skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my current concerns is that the demonization of climate scientists over the last 30 years has resulted in models that underestimate the timelines of how bad things get. Not an intentional conspiracy or anything, just a systemic natural response to the pressure of not wanting to be raked across the coals in the media as the "crazy".

As an example, the heat wave in the northwest of the USA and Canada this year was something I remember reading about as a problem to expect ~2050. Ditto for Siberia this year. Ditto for the snow in Sao Paolo.

I hope my concerns are misguided. I general though, short of a deus ex machina, I have no hope for the world doing anything about the climate emergency, even after it's obviously too late and even after the worlds seen a major city burned/wet bulbed/typhooned off the map.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/nvap/...
The video is cheesy but to say we are powerless to predict and prepare, and hopefully mitigate, is nihilism and apathy.
I've lived in Arizona my whole life and I didn't know what DST was until I was in high school. Arizona hasn't observed DST since 1967. I've been in other states a few times during the changeover and it's always seemed annoying to me.

We usually get our own selection in Time Zone menus, so that is kinda cool.
This is a response to something that was previously discussed extensively on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038356
We really are doomed, then. As long as we allow companies to externalize climate costs (which requires political decisions in order to change), there will be no reason for the market to care... at least not until it's too late to care.
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I love CSS, it was tricky to learn but worth the time!
Everyone is likely to be screwed in unpredictable ways, but New Zealand keeps coming up as a place where things won't be so bad. Siberia as well...
Most of them do plenty of bad shit but at least for a company like Amazon you can make the case that their logistics and infrastructure delivers real value and moves material goods around the world and creates quite harsh but at least reasonably paying blue collar jobs whereas Facebook and other 'social media' giants' drive political discourse to ruins, teenagers mad, and employ hordes of underpaid gig workers to sift through child abuse content and other horrid crap.

And that aside you're not forced to work for FAANG. Plenty of small companies around who do good work in healthcare or what have you, or national security, the defense sector and other public sectors desperately looking for engineers.

Plenty of work to do that is more meaningful than getting kids to click on ads.
They've not been tricked, really.

The majority of them want to do something completely benign like see a BBC show in the US, or watch an American football show in the UK, and the one defining feature of capitalism is its many contradictory faces.

One corporation wants to arbitrarily limit its customer base, and the other corporation wants to arbitrarily limit what data its customer base can see. In between the two is a space big enough to drive a Mack truck or a lorry through, depending on where you're from...

One might justify this until the one corporation merges with the other and then you have a situation where the same corporation wants to do two different things to the same pool of users.
At the expense of standing at the school bus stop in complete darkness for most mornings of the school year.

13 years of rising hours before dawn and walking and waiting in darkness is enough.

I would suggest that the government of any state or nation not be allowed to ever say what [civil] time it is, and require that they take technical timekeeping information--for TAI, UTC, UT1, and the like--from non-political scientific bodies.
Won’t get approval. Telecom operators of India have captured the regulatory regime.

No matter the color of govt, Local telcos will fight this to death.

Starlink though a good technology is DOA in India.
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Same explanation's used in the novel, too.
This is where truth and "truthiness" diverge, I suppose. "Two decades of claims about election fraud" shares character with "two decades of high rates of Stop-and-Frisk detainments of black New Yorkers." The rest of the world looks at the reasonable behavior of liberal election workers and would be reformers - no the "Moderate" Democrats, who as recently as last week were working to gerrymander one of their own party members out of office because they're a progressive - and the way they're received by certain subsets of the electorate, and justifiably consider us insane. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071163]

This statement

>That, in turn, has destroyed trust.

Is useful, though not in the way you probably think. The notion of "trust" in American politics is an important and powerful one, and the root of much of our history. Our basic structure as a federation is built on interstate trust. Our major flirtation with dissolution was not predicated on actual legislative action, but a lack of trust that certain actions wouldn't eventually be taken. So, trust is both a bedrock of our society and a curiously fragile thing.

As far as that notion goes, an examination of our history can yield the following statements:

That the Left has not always trusted the Right to make the "correct" decisions, but has always trusted them with the right to vote.

and

The Right has never trusted the Left with the right to vote.
I disagree. Quality is hard to measure in journalism and it’s definitely not as simple as free = bad, paid = good (or the reverse). I don’t consider asking for money for writing to be a big negative, folks gotta earn a living somehow.
For those thinking "Dupe", this specific submission seems to have hit the 2nd chance queue, as the item was submitted 2 days ago. Meaning it's not actually a duplicate.

Algolia shows the original submission date, at least for now:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
How did you get into that position tho?
Fax machines are special, and I don't see them leaving Japan soon.

As humans, we have a few forms of I/O: reading, writing, listening, speaking, typing, singing, doing, going.

Phone calls use listening and speaking. Emails are reading and typing.

It is possible to do some of these in parallel - I can listen to music and sing along while coding or walking.

Writing (with a pen or pencil) is not common on a computer. There are graphics tablets, but they are made for art, not legal signatures, and they don't include a paper copy.

Replacing the fax machine would involve Wacom (pen digitiser), Adobe (PDF certificate chain of trust), Mitsubishi (pens to make a hard copy while writing the tele-letter), and then 50 years of risk assessment throughout the organisation, slowly filtering through the Process changes needed to replace fax.

Should fax be replaced? Yes! Definitely! But there's reasons why the culture in Japan still uses fax, and changing the root cause is much more work than just suggesting another communication preference. If someone told me to leave a voicemail to Hacker News instead of a typed comment, I probably wouldn't have sent this reply. People are not wrong to prefer writing, and fax technology still serves their needs better than email.
Many people do this with the Costco Food Court, just saying, there is something pretty powerful about providing food as your loss leader to consistently get traffic
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This type of attack isn't new. I can't recall the names but there are afair multiple C/C++ coding standards that limit everything to ASCII to avoid precisely this attack, but also others with visually similar but nonequivalent names.
Chicken shouldn't be rinsed; it's a weirdly persistent myth, not actual safety advice.

I live in a non-chlorinated-poultry country, and there are still dept of health ads every Christmas warning people not to attempt to rinse turkeys; wherever the idea came from it probably wasn't chlorination.
Step diagrams are what lawyers call flow charts, but with a design convention language that's a bit like UML, and with tons of meta data attached to each element. There's also a time dimension as you can step through to see each stage of a legal process.

I understand what they are as a dev but I'm not a lawyer so I can't point you to anything more unfortunately.
The games Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You and Orwell: Ignorance is Strength explore this aspect, the player is an investigator that can read "whatsapp messages and google searches" to prosecute (or, in some cases, protect) people on the run from a stasi-like state.
You need to be more concise when posting or you will get down voted
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Sure, there are things the former Playboy programmer could have said to explain why he left that job that wouldn't have raised red flags. But he didn't. Our perception was that he thought taking an anti-porn stance would make him seem more virtuous. Once he started bad-mouthing his former manager and co-workers we had to wonder whether the workplace was the problem, or if that guy was the problem.

When someone is looking for a new job the prospective employer understands implicitly that the candidate is not completely happy with their current situation (or else they wouldn't be looking to leave). Every workplace has its share of dysfunction. Usually the reason is "more money" but candidates will rarely come out and say that.

By the way, I didn't write that "you should always be positive." I wrote that bad-mouthing your former employer is never a good idea when talking to a prospective future employer, and you should have an answer to the inevitable "Why are you looking to leave?" or "Why did you leave?" questions that doesn't involve saying "That job sucks."
No they won't. Just like the employees at Dow Chemical Company who helped manufacturer Agent Orange or White Phosphorous, they won't get questioned.
There's no claim here to the contrary.
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"But the thing that optimizes for nerd status and job security and resume building is to increase complexity, because most people cannot appreciate the sophistication of simplicity in some technological niche, and it is not easily communicated."

I think you're on to something there, except for the "job security" part. I've met very few people in tech who are concerned about losing their jobs, and fewer of them would make things much more complex---they didn't have the skills.

In fact, most of the majority I have known who produced complexity were optimizing for nerd status and resume building, but would quit rather than maintain their own complex code.
The 63-79 isn't apples to apples - it's comparing Congressional representation to Presidential votes.

We should be comparing number of seats assigned to each party and % of vote cast for each party.
Isn't reporting the builtin the best behavior, since that's what will run if you type `command`?
I'd argue that what we see in terms of living standards in ostensibly socialist countries is much more due to corruption of office, which happens here too, vs the way that profit is shared among a business. Three of my city councilmembers have been indicted by the FBI for corruption in the last three years. Luckily in the U.S. the levers of power are pulled by more people dispersed across a larger bureaucracy, so corruption of office can only affect so many things, vs somewhere like PRNK or KSA where there is absolute rule.

There are plenty of businesses that run on a more socialist model even within capitalist countries. They are owner operated and share profit amongst the cooperative, are often successful and have motivated employees who work longer tenures than your average employee at a company where they don't see any share of the profit for their hard work.
EU to strengthens security of wireless devices and products sold in EU
When I've gone to tech conferences over the years, I've heard talks given by fb/instagram devs about the problems they're working on, and the tools they've created to do it.

On one level it seems very alluring--pay, technical challenges, being at the cutting edge of new technology. But for me those points can't counteract the role fb has in society and what people generally think of the company.

Culture is important, and it starts at the top.
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I'm very happy to see that the danger of climate change finally is being takes (somewhat) serious.

We have known for the last fifty years that we are doing serious harm to our ecosystem and will run into disaster if we don't stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Exxon knew it by the 1970ies, so did Shell and Total and BP. How they have managed to hoodwink everyone into climate denialism[0] is beyond me, but I guess it has to do with the millions and millions that have been spent lobbying[1] local, national and global leaders.

And that just illustrates the problem with our precious life support system[2]; it's a commons and as such not protected by anyone. If you can profit by externalizing costs created by damaging the ecosystem, it usually pays off. The damages will only appear years and years later and the perpetrators will all be long gone by the time the real consequences hit. Win-Win, I guess? Just imagine not having to pay the cleanup and reparation in the order of trillions of dollars and you _still_ get to keep the few billions you made? Amazing.

If even economy-focused publications like .. well... The Economist are finally taking climate change serious, it makes me sad, because it just goes to show that the situation is dire indeed. Otherwise it would just be the Hippies that are concerned about 'Mothership Earth'.

In the end I doubt that anything will change - but hey! - there's to hopin'.

[0] Or as we nitpickers like to say; denial of the fact that the recent climatic changes have been caused by humans

[1] bribing

[2] Earth and it's diverse and wonderful ecosystems
I would prefer doing away with DST.

Probably the vast majority of people with sleep disorders would do better with it as well.

I'm not convinced that we're universally a sunrise-to-sunset species, just some of us are.
My comment should be read as an observation on the current state of things not an absolute statement of universal truth.
Wait, are they scare quotes, or am I quoting you?

The fact that you can't decide makes me think you know I wasn't quoting you, which was contextually obvious.

I find the rest of your argument equally sincere and convincing.
Also helps with naming. Only need a value once or twice? Don’t bother trying to name it, just link it into the tree where it’s needed.
> these folks are misinformed voters and it's hurting our climate policy

For the electorate it isn't really a matter of information or education. People have things they care about more or are vote based on emotion.

In a way it's like trying to use logic to convince somebody to support The Atlanta Braves rather than the Yankees. They didn't get there through a process of logic and isn't logic that's going to change them.
Yet in 2020 their renewable energy capacity expansion accounted for nearly 80% of global additions in 2019-2020

See page 6 of this report from the international energy agency:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/18a6041d-bf13-4667-...

And they appear to be one of the few nations currently pursuing expansion in next generation nuclear reactors that cannot be weaponized:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w
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Maybe? Yes? I'm not opposed to the idea of more, narrower time zones, though I think that in practice anything less than one-hour differences would be more complicated than it's worth.

Chicago has the opposite problem, where it's dark at 4:30pm in the winter.
Mmm, but not everything we might iterate is actually eligible to be a slice.
> Surely you left a massive amount of money on the table then, right?

s/surely/potentially/

They may have been better off also. At least the agent commissions are saved, and maybe other costs. If the buyer is motivated to buy, who knows if they weren't already over market?
Why? Because the people responsible for the abusive website might see the complaints and be offended?
Or explain that DST means getting up earlier vs. sleeping in.
I find this writing style really hard to follow.
Trial courts do not set precedent. The only way precedent will get set is if this arguement is taken up on appeal.
I disagree: the climate crisis is the single most scariest thing that we have done to our planet. Other forms of mass environmental destruction (next to what you mentioned also mass animal extinction,rainforest destruction,PFAS) are all horrible but are more of a temporal and localized nature. With enough will and effort they can all be addressed like the hole in the ozon layer. The climate crisis is already many decades in the making and cannot realistically be prevented. It is happening and the only question is not if but how much you will be impacted
No, the courts wouldn't. A genuine innocent purchaser, properly registered at the Land Registry, has good title. (Note: not the fraudster - their downstream victim). The original victim's options for recompense are the scammer, the solicitors who did the conveyance for the fraudster (if negligent), or the Land Registry itself.

Nobody is going to end up as the accidental innocent purchaser of a stolen Sellafield, so that's not a concern. If the government really needs to reverse a transaction under these circumstances it could use a compulsory purchase order or a private act of Parliament.
I believe this is false. Every day at work, I see many instances of people choosing self-enrichment over the betterment of society. We are lost in a see of state and corporate sponsored activism for social justice causes, which distracts from other significant existential issues.