skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple non-growth-based capitalist endeavor that I've been daydreaming about (setting up a supermarket as an example):

The goal of Supermarket(SM) is to provide products to customers and a stable occupation
for those working in the system, not to maximize profit.
SM will only sell to subscribed members.

Whenever someone buys something, they pay only the cost of the product, and the purchase is recorded.
At the end of each month, SM has to balance its finances: costs have to be equalized with income.
We will charge our members an additional % over whatever they bought for this month, just as much as it's needed to balance the books. The more customers we have and the more volume we moved, the less % everyone has to pay.

This way, instead of customers paying a predetermined % margin for each product, they pay as little as it's needed to keep things going. They don't pay for anyone's profit.
What is the original intent of the use of facial recognition at festivals?
Is it drug trafficking tracking? Terrorism tracking?
Satisfaction tracking?
This is some combination of grandstanding by the state prosecutors, abuse of the extremely vague statutes under which such suits can be brought, and a threat to the rule of law.

It strikes me as implausible that even if Exxon has published all of its internal climate research it would have made a substantive difference in people's likelihood to invest, or to consumers propensity to purchase Exxon gas. Because these are the only outcomes germane to the case aren't they?

You can tell by the comments here that people want Exxon punished, they don't care much about the means by which this occurs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement#Fuel_pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests#Transpor...

Because when you raise prices on people’s method of transportation significantly, they protest, a lot. Politicians don’t want to be voted out.

Airplane flights are often paid for by companies and aren’t a typical part of most people’s day-to-day life.
Server side includes were pretty common back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
When it comes to other shady companies either bending or avoiding safety regulations, the millennium tower comes to mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Franci...

I’m hoping that tax payers won’t be subsidizing the builder’s irresponsibility
On paper, it's a perfect system.
In reality, failing businesses who want the extra income sign up to be package pickup spots, and then provide deplorable service.

Some don't respect the opening hours that were published. Some literally climb over mountains of packages. Some have no organisation. Delivery companies realised that they no longer have to attempt deliveries so automatically dump their packages in the pickup points. Most pickup points end up loathing people who comes to pick up packages: the customer hates the lack of service and resent that their package wasn't delivered, the shop resents that they have even less time for their failing business, and take this out on the package customers.

The worst part is, 90% of the time you can't control if a package goes there.
The UK is looking at West Coast locations for a new Spaceport.
Which makes heroin a terrible analogy because it doesn't match up with the argument, except insomuch as it flatters the poster's sense of the evil Exxon as a 'pusher' of an evil product.
>This is an invalid argument, verging on non sequitor.

But it isn't. We cannot live without oil today. Oil is not like cigarettes. If every oil company decided to close shop tomorrow, every government in the world would step in and force them open.

There are cases where in principle we could remove oil uses (e.g. converting ICE to EVs), but there are thousands of products that require oil to make that have no obvious substitutes, from crayons to car tires, to shaving cream, to industrial lubricants, and so on. Airplanes, rockets, cargo ships, long-haul trucks cannot run on batteries, and require the energy density of oil to operate. Asphalt, the miracle road material, is essentially gravel and bitumen - a petroleum byproduct.

It does raise the question of, what are we blaming Exxon for?
Lithium reserves are more than 100x annual global production. Estimate lithium resources are something like 600x annual global production. There is no shortage of lithium, although there are temporary bottlenecks as capacity ramps up.
The fixed height requirement makes them hard to use in a responsive way.
No need for snark, those are completely different situations.
Some cross-site scripting in usernames there, otherwise its a fun concept.

Edit: To the author the fix is pretty small:

In socket.on('toplist', (data) => {...})

Replace the line:

$('#toplist tr:last').after('<tr>' +'<td>' + topList[i].name + '</td>' + '<td>' + topList[i].points + '</td>'+ '</tr>');

with:

$('#toplist tr:last').after($("<tr></tr>").append($("<td></td>").text(topList[i].name),$("<td></td>").text(topList[i].points)))
All great answers thus far. First, it is not for faint of heart. Second, if you get in door, learn how to say no as not every corporate customer is a good one - some can suck you dry and have you customize feature after feature so you need to be strong.

As a previous commenter mentioned, understanding what your product is and your go-to-market motion is super important. Are you a bottom up developer or user-led adoption with ideas to expand or are you going pure top-down enterprise? Either will take time but I've worked with many a company that successfully went from bottom up and generated significant enterprise sales like https://Snyk.io.

If you choose to go top down, find advisors or investors who have relationships at some of your corporate prospects. Going top down super early requires relationships to get in the door. Second, you have to figure out exactly who in the organization you need to get to and understand what is their pain and how you can uniquely solve it. I've seen way too many early stage founders get in the door to explore and they end up hunting for dodo birds - they're extinct and don't exist.

There is so much more on this topic and one method I advocate is focusing on enterprise design partnerships vs. selling which has more of a partnering model than a transatcional one. More on that here in a SaaStr podcast I was on - https://www.saastr.com/saastr-podcast-190-ed-sim-founder-gp-...
https://www.nytimes.com/subscription
A few thoughts as a bike commuter in Manhattan who sees this first hand every day:

The congestion tax can't come soon enough (and it should have no carve-outs, certainly not for people who live here).

We need to get rid of lots of free on-street parking in the city and replace it with loading zones so that taxis/Ubers and trucks have free spaces on every block to conduct their business without blocking travel lanes or bike lanes.

The constant blocking of bike lanes by trucks and cars is super dangerous, kills multiple people per year, and when the police do enforce these infractions at all, all they can do is write up some measly tickets that the truck drivers write off as the cost of doing business since they've already accumulated hundreds of them. No joke: Here's a truck I reported in the bike lane that's closing in on a thousand tickets: https://twitter.com/Reported_NYC/status/1187381912253411328

There are two solutions to this problem, both of which should be undertaken: Bike lanes should be actually physically protected, so that vehicles cannot enter the bike lane at all. They did this on the Hudson River bikepath after a terrorist drove along it and killed six cyclists a few years ago, and they need to do it in the rest of the city too. All it takes is some jersey barriers, bollards, and/or new curbs put in.

And the second solution is make the penalties on trucks meaningful. Have the fine amounts escalate with every violation within a certain period, with no cap (so that a ticket could eventually cost tens of thousands of dollars for a particular scofflaw truck, rather than the current ignorable amount of around a hundred). And tow/confiscate trucks that have enough tickets.

And one more thing: A lot of trucks are manifestly unsafe to be in such dense cities. >=53' semi-trailers, for example, are completely banned, yet you see them routinely in the city (and cops don't ticket them). They barely have enough space to turn through a typical intersection, and the they have very high beds and wide-open wheels that can easily pull in and crush to death a pedestrian or cyclist. We should ban all unsafe trucks in the city and enforce it. The only trucks allowed should be ones with sidewalls that go nearly to the ground, to prevent anyone from being run over. These trucks already exist and are widely used in Europe where they are required; here's an example: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-coca-cola-delivery-truck-b...

Note that, despite trucks being a minority of vehicles on the road, they account for way more than their fair share of pedestrian and cyclist deaths, because traffic speeds here are generally pretty slow and if you get hit by a car you're likely to be thrown up and over and survive. But you can be killed by one of these trucks going at just 1 mph simply by being crushed to death. This is not theoretical; it happened earlier this year when a cyclist traveling in a bike lane was doored and was thrown underneath an adjacent truck stuck in traffic, which when it started moving crushed him to death. The large open spaces between the ground and the truck deck allowing you to get run over by the wheels is highly dangerous.
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Fossil fuels are not illegal. In fact USA has fought several wars and spent trillions of dollars to keep the flow going. So sue Exxon for a lot of other things, but not for producing fossil fuels.

EDIT: In fact people go nuts when gas prices approach $4 a gallon, which is maybe 2-3 times cheaper than in some European countries (when adjusting for income levels)
Imagine a doctor stating "a healthy patient's heart rate is 70 bpm" and prescribing ever escalating medication and surgery to try and keep the heart rate at 70 bpm, regardless of age or whether the patient is sleeping or sprinting or recovering from previous surgery. Welcome to the world of central banking.
Sound like an interesting twist in co-OP comoany
Edited: you might be thinking of C++ ?

I don’t think php ever compiled to C, based on a quick scan of the Wikipedia page. I thought it compiled to perl at one point but that doesn’t seem to be true either.
> they don’t want other people claiming they’re Banksy, and they want to remain anonymous.

Sounds like a perfect case for public key cryptography, although it doesn't help with duplicates - but duplicates help his work sell anyway.

Would be interesting to see how it could be applied to something visual that is reproduced in non-pixel perfect ways.
This is a non sequitur, and unnecessarily inflammatory besides. Capitalism is totally compatible with a robust social safety net.
In medicine you'd call that cancer, so, yeah... Maybe we need something more sustainable than growth for the sake of growth.

Also if we're globally maxed out, I think an economy is 'temporal zero sum', if that makes sense: you grow now by borrowing but pay back in the next recession?

Totally not an economist though.
Value would go to zero the minute you announce confiscation or whatever we call it. And revenue is different from money in the bank or assets.
Or ask the hundreds of millions who died under socialist and communist systems.

Or ask the hundreds of millions or more who are no longer poor thanks to capitalism.

Edit: typo
A "page" exists because paper exists. When you aren't using paper why would you break up your content into arbitrary fixed size increments, rather than using (say) "sections", which are the size of the content you put into them?
Disney has always been a corrosive force on our culture. They've taken our cultural myths in the form of fairy tales and damaged them beyond repair. Profit over everything is Disney's approach. The more they own the worse it will get.
> they don’t want other people claiming they’re Banksy

No. This is obviously not the problem. Nobody at that greeting card company was claiming to be Banksy. The problem is that they are making money off of a Banksy work of art without his permission.

His behavior is quite clearly protecting his financial interests in his own work. That’s actually the only explanation that makes sense. The other option being that he’s opposed to anybody making money off his art, including himself. Nothing he has done in the last year has indicated the latter to be the case.
The natural nitrogen cycle can optimistically support 4B people. That means 3.5B people need to die for that to even become a workable solution. But but magic tech will save us all ! We have magic tech today, we don't use it.
I'm a bit conflicted. I like the idea of Web browsers as an application platform, though it borders on "reinventing the operating system." The File API, Notifications API, MediaSession, etc. all make it possible to essentially have cross-platform desktop applications that users don't need to manually install.

I also don't, and never really cared much for "semantic hypertext," linked data, XHTML, XHTML2, RDF, nor is my browser usage predominantly about just sharing/receiving information.

That being said, there's so much involved in writing a Web browser that writing one from scratch would take years. There are only a few active implementations, and I don't expect that change for a long time, if ever (at least not without a lot of funding). So I can understand the author's viewpoint.
Except for the cost equalization, this looks like co-op supermarkets. They seem to work pretty well where I live but the focus on low cost means sometimes they don't have a lot of variety.

I wonder if a government could make this work at the national level, in multiple industries.
Let me see if I can rally some folks on the Office team to build a PowerPoint companion app that does this. I think they have a hackathon coming up ...
I don't follow. The burning of fossil fuels is risking human extinction. Sure, I can now fly from New York to Shanghai. But evidence increasing points that civilization and possibly humanity won't survive this benefit.

This has been known by Exxon for ~40 years, and they have worked to suppress and sow disinformation.

Can you elaborate? The response seems incoherent.
Isn't gloating over previous successes one of the main goals in an interview?
It’s not really worrying. Disney owns the films. They don’t have to distribute them at all, and in this case, they’ve determined it that the money they’ll make from an independent theater is smaller than the money they’ll make distributing another way, or perhaps not distributing at all for the time being.

I recently contacted a student artist to ask to buy a print of a work they posted on an art forum. I had no particular limit to my budget. The artist said no.

You know what I can do about it? Absolutely nothing. It doesn’t matter how badly I want that piece in my home.
> I'm not there to be your friend.

This seems to be the exact red flag they’re looking to weed out. If you can’t be friendly, do something you’re not 100% thrilled with, and get along with others during a 1 hour game, what are you going to be like to work with?
Spotify’s decision to automatically go into “radio mode” after you reach the end of your album / playlist is the single greatest improvement to my life as a music consumer. It has exposed me to more new music in the past year than in the previous decade.
The concept of exit nodes does not apply to .onions.
Hackattic – real-world programming challenges
That doesn’t seem true.

There has been quite a history of interventionist policies.
Revenue, not profit. Oil is very low margin. Oil companies makes about 7 cents per gallon of gasoline. That's a lot less than the amount of money that is collected from gasoline taxes.

https://www.forbes.com/2011/05/10/oil-company-earnings.html#...
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It's great for the pharma companies and the surgeons! Keep the interventions coming.
it's the usefulness of the item in relation to its cost and the cost to run it. an electric heater is quite useful, but also takes a lot of electricity. if the electric company promises that i'll spend less on electricity for heating than i would on gas, then that does make a difference.

so yes, if exxon would promise that the gas prices are so low that i can afford an SUV, then i might be persuaded.
Exactly, browser manufacturers had a need for specifications that were of a higher quality than what W3C was producing in order to address (mostly) accidental implementation differences between different browsers. What was specified across existing specifications for html, css, and javascript was just not covering what was being shipped by browsers. And as these specifications were stuck in committees, browser developers had to just figure things out themselves.

HTML 5 started out as an W3C position paper to start the work of creating a backwards compatible successor to HTML 4 backed by several browser developers. The proposal for this was rejected in favor of continuing work on the non backwards compatible XHTML 2. As these browser developers had a need for a spec, the WHATWG was formed to create what became HTML 5.

Several years later when it became clear that their specification was the closest thing to describing what browsers actually do, W3C basically endorsed it as a recommendation. However, the WHATWG continues to drive work as it has been highly successful in producing the high quality specifications required to achieve the high levels of interoperability between the remaining browser engines.

XHTML 2 gradually became redundant as most of the functionality that web site developers actually needed from browsers got absorbed by HTML 5. As browsers could implement spec changes as they were happening, within a few years of the working group forming, it had become a huge success in standardizing many new features.

At the same time, many mobile browsers simply disappeared as Webkit (a fork of KTML by Apple) and the Chrome fork of Webkit by Google became the norm on mobile. This was important because many W3C working groups were dominated by people from the mobile phone and telecom industry seeking to control the standard for long forgotten things like WAP and the various mobile profiles of XHTML. Once decent browsers appeared on mobile (i.e. browsers that supported HTML 5), the need to continue to do work on XHTML 2 disappeared. Most of the companies that then dominated the mobile web were out competed by Google and Apple; neither of whom was a major mobile player at the time the WhatWG was formed. By the time W3C endorsed HTML 5, Android and IOS were dominating the mobile web to the point that even MS threw in the towel by first creating Edge (an html 5 browser with no backwards compatibility for IE specific stuff), and then recently just switching to Chrome entirely.
Someone always makes this comment every time illegal immigration is mentioned as if the law is the final word on what is just. And then they’ll complain about someone going to prison for being a whistleblower or pirating movies or cheer on the protestors in Hong Kong.
Paradoxically if this is the OPs business, in my experience they should greatly, greatly increase price to increase chances of selling to an enterprise.
Interesting how he doesn’t mind criticizing his customers. He spent “a week” (3 devs) developing a service for this customer, probably asked them the permission to showcase it... Next thing you know, “I don’t know why anyone would do that” or, in the positive, other opinions like “We like Internet Explorer very much” etc. I’m not understanding whether it was a way to gain a connection with the developer audience, or whether it was a mistake to say that out loud.

Also interesting is that he rehearsed the presentation several times using the production database. Perhaps dev/staging environment were not widespread at that time, and a separate Oracle instance would be expensive.
It sounds precisely like a grocery co-op. Are these not common where you live?

https://www.moneycrashers.com/food-coop-costs-benefits-drawb...
So, nationalize oil sales
revenue to fight to raise money to climate change. See any problem there?
I'm not sure a 4 weeks free trial is a long term work around?
This quote was laughable:

"At its core, Microsoft is a company that makes its money the old fashioned way: by creating products of value that people willingly part with their money to use. They stand as a bulwark against the data mongering and user exploitation that Google and Facebook see as the future of humanity."

Microsoft has always made its money by creating, maintaining, extending and exercising monopoly power. I don't have a reference for this, but as I recall, after the antitrust verdict, Microsoft "offered" to give schools free copies of Windows as part of its "punishment". I guess that really hurt them to have schools sending out all documents in Microsoft Office format. Only the latest versions of course, so that it created incompatibilities with every parent's version of Office, forcing everyone to upgrade if they wanted to read a note from their kids' teachers.

Since the Pentagon recently bought $10B in Microsoft products, I hope they consider that having a sole supplier is a national security issue, and force Microsoft to at least release an open spec of all Office document formats, and force them to update this spec at the same time product updates occur, if not months before.

It may be too late even for that since Office is now running in a Microsoft cloud. Maybe the Pentagon just bought $10B of Microsoft cloud services. In that case, the format doesn't even matter any more, because every document is born, lives, and dies on a Microsoft server somewhere.

Sure glad they aren't doing that "data mongering" thing.
But people do print web sites.
Very adorable to listen that.. I was just surprised.
This split would cripple such a profuct.

No country’s constitution enshrines a right to profit from an unviable business.
They didn’t just withhold, they actively sowed disinformation

https://climateinvestigations.org/drilled-climate-change-den...
The ban is not going to happen. It's an issue of public safety and venue liability. FR use at video game conferences is a must, because every one has a series of morons threatening the venue, the conference, and the host. It is very difficult today to host any type of public event without multiple individuals taking their displeasure to extreme levels and making threats they might carry out. For such reasons, FR is booming.
I was a dev when WebObjects was new and absolutely no one ever used it for anything serious. CGI was already the default standard for web servers by 1996 and by 2000 there was a raft of commerical products from Microsoft and Java-based systems that were adopted much more widely.

Instead of Stack Overflow, we had Matt's Script Archive

https://www.scriptarchive.com/
Would that not have happened had we been more responsible with our greenhouse gas emissions?