skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way does the late-fee policy prevent this?
Yes, this is the nature of probability. We know how to lower the probability of infection. Even someone doing everything right can get it, but are less likely to. The inability to grasp this type of thinking is why America is so unique in its staggering death toll.
Good points. I violently agree that regulation favors Big Tech, instead of harm them.

But I still believe there's a category of societal issues that are extremely hard to codify into rules, even if Facebook would be morally sound. It would still be hard or impossible.
> Its pretty well known that fingerprints _by themselves_ are a pretty poor replacement for passwords. (a) They're public, in that it's pretty easy to get someone's fingerprint... just find something they touched recently. (b) If they're compromised its impossible to change them.

I'm a bit more worried about Russian ransomware operators getting my passwords than my fingerprint.
Imagine actually thinking this is the case...
Also just producing less useless plastic. Much packaging can be made out of cardboard. If it needs some water protection, a thin wrapping of plastic is plenty.

The one thing I'm not sure of is food packaging. There's a lot of plastic used in that, but I don't know if we have any alternatives. It's tough to package food because you want much of it to be sealed air-tight. But food packaging does have an advantage because it only has to last as long as the food inside.
I love this idea! But there's no way politicians are going to vote for it. This points to part of the problem, that politicians are first and foremost for themselves, not for their people.
No, they release the stored carbon from the tree in various cycles.

Unless you're doing deep carbon extraction, nature is pretty well carbon neutral. A forest of some given density, over time, will remain carbon neutral. If it gets thicker, the carbon captured is more, but it's also more prone to fires (which obviously then release that carbon).

Nature is circular. Any "waste" from one process is an input into another process. It's humans that think in linear "Resources into products into waste" ways.
I googled what is ucrt

- https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs/blob/master/docs/p...

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57528555/how-do-i-build-...
> They are addressing the testimony provided…

How? Where?
Plant about a trillion trees.
Back in the day when I was a poor college student I rented a movie from a local video store. It was an old movie and because of my laziness I failed to return it on time. But eventually did and they wanted a $40 late fee, which was a lot of money for me at the time. A new copy would have cost less.

So I stopped being a customer and went to a competitor.

My first reaction was to disagree with this new library policy. But if poor people want to read books and forget to return them, it doesn’t help to punish them. Sometimes we just have to accept that a certain percentage of society can’t or won’t do socially responsible things all the time.
How does removing late fees make it easier to do that?
I respectfully disagree with both of you. A tab is a bookmark, the fact that tabs are allowed to run background processes and consume a crazy amount of system resources is the problem.

Why the hell is JavaScript allowed to run amok? I understand things like Spotify, but Facebook has no need to stream news feed updates if you aren’t even looking at the page. It really needs to be up to browsers to stop this behaviour because obviously JavaScript devs don’t self regulate.
I don't know of a similar product that supports tap-prompts and blinking lights[1] like Yubikeys do. Yubikey 4/5 still seem to be the best, IMO.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28765982
> income that is taken from them.

Taxation exists in every functional modern democracy and there are no viable alternatives to it. States and municipalities that reduce their revenues through tax cuts wind up relying on things like speeding citations and civil forfeiture to bridge the gap. Wouldn't you rather suck it up and pay once per year than potentially having assets seized by a random cop that you then have to go through the legal system in order to get back? You're gonna pay either way. Even in anti-tax states like Texas, people get hit with massive property tax bills because it's one of the only ways that the government generates revenue.

The real problem is that the vast majority of people don't really care once the money leaves their hands. You don't like the mansion tax, which makes sense, but have you taken the time to look at your state or city budget to see where all of this money is disappearing to? Because that's where the more of the focus needs to be. Just glancing at the executive summary of the latest NY budget(0), it looks like $86B of the $212B total goes towards Medicaid alone.

So do we just leave the poor to not have healthcare? Why does healthcare cost so much and how come despite all of these tech entrants into the healthcare space, the cost never seems to go down? I really hope for the sake of your own argument that you don't work in healthcare, because what that industry is doing to communities across the nation in terms of cost is nothing short of outrageous.

[0] https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/budget/review-enacted-bu...
Still a bit sad that in both cases its effectively righting of wrongs caused by closed down undocumented computing platform.

On the other hand if the respective authors like accepting such challenges and working on these projects, there is nothing wrong with that. :)
There will always be a small subset of people who will abuse any system. Unless/Until this becomes a big enough problem, going after these people isn’t necessary, in my opinion. NYPL can always bring the fines back, if/wham it does become a big enough issue
The library will continue to charge patrons replacement costs after 30 days overdue. Not sure about NYPL, but in many libraries, this will be waived when you actually return the item. You would just pay the fine (capped at $5 most places I've worked). Presumably the letters and notices of overdue books offer the same motivation to return books now as they did before, the only difference is you won't be charged anything upon return.
> UN report warns of global water crisis amid climate change

We should all thank God (or deity of your choice) that the worlds increasing population or the 100's of millions moving to cities or the massive new middle class eating meat and other diverse foods with intensive farming along with the 100 years of using aquifers have not caused the Global Water Crisis.

It's Climate Change.

If we all pray together, washing away our sins, it will destroy the evil, along with donations to the cause of course. We will never get to see the fruits of their actions in the 100 years time against this devil, but hopefully money and prayer will solve this crisis.

I think Managed Aquifer Recharge is really interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer_storage_and_recovery (It's not a great wiki article)

It can be done at the community level, like in many subsistence farming communities (ie. in India and Africa) and more larger project which can be direct pumping or creating MAR dams or wet lands. Dual purpose community orientated projects.
>Cryptocurrencies advertise themselves as democratic

only in matters of that cryptocurrency.

>more shares = more votes

Yeah, people without shares have no business (and no interest) in decisions concerned with that cryptocurrency.

It's like saying a game community is not democratic because only players of that game can make decisions about the future of the game and the hardcore players (early adapters) get more votes than the newbies.

I think crypto tech is exploring ways to reinvent democracy/society, but cryptocurrencies are not meant to do it (as the name cryptoCURRENCY suggests).
Laws can absolutely change the world (at least if we take the world to mean one country). Look at de-segregation. It's obviously that the world was segregated before the de-segregation laws were passed. Of course, the laws were passed because there was ample enough support for them, but that doesn't mean that the laws only aknowledged an existing state of affairs. Even more so, the laws themselves helped accelerate the perception of segregation as evil among the majority of the population, whereas before it was just a regular part of life to many (many on the good part of the segregated world, of course).
One example here. CLOS-style multimethods are a reasonably good runtime analog of the way typeclasses work: typeclasses use type inference to thread a dictionary of functions around, multimethods do roughly the same thing with dynamic type-checks. This means multimethods have overhead typeclasses don’t have, but it also means that multimethods don’t have the “closed-world” assumption and can be extended dynamically.
Tyler Cowen makes some similar points regarding Instagram https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/mo... .
Where dix you leave to?
It's been some time since I lend books from the library that I had to pay late fees. But in university I had to lend many books, sometimes just for an initial literature scan only to return most of them and keep a few long-term. (Or ideally buy them through other channels eventually) I remember one book was very late and I had to pay fees far higher than the original book price. And the only reason was because the lending management was bad (=had a terrible UX) so I didn't know it was due. That was not ideal, as a student you usually don't have much money.

But I think damaged books are usually those that are used frequently. Rare and expensive books tend to be in great shape, even if they are lend out all the time. You just need to register in time for the next available extension slot. Also expensive/rare books are less frequently for take home available.
I think this gets to the root of why you're leaving a tab open. You might have non-persisted state in the page, hence you don't want to close it.
they are trying to milk current race relations in the US and I imagine are hoping the democrat p will back them to overstep the law so they can get a paycheck
Should We Build a Better BGP? (2017)
Markets are some of the best tools we have at coordinating behavior in a decentralized way. I wouldn't advocate some capitalist wasteland.

For example if we added market dynamics to a wealth tax we could make it viable and fair for all participants. Lets say there is a 7% tax on all assets over 25k USD. You decide the real value of the assets but the rule is they must be on public auction at all times. Most homeowners would price their homes above the market's rate so they are not at risk of being bought out. Large land holders would price close to the market price or below to avoid the tax. Governments could buy up large tracts of land at once without the common problems of putting in the first stake and the next home being worth 3x what it was yesterday. The end result is a truth on assets you couldn't get from central regulation (good luck avoiding taxes when it gets bought by someone else for cheap).

All of these ignore the pragmatics of whether or not people want their homes auctioned 24/7 but the dynamics of the system are better and self regulating from a taxation perspective. That's the thing about these ideas is of course they go against platonist sensibilities that things remain more or less the same forever. The dynamics change so it should be in everyones interest to explore alternatives that don't just assume people will remain as a doscile tax base until we all perish to dust.

To answer you more directly: citizenship as it stands also has a barrier to entry. I'm trying to make the government more reactive, and give people more power to decide what society should spend its money on. I'm not so certain everyone would just vote to stop protecting those around them, we all know someone who needs help.
She hasn't shared these documents with the public. All we have to go on is her summary of them, and the documents NBC News has selectively deemed relevant. NBC news has only shared 7000 pages, I'd assume this is probably 10% of the documents. We're essentially being asked to judge facebook when the prosecution is withholding 90% of the evidence.

edit: It appears the shared documents were from a previous leak, I can't locate any of the documents from this leak.
> What's the threat model here?

I'm guessing they're protecting devices against APTs: state-level actors with lots of funding, competitors intent on discrediting their ecosystem, NSO Group, etc.

As a side benefit for users and Apple it makes the entire chain more difficult to introspect/attack.
We need to ban crypto and decom the power plants bought for private mining.
Woopty doo
This only works well if the library always has an excess number of copies of books which probably isn't too hard to accomplish. I remember far too many school projects where many books would already be checked out. Imposing a fee for keeping he book too long allowed more people to have the book in a given amount of time.

I guess some school projects (middle & high school level) may still require citing a book or two but it probably isn't a very big issue. Adults that really want $X book will just buy it used on Amazon.
I think a lot of "Earth Is Dimming Due to Climate Change"[1] (a lack of clouds), and I start to think: even removing CO2 is not enough. We've already changed things too much. We have to make the earth shinier, reject more heat coming in.

I'm not exactly thrilled to be at the "let's build an electric drone fleet that sprays sulfure dioxide into the sky", and that or whatever else would have some probably ungood reprecussions. But I think we've got to. The existential risk of not starting right now is too damned high.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28716717 https://phys.org/news/2021-09-earth-dimming-due-climate.html
As far as I know, you can seamlessly join Timescale tables with normal Postgres tables in a query. Timescale is activated on a per-table basis.
I hope somebody will pay their tab. The job market for toddlers is bad right now. It's like they are supposed to be reliant on their parents.
This looks interesting, I've been looking for a way to get more diverse intellectual content than Twitter. I'll check it out and let you know what I think soon!
> Is there any work on smaller scale, "home" or "neighborhood" carbon capture technologies that could work with some extra energy laying around?

Trees? They make efficient use of solar energy to capture carbon and have a lot of other benefits:

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/08/31/powerful-virtuou...
I have been pretty happy with this system
https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000
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Slightly off topic, does anyone know how to go about obtaining an API for library books or oreillly books? It's funny that my libby/overdrive app lets me checkout books but
cannot do a basic functionality like sending me a notification to read at 9pm every night or open a random chapter from the book and send as notification, so that I can start reading etc

I am at a loss of how to obtain initial set of books and hence need an API to my library (San Jose Public Library)
> I agree with this to some extent, but at the same time it seems like so long as there exists carbon in the volatile format of fossil fuels, someone or something will eventually find it expedient to burn it.

wouldn't it be cheaper to buy fossil fuels on the open market, somehow convert it to a non-harmful form (eg. pure carbon) and then dump it in the ocean?
Feynman is a weird example - he talks about pickup culture and getting women to sleep with him. He also was a bad husband, spent a lot of time in a strip club drawing "art", and chased after Las Vegas Showgirls.

I'm not certain he would have been cancelled - I think that's mostly projection - but it's useful to acknowledge he wasn't exactly a "good guy", despite his contributions to science.

(The screed about the Nazis has already been debunked in another comment.)
Maybe the hotels really were shit, and the response was somewhat reasonable?
This is nonsense.

She's receiving a large press and Congressional focus because she's testifying about harm to children.

Not political censorship, perceived bias, or internal politics.

It's a cleaner story.

Greenwald, like all politicians, is twisting the story to meet his narrative. He doesn't "nail it". He's just regurgitating his preferred talking point, and ignoring her actual testimony.
Thats a good question!

All the carbon that makes up most of the mass of plant is from the CO2 in the air. Decay and rot release whatever carbon was captured back into the air.

The same way the food you eat turns to CO2 you breathe out but due to fungi and bacteria.
> Open source started as a political movement.

GNU is not the sole foundation of open source.
Also gives them a bigger lock-in opportunity.
even if they chop off your hand?
Even worse, if you Google my name, the first hit is an empty Facebook page. I don't want to have anything to do with Facebook and I never used any of their products. So somebody (or Facebook themselves) made an account in my name.

There is no way to get rid of it, there is a form where you have to fill in all your personal details and upload a photo ID, but it fails to submit, with "unknown error". Tried several browsers.
Relevant thing I saw a while back: CLI design guidelines[0]

> Confirm before doing anything dangerous. A common convention is to prompt for the user to type y or yes if running interactively, or requiring them to pass -f or --force otherwise.

Lots of other gems there.

[0] https://clig.dev/#arguments-and-flags
It isn't that people from Ivy League universities are unmotivated, it is that those people has so many options that unless you are a top company you almost surely wont see them unless there is something wrong with them.

> When I am hiring, for me the biggest things are motivation, curiosity and caring for your own career. If you don't show me those traits, I am very hesitant to hire you.

Yet you just explained that you hired this person just because they had a Top Ivy on their resume. You might not repeat that mistake but you did do it once.
> I meet a lot of candidates who have no idea why they applied, what they want in life for themselves but are just randoming sending their Resume hoping it sticks.

Yeah, well, while I'm working on that I still need to put food on the table, so I'll apologize ahead of time for faking like I give a rats ass about a career long enough to get through the interview process.
The book specifically addresses the West, yes.
It is not a replacement, but Ramez Naam Nexus series is very good.
Are you asking why they don't the expose the plain-text keys to the kernel software? That's your answer.
considering I was able to on min wage as a minority, and know many others who have as well, it’s hard for me to sympathize
Can we plant a ton of trees and every twenty years (or whatever) cut them all down and throw them in a pit, lake, or ocean?
I get an argument that it's not pure, ad hominem character attacks as a "smear".

This is really more a flaw of the article, but can you add data that directly refutes the claims raised by this article?

e.g. in her leaked emails, does any of that refute the wording/claims raised in this article?

I'm asking in good faith.
If I could grow the things... I struggle to get them watered properly.

Practically, though, I'm out in some fairly high desert, and I have to pump water for irrigation out of a deep well. I can certainly do it, but I'm looking for something of a bit more "geologic scale" sequestration, if it's possible.
Funny how in a post about government action taken because of problems with the gold standard you confidently say the gold standard will return. This hasn't all happened before and quite frankly your confidence is totally wild compared to the ignorant things you are saying.
>Unless you're doing deep carbon extraction, nature is pretty well carbon neutral. A forest of some given density, over time, will remain carbon neutral. If it gets thicker, the carbon captured is more, but it's also more prone to fires (which obviously then release that carbon).

No, you can get it to sequester carbon if you plant trees (or other plant matter), harvest it, convert it to charcoal, then spread that around. Apparently in that form (biochar) it stays sequestered for a few thousand years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
Society "cancelled" Harvey Weinstein because he raped multiple women, to the point where it was an in-joke in Hollywood. I don't think he's much of a good example except to identify how long it takes for justice to reach someone.

Maybe someone like Aziz Ansari is a better example... except he wasn't really cancelled - just hit a bump in his career that he had to acknowledge. (Similarly, Louis CK).

I absolutely would be OK with deleting every record of those movies, some of which are my favorites, if there were any point in doing so. The important thing is that a rapist is held accountable!
People who write according to how they speak don't appreciate the aural cues
(pauses, inflections) required to pull that off.

Impossible to parse: Probably whatever happened when someone borrowed books and died before they decided to remove late fees.

Assume context and omit the full clause: Probably whatever happened before the fees were waived.
I took the gist of the original post as saying they didn't agree with the original article and didn't think age was the defining factor of employment problems at 40. That, by developing and demonstrating relevant skills they hadn't found there to be any problems.

I took the quote as meaning that certain skills take time to master and it's impossible (which I took to be hyperbole) someone with less time would be able to master /all/ of the them; reinforcing their first point about how someone who is older should find it easier to find employment.
It's probably not worth the resources to do something like this at such a small scale.

It will just never be as efficient as an industrial scale operation.
JShelter is not a replacement for NoScript. It is a complimentary tool partially developed by the NoScript dev.
I understand you see it that way, but...

> ... there's no placating the Apple horde with the truth.

Pretty much summarizes what's I was suggesting as hostile.
Compute-assisted rapid development of drugs and vaccines.
There's no fee if you get it back before 28 days overdue. Costs nothing. Granted after that suddenly it's the cost of the item.

Works for me, at least. I've always been terrible with things that have late fees (in fact I had some late fees at that library from the previous system). But I've had no issues or fees since they changed to this model, despite continuing to be late in my returns (just not 28 days late).
Potter is a Canadian citizen and resident, interviewed on a Canadian podcast, by a Canadian national broadcaster, and works at a Canadian university.

His book specifically addresses progress in the West, not the world at large.

You seem to be disagreeing for its own sake, and are constructing strawmen or strongly implying counterfactuals to do so.

Presuming "your nation" would be the UK, based on your bio's London location ... response to Covid has and continues to be less than exemplary, and "herd immunity" was explicitly mooted as an option.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavir...