skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a very good or coherent article. I almost wonder if it was written by a bot.
After a random jumble of sentences we have this naïve cry for help:
"If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company ..Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?"

Moloch doesnt work that way. You cant fight Moloch while at the same time being one of his fingers.
While I don't agree with the author's point, I do agree very much that it should totally be fine to force Google and Apple to allow multiple stores that are selected by the user.

Furthermore, there is plenty of precedence for this solution, as this is pretty much exactly the approach government took when Microsoft demanded IE be the primary/main browser on Windows.
first paragraph is accurate. second paragraph is absolute nonsense.
It’s interesting they’d do TDMA over some flavor of code division multiple access (CDMA).

From what I read it has to do with the fact the antennas are high gain directional antennas and not omnidirectional ones like on cell phones. With cell phones you are kinda walking around in a soup of cell signals all sharing the same spectrum at once... you and hundreds of other people are broadcasting in the same frequencies at the same time and they all tell each other apart because they all use a different “language”; the Wikipedia CDMA article does an excellent job explaining this.

I would think that as more satellites get launched they could use WCDMA and signal from your station could be seen by multiple satellites in orbit much like a cell phone can reach multiple towers.

Writing it out... I bet TDMA is required because the FCC would never grant a block of spectrum where hundreds of thousands of ground stations were using low gain, somewhat omnidirectional antennas to reach a constellation of satellites in space....
Perhaps so you can tell if it activated or not. Plus their user base skews older so some proportion may have hearing problems.

I don’t use a CPAP machine so don’t know if this matters (perhaps it’s obvious when it’s on/off). Just speculating on your “I wonder every day” comment.
My anecdata: the Maine Coon brothers will meet strangers at the door and stare at them. If the stranger enters, the cats will start to hiss. If they come further inside, the cats will attack.

When we're expecting our HVAC folks, we lock up the Mainers in a bedroom.

Meanwhile, the Siamese look inquisitively at the strangers and then run away.
The Netherlands changed that policy after WWII.
no, I've had a beta terminal for months, upstream averages 15-18 Mbps with brief bursts to 30.
I'm curious how many companies have a working rollback. I think the majority probably have to keep patching until they get it right or get it stable.
When you work on weekends too, a friday is just like any other days.
The average cat is more of a threat than the average dog. It just won’t bite.
A market place where students offer their services.

Need: people have niche needs and are willing to pay about $10 to $15 per hour for it.

Students would probably like it a lot to be able to work different interesting jobs. Examples: being a tutor, helping someone write a letter, help an old person with computer issues [1] or whatever.

Strategy: ".edu" addresses only, have templates to kickstart student's brainstorming on what tasks they could do, let them price it. Marketing to students: go to student coordinators and let them send out mass emails to students. Marketing to consumers: look for Reddit topics where it's clear that people say "I like to learn xyz" and then reply that you found a good site for it to learn that xyz skill.

Revenue model: either self-advertizing (educational courses), normal advertizing (wouldn't recommend). Do not take a cut of the students, you want to give them every incentive to not go behind your back (students normally do that by teaching in private).

Something like that, pure napkin sketch on what you could build. It's something I'd like to see.

[1] How to reach digitally illiterate people? Their grandchildren could find you, or a student posts a business phone number on there that could be called. You could create a routing system where they get a business phone number that will be connected to their personal cellphone when needed via some app or sth.
Im supposing that way he can be certain others are listening, but he would still be in the same boat of not knowing exactly who was listening.
Previous discussion (2009):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122

The comment in context, in the code:

https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/4fa3a6d609dd72b8493e52a68f31...
Fair enough. Our CI does build+deploy and we're on a bit of a budget, so the process tends to be `git push`, wait 5-10 min for the pipeline to complete, check if it worked, repeat otherwise. But that's really something to optimize in our infrastructure; in an ideal case, I'm on your side :)
Thank you for pointing to the lite version!
Difficulty isn't the issue - for every app that has an update you have to click it, then approve the install. On my phone there's a significant wait inbetween each step. It's a hassle.

I wouldn't turn on automatic updates anyway but I'd love to be able to select multiple items and give a single confirmation to update.
This is such an inaccurate depiction.

"Alt-right" was a catchall label used during the 2016 election for those who were rightish, but didn't see themselves represented by the Republican party. Eventually, media found that Richard Spencer had originally used the term some time before, and attempted to tie all "alt-right" groups to neofascism. They were fairly successful, and the real, Spencerian "alt-right" began disparagingly referring to the fake "alt-right" as "alt-light". By and large, the proudboys and other "alt-light" groups caved to the pressure and abandoned the alt-right label.

> They were participants in the disastrous Unite the Right rally.

So what? They went to a political rally and did nothing wrong.

> Their beliefs include the idea that men and western culture are under siege.

True.

> They believe there is a white genocide occurring.

Some, sure. Race has never been the focus of the proud-boys. Me, personally, I tend to agree with this. "Replacement migration" certainly meets the UN's definition of genocide.

> They are often seen sporting clothing with "six million wasn't enough", a reference to the holocaust.

No they aren't. This is based on a photo of one dude standing around the Proud Boys wearing a "6MWE" shirt, which others likely wouldn't even have known the meaning of (I didn't, and I spend a lot of time keeping up with right-leaning groups).

> They are an exclusively male organization that values chauvinism.

True.
I don't understand what FR and AMO mean. Are you saying that many extensions are not compatible with Firefox Mobile?
Talking my experience (studying CS and programming). I haven't done it this way, but I've seen the following elements play out really well in my life.

This will cost money.

0. Tell people what you want to create [1]. Via those people (or the internet) try to find someone who could create that. Find some master CS student or a final year bachelor CS student.

1. Ask that person to become your teacher, and vet if he's a good enough one on one teacher. The first thing that person should do is create a tailor-made curriculum for you. Pay them about 12.50 to 15 euro per hour (in Europe, can't say about the US).

2. Once he made that curriculum, vet it with someone else who also has the skills. Incorporate feedback where you see fit in consultation with your teacher/coach.

3. Now the curriculum is set. Follow it religiously, even when it gets boring at times (note: it's really key you vet your teacher at curriculum/teaching capabilities).

4. As you're following your curriculum, there will be moments where you get unbelievably stuck. Struggle a bit, but if you struggle more than a few hours then ask your teacher for help.

5. Rinse and repeat until you've build your project.

Now you have a foot in the programming world and you can progress on your journey however you see fit. Note: you've only paid the teacher for Q&A time and for designing the curriculum.

If you find this a good idea, then state so as a reply. Then, it's possible for HN people to reply to you and offer to become a teacher. I'll be the first to offer myself as such a teacher, but you don't have to feel any obligation to choose me. I'm serious.

I think this would be the best way to learn programming. I still need to set this in motion myself to learn math. So if any math coach/teacher is offering him/herself for 15 euro's per hour, I'm all for it :)

My email is in my profile.

[1] e.g. a Kickstarter for refugees in your country
It's difficult to get traction here unless the project is already working. Wait until it's ready and post it again. (It is not necessary that it is perfect.)

I don't like only facebook signup :( .

The main problem I see is that it doesn't show any of the post when you are not logged in. Reddit an HN are very similar, and they show the post to attract lurkers. Hopefully lurkers become users.

It will be very hard to convince people to sing up if they can't see the posts.

I don't understand the part about 20 ingredients. It's 20 things in your refrigerator+cupboard, or 20 thing in each recipe?
According to the gatekeeper of "literature" in this thread, it's not race, but "kitsch" that disqualifies Angelou.
I don't understand (even though Nixos was my only OS for a couple of months).

How would Nix help me make Haskell into a script?
> By the same logic, I should be able to walk into a store and just take anything I want because I'm using it to make items I sell "for donations"

This is the worst sort of "you wouldn't download a car, would you?" analogy. Stealing a physical product from a retail store is nothing at all like publishing a piece of software that people choose to install on the devices that they own. This comment really illustrates how far we have diverged from people actually owning and controlling their own handheld computers, in the google or apple "walled garden" ecosystem.
Minimum wage would be 44 $/h had it grown at the same rate as Wall St. bonuses
I'd imagine that they traveled mostly by boat as well. The Mediterranean world was very much water based and large cities were based near water. It's a bit of a mind-twister for us moderns. We see water as an impediment, but for those about the Mediterranean sea the water was the thing that allowed them to meet and greet. Before the days of expensive roads the flat-ish sea with ample wind was much simpler to get around on. One thing to remember is that the Mediterranean is relatively calm and the currents are also relatively gentle when compared to the oceans.

Compare this to the many Persian empires, the Inca, or the Chinese dynasties and we can see just how central water was to communication and trade, and we can see just how much money was spent on roads where there was no waterway.

One point about land travel in the Roman era was how difficult it was. Caesar's Comments on the Gallic Wars is a good example of how little information travel there was between the proconsul and Rome herself. So much so, that Caesar basically had to write it all down to explain what the heck he had been doing for a few years up in Gaul with all those legions.
Just like I can switch browser and download programs from lots of sources, I should be able to switch Play Store.

Google is a monopoly that must be broken up.
One of the problems with software is that projects are definied, people allocated, time spent, all with a mindset that the product will be "done". With software, it is never "done". "Art is never finished it is merely abandoned" comes to mind. Building software is more like bees living in a beehive than the construction of a building. Our mental model of software is not accurate.
I'm not sure that plunging my arm down its throat and choking it with my fist would be my first instinct if I were attacked by a dog :)
There may not be that much difference between Lean (Toyota) and Taylorism. Don't forget that Toyota (Toyoda) is not that far from Fordism - "you get whatever color you want as long as it is black". Employees get to tweak the process but the fundamental model stays the same. They don't get to change the assembly line, nor the parts, nor what is assembled. And Toyota guaranteed life-long employment when it was implemented.

I've worked the line twice - first time as a teen looking for any work, the second time as an undercover analyst hired to examine why Lean was failing at a plant, both doing the same type of job: electrical component assembly. I got physical injuries (minor) both times. The majority of the assembly line workers had repetitive stress injuries, including losing fine motor skills and wrist control due to use of impact wrenches and exposure to bad ergonomics. If a human delaminates, you can't glue them back.

Although rational (Taylorism, Management by Objectives, MBO, OKR, Milestones, management by goals ) vs. normative (Lean / Toyoda, human-centric, Agile, humanist, culture ) division of management styles/rhetoric has been proposed, they should perhaps be seen through the prism of Creative Destriction (not disruption, and surprisingly, CD comes from Marx).

In a vulgar approximation, imagine capital-backed entities served by the manager class, which are stressed by short deadlines and performance-tied bonuses and careers. They are constantly shifting basic approximations of solutions and perspectives, without challenging the system.

Give employees more autonomy, and output and managerial control suffer. Instill more rigid control, and risk losing the ability to innovate and "knowledge producing" (Drucker of MBO fame) talent such as programmers.

In an antagonistic system, whatever you come up with has its own roots of destruction on top of built-in conflict (Marx again). Hence the back-and-forth re-framing between "rational" (Taylorism) and normative "culture, baybe, Holocracy!" so fast that today it is a zombie that has both and neither.

You end up with projectification, corporate "culture" that demands the soul and meeting arbitrary "milestones" from employees, but the corporation itself can only guarantee arbitrary termination.

There is a great and influential analysis "Design and Devotion: Surges of Rational and Normative Ideologies of Control in Managerial Discourse" by Barley and Kunda. I would suggest reading "Management fashion" by Abrahamson as well. Both can be found through G.scholar, including no-registration copies.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2393449
https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.1996.9602161572
I teach a class on Programming Languages at a US university as part of an accredited CS program. The curriculum is what it is. I don't control who takes my class, and I don't restrict access to any student as long as they meet the prerequisites. At the beginning of the semester I get a roster, and I teach them the material.

For what it's worth, the 16 year old are usually the better behaved, as they are advanced students from high school who are beyond their peers in ability. They find the material eminently fascinating and are fully engaged. The ones to watch out for are the 21 year olds.

I personally learned Coq at 14. Who are you to decide what's interesting and useful to 16 year olds?
Form Input Binding (Hooks) in React and Vue.js
floesen has posted a screenshot of the open ticket back in December. [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/floesen_/status/1337107178096881666
>> "oversimplifies a complex issue", so why don't try to explain it to us?

Note that this is the BBC's turn of phrase, not a quote from one of the interviewed experts.

As to the studies mentioned in the BBC article, most of those are the ones cited in Seaspiracy itself. The BBC seems to have asked the authors of the studies to comment on how their findings were represented by Seaspiracy.

In the case of Cowspiracy (the prequel, so to speak) there have been careful analyses of the claims in that documentary. From wikipedia:

>> Doug Boucher, reviewing the film for the Union of Concerned Scientists, disputed the film's assertion that 51% of global greenhouse gases are caused by animal agriculture. Boucher describes the 51% figure as being sourced from a 2009 Worldwatch Institute report by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang,[18] not from a peer-reviewed scientific paper. Boucher asserted methodological flaws in Goodland and Anhang's logic, and said that the scientific community formed a consensus that global warming is primarily caused by humanity's burning of fossil fuels.[1] Boucher stated that the scientific consensus is that livestock contribute 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions - far lower than the 51% stated by the film.[1] Boucher's review concludes: "Movies like Cowspiracy aren’t believable, not only because of how they twist the science, but also because of what they ask us to believe: that the fossil fuel industry—the ExxonMobils of the world—aren’t the main cause of global warming... and that thousands of scientists have covered up the truth about the most important environmental issue of our time."[1]

>> (...)

>> A 2018 peer-reviewed meta-analysis estimates that the food supply chain is responsible for 26% of annual anthropogenic GHG emissions. Within the food supply chain, animal products (including fish farms) account for 56-58% of GHGs,[3] implying that animal products account for roughly 15% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions.[23][24] In a 2019 erratum to the meta-analysis, the avoided annual greenhouse gas emissions arising from a "no animal products" scenario are estimated at 28% of the total, which includes 8.1 Gt CO2 of removal by trees regrowing on land no longer required for livestock.[25]

>> A 2019 Forbes article quotes Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize winner and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, stating: “Let me say it again: agriculture and land-use generates more greenhouse gas emissions than power generation." The article references the 2009 Worldwatch Institute article that estimates livestock are responsible for at least 51% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.[26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowspiracy

No doubt, a similar careful analysis of Seaspiracy will follow at some point. The BBC is probably not that interested in a careful analysis anyway.
Fatal Strategies [video]
> There is no realistic alternative if you want to reach the 70% of the market

Not to point out the obvious, but doesn't that mean that Google is providing a service that is providing you with value? I can't imagine someone saying that TV ads should be free because that's the only way to reach 70% of the market...
I can't tell if this is a serious comment or not, but if you're being serious this is horrible advice. Some dogs bites are strong enough to crush bones, and they aren't even 100 pounds. You want to willingly give them a limb so they can actually snap it in half?

Sure, if you're fighting a 50 pound Australian Shepherd, have at it. If you're fighting a 150 pound German Shepherd, you're going to die.
Why is the link to a seemingly unrelated blog instead of to the actual source?
You are right to critique the article, but I think you go too far.

They suggest an unsupported conclusion as a possible reason for the observed behavior, but they clearly don't make any actual conclusion and suggest more study is needed.
15-30mbps is about what I get for my upstream “gigabit” cable service.
Feels like 10x faster
I have a lot of sympathy for the dev, but it also seems really naive to expect something different from a company trying to operate a service at scale.

Simplest example, if Google allowed this benign thing, how do they protect from opening the floodgates to scams being run on their platform under the guise of donation pages etc?

Basically if you are relying on a broad policy, any one-off exceptions are either very costly in validation or they undermine the policy.
> They're not dictating your business model.

Actually yes they are because they control approximately 100% of distribution.
Yeah, not deploying on a Friday has nothing to do with a lack of CI; it’s related to the human culture of having a weekend, which reduces an organisation’s ability to handle the unforeseen consequences of pushing to production.

“So just roll back” I hear you say, to which I respond: “it ain’t always that easy”. You can’t always just turn the reactor off once the meltdown is in progress.
Don’t blame Google for that. It’s Mozilla management failure.
Sometimes, yes. But the bug might not immediately be obvious (for example a memory leak) or cause data corruption, in which case you need to get a backup - and you probably don't use a backup without manual approval.

A good infrastructure will help you at every point, but it will still take time.
Just like non-blind people won't be sure which people see the combination of name + medication before they pick them up.

> A few years ago, Gil learned that the store offered customers the ability to fill prescriptions online. Ordering online saves customers time because prescriptions are ready when the customer arrives.

That implies that a person read the order and prepared it for pickup.
The fees are half for small businesses, and 1/4 for "micro entities". If you only want a US patent it isn't very expensive. Investors want to see patents which implies they have value, even if it's an uphill battle to take on a big company.

Though I do agree lawyers and govts have basically colluded to create a system to suck money out of business in return for being allowed to function.
It's even more complicated than that. Thanks to MIMO antenna arrays, signals from multiple ground stations can be received and decoded at the same time (MU-MIMO). The advances in radio MACs over the past 20 years is seriously impressive compared to what was considered high tech in the 1990s, and it's all a result of Moore's law making it cheaper to do more math in the same size and power envelope as older semiconductors.
I wrote something similar several years ago on minhashing for near duplicate detection.

https://medium.com/@jonathankoren/near-duplicate-detection-b...
For the monopod case this is easy to find with hiking poles (a camera mount in the grip).

The tripod case is unlikely to be popular for reasons described in the article: it would add weight for a mostly uncommon use case, add something that could break (think about how you use hiking poles: I’ve bent quite a few, always in the lower segment) which would then make it deadweight you’d be dragging around for many days until you got out of the wilderness.
I agree. "Not helping" is a much harder cue to pick up than an actual aggression.

As the article mentions:

> " So we shouldn’t be too quick to conclude that our cats don’t care if people are mean to us. What’s more likely is that they just can’t tell."

Cat's social theory of mind is different from humans and dogs. Cats do understand 1-1 relations (between them and other people) but relations between other people are harder.

(On the other hand they know how to use the litterbox so...)
related: http://enwp.org/hydrothermal_carbonization
I don't like her poetry. You do. Fine. I'm allowed to share my negative appraisal.

Regardless, if there was an attempt to "keep Maya Angelou out," it certainly failed. My comment about "the definition of literature" was about Eat Pray Love not Maya Angelou. My point was that literature (or art) is not "something that makes people feel good".