skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the frustration behind this, and it makes me angry as well.

But Autodesk shouldn't be the target of this anger, and this seems like a ton of effort just to vilify an incredibly small component of the problem. Instead, focus on the companies actually responsible, and the governments who both let them do this and refuse to make meaningful investments in deploying green technology.

> Autodesk is partly owned by fossil fuels investor BlackRock (8.3%).

This is straight-up propaganda. Blackrock, like Vanguard, owns a large portion of every public company. But, I bet they singled out Blackrock because Coal is a black-colored rock, and someone who wouldn't know any better may mistakenly think Blackrock is some company that specifically invests in non-green technology.
This site seems to be equal parts dishonest and confused.

Dishonest because they point out that Autodesk, a publicly traded company, has a portion of its stock owned by Blackrock, one of the world's largest investment companies. Not only does Autodesk have no control over who its investors are (anyone can buy stock!), but Blackrock owns pieces of lots of things, and is not primarily in the business of owning fossil fuel companies.

Confused because this is such a weird and unproductive way to go about advocating for fixing climate change. Let's think this out, since the activist chose not to. Suppose Autodesk does what he wants and says "we will not sell you Autodesk products." What will the mining company do? They have many options. They may hire a mechanical design company that already has Autodesk licenses to do the work for them. They may use a different CAD package. (The activist suggests this is an invalid point, but doesn't explain why; there are many CAD packages available and it's clear they can choose another one.) There is no endgame in which this writer's ultimate goal, even if it were wholly achieved, makes any positive difference to the environment. What's the point? It's a waste of time.

Advocate instead for systemic change that stops coal mining from being cost effective and will cause systemic diversion of capital away from coal and toward greener sources of energy. That can take the form of carbon taxes, or regulation on toxic mining effluents, or advocating for subsidies of green energy, et cetera. Each of those has an endgame that, if successful, makes a meaningful and positive impact on our planet's climate.

Unlike this effort.
> I'm probably missing something else about why uLED is good though?

The fancy VR/AR goggles category. It's pretty much the one, and only way to make battery powered goggles usable outdoors.

The one who gets there first with patents wins the game.
The Fed now owns Walmart debt
Manufacturing and the Great China Firewall
Hi All, ShinePay factories are running proprietary software to enable manufacturing operations in China. We're having a difficult time maneuvering around the great China firewall. If you have any experience with this I would love to bend your ear. Please & Thanks in advance.

VPN is working via the browser but not via python with requests library. ping in terminal doesn't work too. But they can access my AWS hosted server via the browser
My 84 year old mother got a message from the State of New York saying she had unclaimed funds and should fill out a form to claim them. She quite reasonably assumed this was a scam and ignored it. A few months later she mentioned it, and my brother who was familiar with the actual process looked on the website, saw that she did have unclaimed funds, and he filled out the form. Turns out the initial message was completely legit. There was a brokerage account which had fallen through the cracks when her own mother had died, and she got a check for ~$20,000.
I’ve had similar arguments here once or twice. There’s so much context that isn’t deducible from code.

You rarely need to document the “how” (that much should be evident if the code is well-written) but you absolutely should document the “why” (or, often as important, the “why not”: what code could be here but isn’t).
looking back at all of the things i most appreciated about going to university, classes are near the bottom of the list. you cant put a price on the relationships you form, the labs, the teams and companies that you spin off, the hands on activities with tools and technology and artifacts you could never access otherwise, even simply being away somewhere you didnt grow up. you dont just put that on the internet anymore than you can expect cybersex to yield offspring
I wonder how small would one of those 700mb divx/xvid movies would be if compressed with this new encoding method.
When I teach coding I tell the students to document their code well but don't document what the code is doing it. That should be evident from the code itself (if it's not, then consider a refactor). Rather, explain why the code is doing it.
Nothing in this suggest any permanent damage

> Even after the disease has passed, lung injury may result in breathing difficulties that might take months to improve.

You know what that's called? Pneumonia! All pneumonias cause that type of injury and take months to recover from.
One of the radical freedom bits of open source software licensing is that anyone could use it no matter how heinous their goals are.

There are attempts to work around this like the JSON license "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.": https://json.org/license.html

A commercial company selling licenses, and therefore profiting off "bad things" is a bit less neutral, as this website shows.

But what if an OSS developer accepts a patchset from a "bad guy", what then? That contributed code has value... but we're getting into the whole "how was it created", which could invite comparisons to other scientific results produced in morally questionable ways, like through animal or involuntary human testing.

Ethics is hard.
My parents get these kinds of phone calls all the time. Their phone rings maybe 10 times per day, and in a given week 95+% are scam calls.

What worked for my mom was to have her listen to an NPR radio show where they investigated this sketchy world. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/18/544448670/epis... and https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/29/464859624/epis....

Once she was able to see the system behind the calls, that screened out 90+%. There are still banks that call her every week to try and convince her to refinance her mortgage on terrible terms. The best antidotes to this are financial security (even if what you're telling me is true, I don't need to do it to make ends meet), financial literacy, and hard-and-fast rules.

1. Never give any information over the phone. Particularly financial or identifying information.

2. If you feel sold or pressured, tell the person that you need to go to the bathroom, and that you'll call them back. Then, call me and we'll talk through it together.

I got a couple phone calls from my mom over the next couple weeks, but they built her confidence to the point where she can spot the scams out very clearly now.

I can't imagine how difficult this would be, if my parents had short-term memory loss or worse. This industry is really soul-crushing, and the FCC needs to stomp it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsEuJNSnh8

This is a nice and simple scammer-time-waster script.
The Quora piece contains a lot of conjecture on the part of the author, who clearly has an ax to grind with the media. If you don't believe the conspiracy that "the Verge media outlet is specifically targeting female founders" the argument completely falls apart.

If you read the original Away article, Korey clearly crossed multiple lines and was creating a toxic work environment. As a tech worker, I think its right and good for people covering tech to "call out" this sort of revisionist history.
Perfect, thank you. This is really good feedback. I am still very much in the early stages of figuring out a pricing model.
Calling for a tool manufacturer to be responsible for how a tool is used is absurd.
FWIW, I definitely thought that domain name was going to be advertising a new Autodesk mapping product.
For sure, it's an empirical question what %age of people who would accept this kind of offer are "I have no other choice, so I accept your offer" or "I want to make sure I will actually want to work at your company".

I'm just saying that I would 100% not do this unless I had no other choice, or was independently wealthy.
I agree with what you're saying there, but instead of responding by apologizing people are often still better off by going on the attack, calling the allegations baseless nonsense, or personally attacking the people spreading them.
Additionally the images are not very compressed (edit: you mentioned that in your comment, sorry). While the RAW files can be a couple dozen megabytes and the losslessly compressed PNGs are still 5-15 mb, good cameras normally set the JPEG quality factor to a high amount and so even with a JPEG you're getting pretty close to a lossless image. Whereas in video you can often plainly notice the compression artifacts & softness. A more fair comparison would be the video file to a JPEG with equivalent visual quality.
If you want a really big competitive advantage, figure out how to hire great people who don't interview well.
It’s not hubris to think about better models. Questioning the status quo is how many revolutionary things got started.

The institutional model clearly has major issues and there are countless examples of journalists afflicted with bad incentives and a clear narrative. Also the rise of social media has eroded the whole point of institutional organization since they just spend all day dueling on Twitter and writing about whatever unsourced hot take is found there.
There's no scroll bar for me on desktop, however the middle mouse scroll worked. This is likely what happened to GP.
That can be done online too.
I agree, and do not think your position on the state of our planet is extreme. I do not think that asking autodesk to suspend licensing to a coal mine is going to stop coal mining. Nor will Autodesk adopting honest PR solve the climate crisis.

It is great when companies act, but it is not sufficient. If we are to solve the climate crisis, we need to put in place government regulations and price incentives to solve it. It is the only thing that has ever worked and we are not trying it.
That website had too many annoyances and content blockers that I had to leave (which wasn’t easy either). I’ll remember Bloomberg. Same with Forbes.
Amazon and Google are in games for the wrong reasons
Aren't endowments for elite colleges mostly tied up in hedge funds or real estate to make them even bigger? Weird for me that they could have billions in the bank and still ask for tuition.
> When I think of a blacklist I imagine a list colored black, not the people of color and all the history behind it.

I saw on the tv news recently about some topic where government documents were redacted for press, censuring certain name with black rectangles. Is using white paper and black text, black redaction to hide the words inherently racist?

> The truth is that people from ex-USSR and most of the EU countries were born and grew up in primarily white society.

Go and tell that to in all former soviet central asian republics, to the people of native ethnicities there. I'm pretty sure most of them consider themselves asian, in the same way chinese consider themselves asian and not white. Some countries there lost considerable amounts of cultural heritage thanks to this kind of thinking. Stalin forcefully relocated thousands of people across the USSR, millions of families suffered terribly. But even if someone is eurasian, this doesn't mean that they will have "a half of white privilege", this concept doesn't exist in reality.
> Honest question: yesterday the US saw the most cases in a day since this started. If that doesnt constitute a spike then what does?

A spike would be an isolated short-term jump, this is just continuous increase in cases.

Of course, from a “should we open things” perspective, that’s worse than a spike, not better.
It's maddening isn't it?

There's plenty of opportunities for money to be made by abandoning fossil fuels. Russia and Saudi Arabia might disagree, as well as the Kochs and their friends.
that assembly line looked better than the controller.
Rapid, Inexpensive Home Testing for Covid-19 May Get Us Out of This Mess
Yes, that guy and others on youtube are sadly the only line of defense we have. I'm surprised this is still happening in 2020. Plenty of Indian scam-centers were raided a few years ago.. And they're getting more and more professional at scamming, some of them have no telling indian accent (but they are sooo rude, it's unbelievable)

I am not a recipient for such scamming but I do receive phone calls on a daily basis, which I started screening of course. If I pick up and don't say anything they will hang up in 5 to 10 seconds. I think they're harvesting for potential victims.
Some are sociopaths and don't care.

Some think that everyone in the target country they're calling is rich and/or insured and/or will get reimbursed by their government anyway, so it's more like shoplifting (from an insurance company or the government) than stealing from a person.
This sounds like a great blend of Mechanical and Software Engineering. It would be a bit of a commute from the US unfortunately.
The media isn't inclined to pitch it this way ("DOOM! GLOOM! FIRE IN THE SKY! News at 11!"), but technically, the ideal outcome is essentially everybody has already had it and deaths (and serious hospitalizations) are at zero.

Remember "flatten the curve"? It's not "eliminate the curve". We're pretty much all going to be exposed to it at some point. Lots of people testing positive without ever having had to go to the hospital or even having been aware they had it is a good thing, not a reason to go shutting everything down again. It means the crisis is nearly over, not the worst it's ever been.

After all, consider what that would imply; for all infectious diseases, the level of crisis starts low, then monotonically goes up and never goes back down? Clearly that does not describe the real world we see, which is not still in crisis over the Spanish Flu, Black Death, and every other plague ever. The level of crisis can't be solely a function of the number of people testing as positive.

Hospitalizations and deaths are the bad numbers, not number of positives.
I understand you!

I work remotely for the last 10 or so years so I understand that. But you gave a good example, if a company wants to hire good talent in SF, as you said, it will be 400k. No amount of free sushi or bean bags will change your mind. So, pay is the reason you aren't there. No amount of 'like minded individuals' or whatnot will make you move.
It did sound crazy to me too, before I saw it happen a couple times. Or "not happen" would be a better description.
There's a background article on Drilled news that's worth reading:
https://www.drillednews.com/post/computer-aided-destruction-...
Yet, none of those are consistent with that on non-string objects:

To get the last object of an array in JS is:

arr = [1, 2, 3]
arr[arr.length - 1]

To get the last object of an array in Python is:

arr = [1, 2, 3]
arr[len(arr) - 1]

To get the last object of an array in Lua is:

arr = {1, 2, 3}
arr[#arr]
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I'm quite young, and have gone from a minimum wage service worker to a well paid software engineer in a relatively short time. A couple years ago I remarked to my dad that it seemed the more I was paid, the less stressful my work was. He said that he had found the same in his career. At the same time, the more I am paid, the more difficult it is to find someone that knows how to do what I'm doing.

I know it's been said before, but it seems pay is not dependent on how useful to society you are, but is instead dependent on two factors working in tandem.

1) Do those with money perceive you to have a use?

2) How difficult is it to find someone else that can replace your use?

I can't help but wonder if stress to pay ratio works as an inverted bell curve. At the lowest levels of pay you find the most stress. Then we move to middle/lower-upper class levels of pay and find much less stress. To get above those levels of pay, you'll likely have to start your own company or work extreme hours at a high skill job and once again experience heightened levels of stress.
From the article:

>Returning to those (mythical?) halcyon minimalist information days: You could read all of the news in a single day. Grab the two or three papers and read. The information had edges; it could be understood by a single human over one cup of first-wave coffee. Were you insatiable, the library was available to dig deep on the topics of the day.

I wrote this comment in 2018, I think it's relevant here:

>I think we've tipped over to the other side of the "convenience/humanity" pyramid. We climbed to the top some years ago where the lack of excess convenience gave us the opportunity to make things our selves and interact with other people face to face (which I think are very important human qualities) while being comfortable. Now we are sliding down the convenience side of the pyramid, unable to grasp what is important and fundamental. We are literally snowballing (e.g. obesity epidemic).
There's a lot of money held up like this! This link is just for federal money:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/11/11/244545556/the-...
It is mildly amusing that the very simple vector art "VVC" logo on their webpage is displayed by sending the viewer a 711 KB .jpg file.
There are a lot of overcounts. People who die of gunshots are COVID-19 deaths if they test positive. A huge number of people have died from secondary effects: being unable to get essential heart surgery, suicide, some people have even died of Malaria because doctors assumed it was COVID and told them to not come in.

I was wondering if we were undercounting too, but the more I look at the data, to more it's likely we're overcounting fatalities by a large amount.
The fingerprint is a hash of the visitors IP, User-Agent and a salt.

So the fingerprint is not unique for vistors from a corporate network behind a NAT router where multiple individuals share the same public IP and use the same corporate mandated browser. In these cases, it's back to cookies --- unless you don't really care if your analytics are faulty or not.

Or maybe just stick with cookies since it works in almost every case.
> What is it with the appetite for outrage?

Outrage and canned evangelical responses require very little effort and rake in the easy karma. Way easier to scream "Firefox" under every post about every other browser than trying to understand a technical issue.

Just look at the heaviest thread (now apparently downweighted by mods). A whopping 86 responses later, can you learn anything from it? Other than the root comment providing some context, I can hardly find anything of value that's not been repeated every single day on this site.
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I was reading on Autodesk's site a while ago about how they have software that can turn drone footage into 3d plots and use those plots to and estimate inventory based on the size of piles. They didn't explicitly say it was for coal, but after reading this "article/ thing" it seems like that is one of the biggest and most obvious use cases.

Also, as many others have pointed out, this site is bad. I wasn't quite sure initially this link was posted to call Autodesk's policies into light or as an example of terrible web design and scroll capture gone horribly wrong.
Yeah, I even started reading this one with an uncritical eye but the resentment just seeps through. There's even an aside where the author just has to provide this parenthetical counterargument to the accusation that journalists seek clicks... right there in a supposed news story, a whole paragraph of editorial argument.

It really wasn't very useful even to tease out whatever issues were supposedly being discussed.
Thats not the theoretical limit though. This is a physical device with moving parts. What if the bearing fails? What if the weight disintegrates due to a manufacturing fault?

Suddenly all that stored energy wants to go somewhere.
> So how do you get people to do anything they don't want to? How do you get people doing the jobs no one may want to do but will need to be done?

Don't pay them enough to have everything they want. Everyone deserves food, water, healthcare, and shelter. Basic income covers those things (I'd go so far as to just have those things be the "basic income" instead of money).

For anything like Netflix, Rock Climbing gym membership, plane tickets, or video games, you could need a job to pay for them.
I used a Go-based window manager called Wingo for quite a while and never noticed any performance issues.
I have been using vim for the past 8-9 months and have been in love with it. Many people suggested me to use Emacs and if it helps learning Lisp, I shall give it a try definitely.
Give me an example, and I will write you code documenting the business context.
All phone solicitation is scammy, I think the government should advertise that to old people.
My favorite Dutch blog, tweakers.net, also does personal ads. I never ever clicked on them, I don't know what they are smoking to conclude that I'm interested in what they offer. They also have a "pricewatch" section, and boy have I clicked on their recommendations often. They are usually spot on! Of course they are contextual and geared to what I want to buy and searched for. If only they'd do the same with their news articles.
I hate websites that think they know better than me how I should read a web page. The idea that as soon as I scroll the bottom of your 'page' of content you think it should auto-scroll so the 'next page' is at the top is asinine. I wanted to scroll the page just enough that the focus of my reading is in the center of my screen, but it kept insisting that it jump to the next 'page'. Worse still is that it treated it like a new page of content by monkeying around with the page history. That means when I get to the bottom of the web page and want to go back to the previous web page (HN), I really needed to hit back multiple times instead.
I mean, I’ve definitely done it and I’ve seen other people do it. I have no idea how typical it is.
Not rooted,no security software, tried different browsers and I am using FF android on that screenshot.

Perhaps the stingrays are acting up this morning ;)
In fact, I did.

I have been tempted to write a program to fetch the hackernews headlines and eliminate the useless cruft so it hit one of the things I find annoying.
Thank you, learned something today :)
Where do you draw the line? Is a company that manufactures mechanical pencils complicit, because they might be used as writing instruments at a coal plant?

I agree that accountability is a good thing, and we need to be doing more as a society to protect the planet. But at some point one has to come to terms with the idea that they're building a generic tool and simply can't be responsible for how others use it.

(I'd argue the blame primarily belongs on the plant itself, those who buy coal from it, and the government that allowed it to operate.)
I graduated from an expensive-but-not-elite private school (with a full scholarship). By the time I graduated it was over half international students, particularly in the MBA programs.

Not sure what they'll do now. I think these institutions have to massively change their priorities in the coming ten years to survive.

That said, a friend of mine has a cousin that's an international student from China. Apparently her school (large state school) is offering online classes in China time!
Except that none of the hospitals in the US have been overrun. Instead people have died because they couldn't come in for essential surgeries.