However...

To me there is an issue with large diameter pressured tubes - the point where the tube connects to the top is affected by the surface area divided by the diameter. Obviously one of those scales linearly, and the other squared.

That suggests to me (I'm definitely not a rocket scientist!) that the upper bound might be smaller than this diameter, or the weight will have to increase in order to beef up the strength of this point.

Pretty interesting problem to deal with now that they are this far into the design. I'm sure there are many possible solutions, and it will be fun to see what they come up with.
It wasn't always this way. There used to be a pencil icon next to the person/channel you had a draft in.
I think we'll see the decline happen once there's a generation that grew up with ebooks as an option. All the reasons people give for preferring paper books seem to amount to habit and nostalgia; people who've grown up taking Kindles on holiday will see no reason not to use them all the time.
For me at least, I think the effort and expense of buying a house and moving elsewhere is quite a bit higher than using another phone/app store.

However I do understand that for a lot of people, moving from Apple to Android (and vice versa) is not as easy or straightforward to do, and thus why perhaps the discussion should be about regulating those companies that hold so much power, as if they were a monopoly. That doesn't make them a monopoly by current definitions though.
BeeWare – write once, deploy everywhere
This is the other side of the problem. Much of the construction in the US is a net negative rather than a net positive. I found this recently when buying a house: the majority of houses in the town in question I looked at and said, "I would need to knock fifty thousand dollars off the land value to have this bulldozed before I could build something habitable." It's not financially viable because they are classified as being worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, not negative tens of thousands of dollars.
well, ok not exactly. I'm not getting 25 acres for 300k but am getting 10 with horse barn/stables, a large "shop", a house+pool the wife loves and a MIL suite for about 650k and 30min Southeast of downtown. It's not a done deal but my mother-in-law will be moving in with me/wife+2kids so we're taking it seriously and will be making an offer soon.
Maybe China is doing all the energy intensive low margin work. Since its low margin energy must be dirt cheap, and literal dirt is still the cheapest way to generate power.

Not letting China totally off the hook, just suggesting that there is an economic force driving them toward the bottom of the barrel for cheap energy. California gets up to 50% of its power from solar during midday, but it also does a lot of much higher margin work like software, design, skilled manufacturing, etc.

The world CO2 per GDP number is falling, which is a good sign:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.co2e.pp.gd
There is no vetting system that can separate criminals from "normal people", beyond looking at obvious stuff like past convictions. Sex offenders don't look or act any different than the rest of us.
Not having roommates is 100% worth not saving a whole ton of money to me.

Fuck having roommates.
Not directly related, but the biggest obstacle that I find I face is that people who share my religious background tend to be more conservative while, in terms of lifestyle and worldview, I tend to be more progressive. I find that the women who I am interested in rarely share my faith while the women who share my faith rarely share any of my interests.
I can try to distill some of my own musings. I don’t know if they’re obvious or not.

1. Before launching a marketplace, grow a community interacting around content you get from free sources (or via a subscription) such as youtube, the web, restaurants, books etc.

2. Then link to existing marketplaces of sellers via an API (eg Amazon affiliates, OpenTable, Ticketmaster etc.)

3. Once you have enough people, build a more vendor-friendly sales process, reach out to vendors and see if they would list on you directly. Sometimes their contracts don’t allow them (eg with ticketmaster).

Now if you are intent on building a community from scratch, you will still need:

1a. A policy of subscribing to interests during onboarding (eg like with meetup.com) and telling people that they’ll get notifications as things are posted.

1b. Initially showing infinite scroll of ALL matching group activities around the user, with filters to filter it down by categories that have at least 1 result, so it never looks like a ghost town in most categories.

1c. Have subcommunities based on eg zipcode or city and let people grow them. For an example see https://yang2020.app/communities

1d. Have a system of credits users can earn for referring new users to the app.

1e. Leaderboard system per zipcode / week, who has the most credits. The leaders get some badges (digital goods) or even some real world goods.

Disclaimer: at https://qbix.com we build software for exactly this. Your job is to come up with the community idea, get the content license, get the various subcommunities, and we do the rest. We built https://yang2020.app for example, for Yang Gangs to unite. It lets you organize a local event/rally, rides to and from the event, checkins, and also uses some of the later Web features that finally work on all mobile browsers, like PaymentRequest (to pay for tickets) and WebRTC (to videochat or even screenshare). If you’re a developer it’s open source so you can grab it at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and just build whatever on it.
The Immovable Ladder
The biggest mindfuck about utrum/neutrum is that it exists in Danish and Norwegian as well, but the categorization is not 100% the same, some nouns are utrum in one language and neutrum in the other. So there's different arbitrary rules, and if you go from one of the Scandinavian languages to the other, you just have to learn the ones that aren't the same.

For example, "a friendship" is "et venskab" in Danish, but "en vänskap" in Swedish.
This is crazy awesome! And look at this one! I don't know if it comes from the same project, but looks cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40cxE-dfPg
It's private between the occupants of the vehicle. The scenario I had in mind was an idle chat with the driver, perhaps about politics, perhaps about unionization at Uber. What you say has not (so far) been shared with a multinational corporation.

'Private' isn't a binary - there's a huge difference between being overheard by a stranger or acquaintance, being seen walking down the street through the window by someone's grandma, and placing microphones and surveillance cameras around public places, gathering the data at some central location, to be used for ads, building a commercial or political profile of you, and subject to police seizure, or bought by private security that's investigating troublemakers at some company, or just running a background check on you before offering you a job.
> Enterprise needing to make the shift to Cloud is driven almost mindlessly by that fact

Is your claim that there are almost no legitimate reasons to move enterprise applications to the cloud? I don't want to hire more engineers, buy more servers, etc. I just want to pay money and skip everything else.
Well there's a fine line between employees having a job duty as "participate in online forum" and straight up astroturfing.

Especially on sites like HN and reddit which are relatively easy to manipulate.

I don't know how comfortable I am with any company posting and promoting their own product/content. Even employees voting on posts seems like a potential conflict of interest to me.
Yeah we should keep it a secret how racist America is.
No problem for me...
This is from 2016, but still very cool.
OK Boomer Is Now a Viral Gen Z Anthem
It isn't an indictment, it is just an observation.

> Now that you're here what do you think our priorities should be?

Personally I'm fine being alone, both my parents were in multiple extremely toxic marriages so I feel no need to get into one myself.
Intel Details New Data Streaming Accelerator for Future CPUs – Linux Support
Ditto. I have an NYT and WSJ online subscription, and I made a donation to a free weekly that covers hyperlocal news for my area.

I understand paywalls are annoying. But if anyone wants to do anything, they need to figure out how to get micropayments to work or build a non-techgiant service [1] that can let you collectively subscribe to most of the news organizations at once for a reasonable fee. I understand those are both hard problems.

[1] Can't be a techgiant because they've caused enough damage already, and giving them control of the subscription fees could be the coup de grâce. Honestly, the website should be a media-owned co-op or something.
It's targetting people that don't want to move.

"How it Works":

> A free remote-first office, designed specifically for the needs of remote workers

So what it is, is a we-work like space aggregator, positioning themselves somewhat above the value chain of just empty space.
Dear new corporate overlord, if you want to disprove this, please invest in wine!

It is an alternative option that would yield great dividends for both linux and windows user. win32 binaries are just more multiplatform that .net/uwp/the next shiny new thing you will try and fail to spin.
Sure, the implementation of the macro is complicated, but the actual `while` construct that results is just as expressive as that of any language with a native `while`.

But that's all beside the point, this was just an exercise, and was useful in a project where the reduction in complexity it provided was handy
AMD Clarifies “Best Cores” vs. “Preferred Cores” Discrepancies for Ryzen CPUs
Another large group of people has been doing frontend before Web existed.
Thank you for sharing this.

It seems obvious that living and pushing through real hardships can have highly variable impacts on people, depending on the person and the circumstances.

I suspect that one element that makes such experiences more likely to provide positive long-term impacts is perceived or real personal agency during the events in question.

If, during the difficult times, a person feels like they have some material influence over the outcome, and then the outcome is neutral or good, then it's more likely that the whole mess will end up being a net positive life influence.

What do you think?
Couldn't you just say - I dont want to have children, since I'm enjoying my life without any children.
I've seen user testing with video game development; both in-house and contracted out.

Whether it's useful really comes down to who is personally attached to the design in question and how much institutional power they have.

I've seen games trashed in testing only to have the lead designer double down on their designs; which always goes about as well as you'd expect.
I have stopped buying from Amazon because I have received a few product which had something off but I could not tell what.

For example, we used to buy GE fridge filters from Amazon. Every once in a while we would receive a filter which would change taste of water in weird way. New filters usually make water taste slightly different but it was just a bit more off. But we used to ignore that until we start reading about fake products.

So next time when we experienced weird water taste with filter change, I carefully checked our old filter with the new one and sure enough there were subtle differences. Really impossible to notice accidentally.

Since then we started buying filters from Home Depot, and we have had pretty consistent experience so far.
Agreed. I also grew up in a semi rural town, on the East Coast, and I wouldn’t ever want to go back.

If you’re a minority, in an interracial relationship, or are LGBT, living in a rural area can have serious quality of life issues that often aren’t mentioned.
I'll be honest, I don't have time to go dig into this study. Nevertheless, I'm skeptical because I'd be willing to bet cities don't plant trees in the hood. There's probably a strong correlation between wealth and living near trees (and of course there's a correlation between wealth and health). I'd be happy to be wrong.
It explicitly says "Kurt Vonnegut"
Thanks for sharing; see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21595320
> Outside of (sub)tropics AC isn't really needed

Over 26 degrees indoors is when it starts to get unlivable and requires cooling. And without ACs it gets that hot indoors in a lot of the world and in plenty of Europe during summers, not just in tropics.
Seriously... My "favorite" part of posts about Google on HN is the posts that combine blind ignorance about the ads business, blind hatred of Google and pat-yourself-on-the-back cynicism. It gets _so_ tiresome.
I rarely admit this to people, but when I was 19, I paid $700 to go to a weekend "PUA convention" like what Tom Cruise caricaturizes in the movie Magnolia.

The eye-opening part for me was when we broke out in small groups, went downtown in Austin, and the group leader (employees of the event) cold-approached women with a level of success I only thought was possible in Hugh Grant movies and reserved for nobody other than Hugh Grant in real life. And my group leader was a 39yo bald guy.

Most of the "wisdom" around approaching women are simply superstition and self-sabotage. "No, there's no way that could work so I won't even try."
costco.com? They may not list all the food items online, but they do have printers and snow pants.
I would say it is conspiring against Clinton at the least, and conspiring for Trump at worst. The main point is that they involved themselves directly in politics. They weren't just being an outlet for leaked information, they timed their releases for effect and coordinated with others (ex. Stone) to help amplify that effect.
Can add Visual Studio to the Office/DirectX/Outlook/ActiveDirectory section.
I believe the meme is “avocado toast” — a perfect brunch!
Las Vegas for great rock climbing and growing Californication.
Hate to break it to you but iTunes never worked flawlessly. It's always been a smoldering tire-fire.
Simple but effective. Really cool.
No media outlet is immune to posting what may be considered factually incorrect information, for example, earlier this year as highlighted in [1].

Deciding what is "true" or not these days is incredibly difficult if not impossible when we have a POTUS who wants to control the narrative and calls what could be considered factually correct as "fake news".

Even reporting the "facts" has become incredibly difficult, especially when digital data is so easily manipulated (for example, how can we verify the integrity of a 'tweet' as it was published at a particular second in history? Is there a hash that should be provided? Screenshots can be easily manipulated, as some articles embed the tweet itself and can be later modified, even Spez on Reddit admitted to editing the database).

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46935701
Stadia tech review: the best game streaming yet, but far from ready
There was already a setting for this with markdown:

>When typing code with ```, Enter should not send the message.

>With this checked use ShiftEnter to send.

So they didn't really provide anything new here, just changed the default behavior.

edit: formatting
>1) Double politicians (or leftover politicians). Most of English speaking world has left over votes with no representative, have politicians elected with leftover votes. These are paid positions with no power.

I don't understand what you are proposing here. I think there is a point about constituencies, but I do not parse your logic. What do you refer to by leftover votes?
It ran System 7 which puts it somewhere between 1991 and 1997. Not super helpful.

But Apple might have been off doing their own thing with respect to motherboard form factors and power buttons. And I could also be mixing it up with later computers.
Given Uber's history, this feature is almost certainly not "for the good of the consumer". Audio data has a lot of value these days, and I imagine Uber has a lot to gain from having a large trove of it.
Those barcodes are specifically for box identification, like size and shape, rather then buyer identification.
As a remote worker who left a high cost of living city (NYC) myself, I'm all in favor of promoting remote work, but I don't see the value add in me adding my email there. What exactly do I get? Job listings? The site doesn't really make it clear.

I guess every startup these days starts off with a fancy landing page who's goal is to get you to input your email, which they then use to gauge interest and decide whether or not to actually build out the product. Doesn't really tempt me to want to sign up.

Also I'm all in favor of promoting underdeveloped communities in America, but my #1 hesitation would be boredom. America seems extremely rural outside of the big cities and you need a car to do anything, and I'd imagine there isn't much of a sense of community. I grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and even that I found very boring. I'd love to be proven wrong, but in any case that's why I choose to work remotely from outside the U.S.
The Navajo Generating Station Coal Plant Officially Powers Down
Isn't there a little engineering principle called "Murphy's Law"? If I recall correctly, the gist of it is "If something can be done incorrectly, it eventually will be done incorrectly."

Designing with Murphy's Law in mind is essential for not killing your customers and burning down their cities, or downing their passenger airliners, or crashing their cars.

It doesn't even cost more, in a company that can be sued for the liabilities of their defective products.
It certainly doesn't look good for us. Curiously enough it's not something that's easy to notice looking out of the window at the way we live now.
>None of the real nice mechanical keyboards are available in a fullsize layout.

Not true. The IBM Model M is full-size and has been available for decades now.
They're the biggest consumer of electric cars, biggest consumer of solar panels and the biggest consumer by far of electric buses.

They'll also cut CO2 emissions as a side effect of an attempt to corner the market on green technologies.
Believe me as well, doing frontend native and Web UIs since mid-90s, including digital agencies.

Plenty of companies are doing greenfield native UIs, including desktop. Mobile is desktop as well, just a matter of hardware form factor.
That version of Xcode has been pulled because of this issue.
A country doesn't need a king to protect it from falling into tribalism. And a CEO is not the king of a company. The Board of Directors is the CEO's boss, and if the CEO did his job right, he is replaceable. If the Board of Directors did their jobs right, the CEO is replaceable.

What you are saying seems to me to be completely groundless in every dimension.

Also: I did not state the antithesis "Satya Nadella had nothing to do with MSFT adding $850b to their market cap". I'm just stating "It's not true that MSFT adding $850b to their market cap is attributable solely to Nadella".
That isn't necessarily a more fair assessment because those things would be made using cleaner power if they were being produced in the EU or the USA. That is, moving manufacturing to China isn't just moving emissions, it's making them worse. Supposedly this is particularly bad with steel and aluminium, because China's government subsidies to their local production means that more efficient, less producing facilities elsewhere are being driven out of business by dirty and inefficient but subsidised Chinese output.
Correlation ⇏ causation.

Possible confounding factor: green cities are the result of environmentally-friendly policies which also happen to reduce city pollution.
Hmmmm, Linux has proven itself on its own. The GPL has done its work. POSIX is a working standard. Linux isn't completely POSIX compliant. I don't think there is much Microsoft can do about it.
This is already part of their stated policy.
I stopped reading 5 star reviews. Using fakespot in combination with reviewing the 3 star reviews has proven pretty effective in combating the potential junk product that could show up.
Cat's Cradle is tied for the funniest book I've ever read--it's absolutely hilarious from start to finish, while also remaining poignant to this day. The other book is A Confederacy of Dunces, which, like Cat's Cradle, causes me to smile fondly when I remember scenes and quotes from it.