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Arcades: the 90’s - street fighter 2, hyper, turbo, xmen 4 player, Simpsons 4 player, Daytona etc.

Unbelievable time to be into computer games
I've also gotten through about the first 1/3. Based on this, and the table of contents, it goes into much more depth (both in terms of implementation and non-trivial illustrative examples) into a number of topics that are either only touched upon in SICP, or not discussed at all. These include combinators, generic functions, pattern matching, etc. There's a chapter on propagators, which didn't even exist when the last edition of SICP was written, though I think SICP does discuss related (but simpler) ideas on constraint propagation.
I honestly can't wrap my head around the views of people promoting "degrowth" as a solution. How do they reconcile their ideas with the basic reality that is evident from a single chart like that one [0] and, again, very basic facts about our world like population numbers?

The simple reality is that there are a lot of people and most of them are very poor by Western standards. There are almost 8 billion people on this planet, and only 1 billion of them live in the West. There will most likely be 10 billion people, with almost all of the extra 2 billion being born in the developing world. Those 8 billion people's living conditions are abysmal compared to developed world, so they want to improve them, which means increasing their energy consumption. 8 billion people is 8 times more than 1 billion people, therefore even if it's somehow possible to "degrow" Western economies to the level of consumption of 1970s and force the developing world to stop at that level, that's still a severalfold increase in overall carbon output.

If we unshackle ourselves from the reality of international politics, let's assume that instead of waiting for the developing world to catch up we somehow redistribute all wealth equally and freeze it at that level. Ignoring all beneficial effects of wealth concentration (you can't build five smaller semiconductor plants for the price of a one big one) and previous wealth expenditure (infrastructure already in place is worth a lot of carbon), the resulting average quality of life on this planet will be closer to favelas than to whatever even the most ascetic green activists would be happy to accept. And we actually need to reduce that level, not just abandon overseas holidays.

Of course, we can't ignore international politics, so any measure that fails the MAP test (can you convince Modi, Assad, and Putin to implement it?) is at most a minor respite, not a solution. Something tells me that it would be hard for green activists to convince those leaders to deliberately reduce their citizens' living conditions and, for two of them, abandon their biggest export revenue streams.

I don't know what's going on in people's heads when they talk about "degrowth". Most of the time I brought up [0] the discussion switched to per-capita measures and emotional arguments about guilt of past emissions, as if our atmosphere cares about Americans being especially polluting per capita when there are 20 times more people polluting somewhat less but increasing their pollutions every day. The easiest explanation I can think of is a combination of despair ("but nothing else would work"), desire for "simple" solutions ("just reduce consumption" sounds simpler and less tradeoff-y than, say, nuclear), blindness to the world outside of Western bubble ("we just need to do our part, how hard can it be not fly to vacations"), and a quasi-religious notion of carbon piety. It's disheartening and I strongly believe it's hugely disruptive to productive efforts to combat climate change.

[0]: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1711C/production...
You don’t seem to understand. No one owes you a job. It doesn’t matter what their reasons are.

Is it fair that you get discriminated against because of your claimed bad luck? No. But that is the reality of the situation. You need to accept this instead of whining about it. But a bunch of short term jobs means you’re either a job hopper or you have been fired very quickly many times. To be honest, assuming you’re a job hopper is the better of the two assumptions.

Instead of trying to fight it, I suggest you figure out a way out of it. Get a new job and stick with it for a longer period of time. Or don’t include some of the jobs on your resume when you apply for a new job. Or put on your resume that you had short term contract positions and now you’re looking for permanent positions.

I have over 25 years of experience. I need to do leetcode every night so that I can compete against kids half my age for the same job. Is that fair? No. I have over quadruple their experience. But it’s the reality of the situation. So instead of whining about it, I’m studying leetcode every night so that I can find a new job.

I suggest you take the same attitude.
Value is an ill defined word to use in economics. I rarely, if ever, have seen a good reason to use it.

Obviously, employers are not going to operate a business at zero profit margin, so I am not sure what the significance of pointing out that employees do not get paid the sum total of their economic contribution to a business’s profits (which I imagine is rarely ever calculable).

The whole point of having buyers and sellers engage in numerous, transparent transactions is to figure out what portion of the business’s operations should be allocated to the purchasing of labor, since there is no objective way to measure it and have a definitive answer. It is always moving, and needs to be continuously updated. The same reason employees always need to be shopping around and seeing who will offer them the appropriate price for their labor.
This is a complex point so I want to address it separately:

> Yet in your calculations you are somehow counting it as a liability for nuclear.

It’s a liability to people operating nuclear power plants as they generally get paid by the market for generating power. When a grid adds solar or wind the wholesale price of electricity drops while those power plants costs stay the same. If it hypothetically costs you 10c/kWh of capacity averaged over the lifetime of the power plant your paying that money independently of how much you’re operating it. Workers showed up, equipment aged, and interest on your loan was due etc. Now actually generating electricity adds some small extra cost for the fuel etc so shutting down may actually save you money when the wholesale price falls low enough, but your losing money either way. The specifics do get complicated as a grid operator may have signed various contracts, but as the marginal costs for wind and solar are much lower than nuclear oversupply fucks nuclear in a pure market.

Of course in France the government subsidizes the industry, so it’s not at the mercy of pure market forces. However, someone is still stuck with the bill even if it’s future taxpayers as seen with recent bailouts. The obvious question then shows up of what exactly the mix of Nuclear vs Wind and Solar should on a carbon free grid. As a pure economic question the cheapest option is to have some large scale energy storage. Unfortunately, once that’s on the table the capacity for steady state operation suddenly becomes vastly less useful. Which is the long way around to what I have been saying where nuclear can’t follow the grid and be economically viable close to 100%.
Some people want the union to survive at the expense of so much more, and it shows.
The article states it(technological advance) wouldn't be fast enough to save us.
I think you're confused about the phrasing of the title. 'Why/ why not X' can be a request for information as you seem to imagine, but it can also be a proposal, as in 'why don't we have both'?
The key to a lot of bots isn't making them smart so they can grind all day - that is usually the easy bit - but making them dumb so they look like humans.

When I wrote a bot to grind Star Wars Galaxies for me I coded a ton of mistakes into it so it would click on the wrong buttons, miss the buttons completely, just generally do daft stuff. It looked human. Except for the fact it was grinding 24x7. I guess they never checked for that.
Hall of Fame coach with the #1 highest winning percentage in league history, rarely had anything important to say. Unbelievable. You'd probably come out of a personal lecture by Albert Einstein saying, all he talked about was that ancient E = mc2 stuff that we covered way back in high school.
I think heat pumps are far more likely to be a 'savior' in terms of energy efficiency and climate issues than going back to burning wood en masse, which the end of this article handwaves away even though it seems pretty obvious that it isn't really sustainable.
>Okay, I'm confused. My anecdote, which comes from Australia, indicates a 100% expectation of a judge. Are you saying that in Texas, a $US6K matter is likely to be considered too vexatious/trivial to receive a trial?

His point is that the OP (ie. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29719047) is refusing to sue, so there's no case to bring before a court. Everything else is irrelevant. Even if you'll obviously win, but you don't sue, it's not the state's job to file lawsuits for you.
Summary judgement applies when the facts not in dispute are sufficient to reach a legal conclusion. If there is a material dispute of facts, no matter how obvious the evidence is, it must go to trial. Further, summary judgement only reduces the cost (for both sides); it does nothing to act as a deterent.

> How would that even be defined?

That depends on how claiment friendly you want to be.

The key piece would be: "based on what the defendant knew when they refused the request for payment". Standard evidenciary rules apply for showing that the defendant knew something. In this case, the key evidence would be a police report and pictures sent to the insurance company, so I don't think there would typically be a dispute here.

The harder part is defining "ought". Courts already have a reasonable person test they apply to other situations. You could also apply the clear and convincing evidence standard to the applicable evidence (or, if you really wanted to, either preponderance or beyond a reasonable doubt).

The real answer is that in this hypothetical the legislature would pass a law, and then the appellate courts will spend decades clarifying the law until the legislature changes it again.
> I need to do leetcode every night so that I can compete against kids half my age for the same job. Is that fair?

How does practicing leetcode help you do your job, or do you just practice it for interviews?
I wonder how this works well with cloki (loki for clickhouse)
The Mosaicist: On Evan S. Connell
It's not a new muscle. They're drawing a distinction between different parts of the masseter muscle. I showed this article to a dentist. They didn't think it was interesting.
> The biosphere is incredibly good at recycling raw materials.

That's not entirely true in a subtle but impactful way. Organic material such as food scraps, wood, paper, etc. do breakdown in landfills, but they emit methane as they do so. If these are instead composted, where the breakdown process releases much less methane, instead of being thrown away, then methane emissions can be drastically cutdown if everyone did it. Further, compost acts as a carbon sink. In fact, if composting saw 100% take up, it would reduce emissions by several whole percentage points.

https://www.compostingcouncil.org/page/ClimateChangeBenefits

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200224-how-cutting-your...

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/198/636...

https://scraplab.princeton.edu/2020/03/the-composter-how-muc...
I’d be happy to pay for content if there was a cohesive interface to actually consume it. Alas, at the moment that interface is Plex and the various ‘*arr’s.
Something a little better than make is makepp [1], although it can be more complex. We use it at $work and it works pretty well.

[1] http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
I don’t find it takes much mental energy to pay for what I want to watch or just watch something else if I can’t pay for what I want to watch.
Solar panels that you can fit on a train won't provide a fraction of the energy required for the train. Luckily, we have a solution since 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_system
They talk about the economics here and payback time:
https://medium.com/coinmonks/axie-infinity-a-developing-worl...
Canadian and BC resident here. The Tyee is left-leaning but hardly "fringe". I would suggest they rely less on clickbait than many mainstream publications.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-tyee/
> Engineers are told to "Execute" and not "Strategize"

Complete these questionably specified tickets and when you are done, come back for more tickets.
> partners at top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, who have figured out ways to claim tens of millions of dollars in tax exemptions for themselves and relatives year after year, according to industry officials and lawyers.

Innovators yes, but not in technology, in acquisitiveness.
Why does that matter? Is there an alternative?
"Earth Overshoot Day" [0] is as good a place to start as any if you're serious about answering the question.

They try to calculate, in some detail, at what point in the year the current civilization has used the earth's annual "ability to regenerate" across a range of areas, and convert it into a calendar date. So if we're using twice the earth's annual regeneration, overshoot day would be about July 1. Etc.

Spider off that and you can find some good resources on how it's calculated. Needless to say, it's not a pretty picture at the moment.

[0]: https://www.overshootday.org/
It's odd that this doesn't come up in other media or other experiences, right? The closest analogy I can think of is unskippable advertising.

We never have a movie series where people pay extra money to remove scenes. You never go to a restaurant where the owner forces you to eat carrots before you can have your main meal, even though some diners might like carrots. It's basically just games and advertising where we have this model that consumers should either be forced to endure a part of the experience they dislike or that they should pay us money to give them the stuff that they directly do like.

Like, imagine if you were watching a show on Netflix, and you tried to skip a filler episode or fast-forward through a gory section, and Netflix wouldn't let you continue the series until you either watched that content in its entirety or paid them 99 cents.
I think this is the only viable path forward.

We simply cannot sustain a society where everyone is a voracious consumer anymore. Some people will have to simply settle for watching others consume things like cars, fancy homes, foreign travel, etc. and fantasize about it, similar to how people in old days would read travel books and fantasize about far away places they’ll never see. That’s basically the direction we’re heading with social media.

As long as you keep people healthy and sufficiently entertained they will have no desire for that excess consumption that harms the planet. They’ll have daydreams, but they will learn to accept that’s as far as they can go. And they’ll feel good about it, because they will know they are not harming the planet.
I have linux mint with cinnamon, it makes sounds, if desired, for many common actions.
> some of Silicon Valley’s marquee start-ups — including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Zoom, Pinterest and DoorDash

What does "marquee" mean here?
What finclout does differently here is that there is a clearly defined regulated external incoming stream from Proof of Stake treasuries. That avoids that the project needs to rely on a scammy "need to purchase" and in addition with more people overall reward volume increases as well.
In these groups it's probably mostly driven by desire for internet fame/prestige, a sense of belonging, and competition with other pirate groups. But a lot of piracy I think comes from the spirit of sharing. No one paid all those people who uploaded their obscure Hawaiian music on what.cd and they probably didn't boost their ratio that much from them either. But they did it anyways, presumably out of a sense of community/giving back. (And yes I'm aware of the power law nature of uploads on private trackers but there are still plenty of people with a handful of uploads who can get a good enough ratio from just downloading and seeding but still upload occasionally anyways).
This ignores some upstream decisions that were done by powers other than Democrats.

Governor Reagan closed most mental institutions in the state. Lots of them were terrible places because we humans (even doctors) are not kind to others with mental illness, especially the ones that dislike being held against their will. Also, asylum inmates are kind of hidden and politically “voiceless”. The jail/prison system was the de facto replacement, but US incarceration largely increases mental illness and our corrections system isn’t great at helping people avoid being put away again.

Then the SCOCA ruled that the prisons and jails in California were so overcrowded that it violated the rights of inmates, so the state had to quickly work to whittle down incarcerated populations while prosecutors were trying to pretend like they had any chance at a defendant would do long time for a light crime. Then the voters passed a state prop to reduce some classes of crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.

There are 2 silver linings as I see them: (1) some jurisdictions in CA are experimenting with voting other than First Past the Post and (2) voters in SF and other cities see some of these issues as political and policy losers and are eager to reject them (if given a reasonable alternative).
It’s for interviews.
Sure, but that's belied by the body:

> Does anyone have any insider information or generally good theory as to why YC's own job posts include none of that information?
I spent time writing careful reviews for Netflix. A couple years ago, they deleted them all.

I spent time adding missing pictures for Amazon's book listings. A couple years ago, they deleted them all. Those books reverted to having no cover pictures.

I don't bother contributing anymore. I didn't mind doing it for free, but if they don't care, I don't either.
File system time stamps are an unreliable way to decide if a target needs to be rebuilt. It doesn't work with distributed builds, it doesn't allow instant rebuilds to help with bisections, various file systems might not have not store the same time attributes, even on the same OS, etc. In my experience (large, mono-repo builds) hashes are the way to go and offer the most portable way to map an artefact to a tree of dependencies.

Another problem which is not discussed and is a very important feature for a modern build engine is "sandboxing" - forcing a build rule to declare all inputs, all outputs and to prevent any other kind of FS access and network access during the run of that command. BuildXL from Microsoft does that. Without sandboxing it's pretty hard to enforce a sane set of rules for building your large project.
I worked as a contractor where the day rates are stated up front. I wouldn't waste anyones time with a contract where the rate wasn't clearly specified.
It works kind of like Pokemon. You need some starter Axies to breed and fight.[1] There are people offering "scholarships" where they loan you Axies to grind. This was profitable last summer but is now a lose for both parties.

[1] https://leveldash.com/how-much-to-start-playing-axie-infinit...
Neal Stephenson's new novel Termination Shock addresses this. Without spoiling too much: Its characters view political obstacles to mitigating climate change as important as technological ones. They see the urgent need to act, and try to do so with politics in mind. It's sci-fi that keeps the human element center-stage.
FAANGMULA – what ULA stand for?
Then why do they advertise 4K as an important feature?
Note that New York City (50% larger population than Colorado, and can be reasonably considered to be much more economically & politically influential) just passed a similar law mandating salary ranges to be posted, to take effect in April 2022:

https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/new-nyc-law-will-require-...

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-york-city-council-p...
> There are no closed systems

This single fact destroys most arguments about almost anything, but especially in economics
In the case of wood, the carbon is accessed from, and ultimately returned to, the active biosphere. It's not fossil fuel that's been sequestered for 100s of millions of years, but was itself captured largely within recent decades.

Contrasted with burning coal, oil, or gas, preferred.

(Woodfuel may still be burned unsustainably, that's a separate question.)

Noted FWIW in TFA:

[U]nlike gas and oil, wood is a renewable and CO2-neutral fuel (the CO2 that is produced by the burning of wood was taken out of the atmosphere by the tree during the years before). The problem is that wood stoves are not very efficient, and extremely polluting.
You might enjoy https://typescripttolua.github.io/

I tried a bunch of different typed luas before landing on this project and having a really wonderful experience incrementally porting my most recent love2d thing over and then being able to make big architectural changes with confidence that types gave me.

I was able to do this port without modifying the original lua files, just replacing them with typescript one by one. Any lua libraries I was using I kept using by just writing some type declarations for then and throwing them in with the compiled output.
You don't know that, it hasn't been around long enough. You don't have proof that it is harmful, but you don't have proof it isn't either.
Your use of the word "take" is probably related to the disconnect. In copyright violations, the crime is copying. Usually "taking" has a different connotation than copying. (I'd be mad if you took my bike, but if you copied it then I'd just be happy for you.)
He would have recorded it with a VCR during a promotional free weekend on HBO or similar, then watched it whenever desired.
https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/
Well done. I’ve played around with framing electronics and yours is a great example.
I’m quite happy with ruby’s rake for my needs. I mostly use it to define pipelines, often involving data downloads and transformations into datasets for ML. It works well when you work with files, preferably containing a single or few entities each. Have been meaning to wrap some tools to make it handle databases into an extension.
>>>being non-white is a larger factor than location or ratio

Back when OKCupid's blog had a bunch of interesting data and insights about dating, the conclusion was: if you are male, and you are NOT a top-tier chiseled-jaw white/black/Latin guy....your prospects in the US are slim-to-none. And that was before women had legions of OnlyFans simps at their fingertips.
Exactly, population growth is halting. I don't think we can sustain the same economic systems without population growth.
"Everything they told us about Communism was a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about Capitalism was true."

- Common joke across the former Warsaw Pact countries after the fall of the wall and the reopening of information access.

Soviet Propaganda didn't need to lie about the west - they reported the truth, just the subset of the truth that presents the desired impact. Good Propaganda does this even to this day. When the Russians hack both the RNC and the DNC, but only leak the Democratic National Convention secret files to WikiLeaks, it's the same thing.