skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rich people being a nuisance while piling up petty fines usually isn’t an issue because repeat offenses have escalating fines, loss of drivers license, or jail time.
This is all that is wrong with the world. If we truely believe in equality, we should treat everyone the same regardless of age, race, gender, or political belief.

But we do not, our laws reflect this principle and yet it is applied unequally, and shitty rationalisations like the above are given as to why unequal application is okay.

It is not. It mistime to treat people based on the content of their character and not their immutable attributes.
Sad that I had to scroll down so far before seeing someone make this point.
If there is not enough heap there is the OOM Killer (basically randomly kill processes), also scary.
As another poster pointed out, there are plenty of billions being sloshed about. But in my experience all this does is subsidize private investment. If an investor knows that the money they are putting in will unlock 3:1 in public money, then there's a pretty good argument for the investor to only give you a quarter of what you actually need. What's less thought about is how much time is wasted chasing tiny check sizes from these government programs. And then the reporting requirements are insane, hour by hour break downs of work plus reports and presentations at the end. They also don't like to give out large amounts and would rather fund lots of small partial projects, wasting even more time.

As far as innovation in the EU goes, the governments (yes, plural, another problem) need to get out of the way. I'm usually positive when it comes to the functioning of European governments, but this is one of the major exceptions.

I argue for European federalism, but also realize that's unrealistic. One possible step in the right direction would be to have an EU wide company structure with a single set of rules that makes investment between different European countries less complicated for companies and investors. I've also thought that a high profile EU investor could force some change by making it a requrement for their portfolio companies to immediately invert ownership to a Delaware Corp. That would open them up to US capital while simultaneously pissing of a lot of the innovation people in the government.
Anti-trust is about anti-competitive practices and consumer benefit. Carterfone and Microsoft are possibly the most relevant examples. Google and Apple are a duopoly in the phone market, and Apple's (and Google's in the case of Epic) behaviour towards these companies could be seen as anti-competitive.

If you want to run a platform business, you'll need to be mindful of anti-trust law more than anything else. The Apple platform is perfectly capable of anti-competitive behaviour given it's market share, and doubly so given Apple and Google control 99% of the phone market.
I forgot about India. Its lockdown was thought through very poorly and made the spread worse.
Exactly. $25k car is expected in 3 years. 10 years and we might get one for $15k or less.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pa...
Funny that, because Win2k was a glossy, less stable version of WinNT 4 that we had to move to, to get USB support. Had USB been backported to NT4, I never would have moved.
Yeah,

that's feedback we received from users as well. I do agree when it's about quick and efficient (& non emotional) communication.

But I do believe that (especially now with COVID), having an async way to communicate that ressembles human communication (aka. hearing the tone of voice, the speed of talking, ..) does really add value, don't you think?

A few reasons to send an audio message for me would be:
- To give a life update
- To explain something that happened
- To share ideas

A few reasons not to send an audio message:
- To ask if you're joining the meeting on Monday
- To ask you to send a document
- T share some business KPIs
IEEE eggheads probe NPM registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared
It is owned by spotify when I do the work. Don't listen to your workers and watch as everything goes to heck at the extreme or at the least you don't do as well and competition eats away at you.
When you are a 100% tech company then you better listen to your tech workers.
" I shower when I notice I start to smell. "

1) We adapt quickly to odours around us, you will always smell a whole lot worse to other people than you do to yourself. So maybe a ritual is better than a faulty detector.

2) The 'natural skin' thing is partly a myth. While a lot of products are snake oil, many are not. Women past a certain age (I suppose men as well) generally do not get 'amazing skin' without some kind of regime. Water, moisturizer and UV blockers are the base, but there is rationality to it all.
This is fascinating, I didn't know about it! Thanks for sharing!
Meanwhile, there's a sand shortage: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

Concrete might look very different in 25-50 years.
I think the headline should have been, we do rough diagrams and flowcharts rather than trying to write concrete specs.

The article is spot on otherwise. The goal is to be able to run through flows to catch anything missed in the ideation or structuring phase.
> but that's not the point.

Its 2020. We've known how RISC machine's evolve for 3 decades or so, yet RISC-V rewound the clock almost back to the beginning. "Let them eat extensions" is a recipe for fragmentation. MIPS actually experienced this in the field. ARM floating-point did for many years, too.
Hmm time to move to product manager?
That’s an attention grabbing headline number, but what it doesn’t tell you is what would alternatives mean in terms of co2 emissions?

Let’s say we take cement out or drastically reduce it. Where does co2 sit in increased consumption of viable alternatives.
In 2006 or 7 I played around with OS X Tiger in a VM from Windows and it was like a portal into a much more advanced operating system. It was the beginning of me moving entirely to OS X over time.

At the time, almost everyone was on XP and Tiger was very impressive. Looking back, most of the advantages of Tiger were audiovisual in nature. But the vastly better command line was also a big deal.
List of vim, shell, tmux, SSH, Git, brew commands
Yes. It is mostly a Chinese car.

However it is a cool idea and I would think the rest of the world can learn a lot from this: Instead of filling the freeways with queues of daily commuters sitting one person in a five person car, then driving around in something smaller suitable for one or two persons.

As other have mentioned - it looks a bit like the French Citroen Ami:

https://www.citroen.com/en/Highlight/131/ami-100-electric-mo...

Which as far as I know is limited to 45 km/h.

So maybe the problem here is too rigid legislation? That if it was allowed by law to drive faster etc. these things would useful enough to be popular.
It's sent as an attachment of course :-)

What I mean is that it is first stored locally, then sent as an attachment and that's it. It's not like we upload it somewhere and add the link to the email for ex.

Hope that clarifies!
The best vehicle I’ve ever had in the snow was pretty small - a (2001?) Mercury Cougar. I live in Minnesota and I remember staying at a girlfriend’s apartment overnight during a snow storm. The next day we had someplace to be and she was really worried we weren’t going to be able to get out of the parking lot because people were needing to shovel out their big trucks.

I told her it wasn’t a problem and just rocked my way out of the space and on we went. Snow tires are amazing, and it’s incredible to me how few people get them here.
It's for the alliterativeness.
The Tesla ride sharing network that's in the works (but slow-gowing in the actual full self-driving department) is supposed to be more like Uber than Hertz. If you mistreat the car and the next person reports it as dirty, you'd probably get charged extra or barred from using them if you were a repeat offender.
Yep :) Thanks for the message!
And somehow we forgot how to do it... until now :)
Indeed, there’re no more of a “dirty hippy car coop” than Enterprise is lol.
Please stop comparing wealth and income.
Efficiency tend to be sacrificed on the altar of fairness though. Israel's Yozma initiative seems a usable compromise.
Learning the technicalities of a domain or sell cycle is not that complicated if you already in this domain and indeed you can either learn it by reading a bit or from others in the field. But the art of selling itself is indeed more about putting yourself into it and doing it. It is a bit like the difference between someone who reads pick up lines and apply them to someone who just go out and try to pick up women. At the end of the day putting yourself out there will teach you more and will give you the confidence and natural capabilities.
> As long as the prediction is only one element of decision and not the decision itself, it can probably be useful for judges.

Whatever reasoning a judge may have to overrule the algorithm must be quantifiable -- otherwise it would not exist in the judge's mind. Given enough data and compute, judges will be make worse decisions than algorithms, even on the edge cases.

Free the data. Train the nets. Highlight and eliminate any source of human bias and error we can find. Measure outcomes. Train again. It's the only rational way forward.
this is a much more depressing number. steel and cement are necessary to the development of all nations, designer clothes are not.
No. Life is a constant struggle against the encroaching entropy and I suspect keeping civilization going will never get easier.

That said, coronavirus is not even close to being a threat to human civilization. Compare this to 1918 Spanish flu and the contrast can't be clearer. Despite enormous growth in human population and much higher connectivity, we are managing global death toll an order of magnitude lower. We absolutely can be much better but we can't ignore 100 years of progress either.
Oh sure. Technology is neither good, nor bad, nor is it neutral.
Snow tires make a far bigger difference than anything else and yet people rarely get them. I drive my Camaro year round in MN.
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Is there a serious source ranking all global CO2 emissions? Where percentages add up to 100%?
> https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040v.pdf

"Make your check or money order payable to “United States Treasury.” "

That's, you know, the federal government. Not the department called the IRS. The IRS gets a budgeted amount of funds.
Facts to know about Google on its 21st birthday
They have customer support. Their customer is an advertising company or brand. Hosting video from anyone in the world at up to 8k resolution is expensive. The product is your eyeballs. They revenue share with content creators who bring you eyeballs. They have lots of content creators. They use automation to manage the content at scale so they can be profitable.
I’ve been touting this fact for years.

90% of landfill debris is from demolition.

We need more renovation instead of new construction.
Fashion refers to all clothing. "fast fashion" (cheap disposable clothing) probably produces a lot more emissions than designer clothing.
Into and through a Reissner-Nordström black hole
Is there really no way to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol? Or is it just difficult and no one is motivated.

I'm in a similar situation where my family and some of my friends only want to talk over iMessage. Last time my iphone wasn't available for a while I had to spend a couple hours pirating OSX and fiddling with a bunch of hackintosh tools just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time.
Cleaning+Up+Your+Credit
Realistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_bondsman?wprov=sfti1
More importantly, they should add the "View Image" button again, ffs

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v...
But 2003-2012 hardly changed at all, which makes sense. I wouldn’t expect 8-9 years to drastically change a decades-old album’s quality. How does a 50 year old album suddenly go from 30th to 3rd? Did the content suddenly change?

It looks like they just used a random number generator for 2020. I would love to read the article where they explain what changed about all these albums since 2012.
India is in thrall?
> I grew up in Northern Michigan, 6+ foot snow piles from drifts were the norm. Growing up, all we could ever afford were tiny sedans.

Could you not have afforded skis? For 6 feet of snow, they're much better than any car.

> If some person in Russia is happy with driving a crappy little car, all the more power to them. If they want to spend more on a vehicle that more adequately handles the conditions, I would be happy to sell them a big SUV!

Many people in Russia driving crappy little cars often aren't doing that because they prefer it.
Yes and no.

EITC not withstanding you need to have income to hide it.

According to Brookings, the bottom 50% pay 14% of the taxes but are responsible for only 12% of evasion.

The better distinction is the source of income. Farms, landlords and sole proprietorships are the leaders in misreporting income. W-2 salary reporters account for <1% of evasion. Between those two groups are misreported tips (typically lower end) and capital gains (typically higher end)
Yes, all these bullshit sites, where right click and saving images, videos etc. doesn't work, because they want to monopolize the actual media content, fuck them.
Uh ... That was a punch. Love it :)
It's argument that has not been given much careful thought. Hardware bought today will likely become obsolete itself before Apple obsoletes it.

Apple will likely be supporting Intel hardware with updates for at least 5 years and probably much longer. Application devs will likely provide even longer support, say 10 years plus.

There is a massive installed base of Intel machines and ARM is a downgrade for anyone who values compatibility (such as Bootcamp, VMs, etc) so there will not be a rush to the new platform like previous transitions.

Most of the attraction of ARM hardware will be in laptops because of improved power efficiency. People with desktops will have much less incentive to upgrade early, or at all.
I was not specifically talking about the PSL. But you could pick a president by sortition of eligible citizens and practically be guaranteed a better choice than Biden or Trump.
Sperm counts keep dropping, and it very well may be due to chemicals that mess with our hormones and genetics.

I don’t know why it isn’t talked about more. There has been a significant drop and at the current rate it won’t be too long until the average man is considered essentially infertile.
as if anyone in the US should care what others think.

American exceptionalism in one phrase.
Why not just use one of the excellent free grotesque fonts instead? Some examples:

https://hanken.co/collections/free/products/hk-grotesk

https://www.freshfonts.io/

https://rsms.me/inter/
Instead of setting the speed limit, we could regulate the speed of cars off the production line. It's a lot more fun to drive a slow vehicle fast, than a fast vehicle slow.
Reading over these comments, I feel there are two common takes on the matter. And it’s shows why discussing certain topics is just painful.

one side seems to be just pointing out and clarifying the laws and evidence, the side seems to refuse to accept what seems to be a straightforward explanation.

You might disagree with the laws, you might think they are unfair, or think they are applied unequally or selectively, and that is fine. All those things are unarguably true in general.

But by the definition of conspiracy, I don’t get why so many commenters are trying to argue that what assange did does not fit that description.

If your objections were any of the reasons I mentioned earlier, that would make total sense. But rejecting that what he did technically can be described as conspiracy per the definition under United States law? It just makes you look unreasonable.

Is the USA out for assange? Yes, they’ll throw anything they can find at him. And it looks like they found something. Whether that is a good state of affairs is not relevant for the discussion at hand.

they’ve got him with this charge. Denying it won’t help him. Denial of a fact helps no one. Realize you lost the battle and move on so you can win the war or whatever analogy along those lines you want to use.
It was entirely sarcasm.
So the biggest polluters are food, clothing and shelter - I'm seeing a pattern here...
There are also known unknown hinges.
That was my biggest take away from the Biosphere documentary, as it was the concrete used in it's construction that eventually led to the abundance of CO2 and lack of O2 in that closed system.

We'll clearly have to use something else for building moon bases.
The punishment is $1000. 2nd order consequences, while possibly serious, aren't part of the punishment.
Haber-Bosch may be disrupting billions year old nitrogen cycle, which would qualify as 'hinge' for earth history.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-04-29/nitrogen-crisi...
5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities
Is that per capita, per household or by tax return?
All questions are off topic on SO. At least, that's been my experience.
Yes, we have been since 1945, when the first persistent existential threat we created ourselves first arose... Nuclear Weapons.
Now, we have the added threat of Genetic Engineering, the second existential threat we created ourselves.

All of our Institutions have an embedded growth obligation they haven't been able to meet since the 1960s, which lead to their being run by people willing to fudge the truth to keep the illusion of competence and power going.

We're on the edge of the abyss... and many people don't even realize it.
I would argue keydown is generally right, for the sake of latency and immediacy of action.

Do people who want a capital 'A' ever intentionally type A-Shift instead of Shift-A? I've never heard of it before.
Is that income or salary?
"If you don't read newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are misinformed" --Mark Twain (b. 1835) goo.gl/KXNf9
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This seems unlikely. Clothing is about a $1.3 trillion market, against a world GDP of about $80 trillion. I doubt that an industry that's 1.6% of GDP is contributing 10% to carbon emissions.

Also, as pointed out below, the "fashion industry" includes all clothing. Beyond food and water, I'm not sure what would be more necessary than clothing.
Well, apparently this idea didn't always work. Go uses libc on macOS now. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/uX8eUeyuuAY
Race can be a proxy for the amount of melatonin, which influences vitamin D. It can also be related to many other things. How would you use race to interpret the data?
I live in a city that likes to call itself progressive, near an major arterial. There have been no significant changes to the way its traffic moves in 20 years. During the first couple months of Covid, with a lot of businesses shut down, there was a noticeable traffic reduction. But since mid-summer there's been as much traffic on Saturdays as there is on weekdays. And most of the newer cars are no smaller (every 10th one is quieter).

Short of putting Greening on a wartime-footing - massive incentives for change, including gas-rationing - I don't see the end of the tunnel-vision. The home-heating elephant in the room gets no press.
I don't have the answer, but I can imagine this is hard to compile because so many things emit CO2 all over their supply chain. So the question becomes, when do you consider something the 'final' product in the line.

If it's cement, you presumably can't count 'construction' as it would be double-counted. Do you count an iPhone just during production? Or do you include shipping? If you include shipping, you can't have 'cargo ships' as it's own category.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200721041615/http://www.inthel...
> It only gets complicated if you want it to be complicated

That's not true. I wanted to claim some cash income this past tax year and it was a pain in my ass. It's very relevant how you made the money: for instance, if you made it gambling vs a woodworking hobby vs a small ebay reselling business, all are handled differently.
Garments that are high quality are designed to last and be worn for a long time. High end selvedge jeans might run a couple hundred bucks, but they will last a decade.

I suspect cheap, disposable clothing is driving much more emissions.
The overwhelming majority of clothing produced is totally unnecessary. The fast fashion industry produces an insane amount of clothing, way beyond what is necessary for utilitarian purposes. I don't doubt that it causes that much CO2 emission, especially if you factor in the shipping cost from the places that manufacture it.
Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics
Ask older New Mexicans what they think of Coloradans and Texans.
For most people, buying a SUV is done for signaling, rather than for maximizing utility per dollar spent.

SUVs are inefficient, sure. Just compare the gas consumption with a Yaris.

SUVs are unsafe - not for the people in the car, but for the ones outside: pedestrians, cyclists, people in tiny cars.
That's true.

But it is uncommon in my experience to actually define Pi as this ratio, if you build math axiomatically; Rather, the "shortest way" to get to pi which is well defined is by first defining the exponential function ( \exp x = \sum_i=0^\inf \frac{x^i}{\fact i} ) with all the pre-requisite for that (numbers with order, addition and multiplication; limits and convergence; then imaginary numbers). Then you define pi to be the smallest positive number such that exp(2pii) is 1, and e to be exp(1). All the properties of pi follow "easily", including it being the ratio of am euclidean circle's circumference to a diameter.

The thing is, in math, all of these things end up the same regardless of where you start; Whether you start with a geometric definition of a circle and work hard to discover said ratio, or you start with exp(), you'll end up with pi=3.14159.... and it having the other properties. It is in that sense, not arbitrary.

You could (and would) take a step back, and say that being euclidean is arbitrary - which is true; but any description compatible with euclidean axioms will get the same value of pi as the ratio of circumference to diameter; and that value will be the same of the exp() value that has no concept whatsoever of euclidean space.

It is in that sense that math is "discovered" - there is no euclidean construction in which pi is different. There is no peano-compatible (set, games, p-adic, or other) construction of natural numbers in which primes do not exist. The peano axioms themselves are, indeed, logically arbitrary. But the "discovery" is that "peano -> existance of prime numbers" -- and that does not depend on language.
Originally derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#ADM-3A, which I only learned (maybe from HN) long after becoming a vi user.

Edit: I've wondered whether the Dance Dance Revolution on-screen arrow order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution#/media/..., which I also have deep in my muscle memory, is somehow also related to the hjkl arrows (as it also goes ← ↓ ↑ → horizontally).
Due to the way the production line was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside.

Fix the root cause of the issue and you won’t need duck tape and bailing wire everywhere to fix all the proximate problems. Lord knows what the rest of this nightmare environment of “fixes” looks like.
Astronomers Found First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy
You might be bipolar if
GitHub Actions provide another option for testing against macOS: See action-tmate [1] and fastmac [2] for reference, as well as previous discussion on HN [3].

[1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

[2]: https://github.com/fastai/fastmac

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24452384
Dont forget about Podesta and friends