skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need everyone to stop using ICE vehicles, which is distinct to needing everyone to switch to EVs. That distinction is the reason why EV subsidies are so much worse than a carbon or ICE tax. A subsidy leads to pathologies like bike owners giving money to EV owners when that arrow should be flipped. I don't need an EV (or any car), but now I'm artificially incentivized to get one and will actually increase pollution when I otherwise wouldn't have.
Except that you rendered to Postscript--which is a general, stack based programming language (with a bunch of domain specific font manipulation code baked into it as well).

Thus demonstrating my point that the moment you go above a VT100 in presentation quality, your complexity goes exponential.
>Maybe Apple and Disney are against the apparently myriad other things in the bill rather than the programs to fight climate change?

They have enough billions so if this bad PR had an effect they would have released a cool designed webpage and a cool video explaining why their move is correct and how they are very green, maybe next week on their strategist thinks is the most effective time this will happen. Anyway I would not waste a keyboard press to try to defend this giants, there are people very well paid to do this job.
A lot of products are good though...So your point isn't very convincing that products aren't successful because of advertising given the zero sum game of hooking a customer for life that OP describes.
So getting hired for 20% more salary is much easier than performing at the next level and getting a promotion?

Op is not saying he’s slacking off. He’s saying it doesn’t matter what he does.
that deal is (was?) only available in few parts of the world, sadly
Nice chaebol you have there, would be a shame if its behavior became the subject of international trade sanctions from the country that is providing you protection against your crazy and heavily armed cousin who lives next door.
Possibly a double whammy effect of been Hungarian and Jewish.

My partner is Hungarian and they put an emphasis on rigorous education across the board that we (in the UK or at least my part of it) don't.

Outside of the upper middle-class and above there is a strong streak of anti-intellectualism in England (I can't speak for the other member countries of the UK) and certainly the case in the working class schools I was educated in, you'd get bullied for been the class swot basically.
I wish more people found being truthful and acurate interesting.

Instead hyperbole and outright falsehood abounds and nobody is held accountable for what they say.
If you're tired of hearing these arguments, you may wish to consider not making them to yourself and then putting quotes around them as if someone else said them.
> "Good luck finding a new job without a reference from your most recent employer."

In what country / region / province do you work? I understand it is actually unlawful for an employer to give or ask for references in the US, and perhaps even Europe.
Nope. That’s just playing politics.

“Yeah the bill has a lot of terrible parts to it, but if you don’t support it you just don’t care about the earth”.

Nonsense.
> I think the filibuster has some merit. If you want to do something controversial (to the point that the opponents are willing to do the physical effort of making speeches 24h a day to stop it), there must be a strong majority of 60%, not just 50%. But there must be some sort of cost to filibusting.

In theory, yes. But in practice the US is a two party state, and parliamentarians usually vote along party lines ( because, at the very least, that party controls if they can run for re-election or not).

The US needs proportional representation like.. a few decades ago.
That's a very manipulative comment to make. I don't own either, I am impartial, but both sides have their own money invested in what they see as the right way forward for a new technology. Both sides are at times horribly biased and I've seen more reasonable people on the BTC side by virtue of it being a larger and more well funded community.
statistically, he is not wrong...
How is it possible that the HackerNews crowd isn’t aware of US sanctions?
In the real world, the items aren't moving, it's the belt that's moving. So the belt just keeps spinning even if it's completely filled with items.

The cause of this bug is the fact that items move while the belt is static (despite the animation) and their moving requires a free spot in front of them. Once the belt is full, there's no empty spot for items to move into and the items stand still. The loop is stuck.
link to the pandemic scenario

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publication...
The title of the piece leaves little room for nuance.
> And there lies the difference that made my grandparents generation, albeit on the Allied side of WW2, the greatest generation.

The US was pushed into the war by Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt was in favor of joining the war effort directly but faced isolationist opposition at home. The best he could do was the lend-lease agreement with the UK, which was a hard bargain in the US’s favor.

After the war was joined it was sustained by a massive domestic propaganda campaign (all those iconic WW2 posters? Propaganda)

WW2 and the cold-war era space program represent the zenith of technocratic government in the west. What we have seen since is in many ways 50+ years of failure: social unrest, Vietnam war, inflation, terrorism, more war, financial crisis, pandemic. The government has seemed to be unprepared for all of those. While it’s not what I believe personally, I can understand if someone thinks that government will fail to meet the complex challenge of climate change.

The legislative branch of the US government is so thoroughly disordered that it can effectively pass one single piece of legislation per year through the budget reconciliation process. We trust this group of people and this process to solve climate change, when it will not even take up the more targeted and effective proposals such as a carbon tax?
> I believe this makes a someone more prone to respect authority, which was confirmed by my years in the UK. Of course life is messy and you can never be sure.

I doubt that as the largest country by English as a first language is the US and I wouldn't say that those folks on the whole respect authority in the same way that we do.

I think the way authority is respected in the UK has more to do with our endemic class system (which still exists) and the fact that unlike most European countries we never had a revolution in the last couple of centuries (came close at points and of course there was Cromwell but that was a different kind of revolution and much earlier).
Volvo is owned by Geely so it's kinda all flopped around in the frame of reference. By all intents, the XC40 platform was designed for Polestar and with Polestar because Polestar IS Volvo. It's just more fuzzy. All in, investing in polestar is investing in Volvo one way or annother.
We’ll presumably all those children born to immigrants in the US who are automatically citizens aren’t added to the “immigrant numbers” like they are in Europe?
JavaScript does have tail recursion in the spec, and JSC (Safari) implements it. Other runtimes have thus far refused to because it can impact on debugging I believe.
Nuclear energy is probably our best bet for big scale carbon-free energy. Renewables without (costly, often impractical) enormous storage can't do the job, and keeping gas plants for peak loads isn't helping. Nuclear has enormous upfront costs, making it a somewhat risky investment, so big subsidies are required to get it up and running. After that you get carbon-free electricity for decades.

So which part are you against?
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500,000 migrants per year? 1 million get US citizenship each year.
> At the time my main concern was the self-starter aspect of it: if I'm not given a specific task to do like I have been since the age of 6, how will I get anything done?

A good program will treat the PhD process like an apprenticeship. You owe your supervisor support and/or a small number of papers in exchange for a salary and training. While there is some leeway for independent research, you use existing work as a starting point for your dissertation.
Probably a good idea to stop pointing to specific weather events as evidence of impending doom, because for all of their specific destructiveness, they have had essentially no impact on humanity’s general way of life.

I’m not saying hurricanes and droughts and floods aren’t bad, nor that they won’t get worse, but if you set the bar for catastrophe at the current level, a lot of people are going to decide they can easily live with that.
Back in March 2020 the Posti allowlist was 32 countries, the rest were suspended. The list was gradually expanded with more countries (with 64 allowed countries in Oct 2020), and the allowlist was replaced with a list of unreachable countries early this year.

Currently (https://www.posti.fi/en/customer-support/sending/country-inf...) there are 20 unreachable countries due to COVID-19 (AU and NZ are not among them).

Your experience with letters matches mine, they take 2 weeks to Europe regularly now.
Did you predict last year that their head count would be up 110% in a year?

or did you predict that they’d shut shop soon?
> Most of the quasi-confusion can be traced back to the 1971 Postal Reorganization Act, which eliminated the old Post Office Department, replacing it with the US Postal Service. The act was intended to make the USPS self-financing from its own revenues, and to make it an independent, non-political public service. Prior to the PRA, postmasters (including the postmaster general) were political appointees; rates were set by Congress, and the POD had to go through the appropriations process to get the money it needed to operate.

USPS is a special case of government services which is neither a traditional agency nor a government-owned corporation. Its got a weirdly specific charter that was carved out to protect private shipping companies- for example they cannot buy their own planes. They simultaneously have to deliver mail to all US addresses with uniform pricing 6 days/week AND be operate without tax dollars. I use the term loss here because that is what they use, for example in their annual report:
https://about.usps.com/what/financials/annual-reports/fy2019...

https://postalnews.com/blog/2015/05/09/postal-myths-2-the-us...
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Plus one for kowl. Their support is also amazing.
4. Ditto for the risks of OxyContin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
I couldn't find anything on reduced life expectancy.
> final one would be P0

P0 would get disrupted by O-1
He who lives by the sword…

Anyway, it’s crazy that there are so many ATM attacks there when the number of ATMs is already so low…
> (Hey HN reader. Get rid of plastic from your life. Doing future you a favor.)

- Stop eating fish and other marine animals, since fishing nets are the largest (or one of the largest) sources of plastic waste in the oceans.

- Stop buying food items in plastic bags, especially disposable bags.

- Stop buying beverages in plastic bottles and cups.

- Stop using cosmetics and other items packaged in plastic.

- Stop using credit/debit/other cards that are made of plastic.

- Stop using plastic straws.

- Stop buying all appliances, gadgets and electronic devices that have plastic in them and plastic in their batteries.

- Stop using vehicles that have plastic in them.

- Stop using plastic furniture.

We can't do all of these and live in the modern society, but there are people who practice "zero waste" and consider the plastic coming into their hands (directly and indirectly).
Yup totally right!
This. I have an EA charger 5 minutes from home and it's always so fun to look to see what is charging today, I see the wildest stuff that is just a 'Look!' having seen all the US cars on this list (plus the Nero and Bolt) I would say most EVs look better than most gas cars these days because they allow companies to open their design up a little for some wow.

I would also add the Lyriq (which is gorgeous), the Polestar 2, the R1T, and then just say the Honda E again from your list twice, because WOW, what a timeless design. It is just a Concept car...actually executed.
But software doesn't exist solely in the western world, does it?
I wondered how much dummy/pacifier use factors into this.

I see lots of kids with those in their mouths basically the whole waking day, but this is not the same for all children and some do not use them at all.
While "technically" possible to get rid of it all I'm sure, I think if you get caught up on perfection you'll give up. Just reduce it as best you can and move on with your life.

We're always told that the consumer has choice and power, but it just doesn't play out in reality. Imagine a dense city full of millions of people, they can't all just stop buying plastic goods, since there's not enough supply of non-plastic goods to support them all. It's got to change at the source, which is the manufacturers, and that won't change without regulation.
> - Stop using credit/debit/other cards that are made of plastic.

How can this have a significant impact in any way? Even one new credit card per year is a very small amount of plastic consumption. :) And funnily enough, in some countries, the alternative (cash) is also plastic.
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Let me play the devil's advocate. Since you mentioned math's dense notation - perhaps people should slow down when reading functional code too.

You say:

> To think that any human, with any amount of training, can parse such code in one pass is a fantasy.

But that's a big assumption: that you need, or want, to parse such code in one pass. This works when code is so trivial you have to speed-read it so your brain doesn't get bored when going through heaps of letters saying very little - a common problem in mainstream languages. Maybe dense functional code should be read like mathematics - you might need to spend a moment or three over that single line. If it takes 5x longer to parse it, but it's 10x more expressive than equivalent "normal" code, then that's still a 2x speedup.

There are also extra benefits of density/conciseness: brain's equivalent of cache locality. You might need to spend more time reading the thing the first time, but you won't be constantly re-reading it while working on it, the way you'd do with verbose, enterprise Java-style code. Dense notation persists in sciences partly because of that effect.
so freaking weird, even if you change only the cable between the display and the motherboard the phone knows and stops working properly. how do they even do that ? I assumed the cable doesn't have any logic or chips in it.
>Why not deflation? Can't be worse than governments that mint trillions out of nowhere.

It would require negative interest rates and it would also require people to acknowledge that we need a more flexible labor market rather than one where full time jobs pile up on fewer people. Let's consider an extreme example. Everyone adopts Bitcoin and everyone has the bare minimum expenses. They pay rent and bake their own bread. The amount of work hours needed to support this lifestyle is 8 hours per week.

Let's say that everyone wants this lifestyle but everyone still wants to work full time. That would imply that there is one full time job for every 5 people with 1 person being employed and 4 unemployed and you would now have to engage in income sharing (you know, welfare, unemployment benefits, universal basic income). If people worked according to how much they demand themselves (everyone works 8 hours), then everyone would be employed and everyone would be getting their fair share of work.

Before you say that some of them will demand more than 8 hours of work. These people should work more than 8 hours.

>The loss of purchasing power implied by those extra zeroes is a huge problem. Inflation is basically a constant unconditional tax on everyone holding the currency. This is absolutely a problem that needs to be solved. People solve it by spending or investing their money. Anything's better than holding the inflationary currency.

What function does holding onto the currency serve other than decreasing demand for labor? Why should we compensate anyone for their reduction in the demand for labor? The logic behind interest is that someone wants to invest and the lack of labor requires prioritization according the yield of the investment. If people decrease demand for labor without a corresponding desire to invest by borrowers they simply get nothing. It's actually worse, if demand for labor is lower than supply of labor then the excess labor simply decays through unemployment (labor cannot be stored) which implies a negative yield on your money which is why inflation is an approximation of negative interest rates.

So, perfect money would have 0% inflation or deflation but it would probably have negative interest to encourage people to avoid the economic loss of unemployment. If labor decayed at a rate of -2% then people would invest more into durable goods by anticipating future demand. It would be better to build solar panels and wind farms today that may only be profitable in the future. Of course the problem is that some goods are artificially durable like land. Ownership doesn't decay.
That backup defeats the 2 of 2 multi-sig, though. Users really still are their own bank in this model. If their backup is stolen, the thief can empty their wallet. It’s just not kept online. Not much different from using a hardware wallet in that respect.
Except that Americans and Australians have proven over and over again that they will accept changes that negatively impact their lives and wallets, most recently the voluntary and involuntary changes that negatively affected their lives and wallets due to COVID-19.
Oof!
Think about it, when was the last time you saw an ad, and went on to buy that product or service?

Who are these people who see an advertisement on the side of the road and then go out and buy that very thing?
I have no idea, for all I know this could be better than other cheap switches, though I really hope not. The quality of home networking equipment and IoT in general is extremely low.
What term should they use then?
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>Paper bitcoins created by a bank wouldn't be compatible with actual bitcoins, and wouldn't expand its supply.

Bank dollars (your account balance) aren't compatible with coin machines and yet we still use them as if they are the same thing.
Nazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist
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Mercedes call their version: Intelligent Drive System

BMW: BMW Personal CoPilot systems

Audi: Traffic Jam Pilot (which they class as Level 3 autonomous driving, higher than Tesla class both autopilot and FSD).

This isn’t an opinion… this is fact. People hate on Tesla out of ignorance of the automotive industry.

Some more facts, Tesla make:
- the safest cars (no qualification required)
- most efficient production cars
- most advanced “auto pilot” but they class it the lowest level.

The nonsense in HN threads talking about safety issues in Tesla or FSD need to go look up cruise control crashes in any other manufacture.

(I don’t own a Tesla nor am I invested. I do work with almost all the major OEMs in my day job)
He also wrote Indistractible, a book about how to create healthy habits and not get Hooked on all the stuff he talked about in his first book.

Ultimately you’re responsible for your own life. The government isn’t going to save you.

Of course, government wants you to think they’re going to save you, and they’ll happily take all the power over your life that you care to give them.
> It’s almost always okay to quit. Quitting grad school is probably the smarter decision to make for the majority of grad students even if it’s two years before graduation. Your sanity and self worth are more important and surprisingly your career success follows.

This, although it depends on if you're in a terminal graduate program or you're going for your PhD. If you only have a year left to get your MA, try to stick with it if you can.

> Unless you’re trying to also use it as an immigration ticket to a 1st world country, if you can’t make it to a top school (top 20 for US, 5 elsewhere), don’t bother. A masters would end up taking your career to a higher place in the same time you spend on a mediocre phd.

Not true. You're much better off doing a PhD under a respected advisor at a lower ranked institution than you are doing a PhD under a less capable advisor at a top ranked institution.
visited the sea of Japan for the first time in a while, and went to a beach not usually used, the other day. The whole place above the high tide live was covered in broken up polystyrene. All through the grass. Impossible to clean up. And if you did it would just keep on floating in. I can stop eating fish. I could even try to support a national political movement to get the Japanese fishing industry to clean up their act.. but what about Korea and China and Russia. We can stop this and live in a modern society, but it requires leadership and cooperation. And now we have politics of be self interest and nationalism.
They're made of silicone/rubber/... and as far as I know never of plastic. However, the top part sometimes can be plastic.
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