skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is probably mostly because the population argument is usually used by people in rich countries in order not to have to change anything, despite the fact that on average, a 10-person family in rural Africa emits less CO2 than a single individual in the US.

I agree there is probably no good reason for anyone to have more than 4 kids (at most, probably just 2 to go for a manageable population decline) but lifestyle is simply a more important aspect of the equation.
The CRT noise is an actual sound; CRT flyback transformers tend to vibrate at the horizontal scanning rate of the display and that's audible for NTSC and PAL (at around 15 kHz), if you have good hearing.

An LCD shouldn't whine, but some can (bad capacitors, cheap power supplies, or any number of other causes).
If police can't confiscate any evidence without your consent, how would they collect evidence before it's destroyed? Sure, destroying evidence is a crime, but how can the police prove that it was criminal evidence at all?

Police: Your honor, when we stopped him, the suspect had 5 years of financial books showing his money laundering in the back of his car. We told him to bring it to court.

Suspect: Naaa, that was my daughter's homework, and it accidentally blew out my car window when I was driving home. Sorry about the litter, I deserve that $500 littering fine.
Veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork’s rise and fall
And this, kids, is why companies do a technical due diligence during mergers. :0
We have low standards.

The Victorian “high speed rail project” cost $750M to increase our regional (long distance enough) trains to a whopping 165 km/h.

Here’s the kicker, when it gets hot, they have to slow down. And when I say hot, I mean, 36C (96F). And by slow down I mean 90km/h.

Welcome to Australia, that’s half a month per year. And it’s getting hotter.
[bom](http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/cvg/av?p_stn_num=086071&p...)

They can be delayed by such long periods they’re replaced by buses. When you arrive is anyone’s guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788298
People who have sincerely turned away from that path can easily find ways to contact anti-fascists and dish all the dirt they have on their former peers if they really want to.
I think you missed the part where it’s not Dropbox as a file sharing solution that’s the only problem - their entire web app runs via Dropbox API calls from Heroku!
Of course, that is a valid point. But maybe photographs will do in this case?
How does this compare to the efficiencies of batteries and gasoline engines? I know otto cycle engines are limited to low 10s% efficiency for just the car as a system as a whole. I haven't seen much about the efficiency in terms of "round-trip" which would be interesting to compare to fuel cells.
As the fallout of WeWork being bailed out played out in the public eye it was obvious that there were tremendous problems at the company. But this article really goes into detail to show the true dysfunction that existed.

I mean a CEO that skipped board meetings entirely? An entire board that basically sat quietly as valuations grew ever further out of touch with reality and that the first time they brought it up as an issue was already after the failed IPO had been halted, really is something straight out of an episode of Silicon Valley on HBO.
As far as I know, AMZN does use a lot of Java, but there are lots of languages used there and the company didn't hire because you know Java (clearly). If you want to learn it, go ahead, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you need to know it, you'll learn it on the job.

With regards to Mac vs Windows. I switched to Mac years ago and I think most would agree that Linux or a Unix-like system is superior for programming, but plenty of developers used Windows just fine. Personally, I much prefer Mac because I work in the shell a lot and don't like the Windows command prompt. Give Mac a whirl, you might like it.
> It's a way to become more human, and I'm getting what I came for.

I appreciate this self introspection. Humanity is a vast mysterious realm to explore and we've spent most of our lives focusing only on the concrete systems, like productivity loops or economics.
“#Python f-strings are amazingly fast” Twitter response
Accidentally Viral on Reddit: 30,756 upvotes and 47,611 visitors in 10 hours
> if you're shooting for human-like behavior

You're not though, you're just trying to build a bot that can win the game.
Sweden, Korea, and China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-batte...
For those of us who aren't medical practicioners - would you mind pointing explaining a bit further on "WebMD? Seriously?" as I had no idea it wasn't well regarded and am now curious as to why...
The main difference is the level of knowledge and intent on coming through with your promises.

It’s one thing to pitch people saying “If I/we do X and Y, we’ll make money.” It’s another if you make that pitch knowing you can’t possibly do it or that you know ahead of time you also need Z and don’t disclose that to your colleagues. Or maybe X and Y are possible but you have no intent to do it and just pocket the money and fly away.

If you later find out something unexpected, ethically you should disclose that to partners before taking more of their time or money.

Using your information asymmetry to take other’s money is unethical.

Also, often the best con men won’t seem to have malicious intent because they don’t; they have purely selfish motives. Whether other people benefit or are harmed is irrelevant to their selfish benefit.

I’ve seen this play out where yes-men/people just follow a psychopathic leader around because he rewards them for being members of his cult (as a means to keep them as followers, not because he cares about them). I would bet there were some very well paid people near the top of WeWork who knew it was a farce but were too well paid to sacrifice themselves and expose the truth early.
Lol how do you measure someone's agreeableness? Surveys? Bunk science.
We need boldness when studying science but humility when applying it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It can lead to prejudice or worse. But the solution is not less knowledge, the solution is greater humility in applying it.

So let's keep learning, but not let the latest findings justify things we know are really wrong. As we learn yet more, it will add nuance and eventually vindicate what we knew was right all along: respect people as individuals.
There at least has to be something ontologically different between humans and other creatures for humans to have special status. But everything in naturalism is just reducible to physical laws, so everything is ontologically equivalent. Can't have a moral order with monism, since you need multiple things to have an order.
2min in and you can see they also predicted NIMBYs
Because I disagree; user preferences should be a function of the client software rather than a function of the site. (This is especially true when the web page does not have its own CSS, or if it is a plain text file; then the user preferences on the client are used to decide the fonts, colours, etc. The web site shouldn't care about this.)
In all honesty- don’t be afraid to make the move, especially to family. I switched roles at one the tech giants from software development to the "field" (sales, service, and support) in order be able to move closer to my wife, and have stuck with it to be closer to family while raising our kids. It was a definite sacrifice and I won't pretend like I don't still fantasize abut jumping back into a product group somewhere, but I've still enjoyed my career so far.

Overall though, its been worth it. The familial support is just such a game changer, as is living in what is IMO a friendlier and more family centric community.

I've known a fair number of people make similar jumps and come out fine. I don't want to make any blanket statement that moving out of a coastal tech capital is the right move generally, but it is definitely possible to accept a down grade in your work life for an improvement in your home life and feel like you came out ahead.
The federal lawsuit against the City of New York mentioned in the Atlantic article was settled in 2018, with the City and the Bronx district attorney’s office agreeing to reforms related to the return of property taken from arrestees.

Press release: https://www.bronxdefenders.org/the-bronx-defenders-secures-s...

Settlement agreement (PDF): https://www.bronxdefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Co...
Trick Mirror is quite fun.

It’s not a particular book, but nothing has more radically altered the way I think about thinking than the work of Theodor Adorno (and to a certain extent, Horkheimer). I had, prior to reading their work, a tendency to think of thinking as an activity that occurs with quite a definite shape, in quite a well-circumscirbed space. They really exploded the concept for me and broadened my considerations about thought, how it works, what different forms it can take, and that most of the time, it’s more like a peice of music than it is a rational or practical sequence of arguments, and that the societal patterns and forces that attempt to fix your thought into a limited sequence of statements are in fact instances of control impinging itself upon you. This is not to say “don’t be rational” but it is to say there are definte thresholds upon which thought crosses over from the plane of a genuine “thinking through” into an “idiomaticity” or a “thinking about” — a preconception, a repetition, a bias.
I remember seeing this and thinking that Stockfish didn’t have to retreat its queen into the h8 corner, it could have simply moved it to a1
> go to an AWS datacenter and cut some wires at random

You say that as a joke, but I know some of you work in the tech industry.

Go into work and make sure your company isn't running twenty physical machines when twenty virtual machines on one physical machine would do.

If you're in charge of buying desktops for a corporation, check the power consumption of different models and take it into consideration when making your choice. One watt times a thousand desktops is a thousand watts.

If you're writing code that runs on hundreds of machines or more, write more efficient code.

And any power you save is also saving your company/customers money, so make the same case to your boss/coworkers.
> ...but it's just going to get better from here.

Ever increasing improvements are not guaranteed. My hope is it will improve too, and ideally be done with a lower carbon footprint. But it's still an unknown.
From Wikipedia [1]

> Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden').

> The term is especially applied historically to Spanish Jews who outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Anusim or Marranos. The phenomenon is especially associated with renaissance Spain, following the 6 June, 1391, Anti-Jewish pogroms and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism
https://github.com/alexdredmon/cuteuid/issues/1

... I appreciate this whole exchange, complete with emoji:)
> Achieving financial independence is more about prioritizing your wants

Except that's not true... Life in the US is expensive. If you stop earning money, you go homeless and hungry.

I'd like to opt out of all of this and I'm in my 30s. Unless you're counting healthcare, food, and shelter as "wants", you need to work.

I'm lucky enough to still have my parents, and their advice on this is that I can stop working when I have enough money to retire. Solid advice, makes good sense.

But if I look at how much money that requires, I'll probably be done in my 40s. If I had kids, it'd probably be in my 50s. If one of the companies I've worked for has a big exit, maybe I'll be done with work by 40.

I don't want to prescribe that to another human, especially one that's predisposed to having my views.

> I think it would be a lot healthier to grow up like that than as a child who could have whatever they wanted (monetarily.)

I'll admit I haven't given a lot of thought about parenting, because I don't think I'll ever get to do it, but I'm pretty sure that's not how the relationship would work. I'd probably let them follow the crowd and if they thrive and are happy, all is good.

If I detect that they're about ready to off themselves rather than go to the office for one more day, maybe I'd open up the treasure chest and tell them to go live life as an artist. A poor parent can't offer that.
>> It makes no sense.

I think it makes a lot of sense. Of course there are differences between men and women. This has been used to deny women entrance to universities, to take out loans, to own property, vote, participate in politics, make laws, start companies, become scientists and doctors, run marathons, and make many substantial decisions about their lives. If these differences weren't historically used as justification to deny people the ability to have control over their lives, then yes it would be easier to talk about them. Given the reality of how "focusing on differences" turns out for certain groups, it makes sense why people push for a more complete conversation than just Male != Female.

I have never spoken to a single person who flat out denies that biological differences and preferences exist between men and women. I think it is largely an uncharitable summary of the view that "Men and women aren't as different as society imposes through socialization." I don't think that most feminists claim that men and women have no differences. I also don't think it is politically incorrect to acknowledge that men and women are different and may have different preferences, as long as it is not used in the context to dismiss valid concerns about how women and men are treated socially, politically, and economically.
Normativeness is attached to equivalence between fittest and ontologically best. At any rate, we think we're better than cockroaches, so whatever makes humans better than cockroaches makes one individual better than another individual. There doesn't have to be anything objective about this moral view. It is the logic of the subjective preferences of sentient evolved creatures.
“Only”? Used to be that spending $10 now and then would get you music to listen to forever. Now get off my lawn!
Fat, MSG, oils, etc. all impart a savory-style flavor that is called umami that has nothing to do with salt.
We have a 15 month old. She is probably the easiest kid imaginable, sleeps really well, eats really well, great temperament. It's still ridiculously hard work. My partner still isn't recovered from the birthing process (some latent muscle imbalances came out). She wants another one, I'm happy to stick with one healthy one. So incredibly hard to know what to do when _most_ stories you hear are about how it's better to have two than one.

If anyone has some research which says only children are totally fine I'd love to read it (even if just to confirm what I'd like to hear ;) heh.

We are happy we have her, mostly, but our old life was kick ass too. If you're not reasonably sure you want kids, just read some of these comments, you really should expect to (somewhat) leave your old life behind and enter a new stage, where looking after the new human is the top priority.

I still get out biking, playing squash, bike a bit, life definitely goes on, but it's definitely a rewarding sacrifice.
Yes, this is what it's like. Most of the men seem harmless but when someone starts to follow you it gets scary. This was in a populated area thankfully. A few years ago I attended a women who code meetup and two men decided to try and follow two women home, arguing that it wasn't illegal to walk on the street etc. They had to be threatened with someone calling the police and the women had to delay going home and stay with the group leaving the building before it was clear the men would leave them alone and they could safely walk away.
> It's interesting to think that "quality time" which in this context simply means "2 hours per day together" should be enough. This is not how humans evolved.

Just pointing out that this is an assumption and should not be taken as fact.

If this is a fact and it's obvious, I would encourage you to write down in detail the reasoning.

The best way to improve your thinking is to do this. Usually writing to explain encourages you to study your own presumptions. Digging into your presumptions usually leads to realizing that your world view does not take into account enough detail and forces you to seek out more detail. This detail usually changes your world view, which then changes how you argue things.
The text looks really good in the terminal in the video. Is the display as good as the video capture?

Also, what is the hardware used for the video card and HMD?
His point remains reasonable, though: If all you did was dump the resulting artifacts of a learning or self-edification exercise online, you didn't make a product like a Firefox or MySQL. And to the extent that people use your code, it's most likely as part of a similar journey to yours, and studying that code is not hugely different from studying books and whitepapers, even if the code is easier to leverage. But people were doing this before "open source" became a thing, and in a manner more befitting the role of such code: as part of a text file documenting the core concepts and posted on a BBS or Usenet, so that you could program the same thing. It's the kind of thing that would be a blogpost now. The actual code? Usually only the really deep, underlying algorithms need that spelled out.

It's only when you make a full system that the end user can get value out of that you get into the scenario he outlines. Somewhere in the middle in between the simple code dump and Firefox, open source tends to sink into a quagmire where it looks like a product but it's not supported like a product. And the only good answers then seem to be "go small" (impose LOC limits and hard constraints on features you ship so that maintenance drifts towards stability) or "commoditize" (become part of someone's product in a way that gets you paid).
I agree completely. I meant I expect many people have watched closed source projects die before they're released or be abandoned after release, but that is harder to measure in aggregate because it's much less likely to be seen.

So the author is wrong to compare all software on Github to closed source software he's heard about. Those "measurements" are completely different.
There are specific translator hardware like Travis Translator[1] which could resolve the awkward input issues, I wonder whether they could stand up-to Google’s translation prowess.

[1]https://www.travistranslator.com/product-category/translator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car has more details
How do I ask for the simple stuff? The liquid bacon gives me unfortunate digestion symptoms that should not be named.
It's because it is huge. Compared to a normal desktop monitor, he is looking at like 30 point text. If you were to render text as the same size as a normal monitor, it would be illegible on a vive (which is what it looks like he is using). The thing is, when you have near infinite surface area, having big text is no big deal.
Except he's arguing the fact that there's a bunch of useless code on Github means open source is bad. I argue that for the purpose of comparing the results of open and closed source development it's reasonable to restrict to software with a real user base.
From what I hear, diamonds are located at random, at Y levels 0-15. The terrain is usually at Y level 50-60. So digging is required. The best strategy is to dig on levels 12-15, to avoid lava pools which are on 0-11.

Not sure if the AI can toggle the debug menu, which shows the Y level, or if it can see the Y level during training.

Is this a job well suited to AI, vs a canned algorithm?
A $10 ramen is considered expensive in tokyo.

$6 is standard.
In spite of the draft status this already makes some waves in the german mainstream press, not only some computer magazine.

[1] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/digitec/hassrede-bund...

Though the last paragraph cites a politcian saying something along the lines of this can't stand as it is and needs further discussion and changes, otherwise it would be contested in germanys highest court and canceled there.

edit: 2nd link [2] https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/hetze-und-drohungen...

edit: 3rd link [3] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/facebook-twitter-co-mill...
Some ramen joints in the states offer non pork broth ramen options. But I'm the states the options are predominantly pork
That is an unusual idea, although a lot of that stuff is good idea. Some of my ideas I wrote in a document how to make a better web browser program, some are similar to this, and some aren't, and some of the stuff in this document I can add.

Some things may be a problem when using multiple text colours in a single document (or to do reverse video when the document does not specify its own colours). But I had already thought of a way to work with that, which is to support indexed colours. (You could specify both an indexed and direct colour for the same property, so that the direct colour is normally used, but the indexed colour helps when needed.)

Of course, I would do it now with the existing CSS rather than the format there, although many things would be using "privileged" CSS codes, not available to document writers but are available to the user. There would also be additional unprivileged codes available, usable by both the user and the document author.

I also thought that many things can be done with "data-" attributes and CSS styles for availability by user stylesheets even if the document author does not use them. (I have used them in HTML documents that actually have no CSS at all, for this reason.)
Once I started thinking about flexbox the way I thought about QT GUI's it all started to click for me. Especially flex-grow being basically equivalent to BoxLayout's "stretch" I was able to easily make responsive "GUI-like" programs very quickly.

I don't even bother with justify-content anymore, elements with flex-grow combined with min-width and max-width pretty much cover all my required "layout" use cases.
Ah, the parenting cult rant.

I was going to write a long response with dozens of examples highlighting the richness of child-free lives, but decided it would be the ultimate brag, since there's a million things parents can't do, don't have time to do and simply don't do. Unimaginable depth and breadth, resulting in wild creativity and cross-pollination of ideas. It's also really fun, full of joy and having big positive impact.

Heh, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
This is a comment on a link to an article about books about thinking about thinking
No, because you’re being reductive. Biological organisms are clearly not like silicon computers.

Maybe biologist come up with the next big break through. I mean, if you want to match an organically grown organism ...
Due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand