skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely about environment issues, but there's a TV show with something similar as a premise - Continuum. A crime solving drama/sci-fi, where the protagonist is a time traveler coming to our times from year 2070-ish, time when the world is ruled by a Corporate Congress, consisting of thinly veiled allusions to well-known corporations of today. In between all the action and emotional drama, it also delivers some good critique of tech businesses, corporate overreach, and surveillance state.
Nah, like all "fears", these are linked to current topics for the larger part of the population. Radiation fears are so 1980s, with a short revival post-Fukushima.

These days is all about the next hard-to-grasp concept that has little chance of ever actually happening (like the earth literally catching fire because of 2 or even 10 degrees celsius of rising temperatures, something even otherwise sane people do bring up from time to time.)
Did you just say 'meow'..?
Of course I'm not "okay with corporate murder".

I just wanted to see some context as to why the rate was increasing.
TFA quotes Lao Tzu:

"The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool
doesn’t know he doesn’t know."

I'd add the wisdom of Bokonon[0] to that sentiment:

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn
something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser
than before. He is full of murderous resentment
of people who are ignorant without having come
by their ignorance the hard way. "

I'd point out that "Hacker News Disease" as defined by the author is most certainly not limited to, nor did it begin with, tech discussion sites like HN.

It's becoming more widespread and the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.

But that doesn't comport with all non-tech, non-elites who also engage in this sort of thing.

In fact, it's pretty much the same thing discussed by Tom Nichols in his 2017 book[1], The Death of Expertise. I recommend it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise

Edit: Removed extraneous article.
There are well documented murders of union workers, for example https://www.ituc-csi.org/guatemala-pre-meditated-murder-of?l...

The situation is probably the same for environment activists, you can be sure that it's not PR that will prevent them from getting killed...
Supabase (Firebase alternative) raises $30M Series A
Those companies are not using robots to cut those trees down and transport them, they're using local people who get paid for that. If you stop those logging activities then the locals don't get paid anymore.

Another thing is that a lot of people living in those mountain villages were dependent on those forrest trees for their winter heating and small things to do around the house, it was an unwritten rule centuries old, i.e. the forrest belonged to everyone from the village. In Western Europe the powers that be got rid of this custom some time ago, the French around 200 years ago thanks to Napoleon, the English I think even before that. Now, you have those foresters accompanied in some cases by the police who can send you to prison if you're carrying some undocumented wood, the same as your dad or your grand-dad or your ancestors used to do for centuries. Of course that will create havoc.
Ants are amazing, had a colony as a child for years. Spend hours watching them. But while it often seems they manage the impossible, I think their way of life is pretty restricted and there is little development. So don't expect them on mars anytime soon.
I wonder what percentage of money going into NFTs is people laundering money... Seems like the ideal way
Depends on the situation. I use a mix of sticky notes and a notebook. If I am in a meeting then I just open notepad++.
Tax hikes due to EU debt is an interesting one.

It was apparent by 1960 that Germany had actually won WW2, their economic victory had defeated and humiliated the ancient enemies of France and Poland. But like a man who wins the euro lottery the whole village wants it's share.
Sorry, didn't see your reply earlier. Don't have much time to explain, but for context, you probably want to read "a first lesson in meta-rationality" [0]. It doesn't talk much about categorization directly, but it broadly discusses the limits of rationalism, and starts to explore the "solutions" / alternative perspectives (that the author decided to label as "meta-rationalism"). The categorization problem is one of the points where you can see the "limits" of rationalism. It's never discussed to much or too explicitly in these terms, though. I advice you to read the whole thing attentively, and when you are done, go back to review the section on nebulosity, and specially this quote:

>> One has to be able to “bend” concepts, when it is appropriate. Nothing should be absolutely rigid. On the other hand, things shouldn’t be so wishy-washy that nothing has any meaning at all, either. The trick is knowing when and how to slip one concept into another.

And reflect again at this point about what you have read:

>> The point of these examples is that what counts as an “object” depends on the context.

...while thinking explicitly about the categorization problem. In computer science and AI, in particular, this problem might appear even more clearly, specially in symbolic AI. If you try to create a symbolic AI system, or if you are an experienced programmer and have a solid grasp of the limitations of abstraction, it all floats around this main issue of nebulosity / categorization / methodology in rationalism. You might also be reminded of the aphorism "all models are wrong".

Hope this gives you a starting point to keep exploring more deeply if you want to.

[0] https://metarationality.com/bongard-meta-rationality
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> as I mentioned before, the attorneys in question are not retarded.

please don't use terminology like 'retarded' in your article, we should be moving away from this as a whole
Make a game (its much more interesting than pure programming tutorials) - https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

As you try to do more complex things within the game, you will pick up all the dry boring stuff.
reading all the threads here, about murder ratios is a really good reason not to have engineers as politicians
You should subscribe to more conference youtube channels. Definitely a lot less beginner content.
What do the BBC or Global Witness want me to do with this information?

Edit: Global Witness are campaigners. What do they want to happen as a consequence of writing this report?

In 2003 possibly the biggest march London ever saw, failed to stop the UK going to war in Iraq, and nobody got killed on the march. Sabotage with a monkey wrench does tend to make a practical difference but also means you're at risk of a beating or worse from from the work site guards.
Not always... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#2005_and_continuing:_w...
Payment comes either in this life or in the next one, as far as I believe. It is best to pay in this life, though...
So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing.

I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like this in place of express or koa on node, which idiomatically similar?", and "Why use C# like this instead of C# like that (the way all other AspNetCore apps do it)?"
Netflix private subscriptions half the price
> How does this compare to the growth in the number of environmental activists overall?

It's a legitimate question. Any answer other than environmental activists have increased/decreased by x is not an answer to the question. If it's an emotionally loaded response (e.g. Seriously? People are murdered while you quibble!), it's a non-sequitur.
Ah, I essentially live in Netflix, so I was pretty sure you are wrong, but I'm seeing the issue: "mouse"... you are on a computer? No clue how that works ;P. I use their app (on AppleTV and iOS).
They must be trying to maximize some bounce rate metric. I had to make a bookmarklet just to do the simplest of tasks because I can never see the user reviews scrolling the title's page.

javascript:(function(){ window.location = window.location+'reviews?sort=userRating&dir=asc&ratingFilter=0' })()
> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.

Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article:

> In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it first, have a terminal case of it, and are much less civil about it too) but HN is just the only one I’ve participated in, so they have the misfortune of being the community I’ve named it after.
Europe’s Wild West: data free-for-all for companies like Google and Facebook
tldr - HN is overrun by midwits
please, federal reserve, make it stop, we’ve seen enough
> understand the historical context that lead to the creation of Glib

Well, yeah, that was 23 years ago. Back then there was no GNUstep and no free as in freedom C++ or Objective-C compiler. Now GCC's main development language is C++ and GNOME is slowly becoming somewhat language agnostic and also has Vala which at one point was supposed to cover up that mess.

I guess another point is that they seem happy with it[1], so why should we care anyway.

1. http://planet.gnome.org
Netflix is owned by tobacco industry, no secrets here.
Any art sale is a good opportunity for money laundering since art doesn't have an objective value
I'd be willing to bet that most consumers would appreciate lower prices more than the convenience of Apple's in-app purchases.
Such a smart person who can "see it all" does not know that lawyers are paid by the hour so they have a pervasive incentive to take any case (even incluing lost ones) and milk those cases for as many hours as possible, since this earns them more money?

Rest is "old man angry at the clouds" material.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STEMlord

"STEMlord

...a pejorative term for a particular kind of person who has studied in these areas at university or works in these fields who holds a pretentious, condescending attitude to anyone who has studied in any other fields, particularly the Arts and Humanities. They typically believe themselves to be more "intelligent" and "rational", while generally remaining incredibly ignorant outside of their areas of expertise and having the charisma of a rotting pig's backside."
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28485905
RéHabitat: Relocating Wildlife Affected by East African Crude Oil Pipeline
statistical significance is not the same as clinical significance. statistical significance in a small non-placebo controlled trial is less likely to result in a clinically meaningful result.
Money and property are backed by governments and law, not by math.

Until governments and law respect crypto, this is exceedingly dangerous sand to build your castles upon.

When your key leaks, gets phished, or is cracked by quantum or better algorithms, you're entirely out of luck. (In the latter scenario, the entire house of cards would crumble.)

Is the US government going to protect you and your losses?
Nobody cares -- that's the sad truth. Most people are just running to stay in the same place on the corporate capitalist hamster wheel. I don't think people are free enough to care about morals and things that matter beyond their own life. I know the bourgeoise on here hate to hear these things, but it's true.

People certainly claim to care about climate change, but most do so only in order to reap the identity benefit. If saving the planet means making less money and living a more modest lifestyle, most people will say no. The outrage is mostly superficial.

"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry."
Why isn't this called "terrorism"?

If it was the opposite - if the CEOs of the companies were being killed, it would be called "eco-terrorism".
It’s good to see that (occasionally) international megacorps can be prosecuted for international crimes - I’d argue that a fine is more of a slap on the wrist, but it’s better than nothing.

I’d really like to see oil/wood/mining megacorps be brought to justice as well.
Have a Happy Day of the Programmer
How is this related to the Federal Reserve? What jurisdiction do they have over digital certificates?
I'd be happier if they measured their appendix by how much CO2 they are pumping out of the atmosphere.
Your response is irrelevant to the query of “which many places are completely over this already?”.

Naming an individual United states state which clearly isn’t over it as one of the “many places” doesn’t really provide an answer.
(2017)

I was hoping it might include a compiler that converts code from a higher level language into the language of the Turing Machine, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. That means the example programs are all hand written, though, which is quite impressive.
I have the same issue with PulseAudio and Zoom and it’s always been like this this.
Why is this guy using lines of code as a measure of productivity?
C++20 Oxymoron: Constexpr Virtual
But won the devil's advocate test instead.
Exactly, that’s it. Also the first part “nav” or “no” means “new”. So the compound noun means “new day” which marks the first day of spring.
Do you recommend it? It's one of the few scifi shows I haven't seen but stumble upon from time to time. It seems a bit low-budget and oldschool TV (pre-breaking bad quality of TV).
Not everywhere is the First World. In many places of the world, you can buy protection from scrutiny and investigation of the local authorities, and remote authorities in London or New York won't likely give a damn about what happened somewhere in eastern Indonesia, for lack of jurisdiction.

Plus, given how dangerous some places are even for locals, you can always plausibly deny your involvement: oh, it was the bandits, they are awful to everyone.
That's fair, but for me it has reached the stage where I will avoid apps that try to tie me into yet another payment ecosystem that doesn't integrate with anything else. Apple's definitely has it's negatives but is also so far the most convenient/integrated one I've used so far
> Any difference in valuation you come up with compared to the market cap would simply mean that there's something missing in your calculations that makes up the difference

Not necessarily, can also mean that your circumstances are different from the large traders. Value is relative to your net worth, status RE the tax system, risk tolerance and current allocation. So it is not only possible but likely that the large traders have a valuation that is correct for them and wrong for you as a small market participant.

Besides, if all assets are - in some sense - equal then any inane strategy that involves buying assets is equivalent to any other and just dumping all the cash into any basket of assets is workable. So people could probably buy just assets they like and expect an equivalent return to everyone else. If that logic holds.
I skimmed the report.[1] Very few corporation names can be found, unless I missed them. I found some attributions in highlight stories, e.g. Tate & Lyle Sugars in a Thailand case of sugar plantation taking land by force; but those are few and isolated.

IMO a list of names of people murdered means almost nothing to any reader beyond the symbolic value. Now, if you also attach the names of responsible/beneficiary corporations in each case, especially the multinationals, it would be a lot more powerful.

[1] https://www.globalwitness.org/documents/20190/Last_line_of_d... (warning: it has `content-disposition: attachment` so it will be downloaded rather than opened by your browser)
The US seems to be very trigger happy wrt foreign companies giving bribes on forgein soil, if they have a presence in the US. I think FCAP has been modified to be more efficient in this respect.
Quoting from the methodology section of the report:

> To meet our criteria, a case must be supported by the following available information:

> Credible, published and current online sources of information.

> Details about the type of act and method of violence, including the date and location.

> Name and biographical information about the victim.

> Clear, proximate and documented connections to an environmental or land issue.

When people are murdered, we can't be sure who did it unless there's evidence. The methodology doesn't seem to include gathering evidence of who the murderer was, only that the murder happened to an activist. Saying "when people are murdered by anti-green corporations" is begging the question, because the report doesn't pass on any evidence that they were murdered by anyone in particular.
Totally agree! But 'pre-trained backbone' doesn't sound as good as 'Foundation Model'.
It's almost impossible to come up with names these days due to the massive amount of software released every year. It's so bad that I automatically include the language name as well as the framework name in any search I do.

In this instance the Nim and JS libraries have different names (and even different spellings of the common subset) so I don't see an issue.
I don't think this is limited to people in tech. See this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
Art is used extensively as a money laundering platform https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-launde...

Which explains part the ludicrous prices I suppose - it's not about intrinsic value, it's just about finding a suitable denomination.
No. These are murders of "people who do XYZ". If we looked at murders of people who play Fortnite from 5 years ago until now, we'd see a clear trend, for no reason other than the fact that the number of people who play Fortnite has ebbed and flowed.

I don't know anything about this particular situation, but your callous dismissal of this indisputably correct warning is wrong.
Ozone isn’t a halocarbon and it doesn’t “reach” the stratosphere, it’s formed there. It’s also not a mystery; the upper ozone layer is formed from atmospheric oxygen and radiation from the sun. Since your predicating information is false then whatever conspiracy theory you’re implying probably isn’t true.

And while I’m sure some companies profited from prohibiting CFCs, stopping ozone depletion is one of the few things humanity has done with measurable effects. If a few companies made money from it that’s fine. It would be great if we could tie a profit motive to fixing climate change.
> Is the US government going to protect you and your losses?

No, see civil asset forfeiture. US government is going to protect wall street fat cats, not american citizens, and especially not me, because I'm not an american citizen. My government would also like to have more of my money. It has my good(s) on it's mind the wole time.
I read this as "people are way more gullible than I anticipated".
Gold has officially not been a basis for dollars for a long time.
Do you think the people hiring these companies aren't aware of that?
Let's not forget about a C++ committee member tweeting that Fortran does a better job at package management:

https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1387618008185524225
That's a good point. I'm not sure about murders going down with united activists - it seems the people targeted are generally the ones organising activists into groups, so if there were more they might be of greater focus. It's complicated though.
>Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article

Actually, I did. In fact, your quote is specifically referring to tech discussion websites, as it explicitly says:

It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of
smart people meet general tech industry
discussion.

What do you think the author means by "smart people meet general tech industry discussion?"
Nah, goes downhill story quality wise fast after S1
> In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News.

Entertaining read. But find the perfect discussion group then.. its quite a challenge, I gather. Disease symptoms aren't just endemic, but do we actually have 'disease-free' places anywhere on the web?
Why would becoming the victim of a murder be a random process?
> if you instead attach the names of responsible/beneficiary corporations

Then you'll get annihilated by slander cases before any other inquiries even start.
:(
I am split on this.

If we consider human lives to be equal in value, concentration on a small, though outrageous death cause, may kill many more other people out of neglect / insufficient attention to another phenomenon.

On the other hand, 1000 more murders for 10 000 less cancer deaths does not sound like a good tradeoff either.
Free WebRTC Video API in CPaaS. Is It Worth It?
> But millions of people a month will see your Twitter avatar.

Except for the part that I can take the image, copy it and make it my Twitter avatar. NFTs do not offer any way to actually enforce uniqueness and ownership. I really can't take too seriously any article about NFTs that ignore this fact.

For all the other parts... NFTs are just a way to show ownership of a token (not necessarily the underlying asset) in a blockchain. If an AI bot or a changing image doesn't seem interesting, why would they be interesting when you add the "NFT" word?
I guess I'd buy an NFT from someone as a means of directly supporting their work, say as an alternative to a donation, patreon, twitch subscription...
Other than that I must be old because I don't see the point of the whole thing.
I wasn’t aware that we’ve devolved to questioning the murders and defending the megacorps with the most to gain.

Who else do you think is going around conveniently getting rid of activists that oppose profit and greed?
Teachers can be fired for poor performance. It is just rare, because proving poor performance is dubious in education. Good teachers want bad teachers out. There just isn’t a motivating force for the supervisor to do it unless the teacher is truly a harm to the kids.

Everything going on in education over the past 20 years has been to add that overarching, cross school performance metric to measure teachers against each other. The problem is:

1. How do you measure performance? Tests. What will any educator or student tell you? Ends up test performance doesn’t really correlate much to the quality of the teacher. What it does correlate well to is income of the student’s parents. You teach in a school that serves low-income families? You’re fired. Also tests don’t factor that some students are special needs. You have a lot of special needs students in your class one year? Sorry. You’re fired.

2. No one could seem to find the money to incentivize good performance of teachers. Just fire poor performers based on dubious criteria. Not exactly motivating.

3. Outside of test scores, which are a bad representation of teacher quality and easily manipulated, there isn’t a driving force to fire teachers.
I have ulcerative colitis (an autoimmune disorder) and my doctor said that there are some correlation with smoking and reduced symptoms. I asked if nicotine gum was an option since I didn't smoke and she said that gum or patches showed no such correlation.

All in all she did not recommend that I start smoking.
Translation for non-web-people: how to write a minimal web service in dotNET. I probably missed when the acronym "API" was hijacked by the web people to describe a custom web service protocol.
C++ has package management?