skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really not an inspiring or hopeful comparison, but probably very accurate to how the world will play the climate crisis. If the Allies/Developed Nations respond with the same vigour, we have another half decade or two of ignoring the issue, hiding under rocks, and need to lose a good few developed nations to the void, without trace, first.

Road to WW2:

You could set up the dominoes all the way back to the punitive Versailles Agreement, but purely militarily...

1930, Japan moved into Manchuria. Germany withdrew from the League of Nations in 33, and immediately started rearming and brought back universal conscription. Rhineland reoccupied in 36, and Fracno put on the throne in the Spanish "Civil War" the same year - where they supplied armaments, troops, supplies, and lots and lots of planes. Blitzkreig was honed and practised here.

Britain and France still busy appeasing, and ignoring clear, obvious unmissable signs. Some fringe, and not so fringe members of their major right of centre parties are highly sympathetic to German rebuilding and aims. They would like to do deals with that nice Mr Hitler. Including the man who was offered the premiership of the UK before Churchill, when Chamberlain stepped down. USA is busy ignoring the world, deep in isolationism, but at the same time building trade with Germany and parts of the US, notably California and New York are most impressed to see German implementation of eugenics as policy (Nazi eugenics and what developed from it originated in US ideas and policies[1]). League of Nations whistles a happy tune as its highest membership was during this period.

In 37, Japan steps up to an all out war of total conquest with China, and the Rape of Nanjing takes place, 300k+ dead. Then follows Anschluss with Austria in 38 with still barely a word muttered on the global stage. Nor was anything done about Sudetenland (half of then Czechoslovakia). The day after the Slovak State was formed from the rest, they occupied that too.

39 Brought the "Peace in our Time" Munich Agreement. Hitler responds peacefully by annexing parts of Latvia, Mussolini annexes Albania. Allies, well the European ones, finally think perhaps they might, possibly/maybe do something. But not yet.

Aug 1939 brings the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which presents an astonishingly accurate picture of the post-war Europe we actually got. September 39 and Poland is annexed. Finally two of the four major Allies do something. War is declared 3rd September 1939. But it will take much stalling to buy time to rearm properly, now at full speed finally. The success of the Battle of Britain after the fall of France (in moments), and Dunkirk, gives a tiny glimmer of hope -- and bought 18 months in which to rearm, though air force losses weren't sustainable.

Those other two Allies, come to the party when it is politically unavoidable. Nazi invasion of USSR in June 41 and Pearl Harbor in December, otherwise they probably wouldn't have bothered without some other major event provoking action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#Origins_in_the_U...
A great book is No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey[1]. She specifically goes over history, organizing tactics, analysis about why some unions succeed vs others that don't, as well as how to transition from a bad/no union to one that is representative. Each have examples of recent strikes and efforts in the last decade.

Here's a quote that jumped out at me.

> According to Buffkin's congressional testimony, it was the [Smithfield Foods'] intent to replace blacks with Latinos with two objectives in mind: to keep the workforce divided through both instigation of racial conflict and overt segregation, and to create an undocumented immigrant workforce that the employer believed they could more easily control.

> [Key to success was] first earning legitimacy with each major constituency in the plant, and then bridging the divisions between them, creating unity and solidarity despite the extraordinary efforts by the boss to systematically pit worker against worker.

[1]: https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-po...
Unlikely, maybe when 2020 hind sight is here tomorrow?
As far as I'm concerned, you're putting in the work on progressing technically.

Being publicly seen to be productive is kind of a different skill. Probably good for fame and fortune, but most people probably just do good work without much note.

One thing I've discovered over the years, is that some people who are truly excellent technically have rather significant deficits in other respects that severely limit this advantage. If you're a reasonably well-rounded person and not an ass, I'll prefer you over the rock star.
Yet we kept putting it in our paint and our gasoline until not very long ago. Probably because of people minimizing the problem, kind of like many of the commenters here.
Great information!

Also, (and I may be totally wrong about this!), the concept of Annealing from metallurgy -- seems related to that of Quartz Inversion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)
> I see this as a good example of how policy makers write policy with good intentions but without a fundamental understanding [...]

I agree with your argument in the general case, but in this case that seems like what they would want: not to exclude the possibility of advertising or SEO for the other products, but to rule out doing reverse SEO (or just robots.txt to exclude it from search engines) on the Free File pages.
...iff that's the only thing on your hands. From the essentials (Aviate, Navigate, Communicate), this comes last.
The technically competent countries are (probably) doing it. That's the best I can say, honestly.
In that sense I agree, we can all be influencers, but that’s more like a referral program and not an influencer imho. I wrote about my experience here, I think it sums up my view https://www.polidoesntcare.com/blog/thoughts-on-influencers-...
However, I do have some ideas on how to make it more efficient with ecommerce
Trailer parks need land...a lot more than a apartment buildings for the same number of residents, they aren’t urban solutions.

They often go on marginal land without sewer, so you need more land to make a septic tank work. Trailers in the boonies outside of Vicksburg MS where I lived as a kid got maybe electricity, you had to take care of your own trash (usually by burning); I had many friends out there who were living in squalor. A trailer park was actually a step up from these places.
> In years gone by, it was common practice to look inside archive files to inspect README files and suchlike.

That's true, I did it many times. But those years are long ago. Good riddance.

Most of the time today, for most people, a smartphone is the only tool you have available at the moment. When I made that comment I was nowhere near my laptops or desktops or tablet, and I think that's true for many people today. According to Statcounter the majority of pages viewed today are viewed using a smartphone:
https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

> Certainly, one is quite reasonably expected to look inside an archive of a teaching operating system where reading and understanding the source tree is part of the process.

Not to find out the license. A license is important information that you need to know before you look at the archive.

I'm don't think it's even reasonable today to ask that people unarchive just to look at some code. GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge, and many other forges/repo sites make it quite easy to look at code without having to download and look inside an archive. By all means provide a simple link to download its archive (GitHub does this automatically), but it's also important to give people an easy way to look at its individual source files using a URL. I'll note that the Linux kernel does this just fine.

Things are hard enough on potential developers and potential users. Developers should work to make it easy for potential users and potential users. If nothing else, their projects are more likely to do well that well.
Yeah calling everything “a” is pretty much the only thing Proguard (the default Android obfuscator) really does that impacts reverse engineering in any way. Most reverse engineers I know working with Android already have good tools to deal with this (interactive renaming, very similar to refactor renaming, works wonders; as does the fact that most Android code leaves class and sometimes method names intact in logging and debug infrastructure!).

Renaming classes and methods into annoying names is something I see with .NET much more frequently - one obfuscator I’ve seen basically uses different mixes of Unicode spaces to name everything which is pretty cute. Unfortunately most of these techniques are easy to work around as a reverse engineer.
Yes, except this exact sentiment, I believe, is part of why we now have the internet we have.

The "old internet" was inaccessible unless you were an expert, true. The experts could have seen this as a chance to make everyone into an expert and teach the values that were important to them in the process. If all the talk about the internet as a democratising force and a tool for freedom of expression is taken seriously, this would have been the way forward.

Instead, experts chose to be elitist and decided to use the information asymmetry to offset themselves from "the masses" and exploit it for monetary gain. The result is that we now have a wealth of powerful, free but arcane and hard to use tools for devs and a locked-down, commercialised and psychologically manipulative web for the rest. What kind of future is that?
At the very least, entrenched automation by Boeing.
TePe easypick, the orange ones. Feels a bit unusual at first but basically you just push them inbetween the teeth once and pull out again, and all the dirt comes out with them.

My dentist recommended those, works like a charm for me. Although keep in mind they're thicker than dental floss, meaning they may not fit between certain pairs of teeth if they're very close together.
I am testing out if running can help me improve my focus.

Recently I have signed up for longer races and slowed my pace down. I find it is good practice for impulse control. When I get bored at work or at home, I quickly open a new tab or pull my phone out of my pocket. I would rather just be bored for a moment and stay on task.

I think running long distances can help me a lot because I do get really really bored out there, but there is not much to do but keep running.
It is possible to disable telemetry.

Please go on. Having no officially supported way to completely turn off phoning home if we want to is one of our deal-breakers.
Reading stdin on the Fly
I didn't submit it to HN, but I saw this link on the last page of Andy Müller-Maguhns talk [0] at 36C3 - this years chaos commication congress in Leipzig, Germany.

[0] Technical aspects of the surveillance in and around the Ecuadorian embassy in London - Details about the man hunt for Julian Assange and Wikileaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoT4lPV96uw
I don't see why it would be a problem. As someone already mentioned here, the members of the U.S. military are also voters. So people have no trouble doing both.
Thank You for writing this! It's crazy how far removed the idea of "where do the laws come from?" is from the discourse on "corporations must maximize profits".

There MUST be bounds on the imperative to maximize profits! Otherwise the corporation is obligated to overthrow the government and enslave all life in the universe. Even if they must do it legally, they can legally find ways to collude and overthrow the existing legal system.
Ah yes...not sure there is an easy way to do this but good call
> 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion

Uhh, you have to go into the registry to do this. Not really easy. It should be an option in the settings, not something I need to go under the hood to do.

Also from the README for that script to disable telemetry:

> Q: Can I run the script safely?

> A: Definitely not
This maybe works for people who are only runners, but almost every time i go for a run, about half an hour in I start thinking about something else i'd rather be doing.

In the summer i wish i'd gone biking instead, in the winter i wish i was skiing.
I'm not a fanboy of any OS in existence but

1. Most tech-illiterate people are afraid of using regedit and/or GPO to disable Cortana so the point is valid.

2. Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks.

3. It's not an argument.

4. The article talks about laptops specifically and the issue is still there and it's huge even for Windows 10 which often installs Microsoft drivers which do _not_ work.

5. You must be joking about the startup tab of the task manager. Looks like you've never had this issue or you've only used SSDs in your life. Also discover Autoruns by Mark Russinovich.

6. The Windows Store app canNOT be disabled. Read carefully. Also after each major Windows update all apps are reinstalled.

There's no exaggeration - the author is an IT specialist with a lot of experience.
More than $0.10 per page scrape (50 for $7), seems expensive doesn't it?
> The problem generally comes down to the fact that no Republican is for improving tax filing.

And that’s a lie:

https://www.tedcruz.org/postcard/

Paul Ryan also proposed something similar. However, Democrats opposed it. Basically if it’s simpler and cheaper taxes, Democrats cry foul. Auto filled forms with the current tax system is just lipstick on a pig.
I was IT for a company back in the late 90's that was using neural networks (along with a non-invasive sensor net)to detect breast cancer. Didn't quite work then, would be nice to see it revived with newer tech.
CA built theirs ten years ago and should have twenty.
VW had a skateboard platform concept EV 10+ years ago. They could have productized it if they had competent leadership.
W-2 would be an end all if not for deductions which can change throughout the year and do not apply equally to all tax payers.

the raise of the standard deduction; doubling; in effect made deductions simpler for many and transferred wealth back to those earning less
Sabotaging democracy? You mean like attempting to overturn a presidential election?
Yes, this is a very good explanation.
There's a Count of Monte Christio movie that's very good too. I highly recommend it.
That's a true but especially obtuse way of looking at things, yes. It would be more intellectually honest to say that we're still measuring how much damage these substances are doing to human health.
Linq can also be use for possibly similar use cases

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
MacOS doesn't have 95% of the listed issues.

And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.
There are tons of math majors produced every year. Would be a viable business model to offer factory-style program-correctness-proving-as-a-service. Current proof services are mostly niche static analysis for stuff like Ethereum contracts and occasionally a wannabe legal-tech company. I think aerospace could use more proofs. You can't use Ada for everything, eventually you will have to code in C/C++.
If there were a proper framework for doing web development on iPadOS, I'd switch to using my iPad for a big chunk of my development. It's getting very close but still falls a bit short.
$68k in contributions vs several million in lobbying. That's not apples and oranges, that's apples and coconuts.
Ok. But that’s not really like logging a support ticket, right?
That's interesting. I'm curious about your living situation, though. Do you live out there most of the year (are you there right now?), or is it kind of a vacation home?

Sounds cool... I'm always interested in off-the-grid living arrangements.
This article[1] linked off of the OP goes into detail about their crashes. It describes a design philosophy that pushes robustness fully onto the pilot, expecting him to flawlessly stitch together independent automated systems and unreasonably rapidly interpret and react to their error modes. In the case described in the article, separate automated systems had contrasting views of the world, and shouted their contradictory errors at the pilots, relying on them to be able to instantly reconcile these models and figure out what the root problem was. (In this case, a specific sensor failure made a single system think the plane was pointed up, and this system made the isolated decision to push the nose downwards while warning that the nose was too high. Naturally, other systems simultaneously complained about the nosedive).

One solution, of course, is to remove automated systems from planes. But assuming they provide any value (I don't think this is in dispute?): another, more reasonable strategy is to commit more fully to an automated system design that is intentionally fault-tolerant, robust to system and sensor errors, and has a more complete view of the plane's world. Instead of requiring the overall state of the meta-system to be lossily communicated to humans in a time-critical emergency, the newer designs are intended to use all the information available to the plane's systems to reconcile subcompoments' contradictory view of the world. Note that this doesn't preclude human control at all: if anything, it makes pilot control _safer_, since the system can provide a coherent view to the pilot in a way that's currently impossible.

I don't know enough about large aircraft operation to fully comment on the wisdom of this approach, but it's substantially more complex than "auto system failed, why would they expand use".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-four-second-catastrophe-how...
Not true. They don’t give you interest on your payroll withholdings. If you overpaid taxes by $5000, you get exactly $5000 back as refund, despite them having that money for a part of the year.
> I look forward to seeing this issue continue to get light and hope that business priorities evolve to incorporate the more humanistic aspects of running a business instead of simply focusing on the bottom line all the time.

Do you really? Because the next step is automating the cafeteria.

When was the last time business priorities evolved to become more expensive?
I like the idea of using SQLite, and unlike Linq its available for any programming language that have bindings to SQLite
Exactly.

Lots of utilities which disable telemetry automatically are invasive as hell and sometimes break your Windows installation.
It also fucks up your blood pH which can have pretty nasty effects on body tissue.
I would've agreed with this stance before the Boeing disaster. Granted there are many things that could be (could have been) done to address the fragility of the 737 Max's automatic system, but the point is they weren't. And I don't know who in the world is going to trust Boeing to take over more parts of the piloting process, because they'll probably be executed just as badly.
As I recall (I'm not looking at the documents right now), Brown didn't "dig in" to Stratfor so much as function as an accessory to the hack of Stratfor by Jeremy Hammond and his crew, after which he actively obstructed the investigation, both by Stratfor and by the DOJ (including a sad attempt to hide an incriminating laptop during a search).

It seems clear to me that Brown was certainly criminally culpable, but also that his sentence was outlandish and unjust.

It's less clear to me that what happened to Gottesfeld was wrong. For one thing: Gottesfeld doesn't appear to be any sort of "whistleblower". His information about the Justina Pelletier case came from the right-wing media, where the case had gone viral. Moreover, his response to that information was to organize DDOS attacks that shut down the electronic pharmacy at Boston Children's Hospital; they literally had to go back to paper prescriptions and faxes during the attack. He had originally targeted a fundraising website BCH was running, but quickly realized that he was attacking the infrastructure of the hospital itself, which he then bragged about taking down.

After being caught, he attempted to flee to Cuba, but stranded himself just off the Cuban coast and had to be rescued by a Disney Cruise ship, which took him back to the US.

The final thing I want to point out is that Barrett Brown is a person who appears to have believed that Stratfor was a powerful mercenary intelligence outfit, and not a grifting zine for aspirational Tom Clancy types with desk jobs. Stratfor was a figure of fun in the real intelligence community, and had none of the malign influence Barrett attributed to them; if anything, by helping arrange their hack, he helped the real IC. Certainly nothing Stratfor did justified dumping the credit cards of people who had subscribed. But, more importantly: take whatever Brown says with an appropriate tonnage of salt.
I agree, you should pay the highest interest rate debt first. But, you should also not miss out on higher returns on your money to pay debt. Specifically in the US, I mean 401k matching from your employer. If they match 50% on your first 6%, then the 50% return on that money is going to be greater than a 22% credit card debt.
My current goal is to go plastic free in the kitchen, or as close as possible. Right now, the only plastic in my kitchen is the appliances, and a few eatables which are impossible to buy without plastic packaging. All my utensits/cutlery/storage containers are ceramic, glass or metal. Its more expensive, but not so much.

The only major thing I can't avoid plastic for right now is meat. Always comes in packaging. I am hoping to find a butcher where I can show up with my own glass containers in which they dump the meat.
MacOS looks like the best poison.
I see the general principle guiding this and agree with it, but "free" food from an employer is just another form of comp and complaining about it's no more ungrateful than complaining about health benefits or salary. It's not like complaining about a Christmas gift or something.
Packaging a CRUD Sqlite-Included PyQt5 App Using PyInstaller
Don't get me wrong, I'll still have a good deal of solar. I just want to supplement it in the winter, especially the ~20 hours a day when the sun is below the horizon!
No global solution I've seen.

Best overview of the landscape I've seen so far is here [0]

Personally I've been using a combination of Roam Research [1] and Readwise [2]. Used Notion [3] for a while but it's very hard to tag data.

0 - https://beepb00p.xyz/annotating.html

1 - https://roamresearch.com/

2 - https://readwise.io/

3 - https://www.notion.so/
For those who fail to comprehend, the parent post means the sun.
Would you mind adding support for touch devices?
MacOS Catalina is free to download, do you think Apple would be fine with someone posting the source to GitHub?
What is the dark area next to bay area in the pacific ocean? We don't have any fires here.