skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon is a global problem indeed. The most global I would say. So clearly we can't have such a tax be only on local production. Makes me wonder if Bitcoin could play a role.
Like I said, I followed the Rittenhouse case extremely closely, and you are completely, 100% full of shit. That you are so confidently spouting off about it means that you are a completely unreliable writer, and no one should trust a word of what you have to say on this thread.
I think that it is incredibly unlikely the world could stomach Russia level sanctions on China so there may be a more muted response more focused on getting companies to more rapidly unwind their supply chains from China. Also, in the meantime there may be more proactive responses from the government to prevent this happening in other sectors (e.g. the Senator Casey/Cornyn outbound investment screening proposal)

https://www.casey.senate.gov/news/releases/casey-and-cornyn-...
Doesn't React somewhat solve this, when used correctly? (Though it's entirely possible to make an even bigger mess with React.)
Yeah, I agree we can't afford to wait for the urban planning model to change (and that changing it is going to require massive investments) so in the mean time we need to be encouraging people who can to go EV. But we need to do that alongside education about the urban planning model and the need to eventually get off cars entirely.

We can't go around saying "Everyone go EV to solve climate change!" because it's not a solution, it's an iterative step to a mid-point towards a carbon neutral society.

What we need to be saying is "Walk, bike, or ride the bus if you can. If you can't, look at your community and figure out why you can't, then work to change your community so you can. And in the mean time, drive an EV if you can afford it, or a fuel efficent used ICE if you can't."
Any large companies that make large investment in new infrastructure and factories get tax breaks. So those are really not special or interesting. People can be made about those but not specifically made about any individual company getting them. Go to a state and build a multi-billion project, you will get tax breaks.

Solar City clearly profited from tax policy but the whole solar industry was basically profiting from this, nothing to do with Solar City in particular.

Tesla received a 400M lone around 2010-2014 for advanced vehicle manufacture. Tesla paid this back early with profit to the tax payer. Tesla could have got this money other ways at that point (possible with more shares being sold). Unlike all the other car companies like Ford and GM who have still not paid the government back for loans from the same program (and also achieved far less with their far larger loans).

Much later on the government created the EV tax break program, again for all car companies, not specific to Tesla. Tesla quickly used its 250k of cars that they could for this program and other car companies wait for years to use these (and some are still) after Tesla had done most of the hard work to make EV space happen.

SpaceX actually ended MASSIVE subsidies for ULA. ULA was a monopoly that received outrages subsidies IN ADDITION to outrages launch prices they were asking for.

SpaceX was never directly subsidies, they bid for competitive contracts from NASA/DoD like every other space company in the US.

The only subsidy the did receive was a couple years ago when some Starlink terminals will be available for cheaper in some poor region.

So yes, almost all of aerospace is connected to the government, I guess one can complain about that. Tesla has gotten less help from government then people assume and often the policies helped their competitors more then them.
is-odd gets between 400k and 500k downloads every week[1]. Maybe you don't need it, but lots of JS developers have decided that they do. is-odd also depends on is-number, and is-even depends on is-odd.

I agree that these packages are trivially implemented by a first party instead of imported, but ~half a million JS developers every week choose to import it instead. _That is the problem_.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd
If you're not as impressed by end to end SMTP as I am then I feel you're missing out! Oviously you need domains with RDNS and everything to point to a public IP address for relay, but if it's a really cheap VPS that's pretty cool. Sure is a LOT lighter than running a full mail server with three or four protocols to get things right and keeping that up to date and exposed to the public.
>Ok, I'm guessing you're American. I've read that the relationship between the police and the public can be a bit .. antagonistic. And I know that fugitives are disproportionately romanticized in fiction.

Two can play at this dumb game.

I'm guessing you're European. I've read that the relationship between the police and the public can be a bit .. blindly trusting. And I know that fugitives are disproportionately demonized in fiction.

I'd say you should concern yourself with problems on your side of the ocean and I'll do likewise. But looking at history says that's wishful thinking.
"allowed to happen"? Do you think the government should tell companies where they can manufacture?
The offending event-source-polyfill version is still on npmjs.com.
Lots of people don't have any respect for others. A major sign of this is drawing loud attention to yourself in a public place.
That's right, but other countries do and I've seen plenty of local companies spending advertising dollars on Twitter and targeting local users.

Of course Twitter is free to leave those markets at any time but I don't think other shareholders besides Musk would appreciate that.

Even in America, some brands were not that interested appearing next to fringe/extreme (though legal) content. And advertisers are the real customers of Twitter and all social media after all.
I agree that accepting it as a currency means early stakers get more money which is less than ideal. Same can be said about startups, the ones that are earliest in the building of company get most of the money. Most of the time, the founders and VC's are the ones that get most of the money with the other employees getting next to nothing.

This perspective is hyper focused on the US. There are countries (Venezuela, Lebanon) who's currencies have hyper inflated to the point where citizens have lost the wealth they've accumulated over their lifetimes. Cryptocurrencies allow them to sell their services/labour to a global market and to retain some of that wealth instead of having their local monthly wages be worth a fraction of the value that they earned.
Kaseya acquiring disaster recovery service Datto for $6.2B w help from investors
> only post-pone 4 degrees temperature rise by 50 years or so.

This sounds awesome. How is this an argument against?

I don't understand the substitutability argument. Yes, we need to spend a lot of effort making non-carbon mechanisms to substitute for carbon mechanism. To do that, we need an incentive for this research. The carbon tax is a good incentive.

Carbon tax is also politically neutral -- it doesn't care whether you substitute with nuclear, carbon capture or something prettier.

Got any more arguments for a carbon tax disguised as arguments against it?
Saudi Aramco at >$8T
lukeed is another one I think; I've depended on his packages for years, and have yet to be burnt by one.
Facebook uses Mercurial for its big monorepo. Google’s big monorepo was once P4 but isn’t anymore.
To be fair, the pain that VIM users feel is not in their digits or wrists!

:wq
In my experience, the people who get caught cheating (not necessarily the ones who get punished for it, of course) are usually the ones who don't understand the code to begin with or how they might go about creating their own solution. These people also oftentimes came to us and just openly admitted they copied code they found online and wanted us to check over it before they submitted it.

I never said anything about the accuracy of their code, but I was willing to explain how it worked so they could decide if they thought it was accurate. Most did not take me up on that offer, instead opting instead to bug people in their class until they found someone a) smart enough to help on assignments and b) dumb enough to help them. They didn't care about learning how their code worked or why, they just wanted an easy A.

The few who did take me up on my offer tended to be people who didn't understand the assignment to begin with and, after explaining the problem and how their solution worked, went out and did their own work. I always enjoyed those ones, they tended to want to do things legit but either were too nervous to go the professors/TAs or couldn't make office hours and couldn't get timely answers over email.

The people who just didn't care I was more than happy to talk about at at our weekly meetings. If their TAs weren't also tutors, our supervisor would keep them updated on who came in asking for a thumbs up on copied code.
The logical conclusion of the OP's argument is that, since all value is subjective, any asset that accrues more value over time is a "greater fool" scam doomed to collapse. Not a very sound argument.

Eventually the Bitcoin network will accrue so much value that merchants will starting demanding payment in Bitcoin, and people will use whatever payment rails are available to make it work. This is how it becomes a medium of exchange. It's really that simple. Most or all of the rest of the cryptos will collapse into Bitcoin.
Sounds like every single major tech conference out there.
There are starting to be more code-aware diff tools.

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

I'm currently trying this out, but I'm not sure if I'll keep using it.
Gall's Law :

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
It is a tip off it is going to be a hit piece.
There is no doubt that saline injection on a large scale will hold CO2 for a short time. The 10,000 year time span that we'd like to hold it for is a long time.

A bit pessimistically, the actual injection into a saline aquifer costs something around $20 a ton, but capturing CO2 from a power plant with an amine stripper is around $80 a ton. Direct air capture is a lot more than that.

We aren't seeing many carbon capture projects, even the low hanging fruit like

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/10/f38/mcdonald...

which is profitable at $20 a ton is not being developed because "junk carbon credits" are available at lower prices.

(I know the corn-based Ethanol at the Decatur facility is environmentally negative in a lot of ways... But put that kind of system on a sugarcane Ethanol plant in Brazil, near Sao Paulo and nowhere near the rainforest, and it would be a different story.)
> One of the practical outcomes of this trope is people trying to solve this problem in narrow, ecosystem-specific, non-portable ways.

In general I agree, but I disagree that conversations about dependency scopes are ecosystem-specific. Frankly, figuring out how to limit the capabilities of imports is a discussion that literally every language with a package manager should be having right now.

Sure, the implementation is always going to be platform/language-specific, but this should be a serious consideration that people have any time that they're designing a new package system, we should expect new package managers to have an answer about how they scope dependencies and handle dependency permissions.
What was the new tech stack?
The driverless car is already safer than the other people you share the road with everyday.
I think so, although my understanding was that historically Apple has focused on doing older phone models in India because they didn't think the market made sense for the newest devices (and/or because they didn't think the manufacturing capabilities were up to snuff) so if they're doing manufacturing of the newest models, I think it's a positive signal either for Apple's diversification, India's growing consumer purchasing power, or India's increased manufacturing capabilities.
I would argue that it's ordered by a mix between popularity, need for those packages and ease of installing packages. JS and Python are around the same order of magnitude of popularity, installing packages is way easier in JS than in Python (NPM might not be great but pip is hell). Rust is less popular but it's very easy to have lots of packages, plus what you mentioned about procedural macros. And the standard library, like JS, is relatively small. If you add Go to that (relatively easy to add package, less popular than Python and JS but more than Rust, lots of stuff in the standard library) which would be higher than C/C++ and lower than Python, it does seem to fit.

I don't know anything about the C#/Java ecosystems, same with Ruby and Perl. I'd like to know if they fit this "model" too, that would be interesting. It could give some pointers on how to design/make a language evolve to avoid having lots of packages.

I'm not sure about the standard library of Rust being bigger. Node ships with an HTTP module, random number generation and regexes. Rust has neither of those. Maybe more functions in each modules?
I was going to ask the obvious question of why the Java ecosystem ended up differently than the JavaScript ecosystem, but I think I know the answer.

It's a giant pain in the ass to publish a Java library. That's already weeding out a ton of low-effort projects. By itself, I wouldn't exactly call that a good thing, but it seems to have a silver lining...
If it's a national security concern -- absolutely. Apple isn't just a company.
Keep in mind that the author of that blog doesn't actually talk to anyone at the company they are writing about, they just collect articles around the internet and public statements and piece it together from that.

For example one of the most popular article on that site (which is part of their book now) is the article on Netflix. A lot of that was cribbed directly from my talks, but they never reached out to me to even check it over, and as such missed a lot of nuance and detail, things I didn't cover in my talks.

Same thing for the article about reddit -- also cribbed a lot from my talks.

It's a fine overview, but light on specifics. I've reached out a few times and some things have been corrected after the fact, but I don't know if the other articles have been reviewed.

So my point is, be warned that the articles on that site are not primary sources but are derived from them.
Lol I thought the appeal of rails was that it is “simple and boring”!

Congrats on having the gumption to do a rewrite. I’m curious what are the more detailed decisions you took to better future proof?

Given how often things shift in our world, I feel like anything I choose now will just end up being obsolete and annoying to maintain in a 5+ year timeframe.
As noted elsewhere it was likely called and Open Letter because the acquisition is probably understood internally to be not what they wanted to happen, but they were out of options.
I must say, I partially agree with you. Just except one thing - I lived in USSR and I know too much about soviet (communists) outlook, and about non-fair play.

So what important - unfortunately, China is not fair player. - All soviet/communists spent significant resources for espionage, etc.

- Espionage is totally different from fair playing gathering information from open sources. For people with really good knowledge, these things are easy distinguishable.

And US sanctions against China where exactly because espionage, and because other non-fair play, not because competition.
In Texas, I got my license through a self-teaching avenue where my parents just had to sign off on a form that they taught me. IIRC the form had fields where they log the times they took me driving.

All of my friends were doing these driver's ed classes after school and a bit jealous that I got my license without a single test.
Carbon offsets do make sense but only after low hanging fruits have been picked. In other words, only when we are over 50% renewables - carbon offsets would make a difference. The reason being is that the next 50% would need extra investment and effort.
The US has lower per-kilometer vehicle fatalities than South Korea, Mexico, the Czech Republic, and Belgium, and is similar to Japan and New Zealand.
I understand that you guys want people to be open-minded. But there is so much space in one's mind. In this day an age you have to be selective and filter aggressively.
What stack did you end up moving to?
is-odd gets between 400k and 500k downloads every week[1].

The package was written as an exercise in learning how to create a small, useless package. But a huge portion of the JS development community choosed to import and use the package anyway.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd
Let’s not be so dismissive of issues for the plebs. You wouldn’t want bright lights in your face while trying to work either.

Artificial lights are not very bright in terms of lux, even very bright ones. Headlights need to come on at dusk which is still far brighter than a shop.

It seems Canada thought of this by allowing lights to be disabled when the car is in park.
The law says the teacher can cut the parent out of the process when it comes to reporting abusive parenting. The current discussion is that a new, additional law guarantees additional child abuse occurring. Using the guise of "cutting out" the parents from the child's identity navigation is ignoring the fact the child is requesting confidence because of the parent's abusive behavior. There would be no need for confidence except for the knowledge the parent is dangerous to their child.

Before one points out there is already child protective services- functionally, child protective services is overwhelmed, underfunded, and overworked. They are shockingly ineffective through little fault of their own.
Many mystery foods were probably first tested on slaves and prisoners.
also this: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/investing/russia-default-sp/i...

>Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt because it offered bondholders payments in rubles, not dollars, credit ratings agency S&P has said.

…

>Russia is now planning legal action.

…

>Russia has gone to great lengths to artificially prop up the ruble
The US didn't start the war that Desert Storm ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_invasion_of_Kuwait
All the dot-com'ers here know of what she writes. Identical vibe.

And as with dot-com, there is massive long term value to be created, but the early fundamentals are shaky as hell:

"When we finally get inside E11even — even in a proclaimed “global crypto hub” like Miami, it takes 20 minutes to process a Bitcoin payment"
You twice used examples where a "believer" has (at least observational) evidence to support that belief.

Some of organized religion has roots in that (some of the Jewish dietary laws have practical basis), but much of the prescriptions of organized religion is preference-based rather than evidence-based.
Seeing how there are dozens of package management toolchains out there, why is NPM so uniquely absolutely horrible?

The only behavioral difference I see is that with most other package tools, installing a dependency pins the specific version of the dependency you installed.

So why does NPM instead pin "any version at least this, or greater"?

Feels like a decision that was made when the tooling was young to help improve reliability that has since created this nightmare. Is Yarn better about it?
This.

These robots are massive and fast, they are killers. Yet as long as they look like cars we let them run loose on public streets. It's kinda nuts. (Arguably car traffic as it's set up now is kinds nuts too, but that's a different argument.)

The obvious thing to do is start with something like a golf cart that is limited to, say, 5mph top speed, and work your way up.
Very much agreed - and the upper limit is a little more fuzzy, and has more to do with file size, record complexity (how many columns), and what you want to do with the data.

At some point the overall pokeyness of excel when dealing with large datasets overcomes the inertia of "everyone already knows it" and "we'd need a environment to spin up something more complex".
Idk if hn is psychic but I just thought how great it could be if I could use my workstation in the next room as a host for writing code on my phone. Because I can take my phone where I'm comfortable and hold it where I please and lay on the sofa, relaxed as opposed to sitting on a chair where blood flow to my feet is semi cut off. (How I would love one of those walk-apparatuses Linus Torvalds has).

So sorry no answer, but also interested.

I remember there were a few online code editors, but trust is an issue and they cost extra.

The way you intend to use it though... I have done it in my PHP days, long ago. It's not good practice. Version control systems are a good invention, even if you sometimes just need a quick fix. Edit locally, push to repo, auto build or manually.
So they paid 1333, and SpaceX sent an additional 3667. So why is 'Donated' in quotes?
> Yea. This is something I have thought about, but the wife and I have decided to just wait and see how the middle school years go. I imagine it is going to probably become amplified.

I have a 14 year-old and we have zero blocks on anything. Our logic was that a) kids have far more time to get around restrictions than I have to maintain them, and b) it only takes one friend without such limitations to make any protections moot. I'd much rather see what he's up to and focus on critical interventions than micromanaging everything he's doing.

What we do have is tracking and reporting (he gets the emails, too) and a policy of mom and dad have full access to devices at any time, and the computer is used only with the door open. We've also focused on etiquette, such as putting the phone down when someone is talking to you. Finally, homework, study, and family times are "quiet" times with no devices. We make sure that applies to mom & dad, too.

So far, it has worked well, mostly because we've worked very hard to be consistent with how we apply the rules. We're also very vigilant for any warning signs like obsession, etc. I also talk to him about things he wants to buy for games, etc., including discussing how the games are designed to put you into a loop to buy rewards. Usually I say to defer a couple days and ask if it's really worth it. He pays with his own money and we track purchases. Tracking has helped him really understand how much money _could_ be spent, and made him think hard about whether the purchase was worth it. When questionable behavior occurs, we make it a discussion and not a lecture.
It doesn’t matter. The guy flipped to some sort of a cause célèbre, which transcends all fact.
Serverpod: A FastAPI like app server written in Dart
Detailed map of submarine cables in 2022