skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't buy
- clothes
- food
- any cloud services
- electronics
- furniture
?
Cause they would all require input of energy to harvest, process and ship
Sorry, I stopped reading at Buzzfeed
It means we can’t end up in an IE6 scenario, where the caretaking company loses interest in developing the browser, and we are all stuck using old technology forever.

Someone can simply fork it, with all its idiosyncrasies, then build new versions with new features.

Do you want a browser that natively supports a language other than JavaScript? Chromium is a great starting point.
I also got some exposure to a spreadsheet, a word processor and a database at school. The database stuff made little sense to me, and did not do anything to prepare me for what I'd learn about databases in university.
Cultural/juridistion miscommunication here :)

In some places, and varying by contract your mandated to give a notice and the same applies to employer.

In my jurisdiction I need to give 2 months If I'm employed there for more than 2 years (>=2).
Why does it cost $599 to get the back of an iPhone XS max (with working screen) replaced and only $349 if your screen is totally shattered?
Unfortunately it’s relatively limited, there are only a small number of wavelengths which are measured, and you can game it by tuning the peaks of the bulb to match up with those points.

There are better measures, but almost no manufacturers use them. I think just having the output spectrum and eyeballing it will do the trick.
The argument is based on looking a the world as a whole.

In developed world energy intensity of GDP is decreasing even when you take into account imports. Post-industrial economies can grow while decreasing energy use.

What the author is suggesting is that the developing world should stop growing. I can't agree with that. They need their electricity and washing machines.

GDP per unit of energy use (constant 2011 PPP $ per kg of oil equivalent)

EU: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.GDP.PUSE.KO.PP.KD?lo...

US: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.GDP.PUSE.KO.PP.KD?lo...
Which MAA book are you referring to?
It's sort of shocking how many of my colleagues in the past did not know who Alan Turing was. Context and history is so important to understanding why things are the way they are - and it also makes you mostly bullet-proof to tech dogma.
What fake money faucet? The big tech companies have tons of paying customers, and tons of net income increasing at tremendous rates with tremendous moats.
If I look at the density map you posted: Oh look at the Amazon, it's all empty so we still have space to expand farming. Yay.

The world is not empty. It's either exploited to cater for human needs or wilderness that should be protected at the point we've reached.
Yeah, but that failure was the result of advanced pure AI cloud native deep learning neural networks. The future is now. In a few more years you won't even be able to tell if a person gave up and quit a trivial task or if it was just a sophisticated machine.
I've long been of the opinion that the public trading of companies is directly responsible for much of the social injustice we see in the West.

As soon as there's a fiduciary duty to maximise ROI, morals go out the window. If you as an officer resist, the collective of shareholders will replace you with someone who will make more money.

There's a dissolution of responsibility that comes with the distributed nature of shares. The owner of a private company probably feels a certain amount of responsibility for the welfare of their workers. I'd be willing to bet most Amazon shareholders don't.

It's probably a naive opinion to hold, and I'm not saying every Amazon shareholder is personally responsible for the warehouse workers that can't use the bathroom without fear of reprisal, but the system is rotten.
That is straight manipulative bull...
All countries in the world pursue growth. Forcing them to reduce their energy usage, is a non-starter.

Your best bet would be to reduce the energy consumption of things and have more power sources that have no CO2 emissions like hydro-electric and nuclear.
> Instead of having a strong urge to stop working whenever it got dark out

Lots of us have the opposite urge! My theory is that darkness induces a combination of mild-depression and subliminal sort-of-pleasant fear that HELPS us ADD-iacs focus waaaay better especially on tasks like coding and debugging.

PLEASE never use OPs conclusions when designing public spaces, this would kill the productivity of people like me!
Is there any solid peer-reviewed, published papers on this stuff? While it sounds intuitively correct and attractive, I've struggled to find anything rigorous that shows light colour and intensity in the evening has an effect of sleep quality - its all anecdotal.
Here's a comparable thing in Julia:

julia> using Primes, Lazy

julia> @time drop(9999, filter(isprime, Lazy.range(1)))[1]
0.119811 seconds (1.25 M allocations: 23.502 MiB)
104729

The Lazy package doesn't support using threads yet since 1.3 was just released, so doing the threaded comparison isn't simple at the moment. However, this illustrates what I was getting at: the sequential Julia code is 185x faster than the the sequential Raku code and 67x faster than the threaded Raku code. It's great that Raku threading gets some scaling here (not sure how many cores you have, so it's unclear if 2.75x scaling is good or not, but it's not nothing). But it's considerably easier to scale if there's already a lot of performance on the table. The faster each operation is, the harder it is to make a threading implementation that has low enough overhead to make threads worthwhile. From the performance perspective, any effort spent on threading in Raku would be better spent on sequential speed until that has been maxed out.

I should also note that this is not how one would actually find the 10000th prime efficiently. For that you'd use the `nextprime` function also provided by the Primes package, like so:

julia> @time nextprime(1, 10000)
0.010456 seconds (17.00 k allocations: 265.562 KiB)
104729

That's another 10x faster than the lazy sequence approach. Which mostly tells me that the lazy code is impressively efficient—I would have expected a dedicated function to have more of an edge. Lest anyone cry foul about using C or whatever, this function is implemented fairly straightforwardly in Julia:

https://github.com/JuliaMath/Primes.jl/blob/ce0c1e388e1fd375....
There certainly are ways to live there. Granted, it needs some colonization effort - still easier than colonizing Mars, and actually producing some technologies for that.
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Perhaps you missed the empty desserts the other commenter has pointed out. If we want to colonize Mars, we should be able to colonize desserts.
I don't really agree with a lowest common denominator approach to teaching. Expose kids to algorithms (how to shuffle cards, how to sort cards), expose kids to basics of programming (ScratchJr, LOGO), and so on. The basics never go obsolete. The kids who have a knack for it will love it and go on to learn more. The kids who don't will at least get some basic idea of what these things are.
Most of the "western world" already has barely growing or declining populations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline

What you are proposing is thus an imperialist dictate on African and Asian countries, which is an obvious no go.

Instead you should advocate for improved standards of living and flourishing economies in all these countries, which is strongly correlated with stabilizing population levels.
Sex and Control are the root of all romantic conflicts
Kind of amusing that this idea is posted here on Hacker News, the center of people seeking jobs and companies that are the definition of growth.

If you didn’t have growth, you’d all be waiting for your promotion at the power plant when someone dies and frees up a position for you.
The accounting firms' motivation is profit, which they derive from the customers they are auditing, so they have an incentive to be favourable to their clients. If you want to be kind to them you can call it an unconscious bias. There have been a few scandals uncovered where an accounting firm audited and approved a company which soon after went bankrupt due to bad or corrupt accounting. For example Carillion, VBS Bank & Enron.

They are also drinking the same Kool-Aid as most other people in the industry, that all this is above board and fine. There's a lot of group-thinking, and not as much objective analysis as is needed.

The blindness extends to management and the board, who all want the company to be successful. Good financial numbers are questioned a lot less than bad ones.
French speakers, don't miss Jancovici's appearances on Thinkerview. Along with Bihouix, his talks are clear and enlightening.
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I have 10 years old pc and bought new phone after 3 years.
So 3000+3000/10+3000/3=4300

+products, so it will be 5-6k in total. Still not much.
> stop working whenever it got dark out

Also, this might be a good urge - just stop working and stop trying to use light to squeeze every ounce of productivity from yourself until you burn out!
Apple is priming a switch to ARM. They don’t care about the amd64 game too much any more. Catalina is step 1 getting that done.
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#4 is super important once you notice that "investors" includes pension plans.
I would consider moving on, but don't rush it. Once you have decided to move on, you might get a more relaxed relation to the current situation. Use that opportunity to evaluate your options. Then move on. Never try to change the behaviors of your leaders. I speak from experience, and found out too late that this is somewhat common knowledge.
Give up your Social Security benefits. Some has to work to pay your (and mine) SS benefits...and to change our diapers.

Natural population growth is not occurring in rich countries
Those grassroots lie-factories could be more dangerous than state-directed ones. The state has a single message to push. A market, by contrast, will try every damn thing it can think of, and some of it will work.

I don't remember where I read it, but I believe the 2016 Russian disinformation campaign took advantage of a number of conspiracy theories that arose "in the wild".
What makes it amusing is the assumption that people's thoughts should be consistent with their behaviour. Being interested in growth could be a consequence of being interested in material safety. This last concern is perfectly consistent with reducing energy consumption, given climate change is a threat to material safety.
The worrying part is the American public keeps falling for the same tricks: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, Syria has chemical weapons, Gaddafi's soldiers supposedly issued viagra for raping women, voting Bush for second term, etc.

I have no doubt these countries have done horrible things, but they do not deserve to be invaded and subjected to millions of civilian deaths.
The past 200 years is the era of energy-intensive technological innovation. What is the evidence that the technology innovation pattern we've experienced so far can shift into ultra-low energy mode at scale? In inhospitable environments to boot.

PS. Mars colonization is folly.
> Most of the "empty" space on the map world is an inhospitable desert.

Southern California is an inhospitable desert, but tens of millions of people live there nonetheless.
This requires both ends (source and receiver) to be configured for Ethernet over HDMI.
Many European countries already did, collectively. Now it's up to developing world to do their share.
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I mean, how are you going to see the ads if the screen is blanked? It's not that they didn't think about it, they did, they just went for the "feature" that benefitted them the most.
On a quick first read of your list everything strikes me as half true at best.

They are all absolute statements, but I don't believe they're true most of the time.

1. I think most corporations are small companies

2. Microsoft didn't grow for almost a decade. Then they tippled in size. Are you suggesting that Microsoft didn't grow for a decade because investors didn't demand it, but were ready to triple in size whenever their investors showed up and demanded it?

3. This is true of any investment and not just true for professional investors.

4. This is true of everyone.

5. Most corporations pursuing continuous growth is a fallacy. The competition you describe is called Capitalism and it has many benefits. Not least of which are lower costs and better products/services for the consumer.

6. I disagree with the premise so I disagree with the conclusion.

7. Capitalism can amplify greed and greed can lead to acting immorally, which is bad, but I maintain this is rare.

8. I've been toying with the idea of the benefits of curving inflation in my mind. You're going to have to define what 'social justice' is and what restoring it looks like.
My Chevy Bolt is like that. It's the most basic (and boring) unassuming car in terms of looks and options. It blends in well with everything else on the road. At the same time it's more fun to drive compared to any ICE vehicle I've ever owned.
They need their electricity and washing machine, but do they need exotic vacations and long commutes in powerful cars? Do they need clothes that are made to be worn for a very short time? Do they need technology that's cheap to the point of it being wasted without an afterthought?
What are they doing about people that text (or read their phone) and drive?
I have had the following thought: what if we institute a rule where any shareholder who exercises his right to vote must hold his stock for at least 2 years?
I saw a very interesting talk by Mike Tamir, Berkeley and Uber Autonomous Group, about an extension his research group built to detect sensationalism and emotional appeals. The idea was that detecting writing designed to anger, incite and sensationalize (versus state facts) basically separated everything we’d call fake news from journalism: https://www.fakerfact.org/about
Excellent. Now do the same for your house, your furniture, your mode of transport, what you do for work...etc etc.
What do you need to anonymize ? what type of system are you asking about ? do you need to comply with GDPR ?

names, addresses, id numbers or account numbers can be easily randomized. Dates and numbers (what kind of system is it?) are trickier since they are used in calculations. Finally the tricky part is making sure that the anonymized data still can't be tracked back to real entities.
Isn't 131 of something rare relative to the number of cargo airplanes, trains, ships, and trucks produced?

It seems pretty clear that those numbers side by side tell the tale.
This is both a ridiculous and offensive accusation.

It is quite irrelevant which parts of the world have a growing population and which have not. What's important is the global population.
If you did what you say you did, the founders will put a lid on team lead, problem solved, no drama.

Realize also that you might also just be projecting your own disappointment onto the team lead. I've built MVPs as well, only to realize that, for all that herculean effort, there's still a lot of work to do. Leaving isn't going to solve that
Anybody aware of a corresponding solution for Mercurial yet?
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I don't think companies need to grow at a certain rate to get more ROI than the inflation rate. The value of a company expressed in currency should already go up with that currency's inflation rate, even if the company stays exactly the same.
Pureed metaphors usually mean someone is writing without thinking. There's a whole nice Orwell essay on it!
The need to find new places to live, perhaps combined with regulatory effort.
Agreed. If you're really willing to quit, there's no downside to talking to the founders, if done correctly.

If they're the sort to appreciate straight talk, plainly state you feel the team lead is doing more harm vs delivering value to the company. Otherwise back into it from "There are some issues with the way things are working that I've noticed..."

Make sure to include you're not the only one who feels this way. But certainly don't name or get overly specific with the others you've talked to. I'd simply suggest the founders reach out to {these groups} to get their opinions.

End with the work environment created by the team lead is directly causing you to look for other opportunities. (Hint: go ahead and start interviewing and have semi-serious job leads before this talk)

Remind them of what you feel you've done: never overestimate their knowledge of who actually did / does what.

State that you like(d) working at the company, found the problems interesting, and loved what you felt you and the founders had done ("together!" Be generous, and appreciative of whatever they did to keep the company a going concern while technical problems were solved).

If they do come back with an offer, as GP cautions, make sure you don't agree to any "company will make things better in an unspecified manner, in exchange for ensuring you work there another X years" forms of compensation.

If you do feel the offer is too vague ("We'll talk to team lead"), thank them for that, but push back and remind them that you've already been dealing with this for X months and are going to need a firmer commitment to change things.

Then see where it goes. Anything worth getting it worth asking for, especially if you have concrete other options.
They can't. Capitalism can only exist in growth. To give up growth you would need to give up Capitalism.

You should do both.

Edit: Do people who downvote me disagree that Capitalism necessitates growth to function? Or do they disagree that we should get rid of it?
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Ask HN: Why are there no powerful free refactoring libraries for text editors?
Editors like Emacs, VI, etc. are great, but IDEs can do much for you if they know the language more intimately like IntelliJ knows Java.

But why are there no free alternatives for refactoring? Is there some difficult technical problem?

If we consider, for example, Java and refactoring then Rename Variable, Extract Method and similar features do not look very hard to implement. There are libraries for parsing Java and if we have the syntax tree then it's just a matter of performing the modifications on it.

Parsing broken code may be a challenge, but a powerful refactoring library would be very helpful even if it could work
only on compilable code. Text editors could just call the library and reload the source files after the refactoring is done.

LSP is a step in the good direction by providing completion, jump to definition, etc. Why are there no similar libraries for source code refactorings? What is the difficulty here?
I'm merely suggesting that we maintain the money supply at a level that does not result in any inflation.
It sure is great to see Microsoft embracing and extending Linux you guys!
It is time for you to leave the company.
I wonder about that too. But I've heard about the effect a lot so it must be true ;-)
Sure there is. It's a mass-produced PCB. Just take the old one out and drop a new one in.

Whether Tesla are willing to foot the bill outside of warranty, however, remains to be seen.
All you need is to glimpse 1 satellite for a short while if you're looking for a roughly accurate time.
You need 3 to get a position fix, but fewer will still give you the time.
I mean.....in Poland the average age of a car is 14 years, and we have very harsh winters with plenty of salt being used. I don't think there's anything weird about driving a car that approaches 20 years old, or anything particularly tricky about maintaining one either.
Nobody ever won a battle with a bully by being a pushover. People will give you as much s—t as you will take. Do not sit there and eat it.
It is a terrible name. You can do web dev in pure Assembly and it actually makes sense in contrast with yet another framework over a framework over an interpreter over POSIX-libraries.

E. g. monitoring for mission critical servers. You really don't want the whole stack of unverified goodies on these machines, but since you already have TCP/IP for SSH, writing a simple web-server that reports machine health over HTTP is like a half-day job.

And it's verifiable since it's small. It doesn't drag the whole Python infrastructure with it.
Can this handle websockets and streams?
Here is the actual Samsung screen that you can't opt out of:

https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1067258123545661441
I use the REPL in the browser dev tools. But when the puzzles get too hard for small pure functions I usually give up and focus on real problems instead :P
Can a person participate in Advent of Code if they don't celebrate Advent or Christmas? (If so, why use Advent, a Christian liturgical season, as the hook?)
Not necessarily.

Africa, with 1.+2 billion inhabitants, has a tiny carbon footprint compared to the US (which as less than 1/3 of Africa's population).

Source: https://unfccc.int/files/press/backgrounders/application/pdf...
“To reduce energy consumption, stop growing your net worth. Stay poor”.

It is exactly the same on the micro level.
Investors demand growth as part of a risk vs. return tradeoff. There's probably quite a bit of "waste" involved in pursuing excessively-risky opportunities that have not shown profitability, simply to obtain a shorter time-to-market than competitors. OTOH the social returns from this activity could still be positive if it means that a broader variety of opportunities is being pursued at any given time.
As for biases... I think in many discussions these could also be called opinions. And you are allowed to have one of course. So I doubt a formalization of language is helpful here at all. Trying to find the minimal common position is probably more constructive and you would need to work out things from there. Conflicts will arise inevitably that need to be dealt with by compromises.

The problem with attesting cognitive bias is just that you could invalidate any statement without proof, since you cannot measure bias. Cognitive bias has few measurable effects with different results from small variances in inputs. Wouldn't want to invent recursive cognitive bias here. I think cognitive psychology itself would need to take a closer look at itself. It can very well be an indicator that formal logic and heuristics are not a sufficent model for human thought processes. Sounds trivial really. Maybe you believe otherwise because you heard someone saying something stupid. Bias?

As for vetting information, there simply isn't any authority. Everyone could become one, you would just need to convince all the others. I also often suffer from the circumstance of being the only one with the correct opinion or bias for that matter.

> students supporting each side of a football match counted a different number of infractions and reported referee bias in opposite directions

Exactly. Did they report their numbers because they thought them to be true?
An interesting though experiment would be to investigate what you expect to happen against what happened in Japan, which had basically flat inflation from 1992 to present: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/201...
It's always the same on HN. Some post about any news at Boeing, be they good, bad or whatever.

Someone has to chime in and drag Airbus through the dirt at least once. Let's at least mention one issue regarding Airbus. Is this a sales platform?

Really makes you wonder. Maybe it's just some weirdo mix of patriotism and capitalism.
There is just the book for him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right
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Nowhere does this article state that the logs are sent anywhere. And I think we can all agree that logging for the case of failure is reasonable.