skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This illustrates why it's a terrible shame that the overpopulation topic has effectively been silenced and demonized in science conservationism and environmentalism.

I frequently get people becoming wildly irrational and upset at me when I suggest that the current population is not supported by the earth sustainably, let alone a much larger one. They'll angrily insist that the earth's "carrying capacity" is 20, 50, 100 billion people! Or that countries should be looking to increase their populations, or that natural population stability and decline is a terrible thing.

As though we have not _already_ caused (and are continuing to cause) a great extinction event almost entirely before any significant effects from greenhouse gas emissions have made an impact.

Habitat destruction, chemical pollution, mining, mineral and fossil fuel depletion, water depletion and contamination, farming practices and monocultures, human interference, etc., are all just horrific, are responsible for massive destruction and extinction of the environment, and aren't all suddenly going to get magic'ed away the instant we somehow get the GHG pollution thing under control (if we ever do).

The funny thing about that is, if our population was a very healthy, say, 5% of its current level, greenhouse gas emissions would be practically a non-issue too. The problem would literally be solved. Gradually moving toward cleaner and more renewable sources of course should and would happen, but while that was responsibly and efficiently changing, there would be no imminent climate catastrophe occurring.

EDIT: It's happening again.
You make a good point, and maybe there is a mathematical solution, like netting out mutually negative citations.
I guess nothing stops people from trading stolen crypto goods. Why would anyone want to use such a system.
When Google Reader was still a thing there are at least some consumer knows what that orange button means. ( Now it is only for podcast ) And most browser have RSS support so it has end point for consumer to interact with it. But then for some strange reason most browser vendor decide to kill it.

I still think RSS reader should be a feature on browser. All the modern browser now have sync as well so porting your news feeds isn't even the problem anymore.
I'm not sure if that's necessarily a trend. There can be good batches and bad batches, since these varieties are sourced from many different growers. It's even possible to have a good year and a bad year, due to weather. In wine, people talk about good vintages and bad ones, so the same can exist in other fruit.

The first time I tried Honeycrisps, I didn't like them and avoided them for years. Then I tried again and got much better ones.

I first bought Cosmic Crisp in a local grocery store, and they were great. Then I bought them directly form an orchard in the part of the state where they are grown (about 100 miles from here), and they were totally bland and thoroughly unimpressive. Now I'm back to buying them in grocery stores, and those are fine.
Can you please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it. Note these ones:

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Thanks for sharing. I briefly mentioned that "never changing" world in the article but didn't expand on it there. But it was a super strong emotion which motivated this essay and shift in outlook.
You don't read git repos for entertainment?!
Might be worth focusing towards either small-business founders (looking to create a lifestyle SaaS or similar) or unicorn-hunting founders (looking to build the largest business possible.

The skill set to build is going to be very different.
The responsibility is to figure out which is which, if you're the one choosing what to amplify.
300 million monthly users as of this point in time. Were you living under a rock.
California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident
I really enjoy clubhouse, and podcasts. Twitter philosophy is actual good from what I heard. I really like Sanjana Singh. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-naked-dialogue-sanj...
In 50 to 100 years we might have come up with a solution for coping with higher sea levels. Perhaps just elevated platforms to create an entire new city foundation 20 feet above the water. It’s not a big deal.
And then there was Caesar who promised the pirates who captured him that he would be back. And he did come back for them.

I suppose his ending wasn't the greatest, but Dante placed his betrayers into a special place in literary hell.
Nah, personal responsebilityb is for loosers and plebs, when a massive company craps out or causes hundreds to die, its an unforeseeable accident
The original version without weird censorship that made the text really difficult to read:

“Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler lucktards who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that shit – it’s their actual tagline. Not the writings of Isaac Newton nor the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Not the dozens of pre-existing question-and-answer sites. Not Wikipedia – a publicly-curated, global encyclopedia containing more than 25 million articles on literally every subject known to man. Not even, fuck, the very rise of the Internet itself – unarguably the greatest explosion of information delivery and content creation in history. No, these were but stepping stones for the unadulterated perfected brilliance that Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo bequeathed in the form of Quora. Inimitable, quintessential Quora.”

It’s easy to guess what “f**k” means, but f** is just confusing. And how is anyone supposed to guess what “luck**” could mean?
It still has quality content. You just have to pay attention to interact only with the type of content you want. Otherwise social network algo kicks in and starts spamming your feed with 'undesirable' content you interacted with. My feed is so full with stuff that I have real interest in that I avoid visiting the main feed to avoid getting stuck reading stuff.
Right, I forgot about those. Good catch.
I've pretty much always taken 'sanitize' as a catch-all for all of the things you need to do.
This is the most autistic thing I’ve ever heard.
Not OP, but I have a SAIC Galaxy 1100, which is a portable HP "Gecko" 9000/712. It runs NeXTSTEP 3.3 for PA-RISC and it's lovely.
Oh yeah don't get me wrong, the implementation wasn't great. It should have been opt-in at a minimum, and in some kind of separate extension ideally. But there's been so much incredulity in these comment sections about the log4j issue, as if it were totally obvious that the feature was inherently bad and should have never been in an enterprise logging framework, which I don't think is true.
There's a big difference between the ancient philosophy practiced by Cynics, and our modern concept of "cynicism".
Oh, I got 1280x1024, so it is good on my end with my old 17" monitor. :)
> Imagine thinking this with a straight face.

I'm actually curious what the fire department itself has to say about it.

Typically, they are the ones carrying fire code inspections.
In terms of the site design itself, it's always been like that - the w3schools site has always had the clean, readable presentation (and it's a pretty easy argument to make that it's much more approachable for a newbie than MDN). The main complaint was with the content. In the past there were some pretty big problems with content on w3schools. Often common footguns (of which there are many in Javascript) were not covered and newbies were encouraged to do things that were bad in the short and long term. IIRC one of the more egregious examples of this was sample code that taught developers to write code vulnerable to SQL injection. Supposedly most of this has been fixed, though I don't really use w3schools that much so I can't really vouch for its integrity or lack thereof these days.
Since we're embracing nihilism it seems appropriate to add that IQ scores are normalized by age, peak at 24 and then decline steadily after that.
Great, now Amazon thinks your wife is pregnant. Expect endless ads for diapers. LOL
"Doors won't unlock if rent is not paid on time"

Need to bring back public floggibg for whoever came up with this
CDE flashback!

Seriously, this reminds me of the worst of CDE and Motif, all not-quite-finished looking.

I ran a NextStep machine for a while (lipo is the best command name ever, IM(NS)HO) and loved it, and it looked nothing like this weird semi flat pseudo X11 ugliness.

(Only reason I switched away was that the rest of my co was Windows and loved themselves their Office docs and there was no equivalent for OpenStep.)
I have a first hand experience working with political parties and business entities in Bulgaria for more than two decades. Pessimism or optimism are states of illusion and tolerance non relevant to the reality of the situation.

New faces don't change corrupt practices. Jail-time for corrupt politicians and related third parties can. But the Judicial System is full with corrupt judges with ties to Secret Service and criminal underground and EU is not making any efforts to change this.

For the last 20 years there is not one representative, from any party, with proven corruption practices to serve jail time. All of this in country which is famous for one of the highest death rates in the world and one of the lowest standard of living in the EU.

Sorry, for being a realist.
yes precisely this
> Is NGE worth watching for someone who never was really into anime?

No. I recommend something by Satoshi Kon instead. Not the least because the time commitment is way shorter (movie instead of TV show).

Watch Every Frame a Painting’s video[1] and pick any movie. It’s Christmas season, so maybe go with Tokyo Godfathers[2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers
> What does that say about the last 40 years of usability and user experience research?

Bias. Attractive and usability/UX are not one in the same. I find this appalling yet likely good usability.
These days I just search Reddit to get real people's opinions on a product. Way more trustworthy than Amazon reviews or random blogs.
Will Google kick that out of the Chrome store?
Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar. You can make your substantive points without name-calling and swipes.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541695.
GDBFrontend v0.10.0-beta is released with so many improvements and need testing
Can displayport do it?
Those are both great tips! I bought a trash can (a Nordic brand) recently and it did have holes in the bottom. I actually noticed how easy it was to pull the bag out. No suction. In regard to salt, I recommend getting a salt pig! I just got one recently. If you cook a lot the ease of access is great.
I'm lending my own support to the term "Web4". I want to see this future happen, and something had to compete with "Web3" semantically. I might as well help.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. That's exactly the opposite of what commenters should be doing here, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. We've already had to warn you about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29018199.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The only person in the movies I'm aware of that went to jail for breaking the laws for removing tags was Pee-wee Herman.

However, I'm truly shocked that someone asked "how come in a movie...".
Cash is common in China...or now a days, on WeChat you can send a "Red packet" of money to friends or in a groups. If you go to a wedding, you drop your red packet in a box...while in the US we have "gift registries" where a newly wed are forced to acquire physical possessions they may or may not need.

I'm not sure why cash is taboo in US - I suspect it's derived from corporations trying to drive customers to purchase items, even gift cards. After all, $1 saved is $1 not spent and that's bad for profits /s.
It's supposed to be an adversarial system. Why does Google still provide Pinterest search results, given that if you follow them, you're not allowed to see the image?
It's not quarantine, it's imprisonment.
I will give you that gift cards can be used to signal they noticed you like a certain type of thing, but a gift card to Amazon or Target does not do that.

If you really do not know what the other person would like as a gift, and do not want to do cash, a regular phone calls
I think is more meaningful. I want for almost nothing except home cooked food that would be given as a gift, but just calling and spending a few min to say hello and update on happenings in your life is much preferred.
It works that way because we have encoded agreed upon negatives into law and/or regulations. By contrast, the positives are still highly subjective and not broadly agreed upon.

So the actual process is dominated by "Does the project avoid X?", "Does the project ensure that Y cannot happen?", "Will the project ever exceed limit Z?" rather than "Does the project bring <positive-good> to its location?", because people have not yet agreed upon a clear definition of <positive-good> things. In contrast, the stuff to avoid makes itself known, and the stuff we can mostly agree on becomes part of our civic codes.
OP here, thanks a lot for sharing this enlightening story. Your last paragraph remind me also of the Viktor Frankl's "Man Search For Meaning" where the change in outlook was a difference between persevering and perishing in the camps.
> getting support for ARM software

It is my contention that this support was largely already present. That's all.

Pi did great work getting cheap boards out to people, and put a lot of effort into education and community building. They exposed a huge number of people to the possibilities of non-x86 computing that otherwise might not have been. So indeed let's credit them with that, it's all great stuff!

But it's quite revisionist to say they helped get linux or BSD or their tools onto the platform, IMHO.
> Locks are terrible, and yet you gotta doit sometimes, as how else would you prevent people working on the same asset.

I'm unfamiliar with P4's locking semantics; when files are "locked" does that prohibit other users from even getting a copy of the centralized file, or merely prevent users from overwriting the centralized file on push/upload? How does branching work?

If I were designing a centralized asset management system then I'd definitely add support for git-style (i.e. "many-worlds") branches instead of SVN/TFS-style "spatial" branches - but I'd also add support for some kind of "mini-branch" or deferred-conflict-resolution, whereby a file, or entire directory, can still be pushed to central storage but have multiple different representations that can be resolved/merged later, rather than immediately. So if two artists are working on the same "texture123.psd" file without realizing it then the system would let them both push (so the first artist to push would get to overwrite the file, and the second artist's push would see their file saved as "texture123.psd.v2").

There are good business reasons for having the ability to disallow changes to files in central storage, but that doesn't mean locks need to be used: it could be done by instead directing all updates/pushes to separate mini-branches, thus allowing users to push-and-forget and allowing them to defer conflict resolution while still protecting files from unwanted changes.
Where Does Arrogance Come From?
> I can safely say that I have never as a programmer implemented a feature that I thought made anyone's life better. My software has consistently turned the screws in on people's lives, either in their work life by making monotonous internal tools or in their personal life by removing autonomy and choice. I take magicians and turn them into mechanical Turks. I take people and turn them into consumers/users/addicts.

Shouldn't you take a systemic approach? Individuals can do lots of things, but until it turns systemic, is there a reason to adopt this negativity-first mindset? (And even then, I think OP makes a good case for why one shouldn't.) Kids were shitty to me in middle school, but I don't think I should indemnify all of humanity because of that.
In a geological time scale, human extinction due to ecological fallouts is also a blip.

I agree that the ecological crisis is not existential on a geological scale, but that's an irrelevant scale for questions of human civilization, where we are indeed facing some very bad problems.
It works until everyone does it. It's kind of weird when I give my mom cash in a card and she gives me cash in a card...
Your definition's right in the sense of what "not supported" allows the user to do. But the term also means "if you try this and it doesn't work, we're not responsible," and that's the key thing.

Some companies (and programs, and programming languages, and so on) make it easy to do unsupported things. Some make it hard. None will accept liability for it.

Hardware manufacturers are on the hook for so many potential problems, defects, misconfigurations and misuses that it makes sense from their perspective to support actively only those things they can guarantee will always work. Not things which the hardware can theoretically do but which might not always be the best idea, things that aren't possible now but might be in ten years, etc.
This happens because Pinterest is better at categorizing images than Google is. Google should just buy Pinterest and integrate them directly into their image search. Or partner with them so this doesn't happen. Or they could do what Bing did and just copy Pinterest feature by feature.
You might be right that I’m lumping it incorrectly. The subsidies are the biggest problem, and I am suspecting that the subsidies fund this research, the Harber-Bosch process is the biggest driver for high crop yield as far as I know. Even without any of these institutions the US had never had a famine, so I don’t see their benefits
I am saddened that they oppress native crops and also prioritize yield over long term farming such as wasteful crop rotation, and I haven’t seen signs of their benefits.
I’m not against government intervention or “public good” but when I don’t see any signs of it, I’m suspicious of it as not only wasteful but harmful.

Fresh milk is wasteful, we could move to powdered milk, ultra pastuized, or the Canadian model but as long as subsidies exist they will continue this non green and wasteful spending. My point is the market choices are only existing as subsidies exist.
It's worth noting that one of the early finite groups that is taught in abstract algebra are the dihedral groups which model exactly this sort of behavior (For your phone example this would be D₄. Knowing that mattress flipping is modeled with D₂ makes it trivial to prove that that there is no combination of flip and rotate that will allow you to always do the same move to your mattress to get it into the four possible positions for optimal wear.
That's called an Echo.
> And yet we have people who’s whole job is “planning” and we get spaces that are aggressively unpleasant.

These things are related. The person who's job is "planning," the one who demands that your store be surrounded by a sprawling parking lot, is neither the person who would build the store, nor shop there.
I agree with you, but the HN crowd is sometimes too prude and I was afraid of offending people’s sensibility
This doesn’t work. I often want my app to be able to talk over the network, but I want to restrict my logging library from making network calls. You can’t do this at layer 7 much less layer 3. But firewalls at those layers still obviously serve a purpose, just not this purpose.
But the systems already worked on Arm, that's the point!

Getting more attention to the platform was definitely a good thing, exposing more people to a different architecture, to having a machine cheap enough to just play with, to all sorts of great stuff.

But Linux and BSD themselves were already mature on arm by that point.
A parser for what most people think of as XML can be fairly simple, certainly simpler than a performant or even just error-tolerant parser for HTML. Though Yxml[1] is probably overdoing it, what with its lack of Unicode handling or tree construction, a couple of tens of kilobytes seems like the right order of magnitude to me. Heavier than JSON, but not drastically so, unless you decide you also need three types of schemas, two types of XPath, XSLT, etc. (the libxml2[2] approach).

The thing that requires the most bookkeeping is also the thing that nobody uses and not a lot of people even know about: a full textual macro system by the name of <!ENTITY ...> (the “internal DTD subset”), which a conformant XML processor is required to implement. (Not coincidentally, this is the part that the XML profile mandated by XMPP excludes.) There was a proposal to define something that excludes this part by the name of MicroXML[3], but it threw out compatibility by also excluding namespaces, and it doesn’t seem it actually went anywhere.

[1]: https://dev.yorhel.nl/yxml

[2]: http://www.xmlsoft.org/

[3]: https://www.w3.org/community/microxml/wiki/Main_Page
Fair enough on that part. But it's the "their inputs" part that's just as problematic: whatever massaging you do to your "inputs", they'll always be unsafe in some contexts. You need to encode/escape your output.
Is that a Western thing?

I know they do it in South Africa (along with a "13th month" of pay), and I'm assuming the US too.

Outside of those two, I don't really know of any other Western cultures where tipping is much of a thing at all - let alone big tips at the end of the year.
I'm glad to say I don't have any shit like this that I have to deal with. I've got a phone and a laptop and that's it. My car basically has a fuel controller and ABS controller in it. Aftermarket MP3 playing head unit with an aux jack.

Whatever benefits the tech firms and salespeople sold you (not literally you, anyone reading) on all this shit, if you have this stuff in your life I guarantee you your life is more stressful than mine because of it.

I'm to the point where I only buy used stuff period. Basically food and underwear have to be new. I don't think I've bought a brand new anything in over 5 years. I don't know if I ever will if this trend continues, proprietary single serve coffee pouches, internet connected stovetops, TVs that show ads separate from the broadcast, cars that track your movements and sell them to data brokers, touch screen everything, how many screens does a single person need?
If that was actually some sort of universal, which I would dispute, you'd still have to add an explanation how there could be parts of the world where this is not a problem (i.e. they have public spaces with public restrooms that you can access with public transit).
Nice one, I didn't know that trick.
This reminds me of the spark plug ceramic demos. Little ceramic tip on a spark plug (isolated from the rest of the plug) make an effective car window smashing projectile. No idea if it would work from inside the car / if you could get enough speed on it sitting right next to the window!

https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/130js6/breakin...
I doubt Google wants to, but their users keep clicking on Pinterest's SEO'd results for "cute cake pop" instead of whatever non-Pinterest result Google serves up. Basically Google being outdone at their own game in this niche area.
Pompeo should think harder about what being for America means. His soft support of Jan 6th coup plotters is gonna be remembered.