skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demanding an increase in the cost of adding CO2 would be effective for the organizations and people in that jurisdiction as long as that rule lasts. It's a great stop-gap mechanism. But a technical solution to lower the cost of removing a ton of CO2 is superior to a political solution to raise the cost of adding a ton of CO2. It's better because it's a permanent step forwards, not one that has to be held on to, and it's better because it better aligns with everyone's incentives.

The political solution is vulnerable to changing societal and cultural winds. It takes constant expenditure of political fervor to maintain as a law, and is always vulnerable to a political competitor suggesting "...don't want to pay that $100USD/ton fee? Help me gain power and I'll help you gain money."

Once the technology exists to take the cost to remove it down by an order of magnitude, this effort no longer needs to be expended and the incentive to remove it no longer exists. Modern fuel-injected and turbocharged engines do not only have lower emissions, they are more powerful and require lower maintenance than carbureted big-block engines. And if you've driven a Tesla you know that a battery electric vehicle can be both better for the environment and a better car (for everything but extremely long-range journeys) than an internal-combustion vehicle. Similarly, Lets Encrypt making HTTPS as easy and as cheap as non-encrypted sites did far more to increase the number of secure websites than years of advocacy begging website owners to get certificates and browser vendors to increase the equivalent of fees.
Learn to Program Better with the Weekly Spot Drill
How horrible. Why would someone do this? I'd never heard of Gokada, it looks like such a cool thing for a developing country.

I wonder what the motivation was. It doesn't seem like a market where there'd be the political pressure to assassinate someone. Maybe if there was someone trying to rethink the way pharmaceuticals or something, I could understand a CEO getting chopped into pieces by some shadowy figure, but ridesharing? It benefits everyone to carpool and use fewer cars to get people from place to place.

Ugh. God bless his family.
Unfortunately, when it comes to public policy (at the national level at least), the way our system is structured doesn’t leave room for anything except for two distinct positions.
Clarity on resolution/DPI is important for me as I continue to use bitmap fonts in Linux which don't scale well with HiDPI. I think the resolution+DPI on the Microsoft Surface Laptop is perfect but I would prefer to go with Lenovo.
That’s a pretty harsh response given that we went through lots of work to inform our Airbnb guests about the tax and provide local municipalities their hotel tax. It’s hurtful to here that called an excuse. Do you have rentals? Are you familiar with what the hotel tax can and cannot be applied to? We’ve been asking Airbnb for to natively support hotel tax in HI for years. Vrbo supported hotel tax from the beginning. You can’t just add 1.14 to the total and call it good. The taxes isn’t on the cleaning fee or service fee from Airbnb. They need to be separate. Are you implying that we preferred something unethical, but we had no choice for HI taxes. Most states had been supported for a while, but not all.
That reminds me of Taleb’s essay “ The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
> Perhaps I was wrong?

No, you're not wrong. Not sure how what I wrote conflicts with that. I don't think it does.
Zoom announces a $599 touchscreen device for remote workers
This reminds me of the story about an older engineer called in to fix a computer problem. Previous efforts by the local IT staff had failed. In two clicks, the problem was fixed. He charged $100 for it.

Outraged at having to pay $100 for two clicks the customer demanded an itemised bill.
The engineer wrote:

- 2 clicks: $0.05 / click

- knowing where to click: $999.90
Don't forget his strong thumbs up for Chavez of Venezuela, which worked out really well.
I can't even imagine what a laptop lighter than my X1 carbon would feel like. Thats so light.
Yes, you are correct! (And you don't sound negative just yet; skeptical, if anything.) The mechanism of handlers is literally a mechanism of dynamically provided callbacks. I draw the parallel between condition handlers and callbacks/hooks in the body of the book, too.

The difference is the fact that Common Lisp has facilities that allow two things: choices of what and how to proceed and flexible non-local returns. The callback is allowed to list all recovery choices that are present in a given dynamic environment; they are established dynamically, just like handlers, and therefore can be provided fully from outside.

For instance, a handler/callback can invoke a choice named CONTINUE if it decides that absolutely nothing needs to be done and the validation is safe to proceed. The validating code doesn't need to know why exactly that choice was taken.

Or, if it notices that e.g. it needs to convert a timesheet from version 3.0 to version 4.0, it can call a conversion function on the timesheet object and invoke a choice named REVALIDATE, passing the converted timesheet as an argument. Note that the validating code doesn't need to know about any details of the conversion routine! It only needs to provide a means of restarting the validation by establishing a REVALIDATE choice.

Or, if it decides that the situation is hopeless, it can signal an error of its own and defer the responsibility of handling that situation higher up - all the way to the system debugger, if necessary. The validating code doesn't need to know about any details of why an error was signaled! That's a ton of modularity that we've just given there.

These choices are actualy named restarts in Common Lisp. I purposefully name them choices, though, as I introduce them in the book.
From an evolutionary standpoint it would make sense to evolve the ability to produce all the secondary "fuels" from the most abundant(primary) "fuel". I don't know if things are so in reality, alas.
The greatest trait of life is the ability to adapt and survive. What would be the point of procreating in a passive Edenian world?
Probably a good time to sell AAPL seing that peek
There’s certainly some R&D involved. However, the software is entirely pirated from what I understand, so that’s a lot of money you save.
> Anyway, if you're choosing to have kids, one is enough. The real winners adopt.

Not from an evolutionary standpoint, lol
A glaring omission: the views and positions that paulg is (obliquely) referring to just aren't orthodox. He's upset that a small, vocal minority[1] is challenging a set of orthodox social norms that continue to enrich and empower him.

The average American is doesn't read Twitter daily, and is somewhere between a moderate liberal and a moderate conservative[2]. These people represent orthodox privilege.

[1]: Case in point: they continue to lose primary elections within their own (ostensible) party.

[2]: On the American political scale, which is uniformly further "right" than European left-right divides.
if you read the article it says he was in the elevator with his killer, who had gloves, a mask, a suitcase. this was clearly a professional hit job...
> Having written parallel software in both C and Rust, the memory safety guarantees and easy parallelisation with Rayon offered by Rust contrasts quite sharply with my poor experience using OpenMP

While I appreciate the strive for safety, and the effort being put into the rewrite, I believe in that particular case it would be more beneficial to rewrite it in ATS with safe formally-proved C rewrites/known to be safe inlined C calls.
This is a great one: https://gfycat.com/softklutzyblackbird
I don't have access. Could someone kindly clarify what this is about?
There are two issues. First, I don't think it's one or the other: race privilege exists, and class privilege exists too.

Second there are actual dog-whistles disguised as reasonable viewpoints, and it's incredibly hard to distinguish them. Suppose you're talking to a random person, with no context on who they are, probably on a site where a comment took five minutes to write and doesn't fully develop the ideas. First time you find that, you might think it's just someone with a different opinion. But as time goes on and you notice that certain arguments are used not to promote debate but to derail conversations, you get suspicious and start seeing everything as dog-whistles.

In other words, public debate is degraded by people that don't present arguments honestly and by people who are either way too worried or not worried at all about those dishonest people
For those last ones, try to figure out if there are a few systems that they commonly use and make integrations with those and be able to provide some kind of answer to interesting queries.

It's great that you have a general solution, but even those need to be made into specific products and services that non-technical people can appreciate for the value they bring. And the message needs to be crystal clear for them, because a general solution is too broad.

"This will analyze your customer behavior and tell you which ones will likely order new units from you next month or quarter, and how much."

A broad and general tool like yours does not, in itself, solve the problems for them, so you have to help them understand what it can do.
In certain high profile cases certain groups tried hard to silence certain people but - for better or worse - failed horribly, kind of like an Streisand effect, only

- not initiated by the person themselves but by someone else

- and working for the benefit of the person who was attempted silenced.
Go look at the schools in poor Black neighborhoods in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnatti. You will find buildings in disrepair, lacking basic things like air conditioning. Last year, Columbus City Schools cancelled classes several days because it was too hot. If you look at teachers' salaries, the city school districts pay significantly less than the surrounding suburbs, while having higher student/teacher ratios and a disproportionate number of students with Individualized Education Plans, that are English-learners, or that have other unique challenges to overcome. Standardized testing shows these schools, as one migh expect, have far poorer learning outcomes for their students, as well.

I can't tell you why your numbers appear to show otherwise, but anyone can easily verify that there is an enormous disparity between the quality of schools attended by residents of poor--often mostly Black--school districts and that attended by residents of wealthier--typically whiter--school districts.
If you read the news coverage it's extremely clear why they think they have video of the suspect (and it's not clairvoyance). The first few moments of the attack were captured in surveillance footage.
Don't Talk About Covid-19's 'Waves'–This Isn't the Spanish Flu
Adam Smith mentions explicitly in 1776 how "women of stature tire after having 2 or 3 children, if any at all. Poor women have up to 20" (couldn't find the literal quote).
The devil is in the details though. I’m sure a US capitalist and a French government bureaucrat have very different ideas as to what constitutes “enough money”.
Because some people have this idea that the stock market is able to perfectly understand risk in all situations to the point that it can be used to make decisions itself.
Thank you! I will include this in the book. How should I credit you?
A malicious party could have access to OP's other accounts, maybe OP reuses passwords. It's in the realm of plausibility that they are being cautious not to alert the attacker. If they/authorities want to use the opportunity to observe and collect evidence then I think these actions on GitHub's part are somewhat reasonable, albeit kind of shitty.
That's an interesting example, but I think to some extent it contradicts the idea of orthodox privilege. When you offered that alternative, it doesn't seem like you were chastised or marginalized; instead, you were thanked for offering a useful perspective (one I agree with!).

There are definitely going to be examples of people going too far, and making wedge issues out of things that shouldn't be wedge issues. But I think it's worth noting that in general, the opinions that are heavily stigmatized are ones that are insulting or hurtful toward specific people or groups.
We have a handful of different plans for storage depending on your needs/goals. If you're interested in paying on an annual basis, you can store for $145/year. Alternatively, you can pay for multiple years upfront for a discounted rate.

We are able to assist in the transfer of your sample from your current clinic to our long-term storage facility. We just require some completed paperwork in order to facilitate. If you're interested in this, you can email sarah@givelegacy.com!
Every time I see the thin blue line flag or a "support our police" sign (or both combined, as in several yards just outside of town) I get angry. It's willfully ignoring everything you just wrote about, at best.
noticing issues on GitHub, CircleCI, and Launch Darkly.
This could almost be a Yogi Berra quote- "So many people are silenced nowadays, it's all you hear about"
I recently started using this script in a dedicated directory in my home folder:
/home/user/daily_logs/

----

#!/bin/bash

## create personal log file for tracking tasks

vi logfile_$(date +%m%d%y_%j)

---------

This creates a logfile date stamped so I can reference what I was doing that day.
The ability to open a separate tab or window for each thread is what I'd like. Really anything would be an improvement over a single, fixed-width column for a thread.
First time I’m aware of that reading the footnotes provides at least as much meat and interest as the article itself. There’s even footnotes in the footnotes.
The document is still marked as secret, and as I said the exact contents are unknown. We know of what it allows as members/former members of the CIA told the reporters about it.
That's true but but over the last few decades in the US it's been getting increasingly less true over time as various debates get partisan valence and ideological sorting gets stronger.
If there is only one person who could have been there to dismember the victim in the interval, I'd say this is close enough to "killer"...
The Fake Cisco: Hunting for Backdoors in Counterfeit Cisco Devices [pdf]
It was a professional hit job given the description here...the killer was wearing gloves, a mask, had an empty suitcase and rode the elevator with the victim to his apartment.

The hitman was likely doing a deed for someone who paid for his service...
They might want to check into New York and California law that prohibit discrimination in employment based on past or present political affiliation.
Arm raises prices on chip technology for some customers, sources say
It's not just Tencent. Plenty of people here have jobs or companies partially owned by China. Don't expect everyone to just be on the side of the people in the trains.
wait idgi, its not true though since "menopause aside" and women that dont menstruate.
For mockup images, you can use an unmistakably prominent watermark.

Superimpose the word "MOCK-UP" in a gigantic font that takes up nearly entirely the image.

Make it translucent and red or make it black outline. And maybe tilt it diagonally to catch attention and to make it easier to visually separate it from the rest of the image.

To streamline the process, you can just keep an image like this around to import as a topmost layer into other images.
I don't know your kids but with mine it's a year or 2 of sleepless nights per child & then having to deal with temper tantrums & occasional other annoyances. Even in the roughest years I'm not sure the cons exceed the pros.
I read somewhere, (I think it was USA Today, no less) that almost half adult children in the US have no meaningful contact with their parents. Many of them have parents who do not even know where their children live.
The first half clarified some things for me, thank you. The second half is replying to the dog-whistle "all lives matter", which is not what I was talking about.

I think my misconception was that I thought BLM is a movement against police brutality, where it's actually more general than that. Under that light, it makes sense.
> >= 120Hz is great for everything

It's not great for battery life.
> but not "the truth."

And yet, in your opening paragraph, you described "the truth". "The truth" would be that a percentage of population complains about a certain sound while the remainder of the population doesn't. You might even be able to describe physical properties of that sound, such as the range of frequencies and the amplitude that produces discomfort in a given proportion of population. You might even be able to describe the characteristics of populations that respond to the sound differently (such as, I don't know, socioeconomic status for whatever reason). That would probably bring you as close to "the truth" as possible. Whether the sound in question is called "high-pitched" or not is irrelevant.

It irks me that subjective claims about the physical world are regarded as truth statements about the physical world, and thus my report that I hear a displeasing sound and your report that you don't hear that sound or don't find it displeasing somehow produces two "truths".
I'm not confident that the EU will address this situation, much less solve it. The government in Brussels does not want to be known for challenging domestic tax policy that has existed for years, especially in a post-Brexit era. I could be wrong, and maybe the EU will put pressure on small tax havens in order to give reassurance to working class citizens in larger countries.
If you want to be more secure, there's nothing stopping you from avoiding third-party app stores.
Centralized government, centralized blame.
I personally think that this is mostly unrelated, since very few people sideload on Android (also due to a less restrictive Play Store policy) and Apples curated store would remain a trusted source.
I agree, however, as a side comment, nowadays gloves and mask are not any more as suspicious as they used to be...
My lamentation at the end was about dedicated displays (off topic in a thread about laptops I know...)

I have a new MacBook coming soon, so 16:10 dreams come true there.
> Also, the 80+ Gold power supply is an inefficient choice given then lack of a second GPU

That's what tripped me up, I think. Even without a second GPU, 80+ Gold or better is a good choice.

Your next sentence makes sense though, 1KW PSU's are usually overkill, even if you like to oversize your PSU like I do.
this seems a bit like a false dichotomy - I don't think that's how the software industry is structured. Maybe it's how companies with dev teams in _certain_ industries are structured. I've even had managers in the past who did deep work in addition to doing some of the more logistical work of project planning / story breakdown and it's almost a basic expectation that a senior engineer be hands on with the most complex, business-critical systems

I agree if companies don't have non-management tracks for experienced engineers. That does result in the environment you're talking about in about the worst way where your most experienced eng's are unhappy / hate managing and inexperienced eng's are stuck with bad managers
A Tale of Three Skeuomorphs
I read this article years ago and have logged about 1,800 hours using this system.

Like many, when it comes to personal projects, I want to accomplish something and enjoy myself. The problem is that those are often at odds with each other: accomplishing something worthwhile requires hard work that isn't always enjoyable.

I've modified the system slightly to a "20-Hour Method" but the idea is the same.

I decide on something I would like to learn or work on and focus on it for 20 hours. Remarkably, I felt the weight of this decision for the first time, I knew my decision would direct a significant amount of time and effort. I never felt this before, because I knew my decisions would only last until the first small obstacle.

This system is how I balance the trade-off between doing what I enjoy and pushing through the hard times. It's not a motivational trick to me. It is the objective way I have decided to balance the trade-off between hard work and constant enjoyment. With few exceptions, I know that the only way out is through, so I do the hard work, and when 20-Hours rolls around, I often find I do want to continue, even though I hated some parts along the way.
Where I live yes. On some lines especially in the city center and more crowded intersections public transport gets priority. When they have stops before an intersection no matter how long they have to wait there for passengers to get on or off, the moment they are ready to move the light turns red for everyone else. There are also places where a special light turns red (there's no green) when they pass in order to guarantee the priority while the rest of the time traffic uses the right of way for example.

This makes sense, the light sync system is already in place and they carry dozens or more passengers at once. This kind of advantage over a car carrying one person gives people more incentive to use public transport.
Are you sure that was an Electric Imp product? I'm pretty sure those were from other companies, like Eye-Fi (and later others).
I would be highly interested in watching (or maybe participating) in a forum where the rule is to employ a certain kind of charity, where you must assume that everyone you're speaking to is an AI who was just booted up, who was trained to know basically all the "is" facts about things (including politics), but who literally has no "ought" beliefs about anything (including politics.) Except maybe that there "ought" to be more paperclips :P

Anyone who breaks the kayfabe by expressing a human-like "ought" belief, would have their post flagged until dead (but isn't kicked out or punished otherwise; it's too easy to do accidentally, especially if you're new, and the point is to take such people and gradually get them used to having conversations that aren't fundamentally conflicts between opposing "ought" beliefs.)
Some people have vocation for taking care of the old and the sick. Yes, they do it for the money, but they could have chosen something else, and yet they chose nursing because to them it is rewarding. Job satisfaction and doing good things for others are very important indicators for happiness.
Ah! But that's because dark matter existing was never accepted as truth! We know that we're in the early stages of discovery.

And, again, as Paul mentioned, we know throughout time that things we have considered absolutely true were false, how different is the current age?

Here's a more obvious example: When the heliocentric theory was proposed, every textbook, every paper, every discussion ever held on the subject, not only talked about the Ptolemaic universe but expounded and clarified how it all worked and how it all fit together. It was the well-known truth. It was also wrong.

What's funny is that your reaction is that, "All current truths are absolute truths so any deviation from that is false and wrong." You're literally confirming what Paul is saying.

Further, no one is saying you have to engage in active dialog with someone committing heresy. But if you dismiss it straight out of hand, you're really no different than a church official in the time of Galileo. The truth is on your side; silliness on the other.