skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The collapse of the dynamically stable climate on which agricultural civilisation is founded is vanishingly unlikely to be prevented at this stage - no-one has ever even outlined, let alone detailed, even one remotely plausible political route from business-as-usual to where we need to be. As others here note, it's fundamentally a problem of world politics, howevermuch a proportion of HN readership may wish to suck at the corner of their technological comfort blanket. As we have no meaningful world polity, it's unsolvable. Our civilisation will almost certainly descend into chaos & war as the early effects of climate collapse roll in this century. Look at the convulsions flowing from a tiny trickle of refugees into Europe in 2015-16. That was barely a taste of what's to come.

It's hardly surprising - nothing in H. Sapiens' constellation of seemingly unique traits (cognitive flexibility, sociality, cultural transmission through language etc) equips it to make collective decisions on a global scale. It's kind of telling that just as it's becoming most blindingly obvious that all our major challenges are planetary, there is a general retreat from commitment to global decision-making. We're not adequate to to the task. This isn't anyone's fault - it's just biology.
Stack Exchange for Politics. Looks like it is on Beta now
The ideas here sound right in a sense. I generally find that an overly academic tone that reeks of liberal arts degrees applied to web paradigms often makes itself overly fancy without delivering on the philosophy it espouses.

In other words, yes, the web does need to be more community centered and a re-imagining may help that process. Of course, it did not take me long to say that very thing. Function and convenience dominate the web because that is what people have voted for over connections to other human beings in a meaningful way.

How do you then get people to "re-visit" that principle when all the world seems to have voted for it?
I think cryptocurrency people use the word decentralized correctly, it's just that they often imply "decentralized and trustless". Seems like Stellar doesn's satisfy both conditions.

>This is why Stellar probably doesn't count as a real "blockchain." It's also why Stellar is potentially a lot more useful than blockchain.

It's always the same catch 22 though: if you're willing to do away with one of the attributes of blockchains/cryptocurrencis then you have a rather standard distributed ledger that any half competent engineer could come up with. It's not particularly novel or revolutionary.

Actually I'd even go further and posit than hardly anybody would be talking about Stellar or Ripple if they didn't use buzzwords "smart contract" and "blockchain". This is hype feeding speculation feeding hype feeding speculation...
He had the power to say yes for himself before, and now he doesn't.
Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust
Right. I designed a workshop/coaching game 15-minute FOTO (from obstacles to outcomes) [1] which does a similar “flip” from the negative to the positive; however by construction the input obstacles are with respect to some kind of objective. 4-Oh if you like - objective, obstacle, outcome, more outcomes. See also the classic coaching model GROW (Whitmore)

[1] https://www.agendashift.com/15-minute-foto
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Microsoft bit my sister once.
>Imagine going to a doctor and the doctor saying: "The cure to your illness is eating a big warm turd every morning. I know you will object but turn it into a goal and you'll see its value".

Fyi trivia about your analogy and its coincidence with turd eating... This was recently coined the "bs asymmetry principle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

It takes much more effort to disapprove somebody's bad idea than for the crackpot to propose it.

(To be clear, citing that does not mean I think Kent Beck's TCR is bs or a bad idea.)
It encourages people to use Microsoft technologies without having to worry about patents or licensing issues. Ultimately Microsoft probably thinks that the extra Windows licenses will generate more revenue than their patent licenses.
The fact that Apple knows the risk and considers it still makes sense financially to maintain their policy has nothing to do with the situation being "black or white".

The practice described in this article is illegal, plain and simple. It's fraud. It is very much black and white. Finding some "moral" justification for why you may think it's OK to do it doesn't change this.

I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell but you're playing the victim blaming game. And yes, I know it sounds ridiculous to say Apple is a victim but it's still stealing and you're justifying it. Sounds a lot like the people who blame the rape victim for dressing "inappropriately" and "increasing the reward".
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> At the margin [piracy] lowers the price everyone is willing to pay for the item.

Does it though? Someone jumping the turnstile in the subway doesn't make me think "man, my ticket is too expensive really".

Instead, it makes me think "that person can't afford a ticket, but the additional operating cost of the subway for a rare unpaying passenger is basically nothing, and a free trip probably means a lot to someone poor, so letting them get away with that has basically added value to the world for free".

I believe most people are honest and want to play by the book. Large-scale cheating indicates an underlying problem, like poverty or general shittiness of the only available options.
I am guessing they see Cloud Services as their main cash cow so they get a ton of good will and I am guessing more contributors to projects they care about?
Me, and people like me who bring flamebait to HN and risk turning it into /.,reddit or worse, 4ch. Sometimes I just forget and get all troll-y and flame-y, and I hate that shit.
Sorry, I mis-interpreted. I thought only speed was measured/improved, not any other cognitive performance
I disagree in some scenarios. If someone has no market access or cannot afford an album or song, then the record label is not losing any money because the sale wouldn't have happened. More importantly, because the cost to copy a file is virtually $0.00, the record label does not lose any money in maintenance costs (unlike a subway or sports stadium), or in replacement costs (like a purse).

"It lowers the price everyone is willing to pay for the item". Not really. This is happening because the supply of music continues to grow each year. I can't find the article, but a (I believe) French economist predicted this would happen decades ago (1980s?)
Amen.

They are really an old-school industry that needs to die,and be replaced with independent musicians that release songs on YouTube.
> There are real costs associated with servicing an in-person customer on a train or stadium. From additional security, to garbage, to air conditioning. All those might seem small but it is an additional expense on the operator of those services.

The marginal cost of a stow-away on a subway train or in a sports stadium is very nearly zero. Even if it isn't, there is no magical moral transition that happens as the marginal cost goes from $10 to $1 to $0.01 to $0. The reason sneaking into a sports stadium is wrong is not because it deprives the stadium owner of the $0.01 marginal cost of an additional person being present. It's because it deprives them of the opportunity to sell a ticket for $100.
heh https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Ah, Forbes always was an authoritative source on climate change. I am not in the mood for battling over the authors who are unable to consider 250 000 underwater volcanoes. You know, 250 000 underwater volcanoes cannot be wrong.
5. And tagging.

I'd like to remove technical posts from my front page, since I'm not technical. Either I'd like to follow certain tags and only see content related to them, or at least be able to mark tags I don't want to see.
Could we please stop using the loaded term "pirate"?
Attacking ships and killing people is way worse than "stealing" anyway!
Agreed, I wished more individual content made it through. I'm trying to keep an eye on the /new queue and upvote it early, but it's tricky. And my pet peeve, people submitting dupes over and over instead of checking before posting doesn't help, since it's mostly mainstream stuff that gets repeated, drowning the niche out even further.
GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine (2015)
Anyway, it feels somewhat more scholarly than reddit.
Long text quotes in fixed width format (indented by 2 spaces).

When viewing on mobile this forces to scroll that text horizontally, for every line in the paragraph. If people would just stick to using this for code only and use ""'s or > for quoting text that would be great.
Microsoft must want free access to a particular patent from that group really badly.

Does that work for you?
As someone leading the privacy program at an organization that doesn't have that much personal data (relative to most businesses in our industry at least, and probably overall) and doesn't process it in particularly "interesting ways," I strongly disagree. The GDPR was and is a huge burden. You can believe that it's worth it without engaging in the fantasy that it's not burdensome, but don't deny the reality of the burden.
HN for me is still (touch wood) a relatively high quality discussion forum. That said, I could certainly do without:

- Persistence of myopic and uninformed views about MBAs in tech and finance. No, MBAs do not get cushy jobs in top-tier firms because they know how to build a pricing model in Excel and look nice in a suit. Tons of MBAs have relevant industry experience, and they're there to work, not stifle innovation by implementing stack ranking or whatever in a frenzied rush to cut costs.

- Comments on stories where a company commits wrongdoing: "I don't know why people are surprised, X has always behaved in this way. If you don't want [bad thing], then do [thing that inconveniences you but does nothing to hold the wrongdoer accountable]"

- Elon Musk worship. I used to think it was just aspirational wealth worship, but now I'm starting to think people see him as a sort of Tony Stark figure, a misunderstood genius trying to save the world against all odds.
How to create a better converting landing page for e-Commerce
Oh no, not the smaller advertising trackers.

This is interesting data but I'm not sure it supports the title - It shows Google's market share in the EU going up a tiny bit, but total tracking goes down in the same period, while the baseline is probably runaway growth like the US. Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms.

It's a shame Project Wonderful just shut down - it felt like the kind of project that the GDPR should help. There must be a market for content-based, non-tracking ads that you can put up on any website without GDPR concerns. Google can and will fill that market, but since they can't lean on their global panopticon other ad providers can compete on fair terms.

From Project Wonderful's shutdown notice:

> Some advertising networks have held on by adopting more and more invasive user tracking, forcing their publishers to sign binding contracts, or by trying to train publishers (and readers!) to expect that "sometimes a bad ad will sneak through", but that's something we always refused to do. We believed - and still believe - that you deserve better. We believed - and still believe - in a world where an ad blocker wouldn't be an obvious thing to install, because advertising would be good, interesting, and non-invasive.
Wasn't that a fat32 patent?
Would I have had to pay for this patent if my phone didnt have an SD card slot and didnt support reading of fat32 partitions on USB OTG storage devices is what I would love to have known.
If you factor in cost of storage required to provide continuous power, then you get way more expensive and less reliable. Now this problem is solved by, surprise, fossil fuels. [0]

Ofcourse solar is cheaper when it is sunny, provider might even need to pay consumer to get them to consume. [1]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/15...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/renewable-power-germany-nega...
5. Comment reply notifications

6. Responsive design so the site doesn't suck on mobile

What else?

Honestly there's probably a _ton_ of stuff that could be improved, but given how change-averse the typical HN user seems to be perhaps just leaving it as it is _is_ the best idea.
I don't think the analogy carries weight. It's true for chairs but not for all physical objects. The law steps in. Thus for example, in many countries what you do with a house is regulated by national and local laws as happens with some datasets - such as an audio/visual recording.
How are you dividing up other sources such that shipping would be the 6th heaviest source? At roughly 2% of total global emissions, it seems like you'd have to lump other sources together in a strange way to come up with that ranking.

For example, looking at: https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/

Taking shipping as a separate thing, it would rank 7th in the chart of total emissions and 6th in the chart of energy-related emissions, but only because those charts only contain 6 and 5 entries respectively.
I've always really disliked gyms and I'm the opposite of a morning person, but a few months ago I needed to train for a very ambitious hiking trip with some fitter-than-me friends, so I got into the habit of going to the gym every day before work.

It turns out it's an incredible way to start the day, even for a night owl...the lasting effect throughout the rest of the day is very real. Also, as someone who is basically a zombie in the mornings, I essentially replaced the time in the morning when I'd be awake but sluggishly waiting for the coffee to kick in with a quick but intense stop at the gym, so I didn't need to totally rearrange my schedule.
There's no way we're going to make a meaningful positive impact on the climate without doing things that make people uncomfortable. The sooner we start, the less dramatic that discomfort will be
Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip
His son is Toby Young the right-wing journalist [1] and the subject of the film "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" [2]. He's also continued his father's public engagement by creating several new free schools in London.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Young

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lose_Friends_%26_Aliena...
That's pretty neat. My workaround at the moment is to put all my stickers on a hardshell case for the MBP. That way, I can just pop it off if I'm ever ready to sell or just want to look more "professional".

I must say though, that the extra bulk of the case can be slightly annoying and I miss the look of the aluminium. I"ll be interested to follow your story!
If it's cheaper than non-renewable energy then it will displace that usage.
Pretty much what has reddit become (or has always been)
Teenage+Mental+Health+-+A+Modern+Epidemic
This is astonishing. Are there upcoming US/EU court cases on software patents or specific Microsoft patents?

Which other large companies could now sue vendors of devices (e.g. ereaders) which use Linux? Is Oracle in OIN?

Is OIN's Linux patent pool now large enough to deter other large companies?

Has Microsoft published a definitive list of their Linux-related patents which were previously subject to royalty payment? Is the FAT patent covered, https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalD...
I'd say that £500k would be fair, but still fairly tame for how dangerous this breach could've been.

£500k is essentially how much it would cost each year to hire a team to fix these issues and maintain their systems.

If £120k is the punishment, what's the point in fixing the issue? It's more cost effective to accept the risk of a major security breach and the resignations of a handful of top brass.
I'm assuming you must be talking about Kamala Harris? Do you have a link?
"Multi-Billion-Dollar iPhone Repair Fraud in China"

"But as the problem started to have a material impact on Apple's financial sheet, to the tune of billions, the company began to take further action."

Multi-billion seems implausible. Really? Apple achieves its financial performance despite absorbing multiple billions of dollars in repair costs? And Apple took no action until billions were lost? I don't doubt this was an expensive scam, but extraordinary claims need to be better substantiated.
This sources disagree:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warmin...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcan...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=compare+human+emissions+volcanic+e...
Agreed, reddit is now full of corporate fanboys.
From my understanding, a lot of that was “slippage” by employees and not the companies intentionally making extra parts. More often than not, they were parts which didn’t pass QC and rather than going through the normal process for those, they just “disappeared”, at least back in those days.
Microsoft's cash cow is Azure which means the target market are developers so anything that generates good will among devs and puts Microsoft's past further in the back of their minds benefits them.
NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster
Did they? Or did they just bend down to what's out there?
First of all, the statistic you used is outdated.

https://www.billboard.com/files/media/01-GMR-graph-billboard...

You may not be aware, but on digital, they charge less for an album than LP and compact disc. So given the decline in sales of physical media, and the rise in streaming, (which they get paid next-to-nothing for, I might add,) along with the overall increase of non-streamed digital sales, they've absolutely gotten millions of new consumers. It's just cheaper now, because physical media has huge markups.

> People treat piracy as a victimless crime because the marginal cost of each item is zero. Imagine extending similar logic to a handbag. If you steal an LV purse you can’t afford, how do you measure damages? The $1,000 marginal cost to physically replicate the purse, or the $10,000 retail price? That basic logic doesn’t change as the marginal cost goes to zero.

It absolutely does; they aren't taking it from the publisher of the music, or an outlet for music, they're having it shared with them from the second-hand market. This allows no loss on the part of the publisher (and more importantly artist), no inefficiency in having to restock an item, and doesn't involve the publisher in any way.

It's not stealing, it's copying. If you steal something on physical media, you'll be making them lose something, and they'll have to replace it. If you copy something on digital media, they don't have to spend man-hours replacing something.

> The moral rationalizations don't really hold water. It's not like the music industry is out there lobbying to prevent competing content. Their whole business model is creating content that's so desirable that they are non-fungible--people won't settle for a slightly different clone. Advances in digital technology have made it so the cost to create content is lower than ever. But people don't want just any superhero movie, want to see Wonder Woman or the Avengers: Infinity War.

There aren't live shows in the case of movies, and at those live shows the actors wouldn't be receiving the largest amount of currency for acting in them.

In the case of music?

The venue is far more generous with the split than the label is.

With music piracy, it has a very strong chance of increasing an artist's revenue from live sales, which is better for them than purchases of albums, anyway.

Also, it's worth noting that the EU ran a study on the effects of digital piracy just a few years ago; and their results were...

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-...

...that in the case of games, piracy improved sales, in the case of movies, piracy decreased sales, and in the case of everything else, piracy had no effect on sales at all.

*

And I'm saying this as a person who buys LP and digital all the time.
How long did it take Linus to realize his behavior was toxic? How many times was he told?

That's a lot of work to fix a project for almost no benefit to yourself.

Life is too short to deal with [people who aren't nice].
Comparison with physical goods is always flawed. When your marginal cost is exactly zero, then there isn't even a concept of replacement. There exists an infinite supply of the good, therefore price should be near-zero. Copyright infringement cannot reduce your supply.

If humanity could invent a magical machine that makes a direct atom-for-atom replica of any physical good at zero cost, using zero raw materials, I would expect the market price of those physical goods to drop to zero or near-zero. This is an economic rationalization, not a moral one.
Definitely a lot of goodwill between patent non-aggression, all of their work in the developer community (VSCode), listening to user feedback (most of the time anyways). Also they gain access to other patents in the OIN. Plus most of their revenue seems to be from cloud and licensing, I'm sure they are making a mint on Office, Windows, and Azure without needing any patent aggression.

I keep asking myself "is this a trojan horse" and the more time goes on, the less I think it is. Maybe they have actually changed for the better.
Ad-hominem fallacy. The fact that some people didn't were allowed to choose politics in some time somewhere (like for example all women in Europe and USA until the last generations), does not imply that their opinion about a political theme is automatically tainted, wrong or insignificant.
If you know mechanics a company is using to extract your attention, it's your responsibility to account for that when using their services. Except for kids, and there are laws against advertising directly to them.

It's a lost cause fighting advertising.
Coinbase was founded in 2012 in peak mongodb hype, and while the issues with MongoDB are well understood today, six years ago you'd have to be a cutting edge emerging database type developer to know that, and that's not the type of person who Y Combinator likes to fund.
Well, think of any kind of mass change that you believe is beneficial to humanity and I bet you'd have a similar set of points that seem cultish.
I'd love some further explanation here:

what does locking memory mean in this context?
For what purpose do security sensitive programs lock their memory?
what is the performance degradation that happens with low-spec computers?
Copyright is itself an artificial barrier, as is copy protection and laws like the DMCA that make copy protection a legal as well as technical barrier.

I respect your right to your opinion that poor people should be prevented from hearing or seeing something entertaining because a corporation wants more money (it's rarely the creator who makes these decisions), but that's not the only legitimate opinion.

Copyright isn't a law handed down by God; it's a fairly new legal creation on the scale of human history and its constant expansion is a major factor behind increasing inequality in the world.
Historically in US and Europe yes, but China Japan and South Korea are way more efficient in deploying nuclear, and for good reason. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/02/4-ways-t...
Can i get nice font of linux now?
Does it include the font rebdering patent?
Start by voting for candidates who believe in science.

It seems odd to need to say this in 2018, but disbelief in clear scientific evidence should be a disqualification from holding office.
Here is a link to the source post from MS - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-...