skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not in bad faith.

I take as a premise, my only premise in life, that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours.

Anything that violates this premise is, according to my own opinion and set of values, wrong.

By that value, I’m ok with life as we know it ending if that means that individuals liberties will be kept.

On the other hand, it seems like you don’t mind if a few million people die when we force third world countries to reduce their carbon emission by asking them to shut down coal plants and other processes generating carbon.
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All the really big ones require legal restrictions on emissions. I had a bit of an epiphany about this recently when I saw the local ethylene plant flaring - visible from twenty miles away in the middle of the day. There's no amount of personal cuts in consumption that can match up to a hundred foot column of flame pumping carbon dioxide directly into the atmosphere. Flaring needs to be stopped, and no amount of "individual" action is going to do that.
The model assumes that people who are capable of building software are also capable of pricing it properly. Pricing is really complicated. It is even more complicated if your cost structure relies on other paid products.
Interesting quote here:

> The university, although still of substantial size back then [50-60 years ago], operated in a bottom-up manner, Nerode told The Sun. "All the faculty in all departments met in the auditorium to decide the future of the university. It is now top-down, but that is also the case everywhere else," Nerode said.

I wonder, is this bottom-up (professor-led) vs top-down (administrator-led) shift a real thing felt by many old-time academics? It seems like this may be happening in a lot of different industries (e.g. medicine) and leading to "cost disease"[1].

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
Again no, these are modeled as events around a thunk: dispatch START_SEARCH, -> ajax -> any necessary complex logic -> dispatch RESULTS_RECEIVED or QUERY_FAILED. Multiple reducers listen to the same events, acting as simple setters.
32 reported suicides in 32,000 people whose jobs were affected.
It is not confusing at all you've just put it backwards. High affordability means a low rent/income ratio.
If you are in Versailles there is Vart Électronique. I once needed a cable or something and thought I would need to order it on AliExpress.

I gave them a call and 15 min of biking later I had what I needed for a few euros.

The shop is an inscriptible mess but the guys running it are ok.
This is one of the rare cases where I agree with the Trump administration. California does deserve all this criticism for years of policies that over-regulated housing, leading to a severe shortage.

And the California solution continues to be stricter tenant protections and more housing subsidies.

But the subsidies are nowhere near enough. This article suggests it would cost $12B for the Bay Area alone. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/cost-to-end-san-francisco-ba...

And when polled, 57% of Californians continue to blame the wrong causes: https://extras.mercurynews.com/blame/

Blaming developers, rather than the local governments that restrict supply.

I’ve been following these issues closely for years, and have been active in advocacy around them. I’m now convinced it won’t get substantially better without federal involvement.
I haven't suggested anything, except that the problem is much more complex than most people acknowledge, and that some causes of the problems seem to be deliberately ignored.

That being said, I would recommend universal healthcare, vouchers for free daycare for lower-income Americans, and a new omnibus of worker protections to allow more humane workplaces (sorry, Amazon and Tyson Chicken). Also, much more vigorous prosecution and sentencing of those who employ illegal immigrants.
Now let's list people selected by a secret ballot:

- the Pope

- the general Secretary of the cccp

- US Congressional representatives

- the chairman of the NFL

- the chairman of best Korea

- the limp wristed forum members who use their anonymous downvote instead of engaging with a post the disagree with.
There are a lot of periods in Earth's own geological history that humans would not have survived. There are also a lot of other rocks in our solar system that humans would not survive on. Whether or not we can survive climate change depends on the bounds of how much change happens and how quickly, especially in terms of feedback mechanisms (clathrate gun, H2S from an anaerobic sea, etc).
then instead of asking questions you are not interested in the answers to, give evidence of your own position.

I'm not here to argue with you. I am just pointing out that people are linking you to references, and you clearly aren't even reading them before you post your follow-up "questions".

If you want to argue, argue with evidence - don't dress it up as a question.
the recent surge in illegal immigration is ... now driven by climate change

I’m curious what you mean by that. According to the DHS [1], Mexico is far and away the most represented country of origin for people who have immigrated to the US illegally. Are you saying this is caused by climate change acutely affecting Mexico’s economy?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_U...
> WeChat claims they don't store user messages

Does it really matter if it is PSB who stores it? :)

Special police in every major city have a few hundred people whose full time job is to go through online correspondence. That's not even a secret.
Anyone mentions liberal policies wasting millions of dollar of taxpayers money and not bringing any solutions?

Let's downvotes begin...
Humans didn't launch any global nuclear offensive but they have "launched" climate change.

Even if a miracle happened and we reached zero emissions today there are still 40 years of warming from current emissions in the atmosphere plus unstoppable feedbacks that have already been triggered (Arctic ice, methane in the permafrost, etc). Nobody really knows how much warming these feedbacks will add or for how long.

And even in the best case scenario we won't get to zero emissions in at least a couple of decades.
No they dont't usually collect the data and forward it to third parties. With most stuff like this apps will embed a binary SDK which is initialized when the app starts. Because the SDK runs in the app's process it has all the same permission and data access that the app itself has. The SDK communicates with the relevant APIs directly. On the web similar models are often used with third party scripts loaded in the main page context.

For example here's Braze's developer integration guide https://www.braze.com/docs/developer_guide/platform_integrat...
I would argue the bigger handicap is the resource constraint for large projects - from lack of funding as well as lack of resources since the major sources Of taxable income (Amazon, Apple, etc) don’t pay tax.
Everyone is only willing to believe the facts that support their own interest. California home owners will deny housing is the cause of homelessness similar to how Texas oil barons will deny climate change even exists.
This is inaccurate. See Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, which provides that “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce . . . are . . . declared unlawful.”

This is an easy case for the FTC and state regulators.
Getting started with schema.org using Microdata
I agree with much of what you said but the religious ideology attribution is a non-sequitur. The Bay Area and Los Angeles are pretty much the opposite of hotbeds for piety, yet they have the most severe homelessness problems.
https://neilkakkar.com/unix.html
You didn't read the benchmark properly, plaintext benchmark it's 6th.
Powerful Ways to De-Clutter Your Life
When your university is pretty small, it looks more like a faculty and it is somewhat more common for the latter to be professor-led.
While it makes intuitive sense, I find the inverse square law for gravity really hard to comprehend when I think about the solar system, for example Uranus, or even the earth, orbiting the sun. When you look at how far apart they are (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735528), the radius of the orbits relative to the sizes of the sun & planets, for me it seems to defy the inverse square law that there is still enough force at those distances to keep the planets orbiting.

If you built a scale model of the solar system out in the middle of space, would you have the same orbital periods? Like with a scale model of the moon, would a tennis ball sized rock orbit a soccer ball sized rock from a distance of ~25 feet in about a month?
UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years
Thinking about it some more, you can get more easily away with the "eh" in MEH (not the /ə/ but the /ɛ/). That way you'll sound like someone speaking with a The Hague accent, and if you're otherwise speaking English, this will most probably slip by completely unnoticed to most Dutch listeners (unlike OU or OI would).
How can you say that wealth is not a zero sum game when resources are finite?

It's bad because wealth provides power, and power is currently being wielded to take away the autonomy of those who are poorer. Economic means are used by the obscenely wealthy to do some pretty horrid things, from buying elections to covering up their child sweatshop operations. Wealth inequality rapidly leads to general inequality in the eyes of the state.
Trump admin blocks expanded rules against inefficient lightbulbs
I mean your using chrome so presumably you are not that fussed about sharing your data with a mega corp... why worry about anyone else seeing it?
Are you replying to yourself, or is HN broken?
Especially when that person's salary / bonus is tied to the suppression of negative information.
There are some individuals who have the power to make meaningful change (mostly board members and such) but they are actually more bound then anyone by the tragedy of the commons. Without organized cooperation that has the ability to punish cheaters who benefit, the tragedy cannot be overcome.
Hardly. OP mentioned fast compilation and limited ways to code the same solution.

C# and Java are slower to compile and offer way more options to do the same thing.

Here's Uncle Bob take on testing with Go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKZ-dWaCiU&t=36m40s
> I actually stopped using apps which went from paid to subscription, like Ulysses and Gemini. In some cases, doing so actually helped me find better, free alternatives that I can theoretically count on practically forever.

Seems to me "I don't pay for it at all" would be the exact opposite of "count on practically forever".

> If vastly more complex products of Pixelmator/Affinity's quality can remain on a pay-once model

Unless they can keep expanding their userbase forever, they can't and don't over the long term (though a relatively high initial price helps there).

Historically this sort of software has relied on "major version" sales to keep revenue flowing e.g. you'd buy version 2, then would buy version 3 for a reduced price, there would be churn (and buying version 2 would entitle you to using it forever) but there's a point at which continuous work requires continuous pay.

Many software houses have switched to subscriptions not because that's fun, but because upgrade pricing was not an option (AFAIK it's available from neither Apple nor Google) and "pay once" is not a sustainable model.

> An optional yearly upgrade model (a major version jump) is also fine.

That's a good model, but AFAIK no appstore caters to it. You can do either subscriptions or "only get money once", the latter only works for software which is essentially not maintained like video games (and even that's not really the case anymore).
Migration is about forward/reverse engineering of the data structure/content. It isn't really what's meant by bitemporal databases, although I see why you might think that. Temporal databases [1] are a specific area of study and pattern.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
One of the ways the UK has reduced emissions is by burning wood pellets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station
Fast food. Warehouse picking. Wholesale food packing. "Attendant" style jobs. Basic landscaping.

I've done several of these in my youth - they were luxurious compared to the offerings now. Forty hours a week, no gamification, human bosses, daytime shifts, few injuries. Making the workplace like that would be an actual effort at making America great again.
Cocoa Text System
I like how you are stating your opinions in a respectful way. Thank you for that.

For part of my opinion see my response below.

As for the other part, I just say that it is naive to expect “someone” to fix the worlds problems. No government or authority can fix it.

If the two fisherman can’t get in an agreement for the greater good and they both die, so be it.

What we can’t do is use apparently good excuses that will hurt and kill millions of people for the “greater good”.

When we demand that countries lower their emissions what we are doing is forcing them in poverty, hunger and death.

The world is not made by super advanced countries like US or European ones.

For people fighting for food on a daily basis these kinds of demands are simply not achievable.
Maybe someone or a not profit could built an app which pays people for picking up trash. The user would take a pic of the trash then a pic of proper disposal. The user would get paid some small amount that varies based on item, maybe 5-20 cents. The company could use the exif data from the photos for various studies. That data could be resold or used to help companies built better products or realize their customers are ruining their brand by throwing Pepsi cans on the ground instead of the recycling bin. If you brought on the social media aspect your users could humble brag about the few dollars a month they make helping keep the earth clean.
Americans consume way more than the average person in S. America or China and produce way more CO2 per capita.
Claiming these issues are not systematic [0] and institutionalized [1], is willfully ignoring a very apparent problem.

This isn't even reserved to US police, the whole system is flawed to the root due to being based on retribution and vengeance, instead of actual rehabilitation, which feeds exactly the kind of straight-up sadism showcased so often by US police and the US justice system.

Case in point: Tazzing a restrained woman is justified with her having been "argumentative" [2].

Just follow the orders, be obedient, lick some boots, and then this will supposedly never happen to you, is a very common reply to these "news-worthy odd cases".

But these "news-worthy odd cases" are merely the tip of an iceberg that is the US justice system boasting the highest incarceration rate and the largest prisoner population on the planet. Many of them working in for-profit forced labor prisons [3] or being imprisoned under circumstances that some would rate as torture [4].

It's all extremely authoritarian [5], deeply embedded into the country and culture, but regularly overshadowed by the chants of "Land of the free!" distracting from the crass actual reality.

[0] https://time.com/4878195/civil-asset-forfeiture-jeff-session...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...

[2] https://youtu.be/TFG4KKwtEZo

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/17/us-pri...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rights-un-usa-torture-idU...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
I think people need to stop believing this. It's how they got to this stage anyway. As long as western country trade with china and it raises their standard of living I doubt anything will change.
If people spend money on a house, they won’t spend it on crack and heroin.

If they are already addicted, throw them in some kind of rehab center, away from sight.
I knew the former chief court reporter in our California county. He told me the judges used to run the court system, setting their own calendars, etc. The state changed this by creating positions for professional court administrators. I think sometime in the 1990's.
It's simpler than it sounds. "Rent affordability" is rent as a % of income. Going above 22% is associated with an increase in homelessness. Going above 32% is associated with a change in the rate of increase in homelessness (ie, not only does it rise, it goes up faster than it does from 22%-31%).

Here's a graph: https://wp.zillowstatic.com/3/inflection-72aee4-1024x1024.pn...
Can confirm. When I mentioned to my professor at a small university that the registrar's office made a mistake on my record, he just said let's talk a walk and we walked to the registrar's office. They were all polite to him (and he was to them). The issue that the registrar's office had told me could not be fixed right away because blah blah blah got fixed right away.
I think focusing on building costs is a red herring. Yes, solar today is relatively cheap to build. But are storage solutions really going to be that much better in 2045? How much of the build cost of nuclear is assuming the use of relatively outdated 1970’s designs plus the associated regulatory burden?
Drug addicts are amazingly adept at lying and manipulation.

Responsible people don't subject their kids to life on the streets. Addicts do. I've worked in homeless shelters in DC, Denver, and even Arkansas. My mother died a homeless drug addict. She and her husband were very adept at moving from city to city, usually at the urging of social workers who would tell them what city they could move to after they had exhausted the temporary benefits of the current city. They never were willing to hold a job.

When rents get too high, normal functional humans move to another place, or take a roommate. My father had 5 kids to raise by himself when my mother bailed on us, and we had to do this.

Addicts like my mom fooled dozens of social workers into thinking they were just normal people who couldn't get work. She could keep the act up for 8 hours or even longer. But a 2 day period was all it took to see through the bullshit. I think you got fooled as well. Talk to any drug treatment specialist and they can explain to you the reality.

Temporary homeless vs chronically homeless are two different problems with 2 different causes. California is filled with chronically homeless people. If you think they want to work, you don't understand drug addicts and their generally high intelligence and ability to manipulate.
I have been experimenting with Crux (https://opencrux.com) and it feels very easy to work with. In past systems once they grew, I always needed to implement audit logs / tables / fields, and this solves that and other problems with respect to having a transaction time, having certain data at a certain time, and being able to update history without losing the history of what was updated.

I think many projects try to re-implement in a ad-hoc way, maybe without knowing it, so if you can start with a bitemporal database it gives a big head start.
We need to ask if homlessness is really that bad?

These people can surely move to some cheaper locations but they choose not to.

That means assumed opportunity cost is bigger for them if they make a move to cheaper location.

If you go 4 months homless and the manage to find some benevolent company owner, who hired you and you get paid good salary, then you end up staying in same well off area with added benefit that now you aren't homless anymore.
> How was it sustainable when we called them programs instead of the current indentured servitude system of subscriptions?

1. software prices were not below coffee prices

2. you got what you bought, you could not and did not expect updates

3. updates and upgrades were not free
I suspect the risk avoidance is simply a political necessity. In the US, ever since the Apollo program ended NASA has to fight for their budget, they can't afford highly public deaths for fear of entire programs being cancelled.

Meanwhile Russia's space program is mostly noteworthy for being a reliable launch provider with one of the most reliable rockets ever built. With no budget for bigger ambitions and little competition until recently there was no incentive to change anything.
You're being downvoted, but there's a lot of valid social critique contained in the seemingly cruel "learn to code" meme.
It's not a violation of human rights, but it's definitely a symptom of failed policies. A community that copes with growth by forcing its poorest residents out is failing in its basic responsibilities. Society is supposed to provide a floor under its members instead of reverting to survival-of-the-fittest.
Racial Discrimination Against Airbnb Guests
Unfortunately it seems like they are also using this as a chance to change the license from a Creative Commons BY-SA to something else.

And the announcement is really short dated as I am sure a lot of services will have to be updated now over the holidays.

At least the last files before the change will stay under the old license forever.
Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers
Nice, I used to say that I feel comfortable when I choose my yogurt and do not look at the price.

I realize that I am objectively much higher on the wealth axis today, but this is what I tell my children. Live without needing much and do not worry if what you really want is 500€ more expensive.

I like this chart because it also tells that some people can be happy by buying the 15€ fast lane at the airport (this is what we did with my wife, the kids queued up). Or getting the 500€ more expensive version of vacation to have more space.
they have gotten this car to do complex and exotic movements via automated manipulations of the car's human-oriented interface, that is, a single steering wheel, four wheels that turn in the same direction, and then the brakes / accelerator.

It seems though that if you are actually trying to design autonomous cars that feature greater maneuverability than what is normally possible you'd instead ditch the whole assumption of a single steering column and all of that and just consider all the wheels as independent, or maybe add more wheels that engage for some kinds of maneuvers, or probably a whole lot of other things that im sure all the car people here know are possible if you are no longer constrained to controls created for a single human with only four limbs and extremely limited coordination and reaction time.
When I've shared my own projects here this practice of a) people linking their own projects and b) people linking other projects/products that do similar thing was a bit disappointing.

What you really want is feedback on your own project
No food to eat, for starters.
Sounds cool, do you have a gallery? I had a similar sounding project inspired by Karl Sims’ genetic images that I haven’t touched for many years now, but I’ve been meaning to revive and compile to GLSL or CUDA to get (I expect) much faster eval than is possible with CPU AVX or SSE instructions. Have you considered that route?
The movement to bring death closer
Unfortunately, this is quickly coming to the West as well. I believe twitter, facebook, imgur, and gmail (and I'm sure I missed many others) all require phone number verification, and most countries require some sort of ID to get a phone number.

And I say this with the direct opposite intent of whataboutism - it's horrifying in China, and if we let it, it'll be just as horrifying here.
Emissions here can't refer to carbon, because burning wood doesn't inject any new carbon into the carbon cycle. So he's only referring to particulate matter. Which, sure, coal beats wood on. But my main concern is about carbon, not anything else.
Nice job, I think this is promising but there has got to be a better way than having people enable their debugger. Is there any reason you can't just copy the contents of each page and then post it somewhere?