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I wish the XML community had given proper priority to usability along with quality tooling and examples. There was a solid decade where people would work on a spec which sounded cool but effectively never shipped from the perspective of working developers or did so with enough bugs/inconsistent support/poor performance/bad UX that it was a net cost. As a simple example, you still can’t use XPath 2 portably because libxml2 never implemented it – absolutely nothing that the XML standards community was working on had even 5% of the value that would have come from fixing that or countless similar problems which had a constant pressure to stop using XML. The same was true of good documentation and examples: the assumption was that other people would take time to learn these convoluted specs but most of them started using JSON instead because they could ship so much faster.
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But not when you know your product causes harm and spend BILLIONS to suppress and sow confusion around the science.

We have an excellent precedence in terms of big tobacco and the lies and disinformation they fed the public about the link between lung cancer and smoking.
You’re using gmail which does the filtering for you.
Nope, actions of from my grandparents have already, and most of the people in charge Senate and president are over retirement age.

Prepare for the worst, as its baked in. These people aren't letting go so expect little to no mitigation in the next decade.
I can't trust any of the paywalls frankly. They are in open war with tech because they believe they are stealing their monies [1] and with free speech because reasons[2]. My twitter is my best source of news, and a lot of the "paywalled content" is really commentary on tweets anyway. I'd much rather support independent investigators than agenda-driven bullies. I also notice that a lot of tech people are finally fed up with the constant drum beating. I 'd rather let the paywalls become their gravestones and see new types of media orgs growing.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opinion/tech-monopoly-dem...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speec...
Your argument neglects the fact that designing society around fossil fuels improved everyone’s lives exponentially and made the non-agrarian lifestyle not only possible but accessible to billions of people.

It’s not heroin, it’s more like some sort of intelligence drug with terrible side effects seen much later.

It’s a Faustian bargain we’ve all benefited from in innumerable ways.
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Interesting!

May I ask what, if any, features do you plan to add that supercede those of Freeplane?

As background: whenever I need to grok a larger concept or chomp through a large collection of material, I fire up Freeplane. (It's a fork of Freemind, a desktop application written in Java, it's under GPL and runs fully locally, see freeplane.org)

You already mentioned a Markdown to map input path. That is a good idea, since often things (at least for me) begin with a small list.

Collaboration was another thing you mentioned. Does that mandate uploading the maps to your cloud backend or can it be self-hosted? I ask because for some people it is not an option to use "other people's computers", as the domain being mapped can be of sensitive nature (under NDAs, or other things).
This is a bizarre comparison. Petroleum was pulled out of the ground because was useful from day one. It is the backbone of the economy because it is useful.
Pretending that petroleum is and has always been a vile, evil thing is poorly considered revisionist nonsense (typed into a petroleum plastic keyboard)

Without petroleum, the world today looks a lot more like 1930 than it does 2020.
I agree the approach sounds reasonable, and I think if we were having this conversation twenty years ago I would have been on the pro-XHTML side. But we tried it, and it didn't work.
Did you take an airplane anywhere in the meantime? Hope it was worth it, cause you knew about climate change when you got on it so many times you can't count them all.
I think the flaw in your argument is the assumption that the demand for fossil fuel is variable depending on anything Exxon has to say. I don’t see an Exxon ad and think “man I should buy an SUV”.

You wouldn’t blame an electric company on you buying electronic items, it’s the usefulness of the items themselves that drives the sales.
It's liability.
We industrialized the world, lifted billions out of poverty, and increased living standards. Why do people ignore the human progress's we've made. Folks really need to have some perspective.
Yeah, I never understood why there wasn't an <include> element in HTML, that would just paste the content of the linked document. Why wasn't such an element added in the late 90's or early 2000?

In the early days, when dynamic webpages were processed by something called CGI and even when we started using PHP, this was like 90% of the use case for doing a dynamic webpage. The last 10% might have been some sort of counter.
On the other hand, a lot of Apple products have no as-good rival -- at any price -- at least for a year or so after their introduction.

Consider the iPhone and the then Android phones (which appeared later anyway).

Consider the iPad and the vastly worst first competing tablets (back in 2010 or so), which in addition cost $100-$200 more than the iPad.

Consider Apple Watch today and what's available from the competition (at the same category, which includes e.g. the Samsung watches and so, I know there are e.g. Garmin watches that last 2 weeks, but they have different target group and functionality).

Consider the AirPods as well.

(And, again, for all of those, I'm talking at launch and for the first 1-2 years. For some of those we have decent competition now).
I'm not a US citizen and I'm not a lawyer. But it I'm really worried that the US public will blame Exxon for climate change. If Exxon disappeared overnight, the current regulatory environment means that another oil company will take up the slack in decade or two.

It's time for the US to realize they are much richer than most other countries. They should show the world they are willing to make real sacrifices. Otherwise we will see the tragedy of the commons play out on a global scale.
Actually you can, C pre-processor is a toy compared with what TASM, MASM, NASM and other macro-assemblers are capable of, think Lisp macros and metaprogramming at assembly time.
This lawsuit is like two lieutenants on a sinking ship getting in a fight over whose fault it is that they got torpedoed. One of the two may be right, but none the less it's pointless and unproductive. There are more important things to do.

Unless of course the ship is sinking really slowly and one of them might get elected governor before the whole thing goes down.
Didn't we get confirmation of global warming only in the 2000s with the IPCC and all? Who would have trusted Exxon then? Who would trust it now? Would you have changed your ways had you read that Exxon report? Have you really changed your ways by now?
Nobody seems to be bothered by this kind of argument when it comes to music publishing industry being disrupted by new technology, why is this any different?

The world is not here to ensure your business model can continue uninterrupted in perpetuity. The world moves forwards (well, mostly forwards), and it is up to you to adapt your business model accordingly.
I just finished modeling my house in Chief Architect, and I'm very impressed with it. There are things I don't love, especially the price as a plain homeowner (and the lack of plumbing / HVAC modeling), but it's an impressive tool, and the online tutorials are excellent.

One important note if anyone does try it, the system of measurement Can Not be changed for a file. I started mine in metric, because I generally prefer metric and it was a nice way to measure using a laser measuring tool. But I live in an imperial world (US), where all stores and contractors work in imperial units and there has been tens of times already that I wish my plan was also imperial. And Chief Architect can't convert the file. I can display imperial units, but the base units are always metric.
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I hope Californians are at least feeling it. Those wild fires every year are kind of unusual and are getting intense every year.
Very inspirational to see Jobs being so sure about what is the future of the web. Dynamic Servers.. Server-side rendering.. Almost like Windows, but in the browser....

At the same time, I feel sorry for him and his alikes; it most have been tough to constantly work upstream, trying to inspire people that just don't get it.
> At this point, not sure it matters

IMO , it still important that this issues are brought to light, the corruption is revealed and the law should be fixed.

We also need to learn from this , like for self-driving cars there is also a big pressure from companies to move fast so I expect that there this sector could also suffer same problems.
it's not registering copyright that is the problem, but claiming a copyright violation that requires revealing of his identity, because in order to make the claim you have to prove that you have legal standing to do so.
Heroin dealers are a great analogy here. Yea, if you cut off the supply to an addict they go through a process of withdrawal. And these companies have been working hard to manufacture demand and get more addicts.

The world did fine without tonnes of plastics for quite a bit of time. Yea, it would require rethinking industrial civilization (unclear it would survive), but we need to stop weaning ourselves off this toxic asset ASAP and as quickly as possible.

In contrast, the oil and gas companies are going to spend $5 TRILLION over the next 10 years to develop NEW oil and gas reserves, and expect to grow their markets, sales and obviously, emissions.
> There’s nothing wrong with savoring a win, but players who gloat over successes tend to be the engineers who have trouble interacting with and leading teammates later on.

Is this based on ANYTHING?
Do you know how much some enterprise software / specialized SDKs charged then and even today?

Those are not uncommon prices...

You can get into the million territory easily...
WHATWG should have published a standard to replace Flash -- all the same goals as Flash, but a clean-slate standards-driven design.

Instead they infected the HTML standard with everything Flash was being used for.
I can imagine one difference with the lieutenants here is that nobody outside will ever know about said fight, given that the ship will sink.
Forgive me but I don't feel like writing too much about this subject, which is getting pretty old and tiring. So I'll type it here even if I get flagged.

The political compass can be separated in economical and social issues. Economically, HN is right-wing, as you say. It's full of libertarians. But socially, it's strictly left-wing. Things that get you flagged? Men and women are not the same, we should not turn the world around to appease to non-heterosexuals, perhaps people of different races/ethnic backgrounds/religions are fundamentally different (for better or for worse), all humans aren't worth the same, countries should have the right to manage themselves in any way they want without having human rights shoved into them by the west... Stuff like that cannot be discussed here.

And as I said, I don't know if it's a conscious effort by the mods, or those topics only incite flames so they have to be shut down. What I do know is that just yesterday we got https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365411 on the front page (which is, quite literally, left-wing political propaganda) but something that criticised those points would be flagged in minutes.
We have modern nuclear technology that can replace all coal plants in a decade if we decide to do that.

But we wont.
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That's not what the argument is saying. We obviously didn't know the ill effects of the product when it first came out (think original Coke with cocaine).

Yes, it may have given us some material benefits, but now it is clear that it is hurtling the human race towards extinction (and likely much life on earth with it).

I suggest you are misreading the argument.
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I rather find it stupid that in B2B companies seem too only "trust" bigger companies than small startups. We also always have to claim how big we are and how successful just to build trust. Companies don't seem to understand that you can be good in what you're doing even if you're small or a one-man-show. This is the real unethical part imo.
In this case we could get huge sums of money to fix the sinking ship(climate change). So, I am not seeing how this analogy applies.
The intent of the analogy is to make clear that consumers have little recourse over their "choice" to consume this material.

Lots can be said about the tradeoffs of industrial civilization. We now see that it is leading us to extinction.

It's like bacteria in a petri dish, for 50 years it accelerated our consumption of our limited resources and made the petri dish increasingly hostile to life within it.

We all know how the story of bacteria in a petri dish turns out.
Worth noting: petroleum has been around for millenia: http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/TAD/education/BGBB/2/anc...
People who advocate change should refuse to participate in any aspect of society. Otherwise their arguments are invalid because of hypocricy!
We all have to pay for climate change we don't want.
In my analogy the intended implication was that getting people into life boats is more useful than fighting.
How much could we possibly get? Nothing proportional to the cost of a solution, certainly.
I don't disagree that the board games are stupid, but to call it gender biased is ridiculous. Women and minorities are just as capable of playing board games as everyone else, even if they don't do it as regularly as men.
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I don’t know about that. I am think they call it a business meeting, and they’re all set...

There are certainly some restrictions for audit purpose, and a bunch of loopholes to make sure business people can keep doing business stuff the way it as always been.

Most places have no alcohol on premise policies, but that doesn’t include the CEO suite.
> The models used today have all predicted more warming than actually happened

Do you have a good source for this assertion? I mean, there are still people claiming that there is no warming at all, so "all" models seems like too strong a claim.
It has often been said that burning something as incredibly useful as oil is silly. And plastic is and will remain a core component of modern technology for a very long time. Of course with abundant energy we will make plastic from C02 in future, not oil. If civilisation survives the interesting times ahead.
You are a very new user and may not know how the site works with regards to downvoting and karma. There are links to follow but the short faq is that regular users get access to downvotes and flags, and thus older users often will flag kill topics that they think will only be a flame war.

That, and there are automated things which identify when a topic becomes flame
> Now I am seeing the same craziness with “a sync” and continuations and wonder if I will be lucky enough to outlive it to.

Maybe you will. It's an attempt to address shortcomings of shared memory, just like borrow checker. Once languages start moving away from shared memory to actors, there will be no need for any of it. But it could take a long time, the industry dug itself way too deep into the whole shared memory world.
Why would a company with the biggest interest in a conservative estimate happen to be the one with the most accurate study? If anything, the argument should be opposite: their study doesn't hold any water because of a potential conflict of interest.
The reason the characters are lieutenants in my story is because this problem is bigger than them. You could take every penny the oil companies have and it would barely make a dent in the problem. This isn't a money problem it is a fundamental economic and industrial structure of society problem.
Demand is a function of many factors, including individual ethical concern and cost. Exxon has spent billions to reduce both of these effects - ethical concern is reduced because of the seed of doubt about climate change, and cost is reduced because of political contributions. Exxon is a great example of a firm successfully privatizing profit and socializing cost.
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Adam Smith is very selectively quoted by "free market" types...
What do you attribute that to? Pure genius, more access to information, better associates, etc?
HTML was "based on" SGML only in the sense that it borrowed a lot from SGML. However in practice it was never an application of SGML. HTML4 tried its best to move developers to SGML based HTML but devs ignored it.

HTML5 recognises that there was this gulf between the specification and the actual usage and sided with real world usage.
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If you view this in the context of needing separate models for documents and application, it means that you wouldn't need all that substrate of APIs for documents (i.e, why would you need a webcam API or even AJAX to render a blog article?).

So in that context I do agree with the article.
There were models in this era predicting that we were headed for disastrous global cooling. Ascribing any particular import to one of a thousand studies retroactively is just hindsight and survivor bias.
> Indeed it's a strange world if he, on principle, refuses
> to profit by his work but other people must be allowed to.

That exact situation exists in many free software situations... doesn't it?
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They are not being blamed for fossil fuel demand. They are being accused of fraud.
You're implying that climate scientists had to have known the relative emissions per country into the far future. This is wrong for several reasons:

* It doesn't matter where the CO2 is released, only that it's released.

* Climate models don't predict human carbon emissions. They predict how the climate will respond.

* The climate has a lot of momentum, so a sudden increase in carbon doesn't immediately cause a change in temperature. For example, if we completely stop releasing carbon, the climate will still warm another 0.6C [1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhous...
If you watch this part of the congressional hearing, you can see that at least Zuckerberg is clearly not an anti-vaxxer: https://youtu.be/9EgrrR1M2Ck?t=3938

I assume that their ad filtering task is just a really hard problem.
XML screwed the pooch by trying to add namespaces after the 1.0 standard was published.

Handling namespaces correctly requires that the parser API be changed in non-backwards-compatible ways. This would have broken every single piece of code that used an XML parser. So instead, people mangled documents by simply flattening all the namespaces together if you tried using the old API.

This was a godawful nightmare and made everybody who was around at the time absolutely hate XML namespaces -- even those of us who know why they are so important. Plus namespaces are not exactly an "ELI5" topic, so a lot of lazy programmers looked at this and said "that's complicated, I don't want to learn it, HEY LOOK there's this older deprecated API that doesn't have them -- I'll use that!" So the old APIs became immortal and in fact gained additional users long after they were deprecated.

They should never have let the 1.0 standard out the door without namespaces in it.
Okay, but the intended implication of my comment was that since this can actually send a message to others, it might actually cause others to be a bit more careful about how they proceed moving forward, which actually might very well help with help things moving forward.
I have no idea. Could you share some rough numbers?
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Thanks! This looks like a really great tool. Would most likely be a great fit for us since we're a distributed team and our working hours are different from each other. I'll give it a try soon.
What are the possible results? If it's only fines than it may not deter anyone from doing similar things in the future (in case the gain is big enough, i.e., bigger than the fine).

Is there a possibility for personal responsibility and jail time for the people who did this?
Maybe I should’ve used a different title, the biggest “revelation” for me was that cat will concatenate files. It’s such a simple command, I never bothered to look at the man page. Although I still find it interesting that it’s original purpose was concatenation and not purely displaying file
"Disabling autoplay" for silent videos is impossible whenever Javascript is enabled, and it usually is.

What's the difference (to the user) between an animated <canvas> and a silent video ?
I am not a very new user, in fact by looking at your profile I have been here for much longer than you.

Older/active users are predominantly left-wing and use their flag power to flag right-wing points of view, because they deem them as trolling (charitable point of view) or because they want to silence them (uncharitable point of view). Then, mods come and ban those who amass many flags because someone who's got many flags is irredeemably a troll.
Right. Oil is energy. A very energy dense, low volume, light weight, easily transportable form of energy.

It’s truly a liquid with magical properties that doesn’t have a green equivalent.

Now the ask is to make people’s lives uncomfortable? I doubt that’s going to fly.

My bet is whoever figures out a carbon capture -> green oil solution is in for big wins.

Energy makes our lives great.
Absolutely. https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/CR-7_R.A.P.I.E.R._E...
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There are no sacrifice necessary, that's a silly meme that refuses to die. Its the same kind of thinking that made people ask where they are going to keep all the horses if cities become to large back in the day.

We have modern nuclear technology today, we should just elect to use it.
> People who advocate change should refuse to participate in any aspect of society.

There's a big difference between refusing to burn massive amounts of oil and refusing to participate in any aspect of society. If burning oil like this is immoral for everyone, it is immoral for you; if it is not immoral for you, it is not immoral for anyone with your resources.

> Otherwise their arguments are invalid because of hypocrisy!

Yes, their arguments are silly because of hypocrisy; pricing the poor out of energy is a hypocritical way for the world's rich to purport to make change.
Sounds like a hammer looking for a nail.

You should probably get real world experience. Problems looking for a solution will come to you much more organically than asking HN.
The lack of an iPhone app is killing it for me.
The "but we won't" insights are spiteful and not that insightful. Here's another one: we could go back to pre-industrial lifestyles.
Geez, this one sentence is more enlightening than the book. (I read it and I didn't really get it.)
The price should be obviously elastic. I never mentioned "fixed prices" anywhere.