skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is nice because it actually debates and counters the arguments in the book, instead of calling it misinformation or denial. The title is clickbait and tries to imply the book is heresy (denial) instead of just addressing the claims the author disagrees with.

It don't disagree with the author's points - the science isn't settled but regardless we should act on a balance of probabilities (most of the proposals I've seen on how we act focus on scoring political points and not solving the problem, but that's an aside). Without having read the book or how it's used, I do suspect that it had exploited the obvious opening left by the "science is settled" crowd, and that maybe intelligent discussion of issues is better than religious side taking, which ends up destroying credibility and making it harder to actually do something. I feel like I've seen this happen somewhere else recently too...
I've been using debian full-time for decades, but recently ended up switching to a spare Arch laptop I'd installed Arch on long ago just for poking at.

As something to make it easier to install latest-and-greatest junk it's certainly better than rolling your own like an LFS, and feels a bit less annoying than gentoo so far.

But it's nowhere near as comfortable to use as-is as debian, and definitely requires more time-wasting to figure out why things aren't configured correctly after simply installing a package w/`pacman -Su $foo` or some dependency is wrong or missing.

Hell, just the other day I thought to try building something with clang instead of gcc, after not using clang in a while, and this is what (still) happens:

$ clang
clang: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$

This kind of garbage just doesn't happen on debian. At this moment I have the impression that the average Arch install is always at least partially broken in some way.

Furthermore, the tooling in Arch isn't particularly great either.

On my first week using this Arch laptop full-time, I tripped over a `pacman -Sc` bug where it was opening every single file in /var/cache/pacman/pkg via libarchive, even .part files which hadn't been completely downloaded (which means their signatures weren't yet verified) and spitting out liblzma library errors like "no progress is possible" because it's attempting to open an .xz.part file. This is arguably a security risk (in a root process no less) in addition to a stupid bug producing a confusing error message. And I haven't even started going deep into this distro yet, frankly it's already left me with bad enough taste to not be interested in wasting more time on it.

Edit: just wanted to give props for the Arch Wiki, that has been a great resource for ages.
Much better thab dockerland where nothing composes nicely!
> For thousands of years, Philippines culture was responsible for zero plastic waste being dumped into river and ocean systems. [...]

> What changed?

The development of mass produced plastics in the 1940s-1950s; no one was throwing any significant quantity of plastic waste anywhere before then, so “thousands of years” of history are irrelevant.

> The United States exercised formal colonial rule over the Philippines, its largest overseas colony, between 1899 and 1946.

So...that ended just as mass produced plastics were becoming available anywhere, and wouldn't be directly relevant. If you want to argue that it produced cultural changes that directly affected how they local people reacted to mass plastic availability, you should make a specific argument, with evidence, about the changes it supposedly induced.
I recently visited some manufacturers of high velocity polymer production lines. Their major markets were all Southeast Asia. That equipment should be outlawed. Regulation has to take the lead.
Yes. Look at the 2021 Stackoverflow developer survey. If you can get a job as an Elixir Dev, you'll be paid we'll. Also, people who use Elixir in production tend to be pretty happy.

As per the job market, it grows every year.
I think the only true solution for this problem is normalizing shoulder bags for men.

Perks include:

1) Space for a straw or extra objects but conveniently small enough for day-to-day activities

2) A good range of available colours and tones to match formality

3) Useful for holding travel documentation and other objects at the airport

4) Fun couples activities with matching bags
Electron Transport Chain
https://playoverload.com

It's basically Descent. It's created by some of the original Descent devs.
Look at that! A poet on HN :) Well done.

Scuse me, but you see, back in old napoli, that's amoooooooooooooooreeeeeee.

Tale as old time etc
Yeah but to even try and compare that to the power of the UNIX shell is silly.
If it’s truly one-off (like codemods), I put the scripts in relevant tasks and diffs for reference.

…otherwise we just throw everything into a scripts directory. Keep it flat until it feels messy, then start organizing. All documentation must live with the code, otherwise it gets out of date too easily.
Robots of the Future at Boston Dynamics
Great video on the topic (& silliness of the plastic straw ban) https://youtu.be/ysGRZ1nRZQ4
I mean, I guess that could happen. But it's not clear why we should be upset about something that might happen in the future. This software doesn't really get us any closer or further from that happening.

If Amazon wanted to keylog its employees, they'd just create a keylogger for that purpose, not repurpose this thing.
> Nietzsche was not entirely original here, but he was completely devastating.

This is vastly overstating his impact on moral ethics (and philosophy in general). He will most certainly remain a historical curiosity (I put him in the same bucket as Wittgenstein and Spinoza), but the world has moved on. Elizabeth Anscombe, GE Moore, Peter Geach, Philippa Foot, etc. have all had much more seminal ideas (just this past century). He doesn't even remotely stand up to Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and so on.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is something that was truly devastating—putting an end to the rationalist vs. empiricist debate that had been raging for centuries. Nietzsche? Not so much.
Certainly in the tens of thousands or more depending on how strictly you define it. There'd be thousands in any one country alone. Remember that a lot of the hype is extolling the freedom/lifestyle rather than the riches. You don't have to earn a lot if your expenses are low, so the entry barrier is minimal.
Are you proposing some inverse scale or what?

When it comes to emissions, poor countries are generally way lower than wealthy countries per capita. If we readjusted these charts to be plastic pollution per dollar, the Philippines would be several orders of magnitude higher than anywhere in the west.
They should just all be PLA straws. They biodegrade, though somewhat slowly unless carefully composted, but even in the environment they’re just polymerized lactic acid and familiar enough to biology to likely be much much less impactful. (and specifically not filled with compounds that emulate hormones)

It is clear that to fix ocean plastic we don’t need to ban plastics, we don’t need to do feel good campaigns about environmentalism in america… we need to promote public service announcements about littering in a few target countries and subsidize the creation of sanitation industries around the world.

Making americans bring their own bags and drink through terrible straws makes a certain kind of person feel good because it feels like they’re doing something, a feeling which is somehow enhanced by the thing being somewhat unpleasant and unpopular. Feeling like you’re doing something and actually accomplishing something are entirely different.
But in odder to carry all this, we needed JNCOs
For me, this was the true dealbreaker as otherwise, this ticks a lot of boxes for me. It seems like such a clear cost saving move without any benefit to the customer and makes the already steep price unbearable.
Early computers did it a lot more. C64 and the like still had typical instructions, but if you wanted to deal with the video chip, it had lots of sections of memory that you just altered to get the results on screen. Want a character up at the top left? put it's PETSCII code at $0400.
I feel like a traditional OS will always stick around because of software developers. I couldn't imagine trying to build an iOS app on an iPad, even an iPad Pro with a keyboard. There will always be some more advanced tool that is used to build the tools.

Thought it will still be interesting to see where that will go in the next 20 years. Like you said with the convergence of desktop and mobile devices on the one hand I can't see traditional OS's surviving but on the other hand I don't se another option given that's the only medium to build the higher level software.
Western countries didn't pioneer dumping plastic waste into the ocean. By the time plastics came about, western countries already had well established waste management that doesn't pollute the oceans.
>I’m sure there was a ton of legacy to deal with here, but you have to wonder about what might have been if an identity layer had simply been applied across all these products and they were invested in.

Google kind of did this though, and everyone hated it. Remember on YouTube, the mess they made when they introduced Google+. Maybe the author means "if a single identity had existed from the beginning..."
That's a pretty disparaging and uncompromising view.

Banning single-plastic use in removes millions of tons of plastic from the ending up in the sea.
That is a net benefit for very little effort and inconvenience. It's not going to solve all problems and it's a low hanging fruit, but it's a start toward removing our dependence on single-use plastics.

Whatever level of plastic management we reach, there are already millions of tons of plastic in the sea to clean up. So efforts on that front are not in vain either. Again, they aren't going to fix the whole issue but they attempt to fix one part of it.

We don't have to tackle issues one at a time. People make efforts where they can. Even if it's only solving a few percent of the global issue. It's not posturing if it helps. No-one said each of these is the end-all of all solutions to the plastic waste problem.

These efforts don't distract from tackling the problem of waste disposal. Helping building waste infrastructures in countries like the Phillipines is first and foremost a political and policy problem, there needs to be a political will and a legislation framework to make it happen, then it's a money problem.
Nietzsche's attacks on Kant are also pretty devastating. It's hard to take Kant seriously in 2021.

> all had much more seminal ideas (just this past century)

Perhaps you'd like to mention what specifically these seminal ideas are that prove moral nihilism, or perhaps a better way of phrasing it, Nietzsche's meta-ethical view wrong.
Can I read book/news articles on it?
It's been some time since I've used it, but Arch was more solid for me than any non-LTS distro. It definitely helps too stay up to date though. I remember the moves to pulseaudio and systemd...not fun.

Of course, you also have the advantages of being up to date and never needing to do a apt-get dist-upgrade.
Yeah I was going to say, when I was a preteen, would mix lye (in principle, sustainably produced via leaching wood ash) with aluminum (not sustainably produced, but readily available), fill up garbage bags with H2 and torch them for lols. A bit scary when the pot got hot enough to boil. Generally stopped blowing things up after sex, drugs, appreciation for injury all started to seem more important
As I keep saying: some cities would rather see their sidewalks literally covered in feces rather than build public toilets.
Given that the earth is constantly moving around the sun, probably? e.g, when the asteroid is really far away, like years, but still on track to hit the South Pole at some time, it could be viewable. But if the earth was stationary, then no, probably not.
hi, random but I'm trying to access your old WebRTC article. Do you still have a copy?
PHP exactly makes my point.

PHP was a no-good, terrible, poorly-made, horrific original design for something like powering Facebook. As a result, it needed a lot of good and important improvements.

Or to be more specific, it was a great design for what it was intended to be: a pet hobby project to make it easier to make Personal Home Pages, and was never intended to be a programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Early_history

The concept of putting out something this bad, and then refactoring for over a quarter-century to make it almost-usable, is exactly the definition of the webdev way.

The result is a ton of churn.
again, the problem is always money

maybe we should eliminate money from the equation? it seems to be very limiting
They have one job important job. Keep the company funded. If that involves selling, great. If that involves opening up their own bank account to make it happen, great. Leveraging relationships, great as well.
Any decent real estate sites and recommended areas for people curious about what the living situations and pricing are like?
Unpopular opinion but I don't feel like comparing the last ten years of a total systemic government collapse to american covid is fair at all.

The soviet union died a miserable death at the hands of nationalists, profiteers, and american intervention. Covid was a manageable health crisis that spiraled into a food shortage as well. Beans rice and bottled water simply didn't exist in some stores and with rural america largely dependent on a single Walmart there are no other stores to go to.

Our supply chains despite being touted as best in the world collapsed almost overnight.
You think it is selective misquoting. I think it's entirely appropriate quoting. We disagree.
> Greece was a democracy and even before it is thought parts of Babylonia and various tribal groups were.

If you were a man with land?

> The west today is based on the liberal science revolution.

How would you set about demonstrating this? Why is the universe intelligible? Why should it follow regular laws? What is it that would cause us to suppose that it does, or to investigate it systematically?
Right, I wasn't really disputing that.
Al is so easy to melt and recycle though, post-apocalypse the value of the metal is likely higher than fuel
>Meditation doesn't really promote the intellect.

I can go with that.

>It needs direction

You mean like a goal?

>Something which karma yoga may provide for societal concerns

I think it's closer to aesthetics.

>There are over 100 meditations defined in Indian traditions. They're all useless without direction.

Meditation can be approached as an experiment and an exploration. No goal necessary.

And when investigating a true mystery I think that a goal is inappropriate.
Denisovans, Neanderthals, and sapiens could all interbreed with each other without issue, and only diverged about half a million years ago, so it is only reasonable to say we’re all just different subspecies.
> For those who think David Reich is a scientist

What does this mean? I didn't know who David Reich is, but I take your comment to imply there is something controversial about him? A quick search doesn't indicate anything though. Would appreciate some clarification.
How many straws do you have to not use to make up for the amount of plastic in a polyester man purse? Do you expect that number to be surpassed before the purse is discarded and replaced?
Thanks! Yeah it's all too easy to lump people into stubborn camps, especially on the internet, but I appreciate you not dismissing me. I like nature as much as the next guy, but I'm just naturally a bit skeptical and that can come off as entrenched in some contrary viewpoint I guess.
> But consider the future where 99% of apps are developed on a tablet or phone (for a tablet or phone) using a cloud web interface with mostly low-code or no-code widget drag and drops

This will simply never happen. Just given the history of low-code / no-code, they are great for prototypes and small apps but as soon as you do anything more then that's when things start falling off a cliff. Of all the apps I've been contracted to build or help build I can think of maybe one that we could have glued together using low-code. Everything else just has too much custom logic behind the scenes.
Your statements seem consistent with mine about companies not training and perfering seniors who are proven.

Big companies don't want juniors either, as evidenced by job boards having extremely few junior postings and not even that many midlevel postings. Even internal postings at my company are heavily skewed towards seniors.
No, use this formula:

GDP x pollution / population
that's not true

EU have great recycling industry, none of the waste leave the continent, it's all reused or sold(to be reused), there is no waste at all
Here [1] is an example of DARVO according to the Chicago Tribune, and one [2] from NewsweekPakistan both involving sexual assaults.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/sc-fam-kelly-inter...

[2] https://www.newsweekpakistan.com/reversing-blame/

Didn't know what DARVO meant so had to look it up and find good examples
"Your paper assumes the the theorems apply. They don't apply. Why? Because the equations are not Lipschitz continuous when bodies are really really close to each other. They only apply when the bodies are far away from each other which is not always the case for the 3 body scenario. This completely destroys the one solution property and as a result determinism."

Take any initial condition with distinct positions for the three masses. There are two cases: the bodies collide, or they don't.

If they collide, there exists a unique solution up until the time of collision.

If they don't collide, there exists a unique solution for all time.

This is essentially proved in the linked term paper. The Lipschitz constant of the coefficients blowing up is what prevents continuation past the point of collision, but this is not a problem until then.

Do you disagree with any of these claims?

If not, do you agree they constitute a proof of deterministic behavior?
> just silly unserious people.

The peanut gallery is in full force today.

It's really not necessary to insult people who are trying to make a difference. You could spend your time turning up your nose at the huge corporations producing the plastic products that they are jamming in to these markets, or you could turn up your nose at corrupt third world countries for having broken waste management strategies, or you could turn up your nose at people who throw their garbage in rivers...and you decide that the people you want to deride are...the people picking up garbage and pointing out the problem?

In truth, I've never met a narcissist picking up garbage. Never.
Not familiar with that, and Google isn't being helpful. What are they exactly?
>Just like everyone was more than happy to snitch on their neighbours during the pandemic.

This is what set me off the most in the start. Canada has an history of encouraging snitching (software piracy, zoning requirements, work permits, social gatherings). Hoe they think this is good for social cohesion is beyond me. I've only seen it fuel hatred between neighbors.
More specifically, the answer is "in active development" for directions and Spotify, and no for Whatsapp.

Personally I have no use for Whatsapp, so once Spotify and directions are up and running I'll be pretty interested in grabbing one of these to replace my phone.

My main concern is the call quality. When calling is essentially all you're reduced to in terms of connectivity, I would want to be sure those calls go smoothly. I remember hearing bad things about the call quality in the past with like mic issues or something, not sure if that's been resolved by now.
I love that this project investigated some novel surface chemistry. I hate that the article ignores that the aluminum is made using a bunch of electricity.

Just use that electricity to make hydrogen in the first place, hydrolysis is approximately as efficient as aluminum smelting already (and both are over 90%)...
Sort of. There needs to be more intelligence at the client end though. I have a fairly decent IPv6 link but it can still fail in strange ways, that does not mirror the IPv4 link. Then again the IPv4 link has moved in mysterious ways from time to time.

Happy Eyeballs isn't quite fully prevalent and it hasn't seen all failure modes yet nor how to deal with them.

Internets is a really hard problem. For starters: define "connected". My wife will sometimes suggest that our internet connection is not working - she implies that her laptop (Arch Linux - obvs) is completely broken. What is really happening is that Mr Zuckerberg's thang has wandered off for a break and a smoko.

This morning it was our mail server. Hit the wifi kill switch by accident then internet will not work.

I've disabled the kill switch.
Also had LAN parties playing Descent 1/2!

At the time, Duke Nukem 3D and Doom 2 were contemporary games. But (as far as I remember) Descent was the only game that supported both Mac and PC clients, and let them play together on LAN.

Edit: Does anybody know of an earlier graphical game that had mixed-client LAN support? (~1996-97)
Back in grad school we would put lye, water and aluminum foil in an empty wine bottle, tie a (unused) condom around the neck of the bottle, wait for it to inflate and then light it up with a match tied to a very long stick.
Except that we did and still do. In the US, you can find plastic garbage in every waterway and along every highway, in large enough quantities that it's actually a real problem.
Sorry for the angry sarcasm, I could have expressed that better. I’m having a bit of a bad… year honestly.

My point is that these features, even on feature phones, are often designed to be used as much as possible, ie addictive. The Light Phone is trying to do the opposite, which is a welcome change imo.
What is the title of catmull's book?
There's two claims in this piece I think.

1. We're not in a 'special' point of history, crises happens all the time

2. this is validation for some sort of liberal technocratic, moderate program, systematic critique is misplaced.

The first one is true. Crises do indeed happen all the time. The entire problem is just that this is not an argument for the second claim. Nations collapse, people go to wars, the WW I trenches were certainly worse than Donald Trump's presidency, what have you.

The big problem is just that the fact that carnage is normal doesn't make the carnage any better. It's not a validation of the system as it is, it's a testament to the constant brutality and chaos and cycle of violence that is normal throughout history, and I don't want to live through anything that's even just a tenth as bad as the second world war. This is what Adam Curtis called hypernormalization, the numbness to complete and utter destruction, rationalized as a sort of ordinary state of affairs. Just look at it this way, this is a blog post warning of crisis mongering, while, in the US as an example where the author is from, over half a million people died of a pandemic. He's right that in two years everyone will have forgotten it. He's wrong in that he doesn't recognize how insane and terrifying that fact is.

Someone made the observation that in the last two thousand years, no empire has lasted more than 300, I'm pretty sure plenty of moderate reformers had the exact same attitude in any of them as the author. It's true that people throughout history have loved doomsday scenarios. The problem is just that most of the time, they were right.
For comparison, if native Americans get assimilated into the US gene pool, they’ll be something like 2% of our genome.
Debian 11 Bullseye Released
Children and abolitionists weren’t masters and were still killed. There’s a big difference between being angry at slave owners and carrying out genocide. The latter is what happened in Haiti and people in the US actively feared that for decades.