skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The likely objection to your argument is that people don't really think there's much of a difference whether we start action today or in 5 years. Yes, it will be more difficult, but actually taking the right steps is probably more important.

There's a million ways how some bad steps being taken could end up in a catastrophe. Look at the situation with the Amazon and how aggressive some countries are against the Brazilian government. Some countries (France) are even bypassing the government to deal with local authorities. Situations like that can very quickly spiral out of control. They might make people be even less accepting of doing something about climate change and they can even spark political instability, which very well can lead to hot conflicts.

The climate situation is going to progressively get worse. It will even accelerate the rate at which it gets worse, but it's not going to explode like a bomb. Political situations can explode like that and when that happens, then nobody will care about climate change.

We can't afford not to be moderate on an issue like this. You can't solve climate change at once. It'll take sustained effort and a lot of time. You can't build it on shaky ground.

>hacker news is swarming with climate change denalists downvoters.

This type of attitude is a huge problem for people advocating for changes to be made due to climate change. You're asking for a lot of people's lives to become more difficult, but when they question or disagree on almost any point they are labelled evil and stupid.
It’s hard for me to praise Jetbrains, every time I start using Idea I have amazing experience, I feel like it’s totally one of the best IDEs out there and then couple days and non-trivial plugins later I have noticeable lags when typing text. I immediately give up and switch back to my previous setup. Why can’t IDEs prioritize reducing typing latency? That’s like one of the most important parts of text editing.

Anybody else had similar experience?

Edit: not trying to rain on Jetbrains parade here, I’m genuinely happy they have a business model that works and products that sell well.
Update: Curious, I took Vscode for a spin again and installed the latest Vim plugin. Although .vimrc keybinding support is supposed to be there, I'm getting no love. So new ticket for the maintainers [1]. The thing is Vscode is SO snappy and slick, I'm going to switch anyway :)

[1] https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/4384
I think a dark mode would be great too
Do a google search for "computer". The entire first page is ads save for the one Wikipedia link.
This. The opposite of bureaucracy slavishly following process usually is not good customer experience but corruption. If you open the pandora's box of following process being optional, usually the person with cash in hand wins.

This obviously isn't an excuse for dump or inefficient processes, though.
Lennon's response to Dylan is just as apropos here as it was in the original context: "Serve yourself".

The distinction here is probably between being an "engineer" vs. being a "programmer". The former's concerns include all this stuff that's for the business. The latter is just interested in the craft of writing computer programs. And that's all the article was about: skill as a programmer. Which might help you be more effective as an engineer, depending on the projects you face. But the point is self-edification; not everything has to be in service of money.
That's because the antisociality of breaking those laws is less provable than a violation of a materialized enumeration, in this sense: If you steal something from a shop, I can point a finger at the shopkeeper and say, yes that person was hurt, and by this much. Then I can point at the thief, and say that person gained, and by this much. If the identities of the victim and perpetrator are nebulous, and the externality is vague, and the laws being broken themselves are inconsistent across jurisdictions and have a history of abuse by those in power, and have in places themselves been a source of questionable action (like racist policy and blatant theft from the poor by municipalities), what you are asking for is far more challenging.
Reviewers are human. If they can’t use their human reasoning skills deal with something trivial like “Heading A3 should be above this paragraph” then frankly society would be much better off without them, and we should just automate them away rather than wasting our tax dollars on them.
Ask HN: Where to Start Learning JavaScript?
I am confused and lost. As much as I want to dive deep into web dev and start my career in Tech, I find myself frustrated. The amount of information available is huge. Perhaps the learning curve will be steep. But I need a kind of "structure" or approach; an organized path to learn and practice this craft. Yes I want to create beautiful and useful apps down the road, but for now I need help regarding where to Start in Web Dev in 2020!
K8s is spam, stop posting this please.
Being constantly attacked is just a reality of being at the top. Doesn't matter what it is, individual achievement, business political entertainment etc... if you're on top people are going to just come after you, no matter what.
Hotels would
Please, we're done hearing about kubernetes. Shut up already.
Welcome to the World of Statecharts
How to Draw a Compelling Data Interface
Probably because they didn't pay off whomever in city hall was in charge of these licenses
Ah. Cool. What are your plans around data serialization and compatibility of different nodes during version upgrade?

And thanks for the answer!
(2017) - previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
Web Development Advent Calendars for 2019
That's like saying the NBA shouldn't own the rights to its tournaments because it didn't invent basketball. Who does the activity is important.

Also game companies want to have streamers because it's huge free advertising
Not sure IntelliJ can handle key mapping the same way as Karabiner - for example, my right option key (only the right one, not the left) is mapped to command + space. Good tip nevertheless!
One of the irritating things about SO is people who don't read the question before answering it[0]. As you apparently haven't read mine.

Are these your questions, as I asked? Of course you can find such problems, that's not what I was asking. But let's go on.

As to your questions, the first has been closed, and quite correctly as it's too vague.

The 2nd is not closed, and has answers. Problem?

The 3rd is not closed, and has an answer (albeit downvoted unhelpfully as you note). But the answer's there.

Not your questions anyway, and 1 closed correctly and 2 still open and with answers.

I don't accept this as strong evidence of wrongdoing.

[0] edit: ahem, not that I'm in a position to accuse others of this at times.
I love their products, my only gripe is that the performance is somewhat sluggish on my 2018 13" Macbook Pro.
Do you think carbon taxes can work without international agreement? If so what approach gives you hope?
I'll offer a counterpoint: while leaded solder is easier to work with, lead-free isn't too bad if you're willing to work a little harder and deal with a lower yield (at least up front while you get the hang of it).

That said from an exposure hazard standpoint I'm far more cautious about flux than lead. Just using lead-free solder doesn't mean your whole process is safe.
Slowing Down to Scale Design
clickbait title:

Should be banned >> from use in decisions that affect people's lives <<
There are almost 90,000 governments in the United States. Each of them maintains x websites.

That is a lot of UX designers.
I'm one of those recent converts. I picked up programming in my late 30's and the first tool I ended up paying for was Pycharm. I never went through the 'print statement' phase as their debugger is incredible.
Indeed, the Australian experiment showed most of these folk weren’t even refugees fleeing for their lives.

They were normal folk from poor countries who wanted the Western lifestyle and knew their best chance was to fake it in Australia and exhaust the courts.

Proof: when the boat route to Australia closed, very, very few are asking for asylum in Indonesia.

It just hurts some snowflakes SRC sensibilities to admit this.

PS. I really think Western democracies should hold a binding referendum on whether billions of poor people have a right to migrate to their countries, or not. You are tearing yourselves apart over it.
> The distance to decision makers and the number of developers working on a project is clearly and unambiguously the issue that is the best predictor of future problems with a code base.
At which point you increase the size of the bureaucracy and the state leading to more government control. A decade or two later there's a financial crisis and the government just happens to tap into the carbon tax fund as a "temporary measure" or perhaps the fund just lends money to the government that the government eventually can't pay back.

I'm saying that whichever way you slice it, it's still possible for this to be abused.
YouTube - barely profitable

Android - it came out in the Oracle case that Android has only made Google about $24 billion in profit from the time of its inception until the beginning of the trial. They have given Apple more money to be the default search engine on iOS than they have made on Android.

Gmail - mail hosts are a dime a dozen. It’s a feature not a product.

Google drive - again a feature not a product. DropBox has lost money since it’s inception and MS gives away 6TB of storage with Office365 ($100/year)

GSuite - not exactly a “monopoly” it’s a distant second to Microsoft.

Office software with the limited capabilities of GSuite is a commodity. Apple gives iWorks away.
There are ways to keep the lights on without showing ads.

Example:

Offer a "premium" search experience. They could let people customize what types of results they'd like to see. When I'm searching for a software engineering question, I'd almost always prefer documentation, then code, then q&a, then blog posts. I'd also love to set which sites I'd prefer to see results from (mdn, Reddit, etc).

The issue is that ads would almost certainly make more money than other options. And, as a for-profit company, Google has a lot of pressure to do what makes them the most money. It would be tough for them to tell their investors, "we know we could make more money by showing ads, but we're not going to do that". Even if they could offer a better experience/product without ads.

Personally, and this is almost certainly a controversial opinion, I think the issue is with the for-profit company model. As soon as you give people equity, you're under a lot of pressure to do what makes the most money rather than what's best for the world. I'm curious what Google would look like if it was a money-making non-profit.
> I think the main clash was not about runtime differences but about the interface incompatibility (futures.rs)

There is a huge amount of complaints just fundamentally about async-std's existence, though.
Amazon Prime Video is the streaming component of Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime Video is thus somewhat comparable to Netflix--but with a poorer selection of movies and series. Amazon Prime has a number of other things, primarily free shipping. So if you have no interest in free shipping or the other things in Amazon Prime you can save a few dollars a year (but only a few dollars) by just getting Amazon Prime Video.
Oooh, thanks for the tip about Ultimate. I'll check if my workplace has a license.
Or we could stop making clothes out of materials that shed microplastics. And while we're at it, cotton too for the vast amounts of water it uses. Industrial hemp and linen are far more sustainable options. Tencel looks like a great replacement for cotton and uses wood cellulose.
"A protection racket is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence "

Where is the violence in Google's behavior ? They offer a private service, and their good spaces are of high values that companies are ready to pay for to maintain their own market dominance.

If we should break up Google, then we should also breakup Basecamp (company behind the original author's tweet)
>This does not match with my experience.

How old are you and how long have you been working?
Cute title. But wow, this guy apparently does not live in the same universe as, I think, the rest of us.

I hadn't read ESRs paper in a few years, but just reread it again now. This author is definitely oversimplifying and mischaracterizing it. It's not right to conflate "Cathedral" with "Closed-Source" and "Commercial", nor to incorrectly imply that's what ESRs paper point was. Plenty of earlier Open Source software, notably FSF software itself, is (or was) developed "Cathedral" style and ESR definitely talks about that. I always read his paper as kind of "GNU FSF" process vs. "Linux", both being Open Source (or Free to please RMS). And I think history has proven his points rather nicely, IMHO.

But "Cathedral" and "Bazaar" are just two points on a spectrum anyway, and it's mostly orthogonal to a "Free/Open" vs. "Closed/Commercial" spectrum.

Now to the rest of the paper, while couched in formal and civil language, the author would have been much more succinct if he just came right out and said "Open Source Software Sux!". Which is an odd point to make for an academic having little experience writing either or any kind of real software.

I can see he thinks that, but there's not much in the way of actual arguments, other than opinions and cherry-picked sentences from ESR's paper, to make it worth picking apart or disagreeing with.

So yup, I fully agree: Dr Mark Tarver thinks that "Open Source Sux because Reasons".

Now then, I will just be getting back to the universe in which I live, where Open Source software is the foundation of the internet and just about every other piece of modern technology from doorbells to cars, including nearly all proprietary commercial products too...
> The other tenants are mad because landlords prefer renting apartments to tourists for 5k a month instead of renting to locals for 1k a month.

If this is happening it's because your city has a massive shortage of short-term rental properties. If you can make $5k a month then people should be building those properties left and right since it's so profitable -- but what most likely happened is that your city passed rules effectively prohibiting that construction, so now there's an arbitrage opportunity by converting long-term rentals to short-term rentals.

You should direct your anger at your local government for doing nothing to address the high short-term rental demand, because if they did then that wouldn't happen. And the same rules tend to restrict the availability of long-term rentals as well, which means that they were causing your rent to be higher than necessary even before people started converting neighboring units.
WASM as a Platform for Abstraction – Creating WASM-Extendible Apps in Rust
When you see versioning it's a pretty good hint that they use is as a buzz word and it's just RPC wrapped in REST clothing
I have a tiny Go program that I very rarely touch and was quite happy with the go plugin ... until they launched their full blown Go IDE and disabled the plugin in their other IDEs.

I understand why but I'm still a bit sour.

And that's how I finally tried VSCode.
There's another perspective to that, my clients, if google is spamming with ads how will i be able to reach them over search? Google had become somewhat too big, that me not using it, does harm too. But indirectly.
Yeah, and I got a $200 ticket a few days ago for going over the speed limit while avoiding a nighttime crash recently.

Disagreeing with why you got a ticket doesn't matter once it's written.

Breaking a law doesn't matter until it does, and then it can hurt quite a bit- that ticket cut into my Christmas present money. Similarly, breaking laws with you company can impact your bottom line, and your credibility.

I'm still going to enjoy the accelerator, but I have learned not to do stupid stuff when you can't see everything that's going on.

Same with laws, and car parts- if you don't know why they're there, you oughtn't break / remove them.
Stack Overflow curates its public-facing content, and so do I, when using real-name accounts. Given a choice between being seen taking shit from someone, investing time in arguing with that person, or just erasing the exchange altogether, the third option is sometimes the most expedient. I don't do it often.

Ideally people would just be polite, and questions could just be answered by anyone who cared to answer them, with low-scoring exchanges de-emphasized instead of being shut down.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I’m sure no one else in this largely well-educated crowd figured that out.
> my .vimrc, without which I can not live

How did you become unable to do basic text editing without a specific editor setup? Why do people become so dependent on tools?
You are right, but I also want to point out that we fully buy into the futures-rs interface over custom implementations.
I agree with you that government regulation can't solve the problem, but I think that government has to be a part of solving the problem. They have to make solving the problem financially reasonable. We will need money to be spent on taking carbon out of the atmosphere. Companies aren't going to do that without a financial incentive.
>But if you’re a human on the job, society expects you to use the reasoning skills of a human.

Except it doesn't. Then society labels the process as biased, unfair, subject to the whims of the reviewer, open to corruption, and so on. One of the down voted comments jumped right to bribery for example.

Bureaucracy is this way not because it has to be but because society actually wants it to be.
> One would have to spend almost as much as Google, if not more, on user-acquisition.

Why is that a problem? Wouldn't decreased profitability be the sign of increased competition?
The question here, though, is whether the hideous abomination is Brutalist or not. I'll buy the argument that it doesn't satisfy the definition.
Depends on the context. I've built Cordova/Phonegap apps in the past where you want things to work offline and sync once the user goes online. If the time from user going offline to online again is too long / device storage too little, that data that would eventually need to be synced, would be lost.

Always ways of working around it, like saving to files or whatever, but localStorage is a nice interface that works both for Cordova and client-side web apps.
Electronic Weapons: Gangsters Gone Jamming
> Agenda driven science is bad science. You cannot solve social issues if you refuse to consider where the problems may actually come from.

The problem is that genomics (and anything to do with heredity before it) has been and still is abused in the opposite way: people pretending it to be an inevitable predictor like the law of gravity is, while claiming to not have any social agenda until they have had a glass of wine or two and you start hearing absolutely disturbing things.

I've worked for molecular neurobiologists working on brains - the vast majority of them are fine. They research schizophrenia and such that do have genes associated with them, but also get that a lot of the genetics are about incrasing risk factors, not determinism. But once you hit the sub-group that researches the heritability of IQ... well, let's just say that there is a very suspicious aspect to the self-selection bias in the people who decide to research that topic.
No it's pretty clear what are ads or not on Google. "Best" definition changes for all Search engine and it's very very subjective, changing from person to person and situation to situation

If a company is ready to pay to be displayed first, then so be it
Not the perfect solution, but I use NewTabTweaker [1] in FF set to redirect new tabs to DuckDuckGo. It works pretty well in combination with SurfingKeys, although I do occasionally need to use default FF keybinds, e.g. when a page fails to load.

1: https://github.com/rharel/webext-new-tab-tweaker
This story has many angles, the developer who built the software, the founder who took all the money, then sold the software and fired the developer. Then Dropbox who we all laughed at, is now used for distributed databases.
> This drives prices up for locals.

Yes, so what? Why should a tourist be forced to pay more than a "local" (who might nonetheless move out of town at a moment's notice) for what boils down to the exact same service?
The impulse to nationalism feels distasteful, even as a joke.
This is so sad, actually, and It's not just ML, it is every kind of new tech and discovery.

To me it shows we have already picked the easy fruits and technology will not continue to evolve exponentially.
I understand this, but it still doesn't answer the main point: are you working together with tokio maintainers to move to futures-rs as soon as possible and even extend the interface of futures-rs more if needed?

In my view the separate interfaces increase the long term damage that new libraries are creating every day, and it should be higher priority to resolve it together before implementing new features in either of the two libraries (async-std and tokio).
> Literally every ethnic and religious fault line in the Middle East that is now causing violence is the doing of the Turks, British, and French.

You ought to mention the Soviet Union as well. The Baathist dictatorships in Iraq and Syria were, after all, originally Communist-aligned, and this overture to secularism is part of what infuriated the religious extremists of the region.
Not the OP, but the best approach to climate change to me seems to make it so it's more expensive to produce energy that damages the climate. The government's role in this would be to take steps to encourage these kinds of developments. This certainly seems within our grasp, if we had the willpower to disband the top-down approaches being advocated and ones that will never work because it's asking the developing world to ... stop developing. If they don't stop emitting we're all doomed.

In contrast, if one or more countries develop a cheaper, clean technology that can be exported globally (perhaps at a cost) all countries would be incentivized to switch to it to save costs, and emissions start to plummet.

We need a full court press on getting to next-generation energy sources that stand to be 10x cheaper than existing ones. I'm not sure if you can get there with solar and other renewables alone, but from first principles (ie physics) it sure seems tractable to get there with some combination of nuclear technology and those sources.
It's like the Amazon's Apple TV+. You get the shows that Amazon owns/licenses.

Amazon still lets you stream content it doesn't own (like how iTunes Video lets you stream TV seasons), you just have to pay for them.
It also means jack in Austria I guess :) honest mistake
It has become the default and so popular because they were good. I hope users will change their behavior if they realize there are better alternative than Google
You don't need chest belt. I can go running without the strap and use only the HRM from wrist (it's optical).

The chest band is still more accurate (and cheaper). It gets the minor variations in HR from beat to beat. When you get closer to your maximum HR your hard beat gets more even. HR variability gives more info.