skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Environmentalists want to increase the costs of everyday goods and services by taxing carbon.

They want you to pay for the impacts of carbon emissions at the point of sale instead of socializing them later. That seems fair to me.

> They want to turn your corpse into food for plants because even the sweet release of death cannot save you from the environmentalist menace.

In this particular case it doesn't really matter what you or anyone else want lol. We will all be plant food. I guess unless you shoot yourself into space, but even that's not a hard guarantee.
Ergonomically, Lightning is clearly superior.

USB-C can do more things, though.
> Hydro isn't unfashionable.

Its unfashionable for new capacity because much of the low-hanging fruit opportunities are plucked, and it has high upfront costs, and, while good from a climate and air pollution standpoint, it is still one of the most enviromentally destructive energy sources.

Also, while it doesn’t induce climate change, it can be vulnerable to climate change.
> In the US, I was not even aware of mobile broadband availability before iPhone 3G.

It was a $15/mo add-on to get up to 3Mbps unlimited data on my phone on AT&T in the US in 2006.

3G came out multiple years before the iPhone 3G.

I had a pocket computer with unlimited data on AT&T the day people were buying the original iPhone.
Isn't the memorization just a required to play competetively at all? At highest level of chess, memoryzation is a given and it's about brain power and creativity.
Except at some point you run out of skilled software devs, and suddenly some poor soul is running a 3 man project single handed.
> But as soon as they need to roll over their debt, everything collapses. They'd need to increase revenues by 2-5x, and they can't.

That would imply that debt-servicing is their dominant cost. That seems wrong (e.g., a grocery store presumably spends a large fraction of its revenue on purchasing groceries from wholesalers).
Rather than talking past each other, why don't you share what you think I'm saying and we can take it from there?
Actually the Yosemite valley has significant hydro potential.
I would say population declines within certain tribes leading to changes in political power, and hence distribution of resources, is the central issue in many societies, especially those with very low birth rates.

And the tribes are not necessarily delineated along skin color/region of origin/religion, but even age/education/immigration.

You cannot plug and play 50M young people from Latin America into the US or Africa/Middle East/Eastern Europe into Europe, and expect society to not change in ways that the existing population might not like.
Thanks, I sent an email. IMO it would be helpful to list your pricing model on the landing page as well.
What does "300 meters resolution" mean in this context?
Usage of the word "green" seems to be increasingly synonymous with "carbon neutral/efficient" while ignoring other environmental costs. I suppose carbon is the most pressing issue, but I remember reading about how dams destroy natural habitats way back in grade school so this shouldn't be news.
Because we are able to fork it we are not allowed to criticize it? Warped worldview.
I quickly looked up the evidence and I think you are right.
I'm not convinced Russia would get much benefit from from warmer tundra.

It takes more than a change in temperature to make land useful. I don't think recently-defrosted tundra is going to suddenly be profitable farmland. You need the right soil type, weather, irrigation, transport links, workers, energy sources, etc.
Do you know what I hate? Spotify having my credit card.

There’s a very low chance I ever buy an audiobook if they integrate with apple’s purchase flow. There’s a zero chance if they had their own flow that pops up and asks me for a credit card. And a separate system to update numbers, cancel stuff, etc etc

I get that Spotify wants more money. I’m sure publishers hated selling audiobooks to Barnes & Noble and them taking 50% of the retail price.
Different countries have very different storage capacities. Some nations have most of their years demand in storage capacity whereas others like the UK have only a few days and require a constant flow.

If you are one of the countries that can store a whole year this is great news. If you're Britain, you could still be out of gas and paying exorbitant prices a week from now
Renewable energy investment makes up about 80% of investment in the power sector, and annual increases continue to outpace oil and gas investment (this year may be weird because of the Energy crisis in Europe). Renewables are not everywhere today because it takes time for the industry to mature and for utilization to increase, not because there is a conspiracy by Big Oil to somehow control investment flows.
HyDrO-eLeCtRiC is NoT GrEeN - half the people on this thread, right before going back to having 95% of their power generated from fossil fuels and never bothering to even check.
Yeah, it's quite a well written paragraph in terms of style. Really good story-telling. And it starts so innocent as well, building up something rather mundane with trivial short and repeating sentences. And then, bang, hints at an explanation of Niemanns behaviour with that of a spoilt brat.
I find it very hard to tell a smart person with a lot of money from a stupid person with a lot of money; it seems that wealth insulates you from a lot of consequences.

I think the problem is that at the scale of these companies, everyone is too stupid to effectively manage them.
Is there a name for the ` <@ ` operator? Been calling it the tornado operator but I haven't found anything indicating an "official" name.
My memory of him is always going to be Mickey Ward's corner, I'm not old enough to remember his own career but he had some legendary moments as a second.
Levis has a collection of very old Jeans, the oldest are 1879. They have them in their archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdTT3sLWnHg
No - do you? Trying samples is what they're presented for.
You seem determined to find a way to discredit this figure.
"The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September,"

Annual rate. That means the AP headline is deceptive, because it actually grew .6 percent.

Capital is getting more expensive. Of course a recession is inevitable.

I really hate the partisan capture of once neutral newsrooms. The headline is deceptively optimistic.
No tax is withheld at vest time. At least in the majority of cases/usually.

Holding vested RSUs is only wise if your conviction is that the company you work for is the best investment available at the time.

You can easily sell them and invest in other stocks instead, which reduces your risks substantially
OOP, hands down. Though I never learned Functional (and never learned Smalltalk, for that matter. I think the OOP I learned wasn't half of what Smalltalk offered.)

I learned to program on punch cards, and the options were 'top down' ("The best way"), and bottom up ("The bad way").

Top down was hideous, because it ended up being decomposed as the next level as (1) Initialize things (2) Do what's needed. There was no clear path to subdividing the functionality.

Bottom up was worse. Ya' know you're gonna need a routine to do such-and-such, so go ahead and write it. You get to feel productive. The huge down-side was that you couldn't figure out in advance precisely what was needed, so those routines always got re-written to be amenable to what was needed at a higher level once the higher levels were written.

OOP gave me a way to think about the middle layers of a program in a way that isolated some element of what was needed and let me code it 'usably'. I could sit and think about an what kind of interface I wanted to provide, and get it right. It was also a big win to realize that even C (NOT C++) could be used in this paradigm, in terms of a boundary around the interior or some piece of functionality.
This means that you can even quote the delimiter in the string as long as it's balanced.

$X=q( foo() )

Should work if it's balanced. If you choose a different pair like []{} then you can avoid hitting collisions. It also means that you can trivially nest quotations.

I agree that this qualified quotation is really underutilized.
You have your cause and effect backwards. People assume that "the other guy" is constantly doing all the bad stuff in the world and that "their guy" does all the good stuff. They're not hoping the economy tanks to win an election, they're hoping the electorate realizes "the other guy" tanked the economy and now their base will be energized/swing voters will move to their column.

Also, if you don't believe anyone in Europe is rooting for collapses you seem to be ignoring Short positions or how capitalism works. Everywhere in the world, someone benefits from the people in power failing/bad things happening. This isn't an exceptionally American trait.
This was one of the things that convinced me to buy back in 2013 - stable monthly payments for the whole mortgage duration. Just had to get over the down-payment hump.
> With USB-C on both ends of cables, I expect I’ll have to buy some new power adapters soon. I will then have to have two adapters everywhere

Recent lightning cables already have USB-C instead of USB-A at the other end; that's not a part of the EU mandate as far as I know. In fact I'd bet USB-A would be explicitly allowed, because it's a standard port.
That's false - Signal has had sealed sender on by default since 2018. (the setting you can turn on is just to see an icon in the ui).
There were two different models I believe, one that had the squeeze grip and another that didn't require it.

I believe the design was changed because the original squeeze cable had a tendency to cause damage to the iPod/iPhone/iPad when inserted and then yanked/pulled out without squeezing. At least, that's what I remember.
Wordpress is a framework as of this point. Just put one up for your site. Maintaining a custom made website is not worth the hassle unless you have a very, very specific implementation that requires it.
I've seen the same hack done with `switch (true)` in pre-PHP8 code (and other languages) as well.
> I started using inline 'python -c' more often than the python repl now as it stores the command in shell history and it is then one fzf search away.

Do you not have a ~/.python_history? The exact same search functions are available on the REPL. Ctrl-R, type your bit, bam.
Obviously hydroelectricity is massively damaging to ecosystems. My day job includes designing hydroelectric control systems and even I can admit that. That's a big part of the reason that hydro is a non-starter in much of the western world, which is probably a reasonably good thing (although there are certainly some exceptions where hydro development seems like a no-brainer to me but I digress)

What's not so clear to me though, is why we aren't pumping (pun intentional) massive amounts of money into hydroelectric pumped storage. These systems are capable of storing massive amount of energy cheaply, safely, and (relative to other methods) efficiently. Every single pumped storage project gets mired in protracted legal battles and they are impossible to build. Our modern energy ecosystem requires more and more storage, and somehow we are under the illusion that we can get there with overgeneration of solar and hooking up batteries. We can't. We need storage and pumped storage is the only practical way to get there with current supply chains and technology.
Ah so you are an extremist with no understanding of the real world, thank you, I will exit this conversation before you start telling me about the lizard people who really control our leaders living in the underground.
I think that may just be copy-paste in the Dockerfile, as it doesn't seem to use chromium (nor chrome) anywhere else in the repo: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egith...

which for sure matches my mental model of using ttyd and ffmpeg -- what in the world would anyone need chromium for?
Metaverse is a virtual 3D world, like a MMORPG game, right? Do you necessarily need VR to participate in such worlds? I had a VR headset, it's very tiring to wear it for a long time.
I agree and what has gone wrong are organizations that optimize short-term profits at the expense of long-term biospheric viability. That's what has gone wrong. So the solutions have to come from organizations that are focused on long-term civilizational continuity and viability. It's pretty clear that Silicon Valley VCs are not up to the challenge, they're still investing in silly consumer toys.
Lack of quality on the tickets support created for us was indeed a bit of an issue. I don't know why; I got along pretty well with a lot of the support people and discussed it a few times over beers, this kind of friendly non-accusatory criticism was well received, but concretely things didn't really improve. It was also brought up in more formal settings a few times, also without much results. Maybe it's just the time pressure they had from having to meet targets? I don't really know how that part worked; in the end I was just a developer and didn't really have much insight in all of that.

Another problem we had is that a lot of non-developers folk saw the developers as aircraft fighter pilots: super-special hotshots that you need to approach with caution. I'm not sure where that culture originated because none of the developers were very comfterable with that, but it was like that when I joined. I tried to change that, but with very limited success.

Overall, it wasn't as bad as I make it sound here. A lot of the support folk were pretty good and most customers were happy with the support they got, but there were certainly some communication issues between support and development. Because I did a bit of support I also used the admin interface support used and made a few small improvements because some things were just awkward. Stuff like small layout improvements, adding a button so you don't have to click 5 times but just once, a basic search feature: real simple stuff I quickly did in-between other things (and usually looked ugly, but it worked). I was the hero of the support department because it was a major annoyance for them too, but ... they never told anyone, and never asked if that button could be added.
Replacing the most expensive form of power plant (and mind you, only the most expensive ones out of that class) at a quantity much lower than is needed to actually replace them, with serious supply constraints.

Batteries today are replacing peaker plants that run on things like refined gasoline, which are extremely expensive to run.

Battery + renewable is still not anywhere near cost competitive with base load plants, which is the honest comparison to make.
Even if that were still true, the notion of real growth depends on correctly calculating inflation. That calculation has changed over the years, and is fairly subjective.
They understand that they make more money this way even if it pisses off customers.

They’ve calculated that the customers who drop because of it is outweighed by the higher profits from playing podcasts.
GitHub patches bug that could allow access to another user’s repo
Rodin's Thinker always comes to mind when I think of famous sculpture, but probably still quite a bit less recognizable than David. Venus de Milo maybe? Also not exactly a David, I guess.
> They want you to pay for the impacts of carbon emissions

This can't be quantified currently. Current methods of 'paying' for carbon emissions have ended up being corrupt wealth transfers. That people are still for them is pretty good evidence they aren't really concerned about the consequences of carbon emissions.
Debt servicing is a constant thing for businesses to be able to make payroll and acquire inventory for later resale or processing.

Based on your thoughts here I'm going to assume you haven't worked at a small business before. If you have it must have been awesome to work at a place that didn't have to borrow money constantly.
"What's up with the Internet?" - OP 30 years ago, probably.
> If you can go to a school but not a bar, then that is arbitrary.

It literally is not. I don't think you understand what "arbitrary" means. It's not "I don't see the difference".

> For many people, religion is much, much more important than daycare.

So have the service in the parking lot of the church. Or on an open field, the way JC used to preach. Not having daycare is far more disruptive to far more people objectively. Way more people go to school and daycare every day, than go to church. Way more people depend on having a school or daycare to send their kids to, than go to church.
Copyright notices (or the lack thereof) in kernel code
> Not sure how this feature made its way in.

It's possible the language was just following usage rather than leading it. Regardless of whether or not it's right, I commonly see something like

} catch (\Exception $e) {
// no-op
}
I think one solution that could plausibly work is an initiative to improve people's thinking abilities in general.

However, this tends to be unpopular as while people are very interested in the flaws in the thinking of their outgroup members, they tend to be very uninterested in their own or their ingroup members.

It's a tough problem, but not even trying to do anything about it doesn't seem like a recipe for success.
It garners attention and has people talking about climate change, like in this comment thread, like in the attached article. It has in fact already achieved its goal.

Many other tactics have not so far. It's for example why people block traffic, it's an effective manner to gain attention.
I maintain a Notion database with calendar view. Each day, I create a new note/entry for the given day using a "standup" template, which simply prompts for: what I worked on yesterday, what I'll work on today, and then below, all of my notes for the day. The page itself is freeform, so I can include things like todo lists, code snippets, etc. It's worth clarifying that "todos" here are micro-tasks related to my work that day, not longer running tasks that I'll address over days or weeks (those are logged elsewhere).

This system works really well for me. I've stuck with it for years, longer than any other "daily log" system I've tried.

Why it works for me:

- The separation of notes between days mitigates the visual clutter that comes with a "one giant document" system. Each day I start with a blank slate.

- I can quickly reference notes from any day in the past by scanning the calendar and finding the day I worked on a particular thing.

- Everything is still searchable via Notion's global search.
I imagine you'd be using gas if you were paid to use it. Sadly market prices in the consumers favor seems to rarely make it to actual consumers.
Because lobby

The day you come up with infinite and free aboundant energy will be the day you put to bankruptcy both the US, the Middle East and Russia, and they don't want that

But it's in the plan anyways, we are getting the taste of it right now, globally

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeoeJyJmN4&t=455s
Is it bad that I assume they'll have logic in the phone that says only fast charge or whatever with Apple chargers?
Obsidian, with a few community plugins, is amazing and is exactly what you're looking for.
It's true that there's a learning curve, but spending a few hours to learn a tool that you will use for years is a pretty sweet deal.

Take a look at obsidian-tasks, templater, and the dataview plugins to understand how powerful (yet simple) this is.
Shouldn't everyone in the business be optimized for benefiting the customer? That's certainly my general mentality anyway.
Two years of a senior job in Amazon that isn't motivating enough is a recipe for burnout? Come on.
I'm not clear from the article which part of the comments were illegal?

You aren't allowed to say that unions make work more bureaucratic?
> it’s also isn’t surprising that the state wants to make its constituents more legible to itself

And not just the state, and it's enlisting the help of private companies.

From the article:

> The privacy risks, including the possibility for constant surveillance and data harvesting, will fade into the background when you are about to miss your flight if you can’t skip to the front of the line

Personally, when going to Mexico, I was asked to submit to a photo verification to board the plane. I asked to opt out. I was told it was impossible.

Later, after verification, I realized I was lied to and manipulated: data was obtained under false pretense, under threat of being unable to board, and to top it out, with a lie!

Next time in the airport, I will only unmask to TSA agents, and only those who require I do, never to the gate because as said in the article all it takes is one leak and then it's impossible to undo:

> But as Nick Corbishley, author of a recent book on digital IDs, points out, decisions made in the moment may carry long-term negative consequences: “If biometric data is hacked, there is no way of undoing the damage. You cannot change or cancel your iris, fingerprint, or DNA like you can change a password or cancel your credit card.” Unless we collectively decline to participate in this new social experiment, digital IDs—tied to private demographic, financial, location, movement, and biometric data—will become mechanisms for bulk data harvesting and tracking of populations around the globe. Welcome to the new abnormal.
When the headsets become a pair of sunglasses, I think is when the mainstream will understand.
That's true, but:
1. From a technological standpoint (although this is just from one data point) the concept of living in virtual generated worlds would come eons before a civilization would be capable of interstellar travel. We vastly underestimate the engineering challenges of sending a human safely across light years of space.

2. Interstellar colonization doesn't require a civilization. Bacteria-like creatures can "travel" on pieces of meteors and colonize all the galaxy, this is a much more plausible scenario, given the nature of interstellar travel, and one that is relatively easy to find supporting evidence for.

Therefore, I would expect us to find that those kind of examples vastly outnumber civilization based colonies.
It means that the underlying weather data is computed and validated at a 300x300 meters resolution. Hope this helps :)
Mountain hydro is fantastic but have an important issue: you need water and mountains, something not such rare but not so widespread either so it's VERY good to have as much as mountain hydro, but hardly suffice for most countries in the world.

Sure some are luckiest like Norway or Swiss, but others are not, at least not for vast part of the country. That's the real "unfashionable" part. The rest is just a matter of expectation: PRs have sold to many the idea we can bring with us energy in significant quantity, p.v. actually offer that in a vast area of the world, of course only when the Sun shine, while you can't hardly have mountain hydro at home except veeeeeeeery few homes. Some also might fear dam incidents, oppose against not-so-small projects etc. That's is.
> they need to control the hardware layer, having missed the mobile phone boat

Thank you for this. I posited yesterday as to why they just don't a phone and got some good replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33343507

Now it makes sense. They need something they control to advertise on.
For what it's worth, I enjoyed the nice cassette logo :)
Nice, the now popular dev worldview "break things, and break things often". Just for the sake of breaking. I love it, why didn't we stumble earlier over this magnificent piece of discovery.
Yes, Smil appears to be the main reason Bill Gates has been actively unhelpful on climate matters.

Constantly talking about how renewables aren't enough and that we need to invent new tech to save us, rather than just roll out the amazing tech we already have as fast as possible.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/10/26/gates_green_inves...

Smil was also an EV skeptic.