skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right that getting every last mole of Co2 in a controlled manner is doomed, but fortunately that is not required. What you really want is for net emissions to go to zero or even negative. If you are just pulling Co2 out of flue gas, that's very difficult (without BECCS, which is a separate thing).

However, Direct Air Capture is also economical at some price point (optimistically around $130/ton). At that point, you don't have to nab every last mole of Co2 that the oil companies pump up because you can always pull it back out of the air. You just need a profitable market to make it economical to spend that money.
> Does your sample's wealth distribution match the population's?

It's hard to say -- I'm basing this on my lifetime experience. Across that time span, the bulk of the people I knew have ranged (at various times) from "dirt poor" to "the 1%".

Memory can be a tricky thing, of course, and I'm naturally speaking subjectively (and therefore not with statistical significance), but I never noticed a smaller percentage of high IQ people in the dirt poor group, nor a greater percentage in the wealthy group.

The breakdown has always seems pretty constant across socioeconomic levels to me.

But it also depends on what you count as "intelligence". I have noticed that the higher you get on the socioeconomic ladder, the more "socially intelligent" people tend to be. But specifying IQ as a measuring stick excludes most of the other forms of intelligence, including social intelligence.
I'm of a similar mind but tend towards avoiding rewrites, mostly because I find refactoring more efficient.

And with that in mind, I should clarify im not opposed to a complete gutting of a legacy codebase and I'm not afraid of doing it in a full rewrite sense of the word either. I just like to have a strategy and keep master green throughout.

> risks losing subtle bug fixes and behaviour tweaks that have accumulated in that code.

This shouldn't be happening in a sufficiently tested or sufficiently understood system and I feel like using it as an excuse to not rewrite is a lack of reasoning skills.

Full rewrites are a waste of time because you end up spending way more time than expected making useless decisions around the edges about APIs that really don't matter that much.

Or you end up finding out your dream design has a fatal flaw. Or you end up just porting a bunch of boiler plate.

Rule of thumb,

If you can't figure out a peicemeal way to refactor what you have into what you want you want, you have no business discussing what a rewrite should entail.

And a caveat to all this, I know a couple of teams that rewrite every system on a two year schedule. They do this as a a way to stay nimble. I believe their feature set and domain requirements are well known. This sort of setup has a few benefits and traits I like. Most notably the fact design skills are constantly being flexed instead of stagnating. Junior devs are made into seniors with this process.
I understand there's a much more limited subset of developers for Rust or even Go vs. C/C++. Also, I recall hearing about Rust before systemd, but am not sure. Today, it would probably be my first choice. Not that go is a bad choice, I just don't think it's a good spot for it. I also agree that either are probably quite a bit better than C/C++ options.

I'm not against go, other than gc and some size considerations. Given that a lot of k8s infrastructure for the likes of CoreOS and similar are written in it, it's definitely not a bad option. I think that today, and more so in late summer as async/await syntax settles, that Rust should be a first consideration for any low-level system code.
The second is about the separation of data and behaviour—Rust has structs, which are purely data, and implementations, inherent and of traits, which provide the behaviour. This is more flexible than classes which unite the two and tend to require that everything be in one place, and a Good Thing.
For you it's the way up. You already are a project manager and very effiecent one at that! Next step is management/head of department. So when you apply for your next job your experience will be project management.

I am being serious. What if what you do in three hours the other guy needs a day? What if you instead of ten times only send email once or twice and all is done? What if you convey your message that much better?
Vim Koans: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/vim-koans/
I currently use Alpine as my daily driver with GNOME, which is an odd mix I guess, but works nicely :)
Tim Cook's generation can't take all the blame -- the Internet could've been a tool to help fix the problems, rather than spy, neuter, and manipulate.

My generation -- teens and college-aged who were already skilled in software and Internet at the start of the dotcom boom, and who seemed to already have a better median sense of Web opportunities and risks than people do today -- we went for the money and power, and often did the exact opposite of what we already knew about what's good for society.

That admitted, don't fall for standard diversionary and divison tactics that blame problems on some group -- whether it's ethnicity, gender, religion, nation, generation, voting group, sports team, or anything else. If you want to identify where to focus problem-solving, some old investigative advice applies: follow the money.
I don't think surgery will be done without human hand for a very long time
You touched upon a great invidious point. There should be no reason to mention you have a “great work-life balance”. Manage people well and ensure you foster a culture of people putting in their work or time and then get in with your life the rest of the day. I understand there are people for whom work is their life, but these are the people who need the intervention to see what out there beside work.
You could also get a Dell Optiplex with a 2nd gen i5 from EBay for about $60 + the cost of hard drives.
This is not true. Consent is a basis for storing data.
> 1. Like in any organization, the boss exploits the workers he doesn't like more than those he likes. Who he likes might be based a random factor like sense of humor/gender than ability.

Much more likely to exploit workers who are hard working and competent. There isn't much to be gained exploiting unfriendly and unproductive people.

It wouldn't be a surprise if the boss like people who are the most hard working and competent and exploits them the most.
GA does not belong anywhere near real problems. They are toy solutions with zero guarantees.

Fun to code though!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963291
Of course.

It's a lie perpetuated by capitalists that the government can't do things efficiently. The government can absolutely do things efficiently, the costs are usually by having more protections for the employees, which is good. Additionally, we remove the need for a profit layer that would go to owners (the nation is the owner in this case) so to achieve the same results as nation owned companies

Not to mention that there is no exit to look for, nation owned companies cannot be stripped of assets and they cannot claw and scrape the consumer, which is how for-profit-private companies would operate.

Now am I saying that all things should be nation owned? Of course not. I'm saying that monopolies, infrastructure and huge old government companies should be and should stay as nation owned. Private companies will work with providing for these companies resources that they don't have and would pay more to develop themselves.
The site isn’t loading correctly on iphone x safari.

Which severity level is that?
Radium water has a tendency to infect the water supply, so that even people who don't buy it are affected by it. The principle of intolerance applies the other way for schools: people who are picky about schools will do lots of research, whereas people who aren't picky will just go where their friends go.
I had a conversation with a sales guy once, he was known for not listening and I had just gotten off the phone with his boss:

Sales: "Why haven't you resolved my customers problem yet!?!"

Me: "I've got 8 tickets marked as critical right now, your ticket is marked 'high'".

Sales:. "Make mine a critical!"

Me: "Ok!"

An hour passed and he calls back:

Sales: "Why haven't you resolved my customers problem yet!?!"

Me: "I've got 9 tickets marked as critical right now....".
I believe the gp is engaged in the bad-faith approach of taking your comment about the state having more time as being literally the only argument you're making, where it's of course obvious the state has more advantages than simple time (including trained personnel, institutional practices, etc, etc).
California built a ton of great infrastructure and then people decided they didn’t want to pay to maintain it. The entire state is full of projects where the people who ran them are begging for money to avoid needing to spend even more after it finally breaks. One of the big problems was the sprawl due to the highway system – when San Diego raises its property taxes that means people may still work and play in the city but will buy a house somewhere else, paying no taxes at all.

This is a common story around the world but Prop 13 adds the wrinkle that it mostly affects new buyers and people who haven’t figured out how to pass property to their descendants without resetting the tax assessment. That guy who bought a place in PB with his back pay when he got out of the Navy is still paying $100 a year in taxes. He has a massive incentive not to do anything which will reset that, so the city won’t be getting more revenue that way until he (or his heirs) sell the place.
Gmail -> Protonmail (500MB free no ads, but calendar functionality is painfully nonexistent)
And of course I wrote "words words" above, providing yet more evidence in support of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law .
Somewhat surprised not to see ClickSpring [1] on your list. Though maybe not so much home-improvement (I'd argue Welding Tips and Tricks isn't so much either), Chris' series on making a skeleton clock shows some top notch craftsmanship, and the production values are amazing.

At the other end of the spectrum (low-tech but maybe considered home-improvement) would be Primitive Technology [2] - an Aussie that builds all manner of things from clay, sticks, vines, and fire.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/clickspring

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
Oh man those are even worse. Arbonne is this decades mary kay.
> That's why I believe it's pointless to amass too much money in this life; it's better to amass knowledge, which you can take with you.

I agree with your conclusion, although I arrive there by a different route. I happen to believe that there is no afterlife (well, "believe" is too strong -- I just see no reason to suspect that an afterlife exists).

However, I do believe that gaining and processing knowledge is better than amassing money, because increasing the body of knowledge is what tends to make the world better for future generations.
Between the spike in homicides and frequent drugging of women within resorts I'm amazed people still go down there.
My middle school and high school career was upended by an experimental math program that wasted an enormous amount of time forcing children to answer questions like "What is 2+3?" with a minimum of three sentences. The head of the department was later demoted for injuring a child when he sat on him as a form of punishment. He was later acquitted of assault charges. Did regulation work there? Could it have? Do government schools not need to be regulated by virtue of the fact that they're already promulgated by the government?

As an aside, while looking this up I found news stories that demonstrated the rumors about sex abuse were true and a few coaches-turned-principals got nailed. While your theory about regulation seems well-intentioned, I'm just not sure it is worth anything in practice. Lots of governmental theory seems revolutionary until it ends in failure (and, at worst, bloodshed).
Direct link to announcement this report is based on: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/20/microsoft-edg...
Ironic, seeing as how Google is one of the biggest advertising platforms in the world, using their state of the art AI/ML algorithms to manipulate the minds of the masses into endless conspicuous consumption --which is one of the biggest drivers of ecological self destruction.
Emotional behavior is commonly used by every human, you're not a robot. Western societies are considered more typical and friendly compared to others. In Eastern Europe for example, you could just get fired for a simple argument with your manager, I've seen it many times but not experienced it yet. IMHO everyone gets emotional for everything, even the guy who whined for a bunch of whitespaces or comments.
Yup, I’m over 40 and there’s definitely a “Boy who cried wolf” effect in play here. I’m tired of having to be constantly outraged about the latest environment disaster that’s sure to kill us all this time!
Economic highs seem to be part of the problem.

Only about 15% of Americans participate in the stock market, most of the rest of the world doesn't even have the access. The best investment opportunities are being reserved for the elites. 2009 housing crisis resulted in a massive wealth transfer to the people who happened to be in position to take advantage of it. Capital gains are the primary cause of inequality.

Technically unemployment is low, but the share of involuntary part-time work has been steadily climbing. Young people are working these low paying dead end jobs just to survive.

https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-vs-involuntary-...

57% of Americans cannot afford a $500 surprise expense.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-50...
> there is a tragedy

Systemd was criticizes right from the start for the same things that it is criticized now. No misunderstanding. No bad timing. No tragedy present.

> People don't like change

Wrong! People love change if it is an improvement. People don't like change if things get worse.

> Services, System configuration, daemons, etc are separate distinct things and need distinct C code to be managed

Nope. They are essentially the same thing and should be dealt with by small scripts.

> It does not really violate the Unix philosophy

Nobody really knows what "Unix philosophy" actually is. Therefore it does not matter if it gets "violated". However systemd definitely violates my and many others taste for good software. It is bad taste.

> It's not bloated and monolithic because it's not one binary

The stupidest argument ever. If you have a lot of tightly interdependent binaries that don't make any sense to exist outside of systemd you have a monolithic system were simple nuclear parts are not replaceable with alternatives. Besides from that: Its f*in bloated as hell.

> It's not as buggy as people claim

It is. Besides, the real problem is not the number of bugs, the prolem is getting rid of bugs. Recompiling C code just to get your init working is really a world of nightmares.

> People don't like systemd because they don't like Lennard Poettering

Most only care about technology and systemd is bad technology. Nobody cares about Poettering.

> UNIX is dead

Hearing that coming from a FreeBSD developer? Do his BSD buddy's agree? Why doesn't he switch to Windows? Sounds like conman to me. Remind me to never install FreeBSD.
A big part of what made Linux great are the things that were borrowed from Unix and Plan9.

To make it short: The dude loves change and he wants FreeBSD to go in the direction of what Windows is today. I love change and I want Linux to go into the direction of Plan9.
It's interesting how AvE has become more bombastic as he's gotten more popular. And for Tom Lipton, his videos are significantly better if you speed them up to 1.5.
Are your init scripts available for viewing anywhere?
Congrats, Geoff. We didn't talk much back in YC S12 but I've heard good things from everyone else!
So, the worst impulses of both extremes? Where do I sign?

It's not even clear what this modest proposal has to do with the article, which is written from the premise that the whole enterprise of college-oriented secondary schooling is misguided, that no matter how well-taught the subjects, secondary school educational objectives are about signaling --- to colleges --- and not human capital, and that there's even more broad acceptance of the notion that college is itself about signaling to the labor market.

How would privatizing schools address this person's concerns?
Half the entire population had a blog?
That is a given though and you cannot be expected to normalize for it. Someone fresh out of secondary school isn't in the same position as someone in their mid 40's with kids. And isn't the same as someone sleeping on a friend's couch.

Depending on what you are trying to do/build also has varying risk/reward. Want to start a new aircraft manufacturing company? Good luck with that, unless you have multi-billionaire parents. Want to start a new SaaS? you have very little excuse not to start/try.

It doesn't take a lot of risk to try in most cases. All the griping in the world doesn't make someone who won't try succeed. Most excuses are just that. I didn't go to an ivy league school... I grew up poor... meh. The fact is that drive, motivation and effort count for more, more often than anything else given a baseline level of skill, intelligence and aptitude.

Do you also want to normalize professional sports? Let short and fat people play in the NBA?
> "Facebook makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset."

If my friends or acquaintances continue to use facebook, then information about me continues to be useful to facebook as that information can be used to complete their model of what sort of people my friends are, that they would associate with somebody like me.

I wouldn't trust Zuckerberg to pour a glass of water on a burning orphan, let alone delete data for real. Nor would I trust any politician to know anything about the subject.
Yeah, I saw those plots. I didn't personally find them startling, though. To me, they show a weak correlation (that is stronger as you go lower in income, as you note).
NTP stands for the "Network Time Protocol", and therefore should be treated as a proper initialism and be presented in all caps.

Alternatively, since the actual title at the page is "ntp – what time it is?", which you may note is all lowercase, then that could be considered an appropriate subject line according to the HN guidelines.

But the mixed case "Ntp" is definitely in violation of both of those principles.
The nonstop warnings of the Ozone layer were probably among the reasons for the quite decisive switch away from CFCs, preventing the problem from getting truly bad. It's an interesting balance: you need to push it through to people that something needs to be taken care of, it's mostly successful and everyone is annoyed that it wasn't so bad after all, why the panic? (I wonder if Y2K is a good IT equivalent: Not much happened, because people were worried before and stuff got fixed, but the worry jumped over into mainstream not seeing that distinction)
Although this is just a demo, it's really fun to use! Relaxing, even! Well done.
How technology is making us feel so out of sorts these days
If the millennial generation wants a higher quality of life than their parents, they will need to gather and harvest more resources.

The methods the boomers & prior generations used for that were a combination of investing in fossil fuel extraction infrastructure and sometimes waging war/extracting resources from other countries.

Look at China - massive generational improvement in living standards, massive increase in pollution (to the point where it goes well beyond the theoretical concerns of global warming).

As a body the wannabe thought-leaders of the millennials are inconsistent on this point. Do they care more about wages and living standards, or more about the environment? There is no longer the enthusiastic consensus on living standards that existed in the previous generations.
Youtube has a monopoly on the online video market. There are other ways to publish but not other ways to get viewers.
Why Meteorologists Worry 5G Could Degrade Weather Forecasts
who actually created the concept of the virtual DOM?
The state, the drug traffickers, and the paramilitaries have been the same for a long time, with support from the US. Where traffickers have control, the state's working as intended.

https://www.thenation.com/article/oswaldo-zavala-interview-m...
Probably just my paranoia, but I'd be a bit nervous about corruption running many large drives from a single usb3 port.
Some apps break when you block certain permissions, and it can't do anything against Google Services themselves.
Makes border control more imperative.
Sounds like it.

I really miss the good old days of Hacker News when there was literally none of that kind of nonsense.
>> It seems many types of cancer can evolve resistance to treatment with a single type of immunotherapy

This is true.

Interestingly, they're now starting to use Game Theory to beat cancer [1].

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/08/10/beating-cancer-game-theory/
Why is that a bad-faith approach to response? That's the argument being presented, and there are myriad reasons it's entirely without merit. If the argument is that the state has more advantages, they can also be presented one-by-one and weighed. Politics often fails precisely because it smashes far too many decisions into one do-or-die package. Why should we repeat that unproductive pattern here?
Linux module generator for custom hidden firewall
Hiddenwall is a script that generate a Linux kernel module for custom rules for hidden firewall. (block ports, Hidden mode etc)
https://github.com/CoolerVoid/HiddenWall
Maybe I'm inferring the wrong thing, but are you suggesting that creating a startup is more likely to provide the money you need to support a family?
If this was true, then the oil companies could just build a machine that directly converts hydrocarbons into CO2 underground and extracts the energy in the form of electricity and the hydrocarbons could stay below ground through the entire process.

No carbon taxes necessary.
I have kids and an open living and kitchen area.

For all the reasons you listed I want it open so I can keep an eye on the kids.
Here's a good app idea: Take all your facebook posts and replace them with copywrited sections of books. I.g. my cringy posts from highschool become chapters from Harry Potter.

No doubt Facebook would delete these posts permanently and DMCA them.
Yes AND if you could be doing that same passionate work that you want to do anyway AND get more compensation for it, would you not also want that?

There's a grey layer of advocating for ourselves that we're not taught in school, and I think that is what some folks are keying in to. If you're putting in overtime or working outside your job description, then talk to your boss about _also_ getting compensated for that.

I started a company to do negotiation and self-advocacy coaching so I'm a little biased, but in my experience we do a disservice to paint "self-advocacy" as a false dichotomy or an extreme of ego vs self-sacrifice. Self-advocacy is simply part of all healthy relationships, including professional ones.
Heh, if I went back far enough in time with my current knowledge and skill set, I could make a good run at being King of the World!
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Weapon Systems