skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The fossil fuel industry ($620bn), the agricultural sector ($520bn), water ($320bn) and forestry ($155bn) account for the majority of the $1.8tn, according to the report. No estimate for mining, believed to cause billions of dollars of damage to ecosystems every year, could be derived."

One cannot stop the flood of non-informed opinions from the news media today (though leniency is to be granted since this is The Guardian, they are very special there indeed). Fossil fuel, agriculture and forestry + mining -- literally stuff without which one cannot live and if so only at the level of poverty of hunter gatherer who have orders of magnitude more destructive life (if there were 7 billion of us doing that) style than any modern city dweller. And what is this "damage"?

For fun, lets compare it to the other essential human activities (which are more important activities than providing humans with material, energy and food/water):

- In 2020, the entertainment and media market in the U.S. is expected to be worth over 720.38 billion USD. On a global scale, the entertainment and media market was worth 1.72 trillion USD in 2015 and is set to rise to 2.14 trillion by 2020.

- The global football market size was valued at $ 1,883.6 million in 2019

- In 2020, the casino industry revenue reached $227 billion.

- The online gambling market was worth $53.7

- The global film industry was worth $136 billion in 2018

- The gaming market was valued at USD 173.70 billion in 2021

- NBA, NHL, MLB - 100+ bn
Rent is a payment to borrow property. Property = Capital.
No, it's very clearly land use policies that artificially reduce the number of housing units in this country.
ChromeOS is Linux based and is very popular.

I've been using Linux on my primary machine for 4 years and while I appreciate the customizability, I don't think it'll ever be in a state to be mainstream unless it's a distro pre-installed on popular hardware funded by a large corporation.
Do you have a link to those reports? Highways strike me as improbable. Visibility requires thickness in 2 directions, so if they could see highways I'd expect them to see tons of stuff, like wharehouses.
Yeah, it's a very hard field to master so finding people who know what they're doing is quite difficult
Disagree. It's not particularly lame. A well written one-liner conveys more information and wastes less time. Maybe HN could have a "vetted user", somebody who generally plays by the rules of the site, so that people can see one-liners and know the person making them has the authority to say it.

Perfect example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30246830&p=2#30247139
> Teenagers being handed checks for 100K+ to study topics that wont get them a job is the fault of the... teenager?

Who else is responsible for their choice? They make the choice, nobody else. That 100K check doesn't force them to choose a particular degree.

I wish we had mandatory annual counseling for students that would inform them of the market demands. But again, at 18 you can just Google that info in 30 seconds.
Do you expect things to get better in the future? I'm not in the market to buy right now, but I'm trying to understand if the current situation is the new normal or still a reaction to covid upheavals. My gut tells me that in 2-3 years things will be much closer to normal as rates rise and people that fled to suburbs decide to move back to the city.
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"Sweaty Startups"

- Lawn work

- Accounting/Bookkeeping

- Power washing

- House cleaning

And a single content site monetized by affiliate/ads
I trust a local password manager, namely KeepassX running on my linux laptop. It's an open source dedicated piece of tech running on the local box, so I figure my trust model extends at least this far.

Otherwise, no, I wouldn't trust a commercial password manager with automatic sync on to someone else's servers. I also don't trust the browser enough to put an extension in it that has the keys to my password database.

It's a tradeoff. I get a nice level of security, but it's not 100% seamless. Without autofill, I often need to start up the password manager, search for a site, copy and paste password into the browser. (I just had to do this to log into HN.)

For some sites, I let the browser also save the password, which I treat as just a cache of low-value passwords. And the encrypted password manager database gets occasionally synched into gdrive, so I can also access it from my smartphone using the appropriate app.

Been doing this for 5+ years at this point, and it works for me... can't even remember what on earth I did before. Probably passwords in tiny plain text files.
Not that they should have done nothing, but clearly they could have addressed the acute crisis, and then normalized when that passed.

Instead they addressed the acute crisis, and continued the same policy for 2 years with no change.

What they should have done was 6 months or so after peak covid panic, start to normalize interest rates and QE. They also didn't consider at all the velocity of the economy and just looked at point in time employment numbers to drive their policy thinking.

It was clear the job market was already overheated at 5% unemployment, for example, due to the historical number of job openings and increasing pace of those job openings, plus record high quits rate. Plus retail sales/inflation.
HN barely holds together as it is. Despite the simplicity of it the site undergoes frequent outages and performance degradations. Long threads get paged in an absolutely insane way because of performance problems and a fix has been underway for several years according to the stock message dang leaves at the top of such threads.
sometimes the data is just big...
That looks pretty simple. Is there anything you're doing that wouldn't be possible in WebGL 1?
Flamebait headline, the airline cooperated with the authorities by chartering flights to deport migrants. Amazon co-owns it because it uses the planes for air freight.

I, for one, do not like this trend of overloading words with a "softer meaning" to give an argument more punch. The immigrants were not tortured in any way that pertains to the meaning of the word.
> A wealth tax would be hard / impossible to implement.

The "impossible to do" is a common excuse for people just not wanting to do something.

The common excuse is that the ultra wealthy aren't actually cash wealthy. They have all their wealth in investments that are rarely if ever actually realized. People throw their hands up in the air and say we can't tax unrealized wealth. But how do wealthy people get cash? They borrow millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions against their unrealized wealth. So limit or tax their borrowing of this money such that it forces the realization of wealth, which would be taxed, or they are taxed on what they borrow, respectively.
We all know switching is not free, you might have a lot of digital assets locked inside the garden. Still nobody would force him to give money directly to a developer/artist he can continue feeding poor giant companies and you can check Google Play Store and see that is full of apps(includng Facebook,Apple and Microsoft apps) so there is no risk that an alternative will empty out the official store.
I imagine readers here would want local control for home automation.
Take a look at www.hubitat.com
I’m not aware of a cloud provider that is contractually allowed to do such a thing (except maybe alibaba by way of the CCP). Dying companies get purchased and have their assets pilfered every day, the same thing would happen with cloud assets.
Huh, how cool. This may just be an odd coincidence but I have very photosensitive eyes so there are a few custom settings I cycle through whenever I need to reduce eye strain. Switched my settings back to mfg preset and for some reason the website is easier on my eyes than regular HN. The colors are all the same, the layout is the same, the zoom is the same - can't really figure out why but I thought that was neat.
They should know it when they see it.
We tend to reserve the word "tech" for new technology especially. Cars, power tools and horse wagons were also new sexy technology once upon a time, but no-one calls companies making those products "tech companies". The categorization from "tech" to "normal stuff" happens when a technology becomes ubiquitous part of our society rather than play stuff of early adopters and hackers. Arguably this has recently happened also to social media, internet advertising and many other internet technologies so maybe we should move on and recategorize those things as what they are instead of "tech".

So what is "tech" now, if we take the definition to be "new technology not yet widely adopted by everyone's grandmother"? Maybe some of the blockchain stuff? Nuclear fusion? Reinforcement learning based AI agents? Self-driving cars? Hyperloop? Homomorphic encryption? Nerve implants? Robots capable of moving in unpredictable environments (like Boston Dynamics has)? Artificial meat? Space ships?
First and most important thing: Congrats to the Cloud Functions team for moving GCF forward.

Second: Please, keep working on reducing the cold start times, min-instance is useful, but it is kind of a hack IMHO.

Third: Native support for RUST would be amazing.
In my opinion, storing passwords in encrypted files is probably safer than putting passwords in a centralized location (provided you don't code your own encryption algo or make other silly mistakes).

There is not a lot of value in trying to attack a single person's password file, but the value is multiplied by the number of users when using a centralized platform.
It's probably more important to spend time on a small engineering team and a large engineering team. A small team teaches you that you make certain decisions. Working at a large team shows you why those decisions don't scale.
You don't "send" your password to the manager, you enter it locally. Ideally, it never leaves your computer, so it is far less likely to 'leak'

The database is encrypted, so if someone were to hack them, they would at least have some (hopefully major) issues decrypting it all.
(am author) I'm actually going to touch on that Ken Thompson article in a follow-up about how sandboxing can improve not just security, but user freedom/control too (if implemented a certain way).

It'll go over how software itself should be considered untrusted (citing Thompson); however, even if it is "trusted", it still might consume untrusted content (often by reading data from arbitrary files or the network). Part of what it means to use free software IMO is having less dependence on a vendor, and reducing trust is one of multiple things that can work in that direction.
Great implementation, looks identical to HN and is very responsive! HN is a great website for trying out web frameworks, given how simple it is in terms of features and design. I made an alternative front end for HN not too long ago that was styled like the Windows XP desktop[0], was good fun. I wonder how many HN clones and front ends have been written for HN at this point, I'm guessing at least several hundred.

[0] https://hackerxp.com/
While I agree with you on most of your points, one angle that adjusted my thinking was that the degrees you mentioned are typically the first step in higher level skills like Law, politics, or pre-med.

It is definitely a huge problem if you don't continue your education into higher value areas, but I don't think getting one of those degrees is necessarily a 'dumb choice'
Sometimes it might be a single field in a 1MB nested structure that you have to remove. So it gets encrypted when the whole structure gets stored and when the field is to be deleted you just throw away the key instead of modifying the entire 1MB just to remove a few kB.
The reason is simple: the corrupt nature of the global financial system today, which is based on strictly immoral and parasitic practices such as money lending with interest, money printing, gambling (e.g put and call options), selling debt for debt, shorting (selling what you don't own), etc. It's one big casino folks, and it is rigged to benefit the select few at the top.
Your point should be a pretty easy hypothesis to test, you may not know this unless you are from Texas but Houston effectively doesn't have zoning laws.

Cost of living calculation between Dallas and Houston says costs are roughly 15% different (as apples to apples a city I can identify to isolate zoning effects). So definitely some effect and a good lever to pull (in addition to others I am sure.)

I agree that zoning reform is part of the issue, I think zoning reform combined with other tweaks would go a long way.

I think that multiple issues cause these problem, we have runaway negative feedback loops in multiple areas, the problems has evolved organically over time so I doubt any one factor is enough to resolve the issue (as nice as that would be.)

I'm not making the assertion that zoning is the sole issue so I don't need to defend it but I figured I could take a quick look and bring some numbers into the mix so we have some numerical grounding for conversation and exploring the problem.
Yeah my understanding for this is that when users see a google form or otherwise some interface that's clearly not related to the website, they just instantly navigate away. With 1Flow we're trying to optimize the experience for users to like us and interact / click to respond - so far it's surprisingly effective. :)
Please give it a spin and message me any feedback / questions in Intercom.
Hmm odd! Thanks for the feedback. I think it may be related to the material ripple effect on the keys. Pushed an update now that hopefully fixes it.
Ask HN: Good Alternatives to VS Code?
I use VS code as my main code editor and it seem to be the most popular in my bubble.

I am generally happy with with but curious if there are better alternatives that would offer a more productive experience. Curious in particular about WebStorm and Nova.

Any code editors that you are in particular satisfied with?

I do my dev work on a Mac, mainly web development. I generally like to keep my code editor config maintenance minimal.
We should spend more time informing students of their future prospects. So they have a chance to change the direction of their studies. Or not take a college degree at all and learn some trade skills, which will be in demand until robots take everyone's jobs.
As I said, they can do what they want, and I'm not asking for a refund. But I can (also) choose. And I can choose if to continue to buy their service or not. I will not. :)
That makes no sense... what would be down in a bitcoin outage?

I suppose you meanan exchange, but that's quite different.
Great writeup! I love that the AWS console remembers your previous IAM roles and lets you access them again quickly.
I think that yeah, in the long term, humanity’s future in space is in human-made crafts.

That’s a long way down the road, though. Before that, we need to develop a huge amount of infrastructure in space, and doing that will be extremely expensive so long as we have to fight Earth’s gravity well to do so (even accounting for things like cheap reusable rockets).

Either the moon or mars could serve as the “stepping stone”, but I think Mars is better situated for that due to having a wider variety of raw resources available and being overall less harsh than the moon while also having a dramatically weaker gravity well and practically nonexistent (aerodynamically speaking) atmosphere that would allow launching of vastly larger and oddly shaped crafts into orbit. From there, it’s much more feasible to start looking into mining asteroids and building city-ships.
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Why pay people 50% more than they made before? Why not just replace lost incomes?

This whole inflationary disaster could have been avoided while still pursuing a compassionate policy response. There was no logical thinking in the level of fiscal handouts done.

Larry Summers did a presentation in Feb 2021 before the ARP was even passed predicting why it would cause inflation, due to the stimulus far exceeding lost wages.

You can find it on YouTube, but he empirically walks through why the magnitude of the package was a bad idea
I agree. I have personally implemented it and it does make sense.
I think the intent is to guess monsters. My friend is really into dnd, being a dungeon master, etc. and could easily tell certain monsters from their stats alone.
> then you must be dishonest about your values

Hum, no, but then he is talking about the "aspirational values" that the GP pointed.
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> If too many buyers are priced out (by either high prices or high interest rates or a combination of both) then we'll see markets stagnate.

Not if there’s a supply shortage. If there is a supply shortage then that necessarily means that some people will be priced out without corresponding downward price movement.

10 people, 5 houses, the market-clearing price is the 5th highest price any of the people are willing to pay. Remove the 5 people on the low end and that’s still the market-clearing price.

The equilibriating force of price increases causing demand to drop causing downward price pressure only keeps prices in equilibrium around the market-clearing price. Supply shortages shift the supply curve and cause the market-clearing price itself to move. The equilibriating force that should address this is that increased prices should incentivize new supply to be created from sources that were previously uneconomical, but the supply shortage exists because of legal restrictions that distort the market.
> They would pull every nasty trick in the book to make companies like Dymo look bad, including posting stuff like this to spark some sympathetic outrage in your nearest business office.

Are you claiming this story is false, or are you saying that posting negative but true things about competitors is a "nasty trick"?

> RFIDs are used all over the place these days, but should there be an RFID warning label or what?

There's no issue with the fact that Dymo's labels have RFID tags in them. The issue is that their printers refuse to work without one.
That's not a simple tokenizer.

A simple loop that would have worked with the 70s era of programming languages, would go through each character and once the boundary between two tokens has been identified, write out a token to a one-dimensional list. This would be a mostly stateless loop, tracking enough state for the current token in hand only. The next phase would go through the tokens and pair up brackets, etc.

A C# tokenizer can't do that. It needs to keep a stack of state. When it sees a '}', it needs to know if that's a "normal" brace or the } that resumes a interpolated string literal.

I was writing a tokenizer myself and I wanted to have something similar to string interpolation. I very quickly realized my simple loop that I would have written for my CS degree isn't going to cut it and I had to start over.
As many of you I took a jab at a wordle solver. That wasn't so hard.

Then I said, how can I guarantee as a human, I win, in 6 moves almost 100% of the time?

"Quick Brown Fox", as in, use as many possible letters in the alphabet, comprised of 5 letter words, given that we have only 5 words to play with. That gives us 25 characters to use.

I came up with

BLOCK
VENTS
JUMPY
DWARF
GHAZI

this leaves out Q and X, which is fine. Using this as a template basically boils Wordle down to a anagram game, so kind of defeats the purpose.

But in this case, i was able to resolve all 4 at one time using my above combination. I guessed, correctly all 4 with PLUMB GLEAN VALID IMPLY. I then realized, you get even more chances on Quordle, but I didn't need it!
I think you know exactly what I mean. You’re categorically excluding an entire population. Call that whatever you want, it’s not right.
>When I was growing up here in the US, to me the Royal Canadian Mounted Police always had an aura of honor. Those days are gone. Civil disobedience in Canada today means you may have your money removed from your account by law enforcement unless you cave and fall in line.

The protesters have been quite public about how well the police have treated them. The police have at least to date done nothing wrong. So I would not go to the extent to say the RCMP's honour has been harmed at all. Those days aren't gone.

However, this is the problem. Since the police have not been able to end the protest because of charter rights. This forced Trudeau's hand to declare martial law, but any and all peaceful protesters whose rights are infringed will be receiving compensation as per the emergency act.
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> If I asked for a class C for my business running a local corner store, I'd be looked at like I was crazy.

I asked for a /22 of IPv4 for my home, and was given it, 3 years ago. I also got a /32 of IPv6, and a 32bit ASN to do BGP with.

I paid the signup fees to become an LIR, paid the membership fees, and requested my /22, /32, and ASN allocations. There were no looks, crazy or otherwise. The policies are pretty transparent. Pay money, receive resources.

That said, the policies have since changed (about a year ago?)
Sorry, but I don’t see what you’re trying to say here. Tonally, you seem to be trying to contradict my argument, yet aren’t actually contradicting anything.

> I'd say the purpose of capitalism is not to decide "who gets what", but rather to lay the foundation that the society/country as a whole get as much as possible.

The question “who gets what?” can be rephrased as “how do we give everyone as much as possible?”. Capitalism offers one potential answer.

So yeah you’re not actually saying anything different from what I am. Are you even reading and/or understanding my comments?

I know that the word “capitalism” tends to invoke knee-jerk/emptional reactions because of the politics behind it, so maybe that’s what’s going on here? Fwiw, I’m not saying that capitalism is good nor bad, I’m just defining it for the sake of my somewhat facetious hoverboard comment further up.
For those other sources of information. I should remind you about the following:

> The cheaper to produce, the cheaper to use it for propaganda.

A video documentary with witnesses, CCTV footage, interviews and people identifiable as the researchers/KGB agents, documents tracing them, ... Makes perfect sense as source of information.

Additionally, you should realize that the US releases information to deter Russian action. If it doesn't happen, the odds are in their favor that they actually succeeded ( we'll see, since they release satellite imagery regularly).

As such, Satellite imagery backed claims of US > claims of Russia.

You shouldn't fix that date as an absolute. It's a current best guess estimate. You should know this by simple logic reasoning, so I'm just stating the obvious here.
How is ChromeOS an alternative if you don't want to use Windows because of its centralized cloud login?
Neither do half the apps on the app store.
> we're losing to all-cash offers

Why do the sellers care if you're buying with cash or a mortgage?
I doubt it. even if algorithms like sha get almost totally broken, you could get away with injecting a tiny number of bits of true randomness (like 1 in 2^20) and the result will be uncrackable.
Yes, my point exactly.
I play d&d twice weekly. Interesting idea, but insanely difficult. I don't see this one being a daily puzzle for me.
> And when the Fed went to course correct in 2018, they immediately bailed after markets started to decline to historically normal levels.

“Markets” you are discussing aren't part of the Fed dual (actually, triple) mandate, and are of only intermediate, instrumental relevance.

> Fiscal policy should be used to address economic gaps,

Yeah, but Congress has been basically asleep at the switch on fiscal policy for a long time, and to the effect their failures effect the things that are part of the Fed mandate, it is legally the Fed’s job to act via monetary policy, whether or not fiscal rather than monetary policy is the better choice.
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