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"Fundamentally it is a political problem" -- Agreed.

What if the whole problem is that of "growth"?

Here's one possible chain of thought. I don't fully subscribe to this, so please feel free to poke holes in it:

1. The biggest polluters tend to be commercial enterprises

2. They are aware of the environmental impact of their actions, but are reluctant to stop

3. They are staffed by (mostly) normal human beings, but they continue because they are heavily incentivized to show continued growth

4. Businesses can no longer reach a "steady state" -- they must continue growth or be considered failures

5. Growth appears to be demanded by stockholders

6. Stockholders need growth for return on their investments

7. Investments are necessary because of... inflation ?

Ergo, stop inflation, slow down growth?
But people without children have even less motivation to care about the future.

Even moreso for people who aren't married....why shouldn't they let their SUV idle in the driveway?
My suspicion is that the circadian rhythm plays a big role in productivity (and well-being in general). It's not enough to just sleep, it's also important to reset your body's clock when the sun rises. Spending the night in a club in artificial lighting might not be made up for by sleeping in for 10 hours.

AFAIK almost everybody procrastinates (more or less), but not so many people are suffering from depression.
UWP sounds like it gets it right, but a lot depends on the granularity of the permissions. I'm not even sure you can win: too fine grained and the user ends up with permission fatigue and just clicks through, too coarse grained and the user has to choose between full access or no access. I think android gets this very wrong, but has improved somewhat.

I'm not sure if it's been tried but I think a better way might be to create some set of capabilities that can be applied, so you get complete confinement by default but can bulk set permissions of your choosing.

According to design docs, this is what is meant to happen with Flatpak. I'm not a user so I don't know how close it comes.

It appears that Flatpak falls short fo this with quite a few apps, which seems weird if they did implement the file portal they spoke of.
Twitter and Instagram I can understand, there are a lot of people on those services that make a lot of money promoting brands and products. Having an interesting name on there can increase your marketability. Like "@tom" or "@lisa", you look cooler (rather than "@realmattdamon1977") and seem like you've been on here for quite awhile so therefore people should listen to you. I guess it might be a bit hard to show that you bought an account versus stole an account if the original owner tries to reverse the email address change. Maybe someone could build an account escrow site where ownership is transferred to a third party until the sale is complete.
If you agree to pay $10 a month per paper, then you could have it. But majority of people have proven that they will not pay, hence it does not justify to have a paid subscription system without ads.

When more and more people block ads, there will only be a few large sites remaining on the internet because the rest will not be able to survive in the most likely scenario. You could cry all about your freedom then.
Thats a nice PR piece pushing criminal fraud narrative, forgetting to mention Apple is at war with people providing 3rd party repair service.

The goal? remove alternatives, _any_ small defect = 'genius' telling you to buy new $1-2K device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns
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Everyone is toxic to someone. Avoiding every toxic person is just crippiling you socially, professionally. You have to meet challenges head on, or you are just lazy, and blaming the topic du jour. The ideal welcoming working group is a great goal, but we are humans, and always striving. To stop progress because its hard or annoying just shows your character.
RE the 80%, I expect the food shortage pressures to cause immediate wars that would quickly help shed the excess population. I fully expect to die in such a conflict (or be forced to eat a bullet to avoid the pain of starvation).

RE farming and other technology trees, it might be worth it to hedge our bets by trying to develop such simpler tech trees right now. In the worst case, we'd be making life much easier for the survivors. In the best case, maybe we could reapply some of those ideas to further reduce energy waste.
vote against ethanol biofuels. From a thermodynamic perspective they will never be sustainable. We're literally dumping energy into growing extra corn that we burn.

It's a farmer subsidy and nothing more.

Just pay the farmers the money. Stop wasting the land, nitrogen, greenhouse emissions and retooling cars for this nonsense.
At the height of the boom last year, Coinbase was signing up 50,000 new customers every day. Scaling would be a problem for any web app at that level of growth.
Is PM'ing a feature here I don't know about? Looked at your profile and I don't see an email address. Would love to see the code. Sounds crazy useful.
A Minecraft mapmaking utility
Haha for real.
That's the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this project but I think it might be a mistake. Convincing people (and contributors) to ditch C-emacs for "remacs" will be hard, convincing people to ditch elisp-emacs for guilemacs will be hard but doing both at the same time might be just too much.

If remacs manages to reach the point where you can use it to replace emacs in-place without any breakage while bringing better performance and more stability it will be a tremendous success IMO.
It's here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari
I don't think you understood what I wrote.

PoW is wasteful in that the vast majority of the product of it's algorithm (hashes) is discarded. This means that block producers can be trusted because they wouldn't be spending energy / electric power to produce blocks for any reason other than gaining the block rewards, which they can only get if the block is valid.

If PoW did some sort of useful work (gene folding, seti, etc) then there would be no reason to trust block producers since all of their blocks are useful and therefore they can be "mining" for reasons other than obtaining the block reward.

Hope that helps.
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What I am aware of are the old programming books, in case you don't know about the web site.

https://www.atariarchives.org/
"a right to have problems dealt with at zero monetary cost for a reasonable period of time in line with the sticker price. "

We have words for this - It is called "WARRANTY".

Warranty however does not fix post warranty-period defects and this is where "right to repair" enters.
Am I wrong about this?
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As a political solution, I doubt there is much we can do. The young people are not that politicaly active (as in actualy casting votes). I'm very happy that Tesla has made automakers take electric cars seriously, and renewable electricity is doing well. Unfortunately, that's not going to be enough.

Geoengineering research is currently fairly taboo and hard to get money for. It involves developing methods to alter the environment to compensate for what we have done. Many say we should just reduce greenhouse gasses, since if we mess up geoengineering we could really mess up the planet, but I think it should at least be very well funded and studied.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
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The fraudsters could simply sell the fake iPhones to the fake customers for a bit less than the market price of a refurbished iPhone, and then buy the illegally obtained replacement at price.

The fake customer gets to keep the difference as a commission, or keep the iPhone if he prefers to. If the swapping fraud works, that's win/win in any case, except for Apple.
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Indeed - simonh's response is hysterical (in both senses). The first release of 11 is here:

https://adoptopenjdk.net/archive.html?variant=openjdk11&jvmV...

And there will be more over the next three years. No contact with Oracle, legal or digital, is required.
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It might sound a bit more extreme, but I just think of not having any money, me and my family being thrown out of our house, and my kids thinking I'm a failure. That usually sorts it out.
> Why? In what other area does the public automaticallt get a right to something someone else created?

If you make a chair and I buy it from you, I can do whatever I want with that chair.
Not really Computer Science per se, but practically every engineering field uses numerical solvers. No one reallistically solves nontrivial differential equations by hand these days.
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Does anyone know of a simple, inexpensive, e-ink tablet that I could use as a calendar? Needs to be able to sync online calendars. All I can find online are prototypes/vaporware.
Has anyone figured out what to use for joystick input? Most of these programs require one and I haven't found a way to fake it.
> Personally, the amount of times that this "packaging and updating infrastructure" has broken working applications or whole Linux installations leads me to believe that no amount of testing will ever make it work reliably.

What distributions have you been using? I rarely have a problem with Debian or Fedora in this manner.

> It doesn't stop at PPA, to really support all the other picky Linux guys with their distributions I need to provide dozens of packages built against the dependencies of whichever versions of those distributions are currently in use.

Get your package into Debian and Fedora, other distros might pick it up. If your software is popular enough, someone might volunteer to do the packaging for you. If it's something I care about and not available, I'll compile it (if it's a compiled language). If it's something I care about and it needs to go into production, I'd build and maintain my own rpms or debs internally.
Is that reasonable to you?
I used to work in a place where the toilet-flush levers went two ways: down gets you a low-water flush for #1, up gets you a high-power one for #2. I thought that was interesting. Dunno the regulatory situation around it, though.
If you're talking about SNI records in TLS handshake, it'll be fixed soon.
You'd be amazed. The first startup I worked at could barely maintain a CRUD web application with 15 experienced devs.
That severly shortens the lifetime of an LED, like by a factor of 10. So I would guess it is not common because much of the benefit that gets marketed is the longer lifetime. It is possible to build a better dimmer switch which actually works across the full profile of voltage variation but the problem then is you have to pay an engineer money and why do that when you can spend money on booze and dinners to win more sales contracts with your lighting distributors and get a higher ROI? The lighting world is a very consolidated place.
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Agreed, this is one for commercial votes ($). We're a rich industry that uses loads of electricity, most of which is fossil-fueled. We need to choose to run our servers 100% carbon neutral and that would make way more difference than individual action. That will get more spending on renewable generation. Our industry has the money and we can personally just choose to host somewhere carbon neutral (as mentioned, Google, Azure or the 4 sustainable AWS regions: Oregon, Montreal, Ireland, Frankfurt right now)
I did that at Stanford. Waited until the class-change-time bicyclopalypse passed (everybody rode bikes at that time and it was a madhouse) then rode like a maniac, dropped my bike on the lawn and slid into the last seat in the classroom just as the lecture began.
Interesting perspective; thanks for sharing.
What they possibly meant was: the war was already lost when they got invaded at all.
It aligns their incentives with yours. You know they really do want you to find a high paying job. Thats not something that can be said of most educational programs.
I am responsible for my emotions, and my reaction to something is my problem. I get this.

Programming is creative. Just like artists, writers, any other creative process. We get emotionally involved with our work and we become emotionally vulnerable when we show our work to others.

So submitting code to the scrutiny of others is a vulnerable space for me. If the reaction of others is "this sucks" then I have a negative emotional reaction to that. I understand that this reaction is my problem, I'm not blaming the other person for their response, but I still have a negative emotional reaction.

I do not want to emotionally disassociate myself from my creative work so that I no longer have this reaction. I enjoy being this emotionally connected to my work.

I'd rather not show my work to others, or to only selected people who I can trust not to respond with something that will hurt me. I know this about myself.
"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007...

And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place?)
Some things like indenting a large file or even searching in a huge buffer can be quite slow. For instance I just tried indenting a ~1000line C buffer and it took about 2 seconds. When dealing with very large files (hundreds of MB) some basic movement and editing commands can be quite slow. Dealing with very large TAGS file (for the linux kernel for instance) is annoyingly laggy as well.

I agree that it's not the panacea though, Emacs would benefit from using a more threaded or event-oriented programming model for many things.
But the Chinese government is famously intolerant, and spreads misinformation and hate all the time (hate towards various groups, some of them ethnic some of them ideological).

They consider silencing of various people to be good housekeeping as well.

iamdave is correctly pointing out the hypocrisy here. Well, hypocrisy of some. Not everyone celebrated Alex Jones getting kicked off SV platforms.
> but sometimes you know invariants about object sizes, alloc patterns and free patterns that allow much more performant allocation.

jemalloc allows you to query these invariants if you don't know them, and to use the information to re-configure the allocator to match them :/

I'm pretty sure most modern allocators allow you to do this as well.

> The simplest case is if you know that you will free everything at once, or nothing at all.

That's pretty much a one liner with jemalloc.
The telecom company has identifying information about you that hackers are unlikely to be able to fake - such as an home address to where they send your new sim card, or physical locations where it's much harder to work these kind of social engineering.

The telecom company also have more regulation and the stakes are higher for letting someone basically steal your number - it usually means they have a much stricter protocol to giving someone a new sim card - they'll require a physical presence, they can actually call your phone to verify you aren't a fake, they'll require confirmation of card ownership or an ID for states/countries that have them.
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No I get that. And they employ the creator of the language just that it was doable but not necessarily enjoyable.
> "physical world" is where the symbolic approach completely breaks down.

It does not "break down" it just becomes intractable in certain cases.

One needs to be able to solve problems that have all but the most essential details stripped out in order to develop a sense of how physical law actually works. Many times that is even "good enough" to get to a solution.

The best way to do that is through analytic methods, which give not only "an answer" but also tell you important features of the answer. These analytic solutions have "handles" you can use to ask "what-if" questions -- eg zero's in the denominator to indicate poles, behavior of the system as you take certain limits, geometric aspects such as symmetry, patterns in recurrence relations, etc, etc, etc..
That is not true you are confusing single purpose with a “valid” purpose from the users point of view which isn’t actually the case your business needs can be just as a valid reason under the GDPR as anything, you do not have to provide service to users who decline if say it affects your ad revenue the GDPR cannot force you to provide a “free” service to users.

Consent is just one lawful basis for data collection, business justification is another one and ad revenue is a perfectly valid reason in which case you don’t even need consent but just to inform the user.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

You can do what ever you want under “vital interests” as long as you feel comfortable explaining those to the regulator, not the user.

Consent is used often because the current interpretation of most legal experts is that it shifts the liability to the user however this has never been tested.
I think this only works for people that aren't overweight.

My overweight co-workers are already heavy breathing from going to the coffee machine
As someone who leads outdoor trips, I've been told (not sure how true) that one of the supposed benefits is that it informs about dangers. So someone who suffers an injury--not through negligence on the part of the trip leader--would have a tougher case arguing that no one told them that the activity was other than completely safe and they wouldn't have done it had they known.

On the other hand, I've also been told by lawyers that the usual scrawl your signature at the bottom of a paper after a quick glance probably doesn't make much of a difference.
That's not balanced. The overwhelming majority of experts in the field disagree with Lindzen, who is largely famous among laypeople because he is one of the few academics that deniers can point to.
This is different. It's not asbestos or pesticides. What differentiates it is that it's slow death by heating up. Some time in the future. Not now. You can't even measure the success of your political regulations with regard to global carbon emissions on a conceivable time scale. Success is directly measurable for the things that you named. That's not the case here.

I don't get why it's necessary to start a left vs. right, regulations vs. non-regulations war on this. This is effectively destroying the discussion about real solutions.

I got a completely different impression of op's comment. Namely, that we as humans cannot control everything, but there's ways we can get real progress when we combine our talents to come up with great technical solutions.

I doubt that we will be able to turn the clock back, and I wouldn't want to participate in trying.

That doesn't mean that we cannot do something positive via political means meanwhile. I'm just saying that evidence suggests it doesn't solve the problem on a global scale and hence is obviously not the whole solution.
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i don't think you understand the technology at all..

> PoW is wasteful in that the vast majority of the product of it's algorithm (hashes) is discarded

do you know what "PoW" means? it's 3 words: proof, of, work. what you consider "discarded" and "waste" is the Work in PoW.

miners convert energy into blockchain security and every block signature is the proof that certain amount of energy was spent to find it.

if there was another "useful" activity (gene folding, seti, etc) it would have created additional "value" for miners, making mining more valuable, creating incentive for more miners to mine and subsequently raising the difficulty to mine matching the additional "value" from "useful" activity.

it's trivial econ and i really do hope it helps you better understand what you're arguing about.
Not an Emacs user, so forgive me if I'm being dense, but is this (from the README) really true?

Emacs will change how you think about programming.

Emacs is an incremental programming environment. There's no
edit-compile-run cycle. There isn't even an edit-run cycle. You can
execute snippets of code and gradually turn them into a finished
project. There's no distinction between your editor and your
interpreter.

I'm assuming what it means is "Emacs will change how you think about programming Emacs Lisp". Which is a rather narrower proposition, and much less of an incentive to switch, since I doubt many non-Emacs users are particularly interested in programming Emacs Lisp.
But that's kind of a bad approach for developing software. "Sorry, handicapped person, you don't get the new hotness. But it's ok, you can continue using this old software that we super-duper promise to continue supporting."
Hi! I've written open-source and Free Software for a decade. I don't see anything wrong with Rachel's behavior, her opinions, or her desire to not get involved when there's stupid toxic shit to deal with, and I don't understand why you've written four posts over three hours complaining about her. It sounds like this is a case of women policing women.
> Tinder now bans your account for life if you ever change phone numbers

Huh? I've got at least 5 different SIM cards for various countries and I've never noticed any issue with Tinder. I didn't even know it used your phone number for anything.

For SMS auth it's usually no big deal to put back in your old SIM if it needs to send a 2FA code; even the most brutal roaming charges won't come to more than a dollar or so for a single SMS.
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This.

We had a guy who put an inflatable mattress inside an empty office and took naps there on his breaks.

First people laughed, after a week it was just "his thing".
Regarding accountability, I’ve found Focusmate to be indispensable: https://www.focusmate.com

I often enjoy it even more then being accountable to a co-worker because it frees you to be a bit more honest with the challenges you’re facing and how you’re genuinely feeling.
> There are plenty of consensus protocols that don't waste energy but I think it's important to understand why PoW relies on an unproductive algorithm.

DPoS consensus used by Bitshares/STEEM & EOS seems to the most advanced among the models and they also have the highest TPS
http://arewedecentralizedyet.com/
95% centralized
First world citizens need about 600-1000 adult trees to offset their carbon footprint. Go plant a lot of trees. Also, buy fewer things manufactured in countries that use primarily coal power, and travel a lot less (especially by airplane)
Correlation does not imply causation. It seems unlikely the music itself is driving people to hijack ships, kidnap, rape and murder on such a large scale. Maybe there's something in the water.
What?! It's criminal fraud, it's illegal and should be illegal period.

Your argument is extremely dangerous, it's no different from "of course you got robbed and beaten, what are you expecting when you walk into a dangerous neighborhood?"

There's a very important line between what's illegal/criminal (robbery, fraud) and what's merely objectionable/distasteful (not selling repair parts), and it's a dangerous game to confuse the two.