skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah I am totally tired of these comments (parent). It’s like according to them you can’t say anything without citing a source. [1]

[1] citation needed
French anger after UK PM calls on Paris to 'take back' migrants crossing Channel
Strangely I heard about 'buy nothing day' (buynothingday.org) years before I heard of Black Friday, thanks to the work of some graffiti stencil artist.

I celebrate it every year in my own personal way.
Carbon taxes only work if they are applied universally worldwide.

If a carbon tax is applied in just one country, then people are rewarded for shifting carbon intensive activities to another country.

There also needs to be a clear answer to 'who should receive the carbon tax revenue?'. If countries receive the revenue, they have an incentive to try to attract carbon intensive industries to collect revenue from them.

The only real solution is a worldwide tax paid by countries to something like the world Bank. Each country could then tax their citizens equally.
Another tax on the middle class, because they don't have enough of a fiscal burden already, in the goods they need, in paying gas when they drive to work (no, not everyone has a very green public transportation that gets them to work in an efficient fashion).

Do these people even know the carbon footprint of manufacturing a solar panel or a wind mill for their "green" energy?

I do agree that products should be manufactured locally, but that has nothing to do with the environment.
Ah yes, I assumed computer science, apologies.
It's not that we don't know how to build things securely, it's just that we routinely ignore even basic principles of security 'cause it's easier. Virtually every webapp violates complete mediation and so it's just unreasonable to expect security. Similarly, most developers don't care for security and even less about principles and system design. Again, it's unreasonable to expect secure outcomes from that.
Heh, yeah, the design is like the cylinder version of a cuisinart top. But it works quite well for small amounts of coffee, and is very portable. Compared to a french press, the filter is much finer, and the rubber end seals way better.

Unfortunately, because the volume is small, I would have to use it multiple times, which was such a pain, I eventually stopped using it in favor of a V60 pourover.
IN a world of leeches like Elsevier, his work is much appreciated
I'm not quite as optimistic. The eternal september seems to keep repeating as echoes through every good online resource that gets built.

You really have to feel for the guys vigilantly maintaining wikipedia pages or moderating subreddits but it always seems inevitable that the zealots of anti knowledge show up in numbers and destroy everything in time.

It might be a good idea to find permanent, but secret places to archive the web.
Having a conversation in a pub is completely different from public speaking and publishing books.

Even more so when people try to sound authoritative or portray themselves as role models for others.
This is utter marxist bullshit in its finest form. The "under"-developed world has been given trillions in aid and almost every statistic shows that they are doing better than ever before [1]. This is due to capitalism and billions of aid every year [2] that is paid from the taxes from OUR WORK. And again with covid we see the developed world spending massive amounts of money and recources to help the rest of the world get the vaccines.

You know what the world was like when the developed world acutally intentinoally supressed the under developed world? Slavery and the slaugther of millions, colonizers forcing people to work on their land and not get the benefits of their People getting their hands cut off if they didn't work enough in the slavers mines.

This spiteful pseudo interlectual left wing bullshit is helping no one. Sure we COULD do better but we are FAR from enslaving lesser developed countries. And it's not like there aren't humanitarian catastrophies SOLELY due to the utter incompetence of these countries and THEIR elected leaders and i'm sick of the double standard we have. Are people from under developed countries to stupid for democracy? To incompetent to elect good leaders? To deficient in their intellect to see an unfair deal when it's offered to them? That's the soft bigotry of low expectations in it's purest form and i'm sick and tired of it.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr...

[1] Just an example source https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health...
To be fair, the policy was to raise gas taxes while lowering those on electricity in a way that it evens out for most people.

Additionally, while I don't know the numbers of renters vs. buyers, I do know that the vast majority of renters in NL live in social housing, which means the government has some leverage there to get the housing corporations to lower gas use.
These have nothing to do with Climate change. They are however immediate.
People react irrationally to this. It is like when people have been evacuated away from earth quake and now it is necessary to evacuate them away from tsunami, suddenly they start becoming to question government actions.

Delta has 1000x viral load compared to the Wuhan variant. Don't be stupid, take the 3rd jab, 2 jabs is not going to be enough against it.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. Info on setting up:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient
Generating functions are already there (that is just math-speak for the Z-transform).
Too true. It’s not PHP’s fault, though. The same type of argument is applied to C++.

We keep developing “nerf-world” languages, designed to protect ourselves from ourselves, and most fall down before they get a chance to even get going; mostly because they constrain, without empowering. I remember moving to Pascal, after using Assembly and Machine Code. It was very frustrating for me. Pascal was one of the earliest “safe” languages.

The problem is that we can’t build houses, using PlaySkool “Li’l Builder” toolsets.

Also, the WP Codex is really disorganized. It’s difficult to find anything in it, and that is deadly.

Geeks like to design clever architectures, but we hate to document them.
I understand your viewpoint, but if you tax the common man such that they are unable to travel to work in the only car they can afford - the world will stop functioning.

I often wonder why the elites don’t understand what their mistreatment of the proletariat will lead to…
Most renters still have the option to turn down the thermostat though, so whilst the ability to respond to incentives may be dampened, they should still have an effect.

Admittedly, there are some rentals with bills included. But if gas was very expensive, few landlords would offer it.
> All businesses operate in response to events.

Yes, but once an event happens, business needs access to current state of data.

> If you have a pre-determined set of queries, you can put together a corresponding set of stream transformations that will compute the results you need much faster than querying a relational database.

No, it won't. Because you won't be able to run "a corresponding set of transformations" on, say, a million clients.

You can, however, easily query this measly set on a laptop with an "overengineered" relational database.

> completely discard the attempt without even a record that it happened?

Somehow in your world audit logging doesn't exist.
We are under a new cold War and people don't seem to realize this.

Russia has had troops around Ukraine for the last 7 years. The Donetsk and Lugansk "republics" exist since 2014. Russia is waiting for Ukraine's move since then.

As long as USA has bases in Japan and has military presence in Taiwan... China won't make a move. It's easier to wait for USA to leave though.

We'll see continuous provocation between the blocks (most recently, Afghanistan Taliban Regime, Belorussian usage of immigrants against the EU, etc). But a serious war around the corner sounds a bit too far from reality.
My criticism of his ideas is that either he doesn't really believe them, or they don't really work, or both.
As a country you also can enforce restrictions/taxes onto the whole supply chain, as a initial measure (can't be done by weak countries though).

Of course, mid term everyone should push for global carbon pricing models

Germany was the only country that seems to have understood this, given they were the only ones that advocated for it at COP.
Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software
Hello World!

It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool.

Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics

The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms used in epidemiologial modeling. The main feature is its in build editor and support an optimization framework, which allows the user to adjust model parameters to existing data.

It has been designed for ease of use (but still full of features) because its original purpose was as a quick response tool for e.g. local authorities. The vision: A non expert user can quickly generate various scenarios based on local data and decide local measures until expert knowledge arrives.

The tool has been used in various capacities. In order to inspire learning and maybe even help others, it has been made open source.

You can use and modify it however you want. You can also import only the headers to your own C++ program.

If you want to use the GUI, a build script is provided in the EpidemicsRunner folder. All features of the GUI are active if you put it in the plugin folder of the UG4 framework.

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Most people see their job as "just a job" and for many people that's absolutely fine. They have a stable income and can do things they're passionate about in their free time. Those women you think were pushed and hate it? They sound like adults who can make their own decisions and change industries if they decide they'd rather do something they're more passionate about. I would rather have parents who support their children in whatever they want to do, but in the end tech is hardly a bad career choice to be encouraged to explore.
Automation will make whatever advantage undeveloped world has redundant.
Thanks for your honesty.

"Lifetime" claims by companies have tended to mean:

min(lifetime(company), lifetime(customer))

where the customer's lifetime has often turned out longer (at least the customer has something to be thankful for).

If you have a good solution, customers are happy to pay to make sure you stay in business so they won't have to look for another solution.
> Kotlin is for Android apps

Welp, guess all my Spring Boot web apps in Kotlin have actually been Android apps in disguise all this time..
A pure go version: https://github.com/xfmoulet/qoi
I followed few links there and it’s not even a porn site, it just a shallow catalogue of {img-ahref -> img-ahref} which tricks you into “/dating.html” which redirects to some “dating” site. Probably just a SEO bs.
Warning signs? I think we're way past "warning signs".
I for one am more interested in the Italy v. Med basin restitution trial or even the Greece v. Ex-Hellenic Colonies one.
> emissions are not caused by luxury products

I think this is patently false; but even more generally, wealthier people and “developed” countries are the biggest polluters.

(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-r...)
Been out of research for a while, didn't know about this. Will get my papers up there.
> Espresso machines, then and now, are gigantic, expensive, difficult to use, and incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective.

Interestingly that's not my experience with Moka Coffe Pots. The 2-pot Bialetti I have takes a long while to heat and is almost always too small for the heat source I have available. Electric stove fields are too wide, and camping gas heaters seem to wrap the flames more around the pot than boiling it properly. After the water is steaming, you also need to sustain the heat for a bit to let the steam travel through. In total, it feels like a lot of wasted heat energy for a little bit of coffee.

I have a Flare Espresso machine (piston, manually operated) that just requires boiling water that I can get from a more efficient source like a pot matching the stove, a water boiler or even a good thermos (!) when travelling ;-) And the result I get out of that is a "proper" espresso because you can easily hit 10 bars of pressure, by applying gentle pressure on the lever.
So one of the things you can do with Asterisk and Freeswitch on the PSTN network is hook up a Cisco/Linksys SPA122 adapter or use something more recent. If using a VOIP line, some providers in some countries let you control the VOIP line entirely so you can spoof phone numbers to the PSTN network, and as Asterisk/Freeswitch lets you do things like call record and will send the ringing tones (or what ever you choose to play to someone calling your VOIP line) before you answer it, you can also listen to people talking waiting for you to pick up and answer or direct to a voicebox. In effect you can create a voicebox where you never get charged for leaving a message, ideally for covert activities, legal or otherwise, and its done because of the way the channels are handled. Whilst you are playing the dialling tone back to the caller, you have asterisk/freeswitch setup to record the call from the time the tones are played to the caller, only you never answer and the caller can leave whatever message on the PBX because officially according to internation standards a call was never made and thus charged for. I dont know the legality of it, but it seems to be an exploitable weakness in international standards, for covert activity.

There's lots of things you can do with these and Freeswitch also works on a Pi2B.

You'll find some telco providers have just taken Asterisk or Freeswitch and recoded it enough to class it as their own, but you could run an entire phone company in a country on Asterisk/Freeswitch if the HW is powerful enough.

If you look at the Caller ID standards, the EU standard is based on the old dialup v.23 baud rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID#Operation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_V.23

So if you want to do some HW hacking, you could start with any old modem and turn it into your own SPA122, and once you have done that you could look at taking an ADSL router and turn it into a SPA122 of sorts. These are just devices with some hw capabilities but could do more.
Loss of ancient grazers triggered a global rise in fires
> Most renters still have the option to turn down the thermostat though

I can’t tell if this is serious? You’re saying that the gov policy’s effect should be the common man freezing during winter? I don’t know anyone who runs their heating for shits and giggles.

> Admittedly, there are some rentals with bills included

I’ve seen very few (<10%) of rentals that come with utilities included. It wouldn’t make sense either, I’d rather pay for my usage. Not the upper limit of usage that the landlord is accounting for while determining rent.
I’m not sure Id say his life is in shambles, but I don’t think, logically, your post makes sense.

Philosophy doesn’t have to be based on individual actions and results to be helpful.

Would you say Socrates shouldn’t be listened to because his life ended in shambles? Peterson isn’t anywhere near Socrates, but I find it interesting that you would discount his information because of his personal life.
> Now that generation are the ones in power at MegaPollutingCorp, but nothing is changing.

Please look at the CEO, President, and Board of Directors of MegaPollutingCorp. Are they kids of the 80s and 90s?
If you don't stop global warming - it's not going to be pretty either. And taxing rich, while a good idea - won't solve the problem, because there's so few of them that it won't matter, nevermind how exuberant they CO2 emissions are.

So basically choose your poison or hope for magic tech to appear soon.
Creativity unleashed: building a low-cost atomic force microscope for schools
That seems like it could become very messy and open to fraud. The nice thing about carbon tariffs within borders is they would be trivial to implement because there are relatively few targets (oil wells, coal mines, etc).
I always wondered, how do they exfiltrate the data? The website isn’t designed to display any schema. Do they save it as file from the SQL server? Can’t that be locked down? The attacker would still be able to delete but at least not extract.
There is a lot of cruft in Chrome's engine that accumulated over the years. Meanwhile, Firefox had a lot of the engine logic rewritten from scratch, using Rust.
That a carbon tax is a source of information about the highest leverage areas we can change is a great framing.

Unfortunately, the main barrier to implementing a carbon tax is how we treat imports, which is the key to getting the whole thing to work. Failing to solve this means importers deindustrialize in favor of countries with more lenient carbon pricing regimes.

“Do I have to spell it out for you? Just implement a border-adjusted carbon tax!” they’ll retort: “that will cause exporters to harmonize their standards with the markets they sell to.”

I can see how this works for plastics (producing PTFE in <Exporter> would have a carbon tax of $2/ton), but what about complex, assembled goods like cars with complex supply chains, like a Hyundai assembled in S Korea with parts from more than 60 countries? The Americans need to trust the S Koreans to tax that, and the S Koreans need to trust the Chinese, Indians, Canadians and Japanese to be implementing theirs properly. Every major component in an assembled good becomes a problem.

Carbon tax works when all countries implement it, but what’s the equilibrium given current starting conditions?
Jordan Peterson says many things in an authoritative manner. I don't really agree with him on many of them. Interesting video from Youtuber Tom Nicholas regarding Peterson's take on Orwell, "Western culture", religion and various other subjects:

https://youtu.be/BQWjyo1m0Yg "Jordan Peterson doesn't understand George Orwell"
He's wrong about climate change but this is such a shallow piece of rhetoric. He's a "guy" who is a respected research psychologist with lots of clinical experience. Out of anyone, this makes him more likely to have interesting things to talk about when it comes to self-help. At least far more than gurus. The fact that he suffers from chronic depression, which is largely a BIO-psycho-social (emphasis on bio) problem, is irrelevant and is a total low blow.

I could counter your argument and say that him pulling himself out of his recent depression is evidence that his ideas work. If a dermatologist gets an acne breakout and then fixes it, we don't blame them for the breakout, we commend them on addressing a difficult problem. Either way, this counter-argument of mine, and your original argument, are both silly. If his depression was more biologically grounded, he deserves neither credit nor blame. If his depression was due to social situations like cheating on his wife and feeling immense guilt, then yes, we can blame him for creating a depression based on his own stupidity. But neither of us knows the situation and so it's an irrelevant thing to bring up at best.
I have found clients based on librdkafka [1] or sarama [2] to be pretty robust and capable. For SSL, librdkafka relies heavily on OpenSSL which can cause a few headaches IME. But the rest is straightforward.

[1] https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
[2] https://github.com/Shopify/sarama
“When the bill came due, I had to terminate the employee”
> Compound interest can work wonders.

This used to be great advice.
He is and, no, being a psychologist does not make able to tell people what to think. For example clinical psychologist are specifically trained not to pass down their own personal opinions about politics and social issues to their patients.

Also being a psychologist does not make you a philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist, political analyst and so on.
Try pulling some of those quotes up in school, for teachers. It pisses them right off.
Remember, the e commerce industry is $500bn a year in the US, and a huge proportion of those purchases started ultimately at Google searches. That isn't even including other online revenue like banner ads which aren't aiming to have you buy something, or online purchasing decisions that aren't e commerce (like when you choose a restaurant or real life activity based on Google and the websites it sends you to).

That $500bn is what makes the bad parts of the internet so resourceful. It funds all the blogspam and content mills and malware when you look for recipes, cleaning/DIY/repair content, advice on purchasing products, lyrics and guitar tabs, tourist advice, investment advice, health advice, error messages. It funds the scam "local" locksmiths and repairmen in Google Maps search too. By comparison, Google's revenue is $170bn and that's global. So could anybody "fix search" on Google's budget?
But it doesn’t cost more to use a parametrised query. That’s dev incompetence not cost pressure.
>Another tax on the middle class, because they don't have enough of a fiscal burden already, in the goods they need, in paying gas when they drive to work (no, not everyone has a very green public transportation that gets them to work in an efficient fashion).

So build it, then. You have lots of money available to construct it from your carbon tax, and even more money when you stop subsidizing the ridiculously expensive car-oriented infrastructure.

>Do these people even know the carbon footprint of manufacturing a solar panel or a wind mill for their "green' energy?

Total emissions from these technologies are significantly lower than fossil-powered energy generation.

Stop spreading disinformation, it's extremely frustrating. It's very obvious that you're doing it on purpose.
My electricity bill is less than 10x lower than my heating bill, with all taxes accounted for. Electronics are surprisingly efficient - radiator heating is definitely not.

> social housing, which means the government has some leverage

I’m not sure if you’ve seen social housing, or even the average rental in places like The Hague. They are definitely not maintained well - insulation or otherwise.

Whatever the gov “could” do, isn’t being done. Other than high taxes.
This probably just works against shoppers in Denmark, doesn't it? Global brands are going to likely raise their prices across the board. When Black Friday comes, what's left to do but limit the possible discount in countries where there is a similar restriction?

I can't tell if I'm seeing in-country prices from retailers in Denmark, but the Samsung 'The Frame' TV 55" (QE55LS03A) seems to be available all over the planet. This morning at bestbuy.com it's listed at normally $1499US, for sale at $999US. We typically get a local sales tax added to that of ~7%, so just under $1100US out the door.
> In the Adam Smith/Ayn Rand fantasy of money and the invisible hand, markets are a form of Artificial Intelligence.

Don't equate Adam Smith and Ayn Rand.

Adam Smith was not a free market fundamentalist. Adam Smith has unnecessarily bad reputation because he is quoted very selectively. Adam Smith was aware of negative and positive externalities.
I feel like we who were raised with this consciousness in the 80s and 90s we're in the minority. And there was suddenly a turning point in the 2000s when I felt like everybody was paying attention to these things that my parents had been talking about all along. I remember arguing with my teacher about it as an 11 year old. We're probably not the ones went on to become geologists working for big oil. But it also seems we did diddly to change anything.