skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who consider this uncouth or believe there must be another way: even if the answer is to come through reforms, having a tangible threat of revolution on the table helps bring meaningful concessions from those who have thus far preferred symbolic gestures to placate.
Free software helps small businesses. Most devs can’t write new code so they have to patch together solutions from the NPM LEGO box.
I do the same. Promising to update and improve is cheap. Having a continuous revenue stream from your users doesn't bring incentive to update. Losing sales on a new version/year of updates does.
First human head transplant could be achieved by 2030
Immigrants have far less to do with this than the wealth concentration created by online aggregators like Amazon or Google. Do you think Bezos is going to pay more or encourage better working conditions if the people are white?

There are currently two Americas: the one inhabited by the ~10% of people who work in tech and make $150k+, and the one inhabited by everyone else. If you’re part of “everyone else,” your participation in the economy is likely in domestic service to them (Uber drivers, house cleaners, etc). If you’re complaining about immigrants taking jobs, you’re probably part of “everyone else” — immigrants are seen as a positive to folks in my social class because they’re cheap domestic labor. It’s why the GOP has supported lax immigration policy for decades.

We need to have a serious conversation as to whether food, shelter and health care should be considered human rights. Free market economics cannot solve this problem — it actually only serves to make workers more desperate so they accept shittier and shittier working conditions serving the elite in order to eat.
Well that's a terrible analogy.
I don't think that's the case. That's a very teleological perspective. China is a very deontological society. I get the impression that many people in China would agree with the punishment in these instances. It's very weird to me. But it is what it is. When I talk with Chinese people, they would either agree with it, or they would prefer to say something like, "He should have known that he'd get punished for that." Never have I heard someone say something like, "Sheesh, that sucks." Definitely never have I heard someone say something like, "This is an outrage."
No, free speech ends when you need to be anonymous to speak freely.
Had an old debt I never honoured, but still under law it became invalid and extinct. Yet it gets resold and some specialist companies try to get anything from you, under 'amicable' terms.

They were harassing me, calling etc, and I wondered how they got my details after so long. Made requests for data they held on me, and complained to CNIL about their practices. They dropped everything and are now being investigated by CNIL on how they handle GDPR.
Apples and oranges. Thats why parliamentary immunity exists. Voters are not and should not be accountable to anyone. Thats their only power (left)
The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
Here is the link if you wish to download the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

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To be sure, I am no great detective or even particularly smart; I'm sure people fool me every day. I used to work in substance abuse research, and your story (which I am sorry to hear) rings very true. You're right that I don't have any kind of magic vision to see who's a drug addict and who isn't, so my observations above should probably be taken with some skepticism.
He cut the heads off and his nephew, Iolaos, cauterised the wounds so they wouldn't grow back.

So you'd also need fire.

Because "Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire".
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Thanks for pointing that out! I'd heard of Cap'n'Proto but didn't realize how cool it was. Pipelining promises is incredibly useful! I'll check it out more deeply now.

When I first heard of it, maybe I was initially skeptical because of the name, having been traumatized years ago by Cap'n Software Forth on my Apple ][, which John Draper developed to implement SleazyWriter while incarcerated in the Alameda County Jail.

https://archive.org/details/EasyWriter_Capn_Software_John_Dr...

>EasyWriter was a word processor first written for the Apple II series computer in 1979, the first word processor for that platform. It was written by John Draper's Cap'n Software, which also produced a version of Forth, which EasyWriter was developed in.

>Draper developed EasyWriter while serving nights in the Alameda County Jail under a work furlough program.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245590
"...demanding they stop using plastic straws by showing pictures of turtles."

You do realize the plastic waste issue is separate from climate change?

I'm afraid that, since you seem to be reasonably intelligent and informed, I have to assume your replies are not made in good faith.
The claim is not that they waste more food but as you quoted that "More land is required to grow the city dweller's food".

Which as I pointed out I find hard to believe and would like to see supporting evidence for.

Futher, if the CO2 production of subsistence farming methods for the same output is so much lower - why not switch all food production to those?

I really would like to see something to support the claims in this article.
The google shall set you free --> http://www.cancentral.com/can-stats/statistics

At a quick glance I'd say, umm, more...
A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger
The author has a long-form blog going into much of a similar topic: http://boringtechnology.club/. Very nice read
I wonder how much of this is a direct result of the massive regulation around the banking industry.

I'm not saying regulation is necessarily bad, but the law of unintended consequences can be a beast. The large amounts of regulations make the barriers of entry very high, and make it impractical without preexisting economies of scale. Perhaps we need to reexamine regulations and their potential hampering of creative destruction.

Source: worked at a fintech startup and had to review and implement a lot of this regulation. Some is really important for protecting consumers, but some is hellishly onerous and makes automation difficult to impossible.
Good write up. I started adding RDF, in several formats, to my main web page after the seminal Scientific American semantic web article was published. Using Microdata annotations is so much better than what I used to do.

I argue that the value of semantic annotations has long tail value in SEO, discoverability of your material, and playing nice with increasingly intelligent software agents that use web data for functioning as digital assistants.
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Why not do it then? And write a blog post and tell us all about how it goes.
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Can you explain what water is and what the glass is in your analogy?
Thanks, now corrected.
Perhaps I'll provide a contrary view. I was also at Neurips, and I'm also a junior researcher. Yes, it was massive, and the poster sessions were crowded.

However, I was still able to talk to everybody I wanted to talk to - often for long periods of time. Many of them I sent emails to, and I was able to talk with everybody I wanted to (except 1), many who would be considered senior researchers.

Disseminating scientific ideas is really only one part of what a conference is meant to do. The other part is networking, and that was extremely valuable for me.
I'm not the New York Times, I'm n=1. I can't really generate my own statistics. And see the other person's reply about immigration vs. illegal immigration.
>Of course, that argument can be used to justify "quarantining" (i.e. silencing) literally any group based on what definition of "harm" is being used, and therefore is null and void.

Indeed it can, welcome to Free Speech. The whole point though is that those that believe in the idea are also free to keep arguing for it, and to keep the flame alive, and if it has merit they will ultimately be able to convince society to change its mind. That might well take years or even decades

>Better hope society never changes so that your beliefs are unpopular.

This is the sort of lazy, passive thinking that is the source of much of the problem people have understanding this. There is no "hope" in free speech, only effort, forever, with no guarantees of success. Because there is no trustable guiding oracle, that's the whole issue and always has been. It's turtles all the way down.

>Moreover, as the article demonstrates, "quarantining" doesn't even work.

The article demonstrates no such thing. In fact, you yourself are being self-contradictory right here! If you actually thought it didn't work, why would you even care at all? You can't BOTH claim that private entities exercising their freedom of association and refusing to support ideas they believe wrong is a threat, which you do, AND claim that it doesn't do anything. It's one or the other.

>A lot of rights we enjoy today came about because the backers of the status quo were unable to suppress the popular movements that back them despite keeping them out of the press and broadcast media as much as they could.

A lot of the rights we enjoy today came about because those against the status quo very much struggled against the sensibilities of the mainstream through enormous, sustained effort. Not because they were handed over control of whatever media they wanted. Being banned from social media or not being offered your own column in a newspaper or whatever else doesn't stop you from working to get your message out in other ways.

People like you love to CLAIM you want freedom of speech and association, but inevitably you only want it for yourselves.
I agree both would be a good idea. I was just suggesting they might not be sufficient alone. I like that you pointed them out! Sorry for coming across a bit contrarian.
Long story short: yes.

To expand a bit: lowering the masses by so many orders of magnitude would make the allowable range of vectors much more precise, and the degree of perturbation which the system could withstand would be much lower.

I wouldn't expect such a system to be robust with scale-model comets flying around it, for example.
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Do you know any resource i could read that would explain how all that is supposed to work out in practice ?

I've never heard of an actor system able to automatically respawn actors with their previous state (the whole system would look like a tree of cached data, each layer responsible for saving the leafs under it, with a huge "persist to DB" on top , wouldn't it ?). Does erlang OTP do those kind of things ?

Edit: also, are you Prof "Carl" Hewitt ? The one that invented actors ? I'd be honored you found a question of mine about actors excellent...
It’s not the consumption per capita that matters to the climate.
At least take the effort of putting your project in context, which also adds some interest to the reader. Thin line between "good self-promotion" and "spam".
I am reminded of the epic HBO "Feature Presentation" intro (insofar as it was physically constructed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng
That was my second fallback until a couple of months ago and in fact I did some work for openresty too for luajit. Openresty luajit2 however has a bunch of extensions that are incompatible with Lua and luajit, making it unsuitable as the stock luajit replacement. It would be possible to make those extensions conditional on build flags but the blocker there was the fact that the maintainers did not seem keen on doing releases and more importantly, moving too far away from luajit. Overall it was just simpler to start doing releases myself to fulfill a need (a more central place to maintain fixes for distributions) and then work towards a convergence.
> BUT, all that said, it is absolutely critical to have thise techniques in your bag of tricks, available to use when something exceptional happens. In those rare-ish events, being able to use the full performance envelope of the vehicle is a real life saver, both for you and the others nearby.

are you referring to during a road race, or ordinary driving on ordinary streets? It would be great if you could try to provide evidence for the latter. I've never heard of accidents being avoided on highways because someone knew how to do racecar drifting. My own 30 years of driving experience would suggest that not tailgating, keeping a safe distance from the other cars, and being alert for those occasional race-car-wannabes whipping in between everyone, invariably always driving BMWs, is likely to be statistically much more effective.
And 346 people lost their lives plus whatever its costing their families. But fuck the humans, profits are in the line.
I am currently using the following combination:

- https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind for running whatever is needed inside a project which has multiple things (like rails and webpacker). It is great because it uses tmux.

- A custom file (.dev-start) I put in my parent folder /project which describes what to execute in child folders (like /project/fe and /project/backend). Possible what this files does could be done with overmind but this is a setup I had before discovering overmind

- A bashrc script (a combination of bash script and bash aliases) which is executed on “cd” command and searches for .dev-start and if exists will execute. In the same script I also search for .browser-wip which is just a simple file with all the URLs I think I need to be open in browser while working on current project. If this file exists then it will open in default browser all links from there.
Socratic trolling doesn't make you some grand truth fighter; it's just a pose you think is clever because you can conveniently demand answers without stating any positions, skip reading any references, repeat the same question, and proclaim victory when people get annoyed at your duplicity.

Just to make it explicit for the audience: before he was claiming just to be an honest truth seeker looking for references to learn about the topic, and now he acknowledged he's just a troll. Which was obvious from the start, but worth pointing out.
1) because EVs are effectively a form of grid storage, the two transitions work hand in hand. Smart chargers will absorb excess solar and wind and get discounts as a result. The UK national Grid says no new capacity will be required as long as that flexibility is taken advantage of. The utilisation of the grid will be more consistent as a result.

2) the plan for the last 20% of renewables is a bit more murky than the first 80% which most seem to agree will be straightforward and inexpensive and using the obvious solar and wind tech. I'm fairly confident that a range of solutions will present themselves, I just wouldn't want to predict exactly what mix they'll be as it'll come down to a lot of small innovations and decisions. We have answers now but I believe we'll have more, better, cheaper answers by the time we need them.

3) Rare earths aren't rare, that's not what the name means. So they're not a fundamental blocker, though they are more expensive to extract so the market for electrical storage will naturally gravitate towards more cheap and abundant materials if they're out there.

Batteries for short day-to-day storage are already entering the market and making/saving money. As renewables expand and battery prices fall they'll expand massively (see my answer about EVs). I think we'll need something with a different model for long term seasonal storage though, but the main thing will just be building lots of cheap renewables. The "problem" will be as much about all the cheap abundant energy we have in spring/autumn as about the shortages caused by winter heating, summer cooling peaks. Storing that electrical energy as ammonia/hydrogen/whatever to shift energy is going to be a big thing I think, but only so far as it's cheaper than just adding yet another solar panel. (The current big innovation is just putting more solar panels on the back of your solar panels. It only add 1% but it's cheap, so why not?)
Salary and quality of work are codependent, remember that many programmer roles would be considered engineering roles, and bad practices could lead to user damage.
Unless rent control happens and only a tiny fraction of the apartments are at market rate. If that's the case the messed up portion of the market will just keep exploding.
> So, have people who noticed that they weren't that keen on authoritarianism after all regularly voted the authoritarians out of office successfully, then?

A big problem today is that people can be very keen on authoritarian measures used against people they don't like. Or can be persuaded to hate by a media campaign.
Can you link to the Q lang? The one I found says that language has been deprecated in favor of another called Pure https://agraef.github.io/pure-lang/
> And thus it is, as per the common understanding of the word, a security concern

Yes, but not when talking about cyber-things. Generally, we only enter the realm of security of the information leak is secret or unintentional, neither of which is the case here.
Awesome! Thanks!

Let’s assume that’s the number.

What I, as an individual, can do to help?

This serves for all the other commenters complaining about my responses.

If you can’t provide something that I can do as an individual I can’t help you.

It doesn’t matter how much we complain about how governments are not doing what they are supposed to if we can’t start with the smallest organizational unit of our planet which is the individual.
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Where do you get those definitions?
He's not wrong. When there's a solid snow, I love to find an empty parking lot and just do some stupid maneuvers. It really let's you get a feel for what works and what does. Like, if I turn my steering all the way and slam on the brakes. How far do I slide. Where do I end up? It's really good for getting comfortable with all kinds of scenarios
Beautiful response. Good luck.
I live in a coastal city in Norway. You might as well tell me to hibernate :-)

But on a more serious note: it isn’t that hard to cope with if you are prepared. In general by choosing proper tyres and learning to drive in those conditions. In particular by learning to read the conditions so you can anticipate where there’s localized black ice.
You shifted the conversation to responsibility by country/region.
I think we all know this means Chinese Quantum decryption efforts are further along than we thought.
I don't know about cans but overall aluminium production has rocketed, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium#/media/Fi...
Seems like a good use case for a browser extension?
One of the major forms of natural resource is ancient sequestered carbon, held in easily usable hydrocarbon form, that we consume (burn) to put that CO2 into the atmosphere.
We're not a SaaS - but we noticed GDPR appearing as a requirement in RFx's

Our software does contain customer information, but isn't the focus. As somebody actually designed it properly, compliance wasn't particularly arduous. Huge sections simply didn't apply, and where it did we could just link each requirements to the relevant details, API, logs etc.

As you mention, I think the main benefit is just formalizing something that should already have been designed.

Another benefit is that it's driven 'bottom up' - Customer doesn't have to pay every vendor to provide them a new feature for say "scrubbing a customer". All their providers supply "here's how you scrub in my product" and customer just needs to stitch these mechanisms together to give their customers the ability to be scrubbed.
Even if that's the case, practically every recent building in Chinese major cities is made to a higher technological level than what you see in anglophone countries.

US and UK are now really decades behind the world on modern construction practices for apartment buildings.

Just from that point alone, that building would score higher on safety.
That’s messed up. What’s the point of a lifetime sub if you don’t get the features. I bet that’s how they sold it; that you’d get the new features.

Bait and switch laws still a thing?
I drove an old redneck work truck once that someone installed assisted or power steering into. It also had a giant steering wheel from before that stuff was installed so it was comically easy to drive.
The 10x Customer Hiding in Plain Sight
> Besides, MARTY, the driver

:-D

Too many software engineers overlook the fantastic opportunity for cleverness when naming things. It's one of the hardest problems in computer science, but one of the most rewarding.
Was it a flammable atmosphere? Liquid oxygen would have been venting, but there shouldn’t have been any significant fuel in the air.
If you’re early and there are two of you do 51/49 so you can break a tie before investors get involved. Don’t forget the standard 4 year vesting with 1 year cliff for both of you. There is so much non tech stuff to do in a startup you really want them all in as soon as possible. This should all be part of a proper operating agreement document and the sooner the better.
> Because new engineers always insist on a rewrite. Because, as my friend James Powell once put it, "Good code is code I wrote; bad code is code you wrote.

Good code is code that is testable and tested, bad code is code that is code that is not tested (and may not even be testable).

As someone who's written too much non-tested (and sometimes non-testable) code, I'm pushing myself to test, and to hold that line, on projects both large and small.

Came in to a project last year that had been around 4 years. It was not only untested, but the original code in place turned out to be somewhat untestable altogether. 16 months later, we're still finding "rock bottom" moments of "holy shit this is garbage". By "garbage" I mean finding out that data that people that was being recorded was being discarded or overwritten, for months. Financial data being simply wrong, and 'correct' data not being recoverable.

First reaction looking at it was "this needs to be rebuilt". No no no, we were told - it's already working it just needs a few more features. To the extent that things were "working", they were working on accident. There were no docs or tests to demonstrate that things were working as expected.

The last year has been spent keeping it 'going' while trying to unravel and repair years of bad data is continually uncovered every few weeks. "We don't have time to rewrite!". The fact is, probably 60% of the code that was in use before has been rewritten, but it's taken over a year. It would have been faster to do it from scratch, and worry about importing/transforming data as we verified it after the fact.

So... good code is testable and tested. Absent these qualities, if I'm the 'responsible party', I will advocate strongly for a rewrite. If that 'rewrite' is 'in place', people will be told up front everything will take 2-3x longer than they expect, because we're now doing discovery, planning, testing and whatever 'new feature dev' you were asking for.

Part of the problem with this particular system was that it was started as a rewrite, but for the wrong reasons, or... executed wrong. "We can't understand the old code", so they tacked on a second framework in place and started blending the code - but still documented nothing, nor wrote any tests, or had a repeatable build process. Nothing. So instead of one undocumented system, they had 2, but one was in their head, so it was 'OK'. Based on what we inherited, one could only assume they really didn't have any understanding of the domain problems they were tackling, which just compounded every bad decision.