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>But suddenly government has no place in free markets when it comes to CO2.

Oil/utility/nuclear are the main groups that pushed for this idealistic notion of "free markets" in the first place via think tanks like CATO and AEI and groups like ALEC.

At the time when they pushed it the hardest there were few alternatives so the "free" market naturally selected them.

While the concept gained a lot of mindshare in the American public they've since stopped pushing it quite so hard and are obviously not quite so keen on it.

It's especially ironic that they criticize renewables mainly on the basis of variability, which is probably best solved by market based solutions.
> It’s impractical in that it doesn’t make much sense to use them from a “productivity” standpoint.

I think it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're creating pixel art for a game, working on a "retro" computer might be more practical. E.g., if the software you're using does everything you need, you get some nice benefits like fast startup time, often lower latency feedback, not having to worry about automatic updates rebooting your machine while you're working on something, having a machine that's much easier to understand/modify to your needs, etc.

It may not be practical to have a "retro" computer as your only computer, but for certain tasks I can see them being more practical than a modern computer. And it's honestly kinda sad that modern computers provide such a subpar experience in a lot of areas.
Indeed, a lot of appliances have the schematics embedded. My ETA oven does too.
During that time, you are correct, never fruit, no milk (I ate cheese but in very small amounts i.e. burger patty with a slice of cheese), very rare vegetables.

A typical day was:
breakfast - eggs and bacon
lunch - burger patty (or 2) and cheese, or 1/2 lb of carne asada
dinner - ribeye steak

I only drank water during that time.
Just switch to Calyx or Graphene, Pixel 2 is well supported
You should be prepared to lose all your money in any investment.

This PSA is a pretty lame scare tactic. Sure, BTC seems riskier than say AAPL stock, but both can go to zero. So, a PSA like this one seems like propaganda more than level-headed investment protips.
Traitors! Traitors everywhere!!

--- Proud Trump Militia QAnon Boys

Seriously tho, stunning is the right word for this. Trump stumbled onto a way where more incitement and division could lead to LESS profit for shareholders and less power for entrenched interests.

I don't think any of them saw that coming.
>hyperbolically bad thing

You mean like that these group was "violently and undemocratically install an authoritarian government"? Did you feel much scared of the possibility of some dictatorship (as opposed to an act of protest in the congress)?

Second, even if they did seriously try to do that, heck, even if they succeeded in establishing an "authoritarian government", that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis".

We don't call all authoritarian government nazis. Just the ones that actually are nazist.

In fact, the most succesful ones we call "business as usual", with the Patriot Act, surveillance, several global wars, torture, etc...
The Pulse nightclub is not typically associated with being a seat of government, though I don't doubt that people in government have been seated there.

On 9/11 there was a plan set in motion to crash a plane in to the Capitol, which only failed because of the bravery of the passengers in that plane. Incidentally, the very same Capitol self described 'patriots' broke into and vandalized last week.
I started reading hacker news regularly about 1.5 years ago and one of the main reasons I liked it was there seemed to be fewer comments like these than Reddit in addition to the interesting tech content.

Lately, it’s been just as bad. This comment is completely pushing a political narrative that relies on selective interpretation.
The protein is scalable. A carp pond is still agriculture, essentially. Needs location, weather, monitoring. Its a batch process.

Imagine a factory that makes energy bars could have a unit on the floor that emits protein oil in measured quantities as needed. Plug it in and go. Clearly a win for automation.
I have not listened very much of Schubert, but I cant help notice the ebullient joyful, playful exuberance of much of it, even his "Tragic" symphony, considering his life was sadly shortened due to disease.
No judge would take the case though. Not from an ideological stand, but from a technical one. Amazon (presumably) has a contract that says they can nullify the contract if you do things that violate certain conditions.

Say it was Amazon suing Parler here. Amazon says that Parler is doing stuff Amazon doesn't like. Parler says tough cookies, we're still gonna do that stuff. So Amazon brings Parler to court. The Judge asks what Amazon wants to do about this. Amazon says it wants to kick Parler off. The Judge says 'Yes, the contract between you two says you can do that. Why the hell are you wasting my time? Read your own contract, what are you, a buncha pre-laws?' Parler is then kicked off.

Bad taste or not, Amazon (it appears) is well within it's rights to dissolve the contract with Parler (which I have not seen).
Every time someone gets a bug bounty there's someone saying it's not enough and it should have been a bajillion dollars instead. $5000 for a week's work is great and clearly it's working.

Some points to consider are that there's risk involved dealing with the black market, including getting the payout in a way that doesn't trace back to you and legal liability if you're caught, a company has no reason to pay >=$x for an exploit that will cost them $x, and beyond that I suspect a lot of people simply feel better about telling the company about an exploit than selling it to criminals who will use it for extortion and theft.
The goal is to assess a candidate’s ability to communicate technical matters quickly with structure, organization, and planning. Secondary considerations include the ability to follow simple instructions, command of written language, and accurate descriptions of technical subjects.
Transitive identity is a difficult problem. SPIFFE has a working group to set up to try to solve it. https://groups.google.com/a/spiffe.io/g/transitive-identity-...
The yellow field, "don't tread on me" banner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
Freedom and rules are two sides of the same coin. Just doing whatever you want in a market does not make it a "free market". If somebody can go and hold a gun to your head and thereby persuade you to give them your goods for free, that's not a free market. A free market needs enforcement of rules of trade. And those rules include that you don't damage other market participants without compensation. Be it a potential bullet to the head, the mentioned "crap on the streets", or carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
Ask HN: What Is Your Experience on High Performing Teams?
Several articles have talked about the crucial role of psychological safety in fostering high-performing teams (see below). Have you been on a high performing team? If so, what was it like, with regards to psychological safety or anything else? What made it work?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it
Ask HN: Anyone else see PG and Trump as foils?
This is pretty random, but we just watched "Stranger than Fiction" and I was thinking, if we are living in a literary sim, who would the foil to DT be? The best I could come up with is PG.

Both benefitted greatly from and became masters of social media BUT:

- DT contributed nothing to Twitter

- PG invented/funded/advised Reddit and HN (and even coded the latter)

Both billionaires BUT:

- DT inherited his wealth and barely kept it via screwing over other people

- PG accumulated his wealth through making things and helping others

Both intelligent BUT:

- DT lies prolifically and avoids thinking about people or issues more than skin deep

- PG spends months critically trying to write true essays

Both hugely successful BUT:

- DT has an insatiable desire for fame and adoration

- PG leaves YC to go live quietly in the countryside
I'm going to side with the interpretations of history that are a tad more complex than "he gave a rousing speech, hence, genocide", and there are plenty of them.
> setting things up for a massive confrontation

There just was a massive confrontation, and the Republicans lost the Presidency and the Senate. Democratic leadership isn't afraid of another one.
There is a market considering it's already being done, but people pay more for the originals so it's not as lucrative as you might think. There's also projects like the commander x16, which I think are awesome
I know of https://planetary.social/. It's based on Scuttlebutt.
airlines are indeed permitted the authority to decide who flies and who doesn't.
There are many talented engineers all across the political spectrum.
I think most Americans have already judged for themselves.

https://www.ipsos.com/en/american-reaction-pro-trump-mob-ass...
Is it that hypothetical? Is 8chan back online? Last time I checked it wasn't, though it might have changed in the meantime.

(obligatory disclaimer that I don't use 8chan, and that from the outside it seems like an horrible place)
They played a large role in selling the war to the public (manufacturing consent).
>Well what is your suggested response?

If someone is committing crimes, then arrest and prosecute them.
I like the goals of Solid, but tech-wise I fear it's headed into the weeds. A detailed critique from a few days' deep dive into the tech stack: https://forum.solidproject.org/t/constructive-criticism-from...
When I interview candidates and their solution encounters an unexpected condition I typically park the original question to temporarily discuss how to handle this exception.

This and more generally their thoughts on how to handle other types of unexpected scenarios is an important part of delivering real world solutions. I'm shocked by the amount of engineers that don't have any thoughts on this topic.
> My concern is that, while seizing control of social networking from big corporations is surely a great idea, it may be initially inundated (and thus, socially formulated) by the same whackjob culture that flocked to Parler from Twitter.
> How can we ensure that balanced and healthy communities form on the decentralized web?

Sigh. The problem with all decentralized platforms/solutions is that they're focused on "decentralized", not on "platform".

So high level plan should be:
1. Make platform that actually compete with w/ FB, Twitter, etc.
2. Decentralize it.
Thanks for the feedback. I realized most HN comments are not that long, so I updated the page to show all the comment in the tooltip (instead of only 100 first chars previously).
Yes, it is precisely a cultural thing. America was formed as colonies declaring war against the strongest empire on earth, refusing to be ruled by a King and both occupied locally and abused from afar. The US Constitution and the balance of power between the three branches is designed to prevent consolidation of power in any one person because the government gains it's authority from the consent of the governed. (the people) And yes, as a final check against abuse of that power, the people have the means to overthrow. It is essential if free people are to remain free.

Most things seem hypothetical until they happen. Hundreds of millions of dead souls in the last century died from what was (at the time) a "hypothetical, apocalyptical scenario." And not only the death camps - think of how many people started their day normally, never knowing they would be murdered by a government by nightfall. History repeats itself so long as the basic flaws of human nature persist - and they will.
Depends on the wattage but I just bought a 20 watt charge controller for $30. If you're just trickle charging a lead-acid battery that's plenty.
> Didn't WikiLeaks publish the decryption key for the Manning leaks and all the unredacted messages got into the wild?

No.

> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange phoned the White House to warn lives would be put at risk by the publication of cables online, a court has heard.

> On 25 August, 2011, German news outlet Der Freitag revealed that it was possible to access the unredacted database of cables by using a mirror site and a 58-key password that had been published in a book by The Guardian earlier in the year.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wikileaks-...
What do you think is missing in mastering a specific usage, say Matrix ? It seems to me FreedomBox installs and configures a specific package, let's say synapse, along with the needed databases; what more can it do ?

internetcube uses yunohost, so the quality of the box depends much more on a project that isn't tied to this specific box and can leverage improvements made by other users. yunohost is used for people who want to self-host with a machine they already have, or with a VPS.
Ask HN: As a teacher, how could I convince my 12 yo pupils to get vaccinated?
Former French Web developer here.

For about 18 months now, I have been a maths teacher in high school, with ~100 pupils (11-13 yo).

For several reasons, covid vaccination is going very slowly here in France. Out of curiosity, I recently asked my pupils who would get vaccinated today if they could. Not even half said they would. When asked why, they said "it wasn't safe", that we should wait until we know more about possible side effects, etc.

What data/fact could I show to convince them to get a vaccine shot ASAP?
Fuck China communist party and communist lovers
They only lost if they sell it now. If they're not planning to sell for a couple of years when they invested then it doesn't matter that it dropped >20% in the last 48 hours.

I've been through this rodeo twice before, I've been checking the price regularly since at least 2014. I haven't lost any money because I didn't sell during downturns (although it's been tempting to do so for sure).

It's hard to say for sure if this is just shaking out weak hands and institutions will jump back in and it will start climbing again, or if we're at the start of a 2+ year constant downtrend again. I really hope it's not that, that was annoying, and we just climbed out of that in the past year, but we'll see (although it allowed me to keep buying a increasingly larger slivers of bitcoin every month all the way down to its low of $3500 last year).

It's fine that this article exists for the people that could use the reminder, I just don't like how the headline was worded. It made me think for a moment that there was going to be a major crackdown and we were definitely heading into a major drop in prices (way beyond what it has so far).
Please don't work on fully decentralized social networking. Humans social evolution is thrown way out of whack by social media, which makes it unstable and dangerous. When it does need to be regulated, it should be possible. We are a society of laws.
This would also cover intercepting proxies like many corporate networks have and potentially protect against less technical malware that installs MITM proxies on the local computer and root CAs to intercept local traffic (not sure if this is still a common type of malware on Windows computers but I've seen it before)
Ah, thanks for the info. I’ll edit my post.
Yes I keep my PC for games as well.

I wish you continued fortune with WSL2.
It was multi-processing. I guess mmap(or at least munmap) also needs to send an IPI even if no other processor currently has the same VM, to avoid race conditions.
I've seen that, it's so scammy. I feed bad for people who'll fall for it.

What can we do to improve financial literacy so that nobody ever takes investing advice from a bus ad?
It's not, this has happened many times previously.

Including against similarly far-right sites, e.g. Stormfront, Gab, 8kun/8chan, etc. All of which are still operational, after changing hosting providers.
A reliable, secondary source of power to account for consecutive days of bad weather doesn't need to be "on-grid."

Most robust off grid setups that I've seen involve the use of a backup generator.

For anyone considering an off grid mobile office in a van or other vehicle. When the sun isn't cooperative for too long and I find my storage battery being depleted too low, I simply start my engine and start charging the battery using my 12V DC cigarette lighter port.

I have 200W of solar feeding a 100Ah 12V battery with an MPPT charge controller and I thought I had calculated enough redundancy to handle up to a week of bad weather, but end up using my alternator to charge when the sun is unreliable more often than I thought I would.

PS: Are you using a PWM controller or a MPPT controller? The latter can increase efficiency by up to 30%.
So you think I know better and am intentionally mischaracterizing the two as equivalent?
I think this one from Vice arrives at an opposite conclusion. I think they're covering at least similar things?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...

This is from 2018 & talks about Alex Jones.

“We’ve been running a research project over last year, and when someone relatively famous gets no platformed by Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, there's an initial flashpoint, where some of their audience will move with them” Joan Donovan, Data and Society’s platform accountability research lead, told me on the phone, “but generally the falloff is pretty significant and they don’t gain the same amplification power they had prior to the moment they were taken off these bigger platforms.”
This is a bit of a tangent, but I think there's a market for a "self-tracker" data hub of sorts. My half-baked idea is that it'd run locally and ingest my activity of all sorts -- privately, securely, individually -- to help inform my personal knowledge base. Along the lines of Readwise but broader and deeper, and with analytics....
Theoretically it could probably be labeled as hacking and / or theft in a court of law. Practically, you'd never find out who did it unless they admitted to it, happen to live in the same country, etc etc etc.

I think the saying "it's only a crime if you get caught" is applicable in this case.

That said, you can get charged with tax evasion if you have crypto without reporting it. If they find out that is. I have some crypto stashed on an exchange, so I'm expecting them to report to my tax office at some point.
Those 30% overwhelmingly live in the biggest cities. Not in the poor villages where the ethnic tensions started.

(However, maybe Facebook indeed made things worse, once the Facebook-connected military got involved.)
If there's a drunk guy trying to start fights in your restaurant, you boot him out the door immediately for being a safety hazard and overall reflecting poorly on your business. I don't think any reasonable patrons will see that and think "Wow, they just kicked that guy out because they didn't like what he was saying, it could happen to me too, better get out of here".

It's a similar (digital) situation here. Parler is (was?) actively refusing to moderate their platform to prevent a literal insurrection.
I have a longing for a modern computer with modern software but with the lost simplicity of old.
> would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future?

How much are they paying, again? If they pay on par with FAANG, I'm sure they would have no problem attracting top tier talent. If they are paying multiples of FAANG, they would attract top of the FAANG talent. Of course if they are paying a fraction of FAANG, they are going to get a very mediocre talent.
> smartphones don't require repairs often

I've had people come to me with broken screens, old batteries, non-functional/muffled earpieces, wonky USB connectors, cracked lenses and other problems. Smartphones do require repairs and people, at least the ones I know, do want to repair them. But when I tell them the part will take a month to arrive and might not have the same quality as the original, not to mention the non-zero risk of cosmetic damage during disassembly, I can't blame them for rather buying a new phone.

My parents have a washing machine that's now over 15 years old. It still gets repairs regularly. The parts cost is going up though, because they haven't been made in a long time now. Imagine how long we could keep this washing machine if the parts were standardised or their CAD files available online, maybe some manufacturer would be making clones of them right now.
In my original post I didn't want to use the word "hacker" to mean "breaker-into of systems" while posting on a site called Hacker News.

But my point wasn't that people can't have their credentials revoked for doing bad things, my point was that if actual security researchers -- say, a team from some university or prominent firm -- had done this, we would be having a very different conversation right now. We might stop calling them researchers next week, but history matters.

As far as I can tell, the people who broke into Parler are not far beyond script kiddies, if at all.
I wouldn’t consider myself “technical”, so I don’t know if this is possible, but:

What about designing the entire system around tagging and filtering? Anyone can post anything, but users can choose which tags they want automatically hidden.

Example - any post with the word Trump in it gets automatically tagged with Trump, politics, etc.

This would remove the “filled with whackjobs” problem while simultaneously allowing for free speech.
Im my experience teams operating under the "The AI Hierarchy of Needs" principles are optimized for generating white papers
I find this euphemistic renaming amusing. It’s like calling a state backed hitman a ‘termination consultant’
I wonder if you could use prediction markets (is this bad? yes or no) and incentivize people to moderate using some sort of cryptocurrency mechanism.
> I think it is a psychological condition.

People can have trouble letting go of obsoleted, unneeded object due to some emotional attachment.

[Unless you hoard socially acceptable items, like status symbols or plain money, in that case most people will not see the problem]

> an espresso machine ... performs twice as well as an equivalent device from 50 years ago

...or not. A rational reason for fixing stuff is that many products are objectively worse.

> My feelings are not economics, they are emotions

Another perfectly rational reason is prevent environmental collapse. It does not get more reasonable than that.
Can you quote a line in the article that relates to what you're saying?
This is the real reason. These removals can be viewed through a conspiratorial lens, but in reality this is just companies taking the opportunity to remove legally problematic communities while they have the political support for it.
>If somebody can go and hold a gun to your head and thereby persuade you to give them your goods for free, that's not a free market.

It's a free market if you can hire private security to stop them. The ban on the violent trade (often called the "monopoly on violence") is an example of an area in which modern liberal democracies do not permit complete freedom in the markets they host. I guess the slogan could be, "not every policy liberal democracies like is a free-market policy."
But ... haven't we established that the en-US locale week numbering system is not really based on anything sensible. So how the user can have any sensible expectation of what they get as a reply when they ask for a week number?

I tried to research the glibc version control history of how it came to be like this. I think it's completely arbitrary, and at times en-US did use ISO 8601 weeks.
Superstitious men in China consume scales from these rare animals in an attempt to cure impotency.
I had the same problem so I made an "HN users" pub yesterday, come say hi:

hnpub.stavros.io:38213:@PJtGRbz9IwtobscVq+i4a8y0zZBc2j220D5jsoyKgaw=.ed25519~OezW1tkZu9dX/x7uhDLL/7m5xUosz68NeoqfDjhnYXQ=