skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where citizens of a world that has enjoyed the type of civil stability and wealth to allow for caring for nuclear waste sites for roughly 200 years will inform you that they can categorically guarantee that there will be no issues caring for these sites in 500 years.
> Nobody opposed that, even when own citizens were affected

I know that many of us bridle a bit at that. I recall being furious about it, and writing to representatives, and voting for people who I thought might do less of it. It's deeply frustrating that the results of that seem to have been completely ineffective, but it still hurts to hear that characterized as "not opposing" something.

It's wrong when we did it, and it's wrong when others do.
Big tech companies especially Twitter and Google have zero longevity when it comes to new products. How about they add subscriptions to Fleets before giving up, I’ve enjoyed a few really great conversations there and it’s a decent product like much of Twitter it just needs some love in terms of features and how they work. For example why on Earth am I not allowed to read someone’s public tweets when blocked. Twitter is kind of the definition of getting lucky over being brilliant IMO, how it doesn’t have an edit function yet is beyond me.
Experts have correctly predicted 20 of the last 3 market crashes.

I've been predicting a market crash since ~2010, and I'll admit that I've been wrong again and again. Being wrong has reinforced two things for me: the old adage that the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, and that governments and other major interests will go to almost any lengths possible to keep distorted markets propped up.
No thanks I'd rather stick with Windows/386
Hickel gets basic facts wrong and distorts the views of his critics.

The thread below walks through some of the basic errors he makes.

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378730932308471809
Working from home, I discovered that my evening commute was part of my shutting off the work at the end of the day. I have a set of about four things I do when I lock my computer at the end of the day. Early dinner with the family, watch entertainment, engage in a hobby, play computer games.

Before it got hot out I was at about 50% for hobby stuff, and I made so much progress over the last year that it’s difficult to look at, in the sense that when something stops being a struggle you can experience feelings of loss for the past. Why didn’t I figure this out before?
> Still, I make it a point to delete all my tweets after they're a week old or so.

I do the exact same thing, I think it's the only sane way to use twitter.
Do you mean why Saginaw is the best? Because Boeing didn't have problems with defective parts coming from Saginaw. The Saginaw people knew what they were doing. Boeing didn't trust anyone else, as these are critical parts. I wish I could have taken one of the jackscrews home and mounted it over the fireplace like some people mount a sword :-)
Ask HN: Is it normal to never hear back after an initial 15 min phone screen?
I've been applying to full stack and backend engineer jobs for a week or week and a half and noticed that it's common for recruiters to ask about experience, describe a role, ask if you have any questions, and then list out next steps of either sending an online technical test, setting up a 30-60 minute coding test phone call with an engineer, or a similar step, only to never message you again after the call is over.

What percentage of the time is this to be expected? I assume sometimes it means they didn't like what you said during the screen, sometimes it means the engineering manager didn't like your resume or wanted to interview another candidate over you, and sometimes they just forgot about you / had other priorities.

I'm trying to determine if I should just chalk this up to a normal attrition rate of the interview stages or if its a sign I'm doing something wrong with my resume or my answers during the initial 15-30 min non-technical interview.
This is the 'wish list'. Any legislation that passes will be significantly watered down by industry. Even this, as far reaching as it is, is not enough to keep us below 2c.

Now ask yourself, will the US or the BRICs also do this? I don't see it. The truth of the matter is we will resort to some sort of hamfisted geo engineering once we get desperate enough, and that will have to be kept up indefinitely until we figure out how to air capture CO2 and sequester it. We understand the basic chemical reactions around this, but we have no idea how to do this at the scale required.

It's looking grim for future generations.
"Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources."

I'm sorry, but - No shit!

Of course there are growth and population limits, and we are close to them. Everyone talks about global warming, but few talk about population and consumption as the main driver for that. We like the narrative that we have the technology to face climate issues and future resource scarcity because it means we're not doomed.

We will either need unpalatable or forced lifestyle/societal changes or we will inevitably face these unwanted changes when consumption outpaces resources.

Oh and China is now suggesting 3 kids per couple will be to tolerated...
I predict that we will continue to see catastrophic prognostications in the future.
I use Google Meet on Firefox on Linux, and haven't noticed any excessive power use; and the laptop fan stays slow.

In fact, of the video conference systems I have used at work, Google Meet is the only one that works perfectly on Firefox, without having to use Chromium or even a dedicated flatpak package.
At the time of this comment, the charts in this article are mixed up. The "Business as usual", "Comprehensive technology" and "stabilized world" charts have incorrect captions.
So it's fulfilling its purpose to be deleted for all time. Fitting.
"A rising tide lifts all boats" sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Thanks very much for illuminating more of the details.
Speaking of "new Pythons", I recently started playing with D and got that impression. It's like the compiled, fast executing Python I have always wanted hidden in plain sight.
> You can actually make deterministic guarantees to your customers that not only your own systems are secure, but also that the systems of your vendors and other 3rd parties are as well.

You can make a "deterministic" guarantee, whatever that is, that your systems are secure? That's seems pretty bold and probably dangerous, no?
It’s like 2012 except for our civilization. /s
That'll just be a social network full of spam and trolls.
That is the after tax income. I am converting it to the gross income that people usually use for comparing salaries.
Why Libertarians of all people? They are generally laissez-faire and against accreditation entirely.
"Obviously this would be impossible if airframe designers incorporate battery cells in structural members, as some suggest to offset the weight penalty."

Why not do both?

Swap one part and charge just the internal batteries. But internal batteries does not sound so clever with limited lifetime anyway.
I had the same experience with gnome-terminal back on Ubuntu 14.04 (or maybe even 12.04, it's been a while).
> should not be able to choose or express it’s own side in any matter of political contention

It goes back to the conversations expressed elsewhere in this post about twitter being an utility, de-facto.

If it is given that status, then there are some expectations that come with it.

Once a company takes a political position, then it cannot appeal on 'moral' or other subjective grounds.

> How does that even work?

I don't know... maybe an entity like the Swiss? Not sure if it is a good example, being a country itself? The reason people seem to be ok with the presence of the country is that it is strictly neutral, and both sides protected it.

> Who gets to decide which topics or points of view are off-the-table for normal social-media moderation?

How about no one?

> I guess you’re saying government figures and major political parties could decide unilaterally. We’ll have to repeal the first amendment, anyway.

The 1st amendment is for the US exclusively. This version of the Freedom of speech is a distinctively American concept, and for that reason, twitter actually finds some tepid support from conservatives.

Each country is sovereign in the laws that govern their land, unless they breach some major crimes, and thats when the UN steps in. Nothing new here.
I wouldn’t be so sure…

> the report says that they have "recently reconfirmed" the lair of one of the unicorns ridden by the ancient Korean King Tongmyong, founder of a kingdom which ruled parts of China and the Korean peninsula from the the 3rd century BC to 7th century AD.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/30/unicorn-lair-d...

^a joke
I wish. Unfortunately the moron causing the hazard almost never gets caught up in the resulting accident like you describe.

What happens is you wind up with a merge (and all the shenanigans that causes) behind the blockage and given a long enough duration you eventually run into the case someone doesn't check their mirrors/blind spot and hits someone who's not on their A-game because there's no exit there and they're not expecting the person to merge there.
I think a big risk is a cpu level security issue similar to meltdown or spectre that ends up weakening the hardware isolation between tenants to the point where it can be exploited on mass on the cloud providers to wreak havoc. The probability of something like this happening is very low but not zero, I would say same level of probability as datacenter fire or earthquake banks should be planning for how to handle this type of event.
I won't buy any prediction 5 years into future, let alone 20 years
The problem with film school's like Columbia, is they're deluding their students with this ludicrously unreasonable expectation that they're going to graduate and immediately get jobs at the very top of the film industry hierarchy.

It's like if every business school just taught their students how to be CEOs, and completely ignored the practical, hands on skills required to actually work your way up to such a position over a decades long career in the real world.

Sure everyone wants to be a writer or director, but those so called "Above the line" positions make up a tiny fraction of the cast and crew that go into making a film, and sit at the tipy-top of the pecking order. The vast majority of people who work on a given film are in props, costumes, construction, set dec, production, finance, marketing, ec., yet film schools broadly speaking ignore all these lucrative, fulfilling film industry careers in favor of pumping out legions of wanna-be writers and directors competing for an incredibly small number of jobs.

Sadly, like so many other post-secondary institutions, film schools are really selling a dream rather than selling a path to a career.
I do. I have accomplished a lot of petty things (at risk of humble brag, which this is not) - decent lift numbers, few skills at competitive level, new things like GCP/AWS/Azure/K8S certs at work, etc. None of them are achievable through anything other than hours a days for months. Even things that seem basic like "do a handstand" or "drive a stick".

I also have friends who have accomplished petty things - none got results until they started sitting down with it for 3+ hours a day.

I will be more concrete - if you sit down to learn a language for 20 mins a day, it will fade before you get anywhere (without constant repetition, the amount of material for which builds up). If you workout, you need warm up, cool down, travel time, shower, nutrition - it can't be a micro-habit. Even if you WALK for fitness, that's 40 minutes right there. Coding? No one here is going to tell me you will learn all the search algos and such without sitting down for 40 minutes a day. Hell, it takes 40 minutes to do a difficult hackerrank/codewars problem that you don't really understand. Not talking FizzBuzz here.

A failed example? I spent an hour a day for several months learning ML. Passed that famous Andrew Ng Machine Learning course. Because I don't apply it, I barely remember anything other than a general understanding of the overall process.

edit: Another obvious example that comes to mind - working on cars. If you don't dedicate an hour to it, you won't even have the time to get your tools out. It takes something like a day to just change out calipers, pads, and rotors on all 4 wheels, and it's about as basic as it gets in terms of repairs, other than an oil change, which is maintenance.
What data leads you to this conclusion?
> the EU was meant to be first and foremost an economical Union/treaty area, not a political one

That's a fudge that some governments (mostly British ones) used to avoid blowback at home, knowing (or hoping) that their people would not get any information from foreign media. That's a lie. It was never the case. It was political from the very beginning. You should read the Schuman declaration.
https://jonathan-hui.medium.com/rl-proximal-policy-optimizat...
SpaceX may ignite the world’s largest rocket this week
This is like a big list of complaints about potential negative externalities of technology all put into the bag of "complex thing is bad".

How you even address an article with such wide ranging concerns from "smart fridges will tell me to eat less meat for better insurance rates"(invasive / creepy tech) to "driverless car fatalities will have no accountability"(intersection of tech / law) to "our inability to disagree with The Computer will lead to a global thermonuclear war" (intersection of tech / politics)

People will (hopefully) not buy the creepy fridge. At the very least, there's no fridge monopoly so there should always be a noncreepy option on the market for you personally. If there is a fridge monopoly, human lawmakers and judges have the power to break up the monopoly.

There will be a slew of laws/lawsuits about driverless car fatalities when it first becomes a big thing. How that plays out will be entirely determined by humans (lawmakers / courtrooms).

The idea of having computer simulations so good that it replaces human decision making at the executive level is ridiculously far from being reality, it's pointless to worry about it.
shipping PEOPLE is not.
I did make assumptions about the article which are invalid and replied too generally, admitted.
The Bank of England is under the democratic control of the people of England.
> I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed.

I think that has more to do with the pervasiveness of Christianity and alcoholism independent of each other.
Wow Tehran is full of beautiful things that even someone from Iran like me doesn't know
Only if we don’t develop cheaper energy sources. If something else is cheaper, nobody is going to bother looking for expensive oil.
On the other hand, YouTube paying content creators has helped that platform remain dominant.
To be honest I would use tickbox or text input ones. Also I am fairly certain without constant earbud volume level warnings I'd be deaf in a week.
You don't have to look back that far. 15 years ago, South Africa was a wealthy and growing country. This week, they have this going on: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-africa-looting-1.6102001

It's in response to the imprisonment of the former president, who was jailed for failing to appear in court for crimes that he definitely did commit. The looters and arsonists are mad that he's being held accountable.
GAN Theft Auto also had a similar dream-like quality, especially with anything involving collisions (cars and how "big" the road was).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0
This doesn't work for alpha blending since even if you output the color in the right space, the GPU might do blending in sRGB space and mess things up.

Best is to properly declare the target framebuffer as sRGB (if it is) and output linear colors while letting the GPU deal with it.
I am concerned with the ability of the central government's 'unfettered access'??
This would allow for honest access as well as corrupt officials to access data for abusive access.
One assumes this is well encrypted data a priori, so theft of access from someone like MC is probably not a factor - all that is feared is tax abuse mining - which needs to be item by item under a court order.
Why would growth continue to be exponential?

>The 2019 forecast from the United Nation's Population Division (made before the COVID-19 pandemic) shows that world population growth peaked at 2.1% per year in 1968, has since dropped to 1.1%, and could drop even further to 0.1% by 2100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
>What if the "slow driver" was a normal driver who just got a puncture and was slowing down?

Then they'd have a good excuse.

Same with the shitbox running on 3cyl.

Same with the concrete truck that pretty much has to drive under the prevailing speed uphill because it's so slow.

To voluntarily create a hazard when you can "just not" by behaving like everyone else (which is not exactly an activity that requires a lot of cognitive thought) is simply asinine.
Wow - nice work. I'm honestly surprised firms will pay $1 for just a single response and also not gravitate towards a fixed cost survey solution instead.
The data pertains only to opt-in cloud features. Warp is local-first. Note that the closed beta collects some info, so if you're not comfortable with that, please wait until our open launch.

All details here: https://www.warp.dev/privacy
Only the New Territories were leased. Hong Kong Island and Kowloon was seized, similarly to Gibraltar, by the British.
Which was the action I am applauding them on - the choice not to use VC.
I crashed iTerm2... once. In 6 years that I used it. Oh and the VS code embedded terminal has stopped rendering on me once.

I cannot recall any crashes in alacritty, gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal or the legacy windows console for other terminals I've used a decent amount.
Ah okay my bad, I missed the part about "Working backwords from after tax income".
My guess is that icons distinguish between local devices and Airplay stuff.
yep! huge kudos to the founders who took a chance on me as well
twitter is attacked exactly because they are the only voice out there.

As an example, There are several newspapers in India, which still continue to post opinions critical of the government. There is a system of courts still, sort of working, and would step in if things got too bad.
Prior to the revolution of 1789 the French state was pretty much in a permanent state of bankruptcy for the past several hundreds of years (and unlike the Romans they couldn't really debase their currency). Did that prevent them from waging wars?
Which chair do you have?
Congrats on the launch! I think the team features will be really useful. We currently use browser based repl at work and I could see something like this replacing that.
It seems it's pretty even, or even tilted in favor of the poorer countries, when it comes to carbon per capita; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_... (looking at production, I'm pretty sure consumption is much more tilted towards the poorer countries so the border tax helps a lot there). Further more, EU is already shifting a lot of money to the poorer countries from the richer (by default).

At least when it comes to carbon taxing - which so far seems to be the most effective (both theoretically and practically) and equal way of curbing carbon emissions - EU is the frontrunner in the world, right? So it seems you're complaining at the best in class student here?
In my opinion, there are a few issues with this strategy:

- Your Tweets may be archived on another site anyway

- You may delete a Tweet that others hold onto for spite (screenshot, archiver, etc.) and then you don't have the surrounding Tweets to link to in order to show context

- If your good Tweets get linked to/embedded from other sources then those links will go bad

I've found the only safe strategy with social media/society is just to be very careful/clear/explicit with what you Tweet in the first place so that it can't be taken out of context. Perhaps that's unfortunate, but that's reality.
Visual Retirement Calculator (2012)
The analysts assume rationale behavior, but it should be noted that some factors such as money laundering distort the prices and
Toronto real estate market has a massive floods of opaque cash used for money laundering (at least $28.4 billion invested in Greater Toronto Area housing since 2008 according to reports).
Over population is not an issue for two reasons.

1 - Birth rates are falling. We’re getting pretty damned close to the peak of human population. There are some very easy steps we can do to expedite this, such as helping reduce infant mortality rate among the global poor, a move that is known to reduce fertility rates too.

2 - Consumption is wildly uneven among the world’s population. Focusing on population implies that those areas with high fertility rates are the issue, when in fact the primary limiting factor is and will remain the high consumption rate of the world’s richest nations.
Simplifying product research
You're focusing too much on technology, but OK, let's go with that:

Let's say Canada banned social media tomorrow. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, etc. are all blocked and go dark. Implementation of the ban is perfect. In exactly what way would this cause Canada to "[fall] behind and [become] an irrelevant province of the earth"?
When you are an analyst the sensible thing to do is always predict doom and gloom. If you are correct you will be hailed as a genius. If you are wrong no one cares because the market is doing great! Over a decades long span there will eventually be a downturn and you can then say "I told you so".
If this was a better, generic, screen sharing solution, it might be awesome. But forcing people to use a specific terminal to work with others feels like it'll be a non-starter for most people. Not least given how rarely I've ever had a need to show anyone my terminal (despite having had solutions for it for literally decades via e.g. sharing screen or screen sharing all the way back to VNC and similar).
The closest you'll get to that is probably Scott Meyer's effective modern c++ which is for c++14. Scott has retired around in 2015 so don't expect an updated book.
We’re all different and if this is who you are/how you’re most comfortable, congratulations on figuring yourself out. My experience is different than yours - people are tremendously interesting, especially over a meal.

I’m not sure that anyone involved in this is making utopian assumptions. Rather, we’re all different and just know ourselves. I’m likely as ‘correct’ as you are - we’ve both figured out how we’re happiest around others! That’s a net win for us.
Here's a rough translation for anyone interested in the text in the article:

The world of Colored pencils

Going through the narrow alleys of the stationary bazaar, there's a name that's familiar to all and an address that's hacked on all the tradespeople's minds. If you're looking for colored pencils, everyone'll point you to Mr. Rafieh's shop.
"It's been thirty years that I get my energy from setting up kids with their colored pencil box. At the moment I have one of the biggest collections of colored pencils.", he says.
Beginner and professional painters alike come to him for recommendations on colored pencils. The rare old models from the west or the ones produced in the country, he has them all. Mr. Rafieh's colorful stall has been drawing the attention of passerby for many years now.