skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With genetical engineering we'll create an infinite number of new species better adapted to the changing environment and also more useful to us. In just a few years, not millions.
We also have many traditions around general morality, consideration, respect, tolerance, and so forth.

To give no consideration to tradition is a terrible idea for society; it devalues the work and thought of those who came before us, and it leads to throwing out hundreds of babies with the bathwater.

We're in agreement on the fallacy of "it goes without saying...," but many people in society today show no consideration to history or tradition, and see no value in attempting to understand it enough to see its advantages.

In other words: this 100% can be a fallacy, but in modern society, we're currently in more danger of forgetting the value of history and tradition, than the danger of valuing it too much.
USB ports?
As developers it's easy to look at these things and think "wait, that's my job".

Except... it isn't. If these things can be abstracted away, made easier... that's good. That's what we strive for. You don't have to be the millionth dev to develop invoices or shopping carts. That's wasted effort imo.

These things becoming available as a service frees us up to solve more interesting problems. If devs 20 years from now still have to put deep thought into invoicing for ecommerce after we've already spent millions of hours on the problem, that would be a failure of the industry.

So I guess I disagree with the other commenters and hope software service providers continue to expand their offerings to meet my technical and business needs.
> Recently I found that If I stand, my heart rate rises 15 beats per minute, and goes right back down when I sit.

This is absolutely a normal rise. Standing is a lot of work!

This says nothing about your other symptoms, but your standing pulse is fine. Mine is about 58-65 while resting, about 80 while standing, and 90-100 while walking.
Mathematically, 6 is the most interesting small number. For example, one might represent it as

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or the sides of a cube, hexagons or six-spoked wheels. Occasionally someone would draw a rectangular prism with sides of length 1, 2 and 3. I often had students who might also draw 六 or 陸 or ٦ or ৬ (I had a diverse student body).
Or: why I hodl/keep buying every 20th century movie I care about on tape/disc and archiving DRM-less digital files.

What's Amazon going to do to the MGM back catalog?

And note the nascent free video exodus beginning with the upcoming removal of "Charlie Bit My Finger".
Can't wait for Rosebud to be the latest Ford EV Truck.
A totally unfit N95 has way less leakage than a very carefully fit surgical mask.

Just try it for yourself, put a N95 on you face and don't even press the metal nose thing, and then see if you can fit a surgical mask better than this unfit N95.

This is another meme which needs to die.
It's a systemic problem. The issue is that people need platforms and that need supports the monopolistic rent-seeking etc.

The solution is going to be decentralized protocols.

In Stripe's case, wide deployment of scalable cryptocurrency will make their business obsolete.
Don’t worry Chamath doesn’t work at Stripe so we’ll be good.
Corporate towns were bad enough but now we're talking about corporate space colonies where the company can literally charge you for oxygen. I'd be interesting for sure, but not something anyone should want to participate in at table stakes.
What about the HTC Vive and the Valve Index?
>Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.

Really? Have you enjoyed the drek that has been released over the past decade? HBO started the bucking of the system, F/X and A&E followed. But since they were cable ops, I guess they get a pass? When Netflix started producing and pushed everyone's game, content started getting so much more interesting. Obviously, Amazon/Apple followed. I'm waiting for Google to get involved so we can have a full FAANG entertainment.

All of the Paramounts/WBs want to do is take the one franchise and squeeze every drop from it with endless sequels to the point I have completely lost any interest in explosions, cars, and super heroes.
Remember when the internet was going to be this amazing thing ?

These days it seems to be a machine for making me think "FFS" an increasing amount of times a day.
My biggest gripe is that the prices are totally artificial. I rented The Fugitive (1993 irrc) for $5 for 2 days and it costs $20 to buy it—as much as a brand new blockbuster in HD on physical media. This doesn’t seem like a particularly free market.
Redbox automated movie rental machines, perhaps?
"Wrestling with our past is practically the national pastime."

Most Americans don't care about politics, don't care about history, and certainly don't engage in any past wrestling.

It's a relatively small, well educated elite who has that interest. The rest of the population would rather watch cat videos.
Well now write that with E-Prime
Fair enough. Thanks for your perspective. I should give it another chance I guess
>Firstly, I think there’s a pretty clear difference between enslavement, which is a practice that intentionally deprives human beings of their rights, often violently and often en masse, and beef, coffee, and chocolate, which are food products that are enjoyed by consumers around the world.

But which one is fossil fuels closer to? I think it's clear that fossil fuels is closer to beef, coffee, and chocolate than slavery.

>Secondly, neither slavery nor the use of CO2-generating industrial processes were suddenly found to be objectionable overnight. Both have been the subject of intense attention across the globe and over decades. Nobody at Shell is surprised that carbon dioxide is a problem. They have made the choice to continue to invest in and defend their business model for many years.

Should beef, coffee, and chocolate producers also watch their back? They all have issues as well. eg. beef: cow farts, deforestation for pastures/soy production, negative health effects of red meat.
>No, that's hyperbole

Agreed. I think I came across slightly hyperbolic. The use of the word literally was a poor choice and i edited it out. I would like to point that i did caveat my comment with an "if you follow that through" but maybe that wasn't enough. Though i still don't necessarily agree with the rest of your comment.
> I bet it would take less than a minute to get banned for bring up freenode on libera.

I'm sure just about anyone will take you up on that bet. Go for it.
To or not to
Really enjoyed it.

Only thing I would add is numbering and rules for the extra videos. Easier to talk about that way (e.g. "I wonder what's going on with discrete pattern #7).
Square does most of these things too, and Square Capital existed years before Stripe Capital. Stripe provides servers to SMBs. It's likely that a lot of them want a simple, bundled solution versus a large enterprise using Adyen along with a different provider for invoices, etc.
It might be easier to start a list of channels that didn't move.
> Furthermore, the US fought itself to free millions of slaves in it's own Civil War.

Neither side of the Civil War fought to free slaves. One side fought to separate itself to prevent the distant future threat of that happening, the other side fought to preserve the Union (those on that aide interested in abolition had previously decided to defer it to preserve the Union.)

Secession and the rebellion ended up backfiring and also enabling abolition sooner than it otherwise would have happened, but that wasn’t what the war was fought for in the same way as WWII wasn’t fought to establish the UN.
What's a good x-platform GUI for it?
Hey, that's a rabbit hole I've gone through recently!

I highly recommend the 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' short stories:

http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
The German public were responsible for what they knew of and had control of, just like the Soviet public. These were authoritarian regimes.

Nobody is responsible for what they don't know about and are unable to learn about. In what world should they be?
> trees are a natural resource and their conservation has a similar effect on climate change compared to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

What the hell? Trees grow using CO2 from the air, and then release that same carbon back when the wood is burned or rots in a forest somewhere. Conserving trees does nothing for climate except for a very small amount of carbon sequestered by tropical forests in their soil.

Meanwhile, oil is 100% carbon that has not been in atmosphere since Jurasic times. If you like Jurasic climates, I guess that's perfectly fine.
It still is an amazing thing.
Not to mention saving on car insurance and gas, getting sick less often, etc..
The reason they're going to Libera.chat is because the former Freenode staff set it up—moving to another existing IRC network would mean, essentially, abandoning your own house and coming to someone else's and asking to be allowed to set up in there, while what they're doing is trying to build their own new house.
Of course I meant their business model, but...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(Bend,_Oregon)
> the temperature will go up a couple degrees. Who cares! We're engineers

Sorry, this is one of the worst takes on climate I've ever seen on HN, and the bar here is very low...

Take time to actually study the problem and you will come to the same conclusion: it can only be solved with government intervention. The most efficient government intervention would be a carbon tax set at the estimated social cost of carbon, but that (being a tax) is also extremely politically unpopular.

So we are left with less efficient policies, like outright bans, court orders, expensive subsidies, and emissions caps.
The forming of a business entity post fact has a lot to do with how bitter this event is.
Whatever, there is too little of sci-fi anyway. Having already watched everything many times, I feel suffocating.
How much will this affect average oil/gas consumers in the EU? Weren't the Yellow Vest Protests[1] started in response to increased fuel prices (in that case, in the form of a tax).

Presumably this will increase prices? Or will we only see a decline in Shell's emissions, but an increase in those of every other oil/gas producer? Is there an alternative outcome?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement
Buster Keaton is a favorite of mine
Steam controller suffered from doing too much, I think. People want plug-in and go from their couch games, having a fully programmable all-singing all-dance super controller turned out to be more effort than most wanted to deal with.
That would be a to-do item for after the pandemic then: make sure that there is sufficient supply with quality N95 masks and training people how to use them, also perhaps: offer several sizes to ensure perfect fit. There is no good reason not to own a small supply of masks going forward.
If his plan is

1) kick all users out and destroy reputation

2) ???

3) profit!

then probably yes.
Just curious as I'm an idiot regarding laws. Does this trigger any anti-trust/monopoly or whatever similar clauses?
There's probably books on that exact topic published by them and only possible to legally consume by purchasing it from them and reading it on their hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA

oh, wait, that's terrible. i quit!
If you don't mind, why exactly these speculations are qualified as a science (which implies reproducebility of results)?
Hmm. Given we got here by talking about people who can't (rather than won't) run heavyweight GUI clients, a Rust rewrite seems like it misses the point.

That is, I'm sure it makes sense for them, and for most of their actual users, because Rust is nice, but if I have an m68k machine, too bad, there is no Rust for m68k (unless I'm reading the platform support chart wrong) and so this rewrite likely orphans me.

Now, if for a Debian channel, even a Debian channel about an attempt to port Debian to m68k, then I have no doubt your users all have something less stupid, maybe ARM or x86-64 or even PowerPC. They prefer a non-GUI for their own reasons but ultimately Matrix is an option.

But if you're a channel for actual m68k "classic" Amiga you might actually have a non-trivial number of users for whom "it doesn't run on m68k" is a showstopper. They have an IRC client today.

Rust doesn't target barely-capable archaic platforms like Motorola 68xxx or 80286 and I don't think it should start. But that means we have to accept that a Rust client won't support those platforms.
The meaninglessness of $8.45b relative to amazon's scale is mind boggling. It represents 0.5% of their market cap, 20% of their cash-on-hand, nevermind their borrowing capacity @ near 0%.

If a problem is worth the Jeff/Andy's personal attention, it's worth spending $8bn on.

I'm a broken record but, current equity prices and financial climate generally makes massive consolidation very likely. Antitrust, or fear of is the only restraint... and it is not very restraining.

Unless Apple & Google are going to start issuing dividends/buybacks on an epic scale (doesn't seem likely), they have no way to put cash they have to work (besides vanguard/bitcoin). Google would need to do 10 Waymos (in for about $20bn so far) simultaneously, to invest what they need to invest on internal projects, but even their one Waymo is dubious. Acquisition is the only remaining option.

Consider that these companies can currently afford to buy whole industries outright, perhaps without involving a bank. Does Waymo need a friend? Why not buy it Ford & GM? Anything outside the S&P 10 is a snack. They literally have cash enough for both lying around... and these deals are never all cash.

5 more years on the current trajectory, and the VOC/EIC days will look quaint.
The Naked City by Jules Dassin is a really good police procedural. If you like stuff like Law & Order, this is the progenitor.

The Third Man is classic, classic noir. Between the on location shooting in Vienna, fantastic performances by Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, and really distinctive cinematography, it's just stunning.

A Man Escaped. To quote Godard, "He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music". If you like simple, but beautiful films, watch Bresson. A Man Escaped makes all other prison break films, with their endless plot twists and convolutions, seem utterly pointless. Instead Bresson focuses on the character, the drama and the methodical process of breaking out.
Either most of your car journeys are to IKEA or your statement is an example of the Weak Man fallacy.

Sure, some people with disabilities who live outside of the delivery radius of an ikea will need to drive there. Is that the majority of car use? No.
It's a mischaracterization to say that Jim Crow made emancipation pointless. It may have been an attempt to reduce its practical importance, but it didn't come close to reversing it in the vast majority of cases.
Amazon is becomingly scarily huge. But if Bezos keeps funding Blue Origin (and it actually starts sending stuff to orbit), I'm okay with it.
If I’m walking down Nishinari on a dark night will I fear being called a racist or 1/70?

Upon hearing that I don’t think anyone would focus on the statistic (that I’m implying Koreans are violent) and instead focus on the fact that it’s dangerous because is a high crime neighborhood.

Somehow you have missed the point entirely; it’s strange you bring up the lies, damn lies quote but continue to argue the statistic point. In a practical sense, if I were to travel to high crime area in Mexico or Belarus, would it be logical for me to not fear getting mugged because there are no black people? You’ve presented a false choice - you created a situation where you are a likely to mugged for socioeconomic factors and then have walked that back into carrying water for a racist trope.
Yes only if you look at the USA. Look right across at Colombia, Brazil, Africa, India and the middle east and tell me it's over ..
Don't underestimate how tone deaf or out-of-touch some people can be. You see this kind of stuff all the time, and it really is people who are making unbelievably hare-brained decisions.
What's insane on DNS encoding scheme? Do you consider binary encoding insane? Would you like to re-engineer protocols down to Ethernet to use JSON? For what reason exactly?

You suggest breaking compatibility for everyone on this planet without giving any specific reason for doing so.
Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was an interesting socio-political experiment.
Imagine a digital asset used by a professional gamer in a tournament, you could then auction it for charity and the asset could be used in that game or possibly others. The fact that it's recognized by the game code as a NFT could make it scarce in that game.
I feel like its inevitable to grow most businesses in which they are structured from outside investment. Outliers here may be Microsoft And Apple, but they swallowed nascent markets that were either just underway or they had major capital to spend their way aggressively toward the top of the heap (Apple, with the Macintosh and later the iPhone, Microsoft with Office / Windows and now Azure)

Most other platforms struggle to stay platforms because the profits and/or growth slows or flatlines. Facebook has had massive growth since dumping any platform focus that they used to have, in terms of revenue. They instead made strategic investments so they have a near iron lock on the market in which they exist, all while burning the platform from a provider side.

It hard to be a platform and remain true to core values when there is outside investor pressure. I sure hope this never befalls a company like Cloudflare (which has so far remained a platform), but we shall see as time goes on.
We'll always have <strike>Paris</strike>Cincinatti, the affordable tourist destination
Is SpaceX reliable? Company goes for 100th successful flight in a row today
You can see the results I see [0] -- and I am now on a different device.

That's the Ubuntu torrent - with the correct hash - but indexed by Google as a Rebirth torrent. At the bottom of the page [1] there is a link to the Lumen Database.

The first link has the hash in the URL. The Lumen Database one - even if I look at the full URLs - doesn't have the hash in the list. I am guessing that one of the pages had a link to the Ubuntu torrent.

This seems like a good reminder that Google decides what we see out of the interwebs!

[0] https://postimg.cc/30R85HHy
[1] https://postimg.cc/Z9MjF8K1
Scientists have been talking about the need to draw down carbon emissions for DECADES. Four decades, in fact. We had a report just 3 years ago that gave us a very clear timeline for the need to draw down.

If companies have failed to respond to that, they have only themselves to blame at this point. When we've asked, and asked, and asked and made clear the necessary timeline, at some point, we have to put force behind that.

If governments had put that force behind it earlier, then that force could have come with a gentler timeline. But at this point, we don't have time for that. We have to rip off the bandaid. And the longer we wait, the worse that rip is going to be.
Should I stay or should I go now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM
Can you comment at all about the tuning algorithm you use? Do you monetize this? Currently work on a process control package (for the next few days, anyway) and am interested in your approach.
SG1 is indeed an amazing series, the showrunners did a great job blending action, mythology, and light-hearted sci-fi into a very watchable show.

I was less thrilled with Atlantis, and thought Universe was completely horrible. Let's not even acknowledge the existence of "Origins".

I do hope Amazon will be good stewards of the franchise going forward. I don't want them to make new content only for it to be dark, gritty, drama-heavy, and politicised the way much of modern "entertainment" has become.

Maybe we'll even get a few good Stargate video games out of this! So many lost opportunities on the gaming front - an MMO was in the works, but never got released.
It's absolutely meaningless. It's a sick joke. China recently overtook the entire developed world combined in greenhouse gas emissions [1] and their output is still set to keep climbing for decades yet. Very soon they'll be at three times the emissions of the US. And meanwhile they're building new coal power plants as fast as they can put them up.

None of this Shell type stuff matters. Not one bit. It's fake, laughable green theater until you stop the extreme and growing emissions output coming from China (which isn't going to happen under any circumstances and everyone knows it). It's a bunch of childish rich people in the developed world virtue signaling while the planet burns down regardless because their actions don't amount to mattering what-so-ever back in reality. Let's see the EU stand up to China and start shutting down their trade with China until they reverse on emissions; right, nobody, absolutely nobody, dares to even discuss such actions. Which is another way of saying they have no intention of actually ever doing anything about climate change.

And that fact of reality is the one the green virtue signaling crowd is too cowardly to ever face up to. They run away or try to shout you down if you point out the reality of the situation: you can now take emissions to zero in the developed world and it won't matter at all unless you stop China's runaway output. And that's before Africa adds another billion people in the coming decades and seeks a similar pattern of development (again, the green theater is all a bullshit fraud unless the plan is to stop all of this development across the board immediately, otherwise none of it matters).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57018837
I mean the guy has had a cartoonish life based on his wikipedia page. So yeah, I can totally see him not "getting it" at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)
Dr Strangelove,
All About Eve,
Singing in the Rain
Right. There must be some more nefarious scheme going on. Let me get my tin-foil hat. Or maybe he's just really that naive to except to generate revenue out of IRC network.
This post is akin to someone pinching me and saying "hey, we live in polarized country!" The so called culture wars just seem to be escalating.
> Mr Beringer says that the next leap forward will be the ability to digitally add product banners to live sports or concert broadcasts "in real time, or milliseconds after".

Hasn't that been possible for quite some time now?
Dmarc status of the world’s top banks
It's not the first community with that attitude that I've witnessed. I've first seen this with Ember.JS (the Javascript framework everybody has forgotten about), then later with the Swift programming language. It could be interesting to investigate why things like this happen and how a community needs to be managed in order not to run into the same problem.
Arghhh! Where was Darwin when this video was made?