skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is a really good point and with 50 states that's a lot of things to keep track of. Let's hope it isn't able to be broken down like sales tax.

Remember last year when there was a big hoopla about that Massachusetts court case that hinted that any online vendor would now be responsible for collecting and reporting on sales tax for purchases coming from any US state (even if you as the business owner didn't have a business location there). Basically changing the requirement of the buyer to report sales tax for out of state purchases onto the business. The only problem is there's 9,998 different tax jurisdictions (as of 5 years ago)[1] spread across 50 states.

[1]: https://taxfoundation.org/state-sales-tax-jurisdictions-appr...
Not all unaccounted externalities (if you prefer that term) are of the same magnitude, though. It's the magnitude relative to others that matters.

If say 10% of a city's budget goes to fixing truck damage to roads without at least commensurate benefit, then it's a more important issue than whether .05% went to cleaning up cotton candy after the town fair.

It also doesn't even have to be about tax expenditure. The healthcare cost of using fossil fuels is realized in private spending on treatment for pollution triggered respiratory illnesses, and the economic cost of climate change effect mitigation, which is already being accounted for in business planning.
If we were really producing nothing, I'd be worried. We produce a shit load of stuff; we just don't use many people to do it.

What to do with all the people is the more pressing problem.
We can't get to 100% with solar/wind in a decade, either. Do what we can with solar/wind, and also start building nuclear base load.
It'd be cool if they didn't capitulate to participating in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

https://cloverly.com/blog/the-man-who-linked-co-to-climate-c...
How about you fix your code to not rely on undefined behavior specific to a compiler version? Poor coding standards is not an excuse.
potential successor to Alpine for lightweight docker images?
The point of the economy growing is so that the society as a whole can do more things that it wants, not about using more natural resources. If we can do more things that we want and also use less natural resources, that's what we want, not an omen of something bad.
The core premise of the technology is delivery to every home. To deliver to every home, you need to have a camera pointed to every home, and their neighbors, and the people / cars on the street. Not sure what your point is, are you proposing drones are going to fly blind due to some regulation? Can _you_ provide evidence of such regulation?

Are you asking us to trust megacorps to not make maximum use of their surveillance data? When they've been caught time and again with the hand in the privacy cookie jar? When they turned the Internet into a 24/7 panopticon, with every web page carrying tens of surveillance beacons connected to the motherhive?
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Is consumption defined as spending, though? If an apple costs $1 in the US but 25 cents in Europe, and a poor person in each place is provided a free apple by the government, did the poor person in the US have 4 times the consumption?
The term you're looking for is "energy intensity". And, indeed, it's going down: https://www.google.com/search?q=energy+intensity&client=safa...:

We're deriving more useful output with less or at least flattening (material and energy) input.

I wish more people understood economics from an economics standpoint.
Better than Medium. Kanye West of the online publishing platforms. 'Pardon the interruption, imma let you read this blog, but...'
There are an awful lot of people turning up dead with connections to pending investigations and court cases lately...
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"The company will be ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks"

Headline is false. Amazon have NOT ordered 100k electric delivery trucks. Amazon have made a announcement to get a lot of free press. For themselves (vitue signalling, oooh isn't amazon green) and for the company in which they have invested.

Seriously. I'm announcing here that I will order bezos' underpants. You should take it as seriously. Corporate PR is and this is another weak edition of it from Amazon.
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Ask HN: Top three engineering books for a beginner/intermediate programmers?
Hi HN. Recently I've been thinking about the idea of encouraging growth and learning in the workplace, as an alternative to just trying to hire the skills a team needs. What 3 books (or other resources, doesn't have to be just books) would you all recommend for beginner/intermediate web application developers to become all around better at programming?
Human will be saved my the egos of 2 billionaires
Are the telecom and networking sectors subject to significantly more fraud than average? That seems... surprising
>Software hasn't decoupled economic growth from energy consumption, it has just made the energy consumption harder to see.

You're going to have to explain that one. We can pretty trivially measure energy usage...
> car manufacturers who try to hide ... or had been caught

Tesla went for years trying to make the _sticker price_ include "four years of gas savings: $3,500", bringing the 3 to $31.5K.

Of course you couldn't buy one for that price. That was fairly deceptive. Then Tesla fans tried to spin it as "trying to bring honesty to the market by looking at TCO"... except while they were happy to mention savings from gas, they didn't mention the cost of installing 240V, and their electricity costs were somewhat... absent.
I think cryptocurrency takes the cake vs. any sane/non-bug thing that frameworks are probably doing. Maybe some AI workloads are in the ballpark?
Spent 7 years in Urbana-Champaign. 45 minutes from Normal. There is huuuge potential in that area.
I have considered a lot of things. Percentage improvement over time means nothing when you have so far to go as wind and solar has.

I am not backing anything. I am simply stating the facts which are that wind and solar will never be able to be winner technologies since their density is extremely low, they aren't scalable, their capacity factor is low, they are intermittent, requires extreme amounts of space and arent very flexible.

Thinking you can build a future society on them is as backwards as can be.

That's the reality we are dealing with.

And yes it is just politics. The Windmill "revolution" was started by Denmark the solar panel "revolution" was started by Germany. Who are their customers? Other countries.

Yet none of those countries are even close to supplying their own countries with enough energy through those means.

So sigh away that doesn't make your claims truer today than they were when you last made them.
Yeah, it feels like all COL is proportional to local employment availability so cost of living is substantially higher for a working adult.
I believe in the power of software, but also wonder how much of this growth is due to financial engineering (specifically debt being bought and sold at varying interest rates)?
So that's why circuits are full of magic smoke! Now I'm gonna feel bad about destroying dragon habitats in addition to the embarrassment over frying components D:
It's quite impressive how thoroughly the american consumer has been demoralized by these supposedly unmoving corporations.
> The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere”

This is very often not true. A generic website will be visible everywhere, but new online stores will typically sell domestically only by default and may expand later. Even tech giants like google will roll out services to US customers first, like when they launched the play store. Amazon in Australia is nearly unheard of, not ubiquitous like they seem to be in the US. It took netflix a decade to start here.

The internet is not as universal as you think.
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The larger story here is that the ev revolution, after decades of hopes and slow progress, is finally taking off.
Do we know that they aren't lobbying? I'm not familiar with CenturyLink for Comcast absolutely is all over the US.
Other people mention constrained environments, but tight loops are also a thing. If you know bash's parameter expansion well, it can make it really easy to write a one-liners that speedily process large amounts of output. Setting up and tearing down a whole process (e.g. sed) can cause an order of magnitude slow down, which is significant if you just want something quick and dirty.
Those numbers are not very favourable, you need at least a night of backup, so like $10k per head for batteries alone.
But they had to pay for the project. For others it might not have been economic to do it. Also, in fact there were Android-custom abstraction layers before project Treble, and the Treble abstraction layer is not around the device drivers but the entire kernel including the drivers.
Also worth checking: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://danluu.com/
Yup, I’m getting downvoted for daring to point out that life expectancy is declining.
"subsidies" includes both direct and indirect subsidies.

We can measure direct subsidies by measuring real and effective tax rates.

We can measure indirect subsidies like healthcare costs paid by Medicare with subjective valuations of human life and rough estimates of the value of a person's health and contribution to growth in GDP, and future economic security.

But who has the time for this when we're busy paying to help folks who require disaster relief services from the government and NGOs (neither of which are preventing further escalations in costs)
Of course will but docker, et al attach filters to containers vs attaching it to a specific binary that is much easier (although still broken).
Yes but they're all different tasks. You don't have to solve that duplicate-user-input bug every day before 5pm.
I've seen this as well. It was also super critical bootstrapping code/config. It is so embarrassing I won't say who. But not having code in source control is still a thing. Sometimes if it's in source control, someone has still edited something on production and not checked it in.
Working with people who have spent literal decades in this stuff, it is really refreshing to see your perspective. Never heard something so accurate for something this specific on the Internet. Your points about concurrency and overnights in special.

I am no expert and very young in average for people at my company (Junior Engineer), so I've never had a chance to take part in this kind of "big" decisions, but I've always suspected the way Pick/U2 works is the reason we have all kinds of weird limits across the board (as you pointed out, a big one is concurrent [write] access to stuff as U2 does not have transactions/ACID/MVCC). I'm sure paying for U2 also costs a pretty penny.

The company does know that nobody wants to work with U2. If you apply for a job here, they will barely mention it and will train you from scratch instead as it is extremely rare for someone to know this.

Thankfully I don't usually have to work directly with it and instead use SQL/Java, but it never escapes me because this U2 database is the source of truth for a lot of stuff.

How big were the systems you have migrated? How long did it take to "replace their solution"? I feel it must be soul-crushing to rewrite this kind of system entirely, especially testing it.
They are basically the only higher form of wildlife everyone experiences on a daily basis, even in very urban environments.

It's not until the suburbs with trees that you start seeing squirrels and larger animals.
That's again average, not median.
Steel and aluminium manufacturing actually are somewhat well-situated to make use of solar and wind power. The energy-intensive processes (i. e. heating metal until it melts) has somewhat flexible timing. So you can heat it up when energy supply is plenty or other demand is low and smooth out the grid.

And nuclear energy is simply too expensive. I know it hurts that some people were maybe too afraid of it in the past, but that's no longer the argument. It loses not just to un-subsidised wind and solar now, but even to natural gas + planting trees to offset carbon.
Umm, energy use per capita [0] is going up, while the at-birth life expectancy is going down [1] (largely thanks to the opioid epidemic, which is largely a product of a large unemployment trend caused by offshoring and automation of low-education jobs). Is that the point you were making (namely that software has a net negative impact on the world)? I don't know about that.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db328-h.pdf
One of the authors of above paper here. There is a whole line of work that supports the notion that all progress we are making via this leaderboard (or competition) mechanism is in fact real progress -- and that we are not simply overfitting to the test set. This thread by Moritz Hardt does a good job laying a few reasons why this may the case: https://twitter.com/mrtz/status/1134158716251516928
Firefighter / Paramedic here: when we get firewall impingement, we get dash impingement, which can easily result in us having to "roll" the dash up/off an occupant to unpin them with our rescue tools. Modern cars shouldn't impinge the firewall unless many things have gone wrong.
Services as percentage of total GDP has not been changing much. They where 63.2% of Global GDP in 2010 and 65.0% of global GDP in 2018. http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/4.2

By comparison in constant 2010 dollars global GDP went from 66T (2010) to 82.6T (2018). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.kd

Energy depends a little on the numbers you use BTU etc. However as the mix of services is not really changing very rapidly but the GDP PPP per oil equivalent has been growing quickly the trend is clear: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.GDP.PUSE.KO.PP?end=2...
They should do that once the West pays reparations for the opium war.
The author points to trust in the currency as the culprit, and I agree, at least partially. But the emperor's ceasing to accept coin to pay taxes would have decreased demand for currency substantially, and thus its value.

If the emperor demands his coin to pay taxes, you either obtain his coin or answer to the emperor.
I do agree with you, but I must point out that hiding income from the government is a very common practice. Probably a quarter of the people I know have significant under-the-counter income sources they feel no need to include in their taxes.
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Can't tell if you're being serious or not
If they compete on the big company's territory, the most likely outcome is that they die.

Big companies have more resources to deploy. If you're competing for the exact same customers, on the same featureset, with the same business model, there's usually little reason for the customer to choose the startup over the big company. Any new features can be reimplemented by the big company; any price reductions can be matched.

If you've identified a particular customer segment that has needs that aren't being served and can't easily be served without rearchitecting the big company's product or business model, then you can survive. But the process of doing that means answering "#1 Who are your customers?" and "#2 What are you selling?", which makes for a startup. Once you've answered that you have a small business (if the niche is static and small) or a new fast-grower (if the niche is a result of a change of the environment that affects a large number of customers).
Poor people can get other services at a discount, for instance electricity, internet or cable service.
I don't think it's reasonable to base public policy on a caricature of one faction. Issues are resolvable on their merits. You can find noisy factions on every issue saying stupid things; we can't freeze up as a result, generating a sort of inadvertent heckler's veto.

But actually none of this matters on HN. The interesting question HN is what the policy should be, not what the dumbest people in America advocating for that policy are saying. We're not actually going to impact gun policy at all here, so we might as well free ourselves to discuss it rationally.
Remember, one of the main arguments of the climate change is a hoax, fossil fuels forever gang is that switching to renewable energy would make electricity so expensive it would mean the end of modern society and we would all go back to living in crude huts.
Lamo was a twitchy little fuck with lots of enemies. He was a miserable person, always unhappy, plagued with mental illness, and a past spotted with fucked up relationships. The only people I have ever heard speak kindly of him are the press.

I'd known the guy since 1999, and even back then, in the hacker circles, he was making enemies and pissing people off just by being a bad person in general... Seems like a text book suicide candidate, or at least, a self-abuse through substances type. I mean, his parents threw him out in his teens...

Last time I posted this here I got downvoted to hell and back. Feel free to do the same.
Where's the commercial imperative in that, though? The challenge isn't to work out disturbing applications for this kind of aerial surveillance - that's easy - it's to work out profitable applications that would cause a business to want to invest in it.
Isn’t that a bit of a sexist logo...?
I don't get these titles. Solar is overcoming the subsidies fossil fuels get for freely dumping carbon or they no longer need the government price alignment?
Yes, please!!
No one's performed a proper survey AFAIK, but the GDPR opt-out rate is very very low, which provides weak evidence. This is not evidence of numbers, but I have an existence proof in that I also personally know a lot of people who know and insist on not opting out.
You get at least as much noise from living in a city.
God only knows what we Americans (and Canadians, for that matter) are doing with our disposable income, but the median Schweizer, Norwegian, American, Australian, or Canadian is doing pretty great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

P.S: Be wary of comparisons of household anything, especially over time. Household size has changed dramatically over the recent decades.
In case that wasn't clear. The order has NOT been made. Perhaps a good story, that is more than just corporate PR would be one that matches the headline. Where the announcement is that they have made the order and the terms. (Cancellable at any time for any reason - yeah not that). That way it would be a story with substance not simply a corporate PR announcement, which this clearly is, whether we wish it were more or not.
The way you adjust for the first effect is to adjust by Purchasing Power Parity, which they did.
There's less direct subsidies that would free up some spare cash, like the military budget spent keeping middle eastern oil wells flowing.
I'm not sure it's an entirely fair way to define poverty. In many parts of Europe you can have a relatively high standard of living without consuming (or even owning) all that much.

For example, you can have a high standard of living without owning a car (and all the 'consumption' that goes along with that), in cities that have good public transport, and a good infrastructure/environment for walking and cycling. In much of the US, that's difficult or impossible.
It's disclosed on the site.
An ethical hacker will bring down the systems. Indeed I believe that whatever security is in place there is a possibility of a hack. So by using ethical hacker you let the whole system die and see if company can recover or continue either with disaster recovery or paper based process or combination of multiple strategy. This is what I meant by ethical hacking service. Based on practical experience with the top consulting firms can say confidently besides security by obscurity and security practice which is a copy paste of some pre-defined strategy by so called their experts, almost none employ or pay ethical hackers to bring down their own security or process to show that their strategy works.
for me, China and all countries that have 0 respect for basic human right are a hard no. Yes, some places are gorgeous. No, it’s not worth losing your life/freedom over
This presumes a minority suppressing a majority. The situation in China is a majority suppressing a minority. What would that look like in the US? I would assume it’d involve popular and congressional consent to use SLBM decapitation strikes against “rebel” leaders. No need to advance into contested territories.
Prices have been slowly creeping back up over the last few months, but the usual suspects are companies like Palmetto State Armory (who recently had a $280 kit before shipping, tax and transfer fees) and Del-Ton.
Chicago has squirrels everywhere except for the loop. And there are rats absolutely everywhere too! I imagine it’s similar in most US cities.
And you still have plenty of homesless and destitute. Pretty sad that you can't look after the most vunerable.
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Yes, in some parts of cities, and not everyone lives or wants to live in a city.
I understand the requirements to clearly disclose, so that a user can make an informed decision, but deciding for the user is hubris.
Really appreciate the numbers, but we have a global vs national discrepancy and I was thinking longer term than 2010. The current globalist transformation started in the 90s, it's noticeable on curves of manufacturing employment and efficiency.

I think the US economy probably had a bigger than 2% shift just into tech in the last 10 years, let alone if you include broader service-ization as a national goal for decades now.

I guess I'm saying, if our stated goal and the goal of every MBA in the country was to have more money in services.. I thought that happened.

EDIT: rate-limited, appreciate the follow-up on US numbers. Still not liking 2010 as a start-date as I think the relevant changes were before then. Would love to chat more, but hey.
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What I meant was more like, when viewed impartially rather than through the lens of nostalgia. Two people can do that and still have different opinions.
TIL feral cat colonies exist...
I came across them too, I usually respond that they are paying for damage to the road their car causes. Bikes don't.
Yes, unfortunately
Based on all of the true crime stuff I watch/listen to...don’t we have a pretty good idea how long decomposition takes under many different circumstances?
I'm wondering if this has anything to do with Bernanke's "global savings glut" or Larry Summer's "secular stagnation?" It seems you may not need as much money to make money?

I tried asking about this on /r/AskEconomics and it seems that some still believe that more savings is better, based on the Solow model.
> I totally understand that this will impact a lot of tech companies' profits...but that's to be expected if you're making money selling people's data to third parties without their permission.

Yes, it is also subsidizing what would normally be paid services. Before online advertising, people would pay for services like email. Sure, $5 / month is cheap for us, but what about the developing world and the lower class?
> Armalite
AR-10
Not Banned Not Regulated by Statute 10/1/2013

I have to say, that bit is pretty funny.

(The Armalite AR-15 is of course the gun that everyone seems to go crazy over, and the AR-10 is essentially an AR-15 in 7.62 instead of 5.56)