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Ask HN: So, what do we do about climate change?
Are we going to resign ourselves to see our home be destroyed? I have to suppress the feeling of anguish about the future to continue functioning in my daily life.

How do we get the people in power to take the bare minimum of actions necessary to prevent the worst?
> are also not solely "entertainment industry" publications

Historically, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone covered the TV & movie industries and the music industry respectively. However, you're correct now because both Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair cover stories and topics that traditional mainstream outlets won't touch. The Matt Taibbi op-eds are good examples. Think about it. People are getting hard hitting news from Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair instead of ABC, CBS, NBC, Time, CNN, FOX, NY Times or WSJ; to name a few mainstream outlets.
I would be curious if anyone has a high quality link containing real examples that were deemed offensive. My guess is the textbooks had sections that involved quantitatively examining "social justice" issues. I'm not for or against this in a math textbook, but it definitely gives an opportunity to "spin" the situation by massively simplifying the problem discussed, which opens the door to politicization.
Were the later Caesar games better for that stuff? I remember playing Caesar II back in the day, and even as a kid feeling that it was a bit on the shallow side— like the main objective at city level was just to get as much tax revenue as possible, and that meant getting your housing to be more luxurious, and that meant exposing the housing to as many amenities as possible. But the exposure was basically just making sure there was enough of everything close by that the walkers spawned by each building would find their way to each residence before their previous visit had "worn off".
To force them to stay because other groups rely on money taken from them doesn't sound right. A similiar reasoning for keeping slavery existed in the US over similiar claims.
A Message Queue in Shell
I buy a lot of whole chickens, too. The biggest birds I find from industrial farms (like Perdue) hover around 5lb max. The birds from smaller farms hover around 3lb, basically what you see.

I do see some chicken leg quarters and split breasts that seem to be suspiciously large, but not nearly twice as large as the Perdue 5 pounders! The big birds might just get sold to fast food/fast casual restaurants and not to regular joes like us. I also think it is possible that they buy enough more chickens than we do to weigh any averages towards them as well.
Catalonia is indeed the North East corner of Spain. This has nothing to do with the coastline
Sadly, to 'report it to the police' is easier said than done. I know my local police department lacks jurisdiction and the best I can do is submit a report to the FCC. But what use is reporting the dozens of spam calls I receive every day to an agency that seems to lack the means to go after sophisticated spammers outside of the United States? It's not like these spammers use real contact information (they use dynamic fake phone numbers) and operate inside of the US.

I suspect virtually all such reports end up being used for metrics and no actual prosecutorial case is created out of them.
Who are you apologising to?

You're being more than a bit hyperbolic & disingenuous. I pay $15/year for a grocery list app that solves several problems for me. That is, I pay money for concurrent access, web-scraping that works, and an organisational system to help me feed my family.

This is a great value to me: the $1.25 a month that I pay for my grocery list app has made my life easier.
Interesting... nearly 200 years ago de Tocqueville remarked that European newspapers were far less littered with low-quality advertisements than the American publications.
Knowing fundamentals of the grammar early helps immensely. Not learning them fully, but at least being aware of them.

E.g. the fact that there are 4 verbs moods in French - indicatif, subjonctif, conditionel and imperatif - is usually explained few weeks, if not months, into learning the language. Having been through this, I would've much prefered this to be mentioned right away, because it greatly helps with making sense out of written text. I am a computer programmer however, so it might not apply to everyone.

Ditto goes for verb conjugation comprising two distinct classes - regular and compound. Trivial to explain, yet it's inevitably smeared across several weeks, confusing the heckout of the otherwise trivial subject.

Another e.g., also from French, its alien-structured use of pronoms. This too IMO needs to be explained in first few days into the language. Yes, you can go by example here, but a single hour of explaining this will greatly simplify groking of all the examples that will follow.
Unsolicited strategies are "core math". I am convinced 98% of the books are banned because of this but they tossed in CRT to get peoples' wallets out for political donations.

Title may as well have been "dear leader protects children".
> And in small cities/towns, getting a taxi was nearly impossible a lot of the times

And in some towns and cities it's now becoming difficult to get an uber, as there are fewer drivers around than there were. And they conveniently drove the local cab firms out of business so you're just generally SoL
I don't understand security stuff really (the computer misbehaves frequently enough when I'm not trying to do evil things to it, why would I try to make it worse?) but this seems a little weird to me. Why does 7zip even have admin privileges to give away, in the first place? It seems to be based on some odd interaction with the help system but I can't really parse the description.

The description of the bug seems a bit weird

> At this stage, 7-zip stated that the vulnerability was caused by hh.exe, but they were told that if there was a command injection from hh.exe, a child process should be created under hh.exe, so especially the heap-overflow side of this vulnerability will not be shared with the community.

I think this is a reference to a conversation with the people behind 7-zip (?). It seems like a weird mix of technical details and finger-pointing.

> As it is known, Microsoft HELPER ie hh.exe file "html help. full name microsoft html help executable. Program that opens help files with the chm extension." has been defined as. Many operations such as XXE, Command Execution are performed through the hh.exe file. It is possible to see vulnerabilities such as XXE or command execution in every program that uses the hh.exe interface. This issue came to my mind after the discovery of the XXE vulnerability detected by WinRAR. (https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47526) Although the developers of 7-zip say that Microsoft should fix the command execution authority obtained from hh.exe at this point, it has been observed that at the end of the day, thanks to the heap overflow in 7zFM.exe and the command execution feature in hh.exe, privilege elevation is provided in the administrator mode.

Seems like a pretty solid argument from the 7zip folks, right? They can't really be blamed if the Windows help system has decided to give them root for some reason. And since 7zip is partially open source, any would-be hacker could just grab an old version of the code if they wanted to weaponize this, right?

But maybe there's something I'm missing.
All it takes is one of your family members to download some dodgy app and give it access to their contacts for the secret number to be revealed. I suspect this is more likely than eg Facebook leaking a number by mistake. You probably have gotten lucky by sharing your secret number only with a small number of people though I don’t know for sure.
>edit: I personally think the author did a great job finding & publishing it.

Not really.

They seem to be implying they got to running a command as SYSTEM from 7-zip, but, like, don't specify things like what security context 7-zip started as, or how a program running as non-admin got to a system security context, or like, how that's 7zip's fault and not the fault of the OS.

This is all very confusing.

Even if all they did was took that screen shot from process explorer and expanded it to include the user column, it would be like 99% more clear what the fuck is going on.
Such news stories add credence to the idea that the web + social media have been a universal solvent for societies. Especially democratic societies.

Three decades ago, such a move would have been an eyebrow raising 2 to 5 minute news story on the evening news. Or, mentioned in a tiny column in the newspaper on some page. Most people wouldn't have come into contact with it. Let alone with such vigor that it led to an us v. them dynamic. It would have been a somewhat pointless gesture that would have been quickly forgotten.

Editorial discretion would have pulled to something more "important" such as Presidents pressuring interns into sexual activity.

Today, due to the attentional nature of the internet, the same story is quite attractive. No matter what your stance, you click on it, at least once, because it's bizarre. It's distilled catnip. On HN as well.

People and machines notice that you're clicking on it. So people start talking about it on social media. Which you engage with. And so more of it is served to you by the machines looped in. On and on until you spend an hour or more of your life on a topic you probably wouldn't have touched or known about thirty years ago.

The emotional valence created by the issue is overpowering as compared to the past, and it's self-sustaining. Forever propagating through the intellectual wastelands we're self-curating.

Humans have been dying on pointless hills for thousands of years. But our technology has amplified it to quite an art form.
Balkanization is the wet dream of several national adversaries (speaking generically)

Oh and you can bet Puidgemont was seeking russian support for his independence plans https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2021-09-03/el-equipo-de-...

(Which doesn't mean many people don't have a legitimate wish of independence or more autonomy but of course the discussion has many nuances)
John Oliver did a pretty good general overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U
The argument from hydrogen advocates often goes something like, don't bother doing BEV now because hydrogen is going to be so much better ten years from now.

(Meanwhile, keep buying fossil fuel cars please)

It's especially hard to swallow when that advocate is Toyota, largest fossil fuel carmaker in the world.
I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z."

I could also imagine it being something much more benign. I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not.
>The names of the rejected books were not included.

So what else could they do?
Don't write about it?
I don't know what to say. Someone went to a person who is well known to have the position that nonfree software is unethical and to be an idealist to ask how to make nonfree software and somehow is surprised that the answer is that they shouldn't make nonfree software.

I would expect the same if I asked any particularly idealistic vegan how to eat meat with less impact. The idealistic vegan will just tell me to not eat any meat.

Also, in no way is any of what I said contingent on Stallman being an asshole, but it also surprises me that someone thinks finding Stallman to be an asshole at all surprising. He is a man of strong convictions that won't budge, and it's easy to find many anecdotes where people paint him as assholish.
If you say there aren’t enough charging stations, people will say there is not enough demand. Then you argue against increasing demand because there are not enough charging stations? That’s idiocy.

It’s a common form of idiocy - “we can’t build this thing because it’s not built yet” is a fallacy that deserves its own name.

Anyway, the magic of capitalism is that other people will build it and Toyota can retire if that’s what they want to do.
We have a century plus of developing resource extraction and refueling infrastructure for ICE transportation. It seems unreasonable to expect electric infrastructure overnight. New charging stations are being built all the time. Renewable energy infrastructure is being built all over the world.

Fossil fuels have a lot of positives, if they didn't, we never would have developed them. The infrastructure we've built out makes it easy to continue using them, not to mention the political inertia of disrupting big players. However, fossil fuels also have major downsides: local environmental impact, global environmental impact, geopolitics, etc.

I'm a car guy, even a Toyota fan. There's an '87 Supra in my garage right now. Fossil fuels had a good run, but it's time to move on, hopefully in time to maintain a habitable planet. I think sooner than we expect, we'll look at ICE vehicles the same way we look at coal powered steam locomotives: The tech is neat, some people still love them, there's a community of hobbyists, even if it's in miniatures. But as transportation, everyone knows they are horribly slow, inefficient, noisy, dirty and smelly, and nobody would dream of taking one to work every day.

I wish Toyota would quit spreading FUD, and instead help us move to a cleaner future.
Some police forces are better than the others, of course.
The resistance to Franco was far stronger in Madrid than in Catalunya.
Why not? If Barcelona can make it as a city state why hold them back?
Here's a mirror:

https://nitter.net/lougrims/status/1516013489722216450

And: the figure in tweet 15 comes from this paper (I believe the tweeter is the author):

https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02165921
It should be easy to run a controlled experiment to test this. Just come up with a few contacts that you have not been in touch with in the last few months, separate them into two groups, control and test. Say out the names of the people in test group to your phone and compare how often you see the names of people in test and control groups in auto complete suggestions and use a statistical test to confirm.
Claiming that parents are lying about their murdered children seems like quite a harm.
Maybe it’s time for a firewall for the phone/text systems?
> Who includes education about "intersection of race, society, and law" in mathematical books, for what purpose?

That's the thing, they don't. And this is all a farce to line the pockets of some publisher in bed with some lawmakers.
> Pirates of Silicon Valley

Haven't thought of that movie in years. Not bad by any means, and I'd say it's worth the watch. Broad strokes Microsoft and Apple development, and stays entertaining. Not as deep as the Steve Jobs films (I always mess up the titles from the good and the bad one) from a few years ago, but still enjoyable.
50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? (2019)
With so little information it's not clear what we can discuss.
Also, I'm not sure what "until decades from now" means in this context.
This reads like a code style guide, but for math. E.g., like https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html
If you remember when book stores were still around, you would have noticed that the self-help section was one of the largest sections in the store (compared to say, Philosophy, which arguably has much deeper ideas on the human condition). YouTube is filled with self-help. You can’t get through a Joe Rogan podcast without self improvement advice.

It can be exhausting for sure. It’s a mutation of self-pity, which is a mutation of self-absorption, if we had to root cause analyze this.

To put it simply, we have a very vain and narcissistic society at this point. We can’t clearly pin point if this is a modern advent or truly an everlasting dynamic of humanity (has it always been here, and will it always be here?). In the contemporaneous, all we can do is contemplate if it’s particularly worse right now, but, that in itself is … also self-absorption.

I think people who have energy for conspiracy ideas should find a healthy outlet like fiction. Similarly, those who are in the higher end of the self-absorption spectrum (most everyone I’ve met), should find a healthy place to put that like Philosophy. Contemplate existence and Cogito, ergo sum. The low level “how do I, me, and past me and future me, continue being me and finding meaning in me, myself and I, and feel good about it”.

Overall, it’s a form of egotism to recommend such people seek therapy. That’s putting one of the most common human traits on a pedestal. As in, your vanity is soooo serious that you need clinical professional help - lol. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen that ridiculous recommendation for run of the mill stuff. Half the reason these things become compulsive pattern thoughts is because we validate it.

Take a Philosophy 101 Couesera course over a glass of wine, and laugh about it. I promise you the “I find no meaning at work” questions will become hilarious soon enough.

And there it is, the grand hypocrisy. I just ultimately gave some self-help advice.
Yes. Race doesn't exist, which is why we need affirmative action.
> Uber isn't a startup anymore. It's a publicly traded company.

THIS
I can see where you're coming from, but I disagree with shortsighted. Pessimistic maybe. I see this kind of messaging to a company doing shady things similar to clicking the unsubscribe link in emails. It's just confirming the message was read by a human, and validates the email address as a good target. Even if you send the cease email from a different address, you've just given them a new address to harvest.
This is now common here in Perth, Western Australia. The drivers appear to have figured out that cancelling repeatedly, if they all do it, can create a 'surge' where there was none before.
It's addictive as in you'll miss the effects and you'll continue taking it. Doesn't seem safe.
Yes and that's not even what I'm talking about. I'm referring to when a call comes in the phone has some logic that will make it show up "suspected spam call" - and spam texts it silences the notification and moves it into a spam folder.
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Many people are concerned about whether they're doing the best for their lifes or not, and it isn't always easy to talk about this things face-to-face because of the expectations that society places on us. Therefore, many people end up seeking help online and Hacker News Ask gives that possibility.
Did you know the DTMF tones still work if you're muted... wait about 10 seconds then mash the keys...
You sure you know where France and Spain are on a map? Seems like you’re mixing them up.
TIL I function at a 12 year old level

This is not good enough to hold a person captive, really.
It's interesting advice. I don't even consider myself as "having tinnitus". However, if I sit in a quiet room and concentrate I can certainly hear a background whine. I feel like I have always had that. Is that tinnitus?
> Banning books seems to be the new battle ground for politicians

This is not a new battle ground
> They have taken from the economy

Exqueeze me? Catalunya is the region has been the greatest net contributor to the Spanish economy.
Floridian here. I've lived here all my life, and DeSantis is the first Governor under whom I have felt that the entire agenda is piss off people who aren't politically aligned with his values. Not a week goes by without some inflammatory new policy making it into the news cycle, and it saddens me because Florida has a ton of problems that we could be collaborating on legislatively, but instead, it's just partisan brinkmanship day in and day out.

I'm a fourth generation Floridian, and I've lived in the state for 42 years. I plan on moving my family out of here sometime in the next few years, as I don't think the future holds anything better here.

This is the first time in US history where a Governor has unilaterally drafted map redistricting an entire state, and it will give the GOP a 4:1 advantage. That's not democracy, it's a rigged system, and removes the will of the people from the equation.

For me, it's not a liberal/conservative issue, it's a representation issue, and an issue of priorities. Basically, I'm tired of the bullshit, and I think there are better places to raise a family, so I'll be taking my talent and tax dollars elsewhere.
Wait, what? Can you cite the statute?

Are you confusing cold calling with spamming? Here, for example, is the SEC page describing rules that cold callers need to follow: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerscoldhtm.html

I think the post you were replying to was saying cold calling in Germany is illegal full stop. I don't think that is the case in be US.
I'm not either, that's why I asked. Maybe we can find out together?
This link is better: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0: bits to asm to C, and then everything else follows.
> email

Aside from using Gmail, which has quite good spam filtering, my solution to email spam is siloing: using a separate email account for different categories of account sign-ups, etc. I just checked my 'good' email's spam folder, and there's nothing there - I get maybe one spam email every few months. (In order to reduce friction, I have autoforwarding from other emails, which doesn't resend spam with gmail - but there are other solutions which would presumably work for any email provider).

The only downside is, with paid email accounts, this could be monetarily problematic - which I don't really see a solution for, unfortunately. But, it's definitely way easier to filter email spam than physical/phone spam.
>I tried, but it felt quite overwhelming.

How come? TTD (OpenTTD) has a rather gentle learning curve.

Find an industry that produces a resource (say a Forest), find an industry that consumes said resource (a Sawmill). Plop a train station next to both, connect it by rail. Place a depot next to the rail, buy a locomotive + a few wood wagons. Set it to go to the Forest station, load up, go to the Sawmill station, unload, repeat.

That's pretty much the whole game. You can also learn to design complex tracks making use of signals, but you don't have to.