skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part where most of the per-capita CO2 is emitted by the first world which is not going to give up gadgets nor consumption and the cult of GDP and most of the misery is off-shored to the global south.
This article is about parsing though so I am mostly asking about that.
Pro rata is a bad term for founders
How are you going to keep out a mass of starving people? By shooting them? Because that's pretty much your only option once people get desperate enough.
There are also a lot of indirect carbon costs. Doing the calculation accurately is a recursive time-series analysis where you have to trace how every object was used to create other objects through the whole earth’s supply chain.

So having a kid may build a hospital that requires a truck that requires human to be trained… that requires humans to create paper training materials.
> . You accept that offer you're repaying your investors and walking away with nothing.

I thought the previous round was $50MM. So those investors would get back their original cash, and all the other employees/investors would essentially cash out at that value.
which optimizations on unions does rust do?
I'm struggling to find anything in this essay that I agree with.

> But it won’t cause the collapse of civilization. It won’t kill everyone.

The author seems to think that as long as everything isn't completely leveled, nobody should be shy about bringing children into the world. I disagree. The middle is being excluded here.

> Life in the First World will continue, with worse weather and maybe a weaker economy, but more or less the same as always.

Not in my part of the first world. Everything has changed for the worse, and all signs point to more extreme problems in the future.

> One way to think of this is to notice that we’ve already gotten about 25-30% of the global warming we’re likely to see by 2100.

Which is terrifying.
Messaging absolutely does. Matrix would like a word.
Right! 5 minutes per app to evaluate. And no assurance the "good" one won't change.

The free one from Fender is not terrible - but still behaves like crapware.
The problem with people in general is we don't know how to deal with sociopaths. Unfortunately we seem to glorify them here on HN.

As a computer person who loves them, Steve made them worse not better. We live in a world where most computers are now locked down, spyware laden, ad serving, micro transaction sucking, subscription rent seeking, pieces of garbage. When I look at iPhones and iPads I get sad for the children.
maybe you should not associate uninformed trust in "experts" as intelligence either.

Most scientist know how flaky scientific results and publications are. Studies like the Lancet didn't help either.

I'm a PhD and waiting a few months was the smart move
Pentagon software chief quit because China has already won global tech war
I really don't get why Mozilla argued that they would have to re-implement SQLite for WebSQL, but then used SQLite for IndexedDB. Why were they so opposed to using SQLite for WebSQL?
Each time I teach neural nets to an engineer, there's only a 50% chance they can write down the chain rule. Colah's blog on backprop used to be my favorite resource to leave them with (https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Backprop).

The explanation of the calculus in this tool is equally fantastic. And the art is very cute.

There are many ways to skin a cat, of course, but this is as good a tutorial as I've seen for getting you through backprop as fast as possible.
Who does this? I mean... who has the talent, time, and inclination? Is this what happens when startups IPO and nerds retire and have too much free time?
What i don’t understand is why does the article act like this clearly public government document was found/leaked in the Pandora Papers

The article seems more like a lobbying piece, how many more times can the author write “shady”

edit: Nicholas Shaxson (@nickshaxson) is a staff writer for the Tax Justice Network and a co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project, an antimonopoly organization. He is the author of “Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World” and “The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer.”

This is an article geared for people to agree with it because it matches what they want to read
> They are governed by the "City of London Corporation" which is much different from the "Mayor of London".

Specifically, the City of London Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, who is a completely different person than the Mayor of London who heads the Greater London Authority, which is the government of what most people think of as the city named London, which is a completely different thing than the City of London.
We are predisposed to many other things as well, such as violence. Society frowns on that.
More accurately a sale was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), chaired by the Secretary of Treasury and requiring the signatures of the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, State, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, as well as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and Office of Science & Technology Policy. All signatures being equal. It is impossible for any Secretary of State to approve of a sale like that alone.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/international/the-co...
As an MBA with BSEE/MSEE, this is exactly correct. Too many take the degree and training as a blindly followed cookbook rather than just "ideas to think about and think of trying". It SHOULD BE the latter!!

The "religion" of profit maximization and cost minimization has a price - it's NOT GLOBALLY OPTIMAL OVER TIME for the survival of the organization (profits, anti-fragility, etc.) nor for the larger system of a national or global economy.

Mathematically, flat, non-cycle economic systems are IMPOSSIBLE. You can never achieve it WITHOUT introducing systemic instability because you are eliminating ALL the information REQUIRED to maintain feedback control and you are removing agility of the system. Once the error signal goes to zero, the system is 100% out of control! It's open loop. Then any "environmental" change can tip the entire system over where that could be a competitor, other nation or "act of God" disruption.

And this is what happens when you profit maximize/cost minimize to its ultimate limit. And on the way to that extreme, you are increasingly make the system more brittle and the probabilities of failure increase.

Re having all people being "productive", the reality of things like Price's Law also make reliability worse as an organization (corporation, government, etc.) grows.

Price's Law says that the number of people who actually do most of the work is proportional to the square root of the organization size. In the case of supply chains, most of the people who are "assuring system reliability" actually aren't and generally are incapable of doing so anyway. It's a reality due to network effects (adverse ones but the same dynamic as the good ones - you can't control or differentiate the two).

Note you can take it to the other extreme: not worrying about profits is just as bad if not worse. Socialism/Collectivism doesn't work either for similar reasons actually.
It’s funny how few people realize that’s what the bbc is.
"Parsing" can mean wildly different things indeed. In this case though the article does check duplicate keys and numeric range & precision, so the data model is definitely in question.
The jury is still out. We have not gone through a handful of construction/decommission cycles of nuclear power plants, simply because the lifetime of a nuclear power plant is over half a century or more, and France started its nuclear push as late as the '70s.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but MLflow alone isn't MLOps; moreover -and somewhat surprisingly- Databricks doesn't really do MLOps well, despite having creating one of its most useful components.
> We don't need crazy things like crypto - we need decentralised and accountable banks and payment processors

Sounds like you're saying we need crypto. Decentralized banks? That's exactly the sort of crazy idea that's just not gonna happen outside of crypto.

> Speaking of credit card companies: why do they exist??

They provide a useful service. They pay for stuff for you, then you pay them back later. This is great because if fraud occurs it's their problem to deal with.
The first Arab mission to Mars is delivering some interesting science
>Keep in mind that hyperinflation only works to reduce inequality when coupled with financial repression.

Not really. If I owe some money, every increase in prices (and wages) make it easier for me to reimburse my loan. The rich lending money will be losing, big time.

Now, do rich people lend their money? I'm sure they do. They may own stocks, real estate and commodities in addition to currencies and obligations but their value will drop hard if they stop lending money.

The rich, as a class, can't protect themselves from inflation even if they start buying stuff that appreciate by selling the rest.

A few may find a hedge against this, but the exception proves the rule.
ML=machine learning; not meta language.
Understood, but if say the BVI bank buys US treasuries, won't that make this supposedly underground money visible? (Assuming there is a register of US treasuries - I've no idea which is why I'm asking)
Surely something newer on this since 2016

Plenty of previous discussion:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724672

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897061

5 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12796556
The City has an MP and takes part in general elections. Its very much part of the UK and London. It just has some laws relaxed. I am not even sure that the whole 'the queen cant enter' thing is real. I have heard several times its just a custom they follow but not actually something they could enforce or do enforce at all.
You can't make a horse drink. From what I've seen on Australian subreddits, their populace is very authoritarian and craves even more control over their lives and beating down of anyone who resists (e.g. mass celebration of police brutality against lockdown protesters).

With that and the phone spying, gun bans, crazy COL, etc. I'd absolutely never want to live there. It's unpopular to say on the internet but I'm thankful I was born in the US above anywhere else.
> The best way I can engage with this is asking a question in return: is someone who crosses the street safely "smarter" than someone who wanders into traffic and dies?

Well, given that wandering into traffic likely causes some sort of pain and is a terrible way to end a life, I'd say it's not a smart choice in most situations. If the goal for a person is to die, e.g. because they're in terrible pain, then there are usually smarter (more reliable, less painful, less harmful to others, ...) options available. But of course, there are likely situations, where crossing the street hastily is a smart choice, e.g. when you're being chased by something even more dangerous. Otherwise ...

> If we think the survivor is smarter, then we can ask your question in another way: "why is it smart to wish to live another day?"

You can only accumulate pleasure and good experiences if you stay alive. Hence staying alive is a smart choice if the chances of having good experiences is high enough and the chances of having lots of terrible experiences is low enough.
I thought it was Vancouver?
This probably has to do with experiencing certain news during your formative years. People of my age (I'm ~25 years old) seem to prioritise job security over virtually anything else because in their early formative years the financial crisis took place.[0] I still remember watching the news / discussing the papers every evening with my dad (he's an economist), and it was always about people losing their jobs, homes, savings, pensions. I still vividly remember that pale image of a "For sale" sign that the Dutch news broadcaster regularly used when they talked about the housing market.

I think that the young children of today experience the same thing. We talk about how the earth is heating up. How the permafrost is melting. How the sea level is rising (this one is especially fun in the Netherlands given that most of the country is below sea level). How people, animals, entire species will die. A person who's roughly my age or older is able to understand the severity of the situation, but at the same time is able to understand that there are things we can do, and that we are in fact doing things, which makes me hopeful.

But I can't help but feel a little for the 10 year olds of today who watch the news every evening with their dads.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210303125901/https://www.nrc.n... (It's in Dutch, sorry)
You’re almost describing TI Basic, which is how I got in to programming in middle school. Of course, TI Basic had the additional advantage that I could mess with it during school, before laptops were common in classrooms
Carbon pricing works and is an everyday thing over here in Europe & UK: https://ember-climate.org/data/carbon-price-viewer/
I find it much more pleasant to work with.
How to blow the whistle on Facebook – from someone who already did
It's doom not wow
Dangerous is a word that doesn't actively justify trade-offs. With SaaS offerings, you're trading opex costs to save on capex costs, which can mean a really big difference in terms of opportunity costs. You also are paying for the expertise that you'd need to develop internally otherwise. These aren't simple black and white choices. Operating at FB level scale means that saving 2% on your cost of revenue is billions of dollars. If this is the only "Big" outage FB has for the next 2 years, and it's saved them billions of dollars, isn't the fairly small risk of a single point of failure worth it?

You have to accept some risk, and it's often hard to compare risks on the business side vs risks on the technical side.
For example: a large percentage of strokes are caused by common colds and/or flu, due to inflammation and high blood pressure.

If you've ever had a relative or a loved one suffer from a stroke you'd know this.

(This is really common medical knowledge and not something extraordinary or irrational.)
It's a pretty negative article. What do you think they might be hiding? That things are even worse than described? If they were trying to hide something, they would have never drawn attention to this matter by killing the article in the first place.
That's the impression I got from their post. It was a passion project (meaning goodwill, costs more than it makes) that Google has forced them to rewrite and it's not going to happen because passion projects can only cost so much of the budget.
> The only part that "only works on Windows" is the RDP client.

Ah ok, I thought they have an X server running under windows, but apparently not. (Was that in some previous version? I remember reading that.)

> so presumably the FreeRDP client would be just fine on Linux.

Memory sharing would need support by the hypervisor I guess, that probably means hacking FreeRDP, rdp-wayland-backend and the hypervisor :\
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM
It also seems $100 dollars per year is way easier than changing one's activities to reduce emissions. For example, cutting out meat, zero waste lifestyle, commute on a bike, etc.

Although it's possible the people not willing to pay extra taxes might have a different reason. Like maybe they don't trust the government to spend it for the stated purpose, or use it efficiently.
As far as I know, biking on the highway is quite illegal in most states. So is walking, unless it's an emergency and you're walking to the next exit to get help because your phone and car are dead. It's been a long time since I checked, but at the time there were just under a dozen states that allow cycling and five or six states that only allow it if bicycle signage is explicitly posted.

But YMMV (literally ;) )
The actual question is "should these people be employed if they make choices that cause customers to die?"
> 2. They don't care about the Web, and are only part of the Web PKI as a result of some historical happenstance they'd gladly part with at first opportunity. In this case the fact their certificates don't work in Chrome makes no difference to them, the certificates aren't for Chrome or any web browser, some expensive old industrial device needs a certificate and the ones they're using work. Given the choice between buying a brand new $4M industrial device or retro-fitting logging for the six certificates they issue each year, they'd be very torn and likely find a third way, but for now they don't have to. When the device is beyond economic repair their new one won't be part of the Web PKI because in hindsight that was a mistake.

Which CA fits this one?

- Mozilla and Apple now requires every CA in its roots to be "alive" (aka still operating)

- Microsoft is now actively restricting its public roots in such a way that technically unconstrained certificates that are not actively used for web is coded in Schannel to be denied.

- Also, you need to do external audits or else (sans the Oracle Root CA), you will be ejected in all roots. Even the Chinese 360 CA root programme requires active audits.

So 2 is only applicable in a very restricted subset that I can safely say that those formerly-public Web CAs are now operating completely privately. That requires a very weird configuration: Windows PC with an application that uses both OpenSSL (or derivative) and the Microsoft root (most OpenSSL installations uses the Mozilla root instead).
If it's this hard to get political consensus on carbon neutrality, degrowth will be quite the tall order. The reactive pushback against it could do more harm than good. If the political left starts going against the "jobs" narrative and actively pushes against economic growth, there's just no practical way to win an election like that.

Instead of degrowth, what about just taxing high-income conspicuous consumption, for example a tax on luxury cars, boats.
I haven't thought about him in ages, or cdrtools, but I benefited heavily from his software once upon a time. The cdrtools flamewars seem positively quaint these days. Clearly a talented developer and his work definitely was a help in open source catching on.
There are 8 billion people on this planet. I think the humankind will do just fine with a few people deciding not to have kids. In fact, it'd probably be for the better, if more people thought the same, given that we have 8 billion people on the planet.
> My general opinion is that it's extremely hard to reliably use JSON as an interchange format reliably when multiple systems and/or parser implementations are involved.

XML is very precisely defined in comparison to JSON. Yet we've had one customer who had a system that couldn't handle XML files with newlines in them at all, and several which sometimes sends ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) encoded data in some fields of a XML file with encoding="UTF-8" in the header...

We of course also have some nice fixed-field integrations, based on customer's specs, where the system suddenly sends multiple mangled characters if any non-ASCII character is present, causing the fields to suddenly not be so fixed anymore... It behaves very much like UTF-8 interpreted as Latin-1, except with something else than Latin-1.

Anyway, I've given up trying to be strict at this point. We will have to wash incoming data, it's apparently inevitable.
> Crawl at off-peak traffic times. If a news service has most of its users present between 9 am and 10 pm – then it might be good to crawl around 11 pm or in the wee hours of the morning.

How do you know this if it is not your website?

Also, the internet has no time zone.
I do agree that it shouldn't be sudden. It's mostly the fear of any population decline or stagnation that bothers me.

I do also think that we have the capability of automating more than we currently do. We just haven't gone that far because it would cause job shortages.
> So let's die out as humanity?

No, let's start reducing our population to somewhat sustainable levels. We can always start having more children it the future.
You're just repeating the comment I responded to
I see what you mean, and in general agree.

I believe 99% of human potential is wasted. Because the typical human spends every waking moment of their lives just trying to make a living.
JSON before the standardization had an obvious data model and specification: ECMAScript. (I don't think JSON was widely used outside of JavaScript back then.) ECMAScript is particularly strictly defined even compared to other language standards, so it should have been possible to extract the relevant portions of ECMAScript into a proper standard. Crockford didn't. JSON as specified by Crockford was not even a proper subset of ECMAScript until ECMAScript itself retrofitted its syntax.
The background app using extensive battery is more a problem on Android, so may be unrelated to this article
Not surprised. I've just read a book about science-metric approach implemented in different countries.

Sociologists have known for a hundred years that any measure, taken as an ultimate criterium for reward, becomes manipulated. But British neo-liberal government in 1980s started using it as a measure of efficiency, out of fear that scientists live off public money and produce no meaningful output. It made a nation-wide rating of scientists (per field), made once in 10 years, giving bonuses to those making more research that is cited.

Scientists now have to output an article at least every 2 years and get it published. This makes people do various tricks: having produced good research, they split the results it in 2 or 3 articles, or attract more co-authors (making extra work in exchange for extra citation points).

Journals also have weights, so more prestigious ones get more proposals. More competition for being published, higher the pressure and demands. And this lead scientists to define a bulletproof narrow and precise hypothesis, and then prove or disprove it very rigorously.

This essentially led to abandoning a holistic research and monographs, and to writing in "bird language", incomprehensible for outsiders.

The system has been copied since by France (90-2000s) and Russia (2000-2010s).
Note that iCloud Private Relay only applies to Safari, not other browsers or apps.

A VPN (ideally with “kill switch”) + encrypted DNS would do the same for all traffic from your machine.
This is a pretty nihilistic view of capitalism and I think we can aim to be better.

FWIW I know plenty companies that try to be a good company and not just a profitable one.
It's a widely held view only on the left. An interesting thing will be the consequences on demographics. Conservatives have lots of kids and if the liberal birth rate keeps dropping, what will things look like in 50 years?