skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> We have absolutely no incentive to work hard when doing so doesn't materially affect income.

Pride? Character? Respect from colleagues?
I self host on a $5/month VPS and it works fine. Granted, I don't really have much traffic, but it sounds like you don't either.
I was pretty surprised by the smallness of the claimed fraud. $500M - $1.5B is barely half a percent of the Exxon's market value, which is $300B. Does this mean that the internal projections regarding climate change were / are relatively accurate? What benchmark is being used as the "true cost" in the case?

I had seen before the articles about Exxon's own scientific studies and internal documents showing a very clear understanding of climate change back in the 70s, so I was expecting much more meaningful numbers for the claimed fraud, given how much one would expect it to impact their business across the decades.
Indeed, I was not aware of it and it makes a huge difference. So local emissions reduction is probably in the 70+% per vehicle. Tyres and roads are the last big chunk of emissions then. Where is my flying Tesla?

[2] https://electricautonomy.ca/2019/09/11/better-braking-anothe...
This whole "capitalism bad" debate feels incredibly black and white.

I think what most people are really against is the one way street that capitalism established. It's a broken system, and it wouldn't matter if we had any other system as long as it would still be broken and abused.

On a global level, there are tax loopholes that allow multi billion corporations and individuals to pay essentially no taxes.
This money is then used to further enrich the same parties through a financial market that is equally broken.

It has nothing to do with capitalism that wealth is created without a flow of goods or other value that is created from it. All it does is devalue all other wealth at a growing pace.

Capitalism is not ideal, it won't be. But if we moved towards actual, functional capitalism where governments did their part in keeping the whole thing from turning into a one way street, we would have a long way to go before we needed something else.
Cute backtracking. :) It's fun to watch you squirm and try and come up with a narrative where the laughable things you've said are justified.

I've learnt a lot from you. The original Bourne shell didn't support set -e. set -e is a bashism. Depending on a posix shell is unreasonable. This has something to do with Linux.

Wait, none of these things are true.

> because on Solaris /bin/sh is the real McCoy - Steven Bourne's shell from 1972 - 1977.

vs. v7 Linux from 1977-1978 including set -e. You're hilarious, bro.
"Can you read my order back to me?"

Not that hard.
They are actually one of the few services that u can use for programmatically receiving emails. When it works, it just works - but unfortunately the spam thing bit us as well.

Fortunately we were able to get it resolved quickly
We will see at least one war over climate change this century.
Because the interpreter pipeline shares code and data structures [0]: a couple of examples from the link below:

> The Baseline Interpreter uses the same frame layout as the Baseline JIT, but we’ve added some interpreter-specific fields to the frame.

> Because the Baseline Interpreter and JIT are so similar, a lot of the code generation code can be shared too. To do this, we added a templated BaselineCodeGen base class with two derived classes:
- BaselineCompiler: used by the Baseline JIT to compile a script’s bytecode to machine code.
- BaselineInterpreterGenerator: used to generate the Baseline Interpreter code.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a...
Can you define "really quick" a bit better? Less than a second?
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
I was waiting for the bad news, it’s refreshing to see this retention tactic pay off because of the quality of the product. That’s killer. You can probably get a future discount by offering a testimonial/case study :)
If you were born in an advanced economy in 2000 you've lived through at least two recessions, weak growth, rising inequality and asset prices, and high cost of schooling. Yes, capitalism isn't really looking great right now.
> It has to be properly contextualized and positioned

Contextualization and positioning are themselves information that an expert can pass on.
I think it would be more efficient to give literally any teeth at all to prosecutors in these cases. Make it a big enough liability that they have to care. Let them figure out how to avoid the crippling fines.
> . I've seen this queried for exceptions, eg for convicted rapists and the rabid blue hairs torn that suggestion apart as a 'racist straw man'.

Well if that worked at all in modern society people might be more sympathetic to it. However, we've got almost no evidence that this is how border control works at all. We've got a lot of buffoonery about how other countries full of feral savages come to invade our pure and innocent land, conveniently not talking about our arms shipments and political manipulations in those countries.
Matter of time until Chrome simply bans such extensions.
You can't bankrupt out of student debts in the USA.
Can capitalism be fixed with a wealth tax? Like tax 2% of wealth greater than some arbitrary amount - say 1 mill USD - and feed that back into social services?
I've purchased this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075F7NV56

I'm awaiting receipt.

I've been putting some thought into how I want to quantify outcomes; sleep, perceived energy levels / fatigue, ability to focus (not sure how to measure this). Nothing else has occurred to me yet.

If you had to measure, what would you choose to keep track of?
On the contrary, I'd say that competition has been good for all involved. For such a maligned language that was born in a little over a week, JavaScript is better and faster than it has any right to be.

The amount of resources that have gone into improving JavaScript is amazing. I just wonder what some other languages would look like now with that kind of attention.
I come from a similar place and feel the same, and would never ever want those times back. We have seen too much repression, horror and misery that we have developed our own allergy against anything which hints in that direction.
But on the other hand I can understand the appeal of the ideas which promise that there will be no inequality, everyone gets access to free education, healthcare etc. That all sounds nice, but what is suspicious that we have not seen a working implementation yet. Which makes me think underlying model has some issues.
Mostly by buying stocks and it works: the SP500 doubled in the past 10 years, and I did far better than that. You can consider my investment as contributions, because I most certainly bought stocks from other rich persons and the stock markets is growing fast mostly thanks to the bank central policies (note that my free money never directly helped the company of which I bought stocks). I purchased an apartment too, and that did not cost me a dime because my family offers free mortgages and the government does not tax any of that! Plus, real estate prices keeps growing where I live thanks to the continued gentrification of big cities. When will that stop?
Yeah I believe it will also work itself out. I also believe that inclusion and social acceptance are more important than fairness in sports (which let's be honest, it's already unfair due to some people using performance enhancing drugs and others not using them). History is not going to look back on us and say we were bad because we had a few decades of a very tiny minority of trans people having an advantage in competitive sports. We hear about things like this once or twice a year, I'm not really sure it warrants all the outrage it receives.
pride, character, and respect from colleagues are things that don't pay the bills, even though they're nice to have.

i know this is sounds like a snarky and low-effort response, but it is not intentional. it's just the way things are, and there isn't really a diplomatic way of saying it.
I am not sure that's accurate. UAE and Saudi are monarchies.
Singapore is very socialist, if you look at their housing policy, it's entirely run by the state. They even allocate apartment to ensure that different ethnic groups mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjPgNBNeLU

Also, I would not consider China poor today, and certainly even less so in the future.
You Lost How Much on Scooters?
Article from yesterday… Image with Firefox logo already outdated xD
Don't most people use both together?
People who have to deal with end users behind overly restrictive corporate firewall. After you get a few hundred bad reviews telling you your website is broken, it looks very tempting to just fix it on your end.
That is positive, but it's hard to say if that positivity has outweighed the negativity that came after.

You're conflating a change in leadership with a defect in the merit of anonymous discourse.
Considering the relation between Hobby Lobby (father) and the Museum of the Bible (son), I would be shocked if there was any corporate veil left intact on the Hobby Lobby side. It is a private entity, so not sure the shareholders have much desire to complain about the running of the organization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Green_(entrepreneur)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scanda...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Bible
> pretty textbook socialism

Yes, like that socialist disaster that is Finland.

(Besides, Brazil does not have state ownership of its entire oil industry.)
What is your definition of a free market? I see this so often but few people seem to understand the inherent contradiction. If a market is truly free it will naturally tend toward monopoly thereby extinguishing itself. If it is regulated to prevent it's own destruction, it ceases to be truly free. In either case it is a transient condition. A brief glorious moment in time that cannot, by its own definition, be anything more than ephemeral.
I mentioned it in my post.. a lot of financial people recommended taking loans to buy stock options.

Also in some cases especially with public companies they gifted you the options as income. That got marked as income even if the stock then tanked and you couldn't sell the stock for what the gifted value was.

There were various ways to get yourself screwed up.
Eric Schmidt? That really cut into my respect for the list. Not only is he representative of the antithesis of open source, but he is clearly operating in the shadows to subjugate and control the internet, although he is not the only one.
I just tried this. Interestingly I'd left it on v68 and it cooked my MBP, fans all on max immediately. When I updated to 70 it seems to work perfectly. CPU temp in the 40s. Gonna leave it on in the background and see if it suddenly spikes.
It works similarly: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-.... Corporations can be held criminally liable. For that purpose, the mental state of the humans authorized to take action on behalf of the corporation is imputed onto the corporation.

If Hobby Lobby's owners had intent to defraud customers, and directed the corporation to defraud customers, they could be held liable and so could the corporation. The fact that Hobby Lobby as an inanimate object is incapable of forming intent would be irrelevant.
Panhandling is one idiom. Just trying to get something for nothing.

Begging is another. Maybe 1000 email address will attract venture capital.

Busking is a good idiom. Set the case on the ground. Leave it open. Create a bit of value to attract a crowd. Keep your mouth shut and focus on the value creation.

Most people don't have the faith to busk. We're taught it's better to fail behind a paywall than be the kind of fool who just gives stuff away. Adulting is making money not music.

Most email collections are panhandling. It's the Forbes reading MBA version of "build something people love." Figure out what people love then build it. It's not that that won't work. It's that it probably won't work without busking.

Patio11 went door to door for appointment reminder before building it. Proctor and Gambel sent engineers into the field to figure out the Swiffer.

The Swiffer origin myth is useful. What the buskers busked was just listening. They busked their time and attention to people who would feel better from some simple time and attention. Patio11's story is useful because he asked for money before building the product and built it because he got money.

Buskers open with "I trust you." Already half way to mutual trust.
modern "web apps" written purely in tens of MB of javascript complicate it a bit
The main difference between Free Software and Open Software is what aspect of the software they focus on. Free Software is more on the freedom while Open Source is more on the development method. They still value the other aspects, just not as strongly.
As if the lack of prosperity in these countries were because supposed lack of capitalism...

Chile? Just look how people are satisfied with their system nowadays... Behind seeming positive macroeconomic numbers, there is a very unequal society. Chile is the most unequal society among all OECD members. The riots that happen there right now are not against any socialism, but against the liberal fail. They followed strict liberal rules since Pinochet dictatorship, and that is what it became.
Without Stallman it probably would have chosen BSD style license and not GPL2. We can only speculate how likely or unlikely we would get the tivoization of Linux in that case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
does that mean every year they layoff 5% of their weakest citizens
Has a pentest been performed on this network? How does one enter into an early beta of it?
Part of understanding the debate is realizing that virtually no one wants to abandon capitalism. Just like virtually no one wants an actual communist economic system.

When people say they are against capitalism, most of the time they are criticizing the particular implementation. All economies (aside from a few tiny exceptions) are "mixed" economies. Outside of genuinely radical circles, most debates focus on changing the mix, sometimes dramatically, but never abandoning it all together.
There's always a ramp-up period for new employees. While it's hard to learn Haskell completely on your own, it's not that hard to learn Haskell if you join a team of experienced Haskell developers. Once they build up a competent team, absorbing new team members really wouldn't be that hard. The only problem here is really that the entire team left -- that would've been a pretty big problem for any complex software system regardless of the language it was written in.
No mention of PM10 or PM2.5 and I'm wondering why
Why would there need to be more than two when there are only two genders?
I lived in Germany for a bit and Deepl is what everyone recommended over Google for professional translation. Google is great to figure out how to ask for your schnitzel at the shop, but Deepl is for when you want to make a deal.
I was noticing just the other day that my Gmail storage is creeping upward towards its limit. I'm sure it could stand some cleaning out although I'm not sure how much that will affect the storage used.

It's also harder if you've been in the Apple ecosystem for a while with getting off with the free tier of storage.

I suspect a lot of us are going to end up paying various subscription fees for storage on a number of services we use.
The challenge of getting machines to generalize
Let me google that for you:
https://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+lights+shorten+contra...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/red-light-camera-controve...
"The contracts in place with red-light camera providers often specify maximum yellow light times, and impose financial penalties if the city lengthens the yellow period."

More:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/10/chicago-shortens...
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-red-light-camera-yell...
https://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...
You are working around the problem, but the underlying issue is still there, which is not fine. I do not consider those practices fine just because I may have found a workaround. :/
Well, "some form of socialism" is hardly an extreme position.
For ppl interested in guis for nvim, i just came across https://github.com/yatli/fvim which has some nice qol improvements (compared to neovim-qt). I haven't tried it on Linux yet though
An interesting supplement to this is that common law based jurisdictions (US, UK, etc.) still have a legal concept of “Adverse Possession” or “Squatter’s Rights” which effectively lets people claim land or property which is abandoned by selling it and improving it, even if there is an existing legal claim to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession for the complexities.
Remember to search for other projects before settling on a name. In this case, the name collides with the Mantis bug tracker:

https://mantisbt.org/
> Firefox 70 introduces three new properties related to text decoration/underline:

> text-decoration-thickness: sets the thickness of lines added via text-decoration.

> text-underline-offset: sets the distance between a text decoration and the text it is set on. Bear in mind that this only works on underlines.

> text-decoration-skip-ink: sets whether underlines and overlines are drawn if they cross descenders and ascenders. The default value, auto, causes them to only be drawn where they do not cross over a glyph. To allow underlines to cross glyphs, set the value to none.

I'm so excited for these. Implementing sane underlines for headers has been a pain in the ass for far too long. Writers rejoice!
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel and Physics
Vast majority of private practices are closing or being purchased by larger hospital systems.
Look at the wikipedia salaries for example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
>Respect from colleagues?

The person making everyone else look bad and who is receiving no incentives for doing so likely isn't getting the sort of respect you are envisioning.
What Is Interactive Digital Signage?
Can anyone make sense of why some people have two versions of pictures, one close up of their bust, the other of most of their full body; while others only have a single image? It seems rather arbitrary if it's intentional at all.
never ever bring your own device. its a huge mistake.
There's plenty of symbolism but there's no deeper plot, no master plan.

Eva is a great anime series and a solid 'philosophy exists if you want to check it out' message for 12 year olds that worked for me back in the day, but let's not go overboard with assigning deep interpretations to it.
Well, holee-shit, TIL... Because with my four years of high school French, and having never given it a lot of thought, I always assumed that because $STANDARDS_BODY was French (I assumed, to make theory plausible), then UTC stood for <said with heavy French accent> "Universale Time Coordinatier" or something (and my sincere apologies to our French-speaking HN users). Had my brain actually engaged what I learned in French class, that of course would be incredibly wrong, starting with "what the hell is that adjective doing at the beginning of the phrase?"
You probably know this already, but if you cache 404s you should have a way to purge all cached 404 entries when you do a content push.
I don't think it does make sense. It's not like climate change is an issue the legislature hasn't addressed at all; many people have thought it through, and both Congress and individual states have passed many laws about it. It's very dangerous to let prosecutors and judges make up reasons why things they don't like are illegal.
Maybe I'm missing something, but is the exploit somehow generating a cache miss? Otherwise everything that's already in cache isn't vulnerable to this right? Not that it makes it in any way less scary, but slightly more complicated at least..
its an interesting conundrum.

I'm not anywhere near well informed enough to form an opinion or argument around it. But it'll be fascinating to watch it develop.
You are missing the point. When you start talking about what "should" be, you imply that there is some authority in charge of deciding the rightness of what is or isn't. Who is that authority? Which bureaucrat in Washington do you want to sit at a desk and decide how much money you are allowed to have?

Right now Jeff Bezos "has" umpty-billion dollars because he owns so many shares of Amazon stock and the market values those shares at a certain amount. So, how do you propose to make him not a billionaire? Are you going to confiscate his shares and hand them over to the government? Would the government be better at running Amazon than Jeff Bezos is? Are you going to pass a law that forbids anyone from buying a share of Amazon for a value any more than what would make Bezos a billionaire? What exactly is the plan here?

People who spout off nonsense like there shouldn't be billionaires, haven't ever though through what that means or what it would imply to make their half-baked notions into a reality.
Yes, males and females (XY and XX) account for the vast majority of the human species. Some syndromes that cause variations (intersex, XXY, XYY, etc.) are a very small minority, and people with those conditions usually have some health issues to deal with.
Could you possibly rephrase your observation to avoid the derogatory description?
Yeah that's probably that. I always laugh when I see an ads for me on any of my colleague computer. if they use that on ads, they certainly use it on Youtube.

I also gets recommendation for videos that my SO watches even though we don't use the same computer. It's rare but it happens.
Does anyone know how Firefox Lockwise compares to other password managers? For example, can it store additional notes next to the password?
Does anyone know of what useful/killer features chrome dev tools have that ff doesn't? I switched to ff full time a few years ago and only open chrome for testing sites. The only thing I notice is that they have slightly different habits as to where they jump in the html when you are using the inspect feature. The only killer Firefox "feature" I can think of is an extension which is much more recent -- eval villain (https://www.hurricanelabs.com/blog/making-easy-dom-xss-actua...).
I started a tumblelog [0] a few months ago. And of course I wrote the static site generator for it myself :-) [1]. I like it, it reminds me of the Internet nearly 2 decades ago.

[0] http://plurrrr.com/

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
I do not believe that the rationale behind this rule applies to any dynamic/scripting language.

It would apply to Haskell though, unless Haskell itself works well as a scripting host.
Hypnospace Outlaw came out this year, it's a game where you're basically an internet cop/mod in the early 90s. Pretty well done
He's a combinatorist. He's trolling mathematicians who are specialized in more abstract fields who often hold views of contempt for computational, concrete fields like combinatorics. One of the main themes of modern mathematics is the use of algebraic, numerical, and combinatoric invariants to characterize abstract mathematical objects such as spaces. Doron is dishing out their own medicine in this post.

This is an essay that touches on similar themes with less snark and more context for people who aren't in the know: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf
Media Richness Theory
I've always wondered why we devalue parenthood and make people feel like they aren't contributing when they choose to raise kids over having a career. As a parent, I don't see how much of any work I do could be more important than my child. It's just twisted to me, that we devalue something so important and meaningful.