skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they have an actual cost the economy. In health impacts from polluted air, in impacts from changed climate, increasing intensity storms, floods and such. There's been more than enough studies showing impacts.

The ocean analogy isn't such a far stretch either - the increasing levels of pollution and emissions from container traffic, using a particularly dirty fuel and an industry that flushes tanks and oil rich pollutants in international waters has an impact on water quality, fish stocks and other ocean life. Roads are a subsidy on cars as they are paid for by general taxation rather than specifically on vehicle use.

Those externalities should all be priced in to discourage impactful behaviour, and encourage truly sustainable behaviour, on the sole viable planet we currently have. At the very least we can make a poor choice knowingly.
For how long do you stay on Keto each time, normally?

I wonder if the improvement effect recedes with passage of time or remains stable.
DuckDuckGo is already partnering with Bing - that's where they get their results from.
It isn't obvious that the retail investors are that excited by sub-second liquidity.

Speaking personally, I'd even be happy to wait several seconds to see if someone else is willing to pay a better price.
If this is indeed their thinking then cybertruck is a terrible name in my opinion. It's far too nerdy for the anti-environmentalism manly man who cares about wimpiness.
Right, just last month I was looking for a very simple tool to make a floor plan with measurements of my house. I'm not sure if there's a better one than this, but this looks like a perfect fit!

I was kinda thinking of something that maybe uses AR to measure/scan your house and turn it into a floor plan, was disappointed that it didn't really exist as far I looked.
If you’re buying ammo after the apocalypse, you didn’t prep correctly.
Author here. I created Cinedantan.com to watch Public Domain Movies the way I am used to with other popular streaming apps.
Wow, getting some negative responses here. Personally, I'm rapt to see a message like this (especially on front page of HN)
I have an opposite view: it's not that shocking that AI has advanced a lot. It's a lot more shocking to learn that humans aren't as great as we hope to be. Also, our prediction sucks. I mean, who said that go is such a difficult problem that it would take a lifetime to solve? Sounds like intellectual arrogance to me. Sure, the problem space is huge, but it's well-defined and homogeneous. There was a time that reciting a long text or multiplying large numbers is considered a humanly intelligent thing, only that it wasn't. Alan Turing used to think that AI is good to humans because it teaches us to be humble, and I think we're kind of getting there (for certain domains). On the other hand, things like self-driving will remain unsolvable because the problem is fundamentally ill-defined; we don't even know what is a good driving.

(Edit) To those who think self-driving is a well-defined problem: it can be in some remote areas, but imagine driving in bustling city streets with kids, bicycles and dogs. The driving problem becomes a communication problem.
Can someone comment on how taxes are handled when automated trades are made like this? It's something that seems wholly absent from the cost calculations.
Sacha Baron Cohen recently called out jack and the other "silicon six."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/sacha-baron-cohen-rips-on-fa...
I agree and I prefer the UX on Android in a lot of respects too. I just don’t think the Pixels have been a good value compared to other Android phones lately. They either need to be cheaper or better than they are now.
I distrust some graphs that dont start at zero origin. The trend is magnified then.
Wait what? Do you know about the %debug magic? It is the best thing ever, particularly when prototyping in the notebook which keeps most of the state.

I saw Fernando Pérez use it in a YouTube video. Shame I cannot find it anymore. He was saying he debugs his code only by placing 1/0 in the part of the code he wants to inspect. After the exception is thrown %debug allows you to step into the stack and explore it via a repl. I found that crazy and tried it it. It is life changing. That's how I debug my python code for years now.
The easiest way to get people to buy less is to raise prices.

If we had a carbon tax that correctly priced the environmental impact of goods, it would decrease consumption. Without having to shame people into removing themselves from the economy.
I am having hard time finding information about "cognitive hypoglycemia". Can you provide some pointers?
Please apply your own "rules" to your own damn self. Also see the phrase "ideological and nationalistic battle" you love to hide just about everything behind.
I vaguely felt that with the meh name the bill's not gonna pass. But now, seeing as I'm not a native speaker of English, I have a definite need for someone to explain the pun.
We've been advocating "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" for over 40 years, and yet emissions and consumption have gone up every year. You will never be able to convince enough people to voluntarily reduce their lifestyle. To cut waste & emissions we need legislation, not shaming of consumers.
> perform impossibly mindless statistics on the game outcome an enormous number of times ...

But, while you sit there waxing creative, your brain cells are likewise performing a mindless task on an enormous scale.
Trump signs bill supporting Hong Kong protesters despite Chinese opposition
Seriously, cars are not a fashion item and anyone who thinks otherwise is speaking from a position of privilege.
Such a victory, a man who makes his money selling your data has advised us not to use another company that makes it's money selling data...
> M$

Hello, 1990's Slashdot called and would like its tired old '$' satire back.
I mean that ELO is not linear and there is no obvious ratio operation for ELO scores. How much is better than 2,600? Is it 5,200? Is it the rating at which you'd have 2:1 odds of winning a match? (Wikipedia says 200 points represent 74% chance of winning, so somewhere below 2,800) There's just no commonly agreed meaning of "50% better Chess player".
I was not sure about posting this. The world is weird in that you are a single person in a sea of 7+ billion people, it is very hard to get your message across and even harder to make a change that will actually make a dent. Hope you think twice before buying and save some money too - have a nice extended weekend :)
OG Youtube Star “Onision” Banned from Patreon
These all need to be considered separately.

Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of the population of Crimea before the Russian conquest. They became the minority partly through genocide, and partly because the peninsula was settled by Russian colonists.

Ukrainians, on the other hand, were never indigenous in Crimea. It was not a part of Kievan Rus, so any Ukrainians who lived there, immigrated there after the Russian occupation of it. And there are so few mostly because most immigration to it was orchestrated, and the Imperial government preferred to settle it with Russian rather than Ukrainian colonists.

So in one case, you can talk about genocide of the indigenous population. In the other case, it's preferential treatment of one ethnicity over another for colonization purposes.
Lee Bryon had a fantastic talk about this during the last React Conf, check it out [1]. He talks about the cyclic nature of programming paradigms, and how we might actually be "going back to PHP" and that might not necessarily be a bad thing.

PHP does after all have a straightforward mental model and expressive syntax, but now we have learned to build better (more secure, more resilient, performant, better architected, etc) web apps. IMO very worth a watch.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8WpLr6y_U
Or perhaps good teachers are also better at getting social services to poor students, so they can get food stamps, eat better, and grow talller?

https://xhxhxhx.tumblr.com/post/189336550187/teacher-effects...
You serious?
>> "...this story is false."

Fake news! In the wild, unambiguously.
Honestly climate change doesn't seem like that much of an issue. We have many of the smartest people in the world working on this problem and are making great strides in technology.

I think we will figure out the solutions and avert any serious consequences. Humanity always seems to find a way to prevail.
I don't think there is any respectable belief system or religion in the world where "buying more" is a general solution to any sort of problem. (Unless you're an economist trying to optimize for a particular variable like market liquidity, or unless you're a biased market participant -- like a company selling something.)

If you want to encourage someone to do something more to solve problems, how about suggesting people give to the poor in their immediate locale -- like donating to a local shelter or poverty relief organization.
I would, I use it all the time, but it's open source[1].

:-)

[1] http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
> ...but in this day and age Mint probably has more desktop users than Ubuntu.

I find that claim very hard to believe. I'm an Ubuntu developer. I see both bug reports from users, and fixes being landed. It is rare to see a report from a Mint user, and even rarer to see any fix that is attributed to having come from the Mint community, whether that's landing in Ubuntu directly or via upstream.

Either the Mint community keeps fixes to themselves (I doubt it because it's very difficult to maintain a derivative distribution that way), or Mint users and developers aren't affected by or don't report/fix any bugs affecting them whose root cause is upstream (seems unlikely, given the firehose of reports and patches Ubuntu developers send upstream), or there are relatively far fewer Mint users than you think.

Disclosure: I'm also a Canonical employee. However this opinion is my own and I am not representing my employer in making this comment.
I have a friend who is very handy, very into building vintage stuff. Cars, bikes, etc. One day he rang on some unrelated subject, I could hear he was on the motorway, I asked him where he was going.

"Oh I'm just off to get a voice box for my dalek". Like that's the most normal thing in the world.

Sure enough, next time I visited, a certain iconic malevolent alien, that fears only stairs, was sitting in the corner of the garage, happily murderously chuntering away every time he pressed the button.
What could go wrong?

This seems quite excessive, and it really is not a replacement, more of an augmentation:

>The solution can be integrated with other cleaning solutions that use wipers

Ahem
That's a feature of most browsers location bar. Just assign a letter/string to any bookmark of your liking and voila! No need to depend on DDG and exclamation points for your quick searches.

A few of my favorites include hn for HN's algolia, th for thesaurus, wes for Wikipedia in Spanish and d for... duck duck go.
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> not shaming of consumers.

No need for that, some of consumers themselves have begun shaming their fellow consumers who buy way more stuff than they need. I know I've started doing that in the last couple of years, since I've realized that no amount of recycling or legislation is going to stop climate change, it has to start from us. Yeah, people who buy a lot of stuff are to blame, if you buy a lot of stuff you're to blame for all the bad things that happen to our climate.
There's a name for this approach, they call human-AI teams "centaurs". It's a fascinating concept. I am deeply curious if eventually that will be outstripped by pure AI too. I believe so.
No country, just city. Tried from Ukraine
That's possibly the least "rude and obnoxious" message about rampant consumerism I've ever come across. Your response speaks volumes about yourself as opposed to the message on the site.
A carbon tax will shift shift purchases to government. So unless the goal is to have one group buying less, a carbon tax won’t matter too much. Since any drops in consumption will be offset by using that new tax revenue to do and buy stuff.

If we want to buy less we need to shrink the economy, including government spend.

Personally, I’m just trying to build more things and gather more things myself. Buys less and saves money.
World may have crossed climate tipping points
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Google started doing this. I spent an hour changing my password literally 100 times to clear their cache of the password I intended to set. It's insanity.
Don't get me wrong, I love his work, but I don't really understand why what he has to say about tech is any more relevant than any other celebrity. It's not like he has some deeper insider knowledge of the subject.
Yes. I've become convinced that Pigovian taxes [0] (connected to a basic dividend) are the answer to climate change, and to ecological externalities in general. (In addition to greasing the wheels of political viability, a dividend ensures that paying the true cost of carbon is not a de-facto regressive tax, as that cost hits the working class the hardest.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
ok sorry dad.
> COPRA also seems to take the challenges the EU and consumers have faced since the GDPR went into effect into account, as it specifically tasks the FTC with making sure those rules not only require "clear and conspicuous" notices to opt in or opt out of data collection and transfers but also "to minimize the number of opt-out designations of a similar type that a consumer must make" (such as an "accept cookies" warning on every single website one visits).

I think I need a cigarette after going through the dependencies and embeddings in this sentence.
Political bullshit that has no place on Hacker News.
Why untapped? Lego is tapping the hell out of that market. It's both for 5 year old daughters and 48 year old parents.

It's insane to consider how massive Lego has become. In my mind, the 1980s are still the golden age of Lego: every set was iconic, at least in my mind. Many of the current themes were started in the early 1980s. At some point, ver a decade ago, I feared they'd lost their way and making sets of questionable design that seemed to have forgotten what Lego was about, but now they're back. They're just doing everything: the Creator line that's about building stuff, the City line has more than just police and firefighters now, there's a new, more realistic space line (part of City actually), the different look of the friends line, but also (finally!) more female minifigs in other lines. There's tons of licenses, collectibles, programmable Lego of several kinds, mobile games, the cool stuff coming from Ideas, etc. The only thing I kinda miss is their Lego boardgame line. But other than that, it seems they're hitting every market at once, from every possible angle, and they're surprisingly effective at it. I think they surpassed Hasbro as the largest toy maker in the world, didn't they?
Presumably to be able to know where they themselves are, a gps circuit is only a passive receiver and a bit of compute.
I'm glad you did. It's an important message and Americans -- at least the ones on the internet -- seem now to be more receptive to critiques of capitalism than they have been at any time in the last 50 years.
Solid state battery breakthrough could double the density of lithium-ion cells
Himself. He's referring to himself, by title, in the third person.
yes, tendons, ligaments and even muscles are used to recapture energy as animals locomote. about 30% for walking is what i seem to remember from my grad school days.

ggreer above shows some real hubris and a deep ignorance of the ingeniousness of biological systems compared to human-created ones. a brain (and nervous system) is miraculous in its ability to gather, assess, store and discard ambiguous and contradictory information at astonishing rates.
I like the message, but it seems to complain more than it actually provides solutions.

The term 'retail therapy' is a very real thing.

I think a lot of our consumerism is connected to our disconnection and lifestyle, and this is related to how we set up our cities and communities. From population density, to walk-ability of cities, etc.

When I lived in the third world, in an area with pretty high population density, mixed use zoning, and high walk-ability I would consume less 'stuff' and more experiences. For instance, instead of driving to TJ max to buy some new clothes as I would here, I might take a walk and buy some pastry... which I'd be hungry for from walking. It was from a small producer, who used less materials for packaging than a large one would. I'd also get to know people who I'd regularly see, and that also reduced consumption of good I think as I would stop and connect with other people. We are pleasure seekers, and if consumerism is the easiest way to satiate that desire, it will be done in a consumerist way.

I'm not saying our consumerism is ONLY about lifestyle, but I think going into what causes consumption is more effective at reducing it than simply saying 'hey you, don't do that'. I think it's why in some parts of Europe people seem to buy less junk and more quality, artisanal made items.
That's not true. We can both be better if I work for you and you pay me right. It's not a negative sum game and can be positive and equal value for both. The value of your cash to me and my product for you.
The money collected from the carbon tax would have to be earmarked for things that improve our ecological situation: carbon sequestration, replanting forests, buying and protecting land, etc...
What does inflammation mean in this case (i.e., what part of the body is being inflamed)?
Yes, proper incentives need to be in place. Taxes & regulation (and in some cases simply staffing up to enforce existing laws) are what are needed.

That said, I have personally stopped profligate purchases on Amazon/Express - promised the wife we'd clean out the garage before buying new non-essentials and have reduced online spending to 1/5th of last year (YMMV our garage was chock full of stuff).
Yes. Dropbox built its reputation on being a reliable, set-it-and-forget-it background service that kept your files synchronized. Applications that occupy user attention and serve the explicit purpose of the user may make a variety of dubious cases for reckless memory consumption, but it's a lot harder to justify for something that's supposed to be invisible.
Please do not travel, either. Togetherness and family are idols at least as wasteful and environmentally damaging as consumerism.
I've had cars slightly touch me while I was crossing the street, but because they were generally small cars they were only touching my feet. Not at all a pleasant feeling but survivable. A truck, well, it would go straight for the belly/chest, a lot more vulnerable area.
We must enable and provide technology to countries that are on there way to western worlds living standard to get there with low co2 emission. Because they want it with or without co2 emission.
I've used this in the past when looking for a new place to live. I would get the measurements of the best candidates and recreate them in Sweet Home 3D with my current furniture. It did wonders to help me optimize the costs of moving to a new place, especially regarding what I would need to buy because my current furniture would not fit. I highly recommend it.
my vote is for -- quackquackdoc
Same with smoking cessation:

"Increasing the retail price of tobacco products through
higher taxes is the single most effective way to decrease
consumption and encourage tobacco users to quit." [0]

https://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/publications/en_tfi_mpowe...
That's not how things work. You would see much less demand/supply for a particular stock at every price level, which means you'd pay much more to buy less and would have to pay much more to sell less also. There are no upsides to having fewer market makers.
While shaming consumers certainly makes me feel good, it’s a poor way to change behavior. [0] [1]

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/longing-nostalgia/20...
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306624X1141891...
Keto worked for me. The difference is remarkable.
In my city there a 5 high schools which perform remarkably differently despite having the same source of funding and teachers. The high performing school is probably in the 99 percentile in the state. If you look at the schools, that high performing one looks the most beaten down. I think it all comes down to the affluence level of the parents, their education levels and what they impart on their kids.
I had vitamin D deficiency that was the cause of my brain fog. I'm not yet back to full power, but the last 3 months of taking it have definitely been better than before.
Here is his theatrical meltdown after he got banned. It's really...something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDIq4b9vVQ&t=80s

There are allegations of relationship abuse and also that he groomed young fans and pressured them into sex, which is absolutely disgusting if true. Onision is the same guy behind the "I Am A Banana" song which was popular back in 2009:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5ay10RTGY

It seems like every day brings us new evidence of the hot mess forming around Youtube personalities.
What do we call people who dislike being categorized in any way, yet insist on categorizing everyone else? It's always "us" and "them" and all generations participate.

Every teenager rebels against their parent's generation. It's not increasing nor decreasing. The Internet might make it more divisive and make the multiple (and sometimes partly overlapping) generations more obvious. But otherwise it's all just the same as it always was.

Related Aside: I worked for a while in a country (kingdom, actually) that is very religiously strict. One of the things I noticed very early on, and struck me as creepy-odd, is that the adults and teenagers were all listening to the same music. Everyone was listening to the same things. No individuality. Brain washing, probably...
I agree that we will definitely want to do it in a way that minimizes how regressive the outcome is.
I have seen lots of articles recently linking all sorts of psychological conditions with inflammation, chiefly depression and anxiety. Seems like a short walk from the parent article, discussing inflammation reduction in flu ridden mice on keto, to keto reducing inflammation affecting psychosis.
Does anyone bother to ask why the government has so much control over every day activities? This puts so much power into the hands of politicians, and is so divisive. The abuse of such power to control, for example, housing, becomes irresistible. The temptation to think that these problems can somehow be made better by adding more government gets stronger and stronger. Each failure leads to more calls for more government.
Sure, but closed vs FOSS was not really my point.

Just because it's closed doesn't mean the driver is bad from a purely technical/functional point of view and for many people that might be enough. The parent sounded like Nvidia GPUs just don't work well under Linux, and from my experience that's just not the case. And the open AMD drivers took many years to get to the level they are now.

Technical issues with Nvidia I can think of are the EGLStreams with Wayland and Optimus.
Worth watching these videos in case you are ever in a life or death situation with an EV https://youtu.be/2X_WorH4pUw
J has informed us that s/he presented doctors with a valuable clue about a potentially powerful cure, and was entirely ignored. Now you suggest a need to go back to consult with doctors? The ones who already dismissed a working approach? To be dismissed again? That's just cold.

And J was quite upfront about this being only their own experience. The very fist statement says "keto appeared to cure my psychosis", and it continues like that. There was no advocacy for anyone else to start doing the same.
Or you know . . . we could just throw it onto the blockchain . . . ;)