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Name a better decade. Seriously. Starting from 1900, every one up to the '40s is out because two world wars, then all of the ones until the '90s is out because we were literally a paranoid mid-ranking officer away from global thermonuclear destruction, giving us the '90s, the '00s, and the '10s to work with. So we seem quite unarguably in the top 25% of the past 12 decades, so "not even close" is rather unfair. I will not argue the relative rankings of the past three decades except to state that it is not obvious what they should be.

I am not disputing that our world is on a knife edge. I am saying that it has always been like this, or worse.
It's not supposed to be for routine use. The idea is that if the car gets into a situation where stability is lost it will know how to handle it.

As an example, imagine an autonomous car is going around a bend and hits a large patch of black ice and goes into a slide. Current systems will struggle to handle the car and it could result in a crash. With this knowledge added the car will know how to handle slides and will recover easily.

Another example (given in the article) is if a person darts out into the path of the car it can perform a sharp turn and gracefully handle manoeuvring around them without losing control using this knowledge.
Often times, three — without free updates.
Well, this would make (some) sense if actually firing someone was nigh-impossible. But in France, it's actually not that hard. You just have to explicitly tell them why, fill a few forms and pay the severance package.
Wasn’t that long ago that the American south elected open, blatant racists to positions of high political power, and South Africa had Apartheid as official government policy. I think we need to appreciate how far the world has come in such a short time.
It's not the cookies we're concerned about.
The wars caused by crop failures precipitated by climate inaction increase the risks of nuclear annihilation exponentially.
That's how it should work, but in practice most popups are opt out. I've seen only one type of cookie popup that comes with default opt in, and even that one has a very proeminent 'opt in to all and save' button and a slightly harder to find 'just save' button that will actually allow the opt out to stay.
Yeah, but the other people matter too...
And used by the biggest websites and projects on the Web (Google's own YouTube and AMP until very recently).

How many more websites are using it because it was out, and implemented?
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This is, in essence, the argument that the CEO made, during the crisis and at the trial. He kept saying (paraphrasing here) that there was no statically significant increase in the rate of suicides, and because the company was so huge it was bound to have employees killing themselves from time to time, regardless of what management did or didn't do. According to him, the whole affair was a pure media campaign orchestrated by people who disagreed with his management of the company.

The incredibly insensitive delivery of this argument cost the man his job years ago. The immense grief of families and coworkers, the fact that the suicides appeared to be work-related (and sometimes even happening at the workplace), the scathing reports by medical inspectors seemed all irrelevant to the dude, who basically just looked at this as a statistic to be managed. His lack of public displays of empathy or desire for introspection was pretty disturbing.
I don't have a good answer for you. A lot of people have left to much better environments and yet a subset stick around painfully aware of how bad it is. It doesn't make sense. Though my understanding of the psychology of toxic environments is that the longer you're in them, the more you normalise them. Lot of Stockholm Syndrome going on there. Lot of people claiming "of it's not that bad" and then tip toeing around all day while being micromanaged.
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> But the best decade politically? Not even close.

That's very much a matter of perspective, almost by definition. "Right-wing populism" is just grassroots politics that some people don't like. We're also seeing a resurgence of left-wing grassroots movements; and again, plenty of people might dislike these political stances, but one can also see where they're coming from.
I suppose it might have been a strategy but job protection was not my goal.
Notably absent from this comment: the slightest awareness that "your traffic" is composed of people who have preferences.

Yeah, no doubt, "exit intent works", if the only thing you care about is "the return of your traffic". This mindset is exactly how we got to the situation described in the OP.

You are making things worse for your users. You don't care, because you don't think of them as users, as people, as human beings, you think of them as "traffic" whose "return" you want to "maximize".

You are the problem.
Congrats on getting your project to the front page of HN. With that said I think you are going to need to change your approach if you want this project to be usable as more than a toy project in the long run.

From what I can tell it essentially saves a map of url -> response in memory as you browse. Every 10 seconds this file is serialized to json and dumped to a cache.json file. This is going to be very inefficient as the number of web pages indexed grows since you are rewriting the entire cache every 10 seconds even if only a few pages have been added to it. It also will eventually exceed the memory of the computer running the app if the content of every page ever visited needs to be loaded into memory. I highly recommend looking into some of the other suggestions mentioned here, either sqlite or mapping a local directory structure to your caching strategy so that you can easily query a given url without keeping the entire cache in memory, and also add / update urls without rewriting the entire cache.
While not Fake News, sites like the NY Times should probably be categorized as Toxic News.
Yeah, but they said "most perilous time". It's hard to argue that nuclear annihilation is more likely now than in 1950~1990.
> The more the uncertainty, the more action is justified.

I'm all for taking action against climate change, but I'm not sure this is an airtight argument (although I too have used it before). If there is uncertainty, how can you decide what action should you take? The scale from immediately shutting down all coal plants (to the point of blackouts) to doing nothing is really big.
It's funny, I've never heard that term but looking it up, I find some connections to some things I'm working on (that are not bitemporal databases).

What are some good resources?

A spreadsheet is a bitemporal database of sorts right?
The article makes pretty much the same arguments he made in his 2010 book "The Rational Optimist"[1]. Although I mostly agree with the overall message, I have the same qualms with this article as I did with the book, namely the almost total lack of references, and often uselessly manipulative language.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rational_Optimist
Software doesn't just run on the users' hardware anymore, generally. Ongoing hosting costs tend to be the argument used to justify subscriptions. In reality it's that it's wildly lucrative, but hosting costs play some part.
As good as this idea is, I suspect that relatively few payroll departments are set up to provide this option, and most of them would resist going to the extra effort to provide it.
Or its warming but the warming isn't so terrible to outweigh the other advances.
Same here but there's incentive to not waste money on fees as my bank also pays a small dividend each year. My workaround was to get cash back when buying groceries but Kroger recently added fees to cash back on purchases!

The Family Dollar has NO CASH BACK!! signs on every terminal because like Kroger they must have discovered razor thin margins aren't sufficient to cover transaction fees. For the same reason the city in the article may discover Dollar Tree has the same attitude about cash back transactions.

Short of government incentives there is no reason for a savings and loan to remain in a small unprofitable town and outside of North Dakota there are no government-owned banks. As much a it goes against the political climate these days you probably do need government regulation and incentives to keep banking accessible to these towns.
Maybe.

Some checking accounts give high interest rates (rewards checking, Sofi, etc.). Plus there's fidelity cash management that acts exactly like a checking account but you can invest the funds in money market.
Not in the climate debate. In that humans are seen as the problem, a cancer if you like, that destroys nature.
If you don't mind, could you elaborate on your opinion further ?

IMO power users in democracy (lobbyists, influencers and special interest groups) will always have more leverage unless the population is educated and informed enough to be skeptical to not associate with an identity or ideology.

The recurrence of such groups throughout history seems to indicate that this hasn't become part of our collective knowledge yet and I doubt if we will ever learn. Maybe the sense of collective identity is part of human nature.
Not sure what you're talking about. Windows 10 itself is an excellent OS. The only real problem with it is all the adverts.
The Ideal Buttock Size: A Sociodemographic Morphometric Evaluation
What’s the ideal temperature of Earth and how do we know that’s the ideal temperature?
This is the worst paragraph of the whole article:

> Perhaps one of the least fashionable predictions I made nine years ago was that ‘the ecological footprint of human activity is probably shrinking’ and ‘we are getting more sustainable, not less, in the way we use the planet’. That is to say: our population and economy would grow, but we’d learn how to reduce what we take from the planet. And so it has proved. An MIT scientist, Andrew McAfee, recently documented this in a book called More from Less, showing how some nations are beginning to use less stuff: less metal, less water, less land. Not just in proportion to productivity: less stuff overall.

...and what you're leaving out here is that this is far too little, far too late. This is like noting a decrease in the number of iceburg collisions in the last hours before the Titanic sank.

This is NOT a cause for optimism. We're destroying the environment at a slower rate, but that doesn't mean we're not destroying the environment.
What do you mean “we found” an issue? The person you’re responding to found the issue.
Inch precision localization isn't out of the grasp of human drivers. Kimi Raikkonen at Monaco coming millimetetd from the walls repeatedly comes to mind.

It also isn't out of the abilities of a bog standard optical SLAM+IMU.
Please point to scientifically demonstrated evidence of catastrophic climate change not just speculation.
A major difference is that the programs were standalone. Once packaged, the software was done and required no more work from the creators. They would either switch to making the next thing, or making the next version of the last thing (which would have to be bought again).

This is no longer the business model for a vast majority of software development. Now, software is never 'done', but new features are continually added (whether needed or not) and most software requires a large server farm to provide services for the sold software (or the entire offering)... this is both a design decision, but even more so a decision that requires customers to keep paying for the same software as 'support'
That’s right, I believe it was MonetDB that introduced this abuse of terminology into the DB lit and it's stuck. I remember being very confused as well, looking for any mention of SIMD instructions in the MonetDB paper and finding none :) ("Pipelining" is another term that the DB community uses differently from everyone else--nobody else would refer to single-threaded execution as "pipelined".)

The other typical optimization for expression evaluation is code generation, which usually targets LLVM bitcode or Java bytecode. That's pretty standard for column-oriented databases now and they're not exactly state of the art if they don't implement some equivalent of the above.
Because of his efforts, the lectures are free to watch online.
It is important for us to celebrate good news and talk about positive things. It's part of positive reinforcement and giving us a more holistic view of things.

Always focusing on the negative and problems has many thinking there has not been positive movement, has left people with more anxiety and depressions, and causes hordes of other problems.

Celebrating and talking about positives is important. It doesn't mean all things are hunky dory. But, it's healthy to do.
Not sure who you mean by “we”. I’m from India and I regularly see people starving on the streets here, in ghettos that abut luxury developments. It’s very important to specify who is meant by “we”.
It would depend on how generics are implemented in Go, with the current proposed implementation that would be possible. Without generics today you could use an interface, wouldn't be as pretty but would get the job done.
You could say most of those things about the previous decade. The anti-Muslim vitriol fueled by 9/11 and other events, the "Hague Invasion Act", etc
How much can we use and at what rate can we use resources from the planet?
I'm not sure if 'overengineering' is the right term here.

Certainly in the world of modern art it's often all about process and little about the art itself.
But most people watching the result when they log into Windows don't know or care about this.

This could have been done by a single artist in a VFX software, art directed by gmunk.

But as they say: “If all you know is a hammer ...” ;)
What scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change exactly is it we can't deal with?
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There are certainly many major issues to address.

Still, it's good for our collective mental health to acknowledge that many really important elements of the human experience are really improving in meaningful ways.

If nothing else, openly acknowledging the successes of the past decades gives humanity confidence to address the considerable challenges of the present.

Strictly focusing on either the negative or the positive is out of balance. Balance is healthy.
I actually stopped using apps which went from paid to subscription, like Ulysses and Gemini. In some cases, doing so actually helped me find better and sometimes even free alternatives that I can theoretically count on practically forever (e.g. Quiver and good old TextEdit+Git as Ulysses' replacement.)

Why? I just find it offensive and predatory. If vastly more complex products of Pixelmator/Affinity's quality can remain on a pay-once model, then a goddamn text editor can too. Don't give me your pity post about how not switching to a monthly subscription will cause children on the moon to starve etc. It feels like a thin veil upon what often just seems like basic greed.

An optional yearly upgrade model (a major version jump) is also fine, and has been the most common case throughout computing history.

I would even be fine with IAPs presented as completely optional donations. In fact, pay-once + donate-if-you-want would be my preferred model for things like Pixelmator that are still providing free updates for years after my initial purchase.

I'd love to effectively repurchase many times over to support something that I appreciate and use regularly, but at my own pace please, without ever having to worry about being locked out.
People expect more from blog posts. Its ok for a Twitter thread to be rambling, to backtrack and clarify the premise halfway through, but this is not accepted in a blog post, which needs to be structured more like a traditional essay and it needs to be edited. Someone without the attention-span or patience to write a blog post in the first place is certainly not going to go back and revise/edit a perfectly good tweet-storm just to make someone on HN happy.
Extensively in London, regularly in Barcelona area and last time I was in Amsterdam. I recommend it to anyone here (Barcelona) since it is not widely known.
Yes it is. Global warming is an existential threat to human existence on earth in a way that few other environmental issues are.
There are some fintechs already paving the way and abstracting psd2 away. I just tried to log into my bank using tink (no affiliation) and it worked great.
What? All the major payroll processors/front ends (ADP, Paychex, PeopleSoft) support this "out of the box," no problem whatsoever.

Even when my employers was on paper forms for direct deposit there was always an option for multiple bank accounts.

I've never NOT had my paycheck deposited into a multiple accounts except for when I was a teenager at my first job.
I can even buy that! I have the apparently rare perspective that economic growth is good; climate change is likely to be both deadly and a consistent drag on economic growth; and well-designed policies to decrease carbon emissions (like a carbon tax with rebate) are likely to more than pay for themselves. Climate change denialists seem to have zero interest in that debate, though, while at least green politics seems interested in that dialog.
It's fantastic.

A lot of sites throw up a modal that just disappears when you say no. And I've verified that in most instances this completely kills all telemetry.

I was involved working at a SaaS that provided first party personalisation at the time GDPR was introduced and heard a lot of stories about clients just dropping pointless and long term data.

I have family in the school system that called panicking that this was a disaster... then a few months later admitted it meant that they actual handle their data well and no longer accidently leak personal info (financial, medical, behaviour, attainment) to other families, kids, teachers, or third party companies. Oh, and their emergency fire list is now kept up to date.

I've used the powers of the GDPR to eliminate some low level harrassment of my grandfather.

Google, Facebook, and the Yahoo auth group are still diddling with data they shouldn't, but on the whole it is a much much better world.
About half of what we're doing, as a rule of thumb.
Besides the websocket, the protocol has a couple of HTTP endpoints, you can see commands here:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/content/browser/devtool...

which looks like it ignores the HTTP verb and acts only on the path. I confirmed this with tests: fetch('http://localhost:9222/json/new') and fetch('http://localhost:9222/json/new, {method:'POST', body:''}) do the same thing, as does using verb 'DELETE'.

All these open a new tab. Without knowing a 128-bit target identifier, it looks like opening a new tab is the only thing you can do if someone is running DevTools.
Despicable. No other word for it.
No mention of any cultural or individual progress. Of course technology will get better because we can build on the past. Individual and cultural progress should be the measure of a society.
I would add to that, complete collapse in civilized political discourse, fueled by social media. Post-shame, post-fact world.
Does the law still work perfectly at very large distances considering single or zero photons (or gravitons or whatever) hitting a surface?

I guess is there a mathematical difference between a completely continuous and smooth distribution of energy vs. “quantized” energy at large distances?
I agree in general, but this article in particular is mostly a rant against environmentalists.
London all the time. Very accurate. Barcelona and Paris seem fine too
The answer to this question is far too vast and complex for a hacker news comment. The real problem is that the people who hold the levers of power to create change are far too invested in the status quo. They may have an ethical and humanitarian reason to respond to the scientific communities concerns and data, but they have literally every other single interest pointed in the exact opposite direction.

I think we're rapidly approaching the point where the youngest people are going to abandon "civil" methods of change. They're being faced with a world they won't be able to live in, and are derided, mocked, parodied, and of course denied any kind of power to exact the changes needed.
I am assuming that we will be able to use much more kWh than we are today but not if we continue to chase insufficient technologies like windmill and solar energy. We haven't even started converting the universe into energy.

Please show any evidence that we are running out of energy.
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> an infamous incident where one of the investors had to drive to Secaucus to physically remove the other engineering founder from the cage.

I really want hear this story.
Free speech ends when you lose anonymity.
> Every analysis shows that actually dealing with the problem front and center invigorates the economy

That's nonsense. First of all it involves spending trillions. Who is going to pay for that? Sure, if you spend trillions on anything, the economy will be invigorated - but whose economy? Buying solar panels made in China isn't going to help your own economy as much as spending the same money on locally made products.

> The only alternative consistent with the facts is they are beholden to fossil industry.

It would really help the cause if people who supported it stopped using such obviously wrong arguments.
Ridiculous these people are NOT engineers no mater what they call themselves. BTW smelling comes from Electrical Engineering.
Not even capitals, if you look at cities like Hamburg.
“ Highest difference between rich and poor in centuries”

What’s inherently bad with differences between poor and rich people?

The poorest people in the planet today have access to more resources than the greatest king had 500 hundred years ago. Are you saying you would like all of us to be equally poor?

To me this sounds more like jealousy and virtue signaling than anything else.

We should be sad that we have poor people. Not rich. Wealth is not a 0 sum game.
> So yeah, should maybe computers be liberated from the single pipeline?

Internally, they basically are. Instruction and data caches are separate and only connect at the L2 level. Aliasing between the two pipelines is only allowed if software requests it, with the specific architecture determining the amount of automatic vs. manual synchronization required. What would you prefer, physically disjoint DRAM?
My personal stages of gdpr experience:

Stage one: these cookie consent popups are empowering. I'm glad the people won.

Stage two: I am getting a bit sick of having to understand custom consent forms on every site.

Stage three: what have we done, cookie consent has made the internet suck even more!

Stage four: I wonder what all this privacy stuff is really about (goes and reads about it).

Stage five: The internet is a strip mall crossed with a red light district run by the mob - we are doomed.

Stage six: This is something the government will be bad at for quite some time, and I actually have the power to take control of my personal privacy and freedom with minimal effort (relative to say overthrowing a tyrannical government).
Love all the Scala fanboys on here downvoting anything to do with Go being better. Run Scala in prod for a couple years then run Go in prod for a couple years and tell me with a straight face what makes more sense. Scala was such a massive waste of time :)
Dumb question. It can be either X or X+10F. The issue is how rapidly we move from one to the other. If it happens at a slow enough rate, natural patterns of human migration and urban development can account for it; if it's fast enough, it kills people and causes tens of trillions of dollars of economic damage.