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No, 100% is not written, but yes some bills are written by lobbyists.

A good story my professor told me is when he took a trip to Congress, met his Congressperson, suggested a law that would help entrepreneurs, then sat down with him and they both drafted it in about 2 hours, then he took it to Congress to table it for a vote. It didn't pass, but that's how laws get written.

But then again, is lobbying bad? I mean, it's not stacks of money passed under a table, it's literally arguing your case. I mean isn't that what Congresspeople are there for? To hear their constituents concerns and desires?

Would anyone on HN argue that EFF shouldn't be allowed to spend donations they receive to do work that helps them lobby congress for say, privacy laws?

That's a good thing to me.
Pleasure is pleasure, and love is love. Ask my cat!
I think training others or leading others is the way to go here. Giving him more work leaves you with the risk of Bob not being available one day for a period of time leaving the rest of the company struggling to fill the hole in productivity that was left after him.
Addiction is a problem, and it's a problem now, even with the harmful substances being prohibited. The fact that fentanyl and heroin are criminalized doesn't make anyone less likely to end up using them; the criminal penalties just make them even more dangerous to use. You're assuming that legalizing / decriminalizing fent and h possession the addiction situation would get worse -- I'm not convinced that is true.

If we legalized / decriminalized the possession of all drugs including fent and heroin, then people using them would not suffer criminal penalties for being caught with them. Oftentimes it's social factors like incarceration that make it doubly hard for addicts to escape the cycle of addiction. You are caught using and so you enter jail, and catch a felony on your record, making it even more difficult to land work. Or you end up with trauma from being imprisoned, further damaging your mental health, further driving you to escape with your drug of choice.

Long story short, prohibitionism doesn't really work in the sense that criminal penalties don't really deter drug users from using drugs. It just makes it even more dangerous to use the drugs!
I would love vinegar-heavy ketchup! I love mustards for just that reason. But to me, ketchups just taste like sugar paste.
I’m looking around street view in Dublin and it looks similar to my own city (Philadelphia) in a lot of ways. Narrow side streets yes, but it seems where there are bike lanes they’re extremely unprotected/not even buffered, and there are plenty of wide streets without bike infrastructure of any sort. And ultimately you do usually need to be on a main road some of the time when going to many places. (In Dublin’s case I notice there’s a river running through town that only the larger streets seem to cross.)

Compared to Utrecht (which was the initial point of comparison here), it looks awful for cycling.
I worked for Baan at that time, that was one of the selling points.

Baan still exists as Infor ERP Ln
It is a truly bizarre decision for a language which aims to have a fast change->compile->run cycle, since it can basically double the time the compile cycle takes.
How can you forget about games? The reason GPU exists in the first place.
It's not that far from the truth, in that much of high-performance chip design knowledge is acquired through on-the-job training / working with more experienced people. Learning computer architecture in school just teaches the basics about how digital logic and CPUs work (frequently with 1980s designs), not how to actually build a screaming fast 4 GHz chip that you can tape out and get high production yield on. So Intel, Nvidia, etc. train lots of engineers that go on to start other companies (or move between companies).
I don't want to be cheeky with them, but at the same time I expect something more than industry standard. The problem is that I have never worked as an employee before and salary negotiations are new territory for me.
The point I’m making is that the statement made is vague enough that you don’t know whether or not that is the case.
I don't think this is a fair criticism of Stoicisim. It definitely doesn't say ignore the outside world or things you can't change, rather acknowledge and accept them to allow the capacity to focus on the things you can change.
Socratic by Google. Get unstuck. Learn better
This seems like it was written by someone who has only read Meditations and the wikipedia on Stoicism and decided they knew enough to write an article on a tradition that has lasted two and a half millenia.

Calling the first cosmopolitan philosophy in history(perhaps mohism predates, I'm not a sino guy) objectionable because of its individualism, a philosophy that advocates the view from above (read your tully) and thinking of yourself as part of the whole (read your seneca or aurelius) is ridiculous.
In 1972 1DM = $3.643 so it's probably $170,189 (1972) -> $1M (today).
Are there really no meaningful competitors to SAP in this space?
What a great problem to have.
Weird take.

While watching the presentation I was thinking “this looks like cool stuff”. But FastCompany thought I should be afraid.

Is it a cultural or a personal divergence?
Maybe Apple knows its target audience? Rich first worlders who can afford a private helicopter.

Somewhere out there a rich yuppie looked at the ad and says “ahh yesss, that would be useful, I happen to use my private heli on a weekly basis”
> But that's precisely the point: Python 2.5 realized that something was fundamentally broken and the community went through a painful transition process.

It's still not done for many, many projects. "python2" is still installed on 99% of systems I touch. Off the top of my head, the only machine missing it is my laptop, actually.

So your last perl codebase had the choice of not going through this painful transition process. Maybe it's what makes the best sense from a business point-of-view? "Worse is Better", remember, that's why we're running this sloppy Linux everywhere and not the almost-perfect OpenVMS or Genera.

>But without the interpreter helping you out on that front, it'll produce ugly code, and take mental discipline and disciplined code reviewing practices on a team.

"Ugly code" is in the eye of the beholder. For many a python project I'll have to add long series of elif or try/catch to check for the type of some incoming data returned from some API, where it could have been easily managed through duck typing in python 2.7 or Perl. Most programmers won't catch it until the error occurs in production, if the value returned switches types infrequently enough.

> The point that the article is trying to refute, namely that Perl is for dinosaurs, in my mind just absolutely stands.

Try C someday :)
I wanted to add WebSocket support in a node.js backend for a game I develop. This project has zero dependency outside node.js itself and I was reluctant to add any dependency for this, so I implemented WebSockets myself, with the help of a few example code and documentation from MDN. It does not handle the edge cases (that I don't need), but it's quite straightforward and I'm far from having Daniel's expertise in this kind of stuff.

I trust him to implement WebSockets correctly, it's way easier than most things he probably had to handle in curl.

It's good he went for a solution that does not bloat curl.

Good to see this feature in Curl too. libcurl is very nice, things are designed in a straightforward way and it's flexible, it's a library done with taste, and the curl program is also very helpful and being able to debug websocket related stuff with it might be very handy.

About:

> [libwebsockets] seems (too) tightly integrated with event libraries

I too often was slowed down by this kind of stuff when wanting to use anything on top of glib, like dbus for instance. These things want your program to be written in a certain way, rather than your program being able to call the library as it sees fit. In particular, you need to bent to the glib's event loop, and good luck if your program does not quite work like this. There are ways, but there are not very well documented.
Bob shouldn’t be working at a place where he’s only allowed to work on tasks that are assigned to him by a manager, and twiddle his thumbs when he has none. He should be able to create his own tasks, do some experiments, R&D, self-directed training, open source work, whatever he finds compelling.
That was the crappiest, ad-laden, site I’ve tried to read for awhile.
Will this get exposed in the command line tool at some point? Not sure how that would work exactly.
>But I don't see how a mere 12C rise in temperature (or even double that) would make it impossible for humans to survive.

Where is your intuition for this coming from? Note that 12C rise in global temperature is a very different statement than 12C rise in average temperature of where you live. The temperature increase is applied non-uniformly. Also, the volatility in weather scales exponentially with global temperature increase. For example, 1.5C to 2C rise is expected to create 4 times more extreme weather events globally.

>Life would probably greatly resemble a Max Max movie

We don't need a fictional movie to see what life would be like. We are seeing glimpses of it already with these mega weather events hitting areas with a higher risk index such as the recent flooding in Pakistan that resulted in 33 million people impacted, ~600K people displaced, ~2,000 people dead, and ~10 billion USD in damages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods

update to comment: I just saw this article this morning -- a new study on those tipping points I mentioned earlier in our discussion:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on...
(a) while Apple is less playful than it used to be, that sense isn't entirely gone—the "Dynamic Island" interface element is a fun way to deal with the fact that there's a hole in the screen.

(b) the article says: "These examples implied something else entirely: The world is already on fire. You’re already getting burned. Just make sure that you live to tell the tale."

I mean... Apple isn't wrong.
On again / off again in office work is way more disruptive than an employer firmly deciding they are fully remote and furnishing people with good hardware for home offices and workspaces.
Are you trying to make the counter point that sugar and highly processed foods are healthy?

There's lots of good science and history (! I guess that's just a bunch of anecdotes though) which demonstrates their ill effects.

Sometimes, a fact has been asserted widely enough that we stop requiring sources, even at HN
I feel like artificial DAC will be a pipedream. Especially when we can't even stop ourselves from emitting now which is ridiculously much easier I don't see us capturing co2 at 412ppm on an almost unfathomable scale.
Discourse might be an option

https://www.discourse.org/
Nuclear is expensive. Depending on your source this can be a factor of 6 on capital costs for new nuclear projects compared to oil/gas (per kWh), and possibly even a factor of 3 on levelized electricity costs.

Rising energy prices means poor folk will have to turn off their AC in the summer and turn off their heat in the winter.

Sorry, nuclear doesn’t pass the bar you’ve set.

(Note: many sources do suggest nuclear levelized cost is not much higher than other energy sources, but even then it’s a massive capital investment so any nuclear policy would look like “trillions in spending and limiting [fossil fuel] energy”, as earlier derided)
Increased CO2 concentrations do impare human cognition, but that is more about relatively sealed spaces with lots of people like a classroom where CO2 concentrations can be 3 times atmospheric levels or more.
More than half of the French nuclear power plants are shut down due to maintenance right now, cf.
https://m.dw.com/en/french-nuclear-plants-break-a-sweat-over...

And they have problems with excessive heat in the summer, because they cannot be properly cooled when water temperatures rise.

Doesn't look like a future solution but more of an future problem to me.
Imagine making this post in the middle of China being in historic drought conditions. Historic flooding in Pakistan. Drought in the American west. Historic flooding in Kentucky. All of this in the past month.

Also, please cite that Hurricane study. Your strawman private jet flying climate scientists should also be named. Two faced politicians aside, you do realize that people like Joe Biden have been riding the train for years to get to and from DC? Bernie Sanders doesn't own a private jet. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't own a private jet, heck she was vilified in the media for upgrading to first class once.
Not really. My friend who just recently moved got 4 mail in ballots sent to his place this last election, in addition to his own.

Just people who never bothered to update their voter registration.

Completed ballots are supposed to be verified by signature (at least in CA), but I have no idea how thorough this is.

And I imagine if they are mail in, could they even find people who completed all 4 ballots, then dropped them in some random mail box? From what I gather they just reject a vote if they can't match signatures.
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing.

Though the naming is strange since Apache Ignite exists already. But I’m definitely going to play with this.
it has to be pretty small, even amongst those who dive. My wife dives for a living and in thick gloves she can barely use her big analog Citizen. Not only that, I can't imagine how fast she'd break the face on it. I would guess the market is more for people who add diving in the long list of hobbies they enjoy.
5G can use smaller cells. It can also use cells the same size (or sightly larger) then 4G. 5G isn't all mmWave. Most of the coverage area will probably be the large cells, with mmWave reserved for high density areas.
Oh man, I remember finding this site years ago, I had completely forgot about it. What a piece of internet nostalgia.
How about you see it for yourself instead of immediately assuming the worst ?
I hope I don't get flagged for this but neurodiversity is wide in the furry community.
This decompiling stuff is new. Back in the 1.7 days I helped my daughter understand how to unpack jars, add stuff by hand from the mod authors and pack them back. Now it's automatic.

There are even mods that provide some sort of API and plugin system for other mods to use :)
All of these kinds of systems are the same, from financial systems, like SAP and Oracle, to things engineering systems, like Teamworks and Integrity/Windchill. (I've worked on Oracle and SDRC.) Their size makes them impervious to change, and their complexity leads to ridiculous workflows.

I've made a living writing custom software for engineering, embedded with engineers, that fixes problems with these monstrous systems, and which IT could never implement in 100 years.

So, yes, companies with CIO's who want to make a name for themselves (and probably collect a kickback in the process): PLEASE continue to implement these hundred-million dollar IT systems. You MAKE a lot of extra work in the process, guaranteeing job security for everyone who has to use them, and work around them.

You'd think that Fortune 100 companies would put people into positions like the CIO or CTO who are sharp enough to understand how this REALLY works out, but I guess those kinds of people aren't politically savvy enough to reach that position.
If ecofascism triumphs over the current surge of ethnonationalism I'll still take that as a win. Doesn't seem likely though given current events and the totality of human history though.
SAP developers aren't paid because they're more talented than other developers, they're paid because the niche in which they're deeply embedded extracts extreme business value.

It may take just as much talent to write interfaces for obscure audio hardware and deal with janky bluetooth edge cases, but that doesn't mint the same $$$$ as a SAP guru who refactors a business process to be more efficient.
The amount of help other victimized countries get from the west is an indication that Ukraine it’s only getting help because it’s useful to help them, and even so, going by Zelensky, not really enough.

So while going with Putin might not be the right action, just betting on the west’s goodwill its certainly foolish.
Thats only about a third of emissions:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
If people find a particular way of working stressful then it doesn’t matter what causes the stress. It was just an example. Some people are on the ASD spectrum, some are extroverts, some introverts. Some might have other difficulties, big problems at home.

But there is room in the world for more than one way of doing work. There are drawbacks to doing everything in public just as there are drawbacks to doing everything in private. If you care about getting the most out of the individuals in your team then finding the right balance is hard, and there is no one solution that will work in all cases.
The employee should not have to put it in their ear.
Sorry to disappoint, but we haven't. It's true that it's divisive and I hate that; I hate lots of things about it; but it's an earnest tradition and I don't believe we should drop something like that just because it would be easier. That feels like succumbing to pressure and I don't think succumbing is a good strategy. (Not that anyone's intentionally pressuring us, it just adds up to that effect).

I know I've posted comments about this in the past but I don't know how to find them.
How sad that at a death, many think, "how can I profit from this"?

It happens in my family and I'm sure everyone else's, it's why there's always drama when someone dies. Who gets Grandpa's estate, who gets Grandma's money, Grandpa loved me more but he's not here to defend himself so I can just say whatever I want about Grandpa and you just have to believe it. Using their legacy to improve our status in the family, or their money.

A great deal of heartache has come from how this has happened in my family when my grandpa passed some 20 years ago. It's all behind me now but only recently, it took a long time to settle the affairs of his prior belongings.
I like this message, but I don't think interest rates are actually our biggest problem. The sort of ideologies that tolerate unrealistic interest rates - effectively lies about what the market reality is - probably led to idiots being in charge which didn't help.

But the real problem we're facing is that we can't paper over the drag by an unrealistic financial system because we've run out of energy and energy security got pushed off the table by people who only cared about destroying fossil fuels. We needed broad consensus that a Chernobyl every 50 years was a perfectly acceptable price to pay vs. the looming resource wars we see warming up over dwindling oil. And the background issue of overpopulation.
That's the one thing keeping me from considering Zig for new projects right now.

If some enterprising young developer is reading this and wants to make a name for themselves, you should fork the Zig compiler and change those errors to warnings. It would be an extremely popular project.

EDIT: I'll even give you a catchy project name. Wig: Zig with Warnings
You're right, my bad. I meant electoral politics. I've edited the comment. Thank you.

To be clear I do not advocate authoritarianism and would like to see direct democracy (or more direct, at the very least). I don't believe authoritarianism is compatible with surviving climate change, and even if I did I didn't think it would exacerbate climate change, I wouldn't advocate for it because I believe horizontal structures make better decisions & create more just societies then heirarchical ones.
Sorry, but are we supposed to get this reference, or start Googling for math professor cancer?
Cancel it all, really. But that's the thing, for some reason business leaders are largely immune to any changes necessary to fight emissions, until the politicians decide to pick a specific boogeyman and go hard on it. And even that fails most of the time.

Even here, while we technically have a law to keep employers from trying to keep individuals from coming to the office unnecessarily, there are so many social factors and caveats it is very, very difficult for individuals to call upon that law.
I'm really happy to see all of these projects to decompile classic games, and do byte for byte matching to prove equivalence. For those who aren't aware there's a rapidly growing scene for decomp projects, largely in N64 games[1], but that scene is spreading to many other different console and PC gaming communities as well. I've seen decomp projects for GameCube, Wii, GBA, and more. There's even a dedicated website made for helping to produce matching code on a per function basis[2] for many different architectures. If anyone is interested in getting involved, feel free to message me for more details and I'll see if I can help point you to the right community for your interests.

[1] https://github.com/n64decomp/

[2] https://decomp.me/
I'm going to return and reflect on this comment after the breach.
Do you have any studies that prove this statement?

I can raise the hypothesis here that, the cat being a small animal, it is also prey and the development of low frequency communication between mother and kittens can be quite beneficial in hostile environments. Of course, I can't claim this to be true.
Oracle has a whole suite of competing products. (This is not an endorsement of either vendor.)

https://www.oracle.com/applications/
I think it's larger in the same way that, for example, the amount of 4x4 vehicle owners out there far outnumber the amount of people who have ever driven their vehicles terrain that requires 4x4 capabilities.
Or build more wind and solar. Already Des Moines gets 80% of its power from wind, and the state is building more all the time. CA is doing some solar steps, but it is taking a lot longer (on a much larger population, so I'm not sure how their progress compares). Most states are not doing much. Europe is also making some steps, but they could do more.

The key to all this is starting ASAP and building constantly. Iowa has been building wind turbines at a rate of about 2/day (a bit over 500 per year) for many years now.
I know this is hacker news, but I think the idea of hacking general purpose compute infrastructure on top of graphics/gaming hardware is starting to get out of hand.

When will we flip it around?
I seriously disagree. The “climate” part of climate change isnt the threat to civilization, it’s the “change” part.

Sure, with an average warmer global climate, many places will become worse for human life and worse for agriculture with warming. But there is an absolutely enormous amount of land that moves into a better habitable and agriculture zone with warming as well. It’s not that a warmer climate makes human life impossible; we currently thrive from the Equator to Scandinavia just fine. It’s the change part thats the problem. It’s difficult to deal with whole agricultural areas needing to switch crops. Cities suddenly flooding when they used not to. New areas entering a death zone of heat index that previously were manageable
If it isn't on sci-hub, does it even exist? (/s)
That’s expected, the left side does more work than the right in normal usage.
What type of info do they have and is it backed up? If it's an account linking your name to your email address then who cares. Is there actually valuable information like CC, bank, or your SSN in there? Maybe your security questions should be deleted.
What brand/model tip did you end buying? My favorite ear tips for the longest time have been the triple flange ones from Etymotic but they are a little behind the curve and still only sell wired earphones.
There's actually already a patch for this posted on the github issue. It's only about a 5 line change.