skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this is exactly what a bubble is - higher prices on financial assets, which means more assets per real dollar of future production.

Exactly. Deflation (financial asset cost inflation) now, for inflation (financial asset cost deflation) later, right?

> Current misspending doesn't particularly impact future retirees.

I agree with everything, except this part. Have we used all this surplus productivity to actually increase future productivity (invented some life changing gene therapy, cheaper transportation methods, better medical treatments, and so forth) and government used that debt to increase productivity as well (better infrastructure etc.), the quality of life would improve for everyone (including retirees), making the society as a whole spend more of their productivity voluntarily giving back more to the investments boomers bought with their savings.

It didn't have to be a bubble if it delivered the value. The future inflation and capital reallocation from society to the retired could have been offseted by an increase in productivity, keeping everone's quality of life raise, or at lest not fall.

But obviously, you can't pull ground breaking discoveries and great bussinesess out of the hat, and make government more efficient, just because there is more money to be invested. Quite the opposite. Surplus was mostly wasted and reallocation will have to come at the cost of the quality of life.
But, generically, "how do we minimize harm to all children" is not what is being asked here. What is being asked here is "how do we dissociate ourselves with this specific harmful action" which is a much, much lower bar to clear. If you wish to propose a secondary harmful acction, you are free to take down your repos that Coca-Cola uses, same as anyone else?

(I realized this sounded quite caustic when I typed it. I do mean minimum causticness when discussing this. I'm admittedly super baffled by this Coca-Cola thing, because the contexts are completely different.)
If the previous administration's opponents had called more attention to the issue, maybe Chef would have acted at that time.

Being late to recognize a problem is not a reason to ignore it.
Each of these "sides" is a simplistic half-idea rooted in using only half of a brain - deductive/inductive right/left etc.

The dichotomies are better seen as thesis-antithesis, with the goal of synthesis. It's only the political machine that emphasizes and exacerbates each half-idea, pits them against one another, to ultimately foster commercial expedience winning out.

> The answer almost certainly involves more (genuine) recycling

The converse here is retuning the economy to produce less stuff in general, as well as dismantling the economic treadmill that causes us to value "convenience" above all else. Which even fewer people want to hear.
uBlock w/ social filter
Seems like sabotage, blackmail and mob justice works well, and has a non-trivial network effect.

Very powerful, actually.

Anything that powerful, will get regulated (probably, after several court battles).

Overall at the end, the result will be that freedoms of the citizens of USA will get reduced, whichever side wins.
>But the low hanging fruit for me is to try and pressure the people in my neighborhood (either literally or metaphorically) towards better decisions.

The problem is that the low hanging fruit in America has been picked 30+ years ago. The things Americans can do to meaningfully impact climate change involve deep systemic changes - eating less meat, use of plastics, use of cars, general consumerism, etc. The impact of changing those would be big, but so is the level of effort involved.
No, western pressure could certainly stop the CCP, but there's no political will for it. Especially not when the west is too busy self-flagellating itself over its own real and imagined wrongdoings.
How much of this is mitigated by donor/recipient compatibility (haplotypes? is that the right word?)? Is there no such thing as a purely compatible donor?
I was surprised to see how much of the iPhone assembly was done by hand. There are videos out there showing the assembly line and it's basically humans doing each step.
Our government does the same thing. "Tax witholding" means that I lose out many months of arbitrage. I could have invested that money, saved it an gotten interest, done any number of things. Tax day is once a year; no one ought to pay before then. It's a nasty trick to hide just how much people are paying from those who can't afford fancy financial advisors.
Unavoidable. They're playing catch up.

It seems fairly obvious to me that we should say "Total emissions by some date (say 2080) should equal some value (say X) and we calculate from the Industrial Age to that date and apportion according to what percentage of the Earth you own". The West polluted from 1900 to 2020 and reaped the rewards. The cutbacks The West must make must be proportional.

Otherwise it's like inheriting all your wealth from a thief and then making thievery a blanket crime.
And if we look at the pattern of behavior at the Department of Justice, the pattern of behavior at Facebook seems (at least at this moment) to be perfectly rational.
using open source requires a bevvy of advanced skills identifying appropriate software and getting it to run.

Are you taking the position that open source is heroic because it has garbage user experience?
On the contrary, PostScript was a brilliant choice for scripting your window system at the time (≈1990). The modern crop of dynamic languages hadn't matured (JS, Guile, Python, Perl, Ruby, even Tcl), so the only real alternative would have been a Lisp, and PostScript already had a truly great graphics API — an improvement in many ways over many of its successors, including X11 and Windows GDI. Gosling certainly could have implemented something like Emacs Lisp, and it would have been easier to program in than PostScript, but it also would have been painfully slow, and he would have had to do the graphics API design work — and probably fucked it up, as the Win16 and X11 teams did. Even today, PostScript interpreters are quite a bit faster than most of the language implementations I described above, though modern JS, LuaJIT, Self, and of course HotSpot Java do beat them.
Is France also dealing with an opiod crisis? That might explain it
One use case for Kafka is log aggregation. Using SQL to analyze logs would be one use case.
I thought Briar was made in the UK?
This isn't practical because it requires so much effort from the consumer. It's a lot of time and coordination and it's relatively expensive. Farmers markets are one opportunity but high quality organic ranchers are breaking their backs processing meat and driving it to all the farmers markets, and are barely turning a profit off $16/lb meat.

I'm working in this space for a tiny company that delivers high quality, low antibiotic use, low environmental impact, pasture raised single-source meat products in California. We're going to run farm education "meet the rancher" events to get people out to where the meat is actually produced, but we have to be realistic: that's more for the instagram photo ops to convince people that we're legitimate instead of to truly change consumer behavior.

The ugly truth is Americans eat too much meat, and we expect it to be dirt cheap. Meat has been heavily subsidized, and all the externalities from industrial meat production have been ignored, for the past 60 years at least. Turning back the clock on those consumer expectations is going to be very painful.

I'm also extremely worried about the rise of industrial meat production in the developing world, but it seems elitist of wealthy Americans to complain about Chinese agriculture standards when we can't even fix it in our own backyard.
Maybe it's because of the difference in what's at stake:

If the USA falls into a debt crisis the result will be global economic disruption.

If the world falls into runaway climate change the result will be the extinction of the human race and possibly all life on earth.

Personally I'm more comfortable with the possibility of the first than of the second.
A lot of the components are not made in China though. The GPU is most definitely not, nor is the CPU. A lot of the low value chips are Chinese, the mainboard probably is, but on a value basis, the most expensive components are not.
The key phrase in the comment you're replying to is "perceived to be."

Beyond that, it may come as a surprise humans don't act in perfectly logical ways and all of us on some level exhibit small hypocrisies on a daily basis.
Border security, policing, military spending

https://www.ft.com/content/9ce05a54-c424-11e9-a8e9-296ca6651...
This should really help readjust the expectations of the "just pay websites directly with tips instead of ads" crowd. TPB is a massive website who's users have to be the ideal adblocking, early adopter, crypto-supporting crowd. If this is what a website can expect then continue to expect adtech to invade your privacy and crash your browsers.
Electron is not the hero we deserve, ...
Like you, I think Nuclear power is a viable technology for reducing carbon in the atmosphere. I've been studying developments for the last 15 years, reading deeply in the physics textbooks and listening to technical talks. Sure, the nuclear waste will fill a couple football fields with only a shipping container worth of plutonium, a few pounds of which will level any city. All you need to do is keep people away from it forever.

Also, like you, I know that media shouts bad headlines for attention. I've also been studying developments in climate analysis for the last 8 years.

You seem to think that the real problem is "media shouting". Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand the essential problem. Think of a really massive train. Everyone pushes hard for years to get it to move slowly. Rich people jump on the moving train and encourage others to continue pushing. First world middle class gets on the train and encourage others to push. The thought is that everyone can eventually get on the train because it appears everyone will eventually ride.

If, instead of the shouting press, you bothered to read the science literature, you will see that the train has reached a "downhill grade". It is easier to push, more people benefit, and it is speeding up. But it is becoming clear that the end result of continued acceleration is a crash.

The "speeding up" is caused by global heating causing more global heating (e.g. methane from permafrost). We've been pushing the massive train for a century. It will take at least that much effort to slow it down, more effort if we hope to stop the downhill acceleration.

We don't have a century to stop the train before it crashes.

Is that clear enough for you?
The Mac Pro was already being made in the US. This is essentially a retention of the status quo.

However of course anything is possible. The government can squeeze every company until all manufacturing is back in the US (though it's still a smaller segment than it was when the housing crisis hit). That would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater, though, as the US completely loses sight of the dynamics that made it the richest country in the world.
I feel like it's worth recognizing that a company can be as morally ambivalent as they want as long as the particular brand of moral laxity isn't politically unfavorable at the time.
> The pressure from Intel/Microsoft to no adopt it was incredible.

At that point in time, the OLPC was perceived as an existential threat to Microsoft and, to a lesser degree, to Intel. Intel because it had nothing that could be used in them (which was solved to some extent by netbooks and Atom processors). For Microsoft, it meant a whole generation of kids could grow up having never used Office or Windows, something that Microsoft would not be able to counter unless OLPC failed.

Brazil was pretty much the same. They made an incredible effort to push Atom-based computers running Windows that had none of the more interesting aspects of the OLPC - not the sunlight-friendly screen, the mesh network, the software for group activities, the openness to tinkering...

I don't think the OLPC team realized its mere announcement would be a declaration of war. They'd need Intel's buy-in (at least to cut Microsoft lose) and they'd need to quickly mass-market the tech through someone like V-Tech in developed countries to get funded through hardware licensing and financial commitment to get software and content developed.

Then they could properly scale up to government level and demonstrate the Microsoft argument that the kids wouldn't be prepared to join the workforce (and enjoy the Microsoft lock-in) was void.

Now, imagine the colossal power it would be to be able to help shape the content kids all over the world would use to learn. I would expect the US government to get interested in that, but it didn't.
The thing is that if Evan Spiegel, or any tech billionaire, just wanted to party on boats, they would have left long ago. You or I see "running Snap" as a negative, so of course if you could find a way to not do it, we would. He probably sees it as something he enjoys even when it is difficult.
Any reliable references indicating a causal effect? Thanks.
Yes. I have been doing improvisation now every week for past 3-4 years. And impro is definitely the best book I have read on the subject.
Not all European countries, just the vast majority of them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/10/04/555646290/epis...
When it comes down to is, the failure of Thomas Cook comes down to a single thing, the inability to have any kind of forward looking strategy and ability to adapt to changes.

This story has been told at least dozens of times now in the last two decades in particular and ever time it is some combination of a scapegoat excuse and ... of course, climate change done done it! ... when in reality it was an utter failure of leadership to not notice the shifting enemies on the battlefield or being able to adapt to those changes ...

Sears/Kmart, WalMart (even though they are trying), all the book stores (even though B&N is putting up a good fight), ToysRUS, Taxi services, etc.; even, arguably, the whole US economy that is now realizing that "holy shit, maybe we shouldn't have bet the farm and slaughtered that golden goose so the ruling class or fools could get rich quick by selling their own people out to China/India.

They are all cautionary tails of hubris ... nothing more, nothing less ... regardless of how little people want to learn from them.
I mean, what aspect of European law prevents companies from shutting down gracefully?
I think it's wrong to discount the strong cultural element to the ownership of pickup trucks in the US. Listen to a bit of country music and count the name-drops of pickup truck models, or drive down the road and count the lifted pickups -- there's more than just "utility and affordability" going on here.
From now on, quantum computers will beat classical computers, one problem at a time, until they are the only viable option for all the quantum easy problems (no we don't know exactly what those are). Supremacy seems quite fitting.
If (nearly) every implementation of a good idea turns out badly, is it still a good idea ? It smells like the No True Scotsman fallacy.
So you basically didn't read the article, or it passed right over your head if you did...
To your points:

1) People not moving to markets like SF because rent is too high and telling employers that is exactly what should happen! This forces employers to either lobby for more housing (a good thing) or open offices in reasonable cost of living locations (also a good thing) instead of continuing the status quo bubble. Rent control is a market distorting force in this case.

2) Rent control directly leads to fewer new housing units because there is a disincentive to create housing that's going to rent for below-market. If you want more housing, you should be opposed to rent control. I say this as someone who benefits greatly from rent control and still wants to see it die.

3) The population of SF has not remained extremely stable since the 90s. Look at [1]. There were 140,000 fewer people in the 90s than there are today (a 20% increase)! Also your reasoning that "there's no more space for people to live" is demonstrably false. Go visit Tokyo and then tell me there's no space for more people in SF. There's no more space because zoning laws and height restrictions in the city are absolutely ridiculous and serve NIMBY interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco

Edit: since someone is no doubt going to ask, here's a good summary of the economic literature on the topic. It covers a variety of effects related to rent control: https://econjwatch.org/File+download/238/2009-01-jenkins-rea...
> But what happens if they declare bankruptcy on you way back

That falls under c'est la vie. I gambled, I lost, suck it up, book BA (looks like the strike's over), Lufthansa, SAS, etc.
Exactly. Facebook is a convenient scapegoat because people can't simultaneously hold in their head the two concepts "My grandfather is loving and kind and good to his family" and "My grandfather hates Mexicans and gay people". An easy way to resolve this is "Zuckerberg deceived him!".
> if percentile refers to tenths

It doesn't, percentile refers to percents. Tenth percentile means is the 10%, twentieth percentile means the 20%, etc.
This is cool, but seems ripe for abuse. Do you have a plan to deal with that?
Someone from a non-American perspective might think of how many murders of union organizers they've gone along with before the obesity epidemic.
Is that the climate change activists that fly private planes around the world to exotic hot locations where new facilities were built with fully air-conditioned spaces where they eat $10,000 steaks while lecturing the commoners about eating meat and climate change?
They have leisure capital.
Taking down something you have published from your website is not “sabotage”.

In fact, a web server responds to each client request; taking something down is simply failing to reply to future requests. Past page loads do not obligate you to serve future ones.
That's a rather ignorant thing to say. Obesity is a crisis in America and is having a real health impact.
I don't know about you, but I sure do like indoor pluming.
it depends if the rent control limits are reasonable to the landlord and if property still makes a good/better investment that other investment sources. If the answer to these questions is still yes then it's not going to make that much of a difference.

The main hurdle to housing in California is the planning, permitting and review process along with often absurd rules that can add years to to the development timeline for a project and add millions of dollars to the costs. These could be massively streamlined (parking minimums removed, height limits relaxed and guidelines that if met would allow for rapid project approval etc.)

If we build a system were development projects were able to be completed for $200k per unit then maybe we might start seeing affordable rents...
Totally agreed. Being obsessive about (almost) anything in software is a recipe for pain.
This doesn't apply to regular citizens, right?
Oh no, I worked in two different offices located on superfund sites. Probably a third too but I haven’t found supporting evidence yet.
Thanks for this. I'm perpetually amazed at how mind-bogglingly complex the human body is.

> while developing, it will go through negative selection and be destroyed

Can you share more about how this process works? Even just a link would do. Thank you!
+1 for that article, especially the part about OOP downsides at scale and batch memory allocation. Love to see more!
Can you elaborate on how freedoms of US citizens were reduced in this scenario?
This is actually an issue in graft-vs-host rejection for bone marrow transplants.
‘The Bells Start Going Off.’ How Doctors Uncovered the Vaping Crisis
This is horribly frightening. What can I do at home to detect (or even continuously monitor) the presence of Superfund chemicals?
I wonder if the increased cost of fishing in depleted areas as any chance of eventually "saving" the species from extinction ?
I love tech analogies to biological functions.

It amazes me how much 'tech' is always running on a cellular/molecular level.

Thank you!
Isn't a huge part of the housing shortage in SF due to the zoning policies that prevent builders from building more than 2-3 stories in something like 80% of the city?
Ephemera. I miss living in New York City because of the street art.

The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and videos disappear to our digital vault, probably forever." Also:

> Passwords are optional.

This makes me happy.
It might not be a morally pure reason, but it's one hell of a convincing argument, which is what matters to me.
Not going to lie. I would love it if CA had to go without electricity and heating for months so the spoiled rotten insufferable brats would learn some hard lessons as the civilization around them utterly collapses into violence committed by those wonderfully enriching "minorities".
UK Government Design Principles
there are corporate structures that allow for decisions that aren't profit-seeking above all else. private corps and social purpose corps, are just two types:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_purpose_corporation
Colemak keyboard, mechanical w/CherryMX Browns (blues or a Model M would be better, but I'm in an open office so I'd be shot within the week...) Good positioning, sit/stand desk, etc.

I also rock climb, so I regularly stretch & exercise my fingers. Things like fingertip pull-ups & pinch-grip lifting.
What is Thomas Cook? I have never seen their planes or their name in sites like expedia. Why is it even in news?
Anonymous for and to whom?

Suppose I sell a digital good to a customer in the EU and use Taler to handle this. I need to know which country's VAT to collect, and I need to justify my choice to the tax authorities of any EU country that asks.

That seems to rule out using a platform that makes my customer anonymous to me.
I would not be interested -- but I'm equally uninterested in the other cloud providers as well.

The one use for the likes of AWS that does appeal to me is the ability to test on a larger scale than I could otherwise. For that purpose, centralization isn't an important consideration. The ability to spin up thousands of VMs with a minimum amount of fuss, and to have them be performant, is more important.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. Building housing costs a lot of upfront time and money investment. If the person making that investment can't expect to reasonably make a profit, then there is no incentive to build.

And the argument that luxury housing prices out lower income people from housing is like saying luxury cars price out lower income people from cars.
You broke your silence after two years to post this?
> “Only 20%” and “unlikely to ever be rejected” are worlds apart.

The parent comment I responded to stated it was "inevitable." "Inevitable" and "only 20%" are many more worlds apart than "unlikely to ever be rejected" and "only 20%".

"Unlikely" is a bit subjective, but it is well below a coin flip.

I cited a source for the statistics. If you disagree, can you please cite your source?
There is a big difference in the intervention made by US in east asian countries, and the interventions made by superpowers in other countries.

I'm not saying that South Korea and Japan didn't make good use of this intervention, but while the intervention in those countries was more akin to a financing/investment, which was in line with US' Marshall Plan during the Cold War.

In other countries such as those from Africa/South America, it was direct exploration of people and resources without really giving something back.