skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case and point - the greatest something of a generation: legacy - wearing a turtleneck.
Right, so it would be necessary to force the NS records to point to registrar-owned nameservers which would be the point of enforcement. This is of course bad for a variety of reasons, not least how convention-violating it is.
I see there are lot of downvotes for this comment, but it is not a dumb question at all.

When situation is "near shored, small boat and navigate using lighthouses" then I would say smartphone would be better choice than relaying on lighthouses (light range 10+ nautical miles).

There are a lot of other navigational aids usually close to shore (floating or on ground). Even tall mobile antenna towers or wind generators are more common than classical lighthouses.
This is from Richard Koch's 80/20 Principle:

<quote>Time management often advises people to categorize their list of ‘to do’ activities into A, B, C or D priorities. In practice, most people end up classifying 60­-70 per cent of their activities as A or B priorities. They conclude that what they are really short of is time. This is why they were interested in time management to start with. So they end up with better planning, longer working hours, greater earnestness and usually greater frustration too. They become addicted to time management, but it doesn’t fundamentally change what they do, or significantly lower their level of guilt that they are not doing enough.</quote>

My personal method might be to compare these items with each other, and pick 10-20% of them. Randomly list 10 of these and pick one that you want, and discard/archive the rest. If you ask whether you want to read/do something, the answer is always "yeah", but if you compare these with each other, you'll see a pattern. Comparing and deciding is more difficult, by the way, and it results to store less of these in time.

Whatever you do, give up the guilt first. Guilt never leads to productivity or happiness.
This looks a bit like "financial autism" to me. The thing is the guy is right in a very strict sense - assuming risk premia typically associated with real estate it almost doesn't matter what happens in 100 years. There was even some research proving that the impact of future floodings is indeed correctly priced into the real estate market in the US. You can do that by connecting risk premia, prices, elevations over sea and climate change models.

And I am calling it "autism" because so obviously you cannot say that to the general public, which will not care about your academic calculations :)
I'm fully aware I'm a rather mediocre frontend developer so my opinion on the matter has very little value, but on the other hand I have this feeling that HTML, CSS and JS on the hindsight were probably some of the least suitable technological choices for what the current usage of the web actually needs to achieve this objective.
> many economists think of money as something that is simultaneously: (1) A means of payment (2) a unit of account (3) a store of value.

Just some further notes on this. The word "is" is a bit ambiguous here. To clarify, those are "properties" of money instead of what money "is made of", like a knife is sharp, while what knife actually is made of is steel. In the same way, (modern) money is debt. To have money existing means that someone owes someone something.

Now, of course, bitcoin is not debt. Nobody owes you anything if you own bitcoin. You may just be lucky to find a greater fool to sell it. And yes, someone might think it makes a better money because of that. Unfortunately for bitcoin, just like what makes a good knife is that it is sharp, a good money that is a good means of payment, good unit of account and good store of value. And by any reasonable measure bitcoin is utter failure on all of those.[1] So I find it hard to believe bitcoin will ever be money in any reasonable sense. Being good at those would require the value of money to be relatively stable against other goods, and in the current world that is just not going to happen without some mechanism actively managing the value of the money. And bitcoin has no such mechanism available by definition.

[1] If you believe in the "store of value" story, please give me a reasonable quantitative measure for judging how good a store of value an asset is, and by using that measure, compare bitcoin to more traditional store of values and show that bitcoin is not an utter failure.
I use a Capital One MONEY account for my kid. It's a pretty standard fee free checking account for him (minus the actual paper checks) but it allows me to see what he's doing, add/remove money, and turn his debit card on/off as I wish.
The "message" is a response to the last paragraph.

>The reason a lot of Java or C# code is written with all these abstractions is because it aids unit testing.

That is the justification for talking about testing. Code is being ripped apart to make it easier to test, while the tests that are used as a justification for ripping apart the code are low quality as 99% of the work in unit testing is thinking of and setting up the test case, not the actual test code.
Ah. I see now. This is a specialization of Apple Pay, which has been around a while.
real side effect: countries stop importing, instead they start producing their own stuff inefficiently leading up to more pollution.
You can start with this gold nugget: https://youtu.be/bfNamRmje-s?t=100
> 1. have a look at the candidate's github / stack overflow profile

Not everyone has a github or stackoverflow account!
> "Credit card balances declined by $15 billion, in line with seasonal trends typically seen at the start of the year, but are still $71 billion higher than in 2021:Q1, representing a substantial year-over-year increase."
The one I typed is unlikely (I wrote it in response to your "Anything after the `cat file |` can't overwrite the file", which is factually incorrect as demonstrated), but there are plenty of other simple mistakes. Understand what you're running, and keep backups, otherwise you'll screw up eventually. Selecting your tools this way doesn't move the needle much.
What you're advocating for is being poor.

There's only so much that a person can do to reduce emissions. And this is the big lie that big corps PR sold you: that you as individual is main person responsible.

According to this article from The Guardian, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

Literally nothing you or I can do in our entire lifetime will have as big an impact as fixing just one of those companies.
Here's the code: https://ctxt.io/2/AADgpNP9FA for the review.

Now I do agree with you, Medium uses way too much data around its core content.
I think that "operational analytics" covers a portion of what the OP meant: allowing data analytics to help run and make business decisions at a day to day level.

> Using amazon or azure to host your service?

Yes, the the cloud helps businesses understand, manage costs, and scale without the headaches of haggling with Oracle or enterprise providers. Also, less in-house infrastructure labor needed. Cloud is even easier if a data service provider is managing it for you.

> Charging by subscription rather than upfront?

Yes, SaaS margins and cash flow structure are something investors love about the data services space. SaaS is not going away.

> Mining your customer's data for fun and profit?

Well, enabling your customer companies to mine their own data for their fun and profit, with less engineering labor and more operable outputs.
It is possible to guess that from symbol names (e.g. stbi__YCbCr_to_RGB_row function represents the second step) and currently running instructions (e.g. you don't see many SSE instructions during that step). But to be honest, Justine wrote the program in question (printimage) so that information should be obvious to its author ;-)
Those are good things to do, but voting for people who support stricter climate action is at least equally important. Most important decisions (taxation, building clean energy...) are ultimately done on society/government level, not by individuals.

If we get enough renewable power, electric cars and start building houses from wood (excellent way of storing carbon), then there's no fundamental reason why people couldn't still drive cars, live in fairly large apartments and so on. Reasonable amount of consumption wouldn't be a problem in such world.
There are many hidden complexities in seemingly simple features like text input fields and wrapping text in a canvas. It is better to let the browser or operating system handle these features, as they have been perfected over many years and are much more likely to work correctly than a custom implementation.
just stop using all of those apps - done. Pick 2-3 and cut the rest.
Probably the cost of operating the computing resources for a functioning network ?
It's possible to load assets from remote, it's basically not possible to provide meaningful value by allowing assets foreign and out of context to individual games. Thus the point being made is close to moot...
- What if it changes?

- What if it doesn't?
I feel like they deliberately cut off the headline. He said:

"Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it."

And that sounds a lot more reasonable to me. He's not dismissing Miami as unimportant, but instead he is expressing his optimism in technical solutions for an environmental issue.

Edit: It's in the video at 6:54 https://youtu.be/bfNamRmje-s?t=414

"Human beings have been fantastic at adapting to change, adapting to climate emergencies, and we will continue to do so. Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it."
I'm not sure there's any substance to those beliefs. The push for cloud-agnostic solutions is also a thinly veilled push for self-hosting services, or at least parts of it. Cloud services charge a huge markup for stuff that comes for free somewhere else, like certificates or bandwidth or running your services in dedicated hardware.

It's not possible to ignore the fact that "cloud" is a marketing term for renting someone else's hardware, and beyond a certain scale it's always better to run our code in our hardware.
GP obviously did "21 millions bitcoins ever mined at most times 10 USD a piece", which gives 210 M. No idea if that's correct or not from a game-theory standpoint. All I know is no matter your mining power and no matter if you own 50%+1 of the network or 100% of the network or 0% of the network: this doesn't give you the right to sign transactions moving coins you don't own the private keys to.
> The folks who don’t do this are trying to automate hiring.

Or they are trying to emulate Google and similar companies without understanding why they do it.
Towards Ineffective Altruism
The Realpolitik of this is that it was likely some important clients/investors/VIP got too offended by it

(preferably someone that invests in carbon-heavy industries for extra irony)
I am part of the minority that would not mind at all if my neighbor had a rusted out car in their lawn. I recognize that this isn't a very common opinion though.
Using the S&P500/MSCI World Index in these charts seems very disingenuous - they aren't supporting his argument, they just give off the sense of credibility if you aren't paying attention.

He's going (A) "here's a chart" >> (B) "and this is my argument". But B doesn't follow from A at all, it just creates the impression of being evidence-based.
I've never been in a plane. I don't go on vacation. I don't have a drivers license. I don't feel bad, because i rarely do things i should feel bad for.

I see that people like the articles author do feel bad about it, and do some metrics like that to feel less bad about it. None of the things the author did does reduce emissions. If i wanted to reduce emissions, i'd probably not even have the tech to show me the emissions charts.

I think this is come kind of coping mechanism. Okay if you need it, but i won't pretend its more than that.
Why? The JVM has complete knowledge over the entire code base at runtime. It knows which methods require virtual function calls and which ones are just regular function calls. If nothing extends the class, then there will be no virtual functions in the entire class. If something extends the class but it does not override any methods then there again will be no virtual functions. If a class overrides a single method, only that method is going to be a virtual function.
Totally missed that !
I don't know an official name for it. It seems like it's almost too basic - "subdivide into helper functions" - to make it into the Gang of Four or other design pattern collections. But in my head I'm calling it the "Recipe Pattern"
Well, can't say the same about suicides.
"We will all be six feet under by then, so who cares?"
Instant SEPA is still a bit of a luxury feature adopted mostly by fintechs, at least the sending side.
The elites will carve out exemptions to avoid degrading their lifestyles.
Yeah sure, in the practical sense different terms are established for the different applications, but that doesn't change the fact that what you call a "heat pump" works by the same principle as what you call an "air conditioner".

I was more refering to the general thermodynamic principle of a heat pump and it appears that others too use the term in that general sense.

Citing from Heat Pumps in Chemical Process Industry (by Kiss, Infante Ferreira) [1]

> Notably, the term heat pump is more generic; it applies to many heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) devices used for space heating or cooling. When used for heating, a heat pump employs the same refrigeration-type cycle ...

"When used for heating" clearly indicates that the term is valid for both types of applications.

> And in either case the thermodynamics situation is simply the second law: it takes energy to do all that work, which turns into heat.

You better read up on what the second law means. What you write "takes energy .. which turns into heat" is actually linked to the first law.

> Sure, the energy from a fossil fuel was originally solar power, but that was millions of years ago. You can’t just magically claim its part of the current energy balance.

I am not making that case. The claim I am making, is that it doesn't matter for what kind of purpose you use this fossil energy (except for the weird uses I mentioned) because _all_ purposes will eventually turn it into heat.
Which is why I reject the claim that "AC heats up the planet". No, fossil energy use does, no matter what you use it for.

> The significant contribution of air conditioning to heat islands has been widely discussed for decades.

Your original claim was "AC heats up the planet though". Now you write "heat islands". Yeah, of course you have heat islands. I don't deny that. It's just something totally different from "heating up the planet". Because transferring heat from inside building to the surroundings doesn't change the planet's _thermal_ energy balance. It's the burning of fossil fuels that does so.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Heat_Pumps_in_Chemical_...
Wow, yeah, that totally flips around the context, shame on the clickbait.
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if (Membership.IsExpired)

You still need to know what Membership represents, that it has a IsExpired field, that that is a Boolean, and what it means.

Most of it is in the business domain, though.

You may want to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_metric, which has links to methods both for estimating complexity before a line of code is written and for estimating complexity of existing code. For the latter, examples are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halstead_complexity_measures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

AFAIK most of them estimate the complexity of multiple lines of code/functions/entire programs.

I don’t think there is agreement as to the usefulness of this, and if so, which method is the best, or whether it’s possible to measure software complexity at all (for the latter, I think everybody’s gut feeling says “yes”, but I don’t think every person would even place different program fragments in the same order of complexity (example: foo.map.filter(…) versus a for loop with a nested if. Which one is deemed simpler depends on one’s pre-existing knowledge)

I also think we can only estimate program complexity roughly, and wouldn’t go as far as calling anything a metric.
amazing advice, thank you for your valuable contribution to this discussion
The server you use to exchange ICE candidates ("you can try connecting to me here") is probably, in most cases, your media server - the thing you are hiding behind this TURN server. It probably exchanges them via a protocol like WHIP[0]. Probably, you'd try to configure it to present only one candidate here - the STUNner's TURN server.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-wish-whip-02.html
It can be done, in a perfect world, but redundancy isn't an option when it comes to life and death situations.

GPS isn't provided by God, it might be down or hacked, &c.
You'd have to get phones certified for this usage for liability issues, and probably tons of other things I can't think about right now.

I don't imagine a cruise ship transporting thousands of people relying on an iphone to avoid hitting a rock/the shore
I lived in Sweden as a resident for a period of time (less than the amount you are required to get a personnumber, one of the requirements for BankID) and sometimes not having Swish was a real hassle. Oftentimes it was with smaller mom-and-pop shops whose primary method of accepting payment was Swish. Carrying cash usually solved the problem, but not always. Transferring money to and from friends was also more difficult, either cash or Transferwise were used instead.

Even if I had been able to get a personnumber getting a BankID would have also been a real hassle - by law I believe Swedish banks have to grant me an account if I reside there and have a personnumber but as a US citizen they go out of their way to make it as difficult as possible due to the extremely onerous requirements that US requires foreign bank accounts comply with.
the rest: "... Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it."

I think he's making a pretty decent point, but "who cares" is probably the worst way to start that sentence if you don't want to get fired.
In India, the coalescing of payments around the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)'s payment network and standard called Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been a gamechanger. Bank consumers can create virtual addresses that they can give to any individual or entity and use it for sending / receiving money. The recipient can be a customer of any bank, not necessarily theirs. As long as the bank is on the NPCI backbone (almost all banks are), the transaction is safe, secure and seamless. At the moment, there are no fees for using UPI and the transaction limit is Rs. 200,000 (approx. USD 2500), so a vast majority of small ticket purchases can be done electronically. The transaction volume statistics at NPCI is pretty impressive. https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-statistics
I'm british in Oz these last 35 years. It's fres nel everywhere, always. And I did French at school in Scotland.
> What I personally do is, when I need some hardware I go to a local hardware shop for professionals and ask/buy from them.

You are a little naïve if you think that will work with IT (or any electronics).

The IT industry is a box-shifting industry. It resolves solely and exclusively around the world of sales targets and sales promotions. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not telling the truth.

For example, an IT reseller is not "Microsoft Gold" (or similar for other brands) because they are awesome and always put the customer first. No, they are "Gold" because they've hit the sales targets (sure there are other "requirements" such as a minimum number of trained staff, but "requirement" number one is ALWAYS hitting the sales targets.)

So if you walk into your local shop, more likely the advice you get will be based on a combination of:

1) If they keep stock, what they have in stock
2) What the manufacturer promotion of the day is and/or if they need a push to get over the line with some manufacturer's targets
The question is how to measure the environmental impact of companies and their supply chains in a global and traceable way. Here there are first exciting approaches like Geospatial ESG Geospatical Finance. Here are more links on the topic:
https://www.cgfi.ac.uk/ https://www.wwf.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/nature-and-spatia...
This is sadly a common sentiment https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/11/peter...
It's just the truth - what's your suggestion?
That is somehow even worse
Hum, "blogs" in the past means "web logs" or a place to publish your personal sh^wcra^wehmmmm things you want someone else to know... I think the author intend for blogs "personal websites" witch sometimes have only one topic, sometimes few. I argue how they can be called blog and their substantial purpose.

In the past, usenet pre-web era, there was a problem: some posts are just noise so there were not much reasons to pin them in some way, some are valuable and might be useful in the future to anyone including those who join a group after that post(s). So websites was seen as a way to keep useful contents for the posterity. Than someone observe the old mundaneum dream [1] can be real with web tech and a new revolution start ending up not so well, composition is still manual and have many issues, accessing contents was a problem, directory-website prove to be nor effective nor maintainable. Than search engines arrives. Another revolution with another loss of the original web idea ... finally blogs arrives as a way to collect data about people letting them spit some mostly irrelevant content to nearly anyone on the web.

I favor rediscovering the classic idea, perhaps the mid-classic one: personal websites with domain names, perhaps hosted at home and mirrored on ZeroNet for all who can, perhaps offering a local YaCy instance to contribute to an open web search to reduce hyper-power of corporate backed search engines, perhaps hosting something else for individual users usage from mail+webmail, VoIP services etc i.e. pushing the classic "home-server" concept since now most of the connected users can do that, can profit from that, at a little enough price, but please let's agree not only to simple script-less fast-loading without CDNs etc contents, also to kind of publishing. To avoid create another niche we new old web must be useful like:

- some personal information made public, why a phone directory? If I have phone numbers to be published I put them on my website because accessing it must be just looking for my name and surname + eventual other tag/words in case of homonymy;

- some topics I want to publish, with proper RSS feeds because 99% of the reader are mildly interested in a small percentage of the content so will not came back frequently to discover something new, they might just get it in their own "inbox" by a lighter mean than an email, or perhaps not having aliases by a mean that do not demand a mail/alias to retrieve contents;

- support for various media, not only desktop and mobile but also scrapers, screen readers, terminals etc, a website must be used ok-ish with w3m.

Long story short instead of a crapload of contents lets makes personal websites like our public face to the web, with all non-web hooks of the case, like RSS.

We need such tools to made a social society without social networks, but still modern.

[1] The ~1930 web based on cards and telegraphs depicted and partially made by Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontaine