skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general argument seems fine, but there’s one critical flaw in the initial calculation: negative climate externalities are not priced in, and they should be. Once priced in, if the argument still holds, fine, but I suspect it doesn’t, because the negative externality cost of burning non-renewables should be exceedingly high.
I think that's the sort of thing which should be tacked onto other, more substantial changes.

"By the way, I also fixed a few typos in the documentation" is much better than making that your ONLY change.
I found myself coming home to vim recently, as well—I just now call it [helix](https://helix-editor.com).

Cuteness aside: for all the awesomeness that a tailored vim setup provides, I haven't been able to keep one stable since a decade ago, when I used an ubuntu desktop for work. Maybe I'm just getting old, but Helix's batteries-included approach to reimplementing vim has resulted in a much better experience for me in practice, even though it's lost me some features in theory (I miss you, vim-fugitive!).

And my hands can't even tell it's not vim…mostly!
The vast majority of US people do not believe animals have rights, except the dogs and cats they have direct relationship with.
> So, all in all, gas power plants produce about 12% of the US's emissions. And the trees absorb each year about 13% of them.

Great fact. Got a source?
True that.

> there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint.

This is at its core not a truth, but really an unsound belief system that could have been phrased the same about water quality, acid rain, leaded gasoline or the ozone hole. Yet these have all been tackled by humanity as a whole already, because we saw a pretty bad impact on our livelyhood quickly.

No doubt, CO2 is really the greatest challenge of all times, compared to nearly any global problem before. But it‘s far from insurmountable, and definitely not directly coupled to growth.

All it would take is a (literal) moonshot effort: Taking the same funds as the Apollo Program (in 2022 adjusted dollars) would be enough for a full transition.

Before this decade is over. Not because it‘s easy, but because it is hard.

Unfortunately, the US seems to have run out of massively visionary presidents since 1968.
The principle of "owning" sections of code to avoid what we now call "merge conflicts" is as optimal today as it was then regardless if version control is used or not.

Same holds true for thoroughly testing all edge cases yourself before publishing your changes.
Yea, generally energy use is fine as long as externalities are accounted for.
> Zero effort towards backward-compatibility or longevity, just force users to buy new hardware constantly.

This can't be taken seriously as a comment given that iPhones are typically supported with software upgrades for twice as long as Android phones.
Note that the "nuclear winter" will not be as initially imagined. It will be bad, very bad, but not extinction level bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...
Well alright, but I was tech support for many Windows 98 users back in the day and wow did I hate microsoft. It was such a ridiculous mess, like a house of cards. Fix one thing and another broke, cryptic dll packs when installed fixed some problems then needed patching again and again and again. And everyone blamed tech support. We were incompetent, the software came from god. fml I hate that os
Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3NbVuE8sfp3sFbQnj73nQ
Honestly this is baffling to me — who doesn't appreciate PRs fixing typos? Does even the parent commenter agree with this, assuming they're actual typos?

I both try and make these PRs, and appreciate others doing it! That's how things get better.
I guess "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" has never been more applicable. Such a strange behavior its hard to see the reasoning. Aren't tunas supposed to be semi-intelligent, as far as fish go? I feel like I remember seeing something like that before?
The better translation technology is the less likely it is I’ll ever learn a language.

To put it another way, in 10 years when I visit China I could probably have an in-depth conversation without ever knowing Chinese.

I’d the Chinese can come to a university and never need to learn English, they won’t. Your parents and community will teach out to speak and that’ll be the end of it.

It’ll be closer to the Tower of Babel scenario. Every community will have their own language and dialect and the AI will just adapt. If a solar flare takes out electronics we won’t be able to understand each other.

Alternatively, the AI will teach us to speak or an implant will teach us similar to the matrix.

Those are the scenarios in the next 25-30 years I see.
It's always peculiar to encounter a Westerner who is suddenly woke to how they of all countries are being lied to by their governments.

Two questions:

1. What are the sources of information that convinced you that your authorities were always lying double-dealers?

2. What prevents you, living in a democracy, from using your freedom of political speech to convey the above to others and convince them to vote for authorities who are not always lying or for laws that punish lying? (Since you are not an anarchist, you must assume non-lying authorities are possible)
I love vim modal keybindings more than Vim, I don't really use actual vim much at all, certainly not for coding. Luckily most editors / IDEs have Vim support
This is the social commentary where OSS and freedom respecting software intersect. It was called upfront when the split happened.

Don't build FOSS for others. Build it for yourself and package it for others. Expect contributions. It's okay to expect your users to contribute. It's okay to push back and expect them to contribute. It's okay to say no to PRS because you don't have time to review them. It's okay to not have the time to say you don't have the time.

Personally, package management solutions fall short of the FOSS goal for me. Hard to start with a package and float my own changes. Hard to fork and maintain my own version. The whole push for staying on mainline and pushing that burden of the original author is a symptom IMO.
They can with Durable Objects, but you'll pay $12.50/million GB-s while each connection is open (which is about $93.75/million minutes).

It's currently not very competitive with the likes of AWS API Gateway at $0.25/million minutes.
> For example, the claim that "Highly attractive people have higher levels of carboxylic acids on their skin" does not seem to be well enough backed by evidence in this case.

I might be missing something, but do you not see additional evidence for this claim in the discussion around figure S4?

In my reading, the authors do go out of their way to point out that carboxylic acid presence is only one of possibly many more factors. (See also "Limitations of the study"). Most of that nuance is lost in the "highlights" section though, I would agree.
Boris Johnson pulls out of leadership race
Acid transactions for write, delete, update and schema mods with object storage
I definitely wouldn't describe myself as anti-accessibility: I think physical structures should be handicap accessible (with the caveat that I think private dwellings shouldn't be forced to be), I think government services should be built with accessibility in mind, etc.

I do think the loss of previously recorded course videos (https://reason.com/2017/03/07/berkeley-deletes-200000-free-o...) that had been free in order to prevent being sued is a net loss though, and I think there are most likely much better ways to incentivize accessibility than allowing people to sue "without harm".

Perhaps the most important thing to point out is that if the videos are taken down the deaf will not be able to access them at all; which is worse than them only being able to access them by relying on someone to help them.

Note that I do understand in certain circumstances inequitable access can have knock on effects such that nobody having access is better than creating an unfair playing field: for example in the case of these previously recorded lectures enrolled students would have an unfair playing field in that deaf students wouldn't have access to the same resources students with hearing would. I agree this is a problem as deaf students deserve a level playing field with their peers. However there are options other than removing the videos, such as requiring the university provide accessibility support services to actually enrolled students. Those support services could create captions based on student request.

Additionally (though it would involve higher taxation) providing people with disabilities support they can access as a government service would also help a lot I think in terms of providing access without leading to existing good things being destroyed.

There are a lot of things I do support doing to make sure the deaf can, as much as possible, access these sorts of materials so describing my position as "fuck the deaf" feels.... uncharitable.
Really excited to see the progress. Love writing rust rather than I think c++ I was using?
really stupid. they’ll be used to target rockets
It's deeply American to call Russia "collectivist". It's more similar to 1800s America, economically, than it is to the USSR. Oligarchs owning resource extraction for sale into capital markets.

Generally when people say "collectivist", they mean "bad guys in black hats and also I liked Ayn Rand"
The book covers many invented words, based on many languages. Modern English is full of loan words, or anglicised words from a foreign root. Why do you get upset when the word is invented from Japanese? I didn't think words deriving fom "oriental" like "orientalist" were in vogue.
If you think the Win9x UI was terrible, have you seen what passes for "design" these days...?
What's Going on with Boom Supersonic? Fail? [video]
I’m really excited about the potential for this in my work. I’ve worked in data science / data engineering roles and had to learn a lot of random web stuff that I honestly didn’t really want to learn (e.g. CORS, HTTPS, etc). I’d much rather build a TUI than a web app with these features.
The silver lining to this experience is that your "friend" has shown his true colors early. A more experienced manipulative person would have operated more stealthily.
Email in profile. Ping me. Hybrid or 5 days on-site your call. I also keep hearing about this car factory on grimmer blvd(Fremont) that needs ppl on-site 7*8 with optional WFH rest of the time.
Exit the supersensorium: The neuroscientific case for art in the age of Netflix
I disagree. It makes a big difference: creating a writing system is not a simple as it seems and it's a task that require quite a lot of work, especially when there is huge dialectal variations in-between dialects. When a system already exist it means there is already a bunch of tools available such as dictionaries, input method[1], a corpus of texts even if small or medium, including text books. That can be used both for AI and teaching. This make the task way less daunting than doing everything from scratch.

In case of Taiwanese, there is a small but existing corpus of literature, as a 5 seconds Google/Wikipedia search shows[2][3].

[1] https://aclanthology.org/O16-1026.pdf

[2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E8%AA%9E%E7%99%BD%E8...

[3] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E6%96%87%E5%B0%8F%E8...
From a laymans point of view (aka knowing nothing about voxels), that sounds like a clever idea and I'm tempted to try this for my next gaming/visualization side project.

Thanks for the inspiration
Did you do it just to get a gold star on github?

Like, you should do what works for you, but you should do it for better reasons than getting a streak counter on github.
They don't because a virtual infinite economy is essentially a game like minecraft. It has nothing to do with reality other than being a toy simulation with no physically relevant constraints.
To me, the draw of Vim is the editing paradigm—modal editing, default key bindings, and complex commands.

However, these things can be replicated with Vim emulation. What is the benefit of using Vim proper these days?
FWIW, I'm curious to know more about this, too
You can use the more barebones Worker Sites and retain file extensions. Pages has nicer UX (automatic PR preview sites!) but the old school Worker Sites setup is dead simple and does exactly what you want - it's just a template setup to load assets from KV storage.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/sites/
Git: Merge or Rebase?
`git rebase'
`git merge'
This is one of those hard problems in computing and medicine. Accurately simulating a neuron, for example, or other cells is beyond our capabilities. We have a difficult time even simulating individual receptors themselves on cells, which includes accurately predicting and simulating ligand binding on proteins.
See if you can sell the idea to a keyboard app.
Badges are toxic because they divert a subset of people away from their current open source workflow to focus on getting badges. In reality, the incentive of a lot of these badges is for GitHub's best interest and not necessarily a project's. This is insidious.

To finish my badge collection, I need:

* Merged a pull request without a review - 100% toxic.

* Answer 32 discussions - this is a strong incentive to enable GitHub Discussions on a project, which is the wrong move

* Create a repository and get 4096 stars - diverting focus from the projects I maintain (although I'm a core contributor to a project which meets this requirement, I didn't create it)

* Coauthor 38 more commits on merged pull requests - this'll happen over time. Not a 'bad' thing, but not something I want to take time to achieve.
The computer scientist as toolsmith II (1996)
Next time you go in for a check-up, make sure your doctor measures your A1C level. Getting groggy after eating is not abnormal, but, depending on severity it may be sign of prediabetes.
Five things to know about the next US housing crisis
Right now the US doesn't actually have any upward movement in GDP, so who knows... the journey might have already begun.
It seems to me that each generation reaches a stage where it dawns on them that they are living in a unique time, unparalleled in history, a truly momentous occasion. Now, I was in diapers when the first Earth Day occurred, so I have a bit of a longer perspective on this. During that time, a number of intelligent, well-thought-out projections were made by people with impeccable credentials -- all based on global consumption and growth patterns which were evident to all. This article [0] collected many of the predictions. Here is an example:

'Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [from 1970] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”' (ibid)

I love science and I do agree mankind (specifically commercial activity since the Industrial Revolution) has caused climate change. I'm happy that government regulations have (for instance) cleaned the toxic NO2 smog many of our cities suffered with 50 years ago. But my view is that it's "a bridge too far" to succumb to the temptation to imagine that we have "now" arrived at a critical inflection point which creates a moment of destiny for mankind.

In fact, people are taking action and pushing back. Only last year, a costly, multi-year project to construct a water desalination plant in California was rejected based on its potential impact to marine life. [1] So, my overall point is that the posted premise is flawed due to the fact that there is no such thing as "infinite expansion of the economy". Political regimes come and go and with them some progress toward smarter growth is made here, some protections get tossed out there. It's a tug-of-war, not a steam-roll by the pro-growthers. And importantly: over-stating the case that "now is the time!" when we must radically alter the order of things to prevent catastrophe has, in my opinion, only created a harmful sense of fatigue on the ears of many reasonable people who live long enough to notice that the predicted dire consequences were, to put it benevolently, prematurely announced.

[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocal...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-reject...
You can do the math yourself every loop instead of asking the OS. Ask how much free space is available once at the start, track how big each file is, delete. You can sleep and check free space again at the end as a sanity check; if the free space isn't going down nearly as much as you expected report it to the user and inhibit future script executions b/c it means there's something referencing extents and your script is about to go on a rampage.
I'm a believer in code everyday. It doesn't need to be more than a few seconds long for it to count. Leave an editor open and add a function if that's all you have today.
Is it possible to reproduce that effect on an LCD to restore the original contrast?
Yep. The 1.5 TB max capability came “for free” with the Intel Xeon architecture (if you chose to populate the 12 DIMM slots with the expensive 128 GB ones).

Might be that very few people (if anyone at all!) actually did that or needed that.

Edit: However, 384 GB of RAM seems a too low maximum though for a maxed out 2023 professional workstation.
A lot of software that does not default to using XDG directories can be coerced into it, usually with environment variables or just manually creating config in a secondary supported XDG location - the arch wiki is the best source of info on that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory
Don't be afraid of the degrowth, but of what makes more than necessary, essential. Not enough is being done regarding what is causing the climate change, and we are affecting most areas in a very complex and interconnected system. And that will cause instability and maybe reaching conditions that we or what we depend on are not prepared to deal with.

And even if the problem was seen and alerted on since last century, little significant advances were done to stop it. Degrowth, decarbonization of economy, carbon capture, changes on we deal with energy, transport and more are required changes to try to avoid the worst consequences, and time is running out.

Regarding technical solutions, inventions and so on, I try to not solve with just technology what is an organizational or administrative problem. Not dealing with the core problem will eventually kick back in a bad way.
Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race
Many if not all of the words in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows are unelegantly made up/coined tbh.
I wanted to disagree, most likely because I'm one of the few who completely skipped XP jumping straight from 2000 to Vista. But I can't, turns out you are right, on that project page, in isolation, the elements actually do look good! Much better than what I think of when I think "XP" (mostly the task bar, start button and main window decorations I guess)
It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden.

It may be a cultivated garden, but there are no walls. You can go download, build, restore, or otherwise use the software you like.

I used a very expensive 2019 Intel Macbook Pro, and then an M1, not even the pro line. There was a big difference, the M1 build times were half and that turned directly into better productivity.
But where does the poo go?
Should we also price in the positive externalities or only the negative ones?
The entire rust belt while you’re at it.
I wish there were more CSS templates for doing native-looking interfaces for popular current OSes. I always look and come up empty.
Mind telling me what it is so I can utilize that right?
I personally don't like how arbitrarily they're coined with uninteresting etymologies. I don't like the word “sonder” either.
> Look at the reddit front page

I'd rather jump off a bridge tbh
We all got to see what life would be life if we put our entire existence on the internet. What we built does not make the world a better place.
This. I work with a company that is incredibly enmeshed with a government. They essentially do the hard analytical work to figure out what markets of the future might look like. Every once in a while, the company works on something that's obviously going to make markets and someone thinks "Hey, why don't we just build these services inside the company? It would be so much easier." And then the seniors are like "Naw, that's ok, let the companies form. They'll figure it out." The issue is this company would risk its credibility with the government if they started acting on their own advice ahead of legislation. They're in a position where taking action on their own recommendations would make insider trading look benign by comparison.

I feel like Apple is in a similar situation with its platform: sure they could abuse it. But not if they're long term greedy.
i bet you talk exactly like this :~p
But then it's just a government database. Might as well just use a government database - much simpler.
Not shocking aItemst all. in second life actually mean something (in-game), and cost far far less than most NFTs.
> Wouldn't it be easier to control people if they are happy and content, given that in human history revolutions were almost always a product of suffering and unhappiness?

It's easier to rule happy people. If you want to control them, you can lull them into inaction with vices, then control them with fear. We're all individuals; divide and conquer.
Good technical discussion of Boom's engine situation, what their contract with Rolls Royce actually entailed. There's a conceptual fanjet candidate (not just a turbojet) that GE was developing for Aerion; it's based on an existing core. (Too bad GE has said it isn't interested.)
Charles Coughlin
When I get sent Google Maps links in Messages, they open in Google Maps.

Conversely, Apple Maps links open in Apple Maps. Which won't happen if you've uninstalled that app.

Why isn't it a generic piece of data which can open in any map program? c'mon, you know why.
I think most "crisis" are developed for election marketing and grifting.

Horrible situation such'n'such is an existential threat! Vote for me or give me money to save all of humanity!

The other side of it lately has been creating crisis that divide and conquer society. Most of the "crisis" in the past several years have been terribly polarized. Keeping people divided stops them from focusing on the real issues that politicians can't/won't tackle, and it prevents them from uniting against politicians/corporations/etc.
I can't stand the Vim plugin in VSCode, it is this awful uncanny valley thing. I'd rather just abandon all hope and get it over with.
an option to have vim use a url for the vimrc?
... and my axe!
I don't think you have demonstrated "an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally not contradictory to finite planetary boundaries", you've just shown that SOME growth is possible without using resources.

In fact, you mention yourself the reason why growth is somehow in contradiction with the finite planetary boundaries:
you say that if the carpenters do 1 boat instead of 100 chairs, they will create growth because the value of the boat is bigger than the value of the 100 chairs. So, you acknowledge that growth is led by "the more valuable thing to do, the more profitable".
The problem is that, by construction, exploiting resources are way more profitable than not. For creating a boat, it's way easier to chop trees to get new 2x4s than to disassemble chairs (if it was the case, recycling would be the go-to process, and it is clearly not the case in reality. on top of that, some fabrication processes are not recyclable).

So, yeah, technically, we still can have some local growth after all resources are consumed (by just disassembling chairs to create boats), but in practice, this local growth is compensated by the negative growth of losing the big gain of consuming the resource.