skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

This page provides some useful info.

With just the briefest of glances, some cited numbers: 1.9 billion people in extreme poverty in 1990, 730 million in 2015, 650 million in 2018.

The 1.9 billion -> 650 million in 28 years is 120k people / day.
The 730 million -> 650 million in 3 years is 73k people / day.
That initial comment asked to

> detail why

which you dind't. You just answered with a general attack on the Gnome devs saying - I paraphrase - that they are arseholes that don't to your bidding.

I then tried to get more detail and asked explicitly for your experiences with contributing to Gnome, because I didn't have bad experiences at all. So far, you didn't tell me if and what you tried to contribute or what exactly your experiences were.

> This is amazing circular logic...

If anything, it amazing lack at deflection. Common, spit it out. Where did the bad Gnome devs touch you?

> Linux has too many DE's because projects like gnome have a narrow focus that only care about their own goals and give 2 shits less if you do not agree with them. That is fine... but then people need to stop saying "dont fork, contribute"

Nowhere in this thread was this expressed. Instead it was "Why cannot you contribute" to which you just answer with a stale old general and lame excuse ("They have a narrow focus and only care about their own goals" - no really, to they? The meanies!) that can be applied to every open source project out there.

I'm sick and tired of people dumping on the Gnome devs. They are doing a great job and a promising idea of a desktop that goes beyond the desktop of the 80ies and 90ies. Almost all of the complaints come from people that have neither the interest nor the ability to truly contribute and find it easier to simply complain and bitch about. Sad!

If you truly want to contribute and better Gnome - convince them!

Start by fixing papercuts and show them that you are able. Get involved at the design stage and bring in your brilliant ideas. Take over responsibility in the team and make sure that your good decision making powers are acknowledged in the team.

Don't just jump in from the side with your one-trick-pony issue, shouting in their faces and then complain an moan if they don't immediately obey. That's lame.
> One is a public health crisis and the other isn't. Conflating the two is an absurdity

Well, it is called an analogy, isn’t it? No one said it is exactly the same.

> One person can only have one car crash, ever, […]

Except not. As people who can be infected, infect others, fall sick again, and so on. People can have multiple accidents with varying degree of charm for themselves and others. Also, you forget that car crashes can also have more than 2 vehicles involved, especially on highways.

> a disservice to any attempt at getting antivaxers to understand the seriousness of the situation.

Well, I took for granted I am not talking to one. I would certainly need to use a different approach then. The issue with antivaxxers is that the reasons for their behavior often seems orthogonal to logical arguments, and aligns more with emotional responses like fear of the unknown and political and/or religious views.
Capitalism is such an overused term. I like to say I prefer a system where prices are fully reflective of realities (health and safety, pollution, working conditions), and people can more or less transact as they please. This still leaves a lot of room for debate of course.

But my gripe with the current world is more that things don't cost what they cost, rather than people being too free to deal. My guess is that a lot of people actually feel the same way, regardless of whether they identify as a leftie or a rightie.

One thing about the world as it is now is that you see nearly nothing of how the sausage is made. We know what we're consuming, but it's rare to understand how it go to your house. Were pesticides used to grow your food? Did the cow suffer when it was slaughtered? Did the guy who drove your stuff across the country have to shit in a bag? What about the white collar guy who flies around to meetings all the time, does he see his kids during the week? The sports star who makes millions, does he suffer from relentless pressure?

Some of the most rewarding experiences involve relationships with other people. We have this transactional economy where you walk into a shop and someone gives you food and you leave, but one of my favourite things to do is actually talking to shopkeeper. How is business, how does it work, what are your thoughts on things? I'm friends with a number of people whose shops I wandered into and have since kept in touch with. That could be called capitalism too, but we tend to associate the term with an uncaring sort of brutal dystopia if we're a leftie, or a kind of necessary evil if we're a rightie. YMMV of course, as I mentioned the term means a lot of things to a lot of people.
Yeah. I avoid driving because there's no metric in my life that's positively correlated with me driving (not seeing loved ones, not being paid, not learning) so I use ride hailing so that "I" do not drive, own a car, or spend time looking for parking. One fewer vehicle on the road.

However, I also choose the time to move. When I worked in an office 18 kilometres away and took public transportation, I'd wake up at 0430 in the morning to avoid traffic. When I hired a cab, I'd still do the same and arrive very early at the office, and either leave very late, or very early to avoid traffic.

Usual disclaimer: to each their situation. I have the flexibility to leave and come as I please, and now to work remotely, but on the other hand, horrible public transportation system (up to 6 hours daily. Heck we built our machine learning platform in part so we don't come to the office).
DLP resin printers are making it down to consumer pricing, and the LCD based printers are now getting 8k screens - after priming and painting, you'll have a hard time distinguishing from a miniature printed with these from one cast.
We recently went through this hell converting a NodeJS codebase to TypeScript. One reason many people willingly enter this hellscape is because we need ES modules for typescript.

I say “need” because Typescript wont ingest types from “required” files, you have to import them as modules.

So before we converted a single file to TS we has to audit all commonjs imports and exports to convert them to ES modules.

I agree wholeheartedly that the end result was a fools errand. I would have rather spent the time adding support for importing types via a require which for some reason returns any “any” today.
I think it's a very big problem when learning things that almost everything can be made to sound plausible when you don't have real world experience to compare them to.

It's also very easy for those plausible-sounding ideas to stick around for so long in your mind that you sort of start taking them for granted, and we tend to be really bad at scrutinizing those things we take for granted.

It's only much later, when it just isn't working, and you're relutantly forced to come face to face with the difficult fact that some of the things you thought you knew really well were just some loudmouth opinion on the internet.
This is my argument against cryptocurrency - it's capitalism taken to the extreme and we're already struggling to mitigate the downsides of capitalism.

Don't get me wrong, capitalism is a great thing and has brought us to where we are today but it has downsides. In the 21st century a government's primary purpose is simply to mitigate those downsides. However, governments are increasingly losing this power struggle. Democracy is being manipulated by capitalist-driven propaganda machines. And now, with the rise of cryptocurrencies, we're mitigating governments of their ability to control money too.

If you read that last sentence and thought that that's a good thing then maybe you've fallen prey to those propaganda machines. Government's provide citizens with everything from healthcare, roads and infrastructure, education, welfare and much more. Inflation is high at the moment because government's bailed out their most vulnerable citizens with massive welfare payments. Stripping government's of such abilities is societal suicide.

It's no coincidence that the country that is most money-hungry and capitalistic is also the worst at providing these things (relatively).

For when the measure of a man is the depth of his pockets, then the world shall be ran by clowns.
Lobotomy could lower violent tendencies. Maybe we should force it on everyone to save a few people a year? That is to protect others.
What's freegan? Some sort of conscious consumption?
Ever since Google's inception there was always this intrinsic motivation to tackle real life hard problems and get the best and brightest people to solve them. Add to that their huge investment into machine learning and related fields and you can see why they bought DeepMind and other similar companies/projects.

Protein folding, as far as I understand, is a very challenging problem. There's a huge profit potential for such endeavour, not to mention the scientific advancement of that field. Only a fool would let that chance pass by.

Recall that Alphabet was created with the intention of forming a group of different, unrelated and independent companies (of which Google is part of and basically funds the entire operation). The goal here, IMO, is to diversify investment and therefore increase profit potential.

To get a better picture of the whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

Also, read the founders' letter: https://abc.xyz/
Just as an aside... every web app I write these days starts with an index.html page that has a window["deploy"] bool at the top. If that's false, the first script just requires the unbuilt files. If true, it requires the compiled and minified version. I only rebuild when I'm ready to upload.
detritus:

> If you mean me, I run a shop with various machines that produce things as a business.

> Irrespective of who you mean, you should perhaps keep your sanctimony closer to your chest, it grates here.

I meant anyone. There's no need to attack. The ancestor comment wanted to 3d print a bottle drying stick, someone replied and said just make it out of wire, and I endorsed that idea, and clarified by saying that a machine is a waste when your needs are simple. Identifying use cases where specialized machines are not appropriate is worthy of discussion. I really meant bending wire hangers and pointed out that it would be bad to get a machine when literally bending wire hangers would work.
Why do you think a cure is even possible (within any reasonable amount of time)? For many years people have been trying to come up with cures for AIDS, various cancers, and even simple colds. While we can manage those better now, we still don't have true cures for them.
> Can you meet the family of the old people you killed, look them in the eye and say ‘It was my right!’

Lazarus Long would have outlived the people who infringed his rights.
Rather a negative outlook.
Interested to see a modern take on Linux desktop that's neither irritatingly minimalist or constantly breaking things with every update.
A lot of materials from housing can be recycled, not sure about the concrete. Sure, it will be expensive to demolish numerous buildings, factories, replant trees and migrate residents to new thriving cities. But that's a one-time short term cost for long term gains. Think of all those south eastern US cities that get destroyed year after year by tornadoes and hurricanes, yet the government/FEMA still provide aid for them to rebuild... in the same danger zone.

For a $9.25 to $10 raise to do the same shit in a dying town, you might as well leave and go to a big city with more people, mixed cultures and better opportunities.
Or don’t even bother with the awaited import and instead import it at the top of the file, I fail to see why this is even an issue lol
There's something that gets to me anytime I see animals with their offsprings.

A documentary about octopuses last moments in life, really shook me. It might be interpretation/anthropomorphism but anyway, apparently after laying eggs, the octo mom will breath out water (warmed by her body) around them. The process lasts a while and when she's exhausted she spends the remaining energy to swim as far as possible and die. The theory being she'd rather not attract predators with her corpse. A final step in sacrifice.

I too now try to redirect life forms to where they can live better. I used to seriously arachnophobic but nowadays I can manage grabbing a box or a long piece of paper to move insects around or outside if needs be.
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That’s also why everyone loves crypto. The idea of sovereignty. Vote for whatever you want every 4 years, the market votes with every purchase.

Vote for stimulus, that stimulus just drives crypto higher. Everyone knows that one day all of it is going to be paid for by the people holding USD
This might represent a common misconception about PGP. The algorithm preference information is embedded in the PGP identity. It is signed by the certification/signing key. So a downgrade attack would involve breaking the cryptogrphy used for the certification/signing key. CAST5 is not used for certification or signing and has been nowhere close to the start of the preferences for a really long time. Having CAST5 as some sort of last ditch backward compatibility thing is no more of a weakness than the fact that the computer I am using to write this has an MD5 command.

Having said that, what is wrong with CAST5 for PGP application? What does it have to do with a system that is all about signing things?
> the shift of power away from the democratic sphere

The "democratic sphere" is where anti-vaxxers and climate deniers roam. It seems doubtful democracy will help with a solution. Other systems are worse, of course. Hence, no solution.
Oh, it's for fun, not to actually explain. For example, "JAM" suggests

JSON Azure MongoDB

Java ASP.NET MongoDB

JSON Apache Microsoft Access

etc.
Why do people get on stuff some known people use blindly?

That is such a bad habit like everyone getting on git and getting burned and now it's irreversible with all the existing ecosystem.

How hard is it to just spin up a beefy cloud instance and run a MySQL of your own with whatever backup strategy you got and do things the way it is than getting bitten by using stuff you're not even familiar with.
We usually make electricity from coal, because its so cheap... as long as you ignore the pollution and death that it causes.

An insistence on how "cheap" it is to make fertilizer from natural gas, without taking into accoint fugitive methan emmisions, the fossil fuel used for the heat, and the CO2 released as an intrinsic part of the process seems the more obvious, at at this point preictable and boring, attempt to distort reality.
Worked really well before IPv6 was a thing.
By chance I met with a guy who runs a startup in the plastics industry a few days ago.

Sadly it would appear at that a lot of the recycling type initiatives are a sham. There's no effective control over the numbers, and a huge proportion of waste gets dumped overseas.

Even his own business was struggling until recently, when it turned out that some large players are in need of something positive to say in marketing terms.
What's one tool that you refuse to list on your resume: Reddit
Used to be goofy asocial types on Usenet/IRC/etc, now the whole world communicates via Facebook/Twitter/etc. So it's hard to say!
I personally like to compare it to building houses.

Programming is laying the bricks, the cables, etc. Basically doing the actual building.

Software engineering as in other engineering disciplines is more concerned with making sure everything actually works and fulfills certain standards of quality. The planning, design and architecture part of the work.

For the last decades the person doing the programming and engineering were usually the same, but they are more and more drifting apart with more engineering focused roles like software architect.

In much of the world engineer is also a protected title that requires formal education like with doctors or lawyers. The US is using it pretty inflationary.
Wrong, totally wrong!
They want to finally be able to do a walled garden like what is done with osx.

So far, users did not use their shitty store because they had alternatives.
I already have a Msft Authenticator and a Google one installed on my phone, if you can make it work with one of these already that would be fine.
It's important not to ignore the possibility that perhaps front-end dependencies are out-of-hand, and need to be reduced. ESM cannot fix a decade of bad practices enabled by front-end build bundlers. ESM isn't there to be a viable alternative to webpack. It's there to enable a different vision of application deployment where apps are smaller, and javascript gets css's transitive import() sub-resource distribution, avoiding the headache of a linear list of global scripts.

I really like ESM because I like where it's trying to steer the community of browser application builders. I think front-end builds are terrible on many levels, not the least of which is the obfuscation of code that undermines one of the best features of the web's software distribution, which is its openness. And another major benefit of webapps is that none of the front-end languages require a build step! This makes iteration very fast; if you can make do without the the safety net of a compiler, you can enjoy the speed of not using the bundler.
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Most developed countries were not colonial powers. How did e.g. South Korea and Finland become "developed" on the backs of the third world?
We're already there, people only use Google now because of habit. They don't provide relevant search results (look at the cancer image search with pinterest) they give you a list of what they have for sale containing the most keywords you searched for (paraphrased from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29137752 )

Search is a solved problem and Google could get back on top easily but 'on top' means two different things. For Google 'on top' means giving people the links that make them the most money, not what they actually searched for, (that's why there's so much spam and content farms and just garbage being served up) and for us (the end users) 'on top' means a search engine that gives us what we're actually looking for.

So Google won't change because for them they're already 'winning' but they've lost their core competency.

A new search engine needs to disregard the top x sites totally, anything that's optimised for SEO, just drop it. More images than text on a page? Drop it etc. There's so much internet out there that's buried under all this cruft that Google serves up. Most people aren't aware of more than 5 or 6 sites, but there's thousands.
It's less likely such an alignment happens by chance. If you do observe it, it's reasonable to look for explainations. A ritual use is of course not the only reason, there could be other features in the site (geological or otherwise natural e.g rivers, pre-existing man made artifacts like roads etc) which may have imprinted a direction on the building
The thing they do mention in the video is that the site and especially some of the spots being excavated is quite close (1m) from a constantly eroding cliff. Under such circumstances, rising sea levels are probably a minor (or at least only one of a number of) contributor(s); other factors are the increasing energy that more frequent and more violent storms bring in (also related to climate change), and of course that parts of the land that are already underwater now do little to protect the parts that are still above sea level (unrelated to climate change). Parts of the German North Sea coast have been experiencing losses of 1m of shoreline per year for many decades, maybe centuries; this means I personally used to know entire dune ridges and valleys that are, mere decades later, somewhere out there in the sea when you stand at the shore. On the bright side, other parts of the littoral are experiencing a relatively expansive ongrowth of new flat sand plains; in some places those are wide enough to harbor their own ephemeral ponds, incipient carpets of vegetation and maybe the beginnings of new dune ridges. What the future will bring we do not know, but for the part of the coast between Belgium and Denmark the outlook is not rosy as the land has been slowly sinking for millennia; IOW it's complicated. Not all that far from Burghead the sea level equation is rise of sea plus sinking of land, whereas in Scotland it's more like rise of sea minus rise of land.
Is that not how it is now? The top companies seem to have pretty good fundamentals and trajectories to me.
Natural non-sterilizing immunization will also cause evolutionary pressure. Not quite as focused on one protein plan (some immune systems might have won their first encounter using a different part as target), but still pressure. Long term the virus will be with us and factor into our life expectancy wether we like it or not (nobody will really care as long as the transition is soft) and wether immune systems are kept trained by infections alone or by infections and the occasional vac shot. I certainly prefer the latter.
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Is it possible to find anything that can exist or occur that is immune from being calculated a 'harm to society'?
I appreciate you posted a credible link to this.

The article specifically calls out this risk as "very low" and quantifies it as less than 1 in 50,000. The death rates from motor vehicle accidents in the US was ~11 per 100,000 people in 2019 [1].

I assume since you're that risk averse, you no longer drive?

This is a good example of how people are bad at risk assessment and also why people have a phobia about air travel but rarely about driving even though air travel is significantly safer.

So using the argument that there are risks with the vaccine is a selective argument that no one applies to virtually every other aspect of their lives and also misses the point: those risks are quantifiably tiny and need to be weighed up against the risks to themselves of NOT taking the vaccine, including hospitalization, death and long Covid as well as the impact that choice has on others, collectively.

> As a young man, who survived Covid, why would I risk heart complications to save some old people?

I actually can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or not. The optimist in me is choosing to believe it is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
I wonder how you arrived at that conclusion.

Or do you mean something as mundane as "lives in a rich country, owns a dishwasher"?
> The ocean current that brings heat from the tropics is weakening. Without it, the UK would have a climate like Siberia’s

This part's actually not quite right, there was a Science paper a few months ago that simulated various events and proposed that it's more likely that the ocean itself only contributes a few degrees to the temperatures, and that it's the atmosphere movements that cause the bulk of actual heating.

Still it's impossible to say what the gulf stream's dissipation will lead to and the results could still be rather catastrophic, but that statement is pretty far off reality. Some estimate that ironically, its shutdown may help with the reduction of heat waves in the summer, and Europe is a lot more infrastructurally prepared for extreme cold than extreme heat.

Aside from that, it's good to see that the unsaid thing is being said out loud more and more in recent months. I have serious doubts anything can be done in this regard though, capitalism or not. All major economic/political systems seem to hinge on an ever growing economy and as such cannot go on perpetually in a closed system. The "economic growth at all costs" mindset is so ingrained in our society that there's no stopping it at this point, even if it means our extinction.