skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And about the time governments started taxing the shit out of tobacco is also about the time tobacco use was starting to become quite unfashionable. Why would I or my friends care about not being able to smoke in a bar if we find smoky bars annoying? Hypothetically try passing such taxes in the 60s, see how far that would have gotten.

Point being: carbon tax? That hits everyone to some extent, and arguably hits those least likely to care about climate change the most.
I’m the “old days”, /8s were handed out like they were nothing. It wasn’t expected that it would become so bad.
> The only number that matters to the environment is the total.

This is such flawed reasoning if you actually want to accomplish anything. When everyone thinks of the issue as an all-or-nothing problem everyone will act in their own interest. It’s always better for the prisoners to defect. But when one prisoner has the benefit of knowing the other prisoner’s decision then everything changes.
"The world’s most powerful VC investors are funding an economy where technology allows a ‘ruling class’ to command an ‘underclass’ of servants with the swipe of an app."

This is such absurd hyperbole. Show me an economy where a significant number of people didn't have insecure incomes, lack of benefits or do menial work and maybe we can talk about how to recreate that in the modern world.

Problem is, such an economy has never existed. Instead of faux yearning for a "return" to such a mythical system, let's talk about how to make our system better.
What is the main advantage of this over native strace?
I enjoy chatting with the cashiers.

We're all just trying to get through our days and be friendly.
Mechanical watch is a mesmerizing device. Makes you wonder though, why there was so little progress around mechanical technology (not only watch specific) lately? My car can talk to me, steer, retain speed by following other vehicles, but the most amazing mechanical innovation it has is a frustratingly slow, whining seat memory function. It’s not only boring, it also relies on a century old tech. Watch are the same, auto wound mechanism was introduced 98 years ago, was slightly improved 60 years ago, still is expensive to produce and maintain, still has reliability issues.
Along with the technical uses that Hesinde outlines below, minecarts see a lot of use on casual multiplayer servers because they provide a method of AFK-able transportation. Powered minecart rails in the Nether can travel about 325k (Overworld) blocks per hour, so if you want to visit some far-flung territory you can set your character in a minecart, go get a snack, and come back 10 or 20 minutes later. This is slower than many other transportation methods (for example, boats on ice can travel 144k blocks per hour, or 1.1M Overworld blocks if traveling in the Nether), but requires much less active user involvement.
From a legal perspective, there is a significant chasm between "you are hereby ordered to develop a whole new surveillance feature for devices you build" and "you are hereby ordered to add these new (potentially unrelated to CSAM) signatures to your existing surveillance network".
That's not a problem as long as they're wearing the P3 respirator!
> collective action isn't something we can rely on and is a lot more wishful thinking about the state of humanity rather than a sober look at the reality. Governments need to tax CO2 emissions

I fully agree, but if history has taught me anything about Western politics, it's that power and money reign supreme. The term of politicians only lasts a few years, and many will do everything they can to feather their cap during that time, doing the bidding of big business. And the top priority for many is to stay in power - changes to help the climate are expensive, and indeed getting more expensive the longer we delay, so few have what it takes to be bold and put policies in place that may be unpopular with a large segment of their constituents.

And then there is the economic arms race that is characteristic of our modern, divided world. Countries don't want to make hard decisions, because they know some others won't.

Honestly, it looks very, very grim. To have any hope of mitigating what's going to come, we need massive global action that is going to be to the short to medium-term detriment of many politicians, corporations, lobbying groups, and of course regular citizens too. I strongly hope I'm wrong, but I just can't see any future where any of that happens :(
Why not? I am not working just to work, I am working to enjoy my life with the people around me. I am also from Europe so it might be different views, but just because I am on call doesn't mean I'm going to stop living my life. Work doesn't define me as a person. :)
While there is certainly truth to this, this is also a defeatist position. Of course Apple could do anything, with or without telling us. And they do some fairly indefensible things, though I would argue those have mostly to do with the App Store.

But this is not the time to throw our hands up and say there was nothing we could do all along. That the situation was never ideal does not preclude there being something worth fighting for.
China is the largest CO2 producer in the world and is growing. The US is second but our emissions are actually decreasing and likely to continue decreasing. Taxing Western companies may reduce the West's carbon footprint but hardly helps the overall picture while being essentially austerity.
A carbon tax is a non starter in democratic countries because we have seen over and over again that raising the price of motor fuel is political suicide. Canada had to back off on a program that offered a carbon tax back as a rebate. Similar outcome in France with Yellow vest protest movement. Many countries have tried to get rid of fuel subsidies only to spark middle class street protests. In the US the main election issue in 2022 will be "inflation" which for many voters is the price of gas. Carbon taxes simply do not work in the real world.
No such thing as modern FORTRAN. It’s been “Fortran” for the last 31 years.

People don’t modernize their codes because the Fortran compilers allow them to, and the Standard is reluctant to delete old features (and compilers would not delete them anyway).

Unfortunately, that means that old bugs can lie undetected. I don’t think any other language/compilers have squared that circle.

And there’s plenty of new projects started in Fortran.
It was still pretty stupid to not see that situation is the situation in 1915 and calling for a cease-fire and peace talks, stop right there, for the benefit of all sides.
> Those images won't be flagged because they aren't in the database provided to Apple

This is not accurate. Apple is using perceptual hashes. If the features of an image are close enough to an image in the NCMEC database it may generate a matching hash.
I have never seen TDD state that a test should not be in the same commit as a feature.
Two things:

1. Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 Bluetooth speaker.

Compact and very loud, also has good battery life. Handy on hikes and similar. The waterproofing is excellent and I use it in the shower to listen to podcasts, etc.

2. Sony WH1000MX4 Bluetooth headphones.

I was skeptical in getting a full set of headphones as I always preferred earphones. These things have amazing sound quality and noise cancelation which means you don't have to listen to music as loud when outdoors. Battery life is extremely good also. Pricey, but well worth it and highly recommended.
That's kind of the point of CentOS (or was). Sacrificing newer packages for stability.
It's because each of those apps is actually a web page running inside its personal instance of Google Chrome. And Chrome looooves creating tens of processes.
I have always stayed away from scale() whenever avoidable, especially using scale(0) to hide an element caused issues when the element is scaled up again.
Depending on the positioning of the parent and sibling elements, it caused too many reflows and pushed other elements around, too much mental gymnastics for my liking.
It can be useful, just my personal experience.
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AI and Choreo
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
what kind of patronizing ivory-tower marxist bs is that, these apps give people a way to earn a living, especially important for those in disadvantaged socioeconomic strata the authors claim to care about.

The author would rather keep people unemployed and on welfare as to not to offend their sensibilities, such typical fake liberalism.
Some people in my area use these services and I've considered it because mail theft is a big problem in my area. Organized rings doing package theft, identify theft, and all that. So for us at least, it seems significantly safer than having it delivered directly. Personally I just go paperless as much as possible and have the post office hold my mail (another popular response).
You could easily put a point on the slug and give it some penetrating ability. It might not blow a hole through you but could at least break a bone or puncture some blood vessels.
> built into the Google Camera app
Hello!

I’m author of this generator.

If you have any questions I can answer.
Superlatively, humans have the capacity to instantly stop global warming by causing a nuclear winter. We already have the capability of kicking up enough dust that surface temperatures drop a dangerous amount.

We shouldn't do this, but humans can certainly do things much faster than "leave the earth alone for 50k years"
anything new here from the mostly 2018 mentalfloss article it is based on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20368845
The principle is that it's fine to install surveillance if we are preventing horrible things from happening.
Presumably working for another company doing something more productive, built with the money that the poof'ed firms would've gotten.
Headlamp makes life much easier when I inevitably forget to take the trash out in the winter.
> what kind of an economy do you want to produce with your decisions? How far do you want to push the division of labour between (elite) educated high earners and people providing menial services for this class?

Investors don't ponder philosophical questions about the nature and long term societal implications of their decisions (well, most of them). They chase yield/roi/yoy. VC's aren't immoral. It just happens that some of the economic activities that optimize yield happen to be the so called 'gigs' that the author derides as "the servant economy".
Airships are being investigated as a method of shipping to remote locations without ship, train, or truck access.
Airships would be good for freight. Far less carbon footprint than airplanes.
So what is the value of such work, which is so open to interpretation that 100 years later you will find diametrically opposed takes on its meaning?

Does it not just devolve into a Rubik's Cube for literary nerds?

I ask seriously. I was deeply enchanted with critical / Continental philosophy for a decade, but I don't think I came out of it with any unique insights. "Nothing can be proven to be objectively true" is an insight one can find many other places. Conjectures about what the driving forces of society are a dime a dozen, but any useful means of verifying and comparing them seems far out of our reach.

So, why all this study of the Heideggers, the Lacans, the Derridas. What does it really contribute to humanity?
Apparently I've done the opposite, because that's more than I drive in a week now. ;)

But not to be trite, yes I would have. The Governments would be coercing individuals into taking action that would have an effect in aggregate.
The NeXT physical design - well except the terrible mouse abd keyboard - was absolutely glorious. Just wonderful.

Nextstep was also glorious. I supported a lab full of cubes and slabs.

But under the covers, the hardware other than the terrible magnetic optical drive was boring. There was only minimal hardware distinctiveness. The built in Motorola DSP was nice..ish, but the real revolution before and after NeXT was graphics. The non-NextDimension-equipped cubes were utterly pedestrian compared to things like the Amiga (before) and the SGI machines. Not long after the slabs shipped Apple shipped a Mac ii with a TI DSP on a card for accelerated 3D.

I’m a huge next fan but it was all the experience - excruciatingly terrible for the MO cubes to glorious for the color turbo slabs - which defined NeXT.
An ostrich feather duster. People ridicule it for only spreading the dust around. That's the point! It spreads to the floor where it's eventually sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.
You can usually find used Hamiltons for less than $500. They're a solid watch with an ETA movement and a sapphire crystal.

Also, some of the microbrands are pretty interesting at the $500-$1500 range. I like many of the designs Farer is doing.
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
Yeah, I use the same. Super convenient for when I work on the road, never have to worry about not getting my mail. For those who are asking I use TravelingMailbox.com, it was recommended by people when I moved onto my boat years ago and even now that I'm back on land I still keep it up.
> Too slow for transportation, maybe. But leisure travel? Imagine a one week air safari over the Serengeti, Ngoro Ngoro crater, and Kruger Park. It could be awesome.

Well, if we're talking about weird Sci-Fi ideas (that might be possible), lets just go all in on it.

Rocket launches are extremely expensive, and most of it is in the lifting costs. Would it be cheaper to "lift" a rocket with hydrogen slowly?

Yeah, we also need to get enough kinetic energy to enter orbit. But surely getting rid of a huge chunk of "Gravity" costs could lead to substantial rocket-fuel savings?
Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
> Where would that money go though?

It doesn't really matter. Even if the tax revenue was piled up and set on fire, the planet would still be better off for it
Imagine an open deck on an airship. Or at least being able to open your window.

Propellers far away from passengers to minimize any noise.
> long-duration battery solutions

This isn't practical everywhere, but on the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) there is a wind-and-battery solution in the form of a wind-pumped hydro-electric station. In effect there is a big pool of water acting as a battery and the wind turbine "charges" it.

When I ran across it on a trip to the island I was really impressed. Very original solution!

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-basic-configuration-...
Fix Blue Yeti or Blue Yeti Nano Auto Gain Issue
The little “v notch” that they call a wire cutter is sharp enough to go through packing tape. Not sharp enough to bother you though, any more than a house key on the same ring.

It’s not a tool I’d use to break down 1000 boxes a day, but it’s fine for an Amazon box or two.
Also a parent, and I couldn’t more strongly disagree with you.

We cannot protect our children by building a dystopia for them to grow up in, and normalizing this kind of invasive spyware on every device is pretty much guaranteeing that.
RMS is a hypocrite though, in a lot of ways, which kind of undermines his message, and in a lot of other ways he's just wildly out of touch with the realities of the internet and technology in general.

That's why people ignore him. He's so wildly out there so often, and so... problematic (defending/implicitly supporting pedophilia, eating gunk off his feet, refusing to bathe, etc) that it's difficult to take him seriously when he is actually saying something relevant about something important.
Piccolo: Python fast, user friendly ORM and query builder with asyncio
That 99 line cpp path tracer linked in the post isn't really 99 lines. It's minified C++.
If expanded to a more readable version it will probably be around ~250 lines. Still not too big but definitely not 99.
That's true. His implementation also allows compile time function execution to make system calls.

D disallows that in order to prevent malicious source code from being distributed and tricking people into compiling it. There is a mechanism to sent output to stdout, input can be read from a file residing on the compiler's system, and that's it.

It's also why CTFE doesn't allow pointer monkey business, like coercing an integer into a pointer and dereferencing it.
People haven't had ring forced on them inside their homes yet.

Like I said in another comment, the principle is whether forcing surveillance on people to prevent crimes is ok. The set of technologies is irrelevant, Apple is going through personal information that has not been voluntarily shared with the public by the content owner to detect criminal activities. I don't see how that is different from installing microphones and cameras inside people's homes with the passive ability to detect crime. Why can't a landlord install this kind of technology in their tenant's apartments?
> Varying length of phone charging cables

For me it's Varying lengths of USB-C charging cables, and a bunch of USB-C -> Micro and USB-C -> Lightning adapters so no more looking for the right cable.
er...what?

"This distribution will never get released; instead, packages from it will propagate into testing and then into a real release." is a literal quote from https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/
Won't implementing this on macOS make it too easy to reverse engineer? Think the hashes are supposed to be secret.

ETA: Apple quote: "unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices". Unreadable, unleakable, no doubt uninterpretable... unless someone reverses them to get a blurry 'visual proxy' collection.
> there's something about Seiko designs that just doesn't do it for me

Totally agree. When it comes to solar-radio the best looking I've found is this, which I bought:

https://www.seikowatches.com/jp-ja/products/seikoselection/s...

Junghans released a solar-radio version of their Max Bill:

https://www.junghans.de/en/collection/watches/junghans-max-b...

... but apparently the hands aren't self-correcting like the Seikos and Citizens and that would bug me way too much because they wouldn't line up perfectly with the markers.

> I still think you get more for your $7,500 from a luxury mechanical watch

I used to agree and then my mind changes; can't say exactly why but I sold my 2 Rolexes and haven't wanted a mech. since.

Anyhow, all my teasing of mech. fans aside, it's all frivolous fun!
>This makes me ask an even more fundamental question: is the structure and business model of most VC firms today unfit for solving complex problems sustainably and long-term?

Was it ever actually fit for that? The VC economy basically always served one type of company, consumer-focused "lifestyle" or service 'technologies', and nowadays a lot of the institutions like a16z just appear to turn into straight up media outlets.

VC success in the industrial sector, biotech, military or scientific applications has always been muted compared to the kind of money that flows into the leisure/consumer/entertainment economy.

If you want to solve complex problems bet on Darpa or academia or bring back the corporate research lab whose demise is one of the real big problems today.
The answer to this question is obvious - it's an exercise of pure power. Any time you hear anything about "misinformation" the real thing they are talking is power. Whoever has the power can censor those that do not have it and deny them chance to express their views. The guise under which it is done is immaterial - today it's health, tomorrow it's climate change, next day it's electoral politics or terrorism or vegetarianism or gender issues or bee colony collapse. Anything can be used as a basis for censorship, once you have the power and the will to censor. And the power to define what "misinformation" is and the power to censor is one and the same. It's not about seeking the truth, it's about seeking control and domination.

Once, in America, it was universally acceptable that censoring speech is not the power somebody should get. Neither the government, nor anybody else. Of course, as with every ideal, the reality sometimes came short of it - there are many infamous examples of censorship, both governmental and otherwise, that happened in America. But those ultimately were realized as conflicting with the ideal - and ultimately, the ideal won and they have lost.

Today, this ideal is increasingly being abandoned - for the large parts of the Left, have already completely been abandoned - for the ideas of "safety" and narrow partisan political considerations. The nation - and the whole culture we call "Western culture" - will suffer a lot and regret a lot if we don't find a way to stop it.
There is no legal requirement to close the baseband off. They tried to close off routers in the same way and got pushback.
It seems a bit of a stretch to describe that program as an implementation of a Lisp interpreter, then.
Google is obsessed with surveying me on why I keep responding that I feel like my data is not secure with them. It's 100% backed in the fact that if the government NSLs Google, there's nothing Google can do about it. As long as NSLs exist, privacy and data security don't either.
I’ve been thinking they are a good idea to help with overloaded ports, as they can pick up cargo cans and move them without any of the current bottlenecks.
What a novel idea, I'm sure there wasn't a language called lisp that could do that 50 years ago.
> Rocket launches are extremely expensive, and most of it is in the lifting costs. Would it be cheaper to "lift" a rocket with hydrogen slowly?

No: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
The reason is ChimeraOS (used to be GamerOS) which completely took over SteamOS’s position as a big picture Steam Linux OS, and the method used on top of Arch base was such that you as a user didn’t have to generally customise anything, and no manual updating etc. I can’t believe the article wouldn’t even mention it, very poor research as it was the case that proved that the Debian stable base was ultimately a poor choice for both keeping pace with the latest graphics stack and even worse for upgrading the base requiring users to reinstall. I’ve been using Chimera for a while now, and really excited to see Valve are going that direction. https://chimeraos.org/about
> Nuclear power can be fast to build. It would need to be constructed in volume, with immutable designs.

Exactly. You need look nowhere further than the french nuclear timeline for that to be clear: the country grew from 4.5GWe capacity to 49.5GWe between 1977 and 1987. 900MWe class reactors took 5~6 years to build, and the 1300MWe 7 to 8. And when you've worked out the kink, this can be parallelised massively (as long as you have sites to put them on), for about 20 years the country had a dozen reactors being built concurrently, the slowdown in construction times really started as the number of plants being built decreased: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Chrono-p....

The design got more complex and there were teething issues with the N4, but Chooz took 16 years to enter service where the P3s took 8 years at most.
So, the concern here is that VC money is helping individuals with a little bit of excess money hire other people to do their bidding.

Sounds like one of those "on a computer" things to me. I know the delivery business is booming everywhere but I am mostly concerned from an environmental point of view because that laziness translates into huge amounts of perfectly good containers being treated like they are only good for one thing only: getting some food delivered to you, my liege
An entertaining read https://twitter.com/RealhumanSchwab/status/14219494217810616...

Very related. I won’t spoil it for you but it’s entertaining.

Edit: Responders, please! You’re spoiling the fun! If https://twitter.com/RealhumanSchwab/status/14219496075426160... doesn’t give it away I don’t know what will.
For me I find PPAs typically make getting the latest versions of software where I want the bleeding edge painless. And I don't need to also have everything bleeding edge the way Arch forces me to.
also, https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle