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> > Environmentalism has always been a cause of the (mostly, as now, center- rather than radical-) left.

> This absolutely is not true.

Yes, it's true.

> Who is, by a massive margin, the top polluting nation right now?

Per capita? The top three (and they are very close to each other, with a decent gap to number 4) are Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the US.

> Communist China

Sure, the PRC is high in aggregate for the same reason that, say, Qatar is low in aggregate. (OTOH, Qatar is pretty high per capita.)

Also, even if the ROC was as bad as, say, the US, I don't think anyone has ever described the ROC as center-left.

> The “rapid industrialisation at any cost” approach is an essential hallmark of socialism

No, it's a hallmark of underdeveloped countries seeking to escape or protect against foreign domination, whether there governments are communist, right-wing nationalist, or anything else.

It's also a hallmark of unrestrained capitalism; the downward trend in Western mixed economies is a result of center-left environmentalist interest restraining capitalism.
| unchecked regulation

I think you mean "complete and utter lack of" regulation.
> I would choose to starve then.

I fervently hope that I would as well. Unfortunately I think most of us, including me, have a breaking point at which hunger and desperation would win over principles.
This is exactly my point: you are valuing TSLA as a car maker, and I along with the market prefer to value it as tech company.
There definitely are, but all of the ones I can think of off the top of my head were created before cars and zoning came about.
Exactly. I'm pleased to finally hear from someone with a similar UX taste. :-)
yesss but people who take jobs at FAANG companies are generally not in that situation
No, it’s not. He’s pointing out that there are legitimate trade offs here.
At the expense of literally everyone else on the road
income-based deferment!
Many are in the market for the Model 3. I would imagine that the Model Y SUV will eclipse Model S,3,X sales by a wide margin.

There are rumors going around that they will start deliveries next month. Which is probably one the reasons for the stock rally.
tell us the future, oh mighty oracle, whose sight is beyond the limits of science and reason, so that we may be enlightened.
Aka the illusion of distributed individual ethical choices supposedly solving what is a serious political problem. (With a hint of the tragedy of the commons)

The destructive greed of corporations can only be solved by organized political action.
So unlike yesterday's Apple news this is a subtle flaw, not a decision they made
I've been using PHP with Symfony and Laravel the last 5 years and the ecosystem development has been promising and PHP has been improving with each version. The freelance market is also great, though you have to pick the interesting projects as well (I usually don't do Wordpress or CMS-type stuff, but rather custom Web Apps or APIs).

I've also worked a lot with Vue.js and currently with Angular.

The two next big things I want to pick up are React with GraphQL and also Python (Flask and Django). I'm also very interested in longevity, and I think the mentioned technologies have good staying power (I've been burnt enough with AngularJS 1, bower, grunt, gulp, etc :-) ).
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I am generally in favour of nuclear. But objectively a nuclear reactor is massively more complex than say a turbine or solar panel. It is harder to mass produce, more difficult to model, requires more skilled workers, and needs higher levels of security. It has stringent safety requirements as a result of radioactivity. All of that has to cost money. Nuclear physics is difficult and we should not underestimate the challenges.

And we do have to make these things work in risk averse capitalist democracy. A perfect technology that you can't get consent for is useless. We are trying to generate energy, not build a techno utopia. It is not an academic question, but a practical one. Renewables wins because it is highly contentious but NOT difficult to build. Nuclear fails because it is highly contentious AND difficult to build

Also, the storage debate leaves out interconnectors. That lets you use excess power now which is cheaper than storage.
"I am calling from Microsoft" calls were bad enough. Now they will know some details to a past case and sound slightly more legit.
Except PR citizens and corporations don't generally pay US income taxes. There are exceptions though, like if the income is from US activity. They do pay a few other federal taxes (like FICA, FUTA), but those aren't relevant to the article.
Mostly safety because there is more focus on side impact protection. it leads to wider, wrap around designs.
I wonder what the effect of the final product will be.

Will it be able to accurately represent what occurs in a fly's brain? I feel like there is still so much more involved e.g. voltage through neurons, timing, concurrency etc.
Yes, just like they do when talking.

The problem is not syntax, the problem is that they're bad at typing on a keyboard.

I suspect it's mostly because the keyboard is too big and stiff...
Also possibly [1685-1750]. :)
> are really, REALLY good at spinning their mission into some “world-changing” spiel that completely absolves them of responsibility (e.g: Facebook).

Really? I don't think many people outside the valley believed that about FB ever, and I don't think many people outside FB believe that now.

FB doesn't seem all that good at spin in general... [1] [2] [3]

[1]: How Facebook’s crisis PR firm triggered a PR crisis https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/17/18099065/facebook-define...

[2]: Facebook's PR Crisis Is a Mess of Its Own Making https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-21/facebo...

[3]: What Did Zuckerberg Know? Lessons from Facebook’s Latest Scandal https://www.prnewsonline.com/lessons-Facebook-data-crisis
What do you think is the risk of such a reactor? They are physically incapable of runaway criticality and molten lead sounds scary but really isn't anything particularly dangerous with respect to industrial chemicals. Depending on fuel choice there also is no risk of proliferation - so worst case a well funded actor could disassemble such a reactor to extract the fuel for a dirty bomb; which is a manageable, worthwhile risk, IMO.
Thanks for posting this, I was really re-considering joining Google's new Ads-For-Children-And-Fighting-Against-Democracy Engineering Team here in NYC, but knowing that Mozilla is a typical corporation with typical corporation practices, I now know that my own hands will be clean regardless of how many killbot scripts that I write.
Grandparent just showed how to use it on the command-line, with curl.
This is an /r/selfawarewolves moment. Maybe prostitution isn't exploitative and in our rush to protect people we are imprisoning them.
Different problems.

Designing high-maintenance cars to keep in-network repair shops busy is one thing.

Limiting access to repair information is another.

Like Apple, Tesla faces (more than most manufacturers) the problem of a 3rd-party repair going awry and making the primary manufacturer look bad.
I'm not ever sure how that comment even relates to mine. I just explained the goals of various OSS project as I understand them. I never said anything about setup costs or price.
It was also the case that Jobs was reluctant to sell them to the businesses that could afford them and easily justify the cost in enhanced productivity such as investment banks. He wanted to sell them to education at a time Sun was using some of their profits from banks to sell to education at a discount. A superbly effective strategy for Sun for many years.
Wrote this to help product teams learn from how Google changed the UI for seeking notifications. There are already good articles on how to do this for mobile apps, but similar best practices need to be applied on the web for pop-ups / modals / product tours etc. which are typically invasive and not helpful.. which gives them a reputation for being annoying.. but it doesn't have to be that way!
You’re confusing the wholesale price with the retail price. It’s not that used diamonds are inherently worth less, it’s the overhead of running a shop to sell them being a real cost. Walk by a jewelry store and you see both expensive inventory and people standing around waiting to sell to somebody, that’s a huge expense.

PS: Not to be confused with the third category of “wholesale” diamonds that’s simply retail with lower overhead.
Ah, Fortran, how I miss you. Unfortunately it seems like the last commit to this project is from three years ago.
RTS games tend to be more skill based and thus less accessible for new players. For games that strive to have large audiences, it's important for games to have a significant level of chance so that worse players can still sometimes win, the absence of this chance makes it so that new players will be losing most of their games for a significant amount of time until they become proficient. This is in contrast to DOTA or League of Legends, where a poor players will occasionally get carried by their team.

I suspect that a compounding factor is that traditional base-building RTS games are hard to make work with microtransactions. RTS games tend to be very carefully balanced, and mechanisms to secure an advantage by paying would alienate any serious RTS player. This makes it so that cosmetic-only microtransactions are the only viable option. The reality is that microtransactions that confer advantages sell much better. Even games like Path of Exile and League of Legends that purport to not be pay-to-win do allow players to gain an advantage through paying (more rune pages for LoL, inventory tabs for PoE), but this would destroy a traditional base-building RTS. Company of Heroes 2 being a prime example, better commanders and hard-advantages being available for purchase was a deal breaker for many gamers. Who knows when the next patch will shift the meta and now you have to shell out another $15 to stay competitive.

The reality is, RTS games never really were the stuff of AAA studios. Budgets for these titles reflected their more niche audience. Resounding successes like Warcraft 3 and Age of Empires were the exception rather than the norm. Publishers are aware that the addressable audience is limited, and so budgets are limited as a result. The RTS genre is still strong, but has become more the realm of indie and mid-market studies. The Total War series is the only one I'd really describe as AAA, and that's a mix of turn based and real time.
It's kind of admirable that Mozilla would promote an idea that can so obviously be used to judge them poorly with respect to recent news. That last bit of news about them isn't necessarily the only thing they should be judged on though.
Thanks for this, I didn't realize you can actually export all your data from Google.
That reminds me of a great anecdote from an old thread:

In 1983, Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer, the first releases from Lucasfilm Games, were built with a system written in Lisp. It was a 6502 assembler with Lisp syntax and a Lisp-style macro facility, written in Portable Standard Lisp, running in Berkeley Unix on a 4MB VAX 11/750. Unfortunately it was eventually abandoned because the developer had left and it was a bit of a strain on the VAX that was shared by the whole development team.

Yes, I wrote it. Yes, it was my first non-academic programming job. Yes, the users complained about the parentheses, and the slowness. But, they also took advantage of the powerful macro facility.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475210
Also see COBOL on Cogs, http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
Slack still doesn't have syntax highlighting
It’s easy to lambast people for their decisions when you don’t have to bear the associated cost.
What is it about elastisearch that dopey people stuff them with information and leave them on the open internet, all of the time?
You know, the sad thing is is that I think you're right.

I've met normally good-natured people that, once they became a lawyer/salesmen/financial "advisor", they started doing utterly despicable, wicked behavior and justifying it as "I'm only doing my job". And then they would go on to church, or whatever, all the while thinking of themselves as "good people". Even more interesting, they would rally against "evil corporate behavior" as if they had no role in it.
Just about time. Cobol has had one since when, a decade?
If I lived in a 1100 ft apartment and had to work out of it every day I would legitimately probably never leave my apartment for anything other than food. It would drive me mad, and I would probably quit to work somewhere else.
“We already have a good, properly secured backup system that we use for all our workstations and servers”

And this is the same myopic geek viewpoint that came out with the iPod “Less space than the Nomad. No wireless lame.”

Do you actually believe that most people have a good backup solution at all? Is that really what you are suggesting for a general backup solution?

That’s just like when DropBox was introduced and people on HN came up with a convoluted Rube Goldberg solution that they could do themselves.
When people ask why we're so concerned about the privacy implications and specifically the telemetry functionality of modern software... This. This is why.

Even if that functionality is implemented with good intentions and the data is only intended to be used for responsible purposes, the biggest and most technically capable organisations in the world can still make mistakes and suffer data leaks, which are potentially a gift to criminals, commercial competitors, and so on.

If there's anything sensitive in there -- personal data, commercial information that was provided under NDA -- we're probably still on the hook for it legally, too.
Remote work: your career is where you base your life around. If you want true freedom, remote work is necessary.

Low orbit sat. internet: internet access should be a fundamental right to all humans, there are still areas all around the world, including the US where there's little to no service because it's not economically viable to put a tower up or run lines.

Solar panels: if the internet is a right, then electricity definitely is. The ability to generate your own energy doesn't only embrace green ideals, it embraces American ideals.

Electic & autonomous cars: America is huge, and we all want to be connected w/o being crowded. If we can travel and stay connected with each other in a clean and safe way we should do it. Trains are part of it, but let's not throwaway a century of progress.

Source: I live in a small town. I have fresh air, I can see the stardust, and I paid $75k for my 3 bedroom house.
This assumes that executives being poached would lead to more than 70 employees losing their jobs.

If executive pay was rationally based, that might be true. But it appears to rather be the case that executive pay is really high just because executives get a lot of control over how much they are payed. More likely it would result in someone being promoted to executive and business continuing as usual.

The poaching companies are going to run out of places to put executives long before Mozilla runs out of competent employees who could run the company. In the meantime Mozilla gains a great reputation as a place to work if you want to get poached to a million dollar salary job, so it gains access to lots more competent engineers.

Or at least I think that's the sane argument for why Mozilla executives (and most companies executives) should be payed less. I'm not totally convinced that all the premises are true.
> All of the data was left accessible to anyone with a web browser, with no password or other authentication needed.

Really quite incompetent. But we don’t know for sure anyone else actually accessed it.
byuu I'm curious, is there some magical piece of documentation/schematic that would break open an entirely untapped area in your SNES research? Or are you at the point the hardware is almost entirely transparent, and it's just a matter of chipping away at the edge cases, or halo projects like a replacement clock for the dual oscillators?

It'd be interesting if some Nintendo engineer for the early 90s has a box in his garage with documents that could change the whole course of your current work.
Gridded tables is not too hard, but once you remove the grid lines, even a portion of them, it becomes a complete crap shoot.
How many similar decisions are made by management that isn't dumb enough to write such a letter.
It might not be worth the effort but...

https://sciencing.com/make-phosphorus-4524329.html
> I mean I don't see people complaining how you don't need to manually manage memory in SQL expressions.

Well, they don't complain about not having to manually control the low-level bits of query execution, but later they frequently complain about performance problems. And then they add hints, setup buffer sizes, indexes, etc.

Also, Rust (and to some degree C++) shows that you can have both very high-level, productive abstractions and low-level control. They call that zero-cost abstractions. The price to pay is a steeper learning curve, but not actual productivity or final performance.

This is the most exciting part about Rust actually. I know how to write Kotlin, Scala, Java or C# code that's close in performance to C or C++. But this will be ugly, unsafe and hard to maintain, non-idiomatic code. Rust gives ability to write code that has almost Python-like expressivity but is still fast as if it were hand-optimised loops and pointers.
You're kidding right $150k puts you in the 88th percentile in the US households. A couple earning that each would make them in the top 3%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
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If you're using AdSense, you're already -selling- Google your visitor data, no matter what visitor analytics package you use.

FTFY
If there was a maximum wage law then there would be no danger of poaching.
It would be good to get some concrete bullet points of what's ethical and what isn't. Is it ethical to work for Netflix knowing that some people might be wasting their life on your platform?

While I don't like google, what if I worked at Google but on a team that was doing good (like Angular or 'Project Zero')
When you say "others" can you cite where you are finding these reports from?

Making a conscious purchase and then regretting it (after getting yelled at by your wife) does not equal to a "fat finger incident".
> At the time, the vast majority of phones came with a non-standard 2.5mm jack for a wired headset.

The 2.5mm jack used on pre-iPhone wireless phones wasn't non-standard, it was a pre-existing, widely adopted standard for hands-free phone headsets established initially for cordless phones (the short-range ones with landline base stations) that was adopted by wireless phones because it was what every wired phone headsets on the market used.
I saw the reference to Ubuntu 14 and thought "what the?" Then I noticed the code hasn't been updated in 3yrs. One question answered but the bigger one remains: Why do we (meaning: me, I) gauge a project by it's recentness? I've written plenty of LOC that are structurally sound that I've not needed to touch up/ improve upon... And as a FORTRAN project you can be pretty sure updates can be glacial but still very viable.

Love the idea.
Yea, fair. But for compiled languages, a few seconds is still fast for the field - Go takes that long on anything but tiny projects. My job's main Go binary takes about 30 seconds for a rebuild, for instance, and I know of other projects here that take well over a minute.

Many of the hours-long optimized builds for Rust projects that I've seen have turned to <10 seconds without optimizations on a clean build (possibly libraries are still cached tho), and even fairly large ones are still less than a minute. Tiny projects are around a second or less. I'm usually looking at pathological cases though, so I'm not sure how well those hold up in general.

So I'm not looking for interactively fast - very few languages achieve that on even medium-sized codebases, even if they're interpreted. But under a minute for a couple million lines of code in the project and libraries fits in my "reasonable" range.
My message to young people: take as much of the money as you can and run.

Your predecessors have left you enough life challenges as it is to be pontificating and proselytizing to you about morals.
I love the component based approach of composing backend assets.

This feels like the next step up from terraform based systems.

Curious if this approach has been tried before?
This is a red herring.

The bigger issue is Mozilla preaching ethics in 'tech' while continuing to draw substantial profits from one of the most unethical 'tech' companies (Google)
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Thank you for sharing the life experience you've had on your travels, but this is a service based in San Francisco. Discussion would be more productive if scope was narrowed to the topic of OP.
Let's not forget the impact of immigration pushing up prices.
This is very useful. It's essentially command-line cheat sheets, which are very handy for cmds you don't use every day.
They will probably not train 10,000 pilots in 30 days. They will be able to train enough pilots in 30 days to cover the flights that will use a Max as equipment. Southwest reports that the max was scheduled for 330 out of 4,000 daily flights (https://www.southwest.com/html/air/737-MAX-8.html?clk=737MAX...). Training 5-10% of their 10,000 pilots in 30 days is much more feasible.

Southwest does (or did) intend to purchase more over time, but they will easily be able to keep pace to have enough trained pilots ready to fly as they replace older equipment.
I don't think my example (for example, "BB(11111) + 1") demonstrates the Berry paradox. The original comment "the biggest non-infinity namable number in k characters" is the Berry paradox, which is what I was pointing out.
Here's the times13 function in CCL on x86-64. (Note that #x68 is 13 shifted left 3 times to allow tag bits in the LS 3 bit positions. Also the below could be optimized a lot more but this is the default compilation.)

? (defun times13 (x) (* 13 x))
TIMES13
? (disassemble 'times13)
;;; (defun times13 (x) (* 13 x))
(recover-fn-from-rip) ; [0]
(cmpl ($ 8) (% nargs)) ; [7]
(jne L41) ; [10]
(pushq (% rbp)) ; [12]
(movq (% rsp) (% rbp)) ; [13]
(pushq (% arg_z)) ; [16]

;;; (* 13 x)
(movl ($ #x68) (% arg_y.l)) ; [17]
(movq (@ -8 (% rbp)) (% arg_z)) ; [22]
(movq (% rbp) (% rsp)) ; [26]
(popq (% rbp)) ; [29]
(jmp (@ .SPBUILTIN-TIMES)) ; [30]

;;; #<no source text>

(:align 3)
L41 ; [@56]
(uuo-error-wrong-number-of-args) ; [41]
NIL
Sorry, no. You have drunk the Kool-Aid. Here's the reality: Amazon is joined to the hip with Google, along with all of the other fake companies that are really owned by intelligence agencies, and have been from the beginning. Get a clue.
100%, and not just young people. I'm in my mid thirties and I work for a tech company whose clients include some of the most evil companies in the world. Do I feel proud about the work I do? Absolutely not. Do I like not starving to death? Yes. Would I prefer working somewhere else? Absolutely, but life isn't always that simple
> Minorities ... exist and should be protected from the majority.... Only long-term, widely-held political thoughts can truly dominate minorities in this country.

Indeed, which is why laws should be hard to pass and easy to repeal. The government should not be involved in anything which does not have the support of a clear supermajority. I would personally set the threshold at a minimum of 75-80% support required to enter a new law into the books, and at least 60% to keep it there following a formal challenge. I would also make the challenge automatic after about 20 years to ensure obsolete laws are pruned on a reasonable schedule.