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"I read this and I am completely confused about what to do with the rest of the time I have left."

It is a grave life error to assign excessive likelihood to the doomsayers. I've been reading about inevitable doom for 25 years now. Some of what I read as a kid dated to the 60s and the guaranteed dates of inevitable doom had already passed by the time I read them in the early 90s.

Even assuming they are completely 100% right about the problems, which is frankly a big assumption, they rarely, if ever, even remotely account for the fact that people and the economy change in reaction to problems.

Also, consider the possibility that this feeling of hopelessness is something that perhaps somebody wants to instill in you. Why? Who benefits? Are their hands as clean as you suppose? Are you sure? I'm a big fan of "follow the money"; where most people fuck that up is that they only want to follow the money sometimes, when it suits them. Nope... always follow it. "Follow the money" is almost always used wrong; you don't need it to debunk the people you already don't trust, you need it to vet the people you do. Doomsaying has been exceedingly profitable over the past ~60 years. (It's been profitable even farther back than that, but mass market doomsaying really took off somewhere around then, which is where the real money is.) Do not forget to take that into account.

(Also, as my post implies, don't assume I'm speaking just to the particular doom de jour, about which you might still have emotional reactions. I'm talking about nuclear war, population bombs, a multitude of claims we're running out of some resource, trash management issues, a wide variety of eschatological claims, all sorts of things I've read in the last 30 years. You may say "But jerf, some of those are still problems and may be problems in the future" and I say, I agree. I often like to say "Stand up. Point in a random direction. You are pointing at a problem." There are always problems and always will be problems. But we're not talking about problems... we're talking about doom. The doom has not happened. I believe fully in environmental problems both in the present and the future. I do not anywhere near fully believe in inevitable doom.)
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Target's RedCard is a significant advantage they've built over all their competitors. They don't have to pay the fees, customers get a discount, and they get easy access to the data on your purchases. I'm surprised more retailers don't do it.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said of Bitbucket. At one point I voted for or commented on a feature request for it, and I pretty routinely get notified when someone else discovers the lack of org-mode support on Bitbucket.

At this point, I'm convinced Atlassian hates happiness, or there is some shameful architectural reason why they cannot support more than Markdown for their READMEs. Given the number of vociferous responses to that feature request, there would appear to demand.
The problem is that "once we have CO2-neutral energy production" is way too late. There are several tipping points where the rising temperature sets off other processes that speed up warming even further.

For example, when the Russian permafrost melts, it will release gigantic amounts of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Once that happens, not only do you have to capture all the CO2 you emitted, you also have to capture all that methane.

Also, you'll want to recreate the kilometers-thick ice sheets in the arctic. When those are gone, the earth's albedo will drop, which means that it heats up even more quickly since less sunlight is reflected.
Wrong. If China becomes a big business unit for Google then China can use that leverage to start influencing Google’s international operations. We already see China doing this with other companies.
I can foresee a long, long and mostly pointless discussion/argument about code line length.
ImageMagick is CLI tool for photo editing.

GUI, video, VR are much better to transfer information than text. It's better to see once than to read 1000 times. GUI, video, and VR interfaces are much closer to real-world, so we can reuse our existing skills and be much more effective from start, without additional training. Text interfaces are often require abstract thinking, so left part of brain is working all time, while right part is sitting idle.

But from UX perspective, voice (Alexa) or input line (Google) can be as powerful as GUI. We already know that search engine is much better when user knows what he want but doesn't know where it is. Personal assistant (bot) is better than GUI when it is smart enough, because user can offload work to assistant. It's much easier to enter query or task than to draw it or select from endless options. It's also much easier to automate CLI than GUI.
I have the Das one. I think the key height makes up for the positioning. I didn't even notice this when I started using the keyboard and I have no problem switching between the two.

It's a great keyboard. If that's the only thing stopping you, then I would just buy it and be happy.
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Not everything requires pessimistic transactional guarantees or atomicity. The problem domain you are solving for will influence the importance of those guarantees. If I'm solving for something where data consistency is not an utmost priority (tons of applications meet this criteria, including the one you are using now HN.) I don't have to worry about this.

But when you have transactional guarantees you also lose partition/failure tolerance. So it ends up being a choice of consistency over availability.
No it doesn't.

The regulations in China are immoral. Obeying immoral laws is also immoral. (If the law says 'gas the [ethnic group]' it is still wrong to do it).

If Google must follow immoral laws to operate in China, they should not operate in China.

I don't have any pull with the PRC but I can boycott Google.
Technically, i'm sure you are right. But, to give these guys even more of my data - in this case my other spending habits? Ugh.
> In fact, I'm skeptical about the claim Climate Change could have been solved generations ago, given that we still haven't developed the means to do it yet.

Path dependence. We have not developed the means to solve climate change from where we are now.
No solution to climate change involves persuading everyone to choose to live in energy poverty. Get that out of the way and look for workable solutions. Without a workable solution there will be no solution.
Whatever the solution we could find to turn CO2 into C back it would require to roughly spend as much energy as it has been already spent in the XIXth and XXth century combined burning coal or oil to go back to pre industrial level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Interesting tutorial, but equating wisdom with knowing visual programming is not doing it right. At best, programming is learning to write less lines of code, especially in these times of overflowing libraries and frameworks in Github. Always remember: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away".
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The "do no evil" bit might have been endearing to some geeks, but Google won on search quality. I only see sporadic support for something like Duck Duck Go which markets itself as the privacy conscious alternative

In USA, they obey the copyright laws (often described as draconian, with major companies getting copyright extensions again and again, e.g. Disney) and allow DMCA to suppress this information.

In Europe, they obey the "right to be forgotten".
In order to play HVSC[1], I switched from XMPlay to the far more heavyweight Foobar2000 because the former had a habit of crashing on files it disliked, losing playlist position.

[1] https://www.hvsc.c64.org/
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Yes, we are too late.

Emissions affect the climate decades later, some 40 years later. So we're now only seeing the consequences of the emissions from the 70s-80s.

We've emitted more CO2 since the 80s to today, than the previous 150 years.
This isn't actually true (although there are billions who do, understandably) - a lot of people would be fine with continuing with their level of energy usage. The problem is how to produce that much energy without releasing CO2.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The vast difference in contexts (literary circles, high school classrooms VS. HN comment pages, Slack chatrooms, developer podcasts) ensures there isn't any confusion. If anything, the choice of name speaks to the importance of its source.
You would? Google is private company. If you want a powerful entity to live up to your standards, you should look into creating a government. I recommend a democracy; and hold your neighbors accountable for treating it as their own. Together, you can eventually build something to be proud of. It will probably never be perfect, but it will be yours for as long as you take care of it.
I use the 0.01 z70.
They don’t have to pretend to have a moral compass anymore, they’re already massive. Besides, people have seen through the lie of “don’t be evil” so why leave money on the table by living the lie? They just want money, lots and lots of money. They pretended to have a conscience when that was advantageous and dropped the act the moment it was more advantageous to do so.
Which of the popular VPN offer wireguard? Pia doesn't.
>Why should the number of employees in the company have any bearing on the size or cost of the product? Ford has 5x as many employees as Tesla. Should their cars be 5x as big or 5x more expensive?

This is a bad example. Tesla is a failing/failed car company that cant produce 200k cars per year. Ford has their truck program that sells that in a few months.

>Comparing a digital text product (Moby Dick) with a digital text product (a NYT article) is as close as it gets.

Comparing a book vs a timely article is unfair. NYT produces content daily to encourage shares and people clicking on various links on the website. Links, Images, Videos, comments, etc... None of those are available in dumb text.
And text is read wildly differently depending on the readers's culture, mood, font, and how well they know the language.

Communication is messy as hell, and the fact that emoji's render differently doesn't add that much confusion in most cases (of course there are the odd watergun vs revolver emoji problems, but the worst offenders are slowly being brought into line)
> more often than not their position is more nuanced than “kill all the Jews.” Isn’t that a good thing?

Which by definition makes it a view they allow a reply to. refer to my original, now flagged comment. If they actually respond to your arguments and questions, that's not what I'm talking about, and it's more than you had the grace to offer.
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I'm using AWS, the SDKs for the most part are in lock step with Boto3. The SDK for Python.

There are a few gaps like troposphere for cloud formation.

What do you mean most CI/CD platforms aren't "geared" for .Net? Which CI/CD platform are you using?
There is some really excellent tooling that is available for .Net that I haven't been able to find real equivalents for other languages. You have to pay for it with money, rather than with time and aggravation, however.

Microsoft-centric devs seem, on the average, to be less averse to paying for software tools than your average Python/Java/JS dev.
Why is this entry already on page 2 of HN?

Seems a bit fast given the popularity and the fact that it was posted 2 hours ago (also, compared to those that are present on p1)

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edit: we're now on page 3 just 30 minutes after my comment.
Do you mean with antiquated? That the APIs aren't changing on a weekly basis and you can concentrate on developing instead of updating your code?
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> Well, this is a network where only SSH and one or two more TCP ports are open, and it's not something I can "get fixed".

Are the other TCP ports, as well as UDP blocked by a force of nature? :)

> Still, I do not have any practical reason for switching to Wireguard, as I do not really see any reduced speed - it is possible that the bandwidth limitation of this network's internet connection is low enough for that to be the bottleneck, instead of OpenVPN. :)

At lower throughput networks, you don't need wireguard. It'll still mean fewer CPU resources used, much simpler configuration, and things OpenVPN and the likes just cannot do (such as maintain the connection despite both ends changing IP, as long as it doesn't happen simultaneously).
Well, the EU did.
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"a complete disregard for the comfort of those within earshot of the user"

I have a feeling the issue here is not the keyboard...
The lack of a forum for discussion is also a problem. (Or maybe I'm just spoiled by github.)

There is one feature that I want that should be trivial to add that I don't know how to voice it. There is an AllowIPs config directive, but not an ExcludeIPs directive.
Would that the unicode support was indeed ubiquitous. Then you wouldn't need to parse the message for things like ":penguin:", you could just include the appropriate character/icon.
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So Walmart could offer checking accounts as long as they don’t lend.
Political action.

Effective greenhouse gas taxation is a single thing that could solve the issue with the current system and be efficient.

* It would have to be significantly higher than today.

* It would tax exported emissions.

* It would be well designed to avoid loopholes. It would include CO2 produced by food production (especially meat) and CO2 emissions from concrete.
Plus upfront payment of the ammount for a potentially unrealized liability. In interest accrual alone they win regardless of how they do their accounting.
Because in practice many of them are intended to defund the public school system.

Maybe blowing up the whole thing is the solution to bad management (which is the case in many school systems), but doing it circuitously sucks.
When will we release our trillionth tonne of CO2 in the athmosphere? http://trillionthtonne.org/
Kids with special needs are statistically less served by charter schools - significantly.

This means a greater burden on the non charter schools with the same budget (charter school students don't pay more) - and special needs kids aren't paid by federal funds (where I live it's mostly local tax).

Also they statistically perform equally or more poorly compared to public schools.
> Are there any suggestions, from a personal stand point i.e. excluding a completely new economic model and government structure?

You've gone wrong at the very start. This isn't a problem that can be solved on an individual level, and the sad truth is that we do, in fact, need a new economic model. The sooner we own up to that the sooner we can move on with building it.
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While that was a fairly informative and accurate article, I got absolutely nothing out of it, since these things are commonly known.

My main issue is reaching for the arrow keys, really throws off my nerd-game. I don't want to learn Vim though, and I can't seem to find any other solution that will work across Visual Studio, Notepad++, and WebStorm.
I see Qualcomm’s PR campaign is working.
Improvise, adapt, overcome. Death is a natural part of life. Civilizations die too. It all happened before, and if we are as inventive as I think it will happen again in the distant future.

So be inventive.
> It's not fair to expect a technology company to fight a major world economic power. This is a failure of US and EU governments.

Okay, so if the US and EU governments would announce tomorrow that they will start a trade war with China and stop US/EU companies from trading with China unless China immediately stops all censorship/human rights abuses, would Google/other tech companies go along with that, or will they lobby against that move?

The tech companies are not as innocent or blameless as you portray them to be.
Because it's not in the interests of the teacher's union to fracture the public school system. The larger, more faceless and immeasurable it gets, the harder it is to isolate individual teachers as the cause of children not learning on pace and then fire them.

Charter schools (usually) do not have unionized teachers that are part of the larger teacher's unions. That means they have their own standards for hiring and firing teachers that they can do in response to poor performing teachers.

The counter argument is that charter schools take money away from public school systems, further leading to their collapse as it's a vicious cycle. Parent pulls child from crappy school, school loses funding, school gets worse, more parents pull their kids, etc.
I could see it - a willful and deliberate disregard for the law can be treated differently to a simple mistake.
Echoing the other Europeans replying, a single person getting skimmed a handful of times and you think that's safe?

For context, not one person has ever mentioned to me that their card got skimmed here in the UK in the two decades since I've been an adult. They occasionally warn of it in the newspapers, but I've never heard of an actual case of it happening.

As I understand it, most western European countries have had chip and pin for a long time before the US did. I first saw it in Holland about 25 years ago, and in the UK it's been the norm for almost 15 years.

Damn, I feel old now.
It's a statically typed language meaning it's much easier to refactor using guaranteed safe automated refactors and there is a whole class of errors that will be caught by the compiler (unlike Python) and its overseen by a competent company (unlike Java)
If you understand French, there's an engineer called Jean-Marc Jancovici who is deep into the 'nuclear is the only solution so far'. He made talks on youtube on how to decarbonate economies.
I suggest you create a culture where if a quick chat turns into a discussion people know to move into a conference room or office ... take this up with management and once in agreement get this announced to the entire floor ... this approach does work once folks realize this helps everyone
There is the Carbon Prize which is part of the way there [0]:

> A $20 Million global competition to develop breakthrough technologies that will convert CO₂ emissions from power plants and industrial facilities into valuable products like building materials, alternative fuels and other items that we use every day. Teams will be scored on how much CO₂ they convert and the net value of their products.

[0]: https://carbon.xprize.org/
My sites are fairly much plain, mostly using a bit of Bootstrap. Because of the new European data protection laws (which I mostly like) I also converted my blogger based blog to generated static resources.

Like so many other people I ignore sites with too much baggage. Many news sites have text only versions if you look.

I sort of have some adds on my main site that are text links to where my books are sold. Advertising does not have to be resource heavy.
> Charter schools have inflated performance metrics. Often charter schools don't serve special needs students. More than that, charter schools bias towards engaged and interested parents. Because of policies like No Child Left Behind, it is really bad for local neighborhood schools to have all of their high performing students leave for charter schools.

Thats an interesting way of saying that charter schools get better results.
Why should Apple be the only ones making money hand over fist from China (and be lauded for their eye popping revenues every quarter)
Especially with Linus being the one who dislikes long lines. I'm wondering if there has been any precedent of a non-trivial patch that was 80+
Yes it looks as someone sunk it real hard? Or maybe has it been flagged?
This "normal public school" line is bizarre to me. Yes, it's a part of the school district. But it accepts specific students and has its own expanded curriculum.

It's a magnet school.
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Not sure if search is what they really care about. With their exit from the Chinese market in 2010, they gave up quite a bit in the Play Store, Youtube, etc. I think they want an entry back into China for the extras, rather than the search.

Anyways, I still think Baidu is pretty garbage and I constantly rely on Bing for inside China searches.
I agree. I've been using Rails for 12 years and it is my second favorite framework :)

Lucky and Crystal are missing the ecosystem, which the article mentions, but it also adds a lot that Rails is missing. Lucky is much much faster and the speed is effortless. Rails can be fast, but based on my experience so far, you have to do some work to get reasonable speeds.

Lucky and Crystal have also caught a lot of bugs, which makes development much more pleasurable, and happier customers.

Right now, it probably takes longer to use Lucky and Crystal. Like you said, the ecosystem is lacking so you often have to write code that Ruby would have a gem for, but in the long term, this will be solved. I'm very confident of that.
wondering the same thing, people flagging it?
The only thing "cool about a company is that they deposit money into my account every two weeks. I don't look for "cool" jobs.
Boyer Moore is OK, but there are better algorithms available. The simpler Horspool variant is usually a fair bit faster and also easier to implement.
For short strings, e.g. less than 12 character, the ShiftOr algorithm is hard to beat. I've spent quite a bit of time writing and profiling different search algorithms as part of the byteseek project on GitHub. Let me know if you'd like details on other possible options.
Wow sinking so fast. Slot 47 RN, on its way to page 3.
After the last email said $425 million?
Probably only in America.
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energy poverty ? there's a middle point between energy waste+opulence and poverty.
It does have to be useful to the owner of the land who is getting taxed on it and has some investment in the land.
If every time Reddit flubs a deployment we have to get one step closer to this being the case, I'd have to respectfully part ways with HN.
> We should spend time building an inclusive, diverse and fair society that reduces the amount of hate speech overall and the net impact of hate speech. Then you don't need to censor anyway.

So right, society would just be perfect if we could all think the same way!

Terry Pratchett said it best, "Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions."
Word. Org-mode is like markdown plus jupyter plus black-magic. As much as I very much like org-mode, emacs is just too much of an alien world for me these days.

I wish somebody would make a "dumbed-down" version of emacs that was always in org-mode and used modern interaction-conventions and configuration. Something like FoldingText but for org-mode. (I realize this somebody could be me, but I've already got enough side-projects.)
It's nice to wake up and read a story about someone making a difference. Here is to a good day.
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Yes, accountability and balance are the main issues. Hoping people will be good doesn't tend to work out well.