skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
realistically you need a decent level of wealth to participate in these tax havens. It's expensive to hire a lawyer who knows this stuff, and even more expensive for administration and execution. The people who have the level of wealth to pay for this are already doing it.
I tried to draw a stick figure and it didn’t work for me.
Agree, but why hasn't anyone asked the pilots?
> how do you explain the US system becoming #1 in the world?

The US was part of the industrial revolution, but suffered few domestic casualties (infrastructure) from either World War. The dollar becoming the world reserve currency for oil/capitalism cemented it.

(Where Russia, Continental Europe, and China were ravaged by WW2)
I could accomplish the same thing by robbing a bank - doesn’t make it the right thing to do.
It really depends on how many steps down the ladder of abstraction you go. Computers are still magic if you step down a few more rungs.
Bitcoin will get us to type II. :-)
I just might have to try this next.
> Why hasn't anyone interviewed the pilots? Seems that would clear things up.

I'm not sure why you'd think that.

It's likely I can find a doctor to interview who doesn't believe in germ theory; that doesn't tell me how widespread that is.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/11/tweets/sou...

> Murray told the Dallas Morning News that the data showed that pilot sick rates during the heavy cancellation days were "exactly in line with where they were all summer with the same kind of operational disasters."

Actual data on sick leave seems more useful that an individual anecdote or two.
It does benefit society by creating a baseline energy source that is cleaner than coal or natural gas.
> Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds

The key word in that text above is "every" - as part of the whole statement it indicates they're suggesting there should be some exceptions, not that the economic aspect of everything should be ignored.
I weep whenever this resurfaces. Thanks for the reminder.
What makes you put your full trust in the mainstream news? What makes them more trustworthy in your opinion and safe?
> If this were true, wouldn't we see those US VCs come running to Europe with their capital?

Sure but why would they if they can already do that in the US?
Musk needs to build war rocket 'Ajax'.
Open-source in the Italian public administration (2018)
It sound like[0] This is not saying the world end in 7 years, nor is it even exactly saying something weaker like "the world will end in 50 years, but we have 7 years to prevent it." Rather, it's saying we have 7 years (at current emission levels) before we're over a 60% chance of eventually warming by 1.5˚C, which will probably have high-impact, potentially devastating effects.

[0] https://climateclock.world/science#deadline
The designs that I'm proudest of and that took the most thinking all had an element of figuring out how to decompose a system into layers and resolve any "chicken and egg" problems that prevented a clean decomposition.
> The overwhelming majority of emissions come from industry,

Producing... what, exactly?

Right, "consumer goods." Or upstream supply chains for said, or machines to produce the machines that build said, or... etc.

"Consume less" solves an awful lot of problems too, but when the people who talk loudest about how awful climate change is going to be aren't willing to do so, they're unlikely to lead many people.

Like her or not, Greta at least attempts to live something resembling a sane response to what she's talking about.
VS for PC at least supports both JavaScript and Python.

> that's going against the current

What does that that mean in practice?
The problem is storing enough renewable energy for baseline power for a whole country.

Things that work at a small scale don't necessarily work at massive scale.
The purpose of those plane trips are evident and often mission critical.

The outer-atmosphere trips are not mission critical. We have also established the ability to launch rockets into outer space, so I doubt that research could be a reasonable justification for the damage?
Are you saying the story is fabricated? Or that it is true, but should not have been reported?
I agree somewhat, the users which include me get caught in the crossfire if someone releases a zero day out in the wild, but I also think there needs to be a negative feedback to these tech giants that expect work for free.

But in the grand scheme of things, does it even punish the tech giants? They have so many claws in a users life, and in the case of apple, your only other choice is google or a bunch of shady oems.

At the end of the day the only people who pay for it are users themselves, their data is comprised and irreversibly out there
Interactive `sudo` is good for awareness: "look, you are running this command with elevated privileges, unlike normal".

If an adversary got a shell with typical developer sudo access, the game is effectively over.

You can still use `sudo` with limited accounts to prevent escalation. Let such an account run under `sudo` only a fixed set of scripts which take no parameters, and which it cannot even read (but the privileged user can). Additionally, run them from within a chroot where only needed binaries are mapped. This may not stop the most sophisticated attacker, but will thwart a number of less-sophisticated.
I get that a lot of the Android-based projects don't pan out, but LineageOS has been going for quite a while now, CalyxOS is relatively new, and GrapheneOS (previously CopperheadOS) have successfully established themselves as the defacto hardened Android platform.

You can download the source, modify it, and build them all freely. Hopefully more people can get involved and move the needle instead of only lamenting how they don't succeed while not actively trying to help them succeed. I mean this in a respectful way.
That’s not clear at all. I’d be twitchy too if I had $100k on the line and the other party had repeatedly messed up over months of interactions.
...right, because of southwest's routes and the location of their planes when airspace became unavailable. Which, again, is a claim that you don't need to take the CEO's word on. The data can be scraped for free or purchased for cheap. Is the FAA in on it too?

And not just the FAA. That's real-time data that thousands or perhaps millions of people download and keep local copies of for at least sliding windows of time. So every single private company and individual who downloaded and stored that data in the hours leading up to the disruption would have to also go back and modify their local copies. Thousands, maybe millions, of people.

To believe weather and airspace closures didn't play a major role you have to believe that those closures didn't happen or that Southwest is not truthful about where its planes were. But either of those means either completely disregarding objective evidence or believing in a MASSIVE conspiracy to modify that data. A conspiracy involving literally millions of people. Almost all of whom have literally no incentive to lie and would have had to take an active role in deleting historical data and replacing it with fabricated data. Just... what?!

Also, this observation cuts both ways: why only and exactly southwest's pilots and for only one day?
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> Night time is usually when heating is most needed.

If we are still talking about cold climates where houses are well insulated, it's a more convenient timing but not really needed. If you cut heating for half the night or even more, indoor temp won't drop too much even if outdoor temp is notably lower than day time. It might drop a few degrees as you are sleeping warmly tucked in, but that's not dangerous, and you can still heat your bedroom if you want to avoid even that slight adjustment.
Aren't we already kind of screwed? It feels like we're more picking what type of crash we want, rather than avoiding the crash.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-tipping-points-a...
Sure it could have just been "one dude" but a walkout by one pilot is still a walkout and not a weather event. One pilot can delay a whole airline if they only have a couple planes.

The other strange thing about the weather claim is it only affected SW for some reason.
200m tall towers?
Forcing Apple to do the right thing the next time.
You're missing the point. Humans/citizens generally don't need to change their behavior, the world needs to change how it meets the demands of humans. There may be some environmentalists out there who say we need degrowth, or we all need to live in a commune, but those people are not going to be the ones who deliver the solution, because you're right, no one is going to bother following those people into the abyss, even if they do practice what they preach.
I somehow think that their opinion was a little more nuanced then that.

And fwiw, Rob Pike definitely did make mistakes. Golang is a great language, but it's not perfect.
"We probably need to do something about our CO2 scrubbers on this space ship we're all traveling on. They don't seem to be working very well."

"OH COME ON, if you were serious you'd have spaced yourself by now so you stop generating CO2. Just shut up already."

[EDIT] OK so that's hyperbole but I do think it's absurd to disregard someone's opinion on climate change because they haven't voluntarily and unilaterally upended their own life in order to delay warming by, maybe, a few seconds.
Scrutinizing Different Design Decisions
You completely misread the context. Again, please read the post. If it's not for privacy, there's no need to ask for suggestions. We can just implement 1984. But that's not the society I wanna live in. Nor you want to.

The mere fact that you and me are having this discussion on this platform has a premise that we are educated to a certain level who can tell whats bullshit or not but almost 50% of the population in this world cannot. Again, I am not saying we should play the smart guy role for them but looking for ways to mitigate the amount of misinformation that's being spread.
It would do a lot, yeah. Boeing services military and commercial contracts. If instead of commercial airlines taking off (lol) they just.. didn't, then even with an interested military you would have fewer engineers, smaller & poorer companies, just generally less advancement and less production.

Your question is good but it doesn't have the answer you seem to think it does! These things feed into each other, so while it might be unreasonable to say "no commercial airlines means no military air vehicles" (I hesitate to say fighter jet because I do think that would be a casualty), it would also be unreasonable to say that "no commercial airlines means no impact on military air technology".

You might think, hey, the military has got some strong advancements the rest of us don't even know about, whos to say that wouldn't be the case? Well, the people working on that tech went to college and got educations in a field that had employment opportunities, and likely would not have if those opportunities didn't exist. Just think about all the supporting industries that are very specific. The aluminum alloys, the manufacturing methods for these high tolerance parts, the electrical systems, the fuel systems etc. You just aren't going to get very far without a civilian populace implicitly backing the effort.
I appreciate what you're saying -- that the end result of a Democratic majority Congress, in addition to a Democratic President -- is the same. However, I do think it's unfair not to acknowledge 2 points:

- The executive isn't all-powerful
- The Senate has the slimmest possible majority, with 2 caucusing members hesitant to do anything without the other party purely because of optics

Add to that:

- Progressive wings of the Democratic party have come up with comprehensive climate plans
- Democrats do tend to set emissions reductions goals, while Republican tend to undo those emission goals.

I think it's unfair to say that both sides are the same on this issue, basically because two members of the Senate Democratic caucus are indifferent on the issue, even though darn near 100% of the Republican party is opposed to any action on climate change.
Literally just google “soybean meal” and you’ll understand what they’re talking about. I feel like I’ve explained this pretty thoroughly. I can’t get my head around how you feel the need to conflate percent mass with percent quantity. Is there some language or conceptual barrier here?
I meant the pilots who were there. Should be easy to clear up if the CEO just lets the pilots speak on how happy they are with the jab and how they totally didn't walk out.

For some reason we've only seen union leaders, the CEO, and others come out. If they really wanted to dispel things they'd let the pilots speak.
The problem is that only a fraction of power consumption is electric. The rest is burning fossil fuels.

In order to get away from these, we have to increase electricity production significantly. And we have to build a better electricity grid.

It is completely unclear how renewable energy should provide this in the short or medium term (i.e. until 2050). Without nuclear, we’ll just continue burning fossil fuels.
The emissions aren't the only issue in question though, the vast amounts of heat generated during each launch contributes to mounting environmental problems as well, right?
Those are not necessarily comprehensive benchmarks, but it seems clang is doing very well in many workloads:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clang-lt...
most US personal "charity" is actually membership fees for religious clubs.
You should look at longer time periods instead of just looking at one year. Year to year variability could be big due to a variety of reasons.
I think there are 2 questions that do deserve discussion and debate:

1. Whether a society should be structured to allow billionaires at all; and,

2. Whether the existence of billionaires is actually helpful/creating a net benefit for everyone else.

The debate originates out of the dominant ideological form of liberalism in Western liberal democracies, Rawlsian liberalism, and, in particular its idea of the "difference principle", which argues that inequality can exist so long as democratic institutions are accessible and enabling upward social mobility, and so long as the majority of the benefits from government actions/programs/policies benefit the most worse off populace the most.

In a sense, the debates around wealth, and especially the extremely wealthy, start when there is the popular sense that that "difference principle" is failing or no longer operating as it should be. Billionaires begin to be seen as extractive rather than as a benefit for a country.
riot had a good white paper on their valorant anticheat and why they designed it to be a kernel level anticheat
Related: I've always wanted to get a T-Shirt with the EURion constellation printed all over it and see if there are any notable cases where images of me can't be opened.
Okay, wow -- I had no idea Shatner was 90. He looks fantastic for his age
emblematic imo of an extremely & admittedly fairly deserved high level of distrust of our general ability to take care of/maintain things.
It's actually much more effective than expending energy obsessing about how much carbon you're emitting on a daily basis. Use that energy instead to vote/support/campaign for Democrats, because the marginal utility of having more Democrats in power is exponentially more important, given the consequences of not having them in power.
I would say that if you're interested, go for it.

My complaints about Janet are not too big. I feel like there are many ways to do some things, and they are all basically the same. Most of this excessive flexibility is inherited from Clojure.

1. It's never clear whether I need `cond` or can get by with `case` until I've waffled around a bit

2. I don't know whether to choose `if`, `and`, or `when`, for conditionals, because there are many times when all three would work. Also, if the condition expression is trivially negated (e.g. change '=' to '!=') then even `or` would work, making 4 choices.

3. It's hard to choose between `->` vs. manually-nested expressions.

EDIT: formatting
...which kinda damns the idea that it's a vaccine mandate problem, no? If pilots were protesting vaccine mandates, I would not expect the problem to be isolated to Southwest.
Worst part is that the competitor has nothing to lose, so they basically will spend the whole margin of a sale on the ad. Which means that the original company has to do the same.

Where I worked before, Google could get $4 for ever $1 we made. And we actually delivered the service, and people googled our name. Pretty crazy...
> Producing... what, exactly? Right, "consumer goods." Or upstream supply chains for said, or machines to produce the machines that build said, or... etc.

Sorry to ruin your mic drop moment, but...

Of course, there is no way for individuals to know how much pollution was involved in the manufacture of the item, so the fact that they're manufacturing things that ultimately bottom out in consumer goods and services doesn't actually do anything. Even if you really want to minimize your footprint, you basically have to trust the packaging about whether the product is actually "green" ("greenwashing" exists as a term precisely because the packaging can't be trusted).

But you can't cheat carbon pricing. And consumers don't even need to care about the environment--carbon pricing aligns their economic interests with the interests of the climate, so the cheapest products will be the greenest. Of course, that really puts a damper on the fun for those of us who like to make a big show about how much we sacrifice for the environment.
projects involving high risk and liability include a Factor of Safety

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

i believe they did their calculus here though, and as long as the cost/benefit of this once-in-10-years event is amortized across 10 years...
Previous related threads on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11099247
This happens in roundabouts where I live. The cyclist comes from the left in a curve and my car is also turning. With a specific timing and alignment of the movements the cyclist stays exactly behind the A pillar the whole time. Especially insidious is that by turning my car my view is sweeping over the roundabout but the cyclist still stays hidden.

I learned to swing my upper body sideways to have a look behind the pillar. As a cyclist I learned to look for the face of the driver and to stop if I don't see the eyes.

Because I both hit a cyclist and got hit as a cyclist by a car.
Yup, exactly. I used to do third-party reviews at Google and people pretty much always ran the presubmit tests and the upgrade CLs had the dependent changes and approvals from those owners. I never encountered any breakage dramas (only people mad that they couldn't add a new programming language to google3); people were generally excellent citizens even though there was no "be an excellent citizen to get promoted" carrot around. (Hell, I did the third-party reviews out of the goodness of my heart, and I doubt any promo committee ever said "hey, we hate jrockway's project work and peer feedback, but he did rubber stamp that upgrade to foobarbaz so let's promote him".)

Things have probably changed since I left, but I bet the author's experience is pretty rare these days too. Google's system works quite well for their scale.
The other poster was framing it as an inflection point and I was questioning that.

Also the chyron wasn't truly wrong, it was summarizing a report about what transpired over 24 hours. The protests were "mostly peaceful" until they weren't. That was all discussed on screen while the chyron was displayed. The only way to be misled by the chyron was if you were watching the channel on mute or you just saw the screenshot flying around the internet being pushed by people who wanted you to think the media is lying.

The chyron said "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting" and it probably should have said "Mostly peaceful protests after police shooting turn fiery after nightfall" but that is both longer and clunkier. So they went with a more condensed version without thinking of the awful visual it would create when screenshotted. If this is journalism's worst crime, then we are in fantastic shape.
As a Brit I'm utterly disgusted by what's happened to this country under years of corrupt Tory misrule, and yes I'm also including NuLab during the Blair years but what can I do? I have consistently voted for pro EU parties but my voice seems to be drowned out by the baying racist xenophobic majority in this country. In the end it might be time to emigrate elsewhere.
Note that it seems you're talking about AVR32, then, and not an 8-bit AVR like we were talking about.

AVR32 was neat, but has lost all commercial relevance.
There is no storage solution. The required amount of batteries would be enormous, well in excess of production capacity. The only feasible solution to even out throths is (natural) gas plants. Neither coal nor nuclear are quickly adjustable in output, when combined with wind/solar they lead to peaks of overproduction. This is the situation in Germany.
There are plenty of vax-hesitant, anti-anti-anti-vax, and anti-vax comments in every HN thread on the topic. Most discussion in those threads is centered around those topics. If dissent weren't allowed, that wouldn't be true
> Russia and China score extremely well, and the US is the second worst?

This is a list of countries that benefit from capital flight from countries such as Russia and China.

> Who funded this?

https://taxjustice.net/our-funders/
Maybe you missed the part in Cold War doctrine where Germany is the battlefield intended to be used up to stop the invasion before the Rhine.
He filed software patents and enforced them.
> The signs at Glacier National Park warning that its signature glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being changed. [CNN link]

> In the 1990s, some climate model predicted the eponymous glacier would be gone by 2020. Signs around the parks' entrances were erected boldly stating this claim. In January of 2020, the signs were removed because the glaciers hadn't even shrunk. [GP]

No, the source backed up the GP, because the prediction was that the glacier would be gone. Whether or not it shrank is secondary.
Why do people currently south of the border deserve good wage increases less than you do? I see no reason.
At least four people killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway
Doesn't make free work for a for trillion dollar corporation something noble to do.

By that logic, a grocery store giving away everything for free is the right thing to do. Doesn't lead to anything sustainable though.
So for me the primary qualifier is “are functions first class”; then “can functions be defined like data” (lambda); then “does it have a rich library of functionality that allows one to program functionally with it”; then “Is fp style idiomatic” ; then probably “does it have a good method to control mutability”; then “does it control side effects”

There may be some other examples in there. Personally I like things with controlled side effects. But it’s just my preferred set of trade offs.

Anyway I mean its just tough to be dogmatic about it. I get what you’re saying but why is that the dividing line?
It’s less the Google tax than the “advertising is now efficient” tax.

Any other medium would theoretically have the same problem: if Ovaltine doesn’t sponsor kids’ radio shows in the 1950s and someone thinks they can deploy capital to grow a competitor, that someone will buy that slot. People couldn’t do this because there were human processes and relationships slowing this marketplace down. The thing that Google did was make it possible to test this at small scale.