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Internet experts, politicians, bureaucrats and intellectuals can argue until the end of time about which CO2-emitting products and services deserve to, or should, exist.

Just the same way the expertise of the most-brilliant central planners in the USSR and elsewhere allocated resources.

It doesn't work. There's a better way which is also consistent with democracy and individual choice. But people don't like the sound of it.
> Why would you be aware of people worrying about something that currently doesn't exist?

I'm not sure how to break this to you, but scientists are generally aware about up and coming technologies. And we do think about potential future impact.

So let me rephrase

>>I'm not aware of climate scientists actually caring about potential future implementations of supersonic travel.
Hi @PeterWhittaker!

Hitting so many good points - some of them are already on my list (like Editing :D), definitely a WIP and needs future refinements.

Thanks a bunch, love your thoughtful feedback!
I'm ok with my doctor knowing my complete history, but I do not want my insurance company or any third party to have access to these records.
I don't write mobile apps, so I have no idea about the coding environment, but the last several upgrades have consistently annoyed me. It seems there's a lot of change for the sake of change; more things tied into iCloud and other Apple services; upgrade prompts that prompt over and over and over and over again; etc..

And then there are several annoying bugs they don't fix, like having to reboot my phone after tethering my laptop (a Macbook) before I can tether again.
Ah yes, I have fond memories of writing TSR pranks that hooked common DOS interrupts (not technically viruses since they didn't infect/replicate) that did things like:

1) buffer 1 keystroke in memory (so typing diw<backspace>r would leave "di" on screen - then they'd type "r" and get an "r" and then hit enter and get another "r", then they'd hit backspace to correct the "dirr" and the command would execute, etc)

2) hooked the printer interrupt to introduce typos in printouts

3) randomly swap letters on the screen periodically

Fun times. It's probably for the best that I grew up in the era that I did since pulling pranks like these has a high risk of getting slapped with felony charges in this day and age.
Charities are only needed because the government doesn’t provide the necessary services in those areas. The unfortunate thing with charities is that it’s a whim of the donors what gets covered (1 dollar = 1 vote) and sometimes they are religious (not all inclusive)
The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product
Isparta Haber
Real Python programmers write all their code in ed
That’s because they’re more aware of the history of commercial supersonic transport than the investors at Boom, and therefore have no reason to worry.
I've conducted several A/B tests back when I had nothing better to do and it was a very education experience. I used a recording of a harpsichord, using lame V5 mp3s, and came away with a statistically significant result (I remember taking 14 trials, though I don't remember what my actual true positive rate was)

After all of that, though I had double blind evidence I could hear a difference, I knew I didn't really care about that difference. I couldn't even describe the difference - it was almost subliminal. And that was with a harpsichord, which is a known difficult sound to encode. I've been a lot more comfortable knowing lossy encoding isn't destroying my music enjoyment since those tests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosenescence
It might well be, but shouldn't it be up to you to decide that? It's your private data.
Lack of a decent stdlib is a huge one. I would rather opt for Clojurescript or Elm.
Ask HN: Facebook Live Map Discontinued?
Often I jump on Facebook Live Map to check for local feeds when news is breaking. Yesterday I tried to get on and the URL no longer works. Others around the internet observe it hasn't been available since Christmas Eve.

I can find no official mention of it being removed and my attempts to communicate with Facebook via tweet and Facebook itself went unanswered.

Does anyone know if the product is dead or is it just an extended technical issue?
Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.
Is PWM for varying the brightness of each pixel separately, or for adjusting the brightness of the entire screen? How are these two implemented generally on modern screens? Are PWM and FRC complementary or does one supersede the other? You can tell me about LCDs since you know them better.
Man I so want to do that, but the pricing just seems outrageous at minimum $3/user/month, standard $5/user/month.

I've been wanting to hack together some scripts to use a serverless cloud provider like SES. Since I rarely check my email and almost never send any, it's crazy to pay such a high monthly fee.
Most people don't know how to unsubscribe from mailing lists... that have mandatory unsubscribe footers.

HN users are far from representative.
I'm gonna play devils advocate here and say web apps aren't as pleasant to use on mobile phones as mobile apps and that's why mobile apps are still a thing.

I'm especially looking at things like touch gestures and native integrations (launcher icons, notifications, "share with" providers, maybe even a home screen widget). I know PWAs are a thing but afaik they don't solve all of the above problems or don't solve them well (for example there are still inconsistencies as to what is a PWA and how PWAs are handled across Firefox and Chrome).
> This goes back to the central thesis of the article: that interference from non-physicians (i.e. insurers, billers) are destroying the usefulness of notes.

I think there's a big difference between third parties interfering with those notes for some profit motive, and the person who those notes are about interfering for privacy reasons, no matter how misguided.
Aviation is currently a small fish because it's currently available to such small part of the population on a regular basis. For those that take part of it it's a major part of their footprint. Scaling it up to more people is very unsustainable. Therefore fossil fuel aviation is unsustainable in a world where more and more people get richer.

> Same thing happens when nuclear is suggested

It's not the "same thing". Nuclear has some sustainability benefits. Bringing back commercial hypersonic air travel seems to have no such benefits.
Uber was an example. I was making the more general point that network effects are overrated and don't lead to winner-take-all: https://medium.com/@karti/the-winner-doesnt-take-all-57ac8af...
You might like this - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
Consumption is one way to see it. But if, as you were saying, society benefited a lot from greenhouse gases then perhaps tax those that benefited most from our society :)
Basically agree.

Only one point, nuclear is already pretty much unlimited. We don't need LFTR for that. Uranium is easily plentiful enough and newer designs that are much closer then a full LFTR can use it much more efficiently as well.

Thorium would be nice because its already a waste product of current mining, however Thorium is really only worth it if you are doing a LFTR, with most other designs Uranium is preferable.
The big game mills don't care about languages, they care about the bottom line. If you can churn out the same quality product with more junior engineers because the language is less difficult to master it is going to happen rather soon.
Identity theft.
You can't drive using maps.
Then they should be paid whatever is necessary to make lobbyists unnecessary. I suspect though that that would change nothing, because these "expert" lobbyists you support don't really want lawmakers to have full knowledge of whatever is important to them; their goal is to feed lawmakers the information they need to entice them to support the lobbyists agenda.
> There's a better way

You mean putting a price tag on emissions I assume?
Just a heads up, for the OS section you are capitalising CentOS like 'CentOs.' The S should be capital as well. Cheers.
GHIDRA is good. In some ways it beats IDA Pro.

People didn't choose IDA Pro just for quality. GHIDRA was highly restricted. Even the people with access to GHIDRA were hesitant, because they didn't want to learn a tool that they couldn't take to another employer.

The other players in this market, binja (Binary Ninja) and Hopper Disassembler, are much newer. Inertia keeps them back. Imagine introducing a new editor, like vi or emacs, but with everything just a bit different. It could even be a slightly better editor. Uptake will be slow. People don't want to relearn or repurchase.

Until recently, normal people could only choose IDA Pro. You paid, or you had to suffer with awful substitutes like Radare2 and objdump.
Its not viable to stop the world from using technology and use it just because it goes against your personal preference.
How prevalent is it? Any examples when a breach has had a real, significantly damaging impact on an average person?
Well written shipping policy
Throwing r2 Cutter in the mix..
It's rooted in an absurd confidence in the interview process actually successfully evaluating candidates.

In practice, I bet places that emphasize that attitude tend to hire people that the interviewers like socially.
You would, but that doesn't help you until someone figures out that it is malicious. This lets you track who has actually verified that the package is not malicious.
I read it in that era of my life, and I still disliked it more or less because it was a whiny entitled kid doing nothing! It really seemed like a canned Madison Avenue product designed to appeal to teenagers.

Come to think if it, the only things I remembered enjoying in my forced high school reading was Macbeth and Tale of Two Cities.

One thing I did really like from that era which I suspect wouldn't age well if I tried it now for the first time was Dune.
It’s called coder + coffee. :)
Great follow up.. Thanks.
I don’t have any recent examples at hand right now but there absolutely have been cases of identity theft in the UK and the US (particularly given the importance attributed to social security numbers there).
I code on my iPad quite a bit. It’s not “native”, though; I use a Digital Ocean VM that I connect to over MOSH.

It feels no different from using my MBP at a desk, really, and it’s handy to have it when I’m out running errands and such.
I just bought "The marijuana conviction: a history of marijuana prohibition in the United States," although I don't think you'll find it on Kindle. Pick up a copy at Amazon or AbeBooks.
presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulton
fq_codel is working pretty well for me to keep my ping consistent with big downloads going. There are some straightforward tutorials out there now too, since pfSense has native support.
IDA isn't written by a company in US jurisdiction, for starters -- using it would be an exploitable liability.
It depends on what you mean by 'etc'. The problem might not be in a single leak, but with enough leaks people can get access to all kinds of PII (personally identifiable information). It's important to me that my physical address not leak, I don't want people or packages showing up that I didn't ask to show up.

If your important numbers (in the US that's passport, social security, and driver license) get leaked, it becomes easier and easier for someone to commit identity theft and open credit cards in your name which you will have will have to pay with either money or a lot of time proving it wasn't really you. Or they can get traffic tickets in your name which will become a warrant for you.

And if they know enough about you (address, likes and dislikes, etc), it becomes much easier to socially hack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking) you. Any security is only as strong as its weakest link, and social hacking has been used to get access to people's bank account, email address (doesn't sound scary but if someone has access to your email, they likely have access to all of your accounts because they can trigger a password reset, intercept it, set a new password, then lock you out), and a lot of other things.
Crypto currencies have captured 100b+ in value trying to solve those problems. Vast majority of the code is open source as well.
In my mind the most viable way to make air travel sustainable is to use synthetic fuels produced with commercialised fusion power and atmospheric greenhouse gases as input.

It sounds very sci fi and I'm not sure it would even work on a napkin calculation produced by a thermodynamics professor.
> it’s harder for companies to mine my data in a browser

I agree with this but I'm curious: What protection measures do you take to prevent companies from mining your data in browsers?
Very few 787s operate point to point. The vast majority displaced 767s on hub runs.

We already have very-long-range business jets like the Global and G650ER for when P2P is essential and cost is secondary.
Neither is slave labor for every consumer electronics play

So you done yet?

I would love this
Go PWA
Yeah. KO was way better tho. Such a shame it's not around anymore.
The author tried to give him a chance, and it almost worked.

But then Daniel chose to do drugs. He chose to rob people. He chose to shoot a cop.

I have zero sympathy for Daniel.
Partial Function Application as a Design Pattern
Bullshit!! TFA writer is a pussy .. say it loud until it gets into your head .. More information is better !!! Even though there will be pain it is still better than ever .. the writer is a fucking moron
Blockchain at CMU and Beyond [video]
“The global aviation industry produces around 2% of all human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Aviation is responsible for 12% of CO2 emissions from all transports sources, compared to 74% from road transport.”

But that’s with current aircraft supper sonic is less efficient and enables longer flights having a very outsized impact for minimal gain. You can both sleep and use high speed internet from modern jets, going 2-3x as fast adds little productivity.

On top of that emerging markets are just as happy to start flying as start driving which is pushing up flying’s impact every year.
I'm really glad you were able to avoid that scam. That's super scummy.

I built this premise because I do read a lot of car forums and, quite frequently, people would ask "Hey my car is doing XYZ" and a lot of responses would be "Take your car to a mechanic you can trust." To me this is basically telling them "Already know the answer to your question."

One time a guy answered basically saying "Hey, go find a guy who has a car in his driveway he works on every weekend, bring a 6 pack, and ask him for an opinion." It totally opened my eyes to how different types of advice really change people's perspective.

I believe that the value is in explaining what a person who loves what they do actually looks like.
Human terrain, 3D population visualization
Ha. That was interesting. I got 1/6, though out of the 5 I got wrong, I picked the 320Kbps MP3 for 4 of them. This backs up a few blind tests I did when I was younger, though then with music I was familiar with: 320Kbps MP3 and uncompressed WAV were typically indistinguishable to me, and, when they were audibly different, I still couldn't say which was better and which was worse.

The one I got completely wrong was the Jay Z track. Even re-listening knowing which is which, I still can't tell the difference :( - but this is a style of music I rarely listen to, and maybe that's the reason.

It's also a fair few years since I was 30, and that could be an alternative explanation.

(I'm actually quite surprised I did as well as I did, as the 128Kbps versions weren't obviously worse, and it did take a few listens on headphones. I should probably do another blind test with a 2003 build of LAME or whatever, not so much to compare MP3 vs WAV, but more to measure how much my hearing has deteriorated over the years...)
reality stings
I have a 2017 Ford Fusion with a "blind spot mirror" (i.e. a small convex mirror in the corner of the flat mirror) and I have no idea why all cars don't have them. With the left and right mirrors adjusted to just barely see the edge of the car, I have no blind spots (assuming you are careful to check the small mirror separately from the main mirror.)
I was a cable guy in San Francisco. The stories in this article are very plausible and even tame compared to the shit that I've seen.

My first day on my own I went to a "hotel" run by an Indian that barely spoke English in the Tenderloin. He pounded on a door for ten minutes shouting something unintelligible and finally unlocked the door to reveal a tiny room with shit smeared on the walls and a naked transvestite covered in blood from a heroin needle writhing on blood-stained sheets.

"Shouldn't we help?" I asked. "No. Is OK. Fix TV." All the little metal fittings on the cables throughout the whole hotel had been cut off by guests for use as makeshift pipes. The hotel charged by the hour and didn't ask any questions.

I have many anecdotes if anyone is interested in hearing them.
I always am puzzled by this type of argument. Surely it is not wrong for a company to advertise its own products and make it easy to sign up. It's on the user to be a critical consumer and it stands to reason that if you opt in to a service called "Company A Photos" that Company A might just have some access to your photos to provide services.
It would have been for me, too - without the school, though, as I didn’t graduate.

That’s my point. Where does someone in a rural area get the experience to make that transition effectively?
New Study Finds That 4.2M Kids Experience Homelessness Each Year
I assumed preventing tissue inflammation
It behaves very differently from an economic perspective, though. Normally, when you trade away money to satisfy a want, you no longer have that money. That's what lets us speak of things like the velocity of money, time value of money, indifference curves, indeed the whole idea of being able to "value" goods and services because a currency of known & roughly constant value was traded away to obtain them.

If you're just interested in money as a score or means of signaling social status, you continue to have that money while deriving value from it. There are other systems that have this property - notably, productive assets (you can continue to derive income from land or capital without trading away that asset) and social status itself (bestowing some of your status on others near you actually raises your status, it doesn't give it away). But these systems function with very different dynamics than the classical competitive markets you'd study in Econ 101, or that TFA is describing. In particular, they're subject to positive feedback loops and winner-take-all results rather than equilibriums and stable prices that competitive markets produce.
Since no one else has answered this I, a lowly developer IC, will give it a shot.

Start by writing up a detailed employee handbook and code of conduct. Have a conversation with new reports about how these inevitably jargon-laden documents translate to expectations in human terms. You don't need to use the word "toxic", but talk about assuming good intent, communicating respectfully and clearly with others, and sharing credit and responsibility with teammates.

Create a sense that serious feedback about teammates' behavior given to you, the manager, about teammates' behavior will be taken seriously and kept confidential. Do this by handling the smaller stuff competently.

Give feedback to employees who are creating bad team dynamics early and often. Allow them opportunities to reflect and improve. Emphasize if necessary that their behavior is not just problematic at an interpersonal level, but it's (presumably) disrupting the company at a business level as well.

Work with HR to keep a paper trail and document conversations so that when the time comes to fire an employee who is irredeemably "toxic", there is a rich timeline of unpleasant behavior, feedback and warnings, and a failure to sufficiently improve over time. Ideally only someone with their head all the way up their ass wouldn't see how the patterns of behavior relate to documented expectations and to termination, but unfortunately that's who you're dealing with.

I suppose all of this only works to immunize against "toxicity" in a work environment that isn't already toxic.
There is a quote I once heard “Good teams are usually great for the same reasons, bad teams are almost always bad for different reasons”. This is the much the same for people. Generally speaking, the best people you have worked with are very similar in terms of what they provided that made you really happy to be with them. Example “good” traits:

- honestly
- dependability
- integrity
- intelligence
- humility
- excellence
- generosity
- proactivity

Toxicity happens when people exhibit the opposite of any of those. A favorite example is folks who constantly bad mouth other people on the team. Well, if you work with that person, you just know they are complaining about you behind your back as well.
> You do that and companies just switch to a comparable and freer platform... From linux to BSD, from Mongo to X...

That's only sustainable for as long as there are those comparable and freer platforms to switch to. But if the argument being made here is valid, that is not guaranteed.
> Yes, this is one thing I can confidently say I am good at. My own product manager asks me for advice all the time. I am just not sure how to transition

Could you ask your product manager for advice, or would that raise red flags?

You feel very stuck right now, I can tell because as a developer you're always learning. And you can learn how to make the transition into product manager. You can absolutely figure this out! :) You will have a job in 6 months (maybe sooner) on the product side as soon as you go for it.

In fact, there is a very active discussion on hacker news right now about this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823616
Is the IRS Withholding calculator good enough?

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/irs-withholding-calculator
Until we have better technology we have to scale down or reliance on unsustainable tech. The alternative is adverse degradation of our most sophisticated technology available - the biosphere.
> No one would pay a $10,000/ton tax when they can pay someone else $100/ton to offset the same amount of carbon from the air.

That's cap-and-trade, not a carbon tax.
Well if we're gonna be pedantic about it, clear does make it marginally faster by using biometrics instead of having a human inspect identity docs.
Heh, that also points to the severely limited use of the autopilot itself. Certainly it’s salient data to publish.
That is a great idea if it’ll keep that long. How effective was it towards the end of the year?
As a quick note, if you want the dot grid notebook (vs the smaller 3x5 memo books) from Field Notes, it's the Pitch Black Notebook: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/pitch-black-note