skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glenn Greenwald warned this would happen in 2013 – the definition of terrorism will continue to gradually expand to include harmful speech against the government.

Now it’s actually happening, Greenwald is still here and refreshingly consistent in his perspective, and yet for some reason it’s become popular to question the credibility of the things he says based on where he says them.

It’s crazy enough that half this country is eager to slide down this slippery slope. But what’s even crazier is it’s the same half of the country that would have been completely opposed to it just eight years ago.
I like the take that people who dislike TDD just haven't seen good TDD. I also like the take that people who exalt TDD are bad programmers. Both are hypothetically possible.
Have you done any productivity hacking in the new office?
> The end result of opposing electric cars won’t be that cars get banned but that we’ll just use internal combustion engine cars.

This is a false dichotomy. Other options are possible, e.g. increasing public transportation. Japan and Korea provide good examples of modern high-density cities with good public transportation. And many alternatives are possible.

Secondly, your reply still fails to prove your claim that people are "too plugged in to environmental social media" to support effective solutions.
and to answer your other questions - Java and Python both have what I consider good, detailed specifications (which one could call "standards").
I think the more accurate assertion is US customers really loathe the Prius body style and LOVE their SUV body styles via what they buy. I think it's unfair to Toyota to say they killed it, US consumers did. Ford stopped making sedans for a reason.

Living in California, it's surprising how much people seem to loathe the prius type of car. They make fun of people who have them as people who have died inside or similar.
But the motivations of those shaping the structure and systems of civilization should be.
This is true. If you have some extra money, its a lot easier to make more money.

Though I would be most people just don't have 40,000 lying around, they usually have to get a car loan and borrow that.
yea. they media knows exactly what they are doing when they zero on those metrics. It's part of a larger ideological push. It's extremely disingenuous.
That's okay if it takes decades because the average age of vehicles on the road today is 12 years. It's going to take a LONG time to convert everyone over.
This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in control. And what's a bit of traffic congestion and burnt gasoline when it's offset by AMAZING culture of our open office? We will fix global warming in some other way. I am at my peal performance when I work in a bazaar-like environment with people walking and talking around my tiny desk. I miss the corporate propaganda on the walls and free snacks full of sugar and preservatives. I miss the germs and viruses that made me stronger. Even if I get Delta variant and suffer serious health damage to sit in the office, it's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff. The pointless shitcode I write at home is just not the same as the pointless shitcode I write at the office. I can't put my finger at what's missing, but something definitely does.
Clearly "standard digital publishing protocol" isn't something that can be trusted.
lmao, salty tears
> But dollars, euros and yen are backed by nations’ respective treasuries. If someone invents a cryptocurrency, any value is based solely on convincing others it has value.

They lost me here. Most countries indeed have currency that is backed by their nation's respective treasuries. However, those treasuries are filled dollars, euros and yen. All fiat money no longer backed by gold or anything tangible and whose values are based solely convincing others they have value.
You can make it illegal for legitimate financial institutions to perform transactions related to cryptocurrency, crippling or outright destroying many of its applications. Sucking all the air out of the room is sufficient to address the negative externalities.
Not even close to the same. Bing was unable to even close his eyes to avoid viewing the ads, and was literally inundated from all sides with all senses they could reach.

We get closer to this every single day.

But this is HN, 1/4[1] of the UB are probably in ads one way or another (ie work for fb/goog et al), another 1/4 of the UB are of the 'growth hacking win at all costs wannabe-CEO (ie lying and creating fake accts a la reddit, you name it).

But I hope another 1/4 of us are conscientious objectors. Leaving 1/4 for those who can't be bothered.

Anyways I usually assume 1/4-1/2 or more of HN will usually disagree with what I say, I don't mind.

[1] All numbers pulled from my behind.
This seems like a lot of words to obfuscate the fact that not only do the rich receive the largest benefit of tax breaks, they pay a lower effective tax rate than the middle class. It's not just word games.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...
It's hard to know what this means. Insinuation best avoided on the internet!
Complete agree and understand this. If I stop working out, I start feeling like an old man pretty quick.
> Android

Not cross-platform.

> iOS

Not cross-platform.

> Tk

Decreasing mind-share for 2 decades+, not something I'd start a new project with.
Advantages of UseTimeout and UseInterval Hooks over SetTimeout and SetInterval?
I wrote SW back then and confirm everything he's saying, except never had fully enclosed office, but did have carpet-on-the-floor and high-wall cubicle. And, even then, if I really had to get into flow, I left the office for a couple of days.
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They will just ask China to build modern nuclear plants[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/04/23/china-wil...
These links might prove useful to understanding what this is:

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10055

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectDecember1982/
A pretty large portion of aviation (over 50% of miles traveled) is short-haul, which actually is amenable to battery-electric decarbonization. And much of the rest could be converted to a few short haul hops which can be electrified.

For aviation, a lot of it is just the inertia of the industry (which is a duopoly) and regulators and the decades it takes to get any new large passenger aircraft designed and approved, let alone one using a new kind of powertrain.
> Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables.

Is Bitcoin offsetting other uses that those renewables would have gone for or are people building solar farms out of their Bitcoin gains to fund more Bitcoin?
A 500 mile Tesla has a lot more internal space than a similarly sized ICE vehicle, which has more internal space than an similarly sized Hydrogen vehicle. Volume is a bigger constraint than weight for land vehicles. Hydrogen might be the better option for airplanes, though.

Hydrogen has massive losses when piped and causes embrittlement. Electricity is much easier to transport.
Maybe the GPs point is that all spectrum is regulated? ISM requires certification and low power levels, for example. I'm a bit confused too.
And if you don't want to deal with Amazon hardware in your home SiliconDust [0] has been doing this for a long time and their products work well.

[0] https://www.silicondust.com/
He lost me at "untraceable"
lol that ship has sailed.
Not in the us. Most charging can take place at night, using unused capacity. The only real impediment to almost universal EV use in the us is lack of easy charging for those who park on the street.
> You can either allow inter-generational wealth to build, or claim to be a meritocracy; not both.

What has happened in America is a major (and I mean major) shift towards individualism. The 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps' mentality was never applied to people independent of their family. For most history, people were indivisible from their family, except perhaps in law.

If dad rises through the ranks, people would have viewed that as dad pulling his family up in status. The meritocracy would have been applied to what was then seen as the fundamental building block of society -- the family.

Today, we view individuals as the fundamental building block of society.

The two views are incompatible, IMO.
That's like saying a welfare recipient didn't "earn it" so it's not meritocratic.
In a strictly capitalist sense yes, but then by that argument we should just completely cut off all California farmers since they seem to make less money per water used when compared to California cities (I'm just stating your argument, which I would argue is "dumb" and overly simplistic way of looking at the world).

You're missing the point that we are talking about regulating water usage external to the industry (in which people should and do care about water usage as it relates to sustainability of California as a whole), and water usage internal to the industry (in which an individual farmer cares about yields, efficiency, and economic value of crops).

Internal to farming the entire reason we have so many almonds in CA is exactly because it's a high-efficiency and high-value crop.

https://slate.com/business/2015/04/almonds-in-california-the...

"In a real sense, the almond industry is the future of California agriculture—high value, high efficiency, but still high consuming. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it makes most sense to use a scarce resource for the highest value application possible."
If ShotSpotter can't either then it effectively useless.
Society ceases to function if you cannot convey any advantage to your children. My parents sacrificed a lot for their children. They moved to a far away land, worked a lot of hours so that we can live in a neighborhood with a decent school. They saved a lot to try to send me to a decent school. They always obeyed laws and were model citizens. If there were no way to transfer such advantages, they wouldn't have bothered doing any of this stuff. I think society was served by their sacrifices.

I can't quote a study, but I think crime rates go down considerably when married and with children. You have a lot more to lose. You want to make sure you're their for your children and they have the advantage of being in a stable loving home
> I don’t know the solution, but I’m not currently in charge of a G7 member state.

Fair enough. I would urge against asking for change simply because you find a problem - the proposed solution may end up being worse in the long run.

There are multiple examples of this in the global warming context. For example, every government used to ship their recycling rubbish all the way around the world to places like China, who would then just sit on it or fill up their own landfills. Another example is a biodegradable plastic bag that ended up hindering the composting process more than the original plastic. Another example is a CFC reduction program, where reducing the amount of certain chemicals would earn 'green points' that could be negated from carbon emissions - governments just started purposely creating these dangerous chemicals and destroying them in order to earn points to offset against their emissions.
I wish everyone can buy a Tesla model 3, but that's not the case right now, maybe with the 25k model coming, but certainly not right now. Toyota offers more hybrids than any other car manufacturer right now, and EV sales only account for 1.8% of the market in the US [1], so environmentally Toyota is right in their effort to reduce carbon emissions through hybridization in addition to their efforts in PHEV, EV, and Hydrogen vehicles.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/489525/us-electric-car-market-sha...!
Who is doing this? I've not heard of most companies doing anything about lunch for WFH employees.
>> The average Japanese employee

Employee is now a loaded word. Does this statistic include contractors or just hired "employees"? A great many workers in the US, from delivery drivers to doctors, are no longer actual employees. Do their hours count?
in the short term perhaps. In the long term, countries with less regulated markets have better economic outcomes. Nearly the entire first-world has adopted the US model of economics. People forget that at one time it was radical.
Oh? The American middle class didn't get wrecked? I'm sure all the opiate addicts on disability roll will love to hear about all the capital they have on hand due to cheaper goods.
The Supreme Court ruled that 5th amendment protects you from incriminating yourself even if you're innocent, and in some states that extends to investigations of your body.

Never talking to or cooperating with police, unless legally required as advised by your lawyer, is what's known in legal circles as "smart."
Thanks for clarifying. I don't think I've ever actually clicked one of those "social networking" icons so didn't realize that's where it was going. (I had grepped the text for the name instead).
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Aren't many executives Italian?
So, whatever the US justice department does, as long they stay in Italy, they will not see jail time, or am I wrong?

The company sure can be shut down and blacklisted globally, as well as the current executives.

It looks like a shift to USDC is happening, why is that not stopped? It looks like a tether fork with different board, but backing etc look all the same.
YouTube is doomed - they are already a zombie - already dead but doesn't know it.

I'm pretty much off YouTube at this point.
You're right, done some more research and there seems to be an interpreter in the compiler: https://github.com/JuliaDebug/JuliaInterpreter.jl. It's only enabled by explicitly adding annotations in your code, and is mainly used for the internal debugger, but it's still there.

Still, it still seems to try executing the internal SSA IR in its raw form (which is more geared towards compiling rather than dynamic execution in a VM). I was talking more towards a conventional bytecode interpreter (which you can optimize the hell out of it like LuaJIT did). A bytecode format that is carefully designed for fast execution (in either a stack-based or register-based VM) would be much better for interpreters, but I'm not sure if Julia's language semantics / object model can allow it. Maybe some intelligent people out there can make the whole thing work, is what I was trying to say.
Ambition is a river everyone wants to swim in. Some go to prestigious schools that tell them precisely where the fastest currents and bridges are, while others have to fight tooth and nail to figure it out. Meritocracy comes from strong education for everyone about the flow points and quick feedback on what is well paid and well needed for society, with instant access to that data. What you’re asking for instead is for government to fence in the and deciding how much you can pull out when you’re done swimming, piping whatever government wants to its own politically favored pet projects that create a political aristocracy instead. I grew up in Eastern Europe - even to this day politics is about channeling projects and money to your buddies, and restrictions to your competitors. Jibing on the wealthiest is envy - you assume and enforce wealth as a zero sum game. It’s not. When those spoiled rich kids blow 6 digits on a purse, that 6 digits goes into a company owned by many retirees via stocks. You want the rich to be spending. Wealth is created with ambition, which you want more of. If you choke people’s ability to pass their earnings to loved ones, they will leave this country and build their life elsewhere. Making information about where wealth is to be made more public and available is meritocracy. Ivy league schools teach the personal preferences of supreme court judges and the pathways to success in Private Equity and other fields - make that public!
Traditionally, Olympians competed naked.
"Liability laundering" does roll off the tongue more easily than "machine learning algorithm".
Thieves Steal California’s Scarce Water to Supply Illegal Marijuana Farms
This is a little weird, But I can't seem to access their site when using Microsoft Edge (I know a poor choice of a browser, but everything's chromium anyway). I get a ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. I tried playing around with disabling tracking protection, trying incognito, disabling my extensions. And it did work one time, but then instantly stopped working on a refresh. The site works wonderfully in firefox. I tried doing the same query in curl so it doesn't seem User Agent related either. Didn't try any other chromium based browsers. Does anyone have a similar issue or it's only me.

EDIT:
Okay I did some further digging, and guess what disabling "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen" Unblocked the site. The effect wasn't instant (So I thought it wasn't the one that effected it). Has Windows Defender just become a bundled censorship tool?
No, the value of fiat money is backed by being the only means of paying taxes. If you do anything productive in America, you'll have to find dollars to pay taxes, or you'll go to jail.
It's built into the semantics of the OS. Unix directories are ordinary files, treated specially. They can be opened and read (and written to) like any file. If you have a more primitive pager than less, you can sometimes see this by running it on a directory; you will see binary garbage with file names embedded in it, like whole pieces of corn in a turd.

That said, if your HLL doesn't provide a better abstraction when reading a directory with the standard file I/O primitives, it is indeed a serious bug in the language. Don't do that, language designers and standard library authors!
How embarrassing to work for a company that is trying to undermine progress because they are too incompetent to be part of the progress.
It would be more beneficial to the world to reign in the heaviest polluters first and then go after the remaining polluters.
It Was About Time to Find a Shared Vision of Perl
> What's the point of interface{}, then, if it doesn't tell us anything about the value? Well, that's precisely why it's useful: it can refer to anything!

An empty interface should be effectively useless. What could it possibly do!? This pattern is much more like a dynamic container with a type tag.
You can convey many advantages to children in the way you raise them. Million dollar + inheritances are not needed.

As far as being there for your children, again, I don't see the connection with estate taxes, your children will definitely need you even if you can't pass down 5 million dollars worth of assets to them.
The US government should replicate the success of crypto, then ban it entirely.

> How should governments respond?
> Wolf argues that central banks (e.g., the U.S. Federal
> Reserve) should create their own official digital
> currencies — central bank digital currencies (CBDC)
> and make cryptocurrencies illegal.

This is a solution that works.

Cryptocurrencies are borne out of a desire to be rid of governments. They're the ultimate libertarian dream of a stateless world.

Bitcoin and its ilk award the early adopters and pre-miners. They are not vehicles of economic empowerment. In fact, unsophisticated and poor investors can be ruined by moving their assets into crypto when subject to wild price swings, pump and dumps, and HFT/finance operations.

Fiat is a system of levers that betters the health of the government that mints it. They can be used to defer recessions, hedge inflations, fund infrastructure and investments, and increase the wealth of the populace. Bitcoin cannot do this. The crypto system rewards the whales, hucksters, and scammers.

Money printing also correlates with the productivity of the population, otherwise it becomes unhealthy. Taxes reap a portion of the growth and reinvest them.

USD comes with assurances. FDIC and a wealth of other measures are in place to protect individuals. If it's attacked, the government will respond.

If you lose your crypto wallet, you're screwed. No government backs BTC, so if the crypto is defeated (as nation state actors may have already done), everyone's investments crash to zero with no restitution. One crypto attack destroys the entire house of cards, and it is coming.

It's also reassuring to know that the USD is backed by a democratically elected governance.

Crypto makes hacking and cybercrime easier. It isn't untraceable like many USD transactions leveraging layering/integration and similar techniques, but it certainly doesn't require the same level of financial crime sophistication as moving money in fiat does. You don't need vast networks of physical money laundering machinery and real people in the loop.

Crypto burns energy, wastes GPU resources, drives up prices, and puts our brightest minds to the task of solving stupid and meaningless problems.

Crypto does not benefit society and the US government needs to step in with an alternative to meet the demand. Once they've become the de facto standard, then they can ban crypto.
This exactly. I see Shotspotter and tech like facial recognition / license plate readers as the same. Its a lead, a clue for detectives to follow up on and validate / verify. It shouldn't be evidence on its own. Just a source that's slightly more reliable than a human witness.
I think the Prius V was their attempt at addressing that market, but they never made a 3 row Prius. I'm guessing at that point your making a hybrid minivan.
Yeah - plus superchargers are typically in busy public areas often with security (unlike many gas stations).

It feels fairly contrived, I'm skeptical it's not just anti-ev motivated reasoning.
"Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard"

Well, it got that part right. Any non-POS scheme is just trading stake for something else, and buying and burning energy, no matter how green the source, is pure unnecessary waste. Skip the trading part and save the world.

Your examples of use are all good.
98% of the land that makes up the wheat crop in the US is currently in severe drought. I’ve seen farmers showing land that normally would have wheat 4’ high being 8” high. If wheat fails to this degree, we have a bigger issue on our hands than paying 3-5% more for asparagus.
If you view banning cryptocurrencies as a prerequisite to CBDC, social credit scores and negative interests rates, there are volumes of policy papers from the WEF and others.
I don't disagree with you, but I'm wondering about the 1%? For example I lived in Alaska for a few years. There are places up there when you have hundred of miles between stops, and if you run out of fuel the situation can be potentially deadly. Everyone carries extra fuel with them to protect against this situation.

What happens to those people when the cost of gas is sky high because economies of scale are completely gone and it's a niche product?
Who knew a distributed/decentralized database could be so threatening.