skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>A court in The Hague will hear claims that Royal Dutch Shell has broken Dutch law by knowingly hampering the global phase-out of fossil fuels, in a case that could force the company to reduce its CO2 emissions.

Lawyers for a consortium led by Friends of the Earth Netherlands will argue on the first of four days of public hearings on Tuesday that Shell has been aware for decades of the damage it has inflicted and is acting unlawfully by expanding its fossil fuel operations.
It is claimed the Anglo-Dutch company is breaching article 6:162 of the Dutch civil code and violating articles 2 and 8 of the European convention on human rights – the right to life and the right to family life – by causing a danger to others when alternative measures could be be taken.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/30/shell-in-co...
piracy and the subsequent success of platforms like steam and spotify prove time and again that it boils down to a delivery issue, not a human desire for illegal sourcing.

Same issue with sports streaming. Why pay six different services to watch a 720p legal stream when i can watch a stream from Russia in 1080p with questionable ads?
“When we win a Golden Globe, it helps me get a subsidized rocket program and HQ2," he said, referring to Amazon's diverse business divisions.
They do need a court order, see my other comment
not going to happen, and you know it
Yes, it would be interesting. This copyright trolling based on false rights has become a growth industry. Almost all you tube creators have stories to tell about fake trolling DMCA demands. Every new you tube creator is assured of being trolled and unless they are able to get them to back down, the trolls grab the monetization revenue portion youtube grants.
I had this happen to me. I made an original cat video and put it up, it was challenged by a troll, and I was unable to reach a human to redress matters, so I just removed it. I later found that someone had copied it and was monetising it for themselves. Since it was just a cute thing I did a few years ago and not my living income I too the fuckit POV and never bothered again.
I’m guessing that you’re young-ish, then? Because that’s not how it was when I was a kid. That changed in the mid-nineties, and it was a fairly controversial decision.

From about 1970 to 93, antitrust regulations were put in place because only three networks could determine over 90% of broadcast media. A judge ended that rule under the rational that upstart networks like Fox and CW were now competitive. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/13/business/judge-rules-netw...

Critics said this would be bad because the networks would be incentivized to broadcast lucrative content over quality content, and subjectively I would say that is exactly what happened. But fortunately the Internet came along and made TV kind of moot… but anyway if you are of the opinion that radical centralization and corporate consolidation lead to crummy content, fewer opportunities for creators, and in a macro scale a widening wealth gap, this all just kinda sucks.
In my opinion they get one "pass". Science fiction is best when you have one thing changed in the world and ask the question "How does this world behave?". OK, so the Expanse changes 2 things. Constant acceleration is possible, protomolecule is a thing.
As a front-end web developer who's looking to get into lower-level UI tech, I'm really curious to learn more about this. So novice question - what's the connection between immediate mode/openGL implementations and accessibility?
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Curious as to response. Ignoring that a higher court doesn’t just overturn this.

Blacklisting Netherlands seems in the realm of possibility. As in, no oil or oil based products being allowed into country.
I think a civilization can be unimaginably rich and still have imaginably poor people toiling away at lower levels.

With a laissez-faire system, the economic factors would decide whether machine or man labor is the most cost effective resource. When the mechanized means of production become more intelligent, faster, and accurate, what can the man or woman without any machines of their own do for money? They could work for less than the machines in dangerous conditions, doing the type of work that machines are too valuable for.

The optimist can also imagine a utopia where the need to labor vanishes and we collectively benefit from advances in science and technology, but that’s not a given.
“Had to”

They did not have to. They could have let market forces dictate how it played out.
Here's an experiment which implements an immediate mode UI on top of HTML instead of a triangle rendering engine:

https://games.greggman.com/game/imhui-first-thoughts/

The term "immediate mode" is only about the API, not about how things are implemented under the hood, e.g. an immediate mode UI can map to traditional stateful UIs, it's just not done yet very often because of ImGui's roots in the gamedev world (where it is important to easily integrate with existing game rendering engines).
'free to watch' as long as you like commercials.
First look deals with production companies never went away. The first one coming to mind is The Weinstein company had a first look deal with Disney (yes, Disney turned down lord of the rings).
They need to secure games on it. Even if this console ends up being PC in small form factor.

I dont have switch but if i were to buy a console it would be switch, not steam console. I can play my games on PC, if i get console I'd rather have games made specifically for that form factor, plus Nintendo has amazing catalogue of exclusives.

If you judge Valves actins in response to Epic agresively taking their already entrenched market - basically nothing. What chance do they have to compete with Nintendo, or mobiles?

I might come across negative, but Valve doesn't make it easier.
With regard to the more dangerous strains, it is highly plausible that if you can contain the spread, you can reduce the chance of more dangerous strains evolving and getting a foothold. In that case, one might suppose that despite the preparedness in Taiwan, they have been undermined by what's been happening in other parts of the world.

There are important things to be learned from India's experience, but I am not sure what - probably a combination of factors. AFAIK (which is not much) we are some way away from a unified model which explains all the variations in the progression of this epidemic.
And after having watched that episode of Jack Ryan those exact headphones will conveniently be “suggested” to you as you browse Amazon.
And what would be their subscription model?
> However, for the Dutch-British company, the ruling is only legally binding in the Netherlands.

I guess Shell will be a British company soon.
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Actually, this seems to be the dirty secret of pandemic planning - as far as I can tell, there really doesn't seem to be a good way to evaluate how effective specific policies are. Even for established diseases and measures, like closing schools during a flu pandemic, the evidence is vague and contradictory.

Coming to conclusions about how good countries' pandemic planning is based on how well they've done is even less meaningful, because it doesn't even attempt to deal with confounding factors or simple luck. It's certainly very suspicious that so many Covid-19 success stories were in the same geographic Asia-Pacific area, despite having very different cultures, policies and measures.
That’s a funny example considering mPow got banned from Amazon a few days ago for manipulating reviews.
Other immediate-mode GUIs, like Dear ImGui, don't use and wouldn't benefit from inheritance.
Not enough is said about this. The amount of TV available for free (with an internet connection) these days is mind-boggling, and the vast majority of people ignore these options altogether.
> As far as I can tell, the organisation could not have made the registration as a legal entity before existing.

Domain name ownership can be transferred. It's trivial for a founding member to register the domain name first, then transfer ownership to the organisation once it has been founded.
Or getting a close-up of his shoes, for that matter.
And to clarify, the beginning is here: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
What does that stand for?
I don’t worry too much about the competitive aspects of this but I worry about the mega corps having a monopoly on our culture. Turn on any any radio station and they’re all playing the same ten songs. Yikes.
Neutral because they were friendly with both parties rather than one or neither. If it were neither, they would probably not have such relevant commentary. And that aside, while I see your point regarding how this impacts someone being entirely neutral, I think it’s fair to say two things:

- While being sponsored or employed by a given entity calls your neutrality into question, I think it’s simply unfair to categorize it as an erasure of one’s ability to be a neutral party, absent any evidence.

- Simultaneously leaving your positions while releasing a statement is probably a good sign that you are not too concerned about the bridges you may be burning. There is no incentive to besmirch both Freenode and Libera.chat leadership simultaneously, from the standpoint of someone not acting neutrally. Again, at least absent some evidence.

My takeaway is that while I understand why people are taking a stance on libera.chat vs Freenode, I think there is now ample evidence that it’s time to disperse from either. There are plenty of IRC networks still around that have not burned their reputation to the ground. Again, I get why libera.chat is trusted as the “former” Freenode operators. But the bigger picture is that ego ran over both sides and lead to a far more bitter conflict than necessary, over what was at the time very minor details.

Were Libera.chat staff correct? At this point it does look like the Freenode owner is at least making some amateur mistakes even if we assume best intent. So maybe. But I have no idea why the split had to be this bitter. To me it feels like the hostile takeover rhetoric represents dishonesty. Making a big stink because you want to win a petty war, to create a moral imperative to leave the existing network. Given that it succeeded, they are clearly in the more favorable position. But to me, I’m eyeing other networks like OFTC. This doesn’t pass the smell test for me.
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Some Like it Hot is hilarious.
Yeah-- and it's deserved, they are producing good content. The rationale of WHY they are doing good content is... eh.
At some point I'm going to get round to adding heuristic filter selection to my PNG library BigGustave [0]. I have a TODO note for how to start implementing it.

Though to be honest using Palette for colors tends to produce a huge saving for a lot of image types (those with 256 or fewer colors, so documents, not natural scenes) making filter selection a small added bonus.

[0]: https://github.com/EliotJones/BigGustave/blob/master/src/Big...
Piracy was the Easiest/Only way to get content until ~2008ish. Since then; Netflix and (...x streaming platform) made it easier/better to Pay for the content than pirate it.

It does feel like we're approaching a tipping point now in the other direction with all of these streaming fiefdoms.

My household has Netflix, Hulu, D+, and Prime streaming now - that's already too many and needs pairing IMO.
As a football fan I hate this, now a major broadcaster (Amazon TNF) owns a gambling company (MGM sports book) not good for the sport.
I disagree in part, because this tool is not meant for the common user.
I guess it would be practically impossible to remove the item from the video, though.

Or will Amazon shoot the scene multiple times, with different items?
Basically: They are knowingly (since 60's) contributing to a preventable dangerous situation, which is illegal in NL.
If they didn't use their full force it is by definition not maximal. But that's skirting the point a bit. The quoted passage (and the book) are a very biased take on history in general. Zinn wants the narrative to be that powerful technocrats couldn't overcome the people backed by some mythical cause (communism) whose good is the ultimate destiny of mankind. The reality is Vietnam was in civil war, and super powers were backing differnt sides. The US literally could not use its maximal force because it risked escalating into a larger conflict (China, Russia, etc). The real story is nuanced, complex. The US did lose -- nobody is contesting that here. But the quoted passage (and much of the book) is as much an attempt to spin the narrative as is "The US could have won if it wanted to".
Thanks for the pointer, and what I read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm... from a child comment. Won't be watching anything out of that channel again.
Maybe I am alone in this, but not everyone likes the UX of slack or discord and might prefer a more information focused/less distracting desktop application and prefer a native desktop application over something electron/browser based.

And for those people the current options for Matrix are all very much a work in progress to put it mildly.
In your world without numbers, do letters exist? Does the letter "n" exist? Is there any relation between "n" and "nn" and "nnn"? If so, how would you describe that relation?
Our whole family has been doing that this year. Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around.

This was tougher growing up when kids all watched the same shows and talked about them, but with content so all over the place now that common thread seems to be mostly gone at school (outside of internet video stuff).
> the original ones - 5.25"

Nitpick: The first floppy disks were 8" in size.
Grocery stores use high margin products to sell staples such as bread and meat at cost or loss and force out smaller players like bakers and butchers.
> Season 4 (the one made by Amazon Prime Video) felt like it had a tenth of the budget compared to season 1 and 2. A completely different show that I found very boring and unwatchable.

Season 4 follows book 4, whereas previous seasons split the books in a non-typical fashion: e.g., S02E05 ("Home") was the end of book 1. Book 4 is also part of the second kind-of-trilogy and so is a bit slower paced, because it set ups the next two books.

This isn't really Amazon's fault: it's from the original content.
Can you give a bit more background on this? Who is the new owner, how did the takeover even happen? Wasn't Freenode a non-profit org?
Ohh that's the worst. Something's out of whack and you can't fix it because it would mess with some other part of the process.
> - you know what the book praises (and that's good), so it's not useful to you (or your peers) anymore: good variable names, functions should do one thing, hide internal structures, etc., you name it. We all know that and we practice it without effort. To be honest, most engineers with more than 5 or so years of experience know all these "rules" already

Hahahahahahaahahahaha

I've had to clean up more 3k SLOC functions from 15+ year programmers than < 5 year programmers. And the number of times I've done that has not been just one or two, it's been a few times a year every year of my career. And variable names? Those are the ones still hung up on Hungarian notation.

Nothing about seniority makes people good at this work. Knowledge and good sense are not magically delivered with time. They're delivered with education (mentorship, school, reading, watching), experience, feedback, and introspection.

Regarding this book, I'm only at chapter 4 in my reread, and so far I really don't see the controversy. I will agree the refactoring in Chapter 3 (the one cited in the big discussion yesterday) could be better motivated and discussed. However, it does make sense in the context of the book. It's also worth noting these two paragraphs from early on in the book:

> Consider this book a description of the Object Mentor School of Clean Code. The techniques and teachings within are the way that we practice our art. We are willing to claim that if you follow these teachings, you will enjoy the benefits that we have enjoyed, and you will learn to write code that is clean and professional. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that we are somehow “right” in any absolute sense. There are other schools and other masters that have just as much claim to professionalism as we. It would behoove you to learn from them as well.

> Indeed, many of the recommendations in this book are controversial. You will probably not agree with all of them. You might violently disagree with some of them. That’s fine. We can’t claim final authority. On the other hand, the recommendations in this book are things that we have thought long and hard about. We have learned them through decades of experience and repeated trial and error. So whether you agree or disagree, it would be a shame if you did not see, and respect, our point of view.

The author is literally saying: I could be wrong! I'm going to write is if everything here is The Truth, but it may not be. Go learn from others and make your own way.

Now, many people may miss this, but it should help to address the '"juniors" take the book as if it were their bible' issue. Point it out to them, if they really take it as their bible maybe they'll wise up. If not, they probably would've been dogmatic zealots no matter whose book they read early on.
His wife died, he is experiencing grief, he is a poet, he is already experiencing taking care of his kids without his dead love. I dislike the deceptive funeral home language regarding death. It hurts mightily, death is motionless with new problems pouring in from all sides for the survivor.

Regarding inflation, I recommend this book covering the 50 year inflation battle that began after World War II ended. "The Great Inflation and its aftermath." by Robert J. Samuelson.

In this time, May 26th, 2021 the economic environment is changing, Inflation, I see but what really concerns me is the Greta Thunberg Financial Event Horizon. The Date of the event horizon is Earth Day seven years hence. The event horizon is when disaster costs will rise and GNP will decline. Inflation affects both of those items, but in the wrong direction.

Finally, note he is inviting us to sign up and receive his book. Giving gifts is the stately, dignified and honorable way to survive. Best wishes to Curtis Yarvin.
Wow I thought it was just me who didn’t like season 4 of the expanse. At some point they made a turn to focusing on the flaws of all the main characters to an obnoxious degree.
Its not relevant to look at lockdown countries like Portugal and examine temporary ICU statistics, because it is too difficult to tease out the impacts of COVID vs the impact of lockdown.

The point is - were lockdowns actually useful, or was it all just theatre?

Given that Sweden and Ukraine have lower COVID deaths per capita than lockdown countries, it would suggest that lockdown worsened the situation:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Portugal pursued measures like limiting opening hours which seem to have no purpose apart from concentrating people into stores at the same time.
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SG-1 is a great show. It holds up surprisingly well for its age. Strikes a great balance between serious and light-hearted, and the self-contained episodes often have interesting ethical or social issues. I'm also fond on how the early episodes emphasize that humans are new to interplanetary travel and are still figuring things out. There are several episodes where SG-1 travels to another planet and actually messes things up, making life worse for the natives. And the show did a great job with having things change in-universe.

There are some cliches and flaws, of course. My least favorite part is probably how non-permanent deaths were, they really overdid the whole thing with characters dying and coming back to life, or being cloned.

I'm surprised that Stargate has had some sort of franchise curse where other media never succeed. They had two more shows in the franchise (I'm in the minority that loved Universe, and I think Atlantis was for the most part bad), but never a movie aside from the one that started the franchise, never a game that succeeded (most attempts failed to even ship).
> "It's effectively dominated x market and there is no competition there"

Amazon often enough dominates local labor markets - they strategically set up their fulfillment centers in places that have high unemployment, so that employees have no practical (!) alternative than to accept the exploitative working conditions that Amazon offers.

Regarding marketplaces: in accessible online shopping, Amazon and eBay are a de-facto duopoly for the vendors. Get booted off of either and watch your business go dry in a matter of days.

> "they are harming competition by pre-installing free software that I can't uninstall"

That one was literally used as a justification for the IE de-bundling many years ago.
Except people lived to be older than that in the Bible

“Notice that Sarah lived to be 127 years (Gen. 23:1), Abraham lived to 175 years (Gen. 25:7), and Jacob lived 147 years before dying (Gen. 47:28).”

https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/t...
Nit: it was somewhat disingenuous that the first two images aren't actually encoding the same results, since noise was added to the right image to accentuate the paletting effects. If the image on the right didn't have noise the effect would be far less pronounced.
Pretty much anything becomes acceptable to people after they've had a few years to get used to it. Preventable chronic diseases kill more people than COVID-19. Apparently that's acceptable to most people because they do little or nothing to reduce their risks.
It means shows that don’t get picked up by the studio making the show can get picked up by other studios to air it.

Two immediate examples I can think of:

“House MD” was produced by NBC/Universal but aired on FOX

“For All Mankind” was produced by Sony but currently airing on Apple TV+
This seems to be discrete approximation of continuous cellular automata like Lenia.

https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia
>Code is not primarily written for other programmers.

I should have said code should be written primarily for other programmers. There are an infinite number of ways to express the same program, and the computer is indifferent to which one it is given. But only a select few are easily understood by another human. Code should be optimized for human readability barring overriding constraints. Granted, in some contexts efficiency is more important than readability down the line. But such contexts are few and far between. Most code does not need to consider the state of the CPU cache, for example.