skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, that is the point! Then the business which produces lots of waste (and has to charge for it) is competing with business which produces little waste.

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Consumers pay for some of the cost individually now, and some of the cost socialised through government. But neither consumer nor government have the power to minimise waste in the production of goods. Putting a clear monetary incentive on the backs of consumers and the responsibility with the market will actually change things.
> 2 Green-tech stable - stabilize population (match growth and death rates) and live within the Solar energy budget while regenerating the Earth.

Ok, we have something like 450 nuclear reactors globally. IIRC bumping that number up 10 times would give us roughly two times our current global energy usage (ie fuels and electricity).

That's a margin that could reasonably address energy requirements for synthetic fuel production & delivery, sustain the additional energy we want to use for cleaner but energy demanding electrical processes in industry, and arguably put us on footing to end global poverty. Atomic process heat is wicked-good for desalination, critical to avoid water-related wars. "Next gen" tech (from the 70s...), conceivably could let us think about replenishing continental aquifers, and all round have enough energy to continue exploring space. All without any social engineering or major lifestyle or geopolitical reshaping.

I'm a big fan of solar, but our global solar energy budget has some tricky hurdles before we get to 200% current global energy usage. And I'm not enthused about anything that requires a centrally managed government (that doesn't exist today), managing life and death. It sounds scary and ripe for dystopian outcomes.
Working conditions means much more than just raw number of hours.

Let's take the "pop culture" notion of the Pyramids: You're talking about the difference between thousands of slaves working for generations, and a few slaves working for a few years. They're talking about the more important struggle, which revolves around whether people build pyramids for Pharaohs, or working for themselves and each other as peers.

If you squint just right, you're kind of being an Uncle Tom saying if we just please master really well, and work harder, master will be nice to us. Whereas I suspect master will never be happy because master got up on the wrong foot before we even entered the picture, and will just grow more sadistic as the power gap increases.

> There's no evidence at all that industrial revolution era working conditions can return.

Well, not literally. Even if the exact same conditions returned, the calendar would show a different date, so they wouldn't be exactly the same conditions.

But when it comes to servitude and exploitation, that's about power and abuse, and something social and psychological things rather than anything to do with productivity -- and if you want to claim that can't "return", good luck, but you'd first have to explain away those parts of it it that never really went away. At any rate, the burden of proof is not on the person saying that it can get worse.

> This decline had next to nothing to do with any concerted social effort.

Considering that sentence and the reality, this isn't that much better than, say, Holocaust denial. Fuck anyone dragging out Godwin, too: people were brutally murdered over wanting to not be exploited like farm animals. To belittle this is to murder them again. I stand by that. At the least I want to ask "who told you this.. disgusting shit", and then ask that person the same, until I get to someone I can lean into.

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

> Many labor movement campaigns have to do with limiting hours in the work place. 19th century labor movements campaigned for an Eight-hour day. Worker advocacy groups have also sought to limit work hours, making a working week of 40 hours or less standard in many countries

> Labor rights advocates have also worked to combat child labor. They see child labor as exploitative, cruel, and often economically damaging. Child labor opponents often argue that working children are deprived of an education.

> Labor advocates and other groups often criticize production facilities with poor working conditions as sweatshops and occupational health hazards, and campaign for better labor practices and recognition of workers rights throughout the world.

There's of course so much more to quote, and more to quote from than that WP article, but at any rate, to claim there was and is "no concerted societal effort" involved --- I'm kind of speechless still. Anyone still able, reject this poison. Take note of it, dissect it, reverse engineer it. But do not drink it.
Zish https://github.com/tlocke/zish supports comments (but they're not round-trip comments) and also extra data types such as timestamp and bytes.

It's still in its early stages, so if anyone's got any comments I'm interested in hearing them :-)
You could replace the DNA of your bone marrow that way, and maybe the DNA of any blood cells that happen to be made by that bone marrow, but most of your body will still have the old DNA.
Your other comment is simply just wrong. I doubt every single ICE employee is part of the most horrible acts they carry out.

And still, this gives you or anyone no right to violate the privacy and endanger their rights. That just puts you on the same level as them, willingly destroying the lives of others because it brings you pleasure, because you believe it to be justice.

Regarding a), I recommend to examine the syntax "Other countries or, for example, the EU", which specifically does not refer to the EU as a country due to the occurence of the word "or".

Such behaviour is also certainly a crime in germany (§238 StGB and related Articles); if your actions cause someone to die or injury or the threat thereof, you can be prosecuted for it (though you need to actively sue either a specific person or against anonymous).
So much this.
There is a reason why recycle is the 3rd in "reduce, reutilize, recycle"

It's important people start using more ecological solutions to package and carry stuff around.
Well of course it is! But it's what anyone breaking any rule would say. So that doesn't have much significance.
> the thing that drove me to Firefox was the excellent Account Containers system

Though unfortunately, history and bookmarks are not isolated to their individual containers, and Firefox's profile management system is a PITA compared to Chrome's easy button in the title bar.
Ghostery is convenient in that it categorizes what it's blocking - most of the time it's obvious, particularly with uBlock Origin in Advanced mode, but sometimes I'll look at things in uMatrix and say "OK, X is blocked, but why was it on the page and will unblocking it resolve things?" For example, looking at jumpcloud.com Ghostery breaks the 7 blocked items into 2 advertising trackers, 2 "Essential" trackers, 2 analytics trackers and 1 social media tracker.

As for Ghostery having a breach and exposing email, etc. that would require that I actually create an account for Ghostery. It works just fine without.
Thanks for putting the [1] [2] [3], it becomes easier to understand for someone who doesn't know about these test scores
wait, why do they need users' emails?
I've never seen it defined that way, neither in industry material nor academia, so I guess "citation needed"?

These things always have limits, and what's defined as "availability" and acceptable failure rates/times is application-dependent. High-availability merely describes reaching a goal that's higher than a "conventional" setup can achieve, and failover is a fairly obvious way of massively reducing Time-To-Recovery
The Swedish version may be older than the English. Or perhaps there's an ur Roman version.
I thought reasonml's JavaScript interoperability was quite good, seems to compile faster and the type system cannot lie about it's inferences like it can in TS

But the main thing for me between TS and reason is exhaustive pattern matching is better in reason, it feels jacky in TS

could I use reasonml/js with flutter widgets and ignore dart?
There's no Google maps aerial link in the article which is too bad... because it's mesmerizing & illustrates how remote the location is: https://goo.gl/maps/22sBrQ26abQ2
I also observe the same problem with Firefox on Windows and Linux. I have an impression that their developers don't have any priority on the battery drain, instead they just measure speed, and don't want to investigate too much on reducing actual work done, even when, from the user perspective, we're "doing nothing" (e.g. just keeping the browser open on some pages). I know there are many sites today that have tracking codes etc that "always run" but it seems that it's an excuse not to investigate what the browser "always does" in all the scenarios when it should just do as little as possible. Also, different kind of "movement" on the pages (videos, animated gifs, sounds) all take more battery than the competition.

My measurements are that on some specific pages, even when I "do nothing" Firefox uses up to twice as much CPU. Luckily, it's not always twice as much battery drain, because even idle uses power. But it's definitely visible and measurable: from 3 hours of other browsers you'd probably have only 2 of Firefox.
Also Opera is the only major mobile browser left with a decent text reflow implementation. Shame on Chrome for dropping it.
Wow. Did I just see a page informing me about the site being blocked in Europe?
I suspect that this strategy has been around for thousands of years.
That's a problem that Apple fabricated themselves. All MacOS games would also have to switch and I don't see that happening other than through the MoltenVK library if they support Vulkan at all.
I know it is anecdotal experience, not a proper test, but personally I tried Chrome for several months as a main browser when FF had been in 3x versions, and Chrome always felt less responsive. It had some weird micropauses in initial page rendering, and since I'm mainly opening/closing new different pages from multiple sites (as opposed to have several pages open constantly from few sites) it had been less pleasant to use compared to FF. And I'm not even mentioning addons and privacy, just from performance standpoint.

PS: at that time I was working for almost full time on Asus Eee PC, with 1Gb memory and early model of Atom CPU, so that was the reason to try Chrome widely marketed as "faster" (as I said above, it wasn't in practice, at least for me).
Deposit-return schemes are also required in Germany for all disposable drinks containers, and are gaining momentum in other European countries.

At the very least, these schemes are effective at reducing litter and ensuring less plastic waste reaches the environment and oceans.
>Working is taking up more and more of our days. Gone is the 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours leisure. It's going back to "as many hours as you can physically go without sleep" once again. No benefits, no retirement, no healthcare, no affordable higher education, no affordable family housing aside from company closet tenements with communal utilities, next to a corporate campus but far from a town center. Out in the suburbs with one company store. That will come back in our complacence. Fewer opportunities than our fathers.

I thought we were talking about the big silicon valley companies that are talking about building housing here? at those places, a guy without a college education can pull down more in two days than your fast food worker makes in a month. And these jobs come with better food, a sweet gym, and a bunch of other perks.

I mean, I'm all for unions for the oppressed, but when you start saying that the facebook engineers are being oppressed... well, you kinda lose some credibility.
How world works is neither static nor universal. There are political forces acting out of utilitirian ethics, trying to benifit the whole society - but thankfully, there are also forces fighting against it, and very successfully, at times.
This is amazing. Such blatant and open corruption, i love it. And nobody will give a thing about it in the end.

Also, really amazing that one person can just cross out a lot of things their sponsor doesn't like in a proposal and hey, that's the new proposal. Excellent system you got there America.
The only thing in which Swift relates to Java is syntax. Apart from that, they couldn't be more different.

And if you start digging deeper, you get to see that Swift is a very complex language, too. It's easy to get started, probably easier than Rust, but it has its own kind of quirks.
"straw man" is the core rhetorical technique of reason.com.
Whistleblowing is about protecting public interest: in some cases the public is investors, yes. Whistleblowing is not disclosing information carte blanche. That is espionage.

If Tesla were using punctured cells (still up in the air, given that the defendant admitted malice), that would be valid reason to leak. If Tesla are missing targets, that is a reason to leak.

However, if those two hypothetical facts form part of a larger corpus of trade secrets and other confidential information your intent is not to be a whistleblower. You are not whistleblowing. You are harming.

Yet another analogy to drive the point home. The most your HN profile has is your location. Clearly you are using a pseudonym. Let's say that maybe you run a darknet site trading in various nefarious activities. If I were to dox you, that association would surely be part of the corpus. However, would that be whistleblowing or doxxing? Would my intent be anything else other than malicious? Furthermore, maybe my research, keylogger or what-have-you might miss that detail: meaning that I failed to disclose the information that would cause public concern over those activities. I'm just sharing your secrets. Good, bad, it doesn't matter.

Whistleblowing is altruistic.

This guy wanted to do harm and the line is, in a rare occurrence, clear as the blue sky. If Tesla is found to be falling short according to the information he disclosed, they should answer for it. In the US they may not: fruit of the forbidden tree. This means that Tesla may get off the hook because of the carte blanche disclosure - would any good come from this? However, he should absolutely pay for violating the trust of his employer merely because he got passed up for a promotion. It is a negative sum situation. Whistleblowing is zero-sum (at least in today's world).

Whistleblowers are heroes. There is, by even the most microscopic margin, not a hero here. Don't sour the sacrifices of people who took risks for the humanity, for a single person seeking selfish vengeance.
My first long form treatise on philosophy of yoga
Hola HN,

Greetings on the international yoga day. Authored my first book-sort-of. A treatise on yoga.

I am finally releasing the first completed version of the philosophical essence of Patanjali yog Sutra - https://tini.es/21june2018

It has taken around 6 months of work in completing this 50 page document.

It's a philosophical commentary on yoga and meditation supplemented by thoughts of western thinkers from various discipline.

Do read and let me know your thoughts.
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> Good grief, that's nasty.

And this is why I habitually fuck with peoples computers when they leave them unlocked. As annoying as it is to find your keyboard is dvorak and your mouse pointer is invisible - it's better than finding out that your credentials are being misused for properly nefarious things...
How's about instead of regulating magnets we regulate parents?

If your kid is seriously injured or dies from eating too many magnets you have to pick up trash off the freeway for five years. I'm not saying human life is only worth five years of weekends - I just think it would be an effective policy.
Yes. A vice is anything you need enjoy. A virtue is anything that enables you or others to vice.
Are you sure this isn't some Firefox add-on that you are using that is causing this? (E.g. uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger or activating Firefox's built-in anti-tracking protection or maybe just blocking third-party cookies; which could be solved by whitelisting the problematic webpages.)

I am using Firefox exclusively and I rarely find sites that don't work with Firefox after I disable blocking extensions.
we have a new tool that we're trying internally to design cross-platform components - https://github.com/airbnb/Lona

pretty early still, but the idea is that short-term it generates assets that fit into our existing Figma / Sketch product design workflows for consumption. having a cross-platform source of truth for _components_ is higher impact than outputting their _consumption_. this was mostly the reason we first did the things we wrote about here - they laid the groundwork for Lona and a more component-centric design process.
https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/
https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/
https://airbnb.design/the-evolution-of-tools/
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And while you address and solve all those problems one by one, I'll just go ahead with my solution, thank you :)
> Everything you see in the supermarket is garbage - one what is in it has been consumed

Only when you buy junk, which I assert is not actually food anyway.

Stick the outside and you'll buy fruit, vegetables, meat, beans, rice and pasta.

You can put all of those into re-usable bags or containers and buy everything you need to eat very healthy meals with no waste at all.

If it comes in a shiny plastic package, plastic bottle or tin can, you shouldn't be eating it anyway (in general)
Wow, I always knew it!

Being forced to work 40h a week must be a disorder too according to their definition!

It significantly impairs my personal, family and social affairs (not to mention my back!)

And yet I keep doing it, even though I know it's doing me harm.
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1) sounds like you should try Tree Style Tabs addon
5) FF has this too. I'm not exactly sure but I think it's under "history" > "recently closed windows/tabs"
In general you would be right, but this is at work.
First "tip" is to regularly disable the firewall. This is stupid and dangerous.

I do the following on my machines:

# cp /etc/pf.conf /etc/pf.conf.good
# crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf.good
:x
# #now vi /etc/pf.conf; pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf; and if OK: cp /etc/pf.conf /etc/pf.conf.good
Parent's point is that recycling is a myth in practice, it's just a form of "selling indulgences" for the son of waste. We're never going to do better, the value of recycling is in the delusion.
I've noticed this type of comment a lot on HN lately. An innocuous comment which features the tiniest sliver of an attack surface, in this case use of the pronoun "she" in an anecdote, is used as a launchpad for a completely unrelated implication or outright accusation of prejudice or ignorance.

When I read the grandparent comment and saw the (uncommon) use of the female pronoun in the story describing a negative action, I instantly thought of this type of response. I'll admit it, I even had the impulse to make a throwaway and troll and say something like the parent comment just to see the reaction. (I figured it would be swiftly downvoted/greyed).

Despite my own impulse to troll, I truly can't tell if this comment, and others like it which are not hard to find here, are performance art of the reductio ad absurdum kind, a sort of Andy Kaufman-esque "triggered SJW" act, or if this ascribing of every phenomenon to some type of systemic inequity no matter how farcical is a real part of the zeitgeist now.

I'll admit my bias: I'm tired of oversensitivity and bucketing everything into these overly broad categories of discrimination. I like to be able to use whatever (third-person) pronouns I want in my stories, etc. However, I have always thought that the "triggered overreeacting SJW" archetype was mainly a boogeyman created by immature people at the opposite of the spectrum, the type who frequent r/theDonald or breitbart or what have you.

After seeing these types of comments here so consistently, however, I cannot be sure!
fwiw it wasn't 18 months "testing" a new font - most of that was font development with an external partner, then implementing across many surfaces without creating bugs that affected accessibility, then testing. doing things takes time, huge surprise right?
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From other comments it seems FF is having some perf problems on MacOs.

I'll weigh in with Linux + Windows experience: FF is currently the best browser. It pulls a bit more CPU but it also trumps with very good privacy options out of the box and in about:config (first party isolation, which I've been using as daily driver for a few months now)

Containers allow me to isolate aspects of myself and contain tracking or otherwise unwanted websites in their own little world.

The only item on my wishlist is to make multi-window tab handling better, I think Chrome still wins that on the UI/UX front (since FF sometimes feels like it's about to crash when I drag a tab out of the window)
But envelope windows are recyclable. Unless you move to a new house and all the rules change.
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I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS?

These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node Chakra over Node V8.
I really love addons like 'Dark Background and Light Text', but they don't work with the 'New Tab', 'about:*' and addons.mozilla.org pages like most other addons in recent Firefox.

For the 'New Tab' page I now use 'New Tab Tools' to set the background to black. But I am still unhappy that its not possible to set all other pages to a dark theme.

Also that Vimium doesn't work with those pages is a shame as well. I hope Mozilla fixes that regression soon. Web Extensions should have the same abilities as the XUL extensions.
Personally, I am a lot less effective when I work from home. I need the social pressure of being in the office around other people that are working to stay focused.

But I've hired some incredible people that I totally wouldn't be able to afford in person who were able to be pretty effective working remote. I have worked with people who are absolute monsters when you leave them alone at home with a problem. Certainly, some people are far more effective working remote than working in the office. I'm just not one of them. In my experience... I am in the majority here.

(interestingly, I think I'm a better manager when managing remote than managing in person, the opposite of my effectiveness as an individual contributor. though I think that might also have had something to do with the sort of people I've managed.)

Right now, the market values people willing to go into an office who are able to communicate well face to face and get work done in that context a lot more than the market values people who are able to make themselves effective while working remote, though, and I think that's in part due to the preponderance of people who are more effective workers when they are physically near other workers? But... certainly part of that is that management is behind the times.
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Also the meat we eat eats food. That's how it grows. There's an obvious caloric inefficiency there, if we're struggling.

Personally I think vat-grown meat is gonna be the ideal win/win: low environmental footprint, perfect high quality kobe beef for all :)