skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fewer people = less impact.

Adverse climate change is largely driven by man-made effects, and those effects are largely scaled to the number of people.
Of the young people I've talked to, I think income inequality is more the barring factor. I'm biased, as most of the young people I've "sampled" so to speak are either researchers or students of some kind, and so are generally more risk-averse and financially savvy.

If I was 18-20ish today, is be VERY concerned about my possible earnings potential in the next, say 15-20 years. So much work will be automated, further consolidating wealth unto those fortunate enough to have some already, and the mythical "entry-level" bar leaps higher and higher.

I've seen some of the preferred requirements for entry level programming jobs and it's already completely psychotic, I'd be scared shitless getting started in a market that looks like this, and will almost certainly get worse in the near future.
It wasn't just the fingerprinting and data collection that was mentioned. There were also out-of-date dependencies with known vulnerabilities. Also, their un-audited kernel driver.
Teachers Union Urges TikTok, Facebook, Others to Stop Spread of Viral Challenges
> My raw and honest opinion about [Guix/GuixSD] is that it's just an attempt at open source fragmentation with zero innovation(I'm not impressed by Scheme or Lisps) that uses GNU marketing/branding/philosophy to gain adoption.

This is an extremely uncharitable take on Guix. I hope it doesn't take root in the Nix community, not least of all because it overlooks areas where Nix could stand to learn from Guix.

Guix is ahead of Nix with:
• grafts
• its excellent subcommand interface
• documentation
• explicit organization/structure for contributors
• the bootstrap story
• trusting/signing channels

and it also has some interesting differences in choice of abstractions at various levels, like its service system vs. NixOS' modules.

Guix's existence doesn't harm Nix users or developers in any way, and there's no need for this kind of hostility or dismissiveness. As a Nix user, I hope Guix flourishes.
* Vaccination is not 100% effective

* Vaccinated people do still spread the infection, albeit to a smaller degree

* Some people cannot be vaccinated, and for others it's less effective

For the above reasons, it's beneficial to me and society at large if as many people as possible are vaccinated.
Well, by virtue of what the GP comment said:

> Mozilla also offers a white-label version of Mullvad VPN, while subtly implying that they operate the VPN themselves: “A Virtual Private Network from the makers of Firefox.”

Maybe 'misappropriate' is a bit of a stretch, and certainly the rest of the language in the above comment is tiresomely partisan, but it's not hard to see what they meant.
How would it only be a slight population decline if everyone stopped having children?
> What do you do if the sun decides not to shine and the wind decides not to blow for a long time?

I always see this argument in these kinds of discussion, but does anyone have real statistics as to how often that actually happens? And how widespread these disruptions actually are, keeping in mind that solar and wind power are often distributed over a wide area?

(Keep also in mind that, unless there's a solar eclipse, photovoltaic panels can still produce some power even when it's very cloudy, so that might not lead to a total loss of generation.)
This is a truly terribly written and argued op-ed, regardless of your stance on offshore banking. If the author spent any time at all actually explaining the mechanisms by which this system works, perhaps also offering an insight or two for those who are familiar with the basics, it would have been an actually useful read. Instead, no effort was spared inserting the word "shady" everywhere it can possibly fit. So it goes.
A few years ago, I interviewed at StockX, and the team was working on exactly this – using GANs to generate pictures of shoes. Interesting to see essentially the same thing here a few years later.
> The whole point is that the same thing (creating safe abstractions over unsafe code) is what developers have been doing with C for close to half a century.

They have been trying to do this, but it doesn't work because C's support for this is very poor. Not even C++ managed to do this.

Rust makes it easy to do this in a reliable and efficient way that is 100% guaranteed to work.

> I feel those baseless assertions require some supporting evidence. Is there actually any tangible and concrete evidence that Rust, specially Unsafe Rust, improves productivity and safety?

Yes, see: https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/whitepapers.html and https://www.rust-lang.org/production , and well https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=Rust (there are a bunch of peer-reviewed papers there that show this, serve yourself).
We'll see how that goes. Many political posts are shared by friends. I'd imagine a large amount of the political content they will hide is just opposing views, since that's what many people will complain about. Not to mention, many people probably don't recognize many topics/positions as political if they share the same position.
I gave a /significant/ amount of thought to the question of whether or not I should have children many years ago, and came to the conclusion that I should not. Climate change never even entered into the equation. For me, it was a simple decision, albeit one with many factors.

I made an admittedly somewhat selfish choice, but one that I knew I would be satisfied with, to pursue a specific set of life goals and to avoid things which would impede or redirect me from those goals. While it's certainly true that many people throughout history have had children and mostly ignored them, I could never do that. If I did somehow end up having children, I would want to be a good parent and actively involved in their lives and their education, which would mean giving up on my other life goals. So, I decided I would not have children.

Many of my friends have children, and many others do not. These things come up in conversation and the same kind of thinking seems to dominate, and we are all the same generation (Xennials/older Millennials). Everybody made their choice off the basis of what their goals in life were, with the next most important factor generally being economics. Nobody was concerned with whether climate change presented an existential crisis that they wouldn't want to bring children into... we're humans after all, and we rely on getting better over time as each generation discovers new knowledge built on top of the past.

Given all that, I feel like this article is an argument against a straw man.
I'd prefer not to say. It was in the thousands but cheaper than I originally thought.
While there's a lot of issues with JSON, this one also applies to any other interchange format that supports nesting, including the much beloved XML. Protobuf might also have this, idk if it does any static analysis for infinite depth.
The Rolling Stone obituary is, in my view, the best piece on Steve Jobs [1].

> Jobs may be remembered as the man who brought the human touch to our digital devices. But perhaps his greatest – and hardest-won – accomplishment was bringing the human touch to Steve Jobs.

How do we evaluate someone who exercised wanton cruelty and dismissal of others' lives, but who worked on earning the capacity to change? What does it mean that he got the chance to evolve and make good as a rich man, where so many others would not?

At the end of the day, sometimes we have to just let the story be the story and give up on our anxiety to compress it into simpler, more digestible themes.

[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-steve-...
How long before Github becomes Azure Codespace, NPM becomes Azure packages
And nodejs/typescript becomes AzureScript.
How do you even heat a house with wind? Aren't most homes in the US and EU are heated with gas?
Team TNT Deploys Malicious Docker Image on Docker Hub
Show HN: Strange Attractor on an Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi Pico
To love someone is to give them a part of ourselves. When they are not there, that part is missing; we are not whole. So when the scythe cuts through life and the essence drains out; then we know pain. Not of the body nor of the mind, but pain of the heart that fills our inner most depths. We do not feel it at first, but as our heart bleeds we drown in the misery and plea for death's sting.

Some who have experienced such emotional trauma tell of a desert afterwards: a retreat, a place of half life and a place of healing. We walk and view the reflections of our life and listen to the whispers on the wind. Do not rest too long: there are dangers. Avoid the middle of the desert. Here the light is different: like treacle, it is thick and it flows. Time does not pass -- the air is still and things do not move; just the shadows, first they are here then they are there. These places can swallow you up like quick sand: walk away!

Keep walking and walking and walking. When the path is tough, just little steps will do; one after the other. Do not be afraid to take a hand: it will not pull you down but guide you on and carry you through the roughest terrain: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. On and on we go. But slowly we heal, our wounds dry up and seal, our despair evaporates and is carried away on the winds. Life returns.

The misery that has seeped out from our hearts dries and slowly crystallises to form gems containing the rainbow of our memories. They line the chambers of the heart: our inner selves; a hall of celebration. Shine the light, and let these jewels colour your every day!
I'm not sure it matters...

Any goods wholesaler I know of goes straight from "in stock, the price is X" to "out of stock, even if you offer a million $ you can't have any". Nobody auto-increases prices as stock runs low.

Perhaps it isn't illegal to do so, but nobody does it, probably because businesses believe it's illegal to do so.
These ones?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/50168357

> But the rules are, in fact, all already part of UK law. A small number of them will not come into effect until 1 January [2020], but that would have happened anyway whether or not the UK was a member of the EU.
Here's the guy who wrote the original Windows Task Manager explaining this hack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKQ1X_4JCn0
> as it would represent a great loss of power and control by the billionaire class

There are zero cases, contemporaneously or historically, of permanent capital controls not having billionaire-sized holes for the rich and powerful. Instead, they typically create a wealth transfer from the lower and middle classes to a bureaucratic layer of bullshit jobs which benefit the elite.
It's sensible to avoid having to argue about what's relevant to the law when returning merchandise.
Chinese coal prices hit record high and power cuts continue
If they call you dad, and you helped raise them, you are a father. Adopting kids isn't being childless.
Is there any other information about the challenge except for the Nvidia article?
You miss hobby you do for entertainment with work you do for survival.

Once it's no longer choice between 'apt usage of your senses and body' and 'insufficient stimulation', but between maximum performance and starvation, it stops being fun. Just read the happiness on faces of homeless.
On a smaller scale I knew people like Jobs. They constantly lied about things but at the same time really resented when others lied. One guy who constantly cheated on his wife was totally outraged when she did the same once. And because they were experienced liars themselves they were good at assessing others.

That's how the story reads to me.
'Gathering food' is not the extent of the 'work' that hunter-gatherer societies performed, which is kind of the basis of that ridiculous pop-anthropology notion of hunter-gathers working some silly low number of hours per week.

Food preparation and preservation, shelter, crafting necessaries like eating implements, food storage vessels, clothing, and weapons - these keep a member of that society (except for some of the 'elites' of those societies, naturally) busy from dusk to dawn.

This persistent myth of the low effort required to subsist as a hunter gather needs to die.
"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to the passions and coarse pleasures..."

- Brothers Karamzov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
> I now have this vague feeling that Rust is a religious cult

I'd say even if many of technical claims about Rust are true. It still seems very much like a cult.
Privacy has always, and in every modern democracy, been subject to court orders to produce documents. There is nothing horrifying about transparency in finance. Property taxes have a role to play, for example in reducing the use of otherwise unused property to launder money. But, without other regulation, property taxes would just be a kind of sham, leaving every other avenue for money laundering wide open.
Borrowed a School Laptop? Mind Your Open Tabs
Many companies have confirmed that Gazprom actually adheres to the existing contracts and prices. Gazprom is not, however, offering short-term sales at the currently negotiated long-term prices; in other words, Gazprom is not selling gas over the counter at 1/5 the market rate.

This seems to me like one of these opportunities where some EU gov'ts are blaming Russia for something in a way that doesn't make too much sense once you look at it for more than five seconds, yet sounds superficially convincing. Things like that are always unfortunate when you could leverage more substantial criticism instead; hardly a tall order with Russia.

See e.g. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-feel...
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data
The City of London is a byword for the businesses that operate there.

Everything else, apart from its value as real estate, is just a historical curiosity...it doesn't matter
I also suffer these though I've learnt to pick up on them before they happen so I can pull over or step away from the computer. This started when I was a teenager and has gotten better since my mid twenties (30 now). I've only had 2 attacks this year, though they have both been in August.
I find taking a nap helps. I don't get a headache but I do eventually lose 99% of my vision.
> There is no shortage of well done apps that cost very little (most of them cheaper than the cheapest korg tuner) and packing in way more functionality.

Name three.

The problem with app stores (both Google's and Apple's) is that it's impossible to find those good quality apps for commodity needs, in the sea of advertisement/IAP-backed garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gebcv74mAU8
Trying Out DigitalOcean Spaces
The biggest differentiation is that C is not an opinionated language, whereas Rust is. There are right and wrong answers in Rust (look at Actix, for christ's sake), where often the friction generated is because of a fundamental misunderstanding in how it works. C is much more freeform, where you could probably write 500 incorrect solutions and 5 perfectly safe ones. That sort of programming style worked great for the early kernel org, but now we're shifting our focus towards security and correctness. C still works, but Rust is simply a lot more ergonomic for the majority of situations.
Why is it that all I hear is “give Google access to your microphone”?
So it's the intention or internal motivation of the money that makes the difference? When I look at George Washington I see the same expression in every bill, but that could be me.
Why would it?
Because apart from mere thousands on Hacker news, and some more thousands from tech savy communities, who in the word is actually going to scroll down?
For majority of people, hitting install button at the top is the best they can do.
Apps spread thru word of mouth, HN shits on TikTok but how else did it become so big despite many reports of privacy breaches.
Wow I think you just solve the global warming!

We will just have to kill ourselves, can you pick a date?
Code Debt is not Real Debt
While the concept of "code debt" is a useful metaphor, many people take its implications too seriously. This article looks at the biggest misapplications of the "code debt" concept, and how sometimes code debt is like getting money for free.
I guess there's not an actual published study? This has a bit more info:

https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/immunotherapy-combination...

And includes this paragraph, that I just can't understand:

"The results were not statistically significant, but the immunotherapy combination, designed to spark the immune system into action against cancer, led to a positive trend in survival when compared to the ‘Extreme’ standard in a group of patients - those with tumours that had high levels of an immune marker called PD-L1"

How is this "not statistically significant" but at the same time "...survival rates... were the highest ever reported..." ? I don't get it.
IMHO there are six key problems here:

1. A predicted consequence of Brexit was that the UK would become more of a tax haven once freed from the shackles of EU banking and financial regulation. This would be (and is) sold under the banner of jingoism and because of jobs as some business moves to the EU;

2. The US demands financial transaction information as the price for access to the US banking system. The flipside of this is that the US doesn't share that information with anyone else so ironically (or perhaps by design) the US has its own role in hiding assets. Note that South Dakota featured prominently in the Pandora Papers; and

3. We need to tax real estate more when the beneficial owner isn't known or isn't a tax resident of wherever the real estate is located. Treating real estate purely as an asset class is having real consequences for the ability of people to live. New York City, London and other cities are where people work and live and shouldn't simply be a place for oligarchs to secretly park money.

Yes, we have property taxes in NYC as one example but they're not high enough. For example, a $100m apartment only pays about 10-15x the taxes on a $1m apartment and that $1m apartment pays 2-3x the taxes on a $1m single-family home.

Interestingly, US citizens and residents have to declare foreign assets every year (twice; once to the IRS and the exact same information also to the Treasury on a separate form) but... foreign real estate is an excluded asset. You don't even have to report it. Why? It's a nonsensical exclusion for the wealthy;

4. We need to do something about using debt to avoid taxes. This is another zero-interest problem. Why repatriate or realize gains and pay 35% when you can borrow at <1% basically forever. Worst case you end up realizing gains to pay those loans back. For individuals, you get out of that by dying (ie your beneficiaries inherit things on a stepped up basis). For companies, borrowing money should count as repatriating foreign profits and be taxed accordingly;

5. We need to tax more things at source; and

6. We need to do more about using IP shenanigans to shift profits overseas. Additionally, countries need to start apportioning profits based on revenue. If Apple earns 25% of their revenue in the US then the US should tax 25% of their profits.

People being unwilling to pay for the world that allows their wealth to exist is not a new problem but like all such efforts before them, the ultimate form of wealth redistribution is war and revolution. And nobody wants that.
You can't move an element in a vector in O(1) time. Swapping isn't the same as moving, you'd have to move n elements to make room for the new one.
The capacity to solve climate change is scaled by the number of people solving it.
> Everywhere you go is far more crowded than 30 years ago,

Its fascinating that I feel the same, but like many people I moved to a bigger city than my parents.

But recently I've been spending a lot of time in old rural villages In NE USA and Eastern Europe (yeah weird combination) and they're all dying, empty houses no one wants to live any more, schools closing.
You would take bad social media over death and destruction. "Bad social media" is a lazy expression for "widespread, overwhelming, faulty mental development". It easily affects the professionals which serve you. Their fault is death and destruction (your doctor, your engineer, their manager etc).

Lighter remark: you want quality around you. «Or are you [at Hacker's News] for the "hacking"?»

Regarding your note about a generation which seemed to have had a better time, but spent under the threat of sudden annihilation: yes, absolutely - the former post was not a comment to that.
Ask HN: How do you prefer to pay for cloud
Do you guys prefer pay-as-go model like AWS or a fixed subscription?
How to run effective asynchronous meetings
Bitcoin is a completely open database of all transactions. We can’t say the same for the banking system.

Monero would be a much better choice for their purposes.
I've also heard your claim many times, and every time I checked, replacing a doubly-linked list with something else improved performance by orders of magnitude.

Particularly in video games.

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> The end result is that I now have this vague feeling that Rust is a religious cult and I shouldn't take their claims at face value.

Also, you realize that Rust allows writing efficient doubly-linked lists right ? And that the Rust standard library provides one for you right?

The whole argument of the OP is that people learning programming need to start doing so by learning how to write doubly linked lists because performance trumps all and therefore all children, elderly, and even university students that learn programming with javascript are lesser human beings and don't deserve our respect.
Thanks, I like Levine and remember reading that. He basically argues that airlines financial strategy was optimal for shareholders, given covid and guaranteed government support. But firstly, he only considers the two uses of money proposed in the NYT, improving customer service or reducing the debt burden. Secondly, his whole argument is predicated on airlines being bailed out by government - which is true, but I believe shouldn't. I personally believe a lot of value is being destroyed by lack of long term investment and short term incentives, leading to problems such as these ones. And finally, even Levine admits that buybacks might be suboptimal for other stakeholders (eg employees, clients).
I was of the impression that hunting requires a lot of waiting while doing nothing. That not correct?
Is "rising income(s)" relative to inflation/cost-of-goods?

As pay goes up, so does competition over (limited) resources. You can't tell from incomes alone how much better off humanity is in terms of actual resources. There are also complex arrangements such as ownership, and carbon debt that further complicate things.

"...economists assure us that, in any case, the only long-term solution to global poverty is more economic growth."

Economists are so often employed as Marketeers working on behalf of the ruling class..
Perhaps they need to do larger scale experiments. At this point the outcomes could have been coincidence.
Nowadays is more and more common for websites to have some kind of rate limiting middleware such as rack attack for ruby. It would be interesting to explore the strategies to deal with it.