skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not directly.

It will cause mass migration and refugee crises as coastal cities and low lying areas slowly flood. That seems inevitable at this point.

That could maybe lead to wars, and nuclear war is still an existential threat.

If the changes somehow disrupt the ability to support cereal crops in the northern hemisphere (which actually is also the biggest risk from nuclear winter), that could lead to widespread starvation and more wars. Not an existential crises necessarily, but not pretty.
I completely relate to this. I was raised in a middle-class family. My parents worked their way through school. Our first homes were in social housing (or co-ops... I honestly have no idea whether they were publicly funded or not). Then a tiny apartment. Then a house in a tiny town way up north -- the only place they could both find work.

It paid off for them. They retired comfortably. But it took a lot of work to get there.

I took every advantage for granted and didn't leverage any of it. Didn't go to school, didn't develop my social network. Had kids in my early 20s. By the time I realized I was poor (and broke!), I was way over my head and working near-minimum-wage jobs. It just caught me off guard.

But once my kids showed up, I realized I needed to do better and changed things. I'm pushing 40 and have finally reached the point where I've cross the income threshold. I'm still not rich, and I've got money problems like everyone else, but I'm no longer wondering if I can pay my utilities bill. I have a mortgage, not rent. I have a reasonably decent vehicle that I can afford to take to a mechanic twice a year for basic maintenance.

And the result is that life is WAY less stressful. I rarely worry about the basic necessities anymore, and instead get to worry about the future, like whether my kids will be able to go to college. But it was a struggle and a half to get to this point. (Even buying a house was only viable because it was cheaper than renting a place big enough for my whole family. It required some financial ninjutsu to pull off.)

That small house and a Toyota Corolla? Absolutely freaking outstanding.

Now I get to complain about things like "I really don't feel like going to work today" instead of "I really don't have gas money to make it to work today".

TL;DR: I experienced both a lower and middle class childhood, then due entirely to my own life choices, experienced both of them all over again. I agree with the author. There really is a threshold, a tipping point, when it comes to income. Below that threshold, it feels like the entire economy is against you. Above that threshold, I wouldn't say the economy is working FOR me, but I at least feel like I'm a part of it.
A friend said something the other day about NFTs that rings just about exactly right:

Humans seem to be in this perpetual fight to artificially reestablish scarcity from the physical world in the digital world. DRM. Invite-only apps. And now NFTs.

The thing that's wonderful about digital is that it should make everything MORE accessible to all, not less.
It's a lot of the reason why software has gotten to be so porous in terms of security flaws.

I would trust programmers at Intel to handle FORTRAN-style data structures, and maybe even make a compiler in C.

I wouldn't trust anybody from Intel to write a web server or even a web application with PHP in that wild west of applications programming with strings they are sure to mess it up and thus leave a vulnerability in the management engine on your CPU. It might superficially look like good code, but American Fuzzy Lop will find the branch that isn't obvious, and so will some kid.
And the GitLab Data Team is not alone! The Meltano Slack community (link on the homepage) is about 800 strong right now, and every day we've got people discussing their production deployments and helping new users set up their own.

PS. Like Taylor, I'm on the Meltano team at GitLab.
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Hold on, this sounds like you're sympathizing for the individual who cant take criticism. The inability to take criticism is a mark of immaturity. While there are better and worse ways to try breaking someone out of the defensive mindset, coddling the individual is not going to solve a single thing.

Redefining criticism or trying to find some other bullshit term that means THE EXACT SAME THING solves zero. You are deflecting responsibility and consequences for a later date, a form of tech debt.

And yes, people do asked to get criticized from the technical to the arts. The ones who want to know what they did wrong before hearing the right are the ones who skyrocket in skill. The thing with them is, they were taught early on that they need to take criticism as a trajectory to get better rather than an excuse to cry. They weren't told some bullshit word that protected them from "criticism".
That is simply untrue. The deepest operational facilities - e.g. Morsleben and Schact Asse II in Germany, WIPP in the US - are less than 1000m. There are a handful of others under construction, even more under consideration, but even if those all became operational today "regularly" at 4km would be a drastic overstatement.

Even with the facilities that exist, there have been incidents and concerns about groundwater contamination over the truly long term that many of these isotopes require. You present it as a solved problem but in fact it's anything but.
It was because that's how they had always done and the idea that real soldiering is on horse back. It was culture, not practicalities.
I am well established designer. I never worked for startups and probably never will. Why?
As a professional you know already how to do your work. My personal problem is the growing trend in which designers are decorators but they are called "product designers". To be effective at design, you have to grasp fully the product technology and core values. Where are those professionals?
The Answer: They work at established businesses and companies. Startups have to focus on speed and iteration. I have advice for them: Invest in well designed templates/design systems and focus on core business functionality. When you have real business with ROI - this is the time for hiring professional designer and get more from your product.
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I got tired of funding far-left extremists and their deranged, delusional, racist politics. I moved hours away and haven't looked back.

Once they run out of other people's money to spend, they'll implode.
Good point! :)
Luck was not mentioned to diminish what the person has accomplished. It was intended to point out that their story may be difficult to replicate.
I hope the antitrust regulators are paying attention. When Gmail launched, the competitors' model was pay-for-storage, and Google's strategy was free storage for everyone. Now that the market is an oligopoly, Google is monetizing storage.
Unit testing is greatly de-emphasized when you have dependent types. So many of the things you'd catch with unit tests you can turn into type errors.
To be clear: I like operators! I was just responding to the parent post; JSON/YAML aren’t the only ways to express things in the Kubeverse.
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if you live 35mm film you'll love medium format. It's much more forgiving due to less enlargement when printing, the trade off is that the equipment is large (although some of the fuji rangefinders aren't that much bigger than modern 35mm SLRs).
Developed countries produce, not a little bit, but multiples of calories than is consumed because people choose to pay extra for tastier but less efficient calories through livestock, and tolerate food waste for convenient packaging and higher quality selection. I don't see any sign of a downwards trend in this ratio.
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Equity should operate just as much, if not more so, by boosting people up than by cutting people down. It should also favor the individual and small business over large megacorporations.

I fear that the concept of equity presents a real possibility of a race to the bottom if we're not careful to prevent a Harrison Bergeron situation. That doesn't mean I think we should avoid equity, just that we should be cognizant of the potential pitfalls along the way to determining the exact implementation.
Reminds me of the time I read about someone inheriting six figures worth of Apple shares from their grandparents (who had an excellent cost basis, of course) and immediately selling it all to 'diversify'.

It's not always easy to understand the long term benefits of holding on to 'risky' positions, and conventional 'wisdom' often steers you away from it.
Why cant Apple use their TimeMachine tech to take a snapshot of the prefs on the existing, then do their image based update, then have it automatically apply the prefs from the timemachine mod-integration?

The richest company in the world can't think different?
We just need to make sure we don’t get “used to it” in the USA, lest we become a place where class becomes ossified in daily life, or descend into the aristocracy class hierarchy that plagued much of early European history.
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You'd be surprised how little it would take. I know in Kansas that if a rep worked 365 days a year at $88/day they would take home $31,562/yr. So $50k would be almost double their salary.

Looks like Nevada is $150.71/day or about $55k/year.

We really need to pay these people more so they don't need to supplement their pay through lobbying.
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The biggest bait-and-switch of college education IMO was spending the first two years learning how to write. Everybody knows full well that the next two years are spent writing papers and theses in the same impenetrable, verbose style as used in the published journal articles. After all, those make up the majority of the reading list for intermediate and advanced-level courses.
I think this issue is very important and when I think about it I cannot help but think the answer lies all the way down in the question whether we have free will. Some people say "you have to be perseverant like me and you will make it and often time we think about people who have simply cannot be perseverant enough but they are good people. Can they be better "if they wanted it more" or "if someone helped them" and who would that person be? People especially here have stories with "I was in a bad situation but I worked hard learning coding" while many people were in a similar situation but didn't pick up coding as these people did. Are they to blame and did the other people pick coding because they knew it would launch them to great heights?
I mean, shouldn't they? It's a car, go get the LG RESU or Powerwall if you want to power your home with a battery.
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While I agree with your conclusion, I would argue how you got there is a bit faulty. EDIT: I misead the article. I don't necessarily think Tesla is in the right about this, especially voiding your whole warrenty.

Car Maker's typically don't make the 12v battery, some third party does, and the warrenty is typically through the third party. A typical 12v car battery is also lead acid, and a lead acid battery behaves radically different as comapred to the lithum batteries with charging and discharging, and lead acid batteries age differently too.

I would have no problem "abusing" a 12v lead acid battery (and there are plenty of sites out there to show how to store energy for your home using them), but I would not want to attempt that with a lithium battery. Why? Without the proper charging/discharging circuitry, those things can catch fire (thermal runaway), and that can't happen on a lead acid battery.

However, I would argue that due to the aging of the battery combined with the danger of adding third party discharging circuitry, I would agree that this would void the warrenty, as I would imagine the car cannot now monitor the aging of the battery now. I would not be happy to get a used tesle to know that the battery is significantly more aged than what is reported.

EDIT: I apperently misread the article, and assumed the inverter was being hooked up into the Tesla battery, but Tesla has a 12v lead acid battery.

Re-reading the article, I am actually surprised about this now. Tesla is voiding the warrenty from using the 12v lead acid battery, NOT the primary lithium battery. This may actually be illegal under the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act.
I'm a "cryptoartist" one one of the curated NFT platforms. I've always had creative hobbies, and over the years have taken time off of my career to try and make a living from art (LOL impossible). Now this NFT thing comes along, and I start uploading my creations and collectors are buying them. Not life changing money in anyway, I'm a nobody in this space, but let's say a few $K in the last year.

My take is that most of the bigger collectors are probably wealthy folks that have $xsx,xxx - $x,xxx,xxx budgets in "investing" in this emerging economy of NFTs. They are creating the market by collecting. That's all fine, but the really promising piece of all of this is that it acts as a type of "patreon" for artists, especially digital artists.

Not sure I even touched on answering your question, but I think it's great that people of means suddenly have an easy way to support artists far and wide, instead of say buying from a gallery, or buying from the guy you walk by on the street when you're on vacation.

This new space has allowed folks to feel like artists, and some of the more talented people that got attention early have even been able to remove themselves from poverty.

People spend money to buy things for many reasons. I think that anyone collecting NFT art because they are "investing" is walking a dangerous tightrope, but it's a great way to support artists you like, especially if you believe "digital ownership" is something that will be moving forward in our culture.
A common criticism of Bitcoin that I've seen on HN and elsewhere is that Bitcoin is far too volatile with respect to established currencies like the US dollar and the Euro. Just look at any historical USD-per-BTC chart and judge for yourself: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD

Until recently, this criticism has made sense to me... But as Bitcoin adoption has increased worldwide, I've come to think this criticism isn't as valid, because from the perspective of a growing number of Bitcoin owners, ALL established currencies are incredibly volatile.

For example, the US dollar's exchange rate has bounced from a low of ~5000 Satoshis in 2017, to a high of ~30,000 Satoshis in 2018, to a low of ~8,000 Satoshis in 2019, to a high of ~20,000 Satoshis in 2020, to a low ~2,000 Satoshis at present.[a]

From the perspective of holders of Bitcoin, the US Dollar is insanely volatile. Just look at any historical BTC-per-USD (or Satoshi-per-USD) chart and judge yourself: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=XBT

If and as more people start using Bitcoin (or Satoshis) as their frame of reference, their perception of volatility will change accordingly.

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[a] 100,000,000 Satoshis = 1 Bitcoin.
Sorry to challenge your fossil fuels bad take.

The grid, and thus electric cars run on fossil fuel. Contrary to your belief, expensive unereliables such as solar, and wind cannot run the grid by definition. Solar and wind are great, when they are up.

Case in point: Germany. Shut down carbon free, emission free, reliable, cheap, safe nuclear. Subsidize, install solar, wind. Find out solar & wind are unreliable. Fire up new coal power plants. Increase emissions due to constant ramp up and ramp down of carbon plants (similar to stop and go traffic on the highway). Increase cost.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/10/is-germany-making-too-m...
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The orbiter was reusable, the boosters were refurbishable, and the external tank basically crashed into the ocean.