skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exponential growth is coming to an end, one way or another. Our consumption of the biosphere and drastic impact on the carrying capacity of this planet cannot be fixed by simply changing energy sources. Problems are way deeper than that.
Here it means "perpendicular". A high dependency count is perpendicular to the goal of reducing exposure as much as possible.
I find I have access to a ton of content for the cost of a couple cds and dvds.

I like it.

Content is mostly ephemeral for me. I don't want to manage a ton of files or physical media.
Wouldn't disabling location essentially block the app from getting the IP address?
Individual contributors don't avoid strategy out of stupidity, we do it out of respect for the person whose job it is.

Strategy is the ultimate bikeshed: the prerequisites for having an opinion are very low, so everyone has one. Don't mistake avoidance of scapegoat duty for not having an opinion. Everyone has an opinion. Unfortunately, the evidence never unambiguously points to a single course of action and paying everyone to daydream and argue about the big picture is wildly inefficient, so the key to getting anything done is to delegate the decisions to a single person per team, give them time to cultivate big picture knowledge and political connections, and then to respect those decisions even if you privately disagree.

It would be awfully nice if that respect were reciprocated, but this article is an exercise in the polar opposite: it's a declaration that "management rules, labor drools," complete with a childish "descent into failure" diagram. Don't make the mistake of actually getting things done! You might out yourself as a stinky engineer and NEVER make it up into management! Mind the Peter Principle!

Maybe next week they can blogspam on how management compensation is about leveraged value creation, not Rules for Rulers.
Science devoid of philosophy is merely politics.
Thank you in advance, loving already.
Moment to moment, everything in society is at equilibrium and therefore looks "normal". Even wartorn countries experience a strong impulse to normalize themselves and return to day to day living, despite compromise and sacrifice. Likewise people can't become depressed and suddenly cease to have any interest in anything at all. It's more a case of something becoming top-of-mind more often and coloring whether they see "a future". Like throwing the match before it's over, depression makes you relax your grip on striving for things, and on enjoying that struggle.

And, to speak to the quandary of the article, it can be relentless if your engagement with everyday life is constantly mediated by commercial elements, which it is, today. Poverty strikes harder in that instance because you don't seem to be able to "do" anything that matters to other people without engaging your financial brain(which you equate to survival, since you have to constantly calculate rent and groceries). So you're going to just be in survival mode all the time which is likely to give you a mix of anxiety and depression - all routes closed off except the worst and riskiest ones. But then flip the situation into a non-commercial one and suddenly a whole segment of the discouraged-depressed can be creative and engaged, and I think that's really telling. So long as you have the strength, it's worth it to try to move forward in your life, because you can't really help the people around you by holding yourself back and staying still.
Pay is more a measure of what the worker is willing to accept than a measure of quality or productivity.
It was a desperate time, and people were turning to increasingly futile computation-based superstition to save themselves.
> it's easy for one to lose track of time month after month, and the years sometimes just seem to run together as a result.

I grew up with four distinct seasons and found this to be the case living in the Bay Area as well. There are a lot of microclimates on the coast and so experiences can vary, but I moved there on the tail end of an El Nino, which was one sort of season, and then experienced some other season for many years.
Less that its so common, more that a small percent of people cause all of that pollution. They usually convince themselves they are being environmentally friendly because "I just use the wood I already have from my land!!" And the rest of us suffer their refusal to use a modern heating source.
It's not a matter of thinking so or otherwise. It's a mathematical question of what value each worker added to the product. Other expenses aside, profit is the difference between the value they added and the wage they were paid. You don't get profit without underpaying relative to the value provided by a worker.
No, phone usually goes in my back left pocket, or left pocket of my sport coat if wearing one.
> This sounds great.

I’m sure it does — to you. It sounds like a one sentence horror story to me.

I enjoy living somewhere small enough that I have an active role to play in my community’s basic needs, including serving as a volunteer firefighter, while still being remote enough that I don’t need to intrude on my neighbors (or request their approval) to largely live the way I want to live — and vis versa.
It's all adjustable. Just make Carbon Tax progressive.

Until 2025 anything dirty - tax is 3% for import

2028 tax is 6%

2030 - 12% etc...

Also rollout new target for next Phases. To get rid of coal first, Gas after, ICE cars, inefficient heating, metal production...

You can make it more complex to include coal in formula etc. So if energy production contains 15% of coal then tax this economy. If that doesn't work in few years double the tax. Very simple and efficient.

it make sense to make it social, and invest this tax into low income homes upgrades for electricity(solar), heat production(geotermal).

That basically makes the Carbon/dirty production a luxury.
This is something that I appreciate about ethash (Ethereum's current PoW algo)... it is tied to GPUs (and memory controllers). One side effect is that older GPUs tend to drive higher ROI numbers vs. an arms race of always having the latest smaller nm ASIC technology.

Oh and CPUs don't work well because that drives people to create botnets. FPGAs kind of sit out there in an esoteric expensive and difficult to run island all by themselves.
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The really interesting thing about electrification is that it’s going to lead to more choice and economic freedom for people, which ironically goes against political narratives on climate change. To make the grid renewable will require early retirement of stranded fossil fuel generating assets. This will be resisted by utilities because they’ve already financed these assets and are paying off loans based on them. The key to accomplishing more renewables is to open up generation to more market competition. Because photovoltaics are now the cheapest way to generate electricity, and storage costs are dropping at a rate similar to solar ten years ago, most new generation will be renewable. We see this with states that allow municipalities to directly purchase electricity. For example, Marin county CA allows residents to purchase 60% renewable energy at competitive rates, or 100% for $0.01 more per kWh, or residents can opt-out and buy power from PG&E. The more we can decouple utilities from generation, the faster we’ll see grid scale renewables, and the more electrification will make sense.
Does that work on Wayland or just x11? Doesn't the Widevine plugin prevent basic screen captures of its content?
Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999) [pdf]
iirc that was something like mustard gas and the blowing into a straw was to get the victim to breathe deeply (after emptying lungs blowing)
As Oil loses economies of scale it’s only going to get more expensive not less. Meanwhile batteries, solar, and wind just keep getting cheaper. Future EV sales are going to come down to technology not subsides.

Also biofuels aren’t significant at current consumption levels, but could become so if we get close to net zero emissions.
Could this be one of the few cases where a DAO actually has a real world application?
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Madden was the butt of many jokes for his “duh” comments but the older i get, the more sense they seem to make.

I’m reminded of the “software is just ifs and loops” post from weeks back. I had that opinion when I started, lost it for 15 years and find it returning more and more.
I’m not sure how you shrink my tree-covered acreage to fit into this model, and how attempting to doing so wouldn’t be negatively impacting my quality of life.
The reason for having SMS-based 2FA as a default is that it's At least something.

Adding a U2F token and having SMS as a backup means that you don't have people locked out because their yubikey failed -- which happens.

Discord is trying to solve some of the bootstrapping problems that arise from "oh fuck my computer and phone were both stolen" -- which, again, happens.
In all honesty the actuarial pay is really quite good. Keep in mind your average FCAS makes about 200k a year at only the 10 year mark which is probably 60 to 70k more than your average SWE. That FCAS will go on to have an average salary of 300 to 500k+ later in their career as well. And these jobs are often obtainable outside super expensive areas where SWEs tend to reside (SF, Seattle, NY, etc), which makes the salary much more attractive.
>place at least one student in a position that pays >$150K every year.

That's pretty much what I mean by it being an outlier: it's not the norm.

>But they do receive fantastic educations, because they are at teaching-oriented...

That's hit or miss: Anyone that's highly self-motivated will do fine at most schools. One prof I had was at best disinterested. They basically summarized chapters on the chalkboard. Their apathy in answering questions went a long way towards discouraging questions in the first place. It was a shame too because their personal research was interesting: 3-dimensional computer vision. Unfortunately this was a foundation course too. I did fine, but other students that were excited about CS yet had no exposure to it before college ended up with C/D/F grades and were either setup for ever tougher times when the work got harder or simply left the program. (Computers were still expensive at that time and the dot com bubble was still building, so it was pretty common for students to arrive enthusiastic about the new tech field but completely without prior exposure to it. Maybe things are better today).
I was more thinking of the extensive support GPG has in many email clients on many platforms for supporting encryption and signing use cases, as well as key management.
Recently I got lost in a tiny pocket of forest of about an acre, across the road from my house, when it was night and there happened to be no moon. (But I was fine once I got over my embarrassment and used the compass on my phone.)
That's pretty much my thought.

Six of Russia's top ten exports are fuels, including all the top four.

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/exports
Historically, the role of the bicyclists was performed by slaves, serfs, peasants...

If you get rid of the machines, involuntary servitude will be back before you know it, because human nature hasn't changed, yo.

Personally, I'd rather that not happen.
>It’s not really working if and when once side is incentivized not to pay when they can and are obviously at fault.

This seems to be based on the "making all parties whole" interpretation of insurance, rather than "protect the policyholder". Are you ignoring my prior comment entirely? Are you trying to argue that insurance companies ought to have a "making all parties whole" imperative rather than a "protect the policyholder" imperative? Or perhaps you take issue with insurance companies reneging on their obligations?

It seems like from the rest of your comment that you take issue with the latter, rather than the former. My response to that would be: I agree reneging on obligations in general is bad. However, even you seem to agree that there's some room for dispute, hence why answer was qualified with "obviously at fault". Other commenters have suggested somehow punishing insurance companies in cases where they're "obviously at fault" and refuse to pay up. However, the trouble then becomes, what counts as "obviously at fault"? I have not received a satisfactory answer for that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720344.
The saturation in digital/streaming video is simply out of control now.
I'm gonna buy Netflix, Amazon prime since it's free with prime anyway, and maybe just another one like Hulu on a subscription basis.

But no, I'm not gonna throw my dollars on every little platform out there like Disney+, HBO, Vudu, Fandango, and other crappy services from other companies just because some content I needed exists only there. Guys, if we look closely this is basically all back to TV Channels all over again.
So, no thank you. I'll keep pirating my content with a VPN.
Countries began importing population to make up for the lack of organic growth... and those that don't face an imploding population (S Korea forecasts going to 1/4 its curr pop by 2120, or to about its 1960 pop by 2100).

Though, if all countries aimed for their 1960s pop, that may not be bad if its done gradually as appears to be happening in S Korea.
Recompressing an uncompressed version of a compressed video signal is hell on quaaliy
Is India next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNPP8nwD_E
I was really expecting to see a VScode plugin haha thanks
Yes there is small claims courts in the US but I think cross state lawsuits may not work in all situations. So if you are from California and are suing for an incident that happened in Texas, you would have to go the small claims court in Texas which involved time and money to travel there.
Commodities and manufacturing dwarf services in global trade.
> the bulk of world emissions currently comes from developing countries

And the bulk of emissions in developed countries comes from corporations. I don't know offhand, but I'd be shocked if the same bulk for developing countries isn't produced by corporations as well, and not shocked but wildly surprised if it's not the exact same corporations.
Oh my goodness, this feels extremely familiar. I have some reading and work to do. Thank you for linking this.
The link at the bottom of the page to Part Two (where he suggests solutions) is fairly easy to miss. Quoting some of it:

[H]ere is what our leaders should be saying:

We are eight billion people competing for finite resources and consuming energy at unprecedented levels. Economic growth is destroying the Earth and the atmosphere. It has degraded our humanity, and divorced us from the values of our ancestors.

Growth is a ponzi scheme. Increased prosperity depends on making more people because more people consume more goods.

If we don’t prioritize the health of the planet over our short-term economic interests the oceans will sicken with acid, the forests will die, and the fisheries will disappear. Nature will reduce our numbers if we do not scale down our appetites and ambitions.

The technospshere threatens our physical and spiritual existence. It must be scaled back and reoriented to serve people. Now it actively mines data from people while altering our brain functions to serve the growth of the technosphere.

We have exploited the richest of our fossil fuels, and renewables can’t offer the same energy density and quality. That is why energy conservation is the only way forward. Our energy use must consistently drop by three or four per cent a year over the next decade.

...

Ignore those alarmists that say contraction means you and I must live in cold caves. An economic retreat does not mean returning to the Dark Ages. As Hagens has observed, a 30-per-cent GDP drop in the United States would bring that nation back to a 1990s level of energy spending. A 50 per cent drop in GDP would bring the U.S. back to a 1973 level. Were those times so bad?

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/04/Returning-1970s-Econo...
General Ourumov in Goldeneye is also a rogue Soviet agent
You could say the same about any skilled hobbyist. Some people just love the challenge, and don't care about financial reward.
Even then people can surprise you beyond that.

At one of the earlier startups I was involved with I had worked closely with another developer. When said startup fell apart and the group of us all went our different ways, I got a warning from another colleague about the individual I had grown close with, we will just note them as "E".

She had cautioned that when things were good (and the usually were) "E" was a great individual. However, the moment things did not go 100% perfectly, or there was any type of "advantage" to gain regardless of the cost, they would immediately do that and backstab anyone. I wrote that off as just a disagreement between the two of them, something grudge or who knows.

It took many years later that "E" made his true nature shown. I truly believe it to be a combination of being locked down for COVID, constant job hunting, the fact he had "quit" learning in tech, a weird fascination with crypto currency, getting lost into a hole of IDPOL (us versus them, with us or against us nonsense), and some closet fascism to boot. Not to mention attacking myself and others for "being educated" because the few of us Engineers held specialized degrees and long work histories, whereas "E" was nothing more than a basic bootcamp grad.

All it took was myself not fully agreeing on a trivial point in a matter, and in moments "E" had attempted to turn everything I had privately confided in him in an attempt to hurt me. Of course all that did was confirm the warning of him being what he was, and his opportunist ways.

So even then, people can surprise you.
> is nothing short of delusional.

Agree. But what if it was not actually physically possible to sustain humanity's current level of consumption, no matter what the energy sources are? Then we're headed for catastrophic failure and collapse. Not considering this possibility is as delusional as anything.

This site is particularly bad with techno hopium. When in reality, nothing is moving in the right direction, let alone fast enough. There are a lot of delusions and magical thinking, and it's hard to be a realist without suffering accusations of doomerism and legions of downvotes.
Strategic thinking isn’t just the generative idea creation of a “strategy”. It’s also about savvy execution within a strategic context.

In every project a thousand decisions are made by “drooling labor” and the better each of those decisions ladders up to the strategy the more meaningful the impact of the work.

Watching people proclaim no impact on strategy but thinking they deserve tons of credit for their code is a failure mode I’ve seen with engineers. Watching people get frustrated not being promoted when “idiot peers” get credit was often more about their own idiocy.

Don’t dismiss the impact you have in every role, it’ll hurt your career and the actual impact you have.
Most greenhouse emissions are already from non-western countries. That will be much more true in the decades to come. Even if western countries were to stop all emissions today, the net impact in 2100 won't be more than about 0.5 degC.

Are we really going to ask the non-rich world to cut back on their consumption and shrink their economies?
Yeah, it's sad some stuff isn't available. I think it was worse in the past though.
OK, I think I get it better. I'm not disagreeing and sincerely appreciate the cynicism, but you're saying the guy who ran on a relatively classic tough-on-crime platform is also appealing to some kind of criminal subclass of NYC voter who prefers bitcoin to cash for their locally committed crimes and also appreciates tough-on-crime platforms for everything else?

Perhaps... or maybe the reputation for crime that some people are intent on projecting onto bitcoin is not particularly accurate to the realities of currencies used most frequently in the commission of criminal activity.
This should be what we expect to find, at least in US schools, because it was the explicitly stated, intended purpose of Progressive Education. They designed the entirety of their program after the Prussian model which was to produce workers trained enough to succeed in farms or factories but not smart enough to question the orders of their leaders.

Read William James. Read John Dewey - but really read him, because he was more aware that he had to soft-sell the socialist indoctrination program to an individualistic culture that wasn’t interested in buying.
You're using isolated incidents from the 60 and 80's to claim the U.S. is responsible for the entire modern multi billion dollar international drug trade?

So to be clear.

The blame is on the U.S. for the entire drug trade.

The blame is on the west for colonialism causing African countries problems in modern times.

The blame is on racial repression for minority groups problems in the U.S.

The trend seems to be that minority groups are at complete mercy of western repression.
OP is, very explicitly, trying to find a workplace ith people who prefer being in the office.

We could easily rework this kind of statement:

> People who like working from home want to force me to spend hours on Zoom, and subject me to constant Slack interruptions, just so they never have to "see" me, or interact with me as a complete human. No thank you.

> If the remote people would just work remotely, things would be fine. But no, when a single team member is remote, everyone has to adopt their preferred ersatz remote practices.

Of course, this is silly, nobody is trying to force anyone into a work environment that they hate--why would I want my colleagues to be miserable ?

I believe we'll end up self sorting, so everyone can be happy, and to that end there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking advice on how to find your preferred work environment, whether that's in office or remote.
This is the best option

I have built a server at home for working, but in the end I just use it as an ssh server, to reverse RDP to work

Option 1: your office has a VPN, ask for access

Option 2: get a cheap 2nd hand server * in UK there are cheap HP ML310, 50£ * Open your home router port * Setup a dynamic DNS

* Setup a VPN or SSH * From the office connect to your VPN/SSH * From home RDP/x2go/SSH to the office computer

Option 3: rent a 2.50£ a month VPS, with a static IP. Setup as above...
> It will happen naturally over time as economic levels rise and reproduction rates drop below sustaining. But that will take centuries

The theory of evolution tells us that over centuries, reproduction rates will not drop.
One of the main problems is that Linux is just the kernel, not an operating system (FSF has always been vocal about this with their GNU/Linux branding).

A minimal Linux system requires many GNU utilities and software from other projects to give you a basic command prompt with network connectivity. A Desktop system requires GNOME, KDE, etc.

Contrast this with BSD where a default install gives you a base system. There are BSD distros, but they only focus on orchestration and higher level components, not the base system.