skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a seemingly quite better treatment of energy subsidies:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/fossil-fu...

About half comes from state’s funding state owned oil companies which is sort of questionable if it counts at all as a subsidy, a big chunk involves petro—states making their local energy very cheap, presumably to support their population who are otherwise very poor, Saudi Arabia is apparently the biggest in this regard.

Other subsides include energy assistance around the world for the poor. People might shout about ending oil subsidies, but are they really intending to include the programs that help poor people heat their homes in the winter?

It seems like there is a big gap between people wanting to end oil subsidies and actually knowing what is happening they want stopped, and as the above article shows, people are willing to believe arbitrary nonsense and call it a subsidy.

But how can you make a difference if you don’t even understand what you’re fighting against?
I disagree that it depends on such a prior belief -- the fact is that users seemed to have very positive feedback to the extension. As the extension has been taken down, it's not possible to see the reviews, but I've linked some other praises [1][2][3].

If Facebook was really acting in their users interests, a look at the extension's reviews would have immediately told them that this benefited at least some users. And even if the extension conflicted with the terms of service, the right thing to do would be to have some employee at Facebook work with the extension author to make the extension comply, or implement such a feature as a first party feature.

But what I assume could have happened is some department of Facebook trawls through app stores looking for unauthorized references to Facebook. There is no oversight as to whether an extension benefits users or not -- Facebook just sends a cease & desist all the same. That IMO is neglectful -- for every app takedown, there should be careful review as to whether it actually harms anyone. The fact that that review did not happen shows that FB does not care about the user.

The more cynical possibility is that someone at Facebook realized that this was hurting their revenue stream.

[1] https://browser-addons.com/unfollow-everything-for-facebook/

[2] https://twitter.com/gchaslot/status/1410843427164598275?lang...

[3] https://crxcavator.io/report/ohceakcebcalehmaliegoenkliddajo... (4.3/5 rating)
For all the people defending Facebook here, the point is not that they banned his account they threatened to sue him and send a ridiculously broad cease and desist.

By your arguments ad networks have the right to sue adblock developers (which sometimes also collect anonymous data).
I haven't worked at Google's scale, but I've heard a lot of critism about tools and programming languages from people who create architectures that are inherently slow. When a user login requires 8 http calls to distinct microservices or something else silly like that the problem isn't a lack of static types. So far in my career I haven't had a programming language ever be the reason why something can't scale, most often the problem is the initial developers lacking a understanding of relational databases and cache locality.
Best comment I've read for a while, thank you ;)
Is this the new cookie clicker?
You mean for SSO functionality? Is that log in optional and a method for users to potentially preserve their progress across multiple devices?
It can be nice I guess when you've internalized the camera to the point you don't have to think about it. But it's so overkill. All I really want is a fast lightweight client that runs on anything.
Yes, which is great! He's drawn attention to an important project and given it funding.

> Now if I'm being honest about my motivations for this blog post, it's that I want to prove that open source funding is not a zero-sum game.
Optimizing Kubernetes Applications with Kubecost and Spinnaker
You're not alone lisper. I thought of another way to grow your wealth to add to your list, risk reduction. If you can reduce the risk of losing wealth, you stand to gain more wealth.

For example, it's great to have crop lands, healthy national parks and coastal cities, but if you don't address risks to this wealth, you stand to lose it. When you lose wealth, you also forfeit gains you might have otherwise had from them. So taking care of your downside also adds to your upside.
It's not like cars are dramatically more or less reliable to be fair. It's that they've gotten more complicated to the point where what used to be simple garage fixes anyone could do by following along the haynes manual now require a mechanic to take off the entire front end of the car and hours more labor as a result, and no one has the time, much less the tooling like engine lifts on hand to do that themselves (see most fixes for Audis since the 2000s).
Your comment on why you’re not viewing it:

> someone who isn't a bully and a homophobe

Your explanation of your own comment:

> I don't have any opinion about him as a person […] as a source of information he isn't reputable

I think at some level, you recognize that you’re ignoring a source based on your opinion of him as a person, so you feel the need to claim the opposite.

You’d think if your second paragraph were true, you’d have commented on his failures as a source and not him as a person as the basis of your objection in the first paragraph.
Does a humiliated person bear any responsibility for their feeling? I ask because while I sympathize with her examples, I can also think of many unsympathetic examples of humiliations, and the person's response to it, and I'd wonder whether humiliations are the result of power shifts.
Many people I know are sympathetic to violent responses to humiliation, and even in the article, the interviews with convicted muderers showed their decision to kill someone was often over a related issue of respect.

Being witty or funny gives you the power to shame, and often it's unintentional, to where we might consider the target of a well aimed observation to be fragile for being offended. And yet, we wouldn't blame someone or hold them morally culpable in a disadvantaged relationship for turning the tables, even with a pair of scissors in the back. I don't have answers, but I'd wonder if there is a more general idea of where the responsibility for humiliations and their consequences lie.
Cool, never knew this having only worked in Texas. Both "phone maker" and "online retailer" had year-end efforts to reduce warehouse value before we took inventory. For retail it kind of works out okayish because it coincides with the holiday season, but for less elastic demand it puts an extra burden. I remember things like shifting inventory to a customer to have it returned after inventory.
Sure, I agree with the principal of the idea. Decentralization is always a great thing and having a few gatekeepers for the popular TLDs is not ideal. In reality though I am not sure how this would work from a DNS perspective. If anyone can define a TLD, you would need mappings of those at a DNS root level. This is a pretty high burden on the root resolvers. You would almost need to decentralize the root functionality of DNS. This would pretty much take a rewrite of how DNS clients function as root resolvers are normally hard coded in. Anyone have thoughts?
Well, prefix delegation would be fine as long as the ISP guarantees that the delegated prefix will be stable. But they aren't guaranteeing that unless you pay extra for a static v4 (because they're tying v6 assignments to v4 assignments), which is indeed asinine.
Isn't "not knowing how to type in a URL" what the web was supposed to be like? The URL:s were supposed to be a behind-the-scenes thing; the users were just supposed to navigate hypertext? Instead URL:s ended up front and center, and we got monstrosities like a domain name for a single movie, because that's the only way of making a short-enough-to-remember URL.

Also, not knowing what application to open a PDF with... isn't that what we have tried to turn user interfaces into ever since someone invented the document metaphor?
Curious why was this prior post flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789838
Value is subjective. Wealth is not created by labor, but by mutually beneficial consensual trade.
Regardless of what one may think of Tai Lopez, he did do an interview with Myspace Tom where he talks about how Myspace got killed by FB:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZA4vPc5SqJ8
If you want something a bit DIY but very capable, check out the openFlexure scope. It's a 3d printed body to which you can add an objective and it has a 3d printable micropositioning stage and Pi camera mount.
They "own" my workplace as well. My editor. My programming language. It starts to look bad.

And yes, we have major deployment night and npm is offline, nice.
> I mean, is plastic the same as oil? Does it not have _worse_ additives in it?

Correct. The atoms are the same, just in a different order. Although you may occasionally get chlorine which is not in oil, but it's not common in plastic (other than PVC).

>> Intuition tells me harmful chemicals would be released. Is it that the burning would be contained and the air filtered?

No need for much filtering, you just need proper incinerator that provides enough air. You will need to filter out chlorine, but that's so reactive it's very easy to filter.

The harmful chemicals from burning plastic are caused by incomplete combustion.

The vast vast majority of plastic is just carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Burn them fully and there's nothing harmful emitted.
Wow, I had NO idea Burroughs was a Scientologist. I'm surprised too, with his distrust of organized religion and government. Of course, he was a massive heroin addict, so I'm not surprised he found other addictions.
The vast majority of road bikes sold today still have a front 2 ring derailleur. A few manufacturers do offer 1x drivetrain options but they aren't very popular because even with 12-speed sprockets there is a more limited range of gear ratios and a bigger jump between gears.
if it were that simple we wouldnt have heard about it for the first time in 2021 right?
Even if it fades it could be used as a periodic booster.
“Kids who grew up with cars do not know how to do anything with a horse.”

“Kids who grew up with automatic transmission don't know how to do anything with stick.”

“Kids who grew up with agriculture don't know how to hunt and gather.”
musl is also key for the Emscripten project.
At the present moment, I can easily sideload any app on Android, I can even install a third-party appstore like F-droid (this freedom can be taken away by Google in three future, but still far it is available).

Nothing even remotely similar is possible on non-jailbroken iPhone.
U.S.A.
The land of acronyms...
Who even owns a disk drive anymore
Spoken like a true environmentalist: Make things worse for people and for the environment, in the hope we can "someday" make things different.

It's exactly this attitude that is causing the trouble.
My #1 problem with the Affordable Care Act was that it tried to mandate universal health insurance coverage while leaving employer-sponsored insurance in place. If they were going to mandate that we urinate our money away to insurance companies (rather than assess an honest tax for single-payer healthcare), they should have prohibited employer-sponsored healthcare benefits to force everyone into the same insurance pool.
Mac OS X was a work in progress during the late 90s. The Apple/NeXT merger was in 1996, there were developer releases of Rhapsody (with x86 support) in 1997 and 1998, and Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released in 1999. But the first public beta of Mac OS X with the Aqua UI was in 2000, and OS X version 10.0 was in 2001. So any deal negotiated in the late 90s to bring Mac OS X to Intel PCs would have taken a few years to come to fruition, but Apple did have a usable x86 operating system to base negotiations on in the late 90s.
btw, just a point by point on your wishlist…

- automatic emergency braking: this is a terrible idea. I can't imagine any circumstance where ones bike would suddenly stop underneath them and not send the rider head-first into whatever made the bike stop.

- turn signals: This exists but I suspect that in practice you'd find it less useful than you expect. Drivers and cyclists simply don't expect to see them, so they'd be mostly confused or annoyed.

- automatic lighting: I agree. More importantly, lighting should be integrated into most bicycle frames

- regenerative braking: this exists

- gps/anti theft tracking: this exists

- speedometor: this exists, but if you're not an actual racer… why?

- rear radar: this sounds bizarre… but rear view mirrors actually are commonplace

You really walked into the wrong bicycle shop. I hope the experience didn't put you off cycling, it's the best regardless of your approach.
I use SLAAC - I actually use my main switch (Juniper EX2300) to advertise those since it can handle routing the inter-vlan traffic on my network, and then my router/firewall handles the public prefixes.
But even if Google removes it, you can just install the app on Android anyway.
I recently switched jobs, but for a while I was working at Okta, a company that has an unlimited PTO policy. In my experience with it, it was awesome! The teams I was on were great: you were encouraged to take ample time off, work reasonable hours, and keep a healthy work/life balance.

As a manager, I routinely checked-in with everyone who reported up to me to make sure that people were taking breaks as much as possible. It felt nice!

I understand that at some companies with terrible management, Unlimited PTO policies can be a nightmare, but if you have a good culture, it can be a huge benefit for employees to know that they can take frequent breaks, go on long vacations, and have a nice work/life balance.
Yeah. Standard drinks are 1.5oz 80 proof, 12 oz 5% beer, or 5oz 12% wine.
That’s by definition very different than what I’m looking for. I want to pay someone to sell me a browser that puts users (and specifically, paying customers’) needs first. Like essentially any other paid software or service.

If Mozilla wants to offer a “We won’t screw with you, like by creating new places for ads and burying the settings (like we have and will with free users)” premium plan, I’d consider it. I’d prefer to pay a company that doesn’t do that at all, though (that is, it’s built around innovating for paying customers), even if they aren’t able to offer a free browser.

Obviously being a paying customer doesn’t guarantee customer-first decisions or transparency, but as we saw this week, not being one makes it almost impossible.
Asking honestly, curious to know what would do you think is a good response from the company now? Considering, a few months ago, the company took down high profile accounts and content on its platform because it deemed something dangerous and lot of people were mad that company did that and it was censorship. Now the people are mad at the company because they didn't do enough moderation to ensure user health and well being. The company tried launching a version of the product with higher parental controls to let parents take more control, and people were mad and made the company stop those efforts. At this point in the company, what would you think is an acceptable response? Is there even a response that makes everyone happy?
RHEL 8.5 is ready for testing
While I agree that more standardisation would be beneficial, especially regarding electronics(!), the rest of the bike is fairly standardized (wheel / bottom bracket / pedal screw / steering column diameter etc.)
. Unfortunately, I think the introduction of electronics via ebikes and other "new" technologies for the bike are diluting that standardisation in my perception. For another view point of why biking may be shit in your area, I invite you to watch a few videos of this channel: https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM
I'm not defending anything. I'm responding to your statement that Republicans don't want to censor speech.

> I haven't seen any calls from any Republicans to censor any speech.

They very clearly do! Even setting aside the Rubio bill, you did not respond to either the "you must be patriotic"[1][2] or the "obscenity"[3][4] type of censorship that Republicans love to pursue.

[1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/te...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/24/tennessee-g...

[3] https://reason.com/2012/08/28/yes-the-gop-platform-is-for-vi...

[4] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-represen...
I think this discussion is going on circles because you are both discussing different parts of the problem as if they are the same part.

A system could be said to have a declarative execution model if its input is a description of a desired result and that system then decides for itself what sequence of side-effects to perform to achieve that result. Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi are all declarative by this definition.

However, there's also the question of how you tell the system how to build that data structure in the first place. CloudFormation and Terraform both do so with some form of DSL, with the effect that the source program perhaps more directly corresponds with the data structure it produces. Pulumi instead uses general-purpose languages to generate the data structure, and so the source code that produces it can, if desired, bare very little direct resemblance to the resulting data structure.

The tradeoff here then seems to be more about how far removed the input shape is from the resulting declarative data structure, rather than about "declarative or not". Some folks prefer the input to more directly match the underlying model, while others prefer to intentionally abstract away those details behind a higher level API.

I don't think either is right or wrong... I actually wish these two approaches were complementary inside the same product rather than two companies trying to kick each other in the shins, but that's capitalism for you, I guess.
Eh - I'm 1750 and I feel like this is just where people stop blundering obviously as often.
Not sure I understand the appeal. It’s still a derailleur, isn’t it?

Lots of (higher end) bikes moved to internal hub systems like Rohloff [1] that have proven to be very reliable, maintenance free and (other than higher upfront costs) are superior to a derailleur in almost every way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohloff_Speedhub
It happened with Mormonism in the 1800's. They've done such a good job integrating the made up mormonism image into being accepted as a "real religion" culturally that I'll probably get flagged for this. Truth is, some charismatic dude just made it up. In 50 years, discussion boards will probably flag people for dissing Scientology.

EDIT: As pointed out below, the term "real religion" just means one that has lasted to this day with a substantial enough following to obtain protected status.
Just because there is a cve in a dependancie does not mean its exploitable in context of your application.

Say there was a regex dos in nodemon, I only use this for local development and has no effect on my main application.

Point is npm audit is an advisory as it doesn't know the context in which it used.
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Entirely possible, or bought out by a company like Sun Microsystems; it might have been a way for Sun to try and penetrate the desktop market instead of mainframes and servers.

Pulling on this thread, if the iPhone didn't exist (because Apple was solely software), I think there's a chance that the big player in the mobile space today would probably be Blackberry. They were doing extremely well before the iPhone, and if Apple hadn't disrupted the entire smartphone industry, I don't really see why that would haven't continued. I wonder if that means that smartphones would still have keyboards?
The literal first sentence of the article will explain this one for you!
Volume PC sales is about margins so you can't pay a fee two multiple OS vendors as that would make Dell be at a competitive disadvantage.

Also, isn't Dell the guy who said Apple should be liquidated and funds returned to shareholders in the mid-90s?
Somehow I loved this article and the response, even though it was admittedly a funding stunt. There was something very endearing about how straitforward and innocent the stunt was.

Two very deserving projects got funding (musl and Zig). I have used musl, mainly through Alpine Linux. I have not used Zig, but it seems it is a very interesting answer to the question of what does a systems programming language that is not C or C++ look like. We have one recent answer in the form of Rust, and Zig is another answer with another set of priorities and tradeoffs.

It is a very exciting time in terms of real-world language development.

All the best to the open source contributors of all these languages and libraries!
Many of these kinds of things are in places that could never actually result in a denial of service. There is a large problem with security reporting where people report issues which couldn’t ever be exploited and then scanning tools and up showing hundreds of “vulnerabilities” which don’t actually represent any danger.
They Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
What do you mean? I don’t understand (honest question).
I thought of the fumes too. Clinical studies show that alcohol doesn't absorb well through skin. e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596158/

the wrappings were subsequently soaked with 200 ml of 95% (v/v) ethanol. Although the ethanol-soaked cotton was kept covering the skin with rubber sheeting and adhesive tapes for 4–9 hours, no ethanol was measurable in the blood.
I think if you did that people would pay or face the wrath of the seller. I dont think this makes the point you think it does.
Thanks for providing code. I’ve written code like that before and the first thing that jumps out at me is that you have for loops in Python code which isn’t slow but will never be as fast as loops in a static compiled language. Sometimes for loops are the most readable way of expressing a calculation but as a numerical computation person my instinct is to look for opportunities to vectorize by rewriting loops into matrix notation on paper and then expressing them as array calculations.

Otherwise you’re right — whenever you have “for” loops you’re always going to end up ahead if you rewrite those in C, Rust, Julia or Fortran. And that’s exactly what authors of high performance numerical codes do.
It's jargon. Jargon is extremely important to people in certain fields, but pretty worthless to others.

A wrench is a wrench when you just need a wrench. But a wrench is a combination wrench when you need a cone wrench.
Electronic shifting is already a thing, and they make it work pretty well with servos.
Really its all about ICUs.

The virus is never going away and will spread epidemically again in the future.

At some point the population has enough T-cells though that the infection fatality rate and infection hospitalization rate is that of influenza or colds, and even though it spreads people don't wind up in the hospital that much more than usual for cold and flu season.

And we're still probably going to have vaccine stragglers for years winding up finally getting their Herman Cain Awards at some level so it'll never be zero.