skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the negative climate view is one facet of a larger set of factors facing modern parenting.

(1) Stagnant real wages with decreasing buying power means that even with two incomes financial stability can be tenuous

(2) decrease in community interaction means parents must give more focused attention on their kids, versus letting them run with the neighborhood kids.

(3) housing prices push necessary space into extravagant luxury

(4) political gridlock leads to a sense of ennui and fatalism. The information sources used to get clarity about the world are or are accused of profiteering and muckracking, leading at least one side of the political aisle to have existential fear about crowds, the other to have existential fear of their neighbors

(5) brazen disregard of the law being applied to elites degrades the reliability of justice. People pick up on this

(6) technocrats think the solution is more technology. Were we facing an issue as simple as lowering fixed costs and improving systemic inefficiency, as an economist I'm on board. However, I think the issue is more political (power-structure) than economic, and technology favors the currently empowered (as they have funds).
Not the person you are answering to, but I think it's all about the level of abstraction you want to reason at. I didn't grok neural networks until I visualized the transformations that were happening in a very simple network. Once that made sense, I could start thinking in terms of layers.
> Banks are obliged by the law to provide basic financial services (bank account and identification services if I recall correctly) to EU residents as part of the European Single Market

While offering a "Basic bank account" is a legal requirement, they have no requirement to offer that service to any specific person. In reality, it typically means that they're offered to people in debt, but not to people the bank doesn't like, american citizens, prisoners, etc.
I feel like there needs to be a way to control system volume made out of e.g. a webcam checkbox filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantillon_Effect
Sure that's the theory. But how do you accurately price in risk for rare events? The uncertainty is so large that any price you set is effectively just a guess.
I am torn between degrwoth and rejecting it. I am absolutely with you on the techno optimism. I have no doubt that we could exceed our current standard of living while cutting down dramatically on carbon emissions. I have two worries thought that keep pushing me towards degrowth: Timeline and incentives.

It might already be too late to stop catastrophic climate change, so we need to cut down dramatically right now. Not in 5 years or later.

Without things like high carbon tax and credits in place we just don't have the incentive structure to get enough innovation and wide adoption to make a difference with technology in a meaningful timeframe. Instead we still have countries subsidies or give tax cut to fossil fuel companies. It's bonkers.

We could solve this with technology in the needed timeframe, but I don't see the political will and ability to create the right incentives and get this done globally in the needed timeframe.
In this case, shouldn't Luxembourg and Ireland (among others) worry also? They tend to hide these kinds of stuff, and is unlikely (Ireland)/very unlikely (Luxembourg) to leave EU and its single market?
> Google's insistence on using security as an excuse to remove functionality that they want to keep exclusive to their products is so blatant it either is or should be illegal.

Apple got away with it, why can't Google?
Wait, is this the same Kagi that used to provide shareware payment processing services some decades ago?

Edit: Hmm, I guess not https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/
If quantitative easing did not benefit the rich, it would not be adopted so long, it is as simple as that
Cottage Industry
Of course that would be a problem, but that simply isn't the case. It certainly wasn't the case for Portal or any other site I've seen that used this feature. Limiting this to only secure contexts would solve your problem and is what Google is technically doing. The issue is that requests from HTTPS->HTTP sites in aren't allowed either ("Mixed Content") and so effectively, Chrome is disallowing ALL public->local requests, since HTTPS on a local site is broken by design.

> If your website needs to issue requests to a target server on a private IP address, then simply upgrading the initiator website to HTTPS does not work. Mixed Content prevents secure contexts from making requests over plaintext HTTP, so the newly-secured website will still find itself unable to make the requests.

The solution, of course, is clear to the Chrome devs - certificate pinning. Unfortunately, they implemented it in an absolutely ridiculous way that limits you to WebTransport for absolutely no other reason other than they want to force developers to use it as soon as possible before the other browser vendors (*vendor) implement it. As I mentioned in a sibling comment, there is absolutely no reason to not simply add a "CACert" option to XHR,fetch,WebSocket... and let developers use the existing protocols.
Just started reading this book as I work through some undergrad research and thought I’d share as I’ve loved it so far.
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Here’s another way to put it in terms of money:

* Research universities make money from research and not teaching.

* Admins create promotion schedules on research and not teaching.

* Teaching is the “cherry on top”. Good research > good teaching.

Of course, top institutions want it all, but it’s not a hard requirement.

Also: The hardest courses to teach are the intro classes. Those require teaching excellence that doesn’t overlap with technical chops. It is very hard to explain programming when you take it for granted.
This article strikes a very particular faux-neutral tone that should raise warning flags even if you tend to agree with where they're coming from. When you see lines like:

> ultimately, their main goal: higher inflation.

> It hopes that enough money would trickle down so the economy improves and inflation increases (so that basic stuff get more expensive for ordinary Joe).

> While the central banks increase the overall money supply and utilize low interest rates (or even negative rates), this process is creating ‘bubbles’ into the economy.

That's not an attempt to provide honest information or generate productive discussions, but an attempt to get everyone pointlessly riled up so they'll share the article. Don't fall for it!
I definitely disagree.

What I don't understand, when I assume good faith, is why people disregard calls for political action as lazy or waiting for "someone else to take the first step"; while also have certain actors pouring millions on lobbying and campaigns to downplay the effects of global warming, to understate the viability of green energies and lastly, on pushing the idea of consumer responsibility.
They were not using 40,000 people trials in 2015 for mRNA based technologies. That was the point. Just because something was in its infancy in the lab doesn't mean you can say its been around almost 7 years already. The concern that there is no long term data is a valid one. Adenovirus vector formulations do have a longer history but have caused leukemia's in the past that manifest 4 years later for single gene mutation correction trials.
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> Adding an unsafe block around a call to C code doesn't prove anything.

I didn't say otherwise.

What I said is that writing unsafe code is writing a proof that the code is correct.

If the proof is incorrect, the behavior is undefined, and Rust makes no guarantees.

unsafe literally means "I've proven this code correct".

As mentioned, most uses of unsafe in the standard library are accompanied by a comment that documents the proof.
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I think you're misrepresenting this. The problem opposite to dying out is overgrowth. How do you distinguish which philosophy is trying to reduce overgrowth, and which is promoting dying out? Why do you think the article talks about one, and not the other?
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And DC? First they bomb and destroy countries. And then steal their assets.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/13/donald-trump...

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-emails-reveal-that-hunte...
I have never seen a KPI that is sophisticated enough to not get gamed and not create perverse incentives.
The zoom economy reminded me of this in a twisted "nothing new under the sun" type of way.
>However there is no circumstance in which I’d support the government requiring a medical procedure to be performed on someone without their consent.

You do realize vaccine mandates aren’t new? The chicken pox vaccine has been mandates for all children attending public schools for over 20 years now. It has been enormously successful in eradicated what used to be a very common disease.
Tiny Function
I suppose it depends on your mental model for how climate change will be solved.

If you believe that a small number of people will have an outsized impact, each person is a "lottery ticket".

If you believe in incremental progress then adding more people is likely to be "slightly positive".

If you believe that little progress will be made on per capita emissions (or that they may even grow) then each additional person is a carbon burden.
I didn't see this mentioned: when interest rates are at or near zero the tax burden on the rich almost entirely disappears. Why? Because you can borrow money for essentially nothing instead of realizing a gain or repatriating money from tax free havens.

It has a name too: buy, borrow, die.

Why die? Because beneficiaries inherit many things at a stepped up basis. Example: you buy a house in 1985 for $100,000. Now it's $3 million. If you sold it, you'd pay capital gains on $2.9 million. If your children inherit it, the cost basis gets reset to $3 million.

Why we're giving such massive tax breaks to the wealthy is beyond me. Actually what's really beyond me is why so many poor and middle class people are willing to defend such a practice.

As for QE, it's meant to benefit the government too. Why? Because inflation wipes out national debt. There'll be a point in the future where the $30T debt we have now (or whatever it is) just won't seem like that much money.

Thing is, none of the predictions about QE and inflation have come true, at least not yet. This is interesting and possibly concerning.
This was a major factor in my wife and I's decision not to have a child, second only to the stress it would put on our lives to have one, which we would rather do without (I'm not convinced I'm emotionally strong enough to deal with a child)

I do know a lot of people who are not having children for similar reasons

EDIT: There's also a lack of the idea that it's worth having children, i.e. many people don't believe there is any intrinsic value in having a child like they used to
Agreed, I even saw a “full stack” role that required the person to do testing with a 65k salary
Those existing hunter gathers, almost invariably, have close economic contact with modern agricultural societies, so unfortunately there's a limit to how much studying them can tell us as far as that goes.
There was also a Windows port of cdrecord that worked. I remember using it.
Valid point, I’ve just added the following to the FAQ:

“Any file uploaded to Halftone is anonymized, stored on Amazon Cloud Storage (AWS S3), and kept for three days before being permanently deleted. Documents are only used for troubleshooting purposes and as otherwise stated in our Privacy Policy.”
Many (most?) of those medicines are quite old and were developed before widespread legalization of abortion, let alone use of fetal stem cells in drug development.
I mean, unless it's a particularly special PATA drive, why not get a SATA BD-Writer?

I have a USB-3.1 BluRay writer I use for burning 50GB-100GB BDs with family photos/videos (alongside other media).

The downside is that buying a portable HDD is significantly cheaper TB for TB but I feel they'll fail quicker, who knows, so I keep copies on both.
Well just last month …

https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-rec...

Renewables like solar and wind depend on the weather - which we cannot control at all. Non-renewables have dependencies too like politics and economics but at least it’s something we have some control over.

If solar and wind is to completely replace non-renewables, their intermittency is going to have to be dealt with somehow - and huge excess in generation and storage capacity is only way that comes to mind at the moment.
Interesting thread. I can't help but think this deal would have fallen apart sooner or later anyway. At one point somebody from Apple would have asked the questions Steve Jobs asked, the same offer would have been made and the response would have been the same (we are worth more, etc).
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Depends on the ability of the elderly to obtain that labor. They typically have a decent amount of political power, but it is certainly possible for quality of care to decline in the event that the cost of their care rises too high.
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With P/E ratios as high as they are I think investors are desperate and don't have anywhere else to put their capital.
Some criticism I've seen:

- Speed isn't always the fastest

- Desktop application isn't as polished

- Fewer countries supported

- Popular streaming services block it easily

- The account system might be confusing to newcomers

White these concerns are fair, I still think it's better than the competition.
People switching from more expensive quality food to junk food, which is likely to stay affordable, won't reduce obesity rates. I would even expect obesity to rise after such switch.
Adidng this to my list. Thanks. Btw I use Sage and it has most of the packages written below.
I'm not convinced. There are a lot less JSON implementatations than JSON users, so we should have been possible to guide implementations with a means of proper specification and test suites. Note that the OP is possibly the first ever complete test suite for JSON after 15 full years. It is not like seeding initial implementations (that can serve as models for future implementors) is particularly hard either; Douglas Crockford himself wrote two implementations in C and JavaScript.
This seems like a clear analysis.

https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/
Getting acquainted with Javascript and the web today. Really wish I had this. Would make life very, very, very easy. :)

Today you get ABSURD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156831
You know that the US had one of the largest stake in Germany's appalling debt before Hitler took power, right?

Why do you think it took 10 years for the Nazis to go to power? Between '23 and '33 one thing happened: 1929. And yes: it happened in New York.
I would describe it as a _pyramid of bounded viability_ , from the minimally viable to the feature-burdened maximum.

CSV excels (ha) as a minimally viable exchange format for data. Combined with awk, grep, sed, bash, and Perl, and some simple SVG or D3 with SVG, the analytical solution is fast, scalable, and automatable.

But CSV has limits. The column headers are the schema. Beyond these bounds, we have the other formats.

JSON is messier. Its strength is in network/browser encapsulations and operations. As I have seen it used, people insert an array as a kind of schema, and they stay away from complex nesting where scalability starts failing and other difficult tooling must be summoned to compensate (parsing tools such as jq).

Beyond JSON's bounds, we have XML and associated tooling. XML is versatile and expressive.

XML and JSON can be written simply but both can be abused by programmers who aren't thinking beyond their own cursor.

This is a rich set of tooling for data representation.

In the end, one of the main advantages of CSV is that it remains a format that brings little tooling baggage ("ecosystem") to the task.
This story and Jobs' reaction is not about the fluid meaning of the word "know." Jobs immediately caught on to the fact that Ali was lying to him about having a 150M offer, which he explicit admits:

https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1447324896904638467

It is not about "someone who was convinced his company was worth more" being called a liar for saying he "knew" it.
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968.

It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to call it a "Nobel Prize".
A condition of China's WTO deal in 2001 was that in not employ capital controls with trade partnets:

> Commitment No 9: Non-tariff measures

> "China shall eliminate and cease to enforce trade and foreign exchange balancing requirements, local content and export or performance requirements made effective through laws, regulations or other measures."

Thus, there's been no 'test case' to date of the results of forcing manufacturers to pay real costs for outsourcing domestic USA manufacturing to sweatshop low-rate labor zones overseas.

This is probably the most pushed aspect (and least reported on by the media) of all the 'foreign trade deals' the US government has pushed from the 1980s onwards - relaxation of capital controls by the target country. Notably, countries that agreed to wholesale removal of all restrictions typically get gutted by pump and dump schemes, currency manipulation, and so on (see Asian crisis 1997 etc., which China avoided) run out of Wall Street and London financial centers.

Incidentally, from an economic perspective, Ricardo's Theory of Competitive Advantage (sheeps wool from Britain, grapes from France being the traditional example) which shows how two trade partners can mutually benefit. The concept only applies if profits from trade stay in the countries of origin; Britain setting up a slave plantation in France in 1750, for example, and exporting profits and wine to Britain would not be what Ricardo had in mind.
I actually think a LOT of young people are techno-pessimistic (i.e. see technology as a thing that has ruined their lives, many people with extreme attention issues exacerbated by technology, etc.)
> IOW, 'work' isn't some activity that exists outside of your 'real' life, it IS your life in a very literal sense

Not exactly. You sell your labor power in order to earn a living so you can go out an acquire goods to survive. You work to have the means to live. That doesn't mean it is your life. You don't reap the benefits of what you create.
The list mentions free software alternatives, not the proprietary ones which would be probably on everyoneeveryone's mouths.
> Why is it smart to want to continue passing down your genes?

What a great question, thanks for the thought provoking challenge.

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?

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?" If we come up with a satisfactory answer here, we will get closer to answering your question too.
This made me angry enough to upvote
Well said. It is the preciousness of self that deludes each generation into thinking they have it the worst.
Insurance and derivatives are supposed to find prices for rare events. And if an organization can't insure or securitize a risk it should make them think real hard about mitigation.
You mentioned changing the order of two elements in a list, such that one comes after the other.

With a vector of pointers to the elements (C++ std::vector<T*>) this can be easily done in O(1) as I explained above.

If now that I've proven you wrong, you want to change the problem to something else, feel free to state your new problem, and I'll proceed to prove you wrong again.
Well, in the case of WSLg the sandbox is WSL itself (and you can spin up multiple different ones, though they'd hardly qualify as micro VMs). The only part that "only works on Windows" is the RDP client. The rest is specifically developed for Linux and open source. The backend is an extension of FreeRDP, so presumably the FreeRDP client would be just fine on Linux.
Irish public are intensely europhile, not just politically and economically but culturally and socially. It’s not even close to being on the list of options.
I'd rather that major browsers don't have native RSS support. There is a industry standard way to transform XML (RSS is a xml file) into readable HTML; the XSLT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT

And it is already supported by all major browsers. With XSLT, you can add one tag in your RSS to transform it into a readable web page, with a customizable call-to-action for getting real RSS supports. See one of my feeds:

https://roastidio.us/feed/KjQKkQVg

If your feed behaves differently while clicked in different browsers, it will be more confusing, not less confusing to people unfamiliar with RSS
People want to have children for reasons that are more powerful than fear of the future: fear of missing out is a massive reason, also huge pressures from parents and family is another
Private whois and cheap domain names
Kurt Vonnegut also explores this in "slapstick"
There is also an interesting omission in this exchange. Steve asks for revenue and last valuation, but gets back number of users and last valuation. It appears the author dodged a direct and critical question in this exchange. Steve almost certainly caught this, but still gave a clear and direct answer. Additionally, Steve said Eddy Cue would be responsible for working out the details, but the author chose to press Steve to stay and talk money. It doesn't seem crazy that Steve was annoyed with the author by the time the "I know" statement was made.
Here’s my tenth man take: playing devils advocate is the laziest form of intellectual engagement and lends weight to positions that should have no weight at all.
I don’t think they hate amazon, but they certainly don’t appreciate WaPo or NYT or fill-in-the-blank left leaning media (read most). How that translates to shutting down an Amazon data center just kind of shows how deranged people get when it comes to politics.
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I don't understand how people can put climate change out of all things to be afraid of. It's definitely an issue, but for me, it doesn't even make it in the top-10. I would, for example, be much, much more concerned that at any point, humankind is capable of launching an intercontinental nuclear war that would disrupt the entire civilization and create a multi-decade nuclear winter that would kill off whoever made it through round 1. That seems more scary to me than an extremely slow change that would force us to grow banans instead of potatoes and move from the beaches.
I don't understand the reasoning behind it, and my genuine question has been flagged.

Why is it posted now, rather than a year or two years ago?
Probably not a popular opinion, but if climate crisis is even on your radar you’re likely the type of person that society needs to reproduce.

I’m not sure if there’s a term for this ironic situation but it feels like there should be.
I wouldn’t be quoting the British propaganda agency