skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel just detected some cases, I assume travel from there will be banned too?
That still leaves singularity undefined. What does it mean, socially and culturally?
I have always heard people warning about adapters, because they have a tendency of causing discolouration on black induction hobs due to how unevenly they heat up. I guess that switching to a stainless steel pot isn't the end of the world, it's the only thing made out of aluminum I own.
But those options don't exist at the moment due to their cost, so it's pretty foolish to raise the price of something now because in theory, a replacement might become cost effective in the future. A rich nation can take a hit like that but a poor nation can't -- they will just have a famine.

In other words, have that replacement in place and available before you start messing with the price of fossil fuels.

I really want to push against this neoliberal "carbon credit" mentality where we think market solutions will somehow provide replacements as needed. If you want to shut down a coal plant, fine first build the nuclear plant, and then switch over to the coal plant. If you want solar and are convinced batteries will work, then fine, build the batteries first and then switch over. Don't just rely on "the market" to allow you to shut something down and assume replacements will just appear.
This is one of those types of things that shouldn’t happen anymore, but does.

I’m pretty sure that WordPress now has their own low-level version of PDO Prepared Statements. Also, they have a lot of even higher-level DB abstractions. I can’t think of any reason to directly access the DB from a plugin or theme.
Which started off as x11amp - that's the player I first used on linux (having upgrade from winamp/windows)
Illegal in Finland, too. But it's rarely enforced by the authorities (they would have a lot of work to follow up every case) and as a consumer you don't have the right to request damages.

If you could demand the difference you "lost" by believing in their exaggerated discount the law would be useful.
I can't imagine any civilized jurisdiction not making that distinction.

You typically have to ask for a permit to surveillance any public space and the difficulty of getting one often ranges from hard to illegal.
Instead of fear, spread care and kindness. I ask my kids if we should love our planet earth and save energy and do such positive steps - they say yes and take the correct steps. I think this is more positive and sustainable - make them love the planet and they will do what they can/need to do to preserve it.
Ironically, this discriminatory policy is also a reason for the supply shortages - underdeveloped countries are the suppliers for the whole developed world.
I imagine it depends on the field. Having perused your GitHub page and taken a look at what your program was about, I see why you might publish your thesis' source there. People working in theoretical physics aren't too inclined towards free software, so maybe that's why I haven't seen many related papers.
It depends on who gets the taxes.

If it goes to greedy bureaucrats that waste it or are themselves bought and for it will be worse than no tax at all.

Then the system will be used by lobbiests to attack one industry in favor of another.
Nothing I wrote even hints at that, so obviously no.
Global warming is a global problem. While carbon tax would be levied locally, creating incentives to just shift production to low or no tax locations.

Just as harmonisation over Cororate Tax is finally emerging, similar cross-border agreements should be needed for a Carbon Tax.
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People said the same thing about Next Generation and Phantom Menace
A guy who sells rules for life while is own life is in shambles and a life that few people would want... why should I listen to what he thinks about anything?
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Watch "Lords of Scam". Carbon taxes not only don't work, they breed corruption.
Using modern languages for hardware design seems to be a tendency today. I wonder how does MyHDL compare to Chisel? Chisel is another hardware description language based on Scala, which has already been wildly used in the RISC-V community. Check it out here: https://www.chisel-lang.org
If compliance is an issue, I doubt whether there is such a thing as a "suitable substitute". Certainly none of the commercial applications I interact with accepted CentOS as an alternative to RHEL, so they certainly won't allow a substitution for Rocky or Alma.

While AL2022 isn't a drop-in RHEL alternative, it seems much more likely that vendors will accept it as a commercially supported install base given that it is a first-class citizen on the biggest cloud.
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Isn't this just appeal to authority in different clothes? I mean most conversations going on between people are people talking about things they are not trained in and they don't cite reliable sources.
semgrep has php support, so it should be possible, at least with respect to the “basic” APIs. If a plugin wraps the raw sql apis I don’t think semgrep can “inline” the information, so you’d have to reach for the taint tracking but that’s way more complicated than just check rules.
I am thankful for online bill payment. I remember my dad having to go and queue up for paying electricity and water bills every month - even when it was sweltering hot.
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Like 100% of people ... I think people need to stop thinking that others with a bit of fame are somewhat special or always right etc.
I think you are presenting a rose colored view of "choosing freely" the vast majority of people go along with signals they get along the way and those signals are always(?) inaccurate and arbitrary biases from older people considering past generations in largely irrelevant environments, etc.

I think quite a few people get pushed around by arbitrary sentiments until they find what they like and quite a few people don't really find anything because no one pushed them in any direction so they never really had the opportunity to learn to critique anything and develop their own opinions.
Ah, https://github.com/aaron-em/same-encoder :P

Wow, SAME is very interesting. (I live in Australia and have never been exposed to a comparable system. I think the closest we have is an SMS-based thing.)
> How to DeFi?

Well, there isn't any particular way, I just started looking at traditional startups on angel list that were making/doing things related to crypto, then quickly became interested in decentralized uncollateralized algorithmic stablecoins and started contributing with pull requests and community discussions. From there I just followed my own interests.

> What are the trends, top dApps and sites, Discord servers?

You'd cant go wrong familiarizing yourself with things like decentralized exchanges, decentralized lending (that run the gambit from over collateralized to uncollateralized) protocols, stable coins of various designs (decentralized or not) and concepts like staking, yield farming, liquidity pools, oracles, flash loans. With those terms, should be enough for you to DYOR and see if anything interests you to dig deeper (its ok if non of it does).

> How do you follow the meta?

I don't. I narrow in on the topics that most interest me from my experience working in tradfi and look for analogues in defi, I look for ways defi can make the barriers to do such things accessible to people that don't work on bank desks.

>It’s hard to find the signal when crypto and DeFi by proxy are already so spammy and noisy.

Yeah, i can understand that may be the case when one is mostly looking for "top" stuff and not topics/communities that may genuinely interest them (i.e. have a particular finance topic in mind) that people are trying to do in a decentralized way.
Teach kids to love nature and care about protecting it. If everyone did that, humanity's future would be much brighter.
> Server-side Rendering, which no other backend-only language could do

Isn't it the definition of a "backend-only language" that it renders server-side?
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> All businesses operate on the current view of data.

All businesses operate in response to events. Most of the things you do are because x happened rather than because the current state of the world is y.

> In our "live datafows" etc. we use a pre-determined set of queries that are guaranteed to run multiple orders of magnitude faster in a relational database on the current view of data than having to reconstruct all the data from an unbounded stream of raw events.

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.

> I roll back the transaction. As simple as that.

And then what, completely discard the attempt without even a record that it happened?
Didn't vaccination require huge spending as well? I think governments over-relied on vaccination for their own reasons, even long after it became evident it wasn't going to magically solve the pandemic. At the very least, vaccines should always be combined with some sort of restrictions to prevent the appearance of new variants (since the vaccines themselve create a pressure for the virus towards an escape mutation)
But I bet you learnt a lot of new things from it:

if (f != 1.1)
puts("Do not compare a float to an integer value\n");
if (d == 1.1)
puts("But that's okay for a double\n");

In the back of my mind there's the fear that all of this was actually mean seriously...
it's complicated, but could tariffs help?
For anybody wondering how a moka pot works, have a look at this neutron imaging of the pot in action: https://youtu.be/VESMU7JfVHU
> If people need to get to work and heat their homes etc. then putting a tax on all of that will hit them hard while the rich will be relatively unaffected and can continue polluting.

So much this. Here in NL, my heating bill is 70% tax and 30% gas charges (not exaggerating).

The government claims to do this to encourage installation of better insulation and other energy saving measures - however, as a renter (like the vast majority of NL is), I can’t do anything about this and just pay the exorbitant heating bill (1). I have no option but to use gas, and even if I move to a (rare) neighborhood with city heating, they’ll charge me the same amount (2).

(1) https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/09/as-gas-bills-rise-more...

(2) https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/11/homes-with-district-he...
Relevant: https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/50-years-of-predictions-that-t...
I've had the complete opposite experience.

Not that I want to pick a fight, but I'm sharing this more for other readers' reference.

I've had my Porlex for a little over 5 years now, use it around twice daily, and have had zero issues.

A quick Google search of ceramic vs steel burs also seems to indicate the ceramic offers better longevity.

Why else do you say Porlex is terrible, aside from being ceramic?

Its build quality is excellent. Well worth the price.
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> Which created the 3rd world via colonialism. For reference the Mughal empire that generated 25% of the worlds GDP

C’mon, you know why people formulate this point like that, and not like, “Mughal empire GDP decreased 50% after colonialism.”

Between 1000 AD and 1600 AD, British GDP per capita doubled. During that time, Indian GDP per capita increased only 20%. Before European contact, India, China, etc., were stuck at pre-industrial revolution levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...

By the time the Brits got there, Indian GDP per capita was only half as much as Britain’s. The odds that India would have entered an industrial revolution around that same time after centuries of being stuck in the same place is low.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...
China is also amassing troops along Indian borders with routine skirmishes
The solution here is a payout of (most of) the taxes equally for every citizen and also use some of it for special groups (exceptions) that can't deal with even that (realistically).
This is called a dividend: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
His autobiography is great. Boy.
> I can’t think of any reason to directly access the DB from a plugin or theme.

Because it's PHP and it's easy.
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I'm Canadian in 1999 I was in Scranton, Pa. for Thanksgiving and my friend said Black Friday tomorrow. I said what's that? She was shocked I didn't know about it. Back home it was unheard of since our Thanksgiving is in October. I didn't go to a store I headed home but now I wish I would have experienced it.
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Not sure what the point of this post is?
You can get killed walkin’ your doggy.

Not worth dwelling on.
My only extension for containers is "Sticky Window Containers": the container used for the first tab in a window is used for all subsequent tabs.
> I don't know what problem you are trying to solve?

The problem is that it is impossible to use public spaces without being recorded -- which is uncomfortable in itself -- and that various people who do not need to have access to the recordings -- which is extra uncomfortable. There is also the unnecessarily large potential for abuse. The default should be that noone has access, and, as far as I can see, it could be.
serious war is always "around the corner". Remember that the fall of Rome was predicted by doom mongers for hundreds of years before it transpired to be true. Should today transpire to be similar (e.g. window of hundreds of years) than you're more likely to be wrong about this than right.

For example your narrative is failing to account for the horror of mutually assured destruction which is a strong psychological factor in wars between major powers.
And it happened many times in history, unfortunately: when food, water or land become scarcer for whatever reason people compete more for them.

Those with more wealth and/or the bigger army get the food, water or land.

The other ones suffer or die.
The way I see it is that Climate Change will prevent the Global South from reaching the Quality of life of first world. We may mostly solve problems with basic issues and poverty but may not reach the potential as envisioned in StarTrek universe. But Climate change may not be the only reason to blame.
> The fantasy is this AI can run the markets better than any centralized authority.

I agree with a literal reading of your comment, but will just point out that the wealthy countries all tend to be the ones that let the market do its thing though. We've got a lot of examples now of authoritarian vs free market (the Koreas, Germanys and China pre- and post- Deng Xiaoping leap to mind). People routinely do better when they control their own destiny rather than strong central authorities.

If we pick which end of the spectrum is more likely to keep people fed, the answer is pretty much always the intelligence of a free market will do the best job. Starvation tends to be isolated. This is something that central authorities don't do so well, and that has been tested out quite a few times in practice now. I'm still mildly amazed that the continued and ongoing failures of political leadership for decades hasn't made an obvious dent in the number of people wanting the politicians to be in charge. Politicians are popular, not competent. Markets are really good at putting competent but unpopular people in charge which is a better strategy.
Sure, but are you saying these are mostly because of climate change?
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Did you have a criticism of his ideas or just resorting to attacking his personal life?
Ask HN: What's your goto forum for questions about report design?
I'm designing some business reports, and have a question on the design.

Not sure where to leave a question.

What's your goto forum for questions about report design?
Yeah we've done that and look where it got us.

Those kids from the 80s and 90s who were taught about greenhouse gasses, global warming, animal and plant extinction due to our actions (I'm one of said children).

We were taught/asked to love our planet and the inhabitants (human and others) like family.

It did diddly to change anything. Now that generation are the ones in power at MegaPollutingCorp, but nothing is changing.

This is just yet another inactivism propaganda piece.
From the top of my head, Javascript and Common Lisp will also work with "Hello World" (with quotes).
EU is making carbon tariffs to prevent exporting emissions to avoid paying for carbon emissions outside EU Emissions Trading System.

Carbon tariffs are essential feature of any functioning system. Either countries enter agreement where they harmonize their carbon trade/tariff or there will be tariff.
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Is it even possible to make a CO2 tax that is not regressive?

The purpose of a CO2 tax is reduce emissions and a lot of emissions are not caused by luxury products and services but simple stuff like growing food or driving to work.

Increasing the price of fuel to the point where people switch to biking to work would be very successful from a climate standpoint but extremely unpopular.
Tariffs might help in one respect. But they lack the market-driven simplicity and transparency which were the principal benefits of the carbon tax mentioned in the article.
Did the ST character get named after him? It seems to close to be a coincidence.
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> For example, look at what happened in France with the fuel tax rise which lead to the “gilets jaunes” protests.

I think people actually underestimate the effect of a carbon tax. The tax has to be extreme enough that it changes behaviour in the real wold, and something like 70-80% of energy comes from fossil fuels.

If people aren't near to rioting because their lifestyle is being forced to change then the tax isn't doing anything. It isn't going to look like cheerful.
Isn’t he a train psychologist? I mean a professor at University of Toronto? PhD at McGill, spent time at Harvard?

Seems he’d be a reliable expert on things like how to mentally process global warming?!?
> When a state attacks, on-mass, its own citizens it's essentially failed. Absent a functioning state, any outsider can do what they want here: invade, preferably.

A failed state isn't one that does thngs you don't like. China doesn't like that there are many, many countries where you can say bad things about China. It's one that can't control very large parts of its territory or get things done. Being evil and failing are separate concepts. The Qing killed the Dzhungars. They eradicated an entire ethnic group. That was a strong state, not a failed one.

And of course outsiders can invade if they're willing to put up with the consequences. International law is and always has been a farce, from Grotius making up the law of the sea to protect Dutch weakness in Northern European waters when they were abusing all round them in the East Indies, to the victor's "justice" of the Nuremberg trials to the differing treatments of genocide depending on great power sponsorship. At its most farcical you have puppet regimes of the "international community" like the Somali or Afghan puppets.

You can invade if you're willing to pay for it.
Here is a tip. Don't call your female colleagues "girls". Because you would never call your male colleagues "boys".
> Exactly! Which is why I love it, and why I think it would be good to extend it to encompass more than just that one book, too.

I agree with this. Just that writing such programs is hard, it isn't something anyone can do.

> I've been struggling with math, but it didn't occur to me that a part of the reason (other than me being dumb) was that the authors struggled with it too!

I studied both theoretical physics and pure maths to a grad level. You really notice how the physics professors struggles explaining the math and gloss over things, while the mathematicians doesn't. The physicist are experts at solving and reasoning about physics problems, not maths, as soon as the math solves their problem they stop thinking about the math. It is a part of the reason I went to math afterwards, I wanted better explanations.

> I'm not joking, this is very serious: is it possible to learn from you somewhere/somehow? Because you're incredible, honestly, your patience is not running out even now, this deep into comments thread; and you really can speak in programming - this much I can see - and I think you're at least as competent on the other side (though I obviously can't judge it myself, so I'm deferring to (your) authority that I came to believe in). I'd be incredibly happy if I could somehow get a bit of your help.

I think I have some mental disability where my feelings don't remember things. So even though I hated some of your other comments that doesn't mean anything about other things. I just like discussing things and explaining, taking my time to think etc.

If you want to talk about something you can reach me at {removed}. I'll remove this later. I don't really care much about people learning who I am, but I don't want it to be obvious. I love discussing things, but few people really like discussions like this. So just hit me up and we can talk. I don't always have the right views and opinions, but I never stop thinking about arguments or reasons. I just changed my mind so many times that by now I've seen most arguments and it is rare to change my mind more now.

Edit: You can ask me about math or anything.
Which is why mechanisms like carbon tariffs on imports are being designed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Mecha...
I can double down on that.
I have developed a pattern to use any language (but we used js/python) to generate cloudformation templates.
This has started in 2016, long before CDK. The idea originated in GCP's docs where they present both jinja and plain python as a way to generate iac.

I often got asked "what about terraform?" Yes, what about it? It is a +1 in our stack, lagged (maybe not now) behind cloudformation releases, it still doesn't give you the benefits of a proper programming language, let alone one that many are familiar with, and we will not have a multicloud problem in the foreseeable future. So yeah, what about it?

In retrospect, there is a negative. The industry is brainwashed so looking for a new job becomes: but do you know terraform? Completely overlooking whether one could simply learn it :) it ain't rocket science
>On a tangent, is publishing the LaTeX source of a paper or thesis on GitHub something that people do...?

I've definitely seen it done, although I suspect the prime concern is versioning and backup.
I've worked with Asterisk in a former job, but we needed a VOIP provider to make the link to the normal network. But everyone connected to the company Asterisk server could phone with eachother for free, all around the world.
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And the article contains the info. Indeed he was.
"Trying to move away from fossil fuels is an extremely delicate operation that requires nuance and patience."

The problem is nature around us is losing this patience. Good luck convincing it!

But I agree just market solutions (carbon pricing) won't cut it, although for the opposite reason - they are acting too slowly.
MAD means nations are free to wage war up to a certain point.

Maybe a couple of islands and a bit of India. Then a break for a few years. Repeat now and then.
> Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me.

How about drinking cannabis infused milkshakes instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang
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