skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the balance of power was thought to be against the shareholders and for the Exxon board.

Before this moment, how could Vanguard / Blackrock convince Exxon Board members to invest into renewable technologies?

1. No "activist investor" has ever done something like this before. So the status-quo is very much a surprise to pretty much everyone involved. Before these two new board members were elected, it was more or less considered impossible for them to be elected.

2. Vanguard / Blackrock cannot sell their shares, because they're index fund companies. So the #1 way of exerting control over the board (aka: "leaving" as an investor) is gone. These large companies are basically "permanent" shareholders, because they are primarily holding retirement money.

3. Board members typically run unopposed. So there's no other person to vote against.

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Ultimately, it goes to show that becoming an "activist investor", even with very very small amounts of money, can become very powerful if you convince Vanguard / Blackrock that you're doing the right thing.

It shows that large ETF companies can in fact, exert control over the board. They are no longer "passive" investors, but active ones who think about the betterment of... something? Its not quite clear what Vanguard / Blackrock is thinking (The concepts of "ESG" investing are only beginning)
That's completely subjective. Personally I don't find any of your arguments for Oslo compelling. I even enjoy the winter darkness.
When CEOs were required to disclose compensation, the income inequality gap only increased. If companies begin complying for remote postings I expect many will leverage remote opportunities in Colorado for higher pay in lower CoL areas.
> Speaking about legality is so much better than speaking about morality, yes?

It isn't better, nor is it worse; it is merely more objective, that's all.

> I wasn't aware we were making economic arguments- after all your original comment ended asking whether it was immoral.

Yes, sorry, that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but you're quite right on this count. I was simply attempting to rubbish an anti-capitalist argument in the article, but it blew up in my face.

> Perhaps I am too, call it unrealistic or idealistic, for your taste.

That's ok. Who's to say which one of us is 'right'? We can just say that we have profound disagreements about the merits of capitalism as an economic system -- I think that's fair and it shouldn't be a problem in a democracy.

> I'm going to believe people like you overlook problems because they have found or earned enough to have the luxury to.

You believe that if it gives you any comfort. For now, I'll just continue believing that "economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses" and leave it at that.
>All of fixed income will change to be oriented around crypto. It's just a matter of time.

Can you provide one or two technical reasons why this is the case?
Uninstall the game. It’s the only thing that works for me.
> rather than have limited access to deeply addictive, processed and sugary-filled foods.

So individuals are not responsible for their decisions? I personally would rather not live in a world where my choices are artificially limited by someone's idea of what is "good for me". I'm perfectly capable of deciding for myself, and willing to accept consequences of my mistakes.
In case you hadn’t read the article making the case for this: https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-simpler-alternative-to-gcc-r...

I thought it was pretty interesting, though based on the reddit comments (https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/noby1t/the_simpler_altern...) the main concern seems to be if a second Rust is implemented without a spec, it could lead to subtle incompatibilities?
It was a huge scandal back then. But it already was one. The new part is that Denmark enabled them.

And I would say it had a decent part in the Anti-USA sentiment in Germany.
GuitarML have a similar video as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOFz3UcDyA
In the USA we have a similar law that allows older people to use the resources of younger people to survive. We call it social security.

My point is just that sometimes things seem very different in other cultures but are not so different when you drill down. In both cultures we recognize that the elderly deserve to be taken care of. We just get to that goal in different ways. Neither one is prima facie better than the other and each had advantages and disadvantages.
So if in your opinion the designer is both racist and a bigot, why do you hold back from calling them a "racist bigot" ?
graphql seems like the SOAP craze - a concept with horrific complexity and lack of scalability, being marketed hard by firms that profit from complex solutions.
In the implementation of GraphQL I work with I find that I end up making giant string mutations/queries that I can't use any sort of intellisense for - it's just guessing and checking with running the queries. Is there a better way to get more than passing back a really long string?
When there are too many deer and not enough predators in an ecosystem, the deer consume all the available food and many die from starvation, self regulating the population to a sustainable level. I see parallels to this in human economic systems.
I've found the opposite. Designing a GraphQL API with the extended tail of important features has been an awful lot harder than with REST Apis.

That's not just in terms of idioms (which are useful for abstraction layer sake), but authorization, performance, all the sorts of things that are very known quantities, with extensive framework integration, in REST land. You get a lot farther with the wide ecosystem of tracing and monitoring tools, API gateways, authenticating proxies, all these API integration points and what have you in JSON api land.

In specific language ecosystems with a specific choice of tooling and libraries you can ultimately make good things happen, but it's not nearly as universal. Apollo is an obvious contender. I also like HotChocolate in the dotnet ecosystem.

There are definitely benefits. GraphQL having typed schematization by default is huge, and arguably that's the best feature. That's something you need to be more disciplined about in REST land (e.g. OpenAPI). But there's good tooling to be had on those fronts as well. Arbitrarily-shaped types definitely come with their own set of maintenance challenges versus more static DTOs.

P.S. HotChocolate's EFCore integration [0] is some of the coolest library tech I've seen. Thanks to C#'s builtin data projection functionality (via LINQ), it's able to automatically build a Hasura-style fully baked GraphQL API directly from your database domain model (which you can transform arbitrarily to limit / add additional functionality to via LINQ). It's still not my default choice in a new app, but if I were going to invest in GraphQL it's probably the strongest contender

[0]: https://chillicream.com/blog/2020/03/18/entity-framework
> Broadly speaking, I tend to think of "addiction" (rightly or wrongly) as the errosion of free will.

I don't claim to speak for all addicts, but this is not how I would describe my experiences, at least not under my conception of "free will".

I "wanted" to stop doing drugs in the same way a lazy person "wants" to go to the gym more. whenever the moment came to actually do it, I had to admit that I didn't want it nearly as much as I said I did. sure, I wanted the "outcome" of quitting, but in the meantime, I really wanted to keep doing drugs. so I did.

every day I had a clear goal in mind: getting money and acquiring drugs. I was fairly strategic in pursuing this goal; I was even capable of abstaining for a while (eg, to pass a drug test) if it increased the security of my future supply.

I was in and out of treatment for a while (primarily to appease others), but I ultimately stopped doing drugs because I didn't want to anymore. this happened rather suddenly, over the course of just a few months. a few areas of my life improved simultaneously, partially through my own efforts, but partially just luck. I now lead a fairly normal life.

anyways, the reason I type all this out is because I really don't like it when people describe addition this way, especially if they aren't/weren't addicts themselves (not assuming anything about you in particular). depending on what you think "free will" is, it may be more or less accurate. but it is usually a prelude to an argument about how addicts aren't competent to make choices for themselves and how society should Do Something About It, usually involving curtailing the freedoms of people unfortunate enough to be identified as addicts. addicts don't need to be controlled or disciplined (unless they are hurting others, of course). they just need to reach that tipping point in quality of life where drugs don't seem so appealing. at least that is my belief, based on my own experience and observations of others going through it.
Funny enough, one of the places I buy phenibut from sends a decent sized package of ketamine for free with every order as a sample. But it's quite a bit of it.
You and I will both be pushing up daisies before then,so don't worry about it.

If you really want an answer, I'd guess that India in the short term, or maybe Nigeria in the long trem.
That's the best argument against eavesdropping that I've heard.
I remember Hugo! It was shown on TV for young kids here in Argentina, so I wasn't its target audience (and never really paid attention to it). I never would have guessed it ran on an Amiga!
I watched it in Finnish TV too! I never realized what a global phenomena it apparently was :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(game_show)
It is also very antagonistic. It's not an evenhanded exploration of the tradeoffs of two approaches, it's pretty much just talking trash. Disappointing.
Well, as Rothbardian I think that would be an acceptable cost even if it were empirically true enough to matter.
My favorite example of video toaster has got to be tribe called quest's (ft busta rhymes) classic 'scenario'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TLWqn82J4

they made the entire user interface embedded in a music video back in the early 90s, fun stuff
They sorely lack m2 for high throughput storage.

A board with a m2 port costs an extra $300 and only exists since last year: https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/04/updated-jetson-nano-xavier...

It should have been standard and by default from the beginning.
Not sure where you are, but I've been getting ads throughout the pandemic for a Sysco@Home service. Seems that with all of the restaurants shut down, they got back into the business of selling direct to consumers.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like they're selling much equipment-wise in my local store anyway. Just paper towel, plates, masks, and garbage bags.
I had an Amiga in the late 80's. I remember when the local PreVue guide channel first got a Guru Meditation, and realized it ran on the same computer I had.
Reading this just as I fiddled with georeferencing some images with JOSM's PicLayer plugin. It uses maximum 3 control points to define an affine transform, however for flat images (not taken with camera) it's more beneficial to use only 2 points (we do not expect shear). I wish I discovered this earlier when georeferencing local park plans.
It think it’s more relevant that 3D printed guns mostly don’t work well and fall apart after a most a couple of shots. By the time you build something that works well you may as well get proper machining tools and make it out of metal.
A company is run by people. It's not like the logo decided to screw users over.
It has less to do with socialism and cronyism and everything to do with your rights. Your birth certificate is your primary evidence of citizenship. Literally every right you enjoy springs from that one document.
Is the origin of the policy a desire to preserve and increase Quebec’s unique culture (“French families”), or not? If so, is it bigoted to say so?
>they are dirt cheap, produced en masse, and widely available to unsophisticated combatants.

Quadcopters are not far from having all of these qualities either.
The Soviets left plenty of environmental damage, strong consensus they were not capitalist.
This is the third time I see this on the front page in a year and it suggests there is something rotten with the culture on HN.

Wikipedia has given more to the world than facebook or twitter or most webshits pistaking here (including me) ever could. It could have become another ad funded monstrosity, but they have chose to create a charity.

To attack them with such demonstrably poor grasp of their finances, projects and public outreach shows a degree of arrogance and hypocracy that is trully something to behold.
You should know they have this in Pennsylvania too
I definitely agree with the thrust of your point, but there was actually a period of time where none of the fun stuff you listed existed. Email and ftp had to be invented and implemented awhile after the internet was created. There was a period where there was nothing to do on the internet, it just predates most of us. But it was definitely a much shorter period and the killer apps were way more obvious even before they were created. It's still not clear, after all this time, what the killer apps even might be for crypto; it definitely isn't all the echo chamber speculation stuff that is all you can do now ("lend your crypto to other crypto speculators who can't do anything with it besides lending it to yet other speculators!").

Personally, I would like to be able to (legally!) program against my money and do stuff with it without being beholden to big banks. I think it would be cool if I could automatically send 1% or whatever of all my transactions to a charity of my choice, or if I could do my own "micro-finance" lending to farmers in developing countries, or other things like that which currently require a bank to implement it and me to use whatever they implement. But it is far from clear whether all this cryptocurrency and DeFi stuff is either necessary or sufficient to do any of this kind of stuff.
thanks for the clarification :)

From the wikipedia page:
> aimed at the creation of a new and large Romanian population by restricting abortion and contraception.

Same idea, different mechanics
It started with a British colony that made it easy to do business, then China stole the good parts of the British colony and created special economic zones.

Industrial espionage isn't even wrong. There is this absurd idea that a country should isolate itself from its neighbours and do everything on its own. How are you supposed to catch up or even overtake developed nations if all you do is reinvent things that have been available for decades? You can't.
As a small farmer, I can tell you with no ambiguity that these systems offer little value to me. Instead, I firmly believe that they are an existential threat to small farms everywhere. There have been repeated attempts over the years to shove “tractability” down the throats of producers, and these efforts come at the direct behest of big ag. They are the only ones that stand to benefit (and afford) to this scheme. It will not improve food safety. It will not lower consumer costs for food. It will marginally increase the profits of only the largest farms and create undue burden for everyone else. There is absolutely nothing positive in this technology for society as a whole, but it is only a matter of time until big ag’s lobbyists manage to buy off enough corrupt politicians, increasing their already overwhelming regulator capture and push more small farms out of business. But hey, enjoy your cheap soulless food.
I am curious on everyone perspective. I have seen a handful of launch start-ups trying to create lower cost launching to get into low-orbit. My concern is that by lowering the bar to entry we will be putting up lower quality products and also increase the magnitude of objects in orbit.

I am conflicted because I also know that we will get more progress through lower-cost launches. It feels to me that it shouldn't be only considering launches but rather the entire lifecycle of the operation. The longer we wait the more irreversible damage is done it seems.

Interested in agreement or counterpoints to expand my opinion.
Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance
I think most Brits (I am a Brit) would write "very" when they mean "extremely" rather than "quite". In spoken English there is a lot of nuance, but if you said a meal was "quite good" it would often have a connotation of "better than just okay" rather than "excellent". Saying a meal was "really good" would be closer to "excellent".
Interesting side note on china during the one-child policy era. This policy was enforced on the masses but highly educated people were given waivers. If you were a engineer, professor or any highly skilled professional you were encouraged to have lots of children.

China’s one child policy was mainly about population control but also had a eugenics component to it as well.
40 dB is way too loud for devices that work for longer period of time like dish washers or fridges.

Ovens with a fan are also not silent or induction hobs that need additional cooling.

The worst case is mostly kitchen exhaust that is very often near 60-70dB.

I shopped for decibels and I am mostly satisfied but many people do not know to pay attention to this before it is too late.
I remember when I first heard the rumour that Hugo was made on the Amiga, very cool. Looks like you're Danish, but I always thought it was Swedish?
What if the person doesn't want to quit? What to take into your body and how to regulate your health are deeply personal choices. Why not just let people make them?
Good point. Slightly conspiratorial but probably fairly accurate.
I love reading about all things Commodore, so I was thrilled to see this article references a long series from Ars Technica on the history of the Amiga: http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

They claim it's more interesting than Gates' and Jobs' early computing stories, and that it's filled with dreams, intrigue and backstabbing. Count me in!

I owned a C64, not an Amiga, but at least this bit they claim is true: everyone who owned an Amiga became a fan of it. It's like a cult, in a way like Apple's...
The whole article is talking about China attempts to preserve endangered fish species.

It mostly talking about how in the 80 and 90s they didn't do those preservation research when building dams.

The article also talks that its not only happening in China these old paddlefish species are endangered all over the globe.
I get that. I am amused that anyone would think that only “communists” have bureaucracy.
No, this is writing a new frontend for compiling Rust which uses GCC as a backend.
Some links for you:

* https://hackaday.io/project/18491-worlds-first-32bit-homebrew-cpu
* https://hackaday.io/project/178826-pineapple-one
* https://hackaday.io/project/18859-risk-vee
* https://hackaday.io/project/168894-rv7400-computer
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeZWGE3PwbZTypHq00G-yEX8TEI95lw4

There are lots of soft cores available for RISC-V too of course.
The most precious resource by far is human ingenuity. Home Sapients are not like other organisms. Every additional person increases the rate of innovation across the entire species. Because of cultural transmission there are increasing returns to scale that don't exist in other species.

For that reason, we are exempt from the normal laws of Malthusian ecology and carrying capacity. More people translates into higher, not lower, living standards. That's why over the past 200 years the population has increased seven fold, while the percent living in poverty has fallen to unprecedented lows. The greatest risk by far is not having enough people. Population control robs us of future Einsteins, Borlaugs, and Turings.
> but the wetware is still the same as it was in the late 80s.

I wouldn't say it's the same.

In the 80s users knew less, while nowadays they're more clueless.

There's a big difference, like the difference between not knowing math (but having the openness to learn), and deciding that math is alien and you should shun it on principle.
Also, the competition is not against vintage analog gear. Modern analog gear is having a true Renaissance, and this community can afford to support the Wampler's of the world. I don't understand the modelling camp at all, their stuff just doesn't sound good, nor is there any joy in working with it.
Every organization needs mechanisms to root out corruption, not just hope and prayers. Transparency, accountability, rule of law are just the start. You need to design checks and balances, internal policing mechanisms, accounting for every dollar, processes to eliminate conflicts of interest, self-dealing, cronyism, etc.

Sadly, it seems that these institutions are prone to a kind of rot that means you can't just set them up once and forget. You need constant vigilance against these institutions corrupting themselves. Vigilance requires attention, not just from officials, but from journalists, media, the public. We're all so damn distracted that things are now rotting faster than ever.
Yeah. I am actuoally an anti bitcoin kind of person because of that.
There are technically much superior currencies.
DIY overlay networking: Going multi-cluster with Nginx sidecars
Kelly Criterion: How Positive Value Bets Can Lose You Money
One example doesn't refute your case, but I feel compelled to mention that the legendary ambient electronic musician Geir Jenssen (Biosphere) is based in Tromsø (along with some others of similar style nearby i.e. Deathprod). If you're looking for music-to-code-to, I recommend a try.
Similar-ish but clearly very different. I noticed that in that video he was using the WaveNet model, though apparently the statefull LSTM model performs better[1]. Though even for that you can hear[2] a fairly clear difference.

[1]: https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-for-real-time...

[2]: https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-for-real-time...
Probably different, the one I’m thinking of was made years ago. I’m looking but it seems they reuploaded it under a different title and the link to the full doc is dead.
If you scroll down the article to the third screenshot, you'll see a MEmacs icon. MicroEmacs on the Amiga was what made me choose Emacs over Vi later on in life. A very nice good-buy gift from my last computer where I had to enter date and time manually.
It's about top 20% in Malaysia, which is #37 in GDP.
Vietnam was not special because of the amount of collateral damage done but rather due to some serious strides being made towards avoiding or minimizing it for the first time. Let's not forget that in Korea levelling every city north of the front line was deemed an acceptable strategy.
Generation X
So it boils down to. Don't break the window, burn the building
How huge is the latency? It's using Elk Audio OS, claiming 1ms roundtrip. I doubt this usage gets that low but I wouldn't be surprised if it was doing alright
Random one, I love washlets but I hate that many of them make a, to my ears, a fairly loud noise when I sit down, not when I wash. They do some kind of prep work. It's not all of them either. The one in my bathroom makes no noise (does no prep-work), It's a Lixil brand. The washing itself is not loud and anything after that is hidden by the sound of flushing.

My friend's Toho makes medium high amount of noise though prepping the moment I sit down. The worst are the ones in most Japanese hotels. Their prep is loud enough I'm surprise I'm not waking up the people in the next room.

What makes it the noise stick out is it's something I use in the middle of the night when everything else is silent.

I'm in the market for a new one but this particular issue is not covered in any sales material.