skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the parent is saying is that as long as there is legal demand for a substance, the supplier is not the only one to be held accountable. Oil and gas conglomerates emerged and flourished because they met the demand of society.

If the demand was irresponsible, then someone has failed to act in addition to the suppliers who are essentially just looking to capitalise on an opportunity in a socio-economic system where to succeed is to capitalise on any legal, available opportunity.

Governing bodies have known for decades that the consumption of fossil fuels was both unsustainable and detrimental to the health of the environment.

And yet no consequential action has been taken, for a number of understandable, yet ultimately wrong reasons.

Governments will argue that the technology wasn't there yet to make a transition away from fossil fuels, but money could have been invested to ensure that it was there.

Skip to today, one may retort that the technology is here now, and when governments are reticent and continue to drag their heels — that is perhaps when shadier motivations behind executive inaction emerge.

I do not speak as an environmentalist by any means, my net contributions to encouraging social change in this regard are practically zero, I've never made the effort.

But over the years I have been alive I have seen this problem growing and the debate becoming increasingly protracted and increasingly unhelpful.

The time for debate, inquiry and questions of accountability is not now, as this process will simply result in the burial of the actual problem facing our species and, realistically, very little punitive action against the most significant culprits.

Indeed, what point is there in trying to point the finger at suppliers meeting demands and governments seeking to remain in government by giving people what they want? It's a problem to which the solution is political suicide that any subsequent regime can likely overturn.

Like financial crises, no one supports change until the proverbial shit hits the fan. This is partially because the general population do not understand the nature or severity of the problem, the timescale, or even believe the problem exists. I would argue that this is not accidental — lots of powerful institutions and people have undoubtedly had a hand in making sure the populace do not understand or take an active interest in problems like environmental and financial crises.

This is because the existence and power of these institutions and people would be threatened by a shift in the status quo.

The time for decisive action was at least a decade ago, but there's no harm in starting now — it just means that the transition to alternative energy sources must be more abrupt and more investment must be allocated to remedial technologies that can work towards undoing at least some portion of the damage we have done to our biosphere.

Let historians and the next generations worry about whose fault it was. It is more important to secure for the next generation a sustainable and habitable future, than it is to look back at past hubris and wonder where it went wrong.
>virtually indestructible

Is this a April 1st joke held of the 1st of July?
The Karen of email.
Their left/right categories are kind of a joke.

The daily mail owned metro is described as "left media" while RT is shoved in the same category as fox news.

They should really categorize by more fine grained biases and allegiances. E.g. WaPo to the US military industrial complex, RT to putin, CNBC to the DNC, Fox to RNC/Rupert Murdoch, BBC to the tories, Metro to lord rothermere.
I imagine most interviewees hear things I've never heard during their interviews- interviews can be a very divergent experience based on company, personality, and experience.
There weren't enough terminal cancer patients dying with COVID-19 to significantly impact the death numbers. The most common comorbid conditions in COVID-19 deaths were high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210123
"The impact of media organizations discrediting and completely debasing themselves... is what has really cleaved the culture."

Really, that's what did it? I'd wager that a majority of Americans don't even know who Assange or Snowden are, much less care about them. I think constantly living in self-selected information bubbles might be just a tad more significant..
> Personally I think we could probably trace it back to soviet infiltration of the university education system around the world in the 60's and 70's

The Soviet Union is over, you can't keep relying on the Red Scare any more.

I mean, there definitely are problems with US media - concentrated ownership and a reliance on hyperbole, as well as pundits who retreat behind the "it's entertainment, no reasonable person would have taken what I said seriously" defense when sued over their lies. But wheeling out McCarthyism again is ridiculous.
I've never been an Amazon customer. I like to buy things in store. If I want something that isn't in a store, I will buy it from eBay. eBay also tends to have better prices than Amazon.
I don't think they work out past trivial applications. Any non trivial app requires an understanding of a much larger part of the codebase than a tool like Copilot is looking at at any one time.

Copilot does not understand the code in toto and is therefore really useless for debugging (70% of all coding) and probably useless for anything other than very simple parts of an app.
The solution might be simpler than we think,just tell the algorithm
What? The highest points on that graph are Chinese. And there are similar Chinese bursts to the Korean one you're talking about, followed by China sustaining higher growth.

Are we looking at the same graph?
Core OS? It’s stuff like the iMessage database. Mac OS ain’t Silverblue. :)

I’m not saying it’s bad. More security is great! My kids use MacOS. I’m grateful for it. I love iOS too. But it’s absolutely dumbing the OS down and making it less of a professional machine.
This makes sense to me. I wonder how feasible it would be to release the saltier water over a broader area to reduce the salinity in any one area? Also, there are at least some ecological benefits to increasing the amount of fresh water. An extreme example is the lake that appeared in the middle of a desert in the United Arab Emirates. I have no idea how we weigh one against another.
When will tech’s reckoning come? Social media’s negative influence and incitement of violence? When we will start throwing engineers in prison who built these products knowing what they do?
How is destroying other people's stuff a reasonable response for you being disgruntled at your employer?
You really think them being honest would change anyone’s usage of fossil fuels? Hell, oil companies are transparent about climate change now, and usage is still going up YOY. Only now that we are experiencing greater effects of climate change, everyone is jumping on half-solutions like electric cars - let’s not even get started on the ecological footprint of batteries.
When I was an employee at Google and did interviews, I was told that for diversity reasons, I couldn't ask where an interviewee "was from" because that would bias my decision.

I'm sorry, but other companies and fields don't prevent this question, and have far less bias (well, employee distributions that more closely map to underlying population distributions) in hiring. Most of what Google is doing is to reduce its legal exposure to class action hiring lawsuits, not righting wrongs, as much as their leaders like to say they are.
Code completion that can suggest the whole line instead of a single word (e.g. often it guesses function parameters and various math operations when you haven't even typed function name yet).
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The Golang example would not even compile, because `sql` is not imported.
Imagine how good of a PR move it would be for Amazon to go ahead and rename Alexa to a non human name, despite all the inertia and recognition of the old name?
I just don't read them, they are.AAL is pointless
Someone already mentioned there's a `decimal` package in Python that's better suited for currency. Back when I was a Java developer we used this: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigDecim...
4th of July: when did we start celebrating it, and how has its meaning changed?
> * Oh boy was that ableist ?

It was hate speech against your neurodiverse colleagues. Doubleplus ungood.
Doubtful.

You can be almost certain it’s being widely used or will be widely used shortly.

The conversations around copilot are eerily similar to the conversations around the first autocomplete tools
> Historians sometimes refer to it as “jubilee,” a term used for household debt forgiveness decrees in ancient Israel that were similar to debt forgiveness in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and elsewhere. The widespread existence of this type of debt forgiveness in antiquity profoundly attests to the universality and persistence of this debt accumulation issue.

It's important to note that Jubilee was not at all the same as "debt forgiveness" or "restructuring". It came in regular intervals and people knew when the next Jubilee was going to be when they entered the loan. This significantly changes the types of loans even offered.
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The thought experiment of asking hypoethetically what technology, if another culture developed it, would be we forced to destroy them to survive if they did, seems useful here. Nuclear weapons have certainly almost been one and may still be. Quantum-enabled AI is probably another.

Human super intelligence may only be tolerated right now because it is so rare it doesn't scale. Even large networks of 140+ IQ people (who were raised as kids together in gifted programs and went to the same universities) have probably not been that dangerous. Or either they are and smart enough to conceal it, or we are only seeing the effort come to fruition now, where the first formal cohorts of that system are just now reaching their 50's. (https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/509412/History-of-G...)

But if you accept the IQ model at face value, an ML-selected hyperintelligent master race seems like something our species might wisely target for pruning.
There ought to be an axiom of Godwin's law that states that whenever someone mentions Nazis some nerd brings up Godwin's law.
That just encourages them. It proves that it's working.
The South Africa 295 crash was, at least possibly, a cargo fire from lithium batteries - though they never did figure out exactly what caused it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_2...

My point there is mostly that USPS mail and such is carried on passenger flights, and I have a very real problem with unlabeled scrap grade lithium cells being carried without proper markings on anything with passengers, which is exactly what Hobby King's behaviors lead to. That stuff, if it goes by air at all (I'd argue it probably shouldn't), should go by cargo aircraft only.
The stats I want to see are “average days to first promotion” and average tenure for male/female groups and also grouped by minorities. Tech companies love to point out how they have “equal pay for equal work” (which I believe, this is easy to audit by having salary bands per level) but what about “equal career advancement for equal work”? If members of a minority group take say 25% more days on average to get promoted what is that evidence of?
>“We’re stumbling into an arms race that is largely driven by US investments and missile defense,”

People who reported them (in public) have very good idea what they are. The are not thinking it's huge escalation.

The most likely explanation is that Chinese put maybe 20-30 missiles with MIRV warheads into 199 silos and maintain protocols that don't reveal the location of those missiles.
Rest of the silos work as "sponges" for attacking warheads. The distance between silos is to prevent single warhead destroying more than one silo. If enemy wants to destroy 20
ICBM's they have to use 199 warheads to do so.

The US had similar plans for their ICBM's, but it was politically impossible to use eminent domain to get enough land to get 10X more silos.

Most Chinese ICBM's are road mobile or in railway cars. Stored in huge tunnel networks.

sources:

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1212307/nuclear-silo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-nucle...
A quick post I wrote with some back of the envelope math on this. I thought back two years ago that this was just an exercise in dumping risk onto entrepreneurs.

https://qr.ae/TWGBfd
The cost might be a bit less-- domain names can be a lot cheaper than $8, and if you buy in bulk, even better. And yes, NameCheap probably does not want to get involved- probably for the reasons you mentioned. But after the Facebook lawsuit, it is starting to catch up with them. I saw they are starting to get rid of some of these domains- I hope it's true. But the brands need a solution. I did more research. It turns out that Borderoo's IP address is hidden behind Cloudflare. But there are tools to find out their real IP address- NameCheap was using the Cloudflare excuse when I asked them. There is also Whois History, I bought the report. It's a matter of time before I find out who they are. Then I will send that info to NameCheap and see what their next excuse is. NameCheap is even associated with government phishing scams and malware. I wish more was done to protect brands. The solution is about educating and exposing the crimes, until something is done. Any solution suggestions are welcome.
As someone who does code reviews the thought the developer didn’t code the code submitted to be merged never would cross my mind.
though our companies will one day be competing with product manufacturers in China who get to use it to its fullest
Ambush, outnumbering, night raiding, etc. War is almost never a matter of who have the upper hand in a one-vs-one fair combat…
It's not like decimal or fixed point does not suffer from rounding errors either. In fact for many calculations, binary floating point gives more accurate answers.

In accounting there are specific rules that require decimal system, so one must be very careful with the floating point if it is used.
> supposing that the desalinator will float on top of the ocean.

I think that as its solar, you only have 50% duty cycle (more or less) so the idea is that you "just" slow down the water supply to remove the salt over night.
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I made one for Observable runtime https://observablehq.com/@endpointservices/serverless-cells

it's amazing having seamless code sharing between front end and backend, with inline code documentation.

I made a whole oauth server like this! https://observablehq.com/@endpointservices/auth
Most politeness is feigned anyways, it still sounds nicer.

In your examples, if all 3 were said in the same, monotonous tone, 2 is much nicer to hear, especially compared to just 'give me a pen', which is how most people order food.
Not surprising that this is from vice.com
Stack Overflow content is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Terms [1]:

* Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

* ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

In over a decade of software engineering, I've seen many reuses of Stack Overflow content, occasionally with links to underlying answers. All Stack Overflow content use I've seen would clearly fail the legal terms set out by the license.

I suspect Copilot usage will similarly fail a stringent interpretation of underlying licenses, and will similarly face essentially no enforcement.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
We already have a massive oversupply of salt from existing desalination. The cost of table salt is basically all transportation at this point.
“ groups of individuals accomplish collective action (1, 2, 26). This phenomenon has been studied in a variety of disciplines, from anthropology, social psychology, sociology, political science, management, communication studies, economics, animal behavior, and sociobiology, to computer science, statistical physics, and the emerging domain of computational social science”

Everyone is a psychologist they just don’t want to admit it. :) He leaves out marketing, which is weaponized psychology. If we have any hope, it’s mass brainwashing via Facebook and nbc. The marketers and “engagement” algorithms will be our salvation.
A city with streets is just a graph with 1-4 pointers per node. It is super simple in code, just a few lines, not sure how you could get lost in that. If you make code anything more complex than that then it isn't really equivalent to navigating the streets on a map.

> I believe that may be because there are too few constraints when programming textually

No that is not the issue, you can write extremely complex and useful programs in just 100 lines of code and you can translate those to visual programming easily with no improvement in comprehension. Code just takes long to read since it is so powerful.
The problem is also stupid people and companies.

My last job they wanted me to invoice them hours worked, which was some number like 7.6.

This number plays badly when you run it through GST and other things - you get repeaters.

So I looked up common practice here, even tried asking finance who just said "be exact", and eventually settled on that below 1 cent fractions I would round up to the nearest cent in my favour for each line item.

First invoice I hand them, they manually tally up all the line items and hours, and complain it's over by 55 cents.

So I change it to give rounded line items but straight multiplied to the total - and they complain it doesn't match.

Finally I just print decimal exact numbers (which are occasionally huge) and they stop complaining - because excel is now happy the sums match when they keep second guessing my invoices.

All of this of course was irrelevant - I still had to put hours into their payroll system as well (which they checked against) and my contract specifically stated what my day rate was to be in lieu of notice.

So how should you do currency? Probably in whatever form that matches how finance are using excel, which does it wrong.
The way things are going I suspect we will reach a tipping point where environmental organizations will start to have violent fringes and start to target carbon emitting corporate boards and C-levels.

Probably falling into the same mechanics of radicalization/conversion you have seen before with Middle-eastern groups and more recently with far-right groups.
>[Modern] programming languages have decimal/rational data types

This caveat is kind of funny, in light of COBOL having support for decimal / fixed precision data types baked directly into the language.

It's not a problem with "non-modern" languages, it's a problem with C and many of its successors. That's precisely why many "non-modern" languages have stuck around so long.

https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold...

Additionally, mainframes are so strongly optimized for hardware-accelerated fixed point decimal computing that for a lot of financial calculations it can be legitimately difficult to match their performance with standard commercial hardware.
Honestly I’ve automated a large chunk of my day job. The trick is keeping it secret!
Right now we have around 1.5T in outstanding student debt. If all of this debt were to be cancelled, who would be left holding the bag? What would that do to the economy? IMO if we cancel all student debt, this would seriously rock our economy because we suddenly decided to take 1.5T in debt assets out of the economy.
So you assume these changes are made to "appease" a group of people you've decided is stupid, or that Apple thinks they're stupid?

I am a long-time Unix user, hardly an iOS user at risk of feeling lost on Macs, and while I have immediately turned back on my scroll bars, I was delighted by "natural scrolling," and I love that "Duplicate" makes it more clear that my documents are being auto-saved, as they should be.

These things aren't "dumbing down," they're just changes from the way things used to be. Some are better, some are worse, and both of those are opinions. I think labeling them as "dumbing down" and sneering dismissively at people who use iOS is unseemly, speaking of opinions.
When the $100 system can run for 5 years of continuous production get back to me. I would be surprised if the system, as described, would work beyond a couple of days. Other than for emergency situations this isn't useful.
> soviet infiltration of the university education system around the world in the 60's and 70's, which within a lifetime has produced multiple generations of nihilistic bureaucrats trained to seek power for its own sake

It is only a small cookie in comparison to what people in USSR had to deal daily. Regular bureaucrats being bastards was a given, the only difference being how much. From customary "f__k off attitude," to ones laughing, and spitting you in the face while waving their party member card.

I don't have many ideas how to build a system to keep non-appointed government workers in line. Any kind of promotion system can get corrupted in its own way. There is no magic bullet.

What the West got right in general about bureaucracy were these:

1. Less government officers as such

2. Them being given less duties

3. Good distance in between them (this is what is getting eroded lately, with government service becoming a monolith with rich law schools)

Bad things, and bad class culture perpetuate faster than good ones, and is in generally more resilient against deliberate campaigns for cleansing institutions.

Taking the example of Georgia (a country of,) it was proven to be much easier to oust small time habitual bribe takers, nihilists, or poor performing bureaucrats, than "talented villains" who are both more hardcore in their ill, and are better at hiding their crimes, bad ideological stances, or underperformance.

If you kick out those half-corrupted people, but pass a few completely rotten ones, you often empower the later. They can quickly recruit more co-conspirators from new bloods, and corrupt their surroundings more completely. Paradoxically, half-hearted purges in state institutes can often exacerbate the problem by "distilling the poison."

It takes generations, or an extreme shock therapy to disrupt such institutional nihilism.
The author had a rather colorful post to /r/emacs that has been edited significantly since, but some of the color remains in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/oapa2l/help_building...
Amazon probably does not dictate pay directly. They just put in the contract that all workers must make X and get health insurance.