skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we disagree at all.

What I'm saying is that the shame-and-austerity framing plays right into the hands of fossil fuel industry propaganda.

One of the most insidious bits of fossil fuel propaganda I've seen recently is this whole "moral case for fossil fuels" schtick. They're pointing out that fossil fuels have lifted billions out of poverty, which is technically true, and then using that combined with the "moral panic" framing of the green movement to argue that greens want to push those billions back into poverty.

Personally I think we have historically framed environmental issues as moral because we (meaning the USA) are a culture with puritan roots and the whole protestant moral panic framing is baked into our cultural DNA. It's how we often approach problems, especially collective or tragedy of the commons problems. We approach them by deploying shame to try to change behavior. It very often backfires like it is here, or like it does when we try to shame teenagers out of having sex.
I did say “some” but LA Times too did chime in with The Guardians (UK).

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cellphone-5g-health-2...
Which explain the mass migration out of the city. San Francisco is going to be a massive learnings of a pooched opportunity for economic prosperity and innovation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/sypaol/oc_...
Surprisingly it turns out that if you subsidize homelessness you get more homelessness.
> I'm also not particularly against landfills, which are in a sense merely a form of carbon and pollutant sequestration

I personally think that landfills are underrated, but is this true? Landfills produce a lot of methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas.
Mobile OS dev makes Windows look nice. At least windows has some cross platform toolkits (TCL/TK, Wx etc.)
It already is "Slack except worse". The Catalyst comparison is an interesting one though, Catalyst on macOS is still pretty horrible in terms of usability, but a lot better than Electron on system resources.
Call CD sound "more accurate". Vinyl lovers historically loved vinyl precisely because they love the particular inaccuracy it imparts. CDs are more accurate. Brutally so at times, even. Especially when they're being really, really accurate at conveying clipping brought on by the loudness wars.

(Now I suspect vinyl's main purpose in life is as a marker of being a discriminating consumer who doesn't want to be a victim of the loudness war, since you can't overdrive a vinyl record in the same way for physical reasons. It is unfortunate that one must go to such measures to opt out of "music that sounds like crap because you ruined it, you stupid music companies".)
Not yet, but soon!

TBH only time will tell whether our decision to go native-first, then cross-platform (vs Chromium-based cross-platform) was the right call.
I've really become exhausted at the first world default assumption that something is wrong if it's not a win-win situation. Is that not a part of the psychology of many who can't accept things like nuclear and natural gas as alternatives to arguably worse solutions because there are those tradeoffs? I agree that it would be great if journalists could move from win-win thinking to tradeoffs thinking, and that's a transition that globalized societies should move towards as well.
Frankly, despite being in r/emulation, most of these people seem like they're new to the emulation scene with how dismissive they're being about this statement. It's as if they're unaware of just how much drama can happen behind the scenes and how it's sometimes useful to just clearly and unambiguously state "this is what happened from our perspective."

Having the wrong scope can be very detrimental to a project in general, and although I'm not an emulator developer I feel this is probably especially true in this case.
NYC from the 70s is in the grips of a revival.
Property taxes are regressive, so I'm not sure how that would help.

You know what really killed the rich? SALT deduction limits in the Trump tax plan. That policy actually caused the rich to pay more in taxes.

That's why CA tried to work around it by trying to classify property taxes as a charitable donation.

Wait and see, the Dems will pass a new sweeping tax plan that won't include the SALT deduction limit and they'll claim that it taxes the rich more.
Someone has run an experiment, and in this experiment they created a large amount of evidence that seems to say that quite an important particle in particle physics weighs something slightly different from what we thought it should.

This is important because the weight of that particle was predicted by our generally-accepted theory of how the universe works. If the weight is different, it means the theory hasn't taken into account everything that it should.
Hi there, Justin here, the creator of Improve AI. I would love any feedback and feel free to ask me anything. Thanks!
Supply and demand. I think the problem is nimbyism and lack of building housing. Desirable places are in demand and cost $$ this isn’t some tech companies fault.
This is a bit old, but still excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcw8nV_GTs

This is more up to date and specifically on challenges to the SM.
Where is physics going? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Bjørn Ekeberg and Sam Henry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8npmtsfsTU&t=2306s
> "Doomsday being the moment when the ability to lower the atmospheric temperature has slipped from our control. The moment when we puny humans are finally and irrevocably at the mercy of hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, drought, food shortages, rising sea levels and all the socio-political carnage that will accompany same."

We're already there, current CO2 is 420 ppm and steadily rising. Climate is on an irrevocable trajectory towards a much warmer norm, similar to conditions ~3-5 million years ago during the Pliocene era, before the onset of the ice-age cycle of the Pliestocene. Those who deny this at this point are simply ignorant of the facts.

> "It is sometimes imagined that slow processes such as climate changes pose small risks, on the basis of the assumption that a choice can always be made to quickly reduce emissions and thereby reverse any harm within a few years or decades. We have shown that this assumption is incorrect for carbon dioxide emissions, because of the longevity of the atmospheric CO4 perturbation and ocean warming."

Source: Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, PNAS (2009) (sci-hub_se)

CO2 was 320 ppm in 1960; we're not going back there, it's 420 ppm now, with a current growth rate of 10 ppm / decade. Stabilizing at ~440 ppm might be possible (neglecting slow but steady permafrost outgassing) if the world commits to a 3% reduction in fossil fuel use per year over the next 30 years, about the fastest change I imagine to be feasibly possible. This means zero fossil fuel use globally in 30 years, and of course current oil/gas corporation projections are to maintain current output for the next 30 years. Non oil-gas producers like Germany and China are the ones shifting the fastest to renewables; the likes of the USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela etc. are bent on continuing to produce and export.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

Practically this means human civilization is going to have to spend as much effort on adapting to this new climate reality as on replacing fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy sources. Water supply infrastructure will be a major issue, food production will be a major issue, sea level rise will be a major issue, population migration and extreme weather damages will be major issues.

The point has been tipped, the pooch has been screwed, and now we all have to deal with the aftermath.
Put a porta potty in every block.
That's what turned me off of it almost right away, but on the other hand I think it's best for people to be aware of when there's a camera pointed at them, and that was pretty unmistakable with glass. The obvious downside is that people usually don't like if a stranger is pointing a camera at them, so you have to either control for the comfort of the user (not standing out) or everyone around them (not making it easy to secretly film them). Like sure, everyone has a phone that's more than capable of secretly filming things, but walking up to someone wearing glass feels the same to me as walking up to them with your phone up with the camera pointed right at them.

I've recently been interested in Rayban stories. Basically sunglasses with cameras and bone conduction speakers. I'm interested primarily because of the speakers, because earbuds don't fit my ears well, but it's still pretty obvious that they have cameras in them which makes me a little self conscious about wearing them.
I wonder how your models are going to compare to S&P500 over the next 10-30 years.

This sounds very much like a sales pitch, "I've turned 525k into 1.4M since", and too good to be true.
> My theory is San Francisco evangelists have Stockholm syndrome

This is true of everybody who takes a position first and finds arguments for it second. Their position is irrational to begin with. It's the same thing with baltimore: people defend it up and down as an amazing city, when in my opinion it's a nightmare of a place to live. SF sounds similar in that regard. The worst part is when people eventually get fed up and leave, their stockholm syndrome will cause them to repeat the mistakes that made their previous place so bad to begin with.
Ego, and a lot of emulation devs have straight-up social problems. IE "do not play well with others".

I've been following the 86Box project from the sidelines and seems to be one of the few projects that actually handles people issues well.
It comes across as less adversarial this way.

Here's a fluff piece:
https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set...

Something better, but need to follow references:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2010/0201...

The jury is still out on this and it seems to have a large effect and can do so in a very short time (on the order of days).
would you pay twice or 3x the ticket price for no commercials? I wouldn't. really, I don't mind the previews as part of the experience anyway.
Do you know a lot of demo scene binaries that only work with accurate instruction timings of a Pentium 3 ?
It's a simple refuting of the column's thesis/headline.
There is nothing like Market Street anywhere near the city center of NYC, as far as I know.
Haven't tried it yet but I'm not a big fan of open-world games. Also I don't have a system meeting the minimum requirements for Elden Ring so I will get to play it once I upgrade my setup.
>I guess the human toll of all those things aren't really all that meaningful

Hilarious emotional appeal strawman. You can't even stay on topic after being proven wrong. Remember, New Orleans isn't underwater and it's past 2020.

>when it is not visually apparent to an outside observer.

I'm old enough to remember seeing all the pictures and videos of the aforementioned hurricanes. Don't project your ignorance on everyone else.

> Which does make this a good example

Yes, a good example of New Orleans still being there, all the highways are still there, the sports arenas are still there, there are over a million people that live there, etc.
Does SF have a problem with stray dogs or most dogs have owners?
As a side note, I really like the design of this landing page. Instead of a "hero unit" with a salesy blob text in marketeese, there's a useful description of what the product is, what it does, and what value it adds to the end user, in a way that the user immediately understands.

Each feature description is accompanied by a picture/animation to demonstrate it.

I wish more product marketing pages followed this format, instead of the crappy soulless format of "hero unit" with marketing blob followed by three text boxes in a row with more marketing bullshit.
He's not asking you to take him seriously. He's taking executive action while others wait infinitely for some kind of "real numbers" to come in. Analysts make terrible entrepreneurs.
It seems funny that there's many downvotes to responses in these threads. It's like people don't want to acknowledge how messed up SF has been, and how unsafe it has become, so they're just downvoting folks.

It used to be that I'd even gotten my roof rack stolen off the top of my car. Then without much to steal during the pandemic, and with drug use off the charts, things just became unsafe. People I knew started carry mace. There was a firearm homicide in the Civic Center station (yes, really, in the station). You have to be absolutely crazy to go back to the office right now.
Most of this article seems to be against having browser JavaScript store tokens and inject Authorization headers, which you are free to avoid if you don't want to use them. JWT is just a token format, you can set it as an HTTPS-only cookie and have your server read it from there. Stateful vs. stateless is orthogonal to how the token gets handled by the client and sent back to the server.
Because people would rather stay in a defeatist or learned helplessness attitude than look at the root of the problem. That is, until they get mugged walking to work or have their car broken in to.
Amazon Moves Workers From a Seattle Office in Crime-Hit Area

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-11/amazon-sh...
I've lived in Sao Paulo (a city with notoriously high crime rates) for ~18 years, Toronto for another ~16 and San Francisco for ~5. Out of the three, San Francisco is the one where I personally witnessed the most number of crimes, ranging from theft, to destruction of property to assault/harassment (and I personally was the victim in a few instances). The frequency of hearing about crimes experienced by people around me is also highest in SF (I'm measuring both per year and absolute number of incidents)

So, sure, it's not as bad as having drugs-related gunshots fired at your general direction or getting your shoes robbed at gunpoint, but it kinda speaks volumes that I feel it's more appropriate to compare SF more closely to Sao Paulo than Toronto...
Basing your experience in SF on what happens on Market Street is like going to LA and basing your experience on visiting Skid Row. The vast majority of the city is just not like that. If you run into resistance from people who live here when recounting experiences like this, it’s probably because your statement is one that doesn’t pass the smell test, it seems plainly like you’re being willfully misleading. Next time you come to SF, I recommend reading a travel guide and staying somewhere that isn’t Market Street. Public transit is good enough that you can do that, your experience will be much more enjoyable.
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Here are some crime stats for the top 100 US cities from 2019:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

SF had similar crime rates to Miami, Corpus Cristi, TX, Mesa, AZ, Austin, TX and Chesapeake, VA.

And about 1/3 the crime rate of the worst cities: Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis and Memphis.

Of course, individual neighborhoods and streets might be highly variable.

But as far as the 100 biggest cities go, SF seems slightly worse than average. I counted 38 cities with worse crime rates and 4 that didn’t fully report. So putting it somewhere around 39th or 43rd on the highest crime rates for the 100 biggest cities.
I do remember a case in the UK where a man successfully defended his sale of ecstasy to an undercover officer on the grounds that she was very attractive. His argument was that he hoped to have a romantic relationship with her and would never have otherwise sold the drugs.
I meant to say — Because Microsoft doesn't lead by example and doesn't offer the correct documentation & tooling.
Yes, I did have a big old yawn at your list.

Thanks for confirming you understood the sentiment.
I don't understand people's aversion to landfills. Perhaps it's because people intuitively understand that dumping garbage is not sustainable indefinitely, i.e. Earth will eventually run out of room. However, there is currently plenty of space for landfills. I think more things should go into landfills. Don't try to recycle plastic, just make sure it securely ends up in a landfill without ending up in the ocean and lock it away forever. That seems great. Why you'd want to take a perfectly stable thing and combust it, potentially leaking toxins into the atmosphere and environment, is beyond me.
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Materials seem to have different refractive indices for some sort of complicated quantum reason that only relies on the inhomogenity because of materials being made up of atoms containing electrons, not an sort of macroscopic inhomogenity.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-does-refraction-wo... is the thread I'm basing this on
No, there are still other things that are worth recycling. Sorting would separate out aluminum, paper, glass, plastic in a single stream recycling. The recycled material all gets bundled up and tested for some purity (i.e. this giant block of aluminum cans we crushed together is 98% aluminum). It is kind of more the fact that for a the blocks of aluminum, glass and paper there are buyers that can actually use that recycled material (if it is of a high enough purity) but the market for recycled plastic is small so it is likely cheaper to just throw anything plastic (or has some plastic) back in to the garbage.

The purity of the recyclables has been a problem and there are companies (like AMP Robotics [0]) working on machine learning to better sort and re-sort recycled material to get it up to a purity that it is actually financially worth using and won't get abandoned and thrown in the trash.

[0] https://www.amprobotics.com/

Edit: Not to say that there isn't intentional deception as well. The most blatant example I have seen in some municipalities is a city that has a "recycling program" to make people feel good but the trash truck comes by and dumps both the trash bin and recycling bin in to the same truck.
I wouldn't bench on that.
Is there a example formally verified common lisp project to look at? Either pedagogical (I'm impressed by lisp but ultimately not particularly familiar with it) or impressive like CompCert is for Coq perhaps.
Well, the very same party that is arguing for voter ID opposes efforts to make it easier to obtain ID.

The debate over voter ID isn't a rational debate about how to make elections more secure. It's just another battleground in which the Republican Party sees an opportunity to shift election outcomes slightly in their own favor. They're not interested in a rational, balanced solution like you're proposing, because it might end up shifting election outcomes in the "wrong" direction.

When you look at the list of election measures the Republican Party supports/opposes, it becomes quite clear what their goal is. They're against early voting, automatic voter registration, absentee voting (except for the military) and making election day a holiday, but they're in favor of voter ID and they engage in very heavy gerrymandering (leading to a divergence between national vote shares and numbers of seats won).
This is the third time this has made front page in the last ~8 days. I'm as excited about it as everyone else here, apparently, but at this point isn't it just displacing other good stories?
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I use Python for that. It's just a few lines of code

template.html:

<header><h3>%(header)s</h3></header>
<div>%(content)s</div>
<footer>%(footer)s</footer>

generate.py:

content = """# This is a markdown content"""
from markdown import markdown
with open('output.html', 'w') as f:
f.write(open('template.html').read() % {
'header': 'welcome',
'content': markdown.markdown(content),
'footer': 'amazing company inc'
})

for serving it:

python3 -m http.server

it will be running on 127.0.0.1:8000
> Any code I do write myself eventually gets replaced with another open-source package. Even if the package is worse! When I've tried to talk to my manager, he's told me we have to think about how maintainable the project is.

There's a very strong argument to be made to never reinvent the wheel when building something new. However, if your product is only gluing together packages without doing any work, then the value it can produce is extremely limited. Where is the business logic? Certainly not inside Open Source packages.

There are lots of reasons to use open source packages for your code. Making the code more maintainable isn't one of them. Adding dependencies needs to be considered as a potential future risk, and integrations need to be carefully encapsulated to minimize the risk and allow easy switching later.

If anything, dependencies make your product more brittle, because you are now at the whim of Open Source contributors who may take the package in a direction you don't want, leave unpatched security holes, or abandon the project entirely.

Yes, you can fork the project if that happens, but then you're in the same place you were to start with, maintaining the functionality internally.. except now since no one on your team wrote it originally, you have no expertise on it.

In your situation I would be sorely tempted to look for a new job with a better engineering manager. And with more interesting business cases to build.
This sounds great in principle and I saw this tried for several years for Dropbox mobile. It was a failed experiment though:

> By writing code in a non-standard fashion, we took on overhead that we would have not had to worry about had we stayed with the widely used platform defaults. This overhead ended up being more expensive than just writing the code twice.

https://dropbox.tech/mobile/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-sharin...
Not great but not bad. Definitely elevated risks downtown past midnight in areas that used to very safe despite looking grungy, the anti-Asian hate crimes are awful to watch, def saw crack smoked on a subway platform under a jacket once or four times, and Harolds Square/Penn Station is.. not great.

However, staying vigilant in the key subway stations on the around midtown seems to cover most of the feelings of risk.

editing - hopefully not coming off as dismissive of the legit very concerning crimes that have happened. It feels like the bad stuff that deviates from the norm is really bad vs crime in similar contexts/places in the 2010s, but beyond that never felt unsafe but perhaps a higher requirement for street smarts that didn't feel as important in 2010s NYC Disneyland for wealthy folks.
Another phrase for this concept is "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," something a lot of people struggle (or outright refuse) to understand.
Every American city has rough parts (some more than others, including SF). There are definitely some very miserable and dangerous parts of San Francisco: Tenderloin, SOMA, Civic Center. But as someone who has lived here a while, I think this narrative that it's nothing but homelessness and crime is misguided. If you go West of Van Ness, there are so many beautiful and lively neighborhoods. Haight Ashbury, Hayes Valley, North of Panhandle, Pacific Heights, Japantown, Castro, Golden Gate Park, Inner/Outer Sunset, Inner/Outer Richmond, etc. The problem is that tourists mostly see the bad parts, probably because they're most accessible by public transit. The northern-most Caltrain stop is not in a nice area for example. There's a reason it's so enormously expensive to live here: demand.
I stopped a Google interview halfway through in 2012 because they would only consider junior engineers in NYC and Mountain View, and I didn’t want to leave Chicago. But I don’t think our one off experiences make a trend. Facebook and Google alone hired and kept a ton of talent in SF pre pandemic, never mind the countless non FAANG companies there. Not everyone obviously, but a gob smacking number of engineers lived in the Bay Area.
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