skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Despite popular believe I don't think voting matters. "

In the end, voting is the only thing that matters. Individual choices by a small minority of the population are going to be completely ineffectual without governments setting policy so that doing the right thing is also doing the most profitable thing.

But despite you being wrong in your core point, in my opinion, you're absolutely right about the method.

The reason that voting is useless is because voters don't care about the environment. Climate change is #11 in the list of top priorities for voters.[1]. Fix that, and then voting might make a difference. And you do that by making it clearly visible that it's important to you, and by convincing others that it's important to them.

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/244367/top-issues-voters-health...

[edit: sorry, this was supposed to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552145]
Uhhhhh I still have no idea where I get the power from? I don't think I will see a power plug in the next ten years near my house (street)
Maybe he's referring to the fact that nuclear power has the lowest carbon footprint of currently available technology when it comes to generating consumable electric power for the masses. Just a wild guess, though.
Behdad Esfahbod lives in Canada though, also most of his FOSS contribution (pango, fontconfig etc) are on the freedesktop.org and GNOME git repo servers, not GitHub.
they took the easy way out...ban them all, just in case. Not worth the trouble or lawyer fees explaining it to DOJ
Alice the Accountant and Gary the Government Worker, who are pissed that their friends Bob the Bartender and Charlie the Cabdriver get to skip paying taxes. Envy and jealousy are extremely strong forces.
what is the usecase for something like this versus celery/rq ?
Some stores really don't check IDs, you just have to do it when there are no upright citizens in the store.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have forwarded this request to Sid in PDF Labs.
We made it point now to avoid all US-based services. While we're not affected by the sanctions yet, it seems like it is a possibility in the future. There's really not a lot of reasons to use Gitlab or Github or Slack or a number of other services. They're not exceptional in any way and can be replaced by other open-source or commercial projects.
>Many couples who begin relationships later in life are keeping separate homes because they cherish private space and financial independence

Where by "many" the author means "some in my affluent circles of the 10 percenters and up".
Chromium advised for their typical use cases to use std::map in favor of std::unordered_map. And they also provide own version of flat_map.

[1] - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/base...
Oh please. The EOL on python2 has been massively pre announced. Games, Movies and VFX can afford the port costs and have a huge liability looming.

There was no "move fast and break things" in this python 3
I have a curated list of resources[1] on topics like learning command line basics, bash scripting, style guide, etc. I have also have my own basics guide[2] and a comprehensive cli text processing repo[3]

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

[2] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Linux_command_line

[3] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...
.NET is not a language at all.

C# is, VB.NET is, F# is. .NET, not as much.
I'm rather curious why the UDP tracker protocol still exists (and is default on this tracker). Back in the day when the only viable web server was a prefork Apache, the small TCP connections from torrent clients would easily overwhelm servers. Nowadays with event based multi threaded servers, it seems this is no longer an issue but I still see the UDP protocol used very frequently, despite its serious design flaws that allow UDP DoS amplification attacks.
Yep, and this is a sign of the ecosystem working well.
"Despite popular believe I don't think voting matters. "

In the end, voting is the only thing that matters. Individual choices by a small minority of the population are going to be completely ineffectual without government setting policy so that doing the right thing is also doing the most profitable thing.

But despite you being wrong in your core point in my opinion, you're absolutely right about the method. (change your lifestyle, divest fossil, direct action, civil disobedience)

The reason that voting is useless is because voters don't care about the environment. Climate change is #11 in the list of top priorities for voters.[1]. Fix that, and then voting might make a difference. And you do that by making it clearly visible that it's important to you, and by convincing others that it's important to them.

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/244367/top-issues-voters-health....
It is a matter of long-term planning. You don't build a nuclear power plant for it to last 5 years. If a "pro eco" person is against building of a new nuclear power plant perhaps their argument is that we should instead invest more in renewable energy instead. Is that feasible?

Lets see. Denmark is fully self-reliant on energy. They invested a lot in wind. [1]

Quote:

"[..]

The Danish Government has introduced the following targets for national energy policy:

* Eliminating coal from power production by 2030.

* Providing all electrical and heating from renewable sources by 2035.

* Providing 100% of Denmark's energy requirements in electricity, heating and transport from renewable sources by 2050."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Denmark
This is undoubtedly contributory to the housing shortage. People wastefully living by themselves in space which could house 2 or more individuals are selfishly hurting both the younger generation and the environment.

I'd expect nothing less from the Boomers and Gen X.

And I'm only somewhat joking.
Did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Intend to Deceive?
See https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/
The Library of Congress print is even larger than reported in this article, a 146.1 MB TIFF https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661021/
Chicken is by no means an insanely fast scheme (even though it is fast compared to many other dynamic languages). If you can get gerbil to work you will probably have at least another 1.5-2 to gain.
Historically, over what timeframe(s)? During colonial times?
> Any transaction in cash for such a high amount, is intentionally done to keep the transaction off-book (and avoid taxes)

What if you wanted to buy a $25,000 car in cash from a dealership? That's not intentionally avoiding taxes. It's trying to get a better deal.

It's not unreasonable to want to avoid keeping a lot of money in a checking account in the US. They offer 0% interest rates. It doesn't make sense to have large sums of money sitting there. Why let the bank profit off your money if they aren't going to return some of it back to you for letting them use your money to make them more money.
No one is, but the matter of fact is that you still clicked. We are fickle animals.
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That's the mechanism, I was asking about the benefit of namespace in that case. With this kind of ownership transfers you lose all the alleged security benefit of namespaces.
Learning Material on Recycling?
I want to learn about the methods of recycling and Amazon / Google search didn't give me good results. Amazon gives me "how to" recycle which is not what I want. I want to learn in detail "how it is" recycled. Google gave me some high level article but I want to go deeper...

Any recommendation?
Bitcoin mining uses more energy than mining for real gold
Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups?
I'm looking for startups that failed because of a big engineering mistake, be it technical or in the management side, and I can't think of many famous examples.

I'm thinking about some reasons:
- Being dependant on external services/code, eg. when an author removed some modules on NPM that caused thousands of websites to break
- Bad hiring decisions in tech teams
- Trying to patch bad code instead of starting over
- Focusing on research (or code cleanliness) instead of finding product market fit

Maybe Google wave that had a buggy interface (though I suspect this wasn't the main problem), HP Touchpad that went out in a rush and was clearly badly developed.

Any clue?
Actually, there are some researches saying that the often cited conclusion about Easter Islands (notably in 'Collapse') might not be accurate.

See for example:
https://gizmodo.com/new-evidence-contradicts-theory-that-eas...
> True love does exist, even though the internet loves to brainwash you into believing it doesn't.

Seems pretty cynical to believe that true love requires cohabitation.
I would have said "move to git.kernel.org" but that's also hosted by a US based provider:

organisation: ORG-PHI3-RIPE
org-name: Packet Host Inc
org-type: OTHER
address: 30 Vesey Street, Suite 900, New York, NY 10007 US

And, obviously GNOME git servers are US based, since they're owned by RedHat/IBM.
Most of them are badly thought out. We had a bowling event on a work day once. This was when we were behind schedule. It was stressful to take the day off, when I'd rather be working.

Productive engineers = happy engineers

Happy engineers = productive engineers

It's a nice loop. Don't break it.

If you want people to be tighter knit, just make them solve a problem together (e.g. actual work). A lot of good friendships were forged around exhausting days.
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I don't think it is about political pressure in the sense that, I doubt the USG fundamentally cares about whether or not Iranians can use GitHub or not. For companies like Google or Microsoft, this is about minimising the attack surface because they do other (legal) things that the USG does care about. You can't punish a tech giant just for doing a tech giant, but you could try to make other things stick.
Walking through the sea at low tide is quite common on the German North Sea. One can actually walk between some of the islands. A guide is recommended though. It‘s not healthy to be caught by the flood way off land.
Hamstering.
Space isn't a letter either, it was just added to the phrase because the typesetters' lines had a length of 6. It's a relic.
> When people are not forced to work to survive, they won't work.

Seriously? You mean Bill Gates works because otherwise he'd starve to death?

More seriously, I challenge you to hold a poll among your friends - given $x per month where x is enough to survive, would they stop working?

Everyone I speak to about this says that he/she personally would not, but the "other people" certainly will.
Why do you believe co-habitating is a prerequisite of "true love" (good luck defining that).

Tangentially, you claim there's some narrative trying to brainwash people into believe "true love" doesn't exist, but we're just supposed to take your word for it that it does?
Note - it said 'Energy Bars'.

Here are the ingredients for the first Tesco branded energy bar I clicked on (Tesco is the UKs largest food retailer).

" literally just a bunch of grain sticking together" is perhaps not typical.

INGREDIENTS: Milk Chocolate Coating with Sweetener (25%)[Sweetener (Maltitol Syrup)
, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithins), Vanilla Extract], Milk Proteins, Hydrolysed Beef Protein, Caramel layer with fibre (11%)[Polydextrose, Condensed Milk, Cocoa Butter, Humectant (Sorbitol Syrup), Emulsifier (Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring, Salt, Colour (Plain Caramel)], Humectant (Glycerol), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk), Peanut (6%), Water, Coconut Oil, Peanut Paste (1.5%), Tripotassium Citrate, Tricalcium Citrate, Magnesium Hydroxide, Flavouring, Colour (Plain Caramel), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Vitamin C, Ferric Diphosphate, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Folic Acid, Biotin.
If this were true we couldn't read Machiavelli, Baltasar Gracian, Francis Bacon, Dale Carnegie. Even Shakespeare.

Superficial customs have changed. Not how underlying perceptions of interests are governed.
Living in the UK i always wonder if i should tip the takeout driver.
> Oh please. The EOL on python2 has been massively pre announced.

Nope, not when new versions of software comes out with Python 2 still, (can't do anything about those licences bought) small studios cannot afford moving/rewriting tools in P2 to 3, not a priority, rather keep P2.
I know lots of Iranian people and they are universally kind generous lovely people.

I hate the way Iran is demonized so politicians can point out an enemy.

We were flat out lied to about Iraq. Demonization of Iran is no different.
And again the question which decides the future of every nuclear power plant. Where to put the fuel after usage? No one wants it, tax payers have to pay for the disposal.
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Does anyone find it mildly ironic that the platform used to publish this was Medium?
The NIMBY Principle
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Presumably they end up on Judge Judy. More seriously, sounds like something that could be handled in small claims court if there's really a dispute about it.
The smartest people today are working on optimizing the number of ad clicks for Facebook and Google, or on optimizing profits on stock market manipulations for Goldman Sachs and the like.

A lot of talent is used not to create new value for society, but to optimize profits for rich people.
New Pure JavasScript low-level implementation to create and edit PDF files: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
I wish that me and my wife could live apart. We get along well on a personal level but are terrible fucking roommates.
> Some people don't have a strong intention to die but use a method with high lethality and do die.

I don't understand what you're saying here. Are you implying a significant enough fraction of people that it bears discussing tries to commit suicide but doesn't really want to die? And even if this is the case, how is that relevant to what we were discussing?

> Some people have abusive families that increase risk.

I never said it had to be family did I? And even if this is true, why does the fact that this is true for some people mean that the average person should not try it at all?

Edit: Not even the original comment was saying it had to be family. They were talking about having company. I don't understand why you are suddenly making this about one specific set of people.
With new versions that they email me about every couple of days.
It's more like the Iranian government.
the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment.

Isn't one of the advantages of Java exactly being multi-platform?
It's wildly important for e-commerce.
I personally will use google image search if I'm looking for a particular instance of something generic (like replacing no-name chinese electronics)
Why would the dealership offer a better deal for cash payment than for s check/bank transfer, unless they want to underreport the sale price and the taxes owed?
> Plastic needs to be treated like asbestos: useful, but the uses do not justify the risk in most cases.

Asbestos kills people. What plastic risk are you referring to, environmental pollution?
I wonder is those could be related to cyber security measures, not political measures.
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I think you can still charge a MacBook via a pedestrian power bank, provided it has a USB-C and enough output power.
> The system already exists

Yes, but not for all industries.

> Would you accept it‘s ok to rebel to force the politicians to lower the cap?

If people rebel for realistic solutions I‘m all for it!

> wouldn‘t a lower cap lead to the „drastic life style changes for people“ anyway (at least in the short term while the economy adapts)

Yeah, probably! Surely not to the same extent like the carbon tax demanded by climate activists. But the idea is to incentivize companies to find more climate-friendly solutions. Certainly some companies would lose their competitive ability if they depend on high emissions, though.
Like /u/photojosh mentioned above, it's no good to print money and equally hand over to citizens if most of the citizens don't buy anything :-). Photojosh's comment breaks down how the citizens might be doing it.
There are other problems arising for electric cars: road tax.

Electric cars are way havier than most cars and have so much traction that road maintenance will be much more expensive when everybody has an electric car.

This is why countries like Norway and the Netherlands are thinking about raising the road tax for electric vehicles.

I also think this is why brands like Toyota are still thinking about hydrogen cars. They still don't believe 100% in electric battery cars.
I believe to a point that it is; in developed countries, there are a lot of opportunities to manage the heat. My house for example can remain cool for a few days in a heatwave, especially with some modifications that block the sun from entering.

This article seems to imply that everyone will die from exposure once a certain temperature and saturation is reached, but doesn't seem to take measures into consideration. Even without A/C there are plenty of options available, e.g. evaporative cooling, living underground, heat pumps (that move heat or cold underground depending on season) and just building with possible heatwaves in mind.

I AM worried about these things, we've just had a heatwave that knocked my girlfriend out for two days. Tomorrow morning a guy will come over to make measurements to install awnings and screens to keep the sunlight (and heat) out. I am long-term thinking about installing solar panels on the roof, which can be used to offset the power consumption of another possible upgrade, the installation of a solid rooftop AC unit instead of the portable one we've used that just can't keep up.

And that's just my house, there's loads of actions that can be undertaken by individuals, local municipalities and governments - think about growing taller trees in residential areas, managing the water table to combat drought, providing aid and cool shelter to the homeless and economically disadvantaged, or even opening up public pools and fountains, and making (cooled) public spaces more accessible to spend a day at during hot weather.
The article says the energy company wouldn't share financials on the nuclear plant and some suspect it's actually profitable. That makes the bailout sound like a political handout to me as an outsider.
> The VW guys were writing poems for their clever defeat device!

Didn't know that one; nice.
But lithium is only a medium sized part of the battery by weight and cost.
You should know the context before saying "nothing". The reason most laws like these exist, is because it used to be more normal to have a stay-at-home-mom, and the male making all the money. Just because the woman didn't contribute with cold, hard cash to the household, she still contributed.
It does just stay there in a well run landfill, and microplastics mostly either come from tyres and cosmetics, or plastics that aren't disposed of in landfills.

There's some poorly run landfills, but how about we campaign to somewhat improve landfills instead of trying to reform all of modern society?
Fitness trackers are good for health, but that 10k-step goal is overblown
I had a similar experience recently with my family- that is my dad, mom, grandfather and siblings. Doing _everything_ together is a socially exhausting experience.

The way I coped with it was to find some bits of spare time to go do my own thing. For me this was something mundane- I wanted to find a popular ruin bar in the area, but in the process I found a backpack I really liked and later purchased. This might be a more complicated situation given it's your girlfriend but taking a bit of time to solo it helped me a lot.
While I agree with you overall I've been sliding more and more into fear and despondency.

We need to put our countries on a 'war footing'. We have so many people who could be working to fix these problems stuck in offices doing stuff that there isn't really a need for (i.e. most all software development) because that's what the 'market' rewards. We need to completely overhaul what we think of as value and how we reward it. I don't see how that's possible under the current capitalist system and I don't see the majority of people supporting alternative systems.

Imagine if we deployed the people power and innovation that currently gets wasted in competition between rival social media applications and redirected it to doing something about climate change. It's not possible for individuals to make that change however because at the end of the day they need to pay their landlord (who I regard as largely parasitic leeches on productivity) and buy food at the shops; and the roles that would allow them to contribute to this don't exist in the number, or at the wages, required.

The cost of moving to zero emissions here in the UK was estimated as being £1 trillion so it was kind of kicked down the road to maybe slightly after 2050. Which is just mad. Sure China and India might be bigger emitters but someone has to make the first move. The innovations can then be shared for free with those countries, we can spend money to help them transition. This is our long term survival, we need to be less squeamish about taking what we need from "private property" (read tax havens, the stock market, etc). But clearly these changes aren't achievable at the speed and scale needed solely through voting. Democracies tend to limit themselves to a small range of acceptable views around a midpoint and take a long time to change even if there is a moral imperative, like the previous changes you mention; so I don't see how they can react at the speed necessary to fix this.

In addition addressing climate change without addressing social justice won't work. As the article mentions the people most affected by this are going to overwhelmingly be poor and in less-developed countries. They're going to need to come somewhere when their regions become uninhabitable and while it's possible our response is to erect barriers (see Europe, US, etc) or build prison camps from a moral standpoint it can't be.
I'm hoping that applying recent advances in Machine Learning and Robotics we could build better, automated sorting facilities. Or is that being too naive?
On the flip side, the “solutions” that boil down to admonishing people not to do patently useful things are politically impossible, unless they propose a solution to the new problem they’re creating.
Totally agree, but unfortunately, when you're in a slow moving industry you don't have the luxury of doing rewrites on a whim.

You'd be surprised how Python 2 is _still_ being used in this day and age.
How about someone build a platform that is freely available that pushes to github from a not banned Location. Or just stop using github and create or find a truly free platform.
I don't like the trend of putting the environmental onus on consumers. If you want to stop single use plastic then ban companies from producing it.
In the same line, if there's any forum I take with a spoonful of salt it's Hacker News.
The externalities should be covered by the cost of the electricity it generates - same as the externalities of solar or coal production.
Why would you hold corporations accountable for people in developing countries throwing plastic into rivers, which is the source of 80% of ocean plastic?
I was able to order and download the beta ebook from No Starch this morning by following the link on his site.
Cars are already filled with computers. The ECU unit alone controls most of the functions. I am sure it only gets simpler in electric.