skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still need X11 to share my desktop on MS Teams (thanks Microsoft for that btw), and I still need it for most games.

Which GPU do you have? I can run most games on Wayland on AMD (including the likes of Cyberpunk).

I still boot up Windows sometimes due to the lack of HDR support.
The co2 emited by these industries is also counted in people's co2 tab.

That is, if you decide to buy a new phone, the phonemaker will be counted as having used x co2, and you will be counted as having used x co2. Likewise, if you eat a steack, your co2 counter goes up, and agriculture's co2 also ticks up.

Each co2 emission has multiple labels: which industry made it, its country of emission, its final consumer, etc. Each of these labels is useful to consider it from a different point of view. However, If the consumer makes an effort, the industry's co2 will inevitably go down. If the industry is regulated more tightly, consumers' co2 count will decrease.

The only use of comparing industry emissions vs. individuals' emissions is when deciding which regulation would be the most effective (e.g. subsidizing solar panels vs. regulating the oil industry). Opposing consumers and the industries providing consumer goods is meaningless.
Yep, not really thrilled with all the hate here. It's easy (and lazy) to throw rocks and people trying to share good ideas in new and interesting ways.

Probably a good argument that TED talks are filling in a hole that "Academia" is supposed to be doing, but is presently not very good at.
At face value, and with traditional neoclassical economics, it does appear to be an infeasible facade. Ex nilho creation of Robison Crusoe style goods.

From a practical reality, we already have a UBI of $0 guaranteed, and with time cost that increases if people want to seek welfare benefits. A UBI could be implemented, potentially, solely on streamlining of processes to decrease the costs of welfare benefit search.

Likely a realistic funding would be a mix of improving services delivery (lowering costs) and taxation of capital holders (offset some of the gains that put labor out of work). Under neoclassical theory, there are major differences in the two workhorse models of overlapping generations versus infinitely lived agents. An OLG model better approximates groups of people and their lifecycles.

In my view, this is a slow-burn fight w/in the optimal taxation literature, based solely on the papers themselves and having not participated in the conferences!

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w24335

[2] https://ideas.repec.org/p/red/sed019/258.html
One key mindshift is to realize that many of the newer sets are more in line with a 3D puzzle than a creative 1000's of blocks to invent your own thing. Its a lot less frustrating when you realize the replay value is in taking down the set and doing it again next year or passing it on to a friend - in a manner more analogous to how puzzles are engaged with.
https://github.com/HarrisonKeeling/overwatch-aimbot
> Until Lenovo sold me a lemon — ThinkPad X13 AMD.

Lenovo has sold us lemons in the X series since they started fucking up their keyboards after the X220. The X230 is still usable, but - X240 and later - not really. The poster does note this fact, but still claims the thinning of the chassis over the years is a good thing... Wrong :-( This sentence:

> it’s easy to argue that the X220’s design from the top picture is the least practical.

is the opposite of the truth. For a decent keyboard you need key travel, and for key travel you need travel height. Now, could you save a bit of height by battery improvements or rearrangements? Or by display thinning? Sure, but the Lenovo killed the keyboard for an extra 6mm or so.

> X270 ... just looks so much more pleasing to my eye

Come on. Really? Are you a fashion model?

> Proprietary charging port

It's true that the switch to USB-C allows for more flexibility. However - I personally liked how the port was round, and thick, so you could very easily get your plug in without having to lean in and take a closer look. But can't really complain about that I suppose.

> Touchpad

This may be the most controversial take I have on Thinkpads, but personally, for me, this is mostly and annoyance and something I tap by mistake. And something which takes space away from the keyboard... I'm perfectly fine with my trackpoint.
What is the point of linking to the Reddit thread instead of linking the ZDnet article?
The one sub I know opts out of r/all is r/nfl. Which is kinda strange for such a rather non controversial topic, but judging by the treats on r/all probably wise.
> And it's all run on the backend.

It's run server-side. That doesn't mean it's not front-end.
I don't understand why do you think being forced to ask users before collecting data about them is an abuse of state power.

I strongly disagree (admittedly with strong emotions too), but I'm still interested in how you think, I wish you explain more, regardless of the down-votes.

You are not yelling "fire" in a theater, you are just sharing your opinions on how you think capitalism needs to work. I wish people should stop down-voting, I mean we get it, but having to select text to read is very annoying.
Wikipedia has a good tl;dr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio

Later in 2013, the critical positivity ratio aroused the skepticism of Nick Brown, a graduate student in applied positive psychology, who felt that the paper's mathematical claims underlying the critical positivity ratio were fundamentally flawed.[6] Brown collaborated with physicist Alan Sokal and psychologist Harris Friedman on a re-analysis of the paper's data. They argued that Fredrickson and Losada's paper contained "numerous fundamental conceptual and mathematical errors", as did Losada's earlier work on positive psychology, which completely invalidated their claims.[7] In their response, Hämäläinen and colleagues argued that there were no fundamental errors in the mathematics itself, but the problems relate to the interpretation and justification of the use of the model.[8] Losada declined to respond to the criticism, indicating that he was too busy running his consulting business.[6] Fredrickson wrote a response in which she conceded that the mathematical aspects of the critical positivity ratio were "questionable" and that she had "neither the expertise nor the insight" to defend them, but she maintained that the empirical evidence was solid.[9] Brown and colleagues, whose response was published the next year, maintain that there is no evidence for the critical positivity ratio.[10]

In response, American Psychologist formally retracted the mathematical modeling elements of Fredrickson & Losada's paper, including the specific critical positivity ratio of 2.9013, as invalid.
There were some boosts to some numbers in some quarter from sale of divisions (the self-driving division acquisition by Aurora being one of the bigger one) yes, and there were also some boosts from pulling out of some markets (e.g. the Grab deal) but conversely, the timing of the Didi stake write-off in Q3 also put a negative dent in the metrics for that quarter. IMHO, those are purely paper equity numbers and don't represent the state of core operations at all. The implication to bottom line, though, is that these division were bleeding cash and the path to positive ROI was dubious, so they had to go. If you're gonna go w/ an arm-eating metaphor, I think an appendicitis might be a closer metaphor to the real story.

Regardless of equity-related stuff, the Q3 report did specifically state that the rides division were in the green for the first time ever (on adjusted ebitda basis), with eats posting a near-break-even loss. The point isn't so much about where exactly the "green" line stands (whether it's adjusted ebitda basis, regular ebitda basis or GAP), but that the data points have been going up (and rather aggressively, according to some). This is supposed to suggest that operations are no longer bleeding cash mindlessly and actually working towards optimizing expenses etc.
When conservative subs (like the pro trump ones) started hitting r/all and r/popular, they were very quickly banned, using (unevenly enforced) rules.

It's well known that SRS engaged in brigading, but they'll never be held to the same standard as those with ideologies that are less sympathetic.
If you're interested in frontend development (web, react native), UXUI and open source libraries, check out my blog. Just published an article on creating a CSS playground with vanilla JS.

https://blog.esteetey.dev/
Classic bricks are available in toy stores. Not like a rare item, it is there pretty much all the time, usually at the bottom shelf. And they are not expensive either.
Most people start becoming computer literate to do stuff, after that they can keep digging to understand more. If a tablet/smartphone/XBox just works then why bother with a PC?

As such, I think computer literacy has probably dropped over the last 9 years as fewer people get started. Which in general isn’t a bad thing compare the number of people who know how to do even basic car repair in 2022 vs 1960.
I'm not sure this is true. Asset valuation is a bit tricky when you're an outlier. It's not terribly liquid.
- Offices are distracting because people there can interrupt you at any time because they're the people you work with. You don't have the buffer of email/chat/voicemail/etc. (and assuming you have healthy work habits, you rarely sense the urgency to immediately response to any of those).

- Good ergonomics are important when you're working in a single location for hours every day.

- Sometimes I find it _easier_ to slip into deep work when I'm not in my typical place of doing business. There I feel the weight of all the fires I might have to put out and other daily responsibilities. Off in some other locale, I can tune everything else out and it's just me and my objective.
Yeah, MBPs have always had a terrific reputation. Even when they were using TN panels...

Utter garbage in my opinion.
If you are explicitly defining "sound" policy as following the mandate then their intent or reasoning is irrelevant. According to this logic, they failed to reach 2% inflation for most of the last 10 years and therefore the policy was unsound.

As you'd be right to point out, almost nobody defines monetary policy in these terms, but it's your definition. The fed balance sheet is 1/4 the size of the total economy, the over night rate is so low that OMO only works in one direction, it takes more than 1.5 Trillion dollars of reverse repo a night to keep banks in operation, and the Fed is so backed into a corner that they purchased bonds and didn't raise rates (expansionary) in January while inflation was at 7%.

Meanwhile former Fed board members, former treasury secretaries, and basically every macro bank analyst in existence is commenting that the Fed has made it's biggest policy error of all time.

So sure, keep arguing that they are doing "sound policy" whatever that means. Most people aren't going to buy it.
> but there are definitely fewer recognizable names amongst the volume of comments

I find this interesting because to me one of the biggest attractions to Reddit (and HN for that matter) is how deemphasized the user is. I almost never read usernames and rarely remember who anyone is.
What I have constantly found confusing is the conflation of related but separate issues here:

1) The general morality of secret services and undercover work, whether or not it is related to known crime or suspected crimes
2) The morality of an undercover officer doing "whatever it takes" to get into an inner circle, although it is not clear whether the sex was done for business or personal reasons (whether or not that matters)
3) The disruption of a higher level "right" to political dissent etc. without undue interference from authorities
4) Whether there was a lack of supervision and what the effect of this was (was it just poor management of an important job or a more causual effect?)

How much of this is illegal and how much is just sad is not clear and the issues need considering separately, otherwise it sounds like somebody getting hurt by a dishonest person when it is potentially much more critical than that.
Furthermore, it was INTENDED BY DESIGN to load all JS/CSS from CDN, because ultimately it improves the user-experience, and makes it plausible to make an app like this wrapped into a single index.php file.

I get the rest of the points you're making but I think the flak you're getting is largely about what you consider the "user" here. You're responding from the point of view of the person I am sharing my photos with, whereas most of the respondents are responding from the point of view of the me, the guy who is gonna actually use this app. There's a mid-sized vocal crowd of self-hosters here on HN and from my own observation a tendency to prefer control over these sorts of things.

Does anyone have any examples of any other single-file app with a comprehensive interface like Files app that is entirely self-contained?

Your app is, as you noted, not single-file. Setting that aside though, the density of the interface is kind of irrelevant to where the CSS and JS are hosted. There's loads of on-premise enterprise apps that do not load data from CDNs and have much more convoluted user interfaces. Plus they work on an otherwise disconnected network, do not subject users to potential tracking, etc.

I would also warn you, having seen this happen to a friend's project, the absence of any robust license text inside the package and/or spelled out on the website is going to give you some headaches. For example, does "use" of the app include customization? What type of customization is possible and accepted? If you allow some customization, you'd need to be careful to spell out explicitly that people can't just edit the PHP and remove the nag, etc.

One other thing to note: The application is very vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting.
Surprising php has a lot of FP aspects.
> We could already have this reality today if we just implemented a universal basic income, but until the boomers retire from office that's just not happening.

That won't be enough. Not just because there are an awful lot of Boomers and post-boomers who can't even go to retirement because they don't have a pension they can live on (which in turn is a problem because all the jobs that the Boomer pensioners occupy can't be done by younger people)... but also because the status quo is not a result of Boomers being Boomers (as group of people born in the decades after WW2), it's a result of how society itself is set up.

In German, we have a saying "wer mit 20 noch kein Kommunist ist, hat kein Herz - und wer es mit 30 immer noch ist, keinen Verstand", roughly translated to "who is not yet a communist by age 20 doesn't have a heart and who still is a communist by age 30, has no common sense".

Basically, society itself has over millennia evolved into acquiring wealth and disbursing that wealth down to one's children (which up to maybe a hundred years ago meant, the male children), and it's no coincidence that age 30 was around the age where young men and women bought their house and "settled down". And once you have that house, your car, your family after a decade of education and another decade of hard work... why would you be incentivized to allow others the same status as you have now, without them having to put in the same work? Why would you risk your freedom, your job, your investment, your assets and go on the streets and riot until the elite comes crashing down like it deserves?

Of course, there are idealists who nevertheless take on that risk, and those who have failed the rat race or got left behind somewhere, but let's be realistic: the numbers alone are an advantage to the elites.

The danger that modern Western capitalist society is now, of course, that it has allowed too many people to fall behind economical progress - which is what fueled the rise of right-wing populism across the US and Europe over the last decades. And I'm afraid that even though it may seem like we have passed over the worst (with Trump and Netanyahu getting booted out of office, BoJo going down in flames, even Italy's right wing being unable to put up a candidate)... I'm afraid that the events of the last six to eight years have only been a tiny warning and we are headed for something much bigger and especially much worse.

The world needs to do a lot of change to hope to tackle the climate crisis... lots of the current standard that us Westerners are used to is simply unsustainable (e.g. always a wide selection of fresh, world-wide sourced produce and meat in the supermarket, cross-continental flights for under a hundred euros) which means that an already disgruntled population will have to cut back, and the population of poor and rising developing countries that sees the Western abundance on Instagram will not be happy to hear that they won't even get the chance of obtaining that wealth level.
This seems like really deep technology. What is the one sentence describing who would use this and why though? Maybe that's in the long block of text somewhere.

I work in fintech for broker dealers so I'm genuinely curious what is the use case here.
> government prints money and gives it away for free

In some circumstances this is actually a good idea. One core idea of Modern Monetary Theory is that printing money is only inflationary when the economy is at capacity.

So giving money to people that can't or won't work actually drives growth because they can spend.

If you moralize about economics or think MMT is wrong, this sounds like a horrible idea. If you only care about results, then it's a great idea.
Oh sure, he's not "against" women voting. He just says that their doing so is bad for democracy.

The point is - Thiel is crank, and if needs to sugarcoat the true import of what he's really saying: "We'd all be better off if women's suffrage never happened" -- that's just Thiel being Thiel.
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> How exactly is this supposed to work? The government prints money and gives it away for free, nobody has to work?

I'm not a committed supporter of UBI, so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt (or more) but I assume the whole point is to promote wealth redistribution. Not print money. So you give everyone some amount, say 12K/year, and then support it with taxes.

It sounds infeasible with the current budget, because of course it is. But modeling the final result isn't that simple I'd guess. More money into the circle, so the circle gets bigger, etc. So while it'd be easy to shoot it down using a single iteration of the circle, I'd like to see someone do a longer term simulation. I'm sure they have, I just haven't seen it.
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If rail isn't profitable due to lack of demand, it likely also isn't environmentally friendly.

The rail efficiency sold to the public is based on projections that (generally) also made them profitable.

Rail efficiency decreases drastically as usage declines, as so much of the embedded energy and emissions is in the fixed cost of building out ROW and track, and ongoing MOW.

You need to operate at a high percentage of capacity in passengers per train, and high percentage of capacity in trains per track.

Efficient rail systems are relatively a highly constrained problem, due to said fixed cost of track, but also due to lack of flexibility to adapt to changes, both in routes (need to move/add track) and capacity (track at full capacity doesn't meet demand, but two tracks exceeds demand at cost of being inefficient). (Operating one track that doesn't fully meet demand increases prices and becomes an expensive but profitable point of stability.)

Which is why eg high-speed rail proposals in the US typically rely primarily on improving existing slow routes, and are limited to midrange distances. Too short and too long both push it to being more costly at reduced efficiency.
I was taught that management theory sprung from army management. These were the first organizations that required coordinating very large groups of people - in the life or death situations of war, and in the brutal monotony of peace.

I doubt that there were enough slaveowners or slaves in charge to contribute anything substantial to the management profession. It is an interesting tale in today's sentiment of antiwork.
Fox is a selective amplifier like most news media. They pick topics that make their beliefs look good and much more importantly topics that make their enemies look terrible (see the antiwork interview)
Only because opponents of it deliberately misinterpreted it.

Defund the police means defunding the police. Over half of all city taxes go to funding the police forces, who do little to no good for the community with the money they're given. Buying more tanks and assault weapons and fancy cars and employing people who live in big macmansions in the suburbs isn't helping us.

Concervatives act like the word "defund" means the same as "abolish" when talking about the police, but then are happy to talk about defunding education, or defunding planned parenthood, or defunding medicare, defunding social security, defunding sanctuary cities, etc fully expecting their base to understand that they don't mean "abolish".
> nobody has to work

That's generally not the expectation. The expectation is that there's more than enough wealth to allow for everyone to have a baseline of income to meet their most basic needs. You want to buy a house, buy a car, travel, eat at fancy restaurants, buy expensive things, you still have to work. But if you want to quit your job and find another one you don't need to fear starvation or eviction because you are without income for a few months.

It's the same logic as preventative medicine. Instead of dishing out money for surgery you can catch problems earlier when they are cheaper to fix.
Not in all states. In my state (North Carolina), teachers participate in the public employees retirement/pension fund. However, public employees are prohibited by law from joining/forming a union.

Yes, the get "summers off", but there are also mandatory continuing education requirements that must be completed, so they're still working (unpaid) during those two months.

Teachers also cannot request a vacation day. If you need to call in sick, you're responsible for securing a substitute (school provides the list of approved people, better start calling them frantically).
When things get ambiguous (which I'll take to mean, "they don't get it the way you're explaining it" - please correct/direct my understanding if you meant something different), I look for how others have explained something - or I'll take my kids to someone else and ask in front of them how they'd explain it: it's as important to me that my kids know I don't know everything and am willing and want to learn as it is to be able to answer/explain things to them in the way I learned/understood it :)

Sometimes, intentionally or not, we all, of course, revert to "how we learned it" - and sometimes it's because you can't find someone else to explain it, or some other way to accomplish something, or of all the ways you've seen it learned/explained, you really are using the "best" :)