skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, as a kid in late 1980s California public schools, I do remember learning about the basics of the Greenhouse effect and why it would likely become a problem in our lifetimes, sometime between 4th and 6th grades, I think. This was in the era of Deukmejian and Wilson as governors, when California was still run by Republicans.

I have no idea if that still gets taught, or how much of an effect it had on the late Gen X/early Millennial generations to be taught this (assuming it wasn't just California), but I feel like it did have an impact at least on me. As you say, the physics is extremely simple and straightforward to the point you can explain it to a 10 year-old and they'll understand it. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. Beyond that, you can look at a very simple plot of average global temperature and see it rising almost in lockstep with anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The fact that there are often local abnormally cold winter events in specific places doesn't change that the global averages are still rising.

I'm not really sure what to say beyond that. I could see some plausible case being made through the 70s and 80s that we were just coming out of the post-medieval Little Ice Age, but the trend has only accelerated since then and we are way past the hottest it has been since the Holocene and thus the dawn of agriculture. I still see a few David Friedman types out there trying to argue we can't know for certain if it won't be a net positive as places like Siberia become arable land in the coming centuries (he'll definitely never know since he's almost 80), but to deny that warming is happening beyond what might be expected from purely cyclical natural phenomena at this point is willful ignorance.

Even the actual oil companies don't try to make this argument any more. It's pure culture war, reflexive rejection of any piece of information, no matter whether it is fact or opinion, based on its having been associated at some point with some conception of an academic "left."
"The two jobs that I was in a union, the union was massively beneficial to my life."

Just because the union was beneficial does not mean it was better to have it around than not to. You only experienced one side of the coin in those situations.
With a bit of luck, Sandra Bullock won't be involved in a satellite collision this time.
Yeah, but this is the problem with the current debate around unions. Pro-union individuals aren’t willing to say, “Unions have some serious drawbacks“ and anti-union individuals aren’t willing to say, “Unions solve some critical issues for modern employees”.

Instead, both sides (rightfully) call each other out on their biases and no voter feels able to trust either side.
Its not as bad as the USA but getting recognition is still very hard in the UK
I grew up eating 3 eggs every morning and drinking chocolate milk daily. My very favorite food (and the first thing I'd order at any restaurant) was steak. I apologize if I've made it seem like I have some personal stake in plants; I only stopped supporting animal agriculture because as an adult I realized that it seemed unethical and unsustainable.

If you are able to provide sources showing that sustainable, ecologically-sound animal agriculture exists, please do link me, as I'd be very personally interested.

And just to clarify: I am under the impression that all forms of animal agriculture that currently exist are environmentally and morally negative, in their current forms. My opinion would more be that the fact is "burning coal is bad", so my opinion is "let's switch to renewables." I am only trying to act in alignment with my conscience, even though it can be inconvenient.

It seems we do have a lot of common ground, though; if you're already boycotting factory farmed meat, eggs, and dairy, we'll have way more in common than different.
The brand is Exerpeutic and the model is 7149 but it seems that model number is country specific (Canada).
I disagree. Some people lie just for the fun of it.
It's really a shame. I'm in the same boat as you. I'd buy their machines instantly if I knew I could install my distro of choice. Last I read, Windows-via-Bootcamp was basically dead, and despite the efforts of e.g. the t2linux.org folks, it seems it's quite difficult to get Linux up and running 100%.
I remember my friend had his commuter bike stolen in Minneapolis. He called the MPD to report it right after it happened. They basically told him they have more important stuff to worry about. If he wanted to fill out a form for it he could come down, but no guarantees they would find it. The dispatcher basically told him to stop by the bike auction and maybe it would turn up there.

When I worked in a bike shop, a co-worker told me there's multiple bike rings who steal and run bikes between Minneapolis and Chicago. From there, they go all over the country - mostly to the east coast. He said they're able to steal a few hundred bikes a month, and since the cops turn a blind eye, its easy money.
Should we let all carnivorous animal die so that their prey can live a 'suffering free' life?
It’s still in the early stages, but Blitz[1] is a Rails-esque framework that expands on Next.js to add things like authn/authz

[1]: https://blitzjs.com/
Also the UI sucks. It doesn't blend nicely with my system. It looks like a sore thumb Windows 3.0 app or quack-age MacOS app in the midst of a futuristic OS.
We spend about $100k a month on Google and Bing ads and we tried FB about a year and a half ago. It was a complete failure. FB's system was telling us that we had more conversions than we had business. We stopped FB ads cold and nothing changed in terms of revenue. I'm sure it works for some categories of ads, but for us it was a complete fraud and waste of money.
Which shark do you trust to protect you?
This reminds me of the Skype 'vuln' where you could see weird VPS/colocation servers scooping up links when you send them via their chat feature. /Nobody/ except the recipient and you should be visiting that link, yet it's still an issue. At first I thought it just wanted to generate a 'link preview' but it's more sinister than that. Some random surveillant is looking at every link.
> There has been nothing stopping other companies from releasing HyperCard-style tools for the Mac. And many have. But they have (as far as I'm aware) not dominated nor flourished particularly well.

None of them shipped with the OS. Maybe today it would make more sense to ship something like a Livecode educational version on Raspbian.
> Also the nub is much more usable to those that prefer it over the touchpad.

Usable as a pointer, maybe, but the trackpad has about 12 other features. Gestures, tap to click, have made the trackpad indispensable to me.
It almost seems more onerous, because "vote" requires less of a commitment, arguably, than "join"
That's an unreasonable level of precision to infer from the data available now, let alone what was possible in 1998 when that estimate was made. In fact, there's ongoing debate as to whether fungi split first from all other eukaryotes, or opisthokonts (incl. fungi and animals) split from all other eukaryotes (incl. plants)
What an absolute nightmare. Just from reading this one comment thread I will never, ever try this tool. It sounds like there are a thousand ways to achieve a given task and no one can agree which one is "right", but everyone can agree that the way blessed in the official documentation most certainly isn't.
Deep Dive: Container Image Support in AWS Lambda
OP was implying what his/her interests are, or rather, would be, s/he believes, in this case. Source: I am OP and that was my intention.

That's why I asked for someone with direct experience to comment. I am confused, based on my own viewpoint and experience with unions.

>I've never met someone who knew workers that was fundamentally surprised by their decisions.

I don't, genuinely don't understand this sentence. What is workers? Who are workers? What group of people would you consider workers? I've been part of two unions, both of which benefited me, personally, immensely. These were knowledge jobs and not hands-on jobs. Am I a worker? My father is very blue-collar manufacturing and he has been both anti- and pro-union, depending on which shop he worked for. Is he a worker?

I don't understand what you're saying. Honestly. It sounds like you're the font of some mystical knowledge about a mythical group of people. What do you mean by your statement? I don't get it.
The power outages were intentional to mitigate the risk of wildfires caused by poorly maintained transmission lines. Your example has nothing to do with power generation or energy storage.
You can watch a map of both here!

https://www.n2yo.com/?s=12443|10820
What a tragic way to frame it. The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it's poor people better so they don't have to choose indentured servitude over poverty.

Edit: Added the bit about all the world governments
It depends on whether the other parts of the product are derivative works of the GPL'd work or not.

In general, a reasonable boundary is that if it runs the GPL'd work as a command, then it's not a derivative work, but if it links against the GPL'd work, then it is. (This is of course not a distinction established in law, which knows nothing of subprocesses and linkers, but it's a good approximation, most of the time. Making a modification to a GPL'd binary to expose a particular interface for another non-GPL'd process to call probably makes that non-GPL'd process a derivative work, though. Conversely, using a standardized API that happens to be implemented by a GPL'd library probably does not make the program linking it a derivative work.)

The GPLv3 says:

> A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.

GOG presumably believes that they are shipping an aggregate, and DOSBox is an individual work, and the game they're shipping is a separate individual work, and the wrapper script to put them together is its own work, independent of the specific game or specific emulator. They must comply with the license of DOSBox, i.e., they must provide the corresponding sources, but that license doesn't apply to other things in the aggregate.

For comparison, the Linux kernel also says:

> NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".
Generational changes pressure CEOs to take up political activism
This argument is always brought out like a standard bearer. Adobe software was NEVER a buy it once, own it for life. Sure, that particular version, maybe. But nobody stays on that version forever. Pre-subscription days to CS bundles, the bundles were $1200-$1500USD. They would release a new version of software each year, and they would charge $600USD for the upgrade. So, your $1200 in, plus an annual $600 in upgrades. Pre CS bundles, it was $800 for Photoshop alone. Premiere was even more.
> 2) Never used a MacBook Pro or similar so they don't know what something working well means.

On the contrary; if you use all three systems, you realize, that all of them have quirks. You just got used to them, so you don't get disturbed to them, but the quirks of the system you don't use regularly will get noticed quickly.

For example, only with the above-mentioned MacBook Pro I experienced a situation, where I'm connected to the wifi, unless suddenly I'am not, all network packets go to null and to get connected again, I have to reboot the machine. Or the machine randomly not waking up from sleep, when connected to TB dock. Or - new on M1 - machine kernel panicking, the menu bar getting non-responsive or not recognizing ethernet adapter in the TB dock at all.
That's close but that model has an elliptical pedal design. It wouldn't surprise me though if the Bluetooth connectivity was identical.
They probably just examined the same facts as you and came to a different conclusion. They are closer to their own situation, which doesn’t always mean they will make the right decision, but I would be very careful about telling someone how to live their own life.
Yeah, but if you add complexity, they won't scale. So it's features like that that can make a new product stand out.
i feel like 90% of remote dev jobs in europe used to be from amsterdam -- this is prob 10 years ago (or more!).

it was so over the top it looked like a scam.

but i don't think it was a scam.

i'm not sure what it was, or is.

like, there are no devs in amsterdam?

anyways.
While you're correct, Amazon is so large that this single center being nuked from their org chart would have been an inconvenience. I think it's very easy for us to say "this would help you" but the reality is, it might have drawn a line in the sand, at the cost of every single employee's job.
> So many people repeating the same things over and over.

So you can tell something new. I am not sure if blue collar workers are looking for total revolution to overthrow this capitalistic system.
You are saying in expressing the right to have a say in how they work, they chose to vote to not have a say in how they work?

It's a pretty simple calculus. When the company spends twice the yearly payroll of the entire place on preventing the lowest of low workers on the totem pole from forming a union, maybe the company isn't acting in their best interests.
For the many of you mentioning poor Linux support on the T2 macbooks, check out t2linux.org. They're doing good work but I'm sure could use some help.

I too would love an MBP than could run Linux well.
Thanks for sharing all of this. Super insightful!
i thought April 1st was last week
I don't buy the lines about the elite - regular people voted in the republicans and the neocons who favored these policies.

It's hard to pin it on "the elite" when they were voted in after explicitly explaining their views. There's a large section of the populace that would rather other people do worse than have everyone do better - and they got exactly what they voted for.

We can't pawn it off on "elites". Same with "rent-seeking behavior" - if you incentivize it that way, you get exactly what you structured the policies for. It's the people's fault, not some high and mighty class that's smart enough to look at the policies and come to the same conclusion everyone else would (and did).
This was similar to the Boeing situation in Charleston, SC.

Boeing came in and brought great jobs with them. Then the union reps came in and started acting like everybody was being wronged somehow.
Tangent: I went to find UTC, and they've redesigned time.gov, it looks great on my desktop.

https://time.gov/
I have not heard of any studies specifically but have talked about this subject at length on my YouTube channel.

In my opinion, you just build projects incrementally. Over and over and eventually you'll be amazed at how far you've come.

Shameless plug, I have a website for learning to code in my https://www.codehawke.com
The Apple IIgs had a port of Hypercard, but as I recall it was too slow and buggy, and it got very little traction. I was an avid user of a similar tool called HyperStudio. I looked it up just now and to my surprise it's still alive -- there's a Mac version now under different ownership but with similar features, and it's used in classrooms. https://www.hyperstudio.com
are you implying WSJ subscription prices are to blame for union's failure to recruit workers? :)
I'm so glad this post came up because I completely forget about it every year until summer.
In doing so he left out some interesting physics, though.
Technically I think yes, it may have a finite extent. If inflation theory is correct though, it will continue to inflate at extreme rates (if unevenly) for infinite time and so depending on how you think about infinity will have infinite extent in spacetime.

On the other hand if Roger Penrose is correct about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, and cosmic inflation is false, then ultimately the universe will reach a state where scale ceases to matter and it will become mathematically indistinguishable from a hot dense big bang again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
The deregulation prices only the generation of power, not grid stabilization requirements, i.e weatherization, as is common in other states.
He recently said that he wants to be reincarnated as a virus so that he can reduce the population but why?

I suspect a sinister motive because here in Canada there is endless room...

Not a fan.
Morels are an entirely different level of awesome, though.

Try some and you'll see.
There was a time when saying you didn't know how to do x on Linux forums got insults and RTFM replies, but saying that Linux was an incapable of doing x got helpful instructions given in exquisite detail.

It did sound a bit like a taunt to enlist the community in figuring it out.
Define quite a lot when it comes to greenhouse gas production. We can make the argument for clearing out rain forests because decomposing foliage makes greenhouse gases based on the same principle of "food decomposition is bad". Its not like the food never decomposes. You eat it, you fart and shit the decomposition. If we nitpick every little greenhouse gas producer, we are going to end up with pathologizing ending humanity because we produce greenhouse gases. That and youre giving polluters/deniers extremely easy fodder to combat civilization's general need to rehab off of fossil fuels. Anyways, "greenhouse gases" are needed for planet Earth in general. It's the artificial over production of greenhouse gases that's harmful. Not their general existence.
use it for one month. stop paying for it. pay for it again the next month you need it. stop paying for it.
Is this more like a Lambda alternative or can you run long running processes? If so, how much disk space comes with a plan since I don't seem to be able to find that info.
> cant spend their wealth like billioaires

What would they spend it on? Fancy houses? Private transport around the world? Lavish vacations? They get all of those things for free already.

I suppose it wouldn't do for Prince Charles to buy a 200' yacht. But other than that, I'm not sure how much he, or any other royal, is suffering for not being able to spend their wealth like the rest of the 0.1%.
Thanks for the example - I’ve been looking for how to make mix packaging easy.

How do you add files to this build? For example, if I have this program.rb that depends on ruby:

puts “Hello World”

And then you add a file called package.nix

let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; in
pkgs.runCommand "my-app"
{
buildInputs = [pkgs.ruby];
}
''
pwd && ls;
ruby ./program.rb
''

How do you get your files in there - like “ADD” in a Dockerfile?
it's significantly better because union can grow gradually and organically if it's delivering benefits, there is no need for a single áll-or-nothing' vote where you can apply the FUD
I've never seen it in such detail since this was before my (Apple) time. On the other hand in the 90s there was a ton of point-and-click Rapid Application Development software available as Shareware. I used that software since programming with general purpose tools was not very accessible because of little free documentation, steep learning curves and often costly tools. Unfortunately anything more complex than a recursion level of 1 was usually impossible.

As time passed by I eventually ended up buying Delphi 3, just to find out that it was less intuitive than the Delphi 2 Shareware that I used excessively until then. Nowadays I even recommend non-technical people to take a look at Python when they consider writing anything more complex than an Excel formula. I'd be surprised if such tools ever become popular again.

> And if you think that XCode, Python, Processing, or the shit soup of

> HTML/Javascript/CSS are any kind of substitute for HyperCard, then

> read this post again. And if you continue to think so, then you might

> be an autistic typical software "engineer," and please don't waste

> your time commenting here. Sink back into the cube farm hellpit from whence you came.

Seems you ultimately need to go ad hominem to argue for this kind of software in 20xx.
>You claim not voting for the union is against your own interest but that assumes that the union will 100% of the time be looking out for your own individual best interest

No, and that is a pretty far stretch from what I said. Please re-read "your own collective interest". It's easy to win an argument when you misrepresent what is said. Collective interest implies that it is the greatest good for the majority of people. Not the most good for you every time.

Question for you:

>I absolutely do not understand why someone would vote to be collectively represented instead of being able to act as as individual in your own best interest

Do you really not see how it may be easier to negotiate as a group, rather than as an individual? In high-skill, high-demand jobs, yes, it is probably much easier to negotiate for individual benefits, because you have the power as the worker. But in low-skill, or high-supply jobs, the employers have all the power. I don't understand what you're saying.
>you can have a number of sites that use separate domains but are owned by the same entity

Why is this even a thing? There's nothing wrong with storeA.shopify.com, storeB.shopify.com... The only valid use case is if you're somehow trying to hide the shared ownership/platform, in which case it's up to you to deal with the downsides.
Nobody forces them to treat their own family that way. It is a choice they've made for themselves.
How do you get anything done thoughout your day, if this typo made you stop reading?
I think it's important to consider the state of the whole system, not just the direction of the change.

"helps insiders and hurts everyone else" sounds bad, but if the insiders are being exploited by everyone else, it could be a good thing.

In general I'm sympathetic to your point. However I think Amazon is perhaps a special case, or at least occupies a different point on the than most companies.

Amazon is an Aggregator[1], which spins up its flywheel by providing a great experience for consumers, and commoditizing its suppliers. This naturally drives towards a monopoly.

Aggregator monopolies have an interesting property in that unlike historical non-Aggregator monopolies, they are great for consumers, rather than resulting in consumer harm through higher prices (like Comcast, say). US antitrust law is focused on preventing consumer harm, not just preserving competition for its own sake (as the EU laws are). So US antitrust is somewhat less well-equipped to deal with Aggregator monopolies.

If the corporation, consumers, and legal system are all pointing towards exploiting a group of workers, it's hard to see how anyone is going to vote to make things better. So unions could be more appropriate specifically in the case of Aggregators.

(Worth mentioning that you could perhaps just mandate higher minimum wages, and avoid the need for unions; I'd prefer to make the minimum viable change that prevents exploitation, and leave the market free to optimize everything else. But if not unions, who drives the political fight for minimum wages?)

[1]: https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/