skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If we export more green energy than we import coal energy then we can pretend that that the coal did not actually get released into the air as pollution.

That exchange is plainly not carbon neutral. Exporting green energy does usually contribute to reducing fossil fuel usage at destination - that cant reasonably be denied. It sounds like you believe the figures are being officially "double counted". But I'm quite doubtful that international agreements really allow for such plain mis-accounting , the idea more likely comes from the kind of confused climate skeptic literature, which imagines that climate science and whole green energy movement is a scam.

> We plant trees and talk about carbon capture, and then we discretely cut it down and turn it into biomass fuel and call it carbon neutral.

That is plainly carbon neutral. If you plant and grow trees sustainably, cut them down and burn them, it is absolutely carbon neutral. It can even be carbon negative as rootmass is left to build soil, and benefit wildlife too - depends on how intelligently its done.

If you phrase your statement more succinctly its easier to see the plain sense in it:

> We plant trees ... and then we ... turn it into biomass fuel and call it carbon neutral.

In a bit more detail:

Grow trees and turn them into fuel - that's carbon negative.
Burn the fuel - that's carbon positive.
Do both together - that's carbon neutral.

Perfectly elementary really \"/
Talent unions set minimum pay scales, not maximums.

Hollywood actors are part of a union (SAG). Do you think that Tom Cruise got paid the same as an extra that was also in the SAG for the last Mission Impossible?
I helped build a product a while back that helped those owners give access to the local police. Depending on what the owner wanted to do this could be just the street cameras or everything.
But if you have fun and make money in the process, what's wrong with it? Companies are not (or should not) be like children.
Kudos for breaking the habit. Did you let them simply expire, or sold them?
Yes. Priceless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs
Is it basically single-payer healthcare there?
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It's because they are actually lonely and unloved and powerless, and also because they have been fed lies about America and their station in it since the moment they could first understand language.

The mental illness occurs when their cognitive dissonance is strained to the breaking point. When someone realizes that they have labored their whole life, possibly at significant risk to life and limb, for the primary benefit of other people, who do not even return a minimum level of respect, a psychic pseudopod of rage reaches out, questing, for someone or something to blame.

And it usually lands somewhere that is merely close, rather than deserving. They do not understand why their life has been considered disposable, and become determined to make their mark--even if it is to be a scorch mark or track mark--on the world. We are likely already familiar with some common modes of midlife crisis: buy a motorcycle, buy a sports car, buy a boat, get really into one's religion, volunteer for some charity, go back to school, etc. It may well be that when those sorts of outlets are financially unavailable, then "buy a gun, write a manifesto, and start the revolution" is one of the few that remain within reach. Or it may be that they just preferred that one from the start.

Perhaps Switzerland is better at making people feel important, and is not exploitative to a point far beyond the breaking point?
A lot of older apartments don‘t have full kitchens, but that isn‘t a bad thing. Some people just don‘t need full kitchens, and you can get by with a hot plate and a rice cooker.
Their company mission is to kick-butt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some details on new features:

Laser reflectors for improved ranging and ephemeris calculation (NASA request): https://www.gpsworld.com/expert-advice-laser-reflectors-to-r...

Regional Military Protection: Amplified on-demand M-Code signal power in a targeted region—allowing receivers to operate more than 10 times closer to a jammer than with the military signals operational today: https://insidegnss.com/gps-iii-the-next-big-step-in-gps-mode...

Colocated Search and Rescue (SAR) repeater payload: https://spacenews.com/mda-to-build-search-and-rescue-repeate... (Galileo GNSS has this as well onboard, and also supports a return link to ack the distress call on the device, GPS does not unfortunately)
I recently upgraded from 1.11 to 2.2 in one go. I didn't have any issue at all, besides a problem with mysql drivers. I had to switch from using PyMySQL, which is not the one recommended by Django anyway, to mysqlclient, and that caused one minor problem that was trivial to fix. Looking at the release notes for 3.0, I'd expect that if I migrated from 1.11 directly to 3.0 it would've been a smooth transition.

Of course it depends on your codebase. In the past I worked on a project which interacted a lot with Django internals, with a lot of code reflection involved. Upgrading that was a pain even between minor releases.
I always like to say that everyone is short a house, and your first property is just covering that short position. It's only properties after that first one that are investments.
Software like Forcepoint/Websense logs blocked attempts by default and can be configured to log all traffic. I don't believe there's a reliable source on what companies do.

The Levandowski incident at Google revealed that they had VERY extensive logs. They appear not to look at them routinely, but the logs are there when needed.
> If you keep compounding growth, like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources within a sphere the same number of light years in radius.

Would be super interested to see your math. What are the inputs and equation that get you to these specific outputs (a few thousand years, all resources, a few thousand light years)?
I believe it’s the same content in book form.
Basically they put money on my account when i didn't know anyone can you give me a suggestion?
Investors do not often sign NDAs covering "ideas", they will sign (and will often ask you to sign) NDAs with scope limited to investment terms and due diligence information.
I think there's other types of compulsive people too. I'm not, in my view, a compulsive puzzle solver. Rather, I'm obsessive about understanding elegant solutions to complex problems. Usually I define elegance in different ways, but nevertheless that's the thing I most enjoy.

So puzzles by themselves don't often hook me too much. Especially if the puzzle itself has 1 way to solve it. But I'll spend days obsessing, losing sleep, forgetting to eat and etc all because I "feel" a problem has a more clean solution.

Though, I'm probably not a hacker in this sense.. hmm. /shrug
rust feels like low level C++, its syntax speaks for itself
Honduras must be heaven then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Hondura...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_problems_in_Hondur...
They don't share your data, they just encourage you to go for a run.
The THERAC-25 is a classic example taught in software engineering and usability engineering courses. I use it as an example in one of my undergraduate lectures.

I think you are right that I’ve never heard about it in any other contexts though.
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Considering that apparently they will try to do something on the hardware side, additional capital may be necessary. Just guessing.
I mean that if you blindly shove more housing capacity into an area without considering upgrading your transport links, you'll end up with more traffic and more chaos.
I'd remind everyone of the Openstack-based Nebula company that went bankrupt overnight and sold the same dream.

You don't bet your on-prem projects on newly born startups.
Exactly. What's important in deterring crime is not just the length of the sentence. It's the likelihood of being caught and punished.

I don't necessarily want to lock people up for petty theft. But I do want them to face some sort of punishment, even community service, with follow-up and escalating punishments if the community service is not completed.

If the implication is that we were prosecuting these crimes before Prop 47, them we can still prosecute every one of them, we just don't need to charge them as felonies.
As someone who has lived in a major city for the last 30 years there is just ONE rule.

Leave nothing in your car and leave the doors unlocked.

Leaving the door unlocked is the rule I adopted after a break in 30 years ago when only one of my doors was locked, and of course that window was broken!
"This sounds like a nightmare on privacy. Government collaborating and sharing your data with outside Companies"

Unlike Private companies sharing our data with other private companies?
While this fact surely deserves to be mentioned, I think plenty of companies make good PR off complying with legally mandated measures. Doing something good is doing something good, even if you don't want to do it.
It means they had a successful exit from/transition out of "startup" status and joined a company with decades of Linux development experience.
>one concern with nuclear reactors is what to do with the waste.

Actually, no. The reactor designs in use generate very little waste, just spent fuel rods that have to be kept in safe storage until their radioactivity level goes down to something reasonable. That doesn't take decades, either. The big problem with nuclear waste is the waste from weapons production, and people don't differentiate just like they don't for reactors vs. bombs.
I was able to get rid of multiple computers and convert from physical to virtual and save on power bills. Once your build is complete you will be incredibly happy. AMD is killing it with these processors. I've never been happier with a tech product line. It just blows me away how much I'm able to accomplish on a shoestring budget now.
Put your back into it: No evidence straight-back lifting is safer, say experts
> Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them.

The problem is not Prop47 or "liberal"/"progressive" politics.

The problem is a police and justice system that seems to be underfunded or understaffed to take care of small/petty crimes. No need to ruin someone's entire future for a shoplift or smash-and-grab, but also no reason to let them off "for free" only because the system is so overloaded.

> Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted.

In Germany, we have the concept of "gang theft" (§244 StGB for the interested), which penalizes exactly the modus operandi at play here.
Don't think parent is making an argument, just an observation. From personal experience where I live, most people wouldn't bother to even report a stolen bicycle or broken car window because there's so much more serious crime (gang violence etc) that police will inevitably treat your "petty" case as less important. It's terrible, but it's just the way of things in some places.
> Disagreeement != downvote

The founder of the site disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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As far as I'm aware, in 2019 only one country has an official policy of prejudging people based on the actions of their family members.

North Korea.

If my life had been weighed based on the actions of a few of my relatives, I would have been executed at birth.
Is there something us devs with money to throw around can do to, well, not fix, but alleviate the insurance gap? Perhaps there could be a large pool we could pay into, that people could spend solely on necessary medical care.
One of the reasons I dislike the term "software engineer" is because programmers hate to take responsibility. A professional would be willing to sign their name for the work or they wouldn't do it at all.
They focus on the team because that’s the how startups raise money these days, investors figure they could always pivot to something else. Obviously this can be problematic especially when the founder(s) is good at raising money, see Wework
Am I supposed to know these people?
Is that all one sentence?

Contact their customer support.
I said.

You’ve never been able to buy commercial video without copy protection. Even in the VHS days you had Macrovision.

That statement is factually correct.

The reply:

Not true. Perhaps you meant to say that copy protection has existed for a long time. But plenty of commercial video has been available without copy protection.

Which is factually incorrect.

The reply:

I copied in the 2000s using whatever generic DVD ripper was available for windows at the time. I recall once or twice being unable to rip a DVD for copy protection reasons but it was rare.

Since even the oldest Windows dvd copy programs like DVDRipper could crack DRM doesn’t prove anything...

Are you now saying that being factually correct is “irrelevant”?

But using programs and devices that removed copy protection somehow proves that it didn’t exist?
I work in the visual arts in the US and the triple-whammy of student loan debt (MFA's are basically a prerequisite for almost any job in the field), high real estate/rental prices, and lack of healthcare make it extremely difficult for anyone who lacks outside funding (partner in stable job, family money, etc.) to set up a studio and make a viable living at their art. If we at least had universal healthcare it might just be doable.. As it is now, most artists that I know are without insurance or on Medicaid.
ESP32 IoT Devices Vulnerable to Forever-Hack
Twitter fame? That's like saying Carmack was just trying to cash out his Facebook fame.

Cantrill and Frazelle both have created software used by millions.
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Came here to say the same thing. Sounds like the Bay Area is going the way of South Africa. The normalcy with which residents talk about crime sounds like an apocalyptic movie, not real life.
Maybe you hit it during the upgrade there. Works now, as far as I can see.
Have a citation for this? Sounds fascinating.
The geography and history of the bay area make it quite charming. However it would be a lot more charming if people could live there peacefully and without threat of violence. SF is living on charm borrowed from accidents of history and benevolence of the creator. At some point it'll have to be paid back
I make boardgames with my daughter
> The big cost items are kitchens and bathrooms

Why does a pod need a kitchen and bathroom? If it had those it'd be called a studio apartment. A pod is essentially anything from a dorm room styled apartment to a half-height room big enough to have a bed to sleep in and a shelf for a few items (like the Japanese have). In any of those cases you'd have communal kitchens and bathrooms. This would actually also be good socially because as we become more digitally immersed it provides a public area to meet new people, just like how it was in college.
> The author also calls out Unity as part of the problem

I am sorry, where does he do that?
I've built https://findwork.dev/?source=hn to index the postings here so that they're searchable. I also enrich the jobs with data from Glassdoor (reviews) and Crunchbase (funding). I use it for my own job hunt, but it might be useful for others too...
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Who do you recommend, since you like the policies but not the candidate it appears?
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When you say:
>Note: The y-axis is in LOG scale
What does this mean?
Is said "random engineer" an engineer? No. He's a code monkey and should be expected to be paid like a code monkey.
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