skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'll repeat here--that I don't believe altruism will solve greenhouse gas emissions and global warming: it'll only be solved when it becomes economic to do so.

Completely agree. We need governments to ensure externalities (both positive and negative) are reflected in market pricing so that economic forces can operate efficiently.

Implication: there must be a debt to pay for past and present GHG output. It should not be punitive. But it should be clear and predictable.
Perhaps so, I read it more along the lines of "EU discovered they did not do enough" because the ruling did have an effect; the EU Parliament went ahead with Article 116 against not just Ireland but also Netherlands and Belgium. So they _do_ target and attempt to improve the internal market.
Do we need something like... Business, corporations can't do one thing: not making money. If they don't and can't pay taxes they go bankrupt and can't operate anymore.

Can we have a carbon bankrupt ? If a company can't prove they are not emitting CO2 or getting CO2 out of the atmosphere then they are not allowed to operate anymore ?

I know it's nickelodeonsimplistic but can't carbon emissions be considered more important than money when deciding to allow companies to operate ?
Is this telemarketing for zoomers
Maybe also, someone who sells you Y, but none of unrelated M,N,O,P,Q,R -- if she is nevertheless familiar with those, you could ask her about those
Unless it’s been edited in the meantime*, the text above is “precludes any publicly elected official or appointee at any level from directly owning individual stocks”.

Many publicly elected or appointed roles are part-time (school board/committee, city council, etc.) Even MA state legislators make only $70.5K/yr and MA is one of the highest-paying states for that job. Many of them maintain another full-time job.

https://ballotpedia.org/Comparison_of_state_legislative_sala...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966192 (edit window is 2 hours)
Florida Man scores vast free advertising for new service, not unlike the way he obtained billions worth of free advertising in 2016 and center-staging at every debate.
I know people who fit your description, and i know people who "hardened up" and unlearned to care. It is probably another factor.
And so... Firefox should cater to your use case and drop support for others'? Is that really what you're arguing?

It's none of my business what parts of the web you frequent. But I'm only a hobbyist and I see FTP links all the time. Most recently while looking for older character set information for a homegrown libiconv-type project.

Firefox 90 removed functionality that has been a part of the standard experience for a quarter-century and is still in widespread use. It is a bug.
The economics of a natural carbon market will never work out. There is simply too much carbon available for too low of a price.

The carbon capture market NEEDS to have public funding/intervention to make it profitable.

Now, carbon capture will be important if we want to have a chance of undoing atmospheric CO2, but IMO, while now it the time to invest in research it's not the time to deploy. More public/government funds need to be pushed towards limiting CO2 output and eliminating sources of CO2.

The notion of carbon capture is much the same as having urine capture in a swimming pool. There is no way it won't cost more energy to remove than it produced when released.
Yeah, it’s been branded “enhanced oil recovery”, and iirc it’s currently the most economically rewarding use for CO2.
No, at least not at the start. The education industry needs competition, specifically competitive curriculums, where companies compete to make their customers the smartest with their products. Especially at the start, we need a competitive advantage in order to get a foothold to build better educational products.
I almost guarantee that you never tried to start a business here in the last ten years.

I used to work for a cloud provider that helped bootstrap business projects, research and start-ups, first in france then in the later years, all over europe.

Do you know how long it took to start a service company in France in 2018? Half a day. And the government own service that help a lot with online identity and paper filling wasn't even online yet, i'm pretty sure that if i want to start a limited company, and make this company employ myself as a freelancer/self-employed (don't know the exact translation), i'd be able to do it in a day.
Tell it to autocorrecting keyboard on my android.
> It is a tool of thought _for smart people_.

As I said, if this were really true, there would be evidence of people using it to express thoughts that are too hard to express by other means. But in reality, people who think in APL just don't seem to be on the forefront of published algorithmic thought.

It might be helpful to contrast APL with nonstandard analysis, a mathematical tool of thought for doing rigorous real analysis more easily. People have proved new and useful results in nonstandard analysis, and the fact that these results were first proved in nonstandard analysis is at least some evidence that nonstandard analysis served as a real tool of thought to produce those results. (To be fair, the idea that nonstandard analysis was an essentially tool in these proofs is controversial among mathematicians. But there is at least the hard fact of the results being proved first by this means.)

So, if smart people are able to use APL to push the boundaries of algorithmic thought, we'd expect APL-ers to have that sort of achievement to show for it. But we don't see that. After pre-existing thoughts are translated into APL's logography, there does not seem to be any demonstrable enhancement of the ability to reason about algorithms. Or maybe there is some enhancement for that individual person, relative to their abilities without APL, but it does not seem to cause that person to rise above the general human level of algorithmic ability.

"APL as a tool of thought" seems to be a beautiful theory whose predictions have not met with reality.
I would argue that

* There are plenty of evil small companies as well.

* Small companies can turn evil more quickly than big ones can.

* The evil things big companies do is more likely to be a matter of public record already than the evils of a small company.

* Big companies sometimes have the scale to make a bigger impact at the "nice" things they do than small companies.

That's not to say that there aren't some impactful, ethical small companies out there. I'm just saying that the choice is not as clear cut as it's made out to be.

Sincerely, your BigCo Corporate Drone
When I started a new job, one thing in orientation was "the 'e' in 'e-mail' stands for 'evidence'."
> bash is far behind concerning interactivity.

Is it really? Projects like ble.sh [1] seem to pull off advanced features like syntax highlighting and enhanced completion with pure bash without the need for reimplementing a whole shell from the ground up.

1.: https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh
Some accounts have all their posts go straight to [dead]. Not sure of the reasons, but I’m sure @dang would know. All you can do is vouch for it if it’s a good comment.
yep. once you’ve had to deal with XMLs that come in without a schema alongside, you start appreciating getting a JSON. at least that properly distinguishes strings, nulls, integers and decimals.
Electrifying vehicles at a mass scale actually has a lot of problems, not the least of which is does the grid support the ability to transmit that much power. In many places it does not.

That aside, electrifying vehicles doesn't necessarily reduce emissions significantly. It may simply shift the emissions from individual vehicles to the power plant that produces the power that charges the cars.

Now this is nearly always a net positive: large-scale fossil-fuel burning power generation is pretty much always more efficient (even accounting for transmission power loss) but the point is that emissions don't go to zero.

Another interesting thought: the price of gasoline acts as a barrier to vehicle usage to some degree. As in, knowing you have to spend $50 to fill up the tank affects your behaviour to varying degrees. Well with electric vehicles depending on where you live that marginal cost might be <$5 per tank-equivalent of range.

I wonder if that means that with a fully electrified vehicle fleet, people will end up driving more because of the lower marginal costs.
Given all the concerns that FB is a threat to democracy, it’s fascinating to look back at 2008’s glowing praise for Barack Obama’s use of social media to propel him to the presidency [1].

And without Twitter there would be no Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Whose ascension is a huge win for American democracy.

It is so easy to paint social media as the bad guy, when meanwhile it has been responsible for some of the most transformative global popular movements in recent times. E.g. Arab Spring

I feel we don’t talk enough about the rotten underlying dynamics that make the US society so vulnerable to Russian interference, demagogues, and conspiracy theories. Social media is weaponizing these awful dynamics, but it’s feeling like so much “blame the messenger”.

FB has literally been asking to be regulated for years now. (And yes, cynically, it’s also smart to get the government to help you dig your moat.) But I’d be surprised if new sm rules alone are the answer to the societal rot and division, precarity and poor education that defines so much of American culture.

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1. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...
Why is it that competence is so hard? This disaster was discussed in news media well over a year out, and yet, it happened anyway.
And suspense is the worst thing to happen to React
While 500 mA is a maximum for USB 1.x/2.x without extensions, a device is supposed to request it from the host, the default limit is only 100 mA.
This was the BIOS only.

That was only valuable because the rest was already open.
Exactly! Bloomberg spent $1B on his nomination for president and… it failed entirely.
But the news told me the only people remaining in Afghanistan are those that wanted to stay!
I am not familiar with 'mpweiher's opinions on optimizers, but I do want to make an important distinction: there are optimizations like "this abstraction will get inlined" or "the compiler is aware of this idiom" that are will happen essentially 100% of the time. C++ pioneered the approach of "zero cost abstractions" that depend on a smart compiler to get you good code, with Swift and Rust following its footsteps. This is how you can have a nice thing like an array type whose subscript function doesn't literally turn into a function call, etc.

What happened here in this blog post is the code was relying on a higher-level optimization that compilers aim to hit, but necessarily cannot in every case: things like vectorization, loop unrolling, or branch elimination, are keyed on heuristics that frequently change. In general this is not a big deal, because the compiler will pick something reasonable, but in the hottest sections of your code this kind of thing can kill performance. When people say they can beat a compiler, it's these kinds of places where you'd do it, and in that point I do agree that compiler optimizations can be limited in their benefit.

IMO (which is heavily biased towards "zero-overhead abstractions") this is still a strong showing for smart compilers. In 99% of cases, the compiler gives you what you want with less code, and then you profile to find the spots where it needs a bit of help.
Note that €30 is obtained with pure CO2 as input. What's the cost of going from air to that? Or even from exhaust to that?
Obviously this article is a rant and farce.

I also know some designers who argue this very honesty.

For the latter case you know you’re in an irrational argument when someone passionately dislikes some subjective aesthetic, but shows no understanding the practice:

> “Why do they exist? I guess because real shutters look so great that a lot of other people wanted to jump on the shutter band wagon but couldn’t afford real shutters.”

It’s ok to ignore the argument.
It might be both, some sort of feedback loop.

My take on this is that in a small company, the individual with his morals and values can still have an impact on the behaviour of a company. Above a certain size, when the company is public, the individual has less impact on the company, and there is an emergent behaviour that is only driven by the incentive to "enhance shareholder value", and all moral values that the company could follow, and that come from individuals in the company, disappears.

A company's social role is to provide jobs and goods for the society to work well. But this is not aligned with the survival incentive of the company, to "enhance shareholder value", which becomes it's only role.
The process described in the paper can be used only after CO2 is separated from the air, not instead of it.

Nevertheless converting CO2 into a solid reduces the volume one thousand times and makes its storage very simple.

I doubt that there could be found enough subterranean spaces that can be sealed well enough, in which to pump as much CO2 as it would be needed to reduce the concentration in the air.
Again hammer to microscope comparison.
Do you realize that your ignorance is bigger than Solar System?
Hooks are a great start, I hope people embrance the functional paradigm more and we don't have another hype cycle of OOP for some reason ..
> I don't understand the revenue argument and I've read all the comments.

Look at the top-comment, you have obviously NOT read all the comments:

>>Decriminalise drugs and criminals will lose most of their revenue.

>Sure it works. Look at Holland, does it have a substantially higher or even a higher incidence of drug use than e.g. neighboring countries? I don't think so.

Yeah look how good it works:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBva8anWQBk1Ptr?format=jpg&name=...

>Cheese, Cocaine and Killers: how holland became a mafia paradise through lax drug policies.

It's from this month.

Another?

https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2020/01/netherlands-nar...

And here some taste of reality:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/netherlands-belgium-switzerl...

>Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland tops in drug use in Europe
Exact the same analogy Dan Abramov used in his blog: https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/
It's kind of unpredictable. David Goggins suffered terrible violence and it made him tougher to handle smaller harms.

On the other hand there are people who never recover and are never the same again.
> sell attention

This is the fundamental problem. People think they should be able to do that. They should not.

It is extremely dehumanizing when some stupid ad works its way into my mind. I never asked for this. I never wanted it. They just keep forcing it. They feel entitled to it. They think it's their right to keep showing me this stuff. They think they own my senses. A couple seconds ago some asshole with a huge speaker just drove past my house blasting ads for what I assume was a local supermarket. Everybody thinks it's great. It's a nuisance but it creates honest jobs, right? How will the poor little companies get consumers otherwise?

Attention is precious. It should not be wasted on advertisers and their little brands and products. It's a privilege that must be freely given and punished severely if violated without consent. Like rape. That's what advertising is really. Mind rape.
This is a scam.
Restaurants prep for labor crunch by turning to robots
That's what happens when you put your trust in autocorrect: you lose all the thrust ))))

I've turned off the autocorrect, and now I get all kinds of stupid touch interface mistypes, and lose time over correcting them, but at least i'm not miscorrected all the time.
If you expose yourself to macro-harms... you tend to... die.
That is assuming it takes less than a year to convert all that amount. At the given rate of .1 liter/minute, you'd need a lot of those installations or quite the scale-up.
> That said, if we have a very liberal definition of the word "website" to include any successor technologies where a device can be used to request a document, given an identifier, that looks recognizably like your webpage, this is doable.

Let's not restrict this to "successor technologies." If we look to prior art, the traditional solution has been to deposit a copy of a work in a library. In that light, OP sounds like they're looking for the concept of a "family chronicle."
October 15, 2021

The Honorable Joseph R. Biden

President of the United States of America

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. N.W.

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Biden,

I am pleading with you again as a fellow proud American and as a husband to help my wife and I get home from Afghanistan.

We were just as surprised as you when this country fell to Taliban control so quickly, and we could not get to HKIA before attempts at evacuation became life threatening. Since then, we have waited patiently for assistance from the Department of State as directed, to no avail. In the past two weeks, DOS (points of contact below) purportedly manifested us for three flights. After we risked our lives getting through Taliban checkpoints, the 4 October flight was cancelled because passengers did not have visas for UAE, where the flight was to land. Another flight departed 11 October but we never got a call to go to the airport. The third scheduled for 13 October was apparently cancelled. We learned details of the latter flights from our Congressman, the Hon. Darrell Issa, who flew to Doha to meet us, and not from the DOS.

These are not the only attempts we've made through DOS since August. We understood early on that one issue was my wife's immigration status — she has been waiting for her green card interview since 2019. We understand that we will have to continue the process in a third country before we can come home, and have completed all the E-visa requirements as directed by DOS. We simply do not understand why we were not called for the flight on Monday, and the DOS cannot explain it to us or to Congressman Issa.

The information we are receiving from DOS is not consistent with what is happening. They also continue to use WhatsApp to communicate with us which, as evidenced by the blackout last week, is not secure or a reliable means of communication. I regretfully do not know whether to trust the DOS with our life and safety or to turn to other means to escape. This is not a position I would wish on anyone, and certainly not American citizens.

There are a number of things for which we are grateful, however. We are fortunate to have our health (I have also been I have been helping female Americans without male escorts stuck in Kabul by retrieving critical medication from pharmacies), and the support of veterans with which I served alongside and NGOs. Those volunteers work 24 hours a day to help ensure our health and safety and that of the other Americans trapped here.

[REDACTED] But I am an American and I am begging you to get us home. I know you will do the right thing, Sir.

Sincerely,

[REDACTED]
Look at the comment you first replied to though. What are you actually arguing? That US or UK don't understand what goes on, or that you can't find anecdotal instances of them attempting to improve their regulation?
If they are paid with RSUs, they are also shareholders.
What is the problem exactly?

That people get addicted, which is a mental illness, or they use substances you personally don't approve off?

Caffeine would never be a non-prescription medication had it been invented today.
> How would that work in practice?

You could ask everyone to confirm their age with eID.
Its basically in every country where people vote against their best interest because rich people told them to do so, but it isnt as celebrated as much. I agree that if the government misuses the population in every way possible, that you start to lose trust in it. But how can it be that people think the solution to this is less democracy, more power to companies? It looks like some weird form of masochism.

Every law creates and restricts freedom. Food safety laws restricts the freedom of restaurants: need to clean kitchen, remove all the cockroaches etc., but gives the people the freedom to eat food everywhere without getting sick.

More regulations on FB restricts its freedom to misuse the attention of the population to make more money, but also gives citizens the freedom to consume less fake news.
None of what you just said seems to have any substance as it all sounds very abstract and easily doable in other languages (I.e. Python through exec). What should I read in order to understand the difference?
Because the lobbyists support their political campaigns.
Most languages we use these days are imperative - we tell the compiler the steps to take in order to complete a goal.

Prolog is a declarative, logic language - we tell the compiler what the goal is, and the compiler works out the steps to take in order to complete that goal.
This is also, in my experience, wrong.

But you also started with "lucking out that the product grew" as your view for how that happens too.
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I don't think he had any expectation or interest in winning. He bought his way in to divert votes from other nominees. Spend a billion to save 10 billion.
Right, that's why I mentioned Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's a unix that runs on top of the nt kernel.
> So the best reason I can think of to oppose your plan is simply that it's a futile waste of time.

Time is a pretty small consideration here.

One can and should apply many means to lessen corruption. Transparency is certainly important, but no means is going to cover all cases or be 100% effective. Reduce the possibility of conflict of interest and increase transparency.

The problem with transparency, if you're relying on democracy to do the rest, is that any sufficiently clever corruption scheme is simply not going to be understood by the public you're relying on to oppose it. If you give them an explanation in detail they mostly see simply that it's detailed. It looks no different from a conspiracy theory to most people, who will barely be following the issue anyway. Most voters are low information voters. The information they need is which party backs which position. They in effect vote as they're told, not because they're stupid but because none of this interests them.
Maybe you shouldn't collect the information about anybody unless you have a way of discriminating.

I run some (low-traffic) websites. I don't collect any information about anyone. It's not essential.
I've gotta say, I don't really understand why the industry is so in love with human readability for computer to computer interaction.

It seems like a notion that started in the early internet and just refuses to die.

Everything on the internet is minified and compressed at this point, so the entire idea of "human readability" left the station years ago. Yet I'll still see a primary complaint against the likes of http2+ being "it's a binary format! On NO!".

JSON seems like a similar relic. We use it not because it's fast, but because we like the idea that it's easy to decode (Even if in practice that almost never happens).
I don't know of a way that's both widespread, cheap and legal.

* Country-specific: prepaid cards like Suica in Japan, purchasable with cash from ATMs.

* Not that cheap: offshore bank account.

* Not legal: crypto card with "borrowed" KYC.

So basically unless you're lucky to be living in a country with a privacy-respecting culture, you have to act like a criminal to regain the basic right to privacy.
Many people have the causation backwards. The high pay is because the engineers are able to leave the job.
This doesn't mean a thing. Pure entropy. It's amazing how powerless EU Parliament really is AND how people don't get how powerless it really is.