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> This idea that capitalism is all growth is a very simple-minded and inaccurate view of capitalism. It's also the death of firms. It's stagnation. Its fortunes squandered, in addition to fortunes built.

Capitalism incentivizes increased economic output, which incentivizes increased energy consumption. Barring regulations to internalize the externalities of co2 emissions, this means it incentivizes increased fossil fuel consumption.

Yes, some companies die, and that's part of capitalism as envisioned by Adam Smith, but the companies that survive are the ones that are able to produce products cheaper, usually by producing more, by consuming more energy.

> Sometimes, our mental frames are traps rather than tools for understanding the world. This essay makes me think that this person is quite trapped, unable to absorb or explain climate action of the past 30 years.

> Don't get me wrong, I don't think that capitalism is the be-all end-all system, but these critiques are so weak as to block any chance at actually fixing the many many problems of capitalism.

We have failed to do anything about climate change within the system of capitalism in the past 30 years, so isn't it the people who refuse to consider the possibility that it's a problem that capitalism is unable to address who may be trapped in a mental frame?
it's actually shrinking the realm of ideas (culture) by design. since ideas are "property" their value is function of their rareness. economic forces are literally creating artificial scarcity of ideas.
The textbooks I need to study for my entrance exams. I think I'll crack them open tomorrow.
Yes, losing Crimea is not an acceptable option for Putin and there are clear indications he will escalate the conflict if that happens - cyber, chemical, nuclear. With Nordstream blown there are few off-ramps for this conflict. Very worrisome.
We literally pay them to do it. Where do you think things come from? We command all that with our money.
I don’t think you could
Make a more career limiting move than joining a defunct silicon company operated by a whacky Japanese hedge fund rather than a VC backed startup focused on software.

How transferable are the skills you would get at this company? Not very.

How likely are you to have any liquidity event in the next five years? Very low.

Build your career elsewhere.
When exactly did they say they were not? They stated the opposite:

>"You have to look at what countries are actually consuming the products leading to the emissions."
Doen't have detachable battery, DRM PU onboard, no mouse keys...

But still with Windows(r)(tm)(fu) logo on the meta-key? :D
Knew it!
Fast charging is bad for the battery. I’d actually be happier if the wireless MagSafe charger was slower, say around 5-8W. I have all the time in the world while asleep, why would I care if it finished charging in 1 hour vs 3 hours?
No, the point of RISC (and RISC-V) has nothing to do with cheap.

The _point_ of RISC-V is freedom [to use, implement, etc] and a rallying point (no need for everyone to re-implement the whole SW eco-system if that's not the main point of the implementation).
I set up water sensors under the kitchen sink and in bathroom vanities. Each of them cost about $20 and integrated into my Home Assistant setup without any issues. Three months later, I was on vacation away from home and my water leak alert triggered. I was able to alert my parents, and they came back to shut the water and fix the problem before it translated into thousands of damages.
The way I explain it to my kids is all about opportunities. I am not going to force them into a career path that uses calculus but I am going to make sure they have as many opportunities as possible to make their own choices later in life and that means right now they will do the math homework.
whomst has right to defend themselves?
> Wondering what are countries such as china and india doing to maintain a cleaner planet if anything at all

They did SO gigantic a reforestation that it is visible from space.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/china-and-in...

> We keep blaming ourselves while underdeveloped and corrupt nations pollute virtually everything in the their management.

That literally sounds like supremacist, 'we are civilized' nonsense.

Those countries are literally the world's factories. Majority of the emissions of those countries belong to Western corporations. Except they are recorded as those countries emissions.

And the West arrogantly tries to sell them 'carbon credits' - another financial scam - have another country manufacture your products in sweatshops and have little emissions. Then make them buy 'carbon credits' from you.
US to require more rest between shifts for flight attendants
From my reading of your link, Amul is a agricultural cooperative. Strictly speaking, this is not communism, which calls for State (supposedly 'the People') ownership of the means. Amul is more like Distributism, the doctrine of locality of ownership and political representation and the economic doctrine of the Catholic Church.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Is there a National Murder Registry?
“Training the brain to not give up”, also called “grit”, is a more precise way to say it.

Programming, music, art ++ isn’t as good as calculus on this.
Can you back that up with evidence? I'm not sure what the situation is for Europe/the UK, but for the US it really doesn't seem to be the case that we are outsourcing our emissions:

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/no-the-us-didnt-outsource-...
Thanks for mentioning Socket.dev :)

Looking at package diffs is super important because of the rise of "protestware". For example, a maintainer of the event-source-polyfill package recently added code which redirects website visitors located in Eastern European timezones to a change.org petition page. This means that real users are being navigated to this random URL in production.

See the attack code here: https://socket.dev/npm/package/event-source-polyfill/diff/1....

It’s very unlikely that users of event-source-polyfill are aware that this hidden behavior has been added to the package. And yet, the package remains available on npm many months after it was initially published. We think that supply chain security tools like Socket have an important role to play in warning npm users when unwanted ‘gray area’ code is added to packages they use.
China population is 1.4B
Europe population is 700M

What is your point ?
Is there a replacement that’s still maintained?
I'm glad people take on crazy projects and push them to some level of completion. That's how we learn and progress overall. Unfortunately for the people who do follow through with unconventional ideas, actually getting a thing to work doesn't necessarily mean (financial) success.

In this case, there's really one big benefit at the cost of a lot of negatives.

It can VTOL/VSTOL. Most fixed wing airplanes cannot do that. So it can theoretically take off in a parking lot or a helipad or a small field. That's really the only plus as I can tell.

The negatives are many compared to a traditional plane. In no particular order:

Less efficient cruising due to much more drag from all the ducts and engines.

Much less likely to fly with engine failures as they can dramatically affect control (since they are essential parts of the control system).

Less control surface stability with mechanical or hydraulic failures. Those engines mounted on the surfaces hanging off a hinge are very heavy, and in some failure cases they would hang low and create immense drag.

Yaw (rotational) control is highly dependent on working engines on both sides.

The glide ratio of the aircraft would be very poor with all the drag, even assuming the surfaces were still controllable (not hanging).

I didn't see, but I assume a parachute is part of the plan for this. I doubt it could pass certifications (at least to carry passengers) without it.
> Soviet-type societies were destructive of the environment on a level comparable to the West, and turned into repressive class societies sui generis (of their own type).

Indeed Russia had an explosion of greenhouse gas emissions during the Soviet period that it hasn’t equaled in the 3 decades since. [1] So this article reads like anti-capitalist propaganda that explicitly blames capitalism except when it briefly and begrudgingly mentions the Soviets who weren’t real socialists like the author.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/russia
Ducted engines make less noise, which is handy for helipads in cities. They also increase thrust efficiency. If done right, the duct can contain any shrapnel if the fan blades come apart. The disadvantage of a duct is extra weight.
At least for CO2, emissions haven’t been outsourced much. At least, emissions in developed countries are still falling when adjusting for trade. Most of the rising emissions in developing countries like China and India are due to them getting richer rather than becoming the worlds factories. I don’t know how other pollutants compare. Likely worse as they are not an issue for western companies to care about so much.

On CO2: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
You're conflating causation and correlation. Crypto just happened to be the it thing when funding went dry. It could have just as easily happened during the dozens of other software funding trends. The cause is more macro than a crypto startup trend.
This is not about science, it is about contracts. The article doesn't put into question the scientific merits of the vaccine, it is more about shady deals. Remember, in the beginning, everyone wanted vaccines before everyone else, it is a situation where shady deals happen.
I think a lot of folks would love to work Twitter after they get rid of the low productivity virtue-performative people.

This also allows them to move their HQ out of zombieland.
> if it's not been pierced in the past for exactly (and I mean exactly) the same thing, then the default is that qualified immunity applies

I've heard this before, but I don't completely get it. Can someone explain it in more detail? Does this mean the only thing that can pierce the veil are rulings from before qualified immunity was put in place? What about new laws or constitutional amendments?
It doesn’t need to be / it is, depending on perspective. The C# compiler, for example, has what’s called a “semantic speculative model” wherein it will use various heuristics to know when you need to re-typecheck things or not (e.g., editing just the body of a method without changing a type signature kicks off much less work than if you also change the return type). But it’s also just really fucking fast and will use as many threads as you want it to, so it can also be kinda moot too. Very rarely is the compiler actually a bottleneck in the C# case, but could be in others.
Tragedy of the commons, basically.
Funny as that comic is, it's very unclear at a young age, and even when they're a bit older it's far from obvious. Even at first degree stage, some of the apparently best qualified teenagers who turned up for their first classes this week are going to flunk out anyway, and some of the kids who struggled and seemed like they'd be lucky to get their degree will be potential Fields Medal winners in 10-15 years. Their prior record, even now they're adults, is at best somewhat predictive and nowhere close to definitive.
The only thing that really comes to mind is we could go to fiber core for crazy data speeds but those are so delicate I don't think the improvement would be worth the hassle unless we have a big improvement there.
No one is saying that he is definitively lying about the $80m. Why do you keep saying that?

All I'm saying is that his tweet is not a reliable source for that number. We'd need another, more reliable source to confirm.
Web rings are more of a long term community building tool than one weird trick to boost traffic. A thriving online community does bring organic traffic, but it takes a long time to build.

Also really doubtful the people who leave using the webring were going to stay around anyway. It's probably better to work on building a compelling website than to turn it into a maze with no exits. Making people feel trapped is not going to make them want to come back.
> the environment is an externality that isn't priced in, and so it's treated as zero cost.

Was there ever a point in human history where this was NOT the case?
Location: UK remote
Remote: Yes, only
Willing to relocate: Not in the near term, and anyway remote. Willing to adjust working day equivalent time-zone though.
Technologies: Python, Terraform, SQL, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Rust, JS, Go (but wouldn't like to be hired for my knowledge of a particular syntax, that's the easy bit)
CV: cv.ojford.com
Email: cv.hn @ my username .com

I've previously built APIs for IoT device management/update, and currently fairly 'full-stack' (necessarily, having joined as engineer #3, though leaning increasingly toward backend/db/infrastructure) building a data analytics platform for farming.

I enjoy the challenge of more complex work that perhaps require some research, a calculator, even a textbook; from which I learn something new or refresh some theoretical knowledge.

I studied EE/CS, but all of my professional experience is in software; mostly for the web. I've enjoyed hobby electronics from childhood though, so think I'd enjoy working in and have something to offer a hardware startup too.

I'd be keen to develop leadership skills and experience beyond mentoring junior colleagues, technical as well as personal.

--

Sorry, I'm not interested in: on-site (including 'hybrid') roles; crypto/blockchain (except perhaps a compelling use of 'smart contracts', but honestly, I gather people keen to work on such things are two-a-penny, and I've no experience in the area).
Totally agree - never received a good candidate from here so I stopped trying a while ago. Maybe once and a while I post. Hiring good people is always hard, it’s a full time job for a full time recruiter.
The USA's message is clear: "We will condemn your children to freezing to death if we decide it benefits our strategic plans."
I feel that music and calculus are very different to history. I believe that history should be a fundamental course taught all the way through, we can't understand where we're going if we don't understand where we came from.
From the Onion brief:

> At bottom, parody functions by catering to a reasonable reader -- one who can tell (even after being tricked at first) that the parody is not real. If most readers of parody didn't live up to this robust standard, then there would be nothing funny about the Chinese government believing that a pudgy dictator like Kim Jong-un was the sexiest man on Earth. Everyone would just agree that it was perfectly reasonable for them to be taken in by the headline.

> The law turns on the same reasonable-person construct. The reasonable-reader test gauges whether a statement can reasonably be interpreted as stating actual facts, thereby ensuring that neither the least humorous nor the most credulous audience dictates the boundaries of protected speech.... see also Golb v. Att'y Gen. of N.Y., 870 F.3d 89, 102 (2d Cir. 2017) ("[A] parody enjoys First Amendment protection notwithstanding that not everybody will get the joke.")

I'm curious whether drawing any degree of public attention to the "reasonable-reader construct" will result in more nuanced discussion of misinformation/"fake news" than we normally get (in America).

The assumption seems often to be that the reader is always most likely an unreasonable reader, and that the solution to the problem is to accommodate every information stream to unreasonable reading habits, rather than intervening in the problem of widespread credulity (if that is indeed the problem) itself.
I had the same thought. I don't have a particularly strong opinion about whether chess players should be called athletes or not, but this was the first time that I had ever seen chess players referred to as athletes.

The first result when you google "Are chess players athletes" says no [1], but I realize that this is more of an opinion piece. I would be curious to hear what more members of the competitive chess community think of the designation as athletes.

Edit: Upon further googling, I have learned that the IOC recognizes chess as a sport. Reading up further on how the matches last for 7+ hours, and how important physical conditioning is, I think it's totally valid to refer to chess players as athletes. In different sports there is wide spectrum of physical and mental demands - and I think chess just falls on the incredibly-demanding-mentally-but-less-demanding-physically end of the spectrum.

[1] https://herculeschess.com/are-chess-players-athletes/

[2] https://olympics.com/ioc/recognised-international-federation...
We are subjected to the law everyday and we all need to know about money to support our addictions to food and shelter.
Because digital communication without natural interaction on spoken word tend to made biased image of self. I find this harmful for society because it shift dialogue to extreme.
Public Domain doesn't exist in some countries, so people/companies from those countries want an assurance that their country's laws understands.
Well...they added an edit button this year. That's worth something, right?
i dont understand how you cannot see it only favor rich people and landlords…
rich people will always drive car. they will use uber. and you know where they come from? the suburbs. young unemployed people are doing uber drivers. so they will drive rich parisians and chinese/americans tourists on weekdays and on the weekend because they are forbidden to drive in paris they ll commute via the 1 train per hour they get from their suburb and that is only if there is no construction on their line, neither strike, neither canceled trains, nor delayed.

fixing trains is not possible when you have to take 3-4 trains to commute… not even talking about people in villages with no trains. a car costs a few thousand euros. you can even get an electric car almost for free if you are on low income. a 1 year train pass costs 800 euros+ and that is if it covers your lines.

you are crazy to believe everyone would bike. again rich and healthy people bike. poor people dont bike, old people dont bike, sick people or people with a handicap dont bike. you are creating a society for the wealthy and the healthy. its what facists wanted to do. this is not empathy. go out of your confort zone go live in a parisian suburb in 93 and see how is the life there when you need to start your day at night and there is no train. go try to ride a bike when your work is a 4 hours drive. paris is one of the densest city in the world i dont know what you talking abt additional housing.
Various forms of entertainment are typically much improved by significant history and higher-level literacy training. People like entertainment.

High school math's only helpful for entertainment if you like recreational math puzzles or maybe Factorio or something.

You'll notice it takes far less convincing to get kids to understand the value of addition and arithmetic and maybe even very basic algebra. This is because they can immediately use it for play and entertainment. You're locked out of a ton of board games, even, if you can't do simple arithmetic with small numbers. "How much more money do I need to buy that video game I want?" is a question they're motivated to answer.

When it's common for people to encounter and eagerly choose to engage with entertainment the enjoyment of which is greatly enhanced by knowing how to find a second derivative, I expect math will stop being particularly prone to this kind of scrutiny.
This aptly describes the modern state of thoroughbred horse racing. The sport is littered with these so called “super-trainers”. All of which possess precedent defying win percentages. It’s gotten so bad, a federal governing body has been tasked to combat it. The anti-doping rules will take effect this January [1].

[1] https://www.hisaus.org/about
But it doesn't have reader macros!
Paper's having supply chain issues, same as everything else. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1043145212/supply-chain-issue...
Ok, NeRFs were a distraction then.
A smart cheater isn't just going to replicate bot moves and make it easy to detect. They may just use it to decide between 2 moves they were 50/50 on already. Do this 2 or 3 times and it would make a big difference at the grand master level. This would be quite hard to detect.
Western countries have existed under centrally-managed economies for over a hundred years. I don’t know where this free-market blame comes from.

Build nuclear plants. No communism necessary.
That sounds like an issue you would have with or without post on HN. How did you solve that and how did it affect your hiring numbers? It feels like HN would at least attract way more technical people than generic job boards.
I've set up QoL notifications. One of my proudest compares the internal temperature of my home and the external temperature. If it's colder outside by a significant margin, I get a notification on my phone and TV letting me know so I can open my windows and get fresh air.

Other things include scheduling my lights (internal and external), unlocking my front door and garage with NFC stickers (sticker on my car dashboard or front door).
You could search and replace UML with XML, MDA with XSD, and QVT with XSLT and this article would still accurately describe the early 2000's.
Energy is the lifeblood of humanity. We can't demonize it, the only path forward is to embrace it and find a way to utilize the near infinite energy available to us in the universe in a fashion that is environmentally safe.

Also capitalism is about efficient allocation of capital. It really doesn't require growth of the economy as a whole (imho). Sure it encourages innovation and growth of new ideas, but that is usually at the expense of stagnating and old ideas.
If you're really bullish on RISC-V as a developer, it may be a valid investment. Or if you already develop for RISC-V machines and it would be convenient to test binaries locally, instead of doing some kind of remote/emulated dev.
A meta comment but I think it's worth recognizing that while most conspiracy theories are untrue, the world is actually full of conspiracies.
I was trying to fix a curtain the other day and cursed myself for not paying attention in 6th-grade Home Economics class. And not a month goes by when I don't hear my 10th grade American History teacher's voice in my head. Or my 8th grade teacher's grammar class when I can remember how to reword passive voice in a document, or whether I used a dangling participle in it. :)

I'm pretty sure the idea that "90% of what you learn is school is a waste" is just some bullshit spun by adults who got poor grades, various BS artists hawking something (or even their own persona), or people that want to restructure schooling in the US (which might not be a bad thing... in some cases).
Basically it's two things:

1. answering the question "how do we get the next x" for a function x=y.

If x=y, then if you increase x, you also increase y, so dx/dy=1. Figuring out dx/dy is fun when dealing with things like 3x^2+5x+7=y.

But take the game of Pong, for example. A simple Pong game has a ball and the direction of the ball can be controlled by two variables - horizonal velocity (H) and vertical velocity (V).

Each frame, you take the ball's X and Y and add H and V to it, to move the ball. When the ball collides with something, just multiply by -1 (to flip the sign) to reverse the ball.

If you divide V by something like 0.0001 each frame, you will implement gravity.

Want the ball to have a gravity or other "pull" that results in it hitting a point in a specific number of frames? Well ... someone who knew what they were doing would know what to do. That's all I got.

2. If you have a few points for x=y, you should be able to figure out dx/dy somehow. I think that's called integrals.