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>I don’t think taxes would work: they would merely increase prices provide incentives to develop technologies leading to more Javon’s paradox, as you said. The only solution I see is banning extraction.

1. Not all technological developments contribute the the Javon's paradox. I can see how more fuel efficient engines contributes to that, but electric cars (along with renewable energy generation) don't.

2. the point of taxes isn't solely to eliminate fossil fuels, it's also to provide compensation for the damage that fossil fuels create. If we determine that a tonne of carbon emitted causes $100 worth of damage, and we levy a $100 tax on carbon, that means governments can fully offset the damage. That makes for a far better state of affairs, even if we continue burning fossil fuels. I'll even go as far to say that it's a perfectly acceptable state of affairs.

>The only solution I see is banning extraction. But banning something? Unthinkable!

It's unthinkable for good reason. What do you do about critical industries that depend on fossil fuels? The whole point of carbon pricing is to use the market to force the least efficient/easiest to switch carbon users to stop emitting carbon, so that the costs of transitioning is as low as possible.

>I wonder why I still strive to limit my carbon footprint. Nobody’s impressed nor inspired by my behaviour.

Most of what you said applies to voting as well. Do you also wonder why you vote in elections?
40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias
I'm usually next to a computer when I need those sorts of results. The calculator keyboard button is mapped to a wrapper around a python repl with a bunch of tools pre-imported, and that's generally faster and easier than a calculator would have been.

In the field though, phone calculators are still kind of bad. They're a nice blend of being clunky to do anything fancy while simultaneously not supporting almost any features. If anyone has any recommendations for better apps I'm all ears, but if I were doing stuff away from my desk more often I'd want a real calculator.
My LG television runs WebOS and it’s easily the best of the television OSes.
In the grand scheme of things, what he did is hardly the end of the world.

And yet, it still doesn't sit quite right with me. I suppose its because there doesn't seem to be the slightest hint in the writing that credit card fraud is wrong, or that it's even something you shouldn't do. I looked for it.

And to add to that, what he did wasn't 'a hack', it wasn't particularly clever. It was just theft of services and a lot of lying because he didn't have something he wanted.

I think if he would describe it as a youthful indiscretion or something similar it would go a long way.
Google settles lawsuit with Illinois residents for $100M over photo app concerns
Fair... It was $800 cash back from subaru and a $200 charity match. however the dealer just tossed in the $200 for the match so they could make the sale and pump up their charity numbers. So $800 of that $4k was a thing you would have gotten anyway. So I only dropped the price $3200. Still a good hourly rate.
Came here to see if this was mentioned. My choice, too. Absolutely cannot be beaten, imo.

I've written my own framework on top of it for things like simplified routing and static page compilation with automatic sitemap generation.
damn... this hit harder than it should.
Sometimes I need to hear the obvious.
There is there real value. When you need it now they are just across town. You have to be very rural to not have one within half an hour. Amazon has 2 hour delivery in large cities, but only some cities (though granted the exceptions are small population).
I understand considering those 2 offers, but have you thought of a 3rd option of simply looking for something else? when I was younger I used to go to so many interviews, one day I had 5 at same day. it's ok to settle but I think you can get even better.
I'm hoping this was sarcasm.
I know we like to use new terms to pretend there is innovation but Netlify is a CDN and Render is a shared VM host.

Unless you only host static content, isn’t Render vastly more capabale/different anyway?
Nearly all NATO equipment was made to fight against russian armor. Now we see its effectivenes.

I think it is quite clear that all strategy and tactics are done by US/NATO generals who tell the Ukrainian army what to do - since NATO has all its spy satelites/systems that track phones/various classified stuff pointed on the area.

And think that Trump wanted USA to leave NATO. Talk about russian assets..
Charlie Rose – Sir James Goldsmith Interview (1994)
This seems like an obvious argument, so it is a shame it has to be spoken out loud: you can't provide privacy if your software is not secure.
You had such a chance to say "first started to fall from its saddle..."
I don't care if they don't play nice. I assume they don't. I also don't turn a blind eye to things working against our collective interest.
You realize that companies can raise prices? That's wha I meant by "Consumers will probably fully absorb the cost" last comment. Supermarket margins are even thinner than 10%, yet they aren't going broke during this inflation spree.
If you tax extraction sufficiently, you can make it prohibitively expensive (regardless of technological improvements) to extract carbon-intensive fuels.

Take it to the extreme to verify this effect - a $1000/barrel tax on extracted oil is effectively a ban.
Nitter doesn't allow you to post at all.
It’s obviously not the information that’s the problem, it’s looking away from the road surface even for an instant.

Cars protect the driver substantially more than bikes and car tires handle small debris in corners substantially better than bikes. Also the rare road surface that supports 80 mph speeds has relatively shallow corners and is closed to bikes. It’s a useless comparison.
Cool. Maybe I’ll use a `mysqldump` extension and trigger it that way :)
Cypherpunk Zero Creative Universe NFTs
My partner was part of a group which included a former(?) partner of the author of this page.

My partner had to end their involvement because multiple polyamorous people in the group were unable to respect my partner's boundaries and were continually pushing my partner to enter into relations they weren't interested in (and which would have violated our monogamous relationship). It's frustrating to keep having the experience of meeting up with someone for something only to realize they think it's a date, doubly so when even bringing your partner along doesn't prevent someone from thinking its a date.

The author's "romance on the table" seems a bit self-centered from my position given the background above: The difficulty in setting and respecting clear boundaries doesn't just harm the poly practitioner, but can also harm people in their proximity who get non-consensually exposed to the negatives of their lifestyle.

Or to put it in personal disadvantage terms: Not only will you tend to fall into socializing only "in-network", monogamous people may well prefer to avoid socializing with you and your network because they prefer to avoid situations where "romance is on the table" with people other than their partner, just as they may prefer to limit their socialization with single people.

Even if everyone is well behaved there is still a loss of the 'they are in a relationship' automatic boundary. Since this preference is due to an actual cost and not only prejudice it's unlikely to improved by education.
> Oh yes they do

You can nutpick to find people saying anything, of course.

Show me someone in a position of power saying that. I think they closest you'll find is someone like AOC, who has gone nowhere near that.

> The AFL-CIO looks (or at least looked) like the same thing, but for unions.

The AFL-CIO has been in decline for several decades. If you want to tar, say, the Amazon efforts with things the AFL-CIO did in the 60s, you're just making my point for me.
EU deal on single mobile charging port likely June 7 in setback for Apple
To each their own. Personally I feel like I'm getting value out of following what certain people are talking about on Twitter. The time where everyone had their personal blogs that you could follow are unfortunately over.
Despite the zealous beliefs of the visionary, thought-leader techbro space that Musk's every move was to drive civilization forward in some kind of libertarian, technocrat utopia, it seems very clear at this point every one of these moves was absolutely a self-serving narrative shield around incredibly typical corporate/rich-person bad behavior.

Oh but who could have seen this coming except oh wait everyone.

The schadenfreude has been hilarious. Twitter has been blessedly devoid of the kind of chest-thumping he typically elicits and it has been glorious.
As someone with ADHD I self trained to stay on one thing until it's done, or I make a good progress. I make small breaks to look a bit online, respond to messages on the phone, eat, smoke. At about two hours I take a 10 minutes break. Than back to the stuff I am working.

It required some discipline, but now it is easy.

The harder is with context switches, calls, meetings, whether planned or not, colleagues asking for something, boss asking for something. Context switching kind of lowers my ability to be focused.
To my knowledge, Nintendos are the only mainstream device or platform that allows that for well over a decade now. Everything else requires an account and internet access. If you want multiplayer, then no mainstream gaming device or platform will fit your needs.
Show HN: A novel new quest generation tool both handwritten and random
Why are you being so antagonistic? You don't really know what this commenter has or hasn't researched on this topic. Please be more polite when expressing disagreement, and focus on the facts at hand, not an imagined adversary.
That someone could be him, since he knew the story was going to break and tank the stock.
8 people, at 19 per month, amounts to 8x19x12 = +-1800 a year. adding an 8th person would skyrocket that, if we take the next step up (business) at 99/m, to 8x99x12 = +- 9500 per year.

And that's not even the "enterprise" pricing.

That must be one hell of an improved workflow to increase the price with, probably at least, 400%.
This field of study obviously needs a much larger number of tossers.
> It isn't always easy to stand by and watch your kid hurt themselves.

It's by far the hardest thing you have to do, but the only consolation is that if you let them push the boundaries early they more quickly learn that they have boundaries.

Of course you limit the maximum harm, but finding things that are "acceptable" is the trick.
Show HN: Fast Deep Reinforcement Learning Course
I worked on this applied Deep Reinforcement Learning course for the better part of 2021. I made a Datacamp course [0] before, and this served as my inspiration to make an applied Deep RL series.

Normally, Deep RL courses teach a lot of mathematically involved theory. You get the practical applications near the end (if at all).

I have tried to turn that on its head. In the top-down approach, you learn practical skills first, then go deeper later. This is much more fun.

This course (the first in a planned multi-part series) shows how to use the Deep Reinforcement Learning framework RLlib to solve OpenAI Gym environments. I provide a big-picture overview of RL and show how to use the tools to get the job done. This approach is similar to learning Deep Learning by building and training various deep networks using a high-level framework e.g. Keras.

In the next course in the series (open for pre-enrollment), we move on to solving real-world Deep RL problems using custom environments and various tricks that make the algorithms work better [1].

The main advantage of this sequence is that these practical skills can be picked up fast and used in real life immediately. The involved mathematical bits can be picked up later. RLlib is the industry standard, so you won't need to change tools as you progress.

This is the first time that I made a course on my own. I learned flip-chart drawing to illustrate the slides and notebooks. That was fun, considering how much I suck at drawing. I am using Teachable as the LMS, Latex (Beamer) for the slides, Sketchbook for illustrations, Blue Yeti for audio recording, OBS Studio for screencasting, and Filmora for video editing. The captions are first auto-generated on YouTube and then hand edited to fix errors and improve formatting. I do the majority of the production on Linux and then switch to Windows for video editing.

I released the course last month and the makers of RLlib got in touch to show their approval. That's the best thing to happen so far.

Please feel free to try it and ask any questions. I am around and will do my best to answer them.

[0] https://www.datacamp.com/courses/unit-testing-for-data-scien...
[1] https://courses.dibya.online/p/realdeeprl
Repealing 230 would literally kill large swaths of the internet. If platforms like Twitter or Reddit were legally responsible for what their users post, they would need to institute white lists to avoid being bankrupted. Can you imagine the amount of low-level casual defamation across the entirety of Facebook? Or Reddit? The amount of copyrighted material stolen and posted? There would be an overnight industry of people shadow-posting defamatory statements and then turning around and suing the platforms for hosting it.

It's literally the dumbest idea possible.
Ask HN: How to maintain a killer product documentation page
Sometimes I'm being impressed by a very thorough, well structured, always up to date documentation page.

Stripes', Slacks' and Jiras' documentation pages are the first three that comes into my mind (I'm sure people will have different experiences but still I'm sure lots of them will agree with me that these are exceptionally good documentation pages).

I've never been in an organisation where we were maintaining such pages and I'm not sure what is the process of writing them. On the contrary, my experience have usually been a state where the product requirements, the actual end product and the documentation being somewhat out of sync.

How would you describe the process of maintaining a great product documentation page?

Thanks :)
What makes barbecue taste so good? The chemistry of cooking over an open flame
Is this legit? Their website feels kinda sketchy to me, with the huge and somewhat tacky CG pictures, sweeping claims, apparent SEM photography that just looks too good to be true (could there really be zero residue? and the background never change, presumably over time span of at least minutes!) This really reminds me of vaporware like WaterSeer, or one of the recent "turn kitchen garbage into dry dust" appliances that I've seen ads for
Rust isn't hard, it's just more verbose than devs are used to because it forces you to think about lifetimes and types.
You Can't Sit Out Office Politics
I, for one, think transparent, non-negotiable pricing would be a net benefit for consumers. While there has been consolidation in the automotive space, there's still a fairly large number of players, so there will still be competition on price.

The status quo, where prices are negotiated at dealerships, allows car companies to keep their real prices secret, and allows them to get more money from consumers who are less comfortable negotiating or don't have the time or energy to figure out what the real price should be. Fixed pricing will be higher for some, but it will also be lower for many. Fixed pricing also makes it much easier to compare prices across brands, which should result in a more competitive market.
They don't break out the profitability of some subunits, but according to the WSJ it was "breakeven"[1] in 2014 with $4B in revenue.

I still don't see where the GP comment's confidence that it's not meaningfully profitable comes from. It doesn't seem like an uncontroversial assumption that costs have more than septupled in the last five years in the way that revenue has.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...
Me too, one of my first projects was building an app with CodeIgniter that was interacting with a Magento shop backend. Was so cool when we finally were able to trigger an order in Magento from our CI app. Whatever one thinks about PHP, it does get a lot of devs started in web programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_th...
MPFR does depend on GMP, but the reason it’s everywhere seems to be that GCC uses it—unlike GMP, which is also used for cryptography, underlies many languages’ large integer support, etc.
This is just an air filter with more filters, the installation location is part of the prototype, which is not practical at all.
> No one wants an imaginary Bowie album, because it's a glamour-free proposition - a curiosity at best, most likely irrelevant.

They're all going mad for an imaginary Abba concert
Brownian motion affects how small particles move around at small scales [0]. This is why HEPA filters can be effective even against smaller particles (which bounce around and get caught).

Specifically about the Molekule - their claims seemed to be empirically false and the device performed worse than a standard HEPA filter (and they were resistant to allowing independent tests at all).

When the tests came out awful their responses were mostly bullshit. [1]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
Exactly. Tires, wipers, and I’m guessing alignment are the only things the average Tesla owner will ever need to worry about from what I’ve read before I took the leap.

The best description of my experience switching to an EV is that it’s been like going from a VCR straight to streaming. It’s fast, convenient, modern, and doesn’t really degrade.
On the note of pixel art, anyone have any interesting techniques for 3D -> 2D Pixel Art?

Of course the difficulty here is producing good quality pixel art from three dimensions. Often it simply ends up worse. Nonetheless i've been researching this and toying with it for a while. Notably for producing art in different isometric projections which would be very difficult to do by hand.
The Boring Company's secret plan to tunnel between Austin and San Antonio
> If I had a dime for everytime someone made a blocking call from an async function.. And who can blame them? Most blocking functions aren't even documented as such, you just have to know.

Isn't that exactly what loom aims to resolve?
(2020)

There is a comment saying it's still true in March 2022.
Finding Patterns in Seizure Data
It’s a pick your poison conclusion.
Learn OpenGL: GPU Computing
>I would be surprised if we know what the "new normal" looks like before at least another 5-10 years have passed.

I generally agree although a lot of things have generally drifted back to business as usual.

However, other patterns still need to play out.

The degree to which pre-pandemic office work for knowledge workers who can work remotely goes back to pre-pandemic patterns still has to play out and I suspect, for many, there will at least be greater flexibility in the future.

Many US cities were still losing population 25 years ago. There's certainly no law of nature that younger educated people will continue to reverse this trend as they have the past couple of decades.

Things like big in-person business conferences have come back to some degree but it's unclear if they'll ever be back to business-as-usual.

The list goes on. I'm not sure the disruption will be as great as some envisioned but a lot of things were paused and it's unclear they will look the same as they unpause.
One suspects the money folks who approved these changes are the same who keep all of Netlify’s tiers other than the very most expensive one on a six-POP CDN for the whole world --- unlike Netlify’s competitors, each of which provides the same CDN for all its tiers. Have never understood the logic behind this on Netlify’s part, since The Power Of The Brand™ can take it only so far in an increasingly competitive marketplace. And doing this particular pricing structure change at this time, when companies are hurrying to cut costs ahead of what appears almost certain to be a slowdown, is equally weird IMHO.
While you wait, there are 246 comments on the discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094242
Meh. The youtuber criticizes Musk's statement "This is something we could fix" by saying "He does not say 'This is something we _might_ be able to fix.'"

Seconds later, the youtuber goes on to criticize Musk's disclaimer of "I'm not saying this is going to solve everything... it's something that _might_ be helpful."

You just can't win with these "skeptics".
> NAFTA is a weird political thing, it has some parallels with the EU.

Nothing weird about it and it's nothing like the EU.

> Seems like everyone hates it, in a vague and confusing sort of way,

No. It's rather specific. It's shifting manufacturing to cheaper locations and costing america jobs and industry.

> Weird that it only seems popular in some places if you can wrap it up with xenophobia somehow, which then prevents you voting for the people who agree with your goals.

It's popular everywhere there are sensible people. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of sensible people and capital will always win against labor and the people.
This is by far the most time we've spent on a tool at Glumdark. It's intended for use in TTRPG campaigns. We use a lot of madlibs-style randomness drawing from dozens of tables with hundreds of rows of handwritten content. Some of the smaller pieces of content are generated through simple markov chains.

If anything, what's interesting is not the technology but the sheer amount of tuning is required to get it to feel natural.
Wouldn't the images be a transformative work? But then again there were those recent music cases where the infringement was only a small number of notes in sequence. This will almost inevitably end up in court because I'm not sure there is a comparable case.
Perhaps this is a ridiculous question but is it possible to implement a language twice: both as compiled and as interpreted or JITted, the latter giving you a quicker feedback loop at the cost of runtime performance, size, etc. ?
they probably partner with some content filtering third parties for stuff like abuse blocking, child porn, copyright infringement, spam, you name it. I am wildly guessing that they outsource some of that stuff.
It doesn't. I tend to look at the new features but k9 bite me hard. Luckily I had the APK of the old version and they also have a link to download it. Anyway I don't have many apps anymore and I tend to install only open source (I don't trust apps much.) FOSS apps are easier to downgrade.
I've lived very few places with public transport, and often what was in place was poor. Winter exists and biking infrastructure simply doesn't exist in ways meaningful enough to ride a bike, if you are lucky enough to live close enough to do that.
The Kermit Test.
The vast VAST majority of hvac systems are still bang bang systems.