skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there no limit at which point the Fed will stop printing money? In theory, once all that money printing hits the actual economy and inflation starts going up, they'll have increase interest rates. I'm not sure I believe that 100%. I wonder how complacent they will be once inflation does start to raise, and eventually spiral out of control.
There is actually a lot of discussion about this. There is also a lot of work going into different approaches to solve this.

For example Frea. It's a conservative approach for incrementally federating the package registry and you can start using it today. It's ready for all your traffic.

website: https://freajs.com

how it works: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16pxrYfpxxKRzhpMM0zZV...
Geoengineering Climate Cooling with Cloud Seeding Technologies
Put your foot down if you can without any consequences.

Otherwise, keep your (presumably) high-paying job and use your money on political donations.

The invisible hand is not going to solve climate change.
This should not be the outcome.

It should not be necessary for someone to come to an online forum and complain to get the customer support issue resolved.

Stripe customer support organisation should actually resolve customer issues.

Tech companies go on and on and on and ON about "culture", but one thing I can tell you truly needs to be built into culture is customer support. For example, everyone knows Google's culture of customer support - it's "avoid all human contact, send all support queries to a machine".

I think tech companies are super bad at customer support because the founders have rarely worked front line in customer support so they don't know how to build an organisation around great customer support thus it is not part of the culture/company DNA.

Seriously, Hacker News should have a "tech support" link at the top where people can post tech support queries for companies who can't manage to respond to and keep their customers supported and happy.
But what processor is best for Dwarf Fortress?
However, if you are a wealthy firstworlder businessman, air travel is likely your single biggest source of carbon emissions, aside from your car.

If you are a management consultant you probably produce more CO2 from air travel in a year than from all other CO2 sources in 5 years
I lived in Dallas at the time. It was eerie having a few days of No air traffic; and indeed the air was much less visible (so presumably cleaner).
Honestly, that seems rather low. It looks like a lot of Ryzen 3900X's are doing well over 6000 on Geekbench? Ie. https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14151649

Is the Threadripper 3000 test also from Geekbench V4? I noticed they added V5.

I don't see why it should be so far behind the Ryzen in single thread... unless the boost isn't working properly or something, could be disabled if it's a test chip.
You might find the numbers surprising. This [1] provides a reasonable overview of financial data on the games industry. PC vs all consoles combined tends to be extremely close in terms of fiscal figures (34 vs 34.7bn in 2016, 32.2 vs 33.3bn in 2017, 25% vs 28% in 2018, etc). User numbers are heavily lopsided in favor of PC. For instance one of the top ten grossing games worldwide is Dungeon Fighter Online. It's Windows only, and has a userbase in excess of 600 million. That is some multiple of the total number of all modern consoles sold.

In any case this isn't about console vs PC. It's about digital vs physical. With digital "licensing" as opposed to ownership, games are thrown about like beads at mardis gras. I have a hundreds of games that easily have a retail price in the thousands of dollars, but thanks to sales, give aways, bundles, etc I doubt I've spent more than $1000 on them in total. Many of the games I've never even played simply for lack of time. If you start enabling reselling this entire model becomes impossible because now organizations would emerge to take advantage of these opportunities for dirt cheap products with the intention of accumulating stock and reselling them.

Obviously this ending would not be the end of the games industry, but I do think it'd be safe to say that it'd be the end of the game industry as we know it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_in_video_gaming
> If you need to travel long distances, there's little substitute for an airplane.

The emphasis here isn't on substitute, it's on "need". Not many people need to travel long distances on a regular basis; they're just made to believe they need do.
Ok, thanks! I'll head on to reading the white paper then.
>> y'all are on the customer service!

This is not customer service.

This is the unfortunate trend in the industry where the only way to get issues resolved is to take to social media and shame the company such that some powerful insider at the company (who happens to hang out on HN) takes action to sidestep the failed customer support processes and get the issue resolved.
An argument I've heard for also dealing with the former is that for some people it might be easier to approach because it is more obvious and less scary (more actionable). Once you have them onboard, you can start with the harder things. I'm not sure whether I believe that, but it's not totally implausible.
According to an Ars Technica profile, their Director of Cryptography has authored books and a musical about hidden codes in the sonnets of William Shakespeare. This company appears to be the Foucault's Pendulum of mathematical crankery.
They've communicated their needs. Look there for more information.
The idea of "focus" is only meaningful if you are resource-constrained - my 3-person team can only do 3 things at once, so they must focus.

However, when talking about world climate actions, we have 7 billion people acting. There's no need to focus. We can cut air travel AND ALSO do everything else. And in fact we need to.
I have not tried it out, but the := notation and bash expansion example looks very compelling.

One could in fact template SQL scripts expecting tables a,b,c as input and just substitute inputs for premade operations.
or you have trust issues
The environmental movement has a lot to answer for, for setting back progress of nuclear power by decades.
An End to Pornography, Sophistry, and Panty Raids
As you say it makes ad blockers less powerful. Ad companies are scummy, and will most definitely exploit this, making it either painful or impossible to block their ads using the API. And then the API will be playing catch-up forever.

And trusting a company based almost exclusively on ad revenue to build an ad blocking API is just bonkers. No, the only way to effectively block ads for the foreseeable future is to give ad blockers all the information. Unfortunately.
The comment to which I replied is top-level, and has no prior thread context.
Thanks for this, first lecture looks cool!
If Éire had a few UK sponsored drone bombings I’d bet that would change real quick. Otherwise I take your point.
Committing fraud through the postal system opens up the scammer to an entire new class of federal investigators.

https://www.uspis.gov/
Preaching to the choir.
It exists - activeTab:

> The activeTab permission gives an extension temporary access to the currently active tab when the user invokes the extension - for example by clicking its browser action. Access to the tab lasts while the user is on that page, and is revoked when the user navigates away or closes the tab.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/activeTab
I assume they monitor it, I got personally emailed to my profile email, as well as replied to, after making a post on HN about stripe.

Worked out well, happy with the support.
It would be great if more people did this. In my opinion, air travel is pretty low hanging fruit when it comes reducing personal carbon footprints. I'll spend some time closer to home rather than hopping across the ocean/continent for every vacation.
I had an app "suspended" because I had largely sunset the app almost a year ago and thereby wasn't getting bug reports from users that the app was offline (when it had been initially put by Facebook into a weird quasi-suspended state) and hadn't been (and still haven't been) prioritizing checking or responding to e-mails back and forth from Facebook (which have been draconian: I have an application that literally only uses Facebook for its Login feature (there are no social aspects of the app where data from one user is shown to another user: it shows you your own name and profile picture while you are logged on, and that's it), and yet they sent me a pdf file with multiple pages of questions and a requirement that I not just answer them but somehow provide a signed affidavit--with a real signature on it, not just a digital one--that I answered them correctly). I thereby would guess that the vast majority of those "tens of thousands" of apps were apps that no one was even using anymore and which were suspended not because of misuse of data but because the developer was either no longer reachable or simply no longer cared (at which point this makes them either look like they are doing critical work on something important or that there was a rampant problem they caused that they had to fix, depending on your narrative slant, when I'd imagine "they aren't really doing anything and have just automatically suspended tens of thousands of dead apps" is more likely).
Ask HN: Best XMPP chat client for macOS?
I'm looking for an up-to-date XMPP chat client that respects my privacy. I know there's Adium, but I've there's a lot of issues with libpurple.
Note that these vehicles are apparently not just driving around, but actually trying to pull people over!?

> They recalled an incident earlier this summer wherein another Asian driver with Chinese markings on his car was arrested following an attempt to pull over an off-duty police officer.
That's true. But another way to look at it (not necessarily good), it's like the water in desert. You are in the middle of the desert and you need water - you ask a guy - lend me some water please, I will buy you back the same amount once we are home. Technical speaking, the amount you get and the amount you give back is the same.

What happened during the last crisis is also a great illustration - many banks took taxpayers money during the 'dark hours' then paid it back easily some time later, when the air cleared. Some went as far as to suggest it wasn't necessary at all. Well, the truth is, the banking system as we know it survived only thanks to governments stepping in - otherwise none of the banks we know would exist today. There was 0 trust during the crisis - and all the banking system is build on trust.

That's why the FED is "taking a sledgehammer to squash a bug". That's also why it's a very disturbing signal. My gut tells me shit is about to hit the fan.

PS. But don't try to time the market and short it - as the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Talk this with a grain of salt: (not just for this case or company)
Employees offering help after a case reached the first page of HN is worth nothing.
Scrim is neat. Never heard of it before but I just tried it and it was easy to use and not a pain for a human. Probably not that hard for a bot either, but would take a little more effort which only someone that really wants to target you would actually do.
I like http://color.support/coloratlas.html
It seems to me that synthetic or plant-based carbon-neutral fuels are more feasible in the near-term, though I don't know what the current state of the art is.

In the long term, electric planes would be ideal if we can figure out energy storage (or perhaps wireless energy transmission).
The Matrix of course!
Maybe some charts instead of just tables?
My dad had a similar experience with his non-technical business. Basically there was a lien on his account, he cleared it up with the other party, but Stripe continued to hold his balance hostage. Customer support forms and process led to more black holes or repetitive automated responses. He didn't have access to his funds for several weeks. I was able to get him a direct contact at Stripe thru my network.

Horrible experience. I'll still use Stripe for the convenience and hoping that they improve the situation with these kinds of potentially life shattering account locks and provide more humane customer service
In addition to my other comment, I wanted to point out that you make it seem as though Amazon being the first to market (which they weren't) would be somehow something that wasn't due to their merit. If they had actually been first to market, that would have been because they were good at what they did, and the benefits that came with that (if they were significant at all), would have been warranted.

You also make it seem like all the infrastructure that they use very efficiently to their advantage is something that they just found in the woods one day. They built all that, and are using the advantages gained from that, which are, again, earned and a part of Amazon's merit.

And further, I don't think explaining away a corporation's dominance by using monopolistic practices is very convincing when they rose to power so recently: how did Amazon get so big in the first place? Also, most of the monopolistic practices, of the kind that would allow a company to maintain dominance in spite of merit, are things Amazon is not doing. It's monopolistic practices are limited to it's own platform.
And how do you plan on doing this without any of:

- $1 game with $49 infrastructure fixed price that you have to pay on every resale

- monthly subscription to play game (which consumers do not like)

- "free to play" nonsense
are there any kind of online therapy options that are actually worthwhile?
my past experiences w/ irl therapists were not very good & i think it'd be a lot easier to communicate effectively online without the stress that comes from things like eye contact etc.

i think 8ch used to fill that roll for me but now it's gone and there's no one else to talk to & everything's spiraling out of control.
(And little substitute for burning hydrocarbons as airplane propellant. Energy density and stuff like fire safety really really matters in aviation.)

Totally agree that air travel is one of the last places to look for carbon savings. That said, carbon offset taxes should be applied where they are not already. The market can price this cost in and judge whether the value is there, if the incentives are structured correctly.
Isn't that already possible? I have to click to activate extensions until I specifically enable them for all sites.
There are probably millions of people in the US alone with family overseas. Set aside a month just to travel there? Be real.
Except in the comments
For example at atmosfair: https://www.atmosfair.de/en/

Their website lists some CO2 compensation projects.
Maybe it is true.

"Man I hate this place because ____, and I'd rather spend time with my family."

That doesn't preclude wanting to do other things too.
From what I can tell, it was the first response. Stripe employees also actively chime in on HN threads both positive and negative.
There's nothing wrong in picking the low-hanging fruit. Pick enough of these, and you start seeing a difference with minimal cost.
Today was a beautiful clear day too though, September tends to do that.

I'd think the vapor trails would also reflect the suns heat so help cool the day time temperatures.
Nice! As I was reading the title I thought to myself how this could easily be done by importing the CSV to SQLite and querying against it. This is exactly what you did but with a really clean and easy to use interface. This is awesome.
“The number of people predicting the death of Moore's law doubles every two years”
I haven't gotten around the paywall to read the article but the last stats from the US government I can find, 2017 show that aviation has reduced emissions 7.5 percent compared to 1990.

Medium and heavy truck emissions are UP 89.5 percent in the same period but aviation is the crisis. Passenger cars up 20%.

Let's look at Tg emissions in 2017 Aviation: 174.8 On road vehicles 1,558.6

Source: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100WUHR.pdf page 2
I think you both may be slightly missing what I'm saying.

Let's suppose that people do simply want to be told what to think. Well, in such a case, it would be simple to get a viewer of, say, CNN, to watch FOX instead. After all, they just want to be told what to think.

But we know this is not the case. It is nigh impossible to get a viewer of CNN to stop viewing CNN and watch FOX instead. And it is an equally sysiphean task to get a FOX viewer to stop watching FOX and watch CNN full time instead.

I'm positing that this is because we all adhere to some preexisting world view that, for most, won't really change in any case.

Same with history, studying history by studying primary sources has fallen out of favor because most primary sources don't align with our world views.

Certain reliefs in Egyptian temples displayed an alarming, to us, amount of explicitly sexual activity among everyone from the pharoah, to the high priestess, to the slave. So we erased it where we could erase it, and don't talk about it where we couldn't erase it.

Ditto for pagan rituals, so we replace them with good, clean, Christian rituals that weren't so lascivious. But I mean, hey, it's an Easter BUNNY out hunting for eggs. You figure it out.

Again, the Declarations of Causes explicitly state that maintaining slavery is the principle aim of the states in the Confederacy. So if we want the spark of that conflict to be something else, we just ignore those documents and focus on the material put out by historians better aligned with our thinking.

I posit that in all of these cases, we do those things to protect our belief system.
>>you'd need a prescription for the test strips

I've bought them on Amazon before, no prescription required. This is to monitor blood sugar right?
Terrible response, companies totally can pick and choose who they work with and who their customers are.

> I want to be clear that this decision is not about contract value — it is about maintaining a consistent and fair business approach in these volatile times.

Doublespeak for, this decision is 100% about contract value.

I am interested more in the former employee that removed the ruby gem though. Cool form of protest IMO.
I've used COTAP in the past: https://cotap.org/
Price in the carbon and let consumers decide if they still need the travel. I expect a carbon offset tax wouldn't actually decrease air travel that much -- there's so much business travel that needs doing -- but it probably would slow down growth.
Totally, and this is the perspective I'm responding to. I don't think it's necessarily invalid.

But I do think it's very easy to get sucked into a mindset of, "Let's shame individuals into making sacrifices," without actually doing the math on whether or not that's an effective approach.
The biggest upgrade over Threadripper 1950X is that the new ones are no longer NUMA. So performance across the cores will be much more consistent even if the peaks are not that much bigger.

If your development involves compiling code then the 2x larger L3 is also going to result in huge improvements to code compilation speed as seen in the Epyc Rome reviews. Example: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc... - compare the 7601 vs. the 7502. Both are 32c/64t parts. Both have close-enough base clocks & turbo clocks. But the new one (7502) absolutely smokes the old one (7601) at both kernel compile in GCC and LLVM compile. Compilers love that L3 it seems.

All signs point to Threadripper 3000 still being sTR4 compatible, so that means you could drop in a CPU that gives you +15% single core performance vs. previous gen's best case, no more NUMA domains bringing more consistent performance, lower power usage, and double the L3 for much faster compiles.

That's pretty awesome particularly given we're only talking a ~2 year gap between the products.
> The only person who loses by locking up digital goods is the consumer.

In the short term they my be losing out (kind of. It's like how I lose out when I don't steal at the grocery store.) but in the long term they're gaining because the companies making the goods they're purchasing get to stay in business.

It's a trade-off. Do you want video game consumers to have a short-term boost because everything's free, or do you want them to have a healthy game development ecosystem where talented devs can get loans to make good games because they'll have a predictable revenue stream from sales. You can try to balance the two, but you can't give them both.

Really all of this I want it free, I want it now just leads to free-to-play games where the developer recoups costs through micro-transactions, loot-boxes, pay-to-play items, etc. And in this model you probably never own the game at all. If the user can't be trusted to own the game, then never give them a complete game! Always keep part of it on your own servers. Force them to log in, force them to be connected, force them to have an active credit card number on file.

If we demand to resell/copy/trade the digital goods we purchase without restriction then this is the world we get - we stream movies, we stream music, we connect to game servers, but we never possess any of it. We never listen to a song without Spotify taking notice and putting it in our file. We never watch a movie in privacy without Netflix, "oh, he's watched Fight Club three times this week." We never get to play a game without server-side analytics being run to look at how tweaking the boss difficulty affects sales of the super-sword.

It's not as simple as saying locking up digital goods hurts the consumer.
Do it. I'm happy to be your accountability partner if that means anything.

I am planning to limit flying to absolute emergencies (think: my parents die and I need to get to the funeral).

I live in a country which has an almost renewable grid. Long journeys can be made by electric car, public transport (which can be electrified), trains, etc.

The highest carbon output from my lifestyle is heating the home, and the embodied emissions of products that are difficult for me to control (I think embedded CO2 on labels, or carbon pricing, etc would be a great idea).

I already fund offsetting efforts, I posted earlier[1] to crowdfund ideas on how I should spend more.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024358

Why should we do this? Because we can. Because limitless consumption does not make a happy life.

I think that wealthy, or moderately well off, or whatever you want to call it - we people have an obligation to do this. Call it the modern noblesse oblige.
The major thing that is different is that no judge or court is involved - these are issued by the requesting organization directly with no oversight.
Under Bryan's leadership, multiple namespaces (left-pad, etc.) including my own (file-saver) have been wrongly transferred to new owners without authorization from the previous owners.

npm can't handle security, and they have been sorely in need of new leadership for years.
Thanks, for all of your comments so far on this site. I don't know what you do specifically but what I can glean from them is inspiring to say the least... even the secrets you keep reinforce what I feel is the right way to act.

Just wanted to say it.
The silly dystopian arguments against climate engineering are facile.

Do you think the first attempt will be done at global scale? No, it will be done first at small scale, and then larger and larger.

There is no reasonable scenario in which we would be surprised by the impact of climate engineering.
99.99% of people have a face. You don't make laws or social rules for the tiny minority, you make them for the vast majority. Exceptions and caveats to the laws/rules to protect the interests of the minority are fine. But the general structure should suit the needs of the general populace.