skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These comments are full of arguments where one person suggests a course of action and another person replies that the alternatives are worse (plastic vs paper, wild fish vs farmed, cleaning up plastic vs cutting carbon). It's impossible for anyone to fully foresee the environmental consequences of the products they buy. This is the reason why the only solutions to these problems is for our governments to impose Pigovian taxes for harms to the environment (and equal subsidies for helps to the environment). Then all the consequences of our choices filter back to us in monetary terms. No other method is capable of weighing all the different factors.
Are you sure Lady Gaga and other corporate pop stars own the copyright to songs they sing? I'd expect these huge team projects to have corporate copyright.

https://blog.reverbnation.com/2018/05/09/music-law-101-owns-...
I hear agreement that the economy is good, but also that jobs are paying less for more work and that income inequality is larger than ever. At the same time, the housing market where I live is absolutely exploding. I feel like I'm missing something about the real condition of the economy...
A robot tax is the most ridiculously luddite political action I can think of. How about instead of taxing technological progress we fix the tax system so it actually profits and wealth accumulation.
> There are literally zero situations in which I would get actual real-world better security from a site not having my password, given (a) that they're properly hashing it, and (b) the password isn't used to encrypt any personal data.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...

Claims that this means Facebook weren't "really" properly hashing it or are otherwise an exception constitute a No True Scotsman argument.

It is _definitively_ less safe to do what is commonly done today. There is no _practical_ benefit and there are plenty of things that can go wrong.
Both loops and branching/dispatching are examples of control flow, which is essentially independent from the 'data flow' default of most "visual programming" approaches. You can actually show both in the same visualization, but only in a well-defined "sub-diagram" sense. That is, a "block" in a data-flow visualization can be defined by a flowchart (showing control flow), and vice versa.

The dual problem is that flowcharts (in the traditional, control-flow-only sense) cannot show fork-join parallelism or fixed point constructions, while both are readily expressible by data flow.
To be fair, American smugness about this is likely driven by the fact that most Americans lack perspective concerning how other systems work. They just don't get it that a better medical system that doesn't tie medical access to having a job at all brings stress levels down enormously.
This is probably the biggest challenge for ARM and its partners today. It'll be interesting to find out how they incentivise developers and envision the enable ecosystem efforts in this direction.
Even if it’s not a public school they mostly get government guaranteed loans.
It’s certainly a good thing if a 60+ year old can go to work because he/she can’t pay the bills or whatever other reasons they choose to add income. And when jobs are plentiful, it’s inevitable that wages go up as well. Employers are competing for employees, and the skilled and useful ones inevitably become better compensated as a result.
I put most of the blame on Adobe, they handled Flash and the related technologies as Flex/AIR badly. I think if they wuld have start from scrtch with an open source implementation of the player it would have had a better success, at tat time the only alternative was Java applets or Silverlight.

I liked the idea you had Flash off by default and you enable it only for the page or section of page you liked, I am running now Vivaldi with Javascript off by default because we have a even more garbage experience now with JS, like on BBC news with JS off the links are broken (wtf the web developers can't even create a working link without JS)
> In my opinion, we as a society should aim to work less and less, collectively making use of automation and technological progress. But it will be hard when we label this as being lazy and not valuable member of society.

If the society had taken this view in 1950 and encouraged "laziness", then we wouldn't[1] have had as much technological progress since then. It would probably have created a great lifestyle for 1950's people. It is indeed a great question to ponder - do we want to optimize social setup for today's population or for future generations to come?

[1] I also think low-wage jobs are sometime essential to move the society forward, Uber being a good example. Taxi-based system was horrible in the US. Uber used a lot of low-paid workers to shake the status quo and the situation has improved remarkably since then. I don't think the solution offered by Uber is perfect and the setup should be improved further, but simple improvements like hailing a cab via an app, credit card payments or driver/passenger ratings were inconceivable with the taxi system (again, in the US). That progress might not have been possible in a system with UBI because no one would have driven for Uber for low wages. Again, presence of UBI would have certainly helped Uber drivers a lot but collective society would have been stuck with a shitty taxi-based system.
I travel around the US constantly, and have never heard anything remotely close to comparing unemployment with Canada. Any talk of unemployment is always internally focused, comparing the rate to the past.
You can just buy whole head of cheese and it's not only can be stored in fridge for months without getting bad, but also almost always matured in wax to begin with. Of course not all cheeses sold this way, but certainly most are never packed with plastic until product get to the end of supply chain at grocery store.

It's alao cheaper to buy this way and quality of product on your table going to be much higher.
Has a very large proportion of people that immigrated into France within 1-2 generations from outside Europe, mostly North Africa.
> They could already do this with data from Android, Chrome, Google, Maps, or Youtube.

Not everyone uses Google websites.
There's a 1973 video [0] about people shifting away from gas-guzzlers because oil prices have risen so much. I wonder whether we can expect history to repeat itself here:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaNhx71XB8
Ten years. Minimum. I don't trust anyone without gray hair. That includes me and I have twenty years.
> Also, the SD speed class notation is almost totally obsolete and anachronistic because these days even the fastest class 10 has a minimum speed requirement so low it tells you almost nothing about the card’s performance.

There are higher speed classes past class 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#Class
Animals are pretty good at converting poor-quality plant protein into high-quality animal protein, along with certain micro-nutrients that plants do not contain at all, or at least not in a readily bio-available form.

Also, water in and of itself isn't an exhaustible resource. If it becomes too expensive, water-hungry foods like almonds will simply price themselves out of the market.
Edit: I see it has been shared

You should share this on the climateaction.tech [0] group, lots if very interesting conversations happening and likely a good source of companies too!

[0] https://climateaction.tech/
> Try getting healthcare in the US without health insurance, and try affording health insurance when you don't have good enough work.

I'm not offering an opinion here. I just think the distinction between health care and insurance is important.

The original post I was responding to implies to some that you need a job to receive treatment. It also conversely implies that having a job means you can get treatment. I've actually talked to people outside the US who think that because of how our discussions are often worded.

> You edited your post to add a line about emergency healthcare being a legal obligation of hospitals

I'm sorry. I often think of things to add to my post right after submitting. I was editing it before I saw your response.

> we both know that emergency healthcare (i.e. "I am literally dying right this second") is not the total of necessary healthcare for many people.

I agree, which is why I specified that the right only extends to life-threatening emergencies.
Damn, I noticed a bunch of these when I was in Paris.

That's awesome.
That's right, but we don't have a society unless people have incomes so maybe this isn't a good model for funding a civil society?
Why are these mutually exclusive? An electric drive train can be fitted to an SUV form factor. In fact, it might be easier to get to an acceptable range (300mi) because there’s more space for more batteries (assuming each battery delivers more range than its weight continues to scale).

I think the easiest way to accelerate decarbonization is to make green tech more desirable independent of the greenness. If people want it, they’ll get it and in that sense SUVs could help achieve climate goals.
That state never existed. If you were white and in the US you could--it's just we were pushing the bad jobs off on those we didn't notice. Now we can't.
I’m in the market for one. When you have two kids that are car seat age, two car seats eat up a lot of room in smaller cars. Then when you and your partner need to go somewhere, there’s barely any room for strollers and diaper bags.

If they made roomier cars I’d be all for it, but they don’t. So I have to buy something that offers room.

Some people don’t want to drive vans.
> I think the benefits of saving disk space by sharing libraries do not justify the inconveniences we

This is really sad. It seems that we are moving from the complexity of shared libraries to the complexity of "docker images" and the like, where the whole OS is embedded in each program for convenience. The sweet spot of static executables has been shamefully bypassed.
People can be cutthroat about trying to get their name on papers to which they contributed little, and they may be reluctant to discuss work too openly with others lest the discussion be construed as a collaboration which would require coauthorship. But I think leaving people off the paper who made some contribution is really frowned upon at least in the US.
This is the reality. You also get cut off way less and that alone avoids plenty of accidents.
Thanks. Edited my post to say "some US employers".
You dont need a job to have access to health care in the US. All you need is the ability to pay for the services you use.
> Your hypothesis does not hold up to the data.

Your data is not relevant to the hypothesis. The surveys were conducted in different time-frames (Canada: 2009-2014, USA 2005-2010), which I shouldn't need to tell anyone why that dataset is not useful for rigorous comparison, but I will anyway: one surveys people who were just recently hit by a recession and tracks them throughout the economy's recovery; while the other surveys people who recently experienced massive economic growth (exuberance) and tracks them throughout their economy crashing. Both, Canda's and the USA's, economies were intertwined during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and this should be accounted for -- but it isn't.

Furthermore, the data DOES hold up to the GP's assertion: that as the unemployment rate goes up, the gap in life satisfaction between employed and unemployed approaches zero (chart 2). That is, 20% nationwide unemployment, unemployed and employed Canadians have the same life satisfaction (chart 1).

Lastly, this is social sciences. We cannot conclude anything from the data without experimentation. At best, this data is observational reason to pursue deeper inquiry, at worst it's idealogical fodder to drive other people's agends by lying with statistics. Everyone does it. Statistics don't really mean anything on their own, and lay-people give them too much weight!
The other day I got one of those insightful hedge fund newsletters with a deep dive in inflation and unemployment. The dynamics are really complicated but one thing is unequivocal, the moment real wages go up the inflation catches up and those at the bottom suffer the most (due to Cantillon effect, negotiating power and other queuing phenomena). Higher wages as a platform is meaningless.

Perhaps the best measure that matters is the U6 underemployment which cleverly captures the utilisation of education and skill. It looks like this is as good as it gets as of right now in the US.

There are 15+ measures of inflation indeed, varying from 0 to 20%. Inflation is further segmented by demographics, younger people suffer far more inflation than older people (mostly due to housing, education and legacy cheaper medical plan expenses). Poor people also suffer higher inflation than the others.

The rabbit hole is deep and confusing. You can make just about any claim and it will be accurate for some definition of unemployment or inflation. And it's very easy to find contradictions. I'm sure somebody understands all this stuff, but this privilege is probably reserved for the top finance gurus.
These things are cumulative, not mutually exclusive. Working minimum wage on top of UBI would put someone in much better position than either one alone. Some people would choose only UBI, but most would want more than that.
> It is, also, safer. I've seen what a minivan does to a Corolla, and I'd much rather be in something the size of a minivan.

Looking at a crash between two vehicles of very different size isn't a fair test. Smaller cars are much more able to avoid getting into wrecks in the first place. We fully expect, simply based on mass, that vans will be better at passive safety, and worse at active safety.
Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
Invest like the best and For Your Innovation are two great podcasts that I came across last year.
I'm guessing your data is comparing satisfaction of employed (nationality) to unemployed (same nationality).

If so, all it says is that unemployment sucks and fails to really compare across borders. I've seen some stuff that indicates American parents are some of the most stressed out and dissatisfied parents on the planet due to our lack of family-friendly policies, including but not limited to our sucky healthcare policies.
Why wouldn't this be the case? In what sane legal system would one not own the work they published just because it was generated in part or full by an AI? If company B lifts company A's AI and starts generating articles with it, the suit would then be about the code itself, just like with websites, video games, etc.
Early 2019 I tried getting KDE installed onto OpenBSD and was greeted with v3.5.
Does anyone know if these KDE packages are in the default FreeBSD repository’s?
> compiling code written for an old edition with a new edition is not guaranteed to work, due to breaking language changes like new keywords.

This is not at all similar to C++ standards, and the specific case being discussed in this post demonstrates exactly why!

Barring bugs in implementations, developers could develop against whatever version of the compiler they like, and as long as it supports the same language version, distro or OS maintainers wouldn’t have to update theirs, and everything would work.

I worked on an open-source project that targeted C++11. It could build on basically any Linux distro you can imagine, even ones with very old versions of GCC. (it didn’t support BSD, but for unrelated reasons).

This is the point the Rust project seems to miss when harping on about backwards compatibility: forwards compatibility is just as important.
> From my point of view having a centralized repository with a (usually) single (usually) latest version of a library is an awesome thing

This reasoning assumes that future versions of software are always better. This is certainly not the case. I would like that a working program does not spontaneusly break because a third party "upgrades", thus introducing a new bug. I am willing to give up anything else to be assured that working programs continue to work no matter what.
Politics infests everything, so inevitably all economic news is propaganda to be twisted however is deemed appropriate.

When unemployment is high, the house organs lament the poor people out of work. When unemployment is low, the house organs lament that it’s the wrong kind of employment. And always, the problems can be solved with putting my candidate in charge with access to a lot of other people’s money.
About roguelike game (not in Rust), Komodo developped a decentralized blockchain based one, and give developers lots of tool to develop their own decentralized game - roguelike or not
https://docs.komodoplatform.com/basic-docs/antara/antara-tut...
Depends what you mean by human speed. What's faster, a lower tech "human" operation like looking up a word in a physical dictionary (assuming one's handy), or looking it up on dictionary.com, assuming dictionary.com takes 5s to load?
Thats total nonsense. Technological progress and capitalism are intertwined, but we didn’t achieve advancements because of the pure necessity to put food on the table or simply “work hard”. Weve advanced enough so we can provide the same basic needs like food and healthcare to everyone, just like everyone can now entertain themselves or travel anywhere in the world.
That only works if the vehicle in front of you is lower than your own, right? So people will have to get into an arms race and buy higher and higher vehicles to keep that advantage.
Ride height and cool factor. Minivans have ~the same ride height and even more utility (space) if you don’t off-road but lack the cool factor.
For most people, no job means both no medical insurance and also no ability to pay out of pocket. So I'm baffled as to how this is supposed to be a rebuttal.
> She cycled, proudly, through jobs and agents and editors and publishers. She could treat people badly. She’d blow deadlines and be rude and endlessly dramatic. More compassionate friends chalked it up, most of the time, to mental illness and drug addiction or understood it to be the collateral damage of her life force.

Please don't be this person.
"You say animals fulfill your emotional needs better than people? By God, I will prove you right!"
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I am in the same situation. If all electric SUVs werent priced for the upper class I would probably own one.

Also if you have a big enough family there is no way to haul them around on a tiny car unless you shove some kids in the trunk.

Besides. I am no boomer either.
As milk consumption falls, Borden Dairy Co. files for bankruptcy
> How about O&G companies with big green tech budgets

This troubles me endlessly. My gut says no, as I can't imagine some of the largest companies in the world reorienting sufficiently, and I feel that they should quickly become sidelined as relics of a different time. But it seems unreasonable to think they don't have some value to add with the large budgets and pressure they are under.

Gladly be informed on this topic!
> ..."dying" in this context implies "and not being replaced with new brood".

No it doesn't. The bees that pollinate almonds are bred by beekeepers and sent out for this exact purpose. They will be replaced as long as the demand for their service remains.
Copied the rapper recipe.
Is it still good if that 60+ year old has never been a 'freeloader' and has made the best choices possible to provide for their self/family with the income that the person was able to make prior to retirement? If the 60+ year old has been a net benefit to society, should they not be provided a means of living after retirement age?
Sometimes there's nothing you can do to avoid an accident with another driver. You can get in a crash standing still at an intersection. In an accident, the biggest car will win. If the average car on the road was a Mini Cooper I wouldn't worry about it. But with the prevalence of SUVs, anyone driving something smaller than a crossover is taking a big personal risk.
I'm surprised someone hasn't made a flash-equivalent framework/environment for html5 or webassembly yet.
Perhaps my error was in saying that the specific conditions that the OP listed would result in financial ruin.

My experience is anecdotal from close relatives in Alberta having severe diseases early in life. Their drugs and "required care" was expensive and not entirely covered by their private insurance. Their private insurance had caps (annual and/or lifetime), and after, their medical history made it difficult or impossible to get private insurance with adequate coverage.

The bills were significant, but maybe each province has programs to cover the difference for those that cannot afford the bills?
> Because dating is asymmetric and loneliness is much more pervasive among men. It's incredibly frustrating that academics and media outright refuse to acknowledge this fact! This article is an ideologically driven, sensationalist dumpster fire.

Here an article who analyzes this phenomenon by the Gini coefficient (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gini_coefficient&...):

https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...

"On a list of 149 countries’ Gini indices provided by the CIA World Factbook, this would place the female dating economy as 75th most unequal (average—think Western Europe) and the male dating economy as the 8th most unequal (kleptocracy, apartheid, perpetual civil war—think South Africa)."
Bigger cars are heavier, SUVs have terrible aerodynamic properties, bigger batteries are heavier and consume more resources bring produced. Even electric SUVs aren't really green by any stretch of the imagination.
This is incorrect, "work for hire" only helps determine who owns the copyright on something, not whether that thing is actually copyrightable.
Ahh yes the classic HN blame capitalism for all of society problem.

What is a better model. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need"

Personally I like having control over what I choose to sell my labor for, and based on all the other times other models have been tried I would prefer not to have the government assign me a job, or give me bread credits where I have to wait in line for hours to get my "free" government bread
This is a debate about language conventions, I can assure you that 0% of Americans claiming to be European in this sense actually think they live in Europe or are actual Europeans. There are some that speak the language and have exposure to the culture, but that is not what they are saying in this context.

In America, a nation of immigrants, people are often proud of where their family came from. This can trickle down a few generations. There is an increasing number of people that identify as "American" instead of where their family originally immigrated from, particularly in Appalachia and the South, so this could eventually change.

I understand the frustration from a European point of view, but I just wanted to provide some context to the phenomenon.
Which is what I was talking about. I haven't had the opportunity to put it to use yet (converting an existing project is a big headache, it's something to do from the start) so I didn't remember the terms, only the ability.
> Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

Nah, no offense to the react fans but I'd rather listen to Fowler than to this guy.

Sure, there are very specific exceptions where repeated code is an asset instead of a liability (and many of them are, appropriately enough, when dealing with graphics), but they are that: very specific. For 99% of situations, we ought to follow the principles (obligatory IMO).