skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it's important to remember that the state doesn't see the law this way.

Yes, it is important to remember that the state is imbued with power, and also in many areas they have discretion, so if you want something discretionary from the state you need to
maintain a relationship with them or leverage.

But the term you need to remember is "toothless", there are some toothless laws, and some toothless enforcement agencies

When the consequences are negligible you can consider acting accordingly
Wrong: I am quite happy to vote for binding hard choices if I can be assured that there are no exemptions - and no mechanism to engineer exemptions once I have put me and mine at a disadvantage.

Since none can tell me how we are going to enforce this, I withdraw my vote.
What does it say to you?

What it says to me: I know that climate change is an extremely serious problem we need to solve and I believe economics is the right place to look for the tools we'll need to incentive people to do better.
They are a sponsor of PyCon and their booth is always a hub of activity. Last year they held mini tutorial sessions with prominent Python developers who demonstrated PyCharm with various programming examples (like Flask, virtual environments and Jupyter notebooks).

I was able to talk directly with the PyCharm developers to figure out a problem I was having when starting new projects. Their developers are friendly and very knowledgeable.

I have no hesitation renewing my PyCharm subscription knowing that these guys are building a great product that makes my work easier.
It’s simpler to create a db, password, keep up with correct salted hash scheme, email password reset, mail service, getting through spam filters, user profile icon? As soon as you’re dealing with customer info you took on a bunch of requirements.
How do streamers affect the seeders? I'm guessing that they don't keep the entire video file in the browser and contribute 'their share' back to the torrent, do they?
You are delusional and immature. I've seen experienced Vim/Emacs kiddies like you really struggle to keep up with my productivity levels in IDEA with JVM languages. Doing everything at the command line doesn't make you 1337 and superior. The actual typing and manipulation of text is the least complex side of development. Most of my time is spent thinking, analyzing, rather than monkeying with text. However I use Vim keybindings in IDEA and get the best of both worlds. Efficient text editing + advanced semantic parsing at a level that Vim and Emacs will never achieve.
How to set a Dropbox file to be ignored (beta)
No surprise. Larry and Sergey said pretty much the same, themselves, some time ago.

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]
Popcorn Time already kinda does this and works pretty much flawlessly. You need to download their Electron app though.
If by bold you mean "looks like a stealth destroyer" then yes it's bold.
Show HN: An extensible JSON viewer, editor, formatter, validator and more
What do you think will happen when politicians control a search engine? Would you also want to nationalize the press?
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The problem is removing the word "complementary" from the phrase. A "complementary health approach" is an approach that uses practices that are not normal conventional medical practices to complement conventional practices.
Spitting Image Stupid Voters. Show from the 1980s
What happens when you push to git.sr.ht, and why was it so slow?
The Edsel was actually pretty standard design for the time. I think that may have been one of the things that hurt it.
Ah yes, the Australian Genocide. Classic. Very comparable to other genocides, like the Uighur Muslim genocide, the genocide of the Jews, or the Armenian genocide.

It's very clear to me you just want to grandstand. And in doing so you're creating even more problems. If you want to criticize Australian treatment of refugees, go for it. Don't call these detention centers concentration camps though, because that's not what they are. There is simply no comparison and I am still bewildered that you would think so.
I have heard people mention that European safety rules that would prevent sale if the cybertruck. But nobody says which rules and why. Can you elaborate?
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if (a < b)
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You can switch between the less-than and greater-than sign using '%' key in vim. I bet no other ide can do that.

Vim is the javascript of text editors.
That's still anecdote. You haven't even established which "side" is promoting this 100% nurture story. The vast majority of the progressives / socially liberal people I personally know think that both nature and nurture are factors. So it must be the conservatives who believe that nurture is 100% and are promoting this idea? We both know that's not the case. So is there really a "side" promoting a 100% nurture theory? Or just a few people pushing an extreme theory that is then sensationalized by the media?

That's why you need data and numbers to prove your point instead of one anecdotal data point. One example is close to useless, and a widespread news story is not evidence of what people believe.
If anything methanol would be a sensible replacement for cars. Much clearer transition path and same end result. But in personal transportation both of those will be a tiny part of the market. Alternative fuels transition should have started 30ish years ago.
A carbon tax would have similar incentives. Green producers and products get taxed less than brown producers. It also doesn’t matter if the product comes from Timbuktu or Savannah, it just matters how green or not green it is.

Carbon trading would result in billionaires and large funds finding a new way to make more money at the expense of everyone else and solve little.
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Great piece! Wish many other journalists spoke like this.

For journalists at elite newspapers, there is a lot to lose if they report 'truth'. These journalists are connected to the power in myriad ways through: alumni networks, think tanks, marriage and relatives, lobbyists that support a particular narrative, their desire to secure admissions to elite prep schools, elite Ivies(say, HYP) for their progeny, etc.
Wouldn't bundling the costs of the negative externalities associated with the production of the new cars, iPhones, and clothes as a tax levied against the manufacturers "address" the "consumerism waste"? Manufacturers are very good at passing costs on to consumers, and innovating to drive costs down in the face of competition. If your goal really is to reduce environmental impact (and not just being "anti-consumerist") then it would seem like using the market to do that would make more sense vs. trying to change the habits of mass numbers of individuals.
Fair points, but on the other hand, to quote Page and Brin:

"we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline’s homepage when the airline’s name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want." [1]

[1] Larry Page and Sergey Brin, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998
Google paid Apple billions for being the default search engine since the iPhone was released. Google may have charged Apple for usage, but Google was far more interested in gaining analytics from iOS users than the money. That’s what caused Apple to cancel their contract.
i still don't understand the core issue: why is anyone saving essential data to localstorage? isn't that supposed to be a state-related, somewhat temporary (due to its nature) storage in-between the UI and the API/database?
don't you lose all your data when you use a different pc or smartphone?

i see a lot of mentions of cordova apps. are people publishing apps without a backend (and save everything in localstorage)?

i've worked on pwa's in the past but server sync was always a priority in my algorithms.

does anyone have any realistic use cases where localstorage is so essential that clearing it would somehow lose tons of data?
I think it's a generally frugal market even if some of us are flush with a bit of cash. There's a lot you can get done for free with various FOSS stacks, and outside of highly specialized tools that aren't easy to replicate in features/availability/guarantees, I think it's a hard market to get a foot in, because the power of NIH is so strong. Things like IDEs, or security services, that take either a very slow burn or a lot of programming/design power are possibly the exception, and even then you can spoil it. A lot of people on here got upset when JetBrains moved from permanent licenses to a subscription service -- but in hindsight, I think it was the right move and it probably paid off! Think about that: you have a tool that is used in-and-out, like bread and butter, every day, like 30 hours a week -- and maybe, if you're lucky, a developer who makes 6 figures will say "ok I'll pay $200 a year i guess" or whatever. It's kind of incredible! Of course corporate accounts do not bat an eye at this; in fact they like continuous support, renewals, and services. It keeps things regular.

It's very easy to look at JetBrains and say it can obviously work, just the same way people look at RedHat (or other outliers) and say it can work. They're a standout company in this space, and have high reputation, and it didn't come from nowhere. They almost make it look easy -- just sell a great product, boom! But it depends on a lot of factors like when they entered the market, how they grew over time, etc. It's possible they wouldn't be able to get off the ground today if they tried this whole thing again.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if JetBrains existence, happening before the whole VC craze, has in fact influenced the market itself, today: even with millions of dollars of VC funny money, it would probably be very difficult to compete with them on their turf in 2019, when they have extremely high reputation and a big array of products, in a market that is a very "small world". They're the 900lb gorilla in the room, in a sense, but they did it on their own.

JetBrains products are amazing though, without a doubt, and they deserve their success. I wish them all the best.
CFD estimations actually put it to be a bit more aerodynamic than the F-150, actually.
The network effect of an organization like Google is not to be underestimated: Google has many complementing services that all funnel you to their search engine. Because of this, other search engines are at a serious disadvantage if they want to compete. Also considering that search is very much a “winner takes all” market, where more users mean better results.

These type of situations are typically bad for consumers, and there is very much a role for the government to steer the status quo away from this and support Google’s competitors. Whether that’s done by breaking up Google, taxing them more heavily, or something else is up for discussion.

But simply telling people “just use DDG!” and considering that a viable solution to the problem is insufficient.
This doesn't surprise me one bit.

Government is 100% of the wrong place to solve this. And that's because they can't no matter what they do it's impossible for them to do that.

This can only be solved in the research field with better energy sources.

And it can be solved in the finance field with cheaper energy sources.

Government regulation cannot solve this.
All of these are by Bill Bryson but none are about travel:

Shakespeare: the World as Stage

One Summer: America, 1927

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the US

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
This. If all the ISP's died near me, I probably wouldn't shed a tear.
Going out on a limb, you could argue that cryptozoology is alive today in out interconnected world. I would be surprised if a bigfoot were found today, but it wouldn't upend my worldview. Comparable creatures (gigantopithecus) have existed in human prehistory, and we still find previously undocumented animals today. I don't think we'll find evidence of a bigfootesque creature existing in historical times, but if presented with the evidence in 1818 I might have bet on it. There is still popular media being produced that is profitable because people want to see Survivorman find a bigfoot, and they think he might.
Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality
I think the reality is much less agenda-based and much more depressing: a lot of bureaucrats couldn’t give two shits about their job and are just there to put in the minimum required effort to get their paycheck, without regard for who they might hurt along the way.

Certainly sounds like what happened here - a bored, lazy bureaucrat scanning the application for a heading and tossing it in the bin when they didn’t find it.

I’d far prefer a bureaucracy where the employees cared, even if it was caring about the “wrong” reasons.
I'm certainly sympathetic to the frustration of having to support every previous version of your software. If upgrades cost money, then people are incentivized to stay on old versions and then complain about bugs that have been fixed since then, and you can't tell them "just upgrade" because they don't want to pay to upgrade. Web companies almost never need to support old versions of the website, for example, and that makes them much easier to manage from an engineering and customer support standpoint.
"The search index"? Leaving aside any other problems that would cause, that sounds like a recipe for locking in specific formats and technologies forever, and preventing any further innovation.

A search index is not simply a function from search string to results. Treating it as such would oversimplify the potential value or future innovation of a search engine. A search index includes the data and metadata of all the pages indexed, plus derived data in various forms ranging from data structures to trained neural networks, plus sufficiently fast access to the data to make it possible to generate new such data structures or train new networks. And all that while continuing to index new pages as fast as possible.

A search index used internally by one company can change formats and technologies as long as the products using it have updated accordingly, and can provide many different facets of information. A search index used by multiple entities (likely competing entities) can't easily co-evolve with the search engines using it, can't easily change formats or technologies, can't easily discard older ones (and thus needs far more resources if it innovates), and has a much more difficult time providing previously unanticipated information.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a good way to support innovation on the scale of a production search index without requiring billion-dollar infrastructure, but separating the search index from a search engine would substantially increase the complexity and expense of both, and seems quite likely to curtail innovation.
Gwt? Npe?

I am happy with mailfence. Miss yubikey and real twofactor (only in browser are two factor needed, imap etc just rely on normal password).

I have catchall enabled and can use both my mailfence and my own domain interchangeable.

I think I signed up with a 10 minute free mail. Paid with Bitcoin. Didn't provide any personal info (as principle, didn't use VPN etc).

Set up dmarc etc.
Helpful support.

Really happy overall.

I use fairemail for email and simplecontacts + davx5. Works really well.
> I would imagine is a big part of getting companies who hire college grads to license JB products

It's a good idea because, at least in our company, all of the young kids who are fresh out of school use VS Code while most of the seasoned people use IntelliJ (obviously there is one senior person using VIM as required by developer stereotypes).
> DDG's revenue also comes from ads. They might claim that they want to do right by users, but when serving ads the incentive is to optimize those ads to make more money.

I find this a red herring. Ads have never been a problem, the ecosystem around them is the problem.

> What the US government should do is to introduce privacy laws that disallows user profiling for the purpose of serving ads. The GDPR in the EU is a step in the right direction.

This is overly specific; user profiling is also used in recommendations and to develop aggressive and optimized marketing strategies. One of the problem of "Big Tech surveillance" in not what they know about you, but that they know so much about everyone that they can model your behavior/response with little information. (which for example is what happened with Cambridge Analytica)

> The US government should also demand for those ads to be more clearly marked as being ads via color clues.

This feel a lot like micromanaging.
I find ad labeling on Google increasingly subtle. Ads seem to be so voluminous on Google lately that there’s no organic results to contrast them with above the fold. By definition (2), if I only see paid results above the fold, I think it’s fair to argue it has become an advertising engine. Search users are scrolling down results less and less, and there’s a tremendous bias towards the top results. When there’s no organic results above the fold, to users Google often feels like it’s completely driven by ads.
What AirBnB and uber proved is that our white collar criminal laws are totally inadequate. We throw people in jail for stealing a six pack but not for blatantly conspiring to externalize billions onto the public at large in direct contraction of local laws. When the rewards of antisocial behavior are so high, only prison is adequate deterrent.
Most economists argue for revenue neutral carbon taxes. You redistribute collected taxes equally to everyone.

The point of carbon taxes is to affect behavior, not fund government.
The position of the async-std project is that people should use _futures-rs_ as the integration point and avoid integrating into tokio or async-std if possible. (both are IO optimised)

Especially for things like an actor system, I would recommend to not use either, but instead spawn a dedicated number of threads handling the actors. This allows you to be specifically optimised to the problem. bastion is a great example for that.

async-std ships a second library called "async-task", which implements just the task/future allocation component and allows you to quickly implement your own runtime.

Full disclosure: I'm one of async-std's maintainers.
Startups should shun SF and California generally and operate in appropriately low cost, low bureaucracy venues.
China's CO2 production per capita is half of that of US

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
>they have been accused of “opening a new door to eugenics”, according to the title of a 2018 MIT Technology Review article by science historian Nathaniel Comfort.

I don't understand this position. Should we just ignore entire branches of science just because their results are inconvenient for some people/narratives? Meanwhile we allow sloppy, one sided science from the socially acceptable camp to influence social policy in a potentially totally broken way.

Agenda driven science is bad science. You cannot solve social issues if you refuse to consider where the problems may actually come from. If there's any validity to social genomics, then perhaps our approach of blanket solutions to all groups in society will be shown to be ineffective, and this is a critical avenue to explore because it would indicate that our current allocation of resources is suboptimal.
Few UX comments:
1. There are a few advanced features that are enabled by default that I think should be hidden by default: stats and multiple panes
2. It's unclear how to get back when entering an article
There is a lack of competition in email providers?

You would also be better off as a business to build your brand outside of YouTube even if you did use it for hosting.
cash settled carbon futures!

carbon volatility index!

carbon tax default swap!

I want it all
You probably want to focus on things that have a multiplier effect on people (e.g. education and health) but where the main benefits go to one person, who would then be willing to pay.

So, the street cleaning example is tough. It's a classic 'public good' that can't easily be solved without tax-funded cleaning.

But there are for-profit healthcare companies in other parts of the world which aim to serve poor people whilst still making a profit. But of course this requires every part of the business to be very efficient, and this isn't easy. Perhaps this example will inspire you: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-26/the-world...
This really reminds me of a project called TinyGC/tgc[0], made by Daniel Holden who is currently a Ubisoft researcher. I have also tried his Cello[1] framework for C99 which also incorporated a garbage collector similar to tgc. Cello is pretty fun to use but the syntax was still limiting.

[0]: https://github.com/orangeduck/tgc

[1]: https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello
"Also ironic is the fact that the only reason that anyone is commenting in this thread is because the post was an essay by Paul Graham who surprise surprise 'is successful and has money'."

Your posts are riddled with these very wrong assumptions, insinuations, conclusions, and pointless diversions.
Why I think you reach the wrong conclusion, using your analogy:

Say you're a week from the paper being due, and need to decide between an A thesis and a B thesis.

The A thesis would be great, but you simply can't do the research necessary to prove it in a week. If you went with it your paper would be a complete failure because you'd either spend all your time on research and not have enough time to do the actual writing of the paper, or you decide to spend most of your time writing the paper but it's impossibly to make the arguments because you simply don't have the facts necessary.

Instead you pick the B quality thesis, and write a workable paper arguing for it. Sure your paper would be better with a better thesis, but given your position when you started it was your best option.

With climate change, if we let perfect be the enemy of the good we might end up doing nothing which is clearly worse than doing something insufficient. Badness scales (nonlinearly) with amount we reduce emissions. We want the best solution we have the ability to implement. (Figuring that out is the hard part, and I don't know enough to do that).

Note: Your source is worthless in this forum. No one is going to read through hundreds of pages to figure out if they support your claim. It would be as if I wrote nothing but "You're wrong (cite the Encylcopedia Brittanica)". I'm pretty sure you're right, ironically because of reputable secondary sources I've read that summarized the report.
I use Pycharm and it's such a superior product that I'm happy to support them so they can continuing development. plus it's a pretty nominal fee from an enterprise development cost perspective so it's an easy budgetary sell.

As others said, the community edition is free and extremely capable, so I don't see a reason to complain. It's fantastic that I can use my professional job to support development that benefits free users.