skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but have you considered what it will take in mining to achieve your goal?

Yes:

> fossil fuels require much more mining and drilling than clean energy technologies. Today the world mines 8 billion tons of coal every year, whereas the clean energy transition is estimated to require around 3.5 billion tons of minerals in total over the next three decades.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/blog/are-clean-technol...
Whether or not to open on a mobile device? I usually don't open PDFs on a mobile because it is a pain to read.
Maybe this will come off as cynical, but aren't the customers of these 3 companies doing what you suggest here? "Putting their money where their mouth is", and since they have a lot of money their voice gets heard over the ones of individuals with no money. I don't think it's your goal.

So your second intuition about proof of identity is better, but the minute you invent a foolproof identity system and it gets widly used (by fiat or even voluntarily), you give a tremendous amount of power to the issuer/manager of it, as they basically hold the power of also removing/altering your public identity at their whims. You also make it harder and harder to remain anonymous and preserve your privacy, two things that might seem useless in a functional democracy, but unfortunately democracies are not perfect and they can turn into totalitarian systems where the wet dream of dictators is exactly this: having total control over every individual, especially the ones who would dare signing petitions against them.

This is by far not something humans have solved systemically, we have the technical solutions to build such systems, and governments tend to push to implement them, but as someone who cares about privacy/censorship resistance I do my best to build alternative, opt-in, systems to go around them.
I own a X250 and failed with 13.2 for now but want to retry[1]. FreeBSD appeared refreshingly unbloatet and to the point. However, hardware driver support seems peculiar. So this is really interesting, thanks!

[1] https://blog.mro.name/2023/04/thinkpad-x250-freebsd-xfce/
There are a lot of presuppositions in your statement. It doesn't provide an answer to "Should we tax" from first principles, but is just the current situation in a world dominated by oppressive governments.
Great feedback, thanks!
I'll consider those things, but first I'll need to rethink whether the idea of developing more features just to do more research is good or better if I switch to a new idea instead, to save some time.
Sharks are older.

That’s the one I always like to pull out - if prehistoric sharks had telescopes with which to search the night sky, they would have seen Saturn without its rings.
> I don't really know what does.

My desktop not working, or apps being blurred, or slower, or my mouse cursor stuttering, or screen sharing not working, or Java apps not getting the hidpi settings. That’s what drives me away from Wayland, and all of those happened to me.

I don’t think anybody is against Wayland “just because”. When it matures and app support is better, we’ll switch.
That might be true, but I believe the Asahi Linux team when they say they don’t have time to properly support for both xorg and wayland. It’s their prerogative as opensource developers to decide what they spend their time working on.

And generally I think it’s really healthy for everyone when developers boldly refuse to take on too much. The result is more focused work and less maintainer burnout. It also clears the way for someone else to pick up the slack.

If xorg support on apple silicon is important to you, you’re welcome to spearhead that work yourself. Nobody else will do it. And at a risk of sounding rude, opensource isn’t a democracy. I don’t get a say in what you work on, and you don’t get a say in what the asahi linux team works on.
Turkey's voters 'are more vulnerable to disinformation'
"Who is targeted by this disinformation?

Actually everyone. Politicians also share misinformation and disinformation in campaign rallies. All parties and all candidates actually have their own troll armies. They attack each other, especially on Twitter and other social media platforms."

This observation reinforces the domestic vs. foreign nexus. A hypothesis follows that in this kind of a setting some further foreign peddling is unlikely to make much of a difference.
It was an inside joke, we don’t get it anymore.
> This is why, I think, the future is either putting your money (or at least provable identity) where your mouth is, or not being heard

Oh, I assume this will be run by companies. What is stopping them from impersonating you? Or impersonating you after you're dead? How can we trust these companies not to sell access to identities? Further, why not sell/rent your access to your own identity?
They're not. They're infected by the same "everyone is same; everyone wants the same thing, exactly as I do; therefore the rules I have derived for myself based on my particular life history and cultural conditioning should be enforced on everyone" kind of mind virus.
If they thing that people can do research in medicine without having legal access to the patients (AKA some kind of Hospital affiliation), they are clueless about medical research. They don't seem to understand how much hospitals, medical companies and academy are interwined now. Lots of relevant physicians are also teachers, direct a research team or are testers from new products.

They are also tagging all independent non affiliated researchers as fake. Do they know how many young people are doing science in the universities as temporary collabo-slaves without right to a nice personal mail?. Their detector would tag Einstein and Erdos as fake scientists by Pete's sake!. They just have a narrow vision tunnel about how the real research works
I am not going to say that this is wrong, because I haven't read the study. But it was produced by the Berkeley economics department, which could well be the most left-leaning in the country. Significant parts of it are outright Marxist. Which is fine. Diversity of viewpoints and all that. But when a bunch of leftist economists tell you they've proven something that leftists in general wish desperately were true, you should be skeptical.

At least wait for some corroborating evidence to come in before you start writing policy, because you'll hurt people if you get it wrong.
There's a free market in the US, isn't it? Some would say, don't blame execs, they are products of the market, not the reason for it.

How many of HN readers would refuse some large bonus?
A) is the thing maybe gonna intersect with the thing?

B) how much does the thing intersect with the thing?

C) move the things so they aren't intersecting.

I don't know, the author might go into more detail.
Tax liquidity. You will get full employment regardless of technological progress and the banking system will no longer periodically collapse.
Rather than measuring quality of the college or the university evaluate each person independently. I've worked with great people from "unknown" universities and vice versa. Everybody is unique.
It might not be a miracle†, just the natural evolution of a system which does not run ads and refuses to run ads from the get-go. Even if the ads would have been "ethical ads" (no tracking and so on), they'd still ruin the experience. We can only imagine how search would have looked without ads. Without getting too political, in the 1950s/60s there was a brief moment of naïveté when it was thought that ads could be used for the good of all, that détournement [1] was actually a possibility. (Narrator: it wasn't)

Hence the miracle might be in having the courage not to run ads and not locking everything beyond a paywall, updating the phrase: build it, don't run ads/paywall it, they will come, it will be great.

† Wikipedia is amazing, don't get me wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International#D%C...
I find it is generally used to describe things that are getting out of hand. Often invasive species thrive because there's no natural predation or check and balance for some reason.

Most of the species in my garden are non-native (another term that is often used for less virulent invasives), but they don't colonize the native landscape. The term "invasive" is sometimes used for plants that could otherwise be fine, but will get out of hand in some cases. Bamboo, for instance.

Source: none, but I used to take care of shrubbery for one of my first jobs and I learned a lot about invasives. I hated Brazilian pepper trees the most ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus_terebinthifolia ), mainly because they're quite difficult to remove.
It was never really clear to me if the "Hornet" was a custom design Intel did for HP or if "Hornet" was just the codename for the 80C186EA, a 186 with added powersaving support. Either way those palmtops were quite cool machines.
I wonder if this is an immediate cost cutting measure to focus on manufacturing for their primary market. Seems like it would be to satisfy shareholders.
> "We should kill all the Russians in Ukraine" is different than "we should kill the russians who don't think we are a country."

I think you dropped some nuance. Killing all Russians who are in Ukraine in an effort to violently coerce Ukrainians and their government to comply with the will of the Russian government is different from both "We should kill all the Russians in Ukraine" and "We should kill the Russians who don't think we are a country"
Writing a Wayland compositor on top of wlroots is probably a larger project than writing a window manager for X. But it's not orders of magnitude, wlroots handles a whole lot of the dirty work for you.

> The X protocol [...] doesn't spoil like cabbage.

It actually does. The protocol doesn't handle things we expect from modern hardware and software. And the implementation certainly rots away as the rest of the software ecosystem changes in ways which will slowly make Xorg more and more broken. Drivers will change in ways which expose Xorg bugs. GUI toolkits will introduce bugs in their X backends and introduce new features which don't work on their X backend. Nobody maintains X anymore, and something like a display server in a rapidly changing software and hardware ecosystem requires maintenance to keep functioning.

None of this is to say the Xmonad developer should spend time rewriting their project to use wlroots instead of X. But as long as it requires X, it's living om borrowed time.
Grateful for your dad's service
> subtle incompatibility with TPUs that requires modifying the training/eval scripts

Do you have any more details or links to articles expanding on this?
I am not sure it's much of a counterexample. Is Dreamwidth a decentralized replacement for Facebook that people can use? Does it replace most of Facebook's features?
This is one of my biggest peeves with Twitter, it takes ages to figure out what people are talking about without wading through a lot of contentless replies. Promoting verified users tweets has seemed to make the problem worse
Implement something that can help people? Surely that is Marxist nonsense!!!

Economics isn’t science, it’s politics hiding behind math.
Look again. Almost all those commits are for XWayland.

XWayland is not going away. X as a display server is more or less abandoned.
> My father designed a "distribution beam girder," a rigid structure made of steel plates, to distribute the load on to the new pier. He got it made from a shipbuilding yard in Calcutta. They produced it overnight, and the army transported it and assembled it on site.

Overnight production for this huge custom design sounds pretty intense to say the least. Wow.

My condolences by the way.

I was doing some digging in my own family lines in recent years, since I had previously mainly been taught to focus on and respect those ancestors who had been part of the religion into which I was born. When I decided not to practice it anymore, it was like I had to rediscover my own heritage.

I was pretty happy to find a bridge-engineer in the family who didn't fit the same mold. It's fascinating to me that not too long ago, you could build a 600-foot rail bridge responsible for so many millions of tons of freight, without even getting a university degree beforehand.
My current take on Internal Family Systems “parts” (2022)
And Wikipedia keeps a complete version history of every edit made to every page, doesn't it? I just think about how large a single git repo can get and imagine that at scale.

Also, slightly tangential, but the little blurb at the top of that essay is my favorite kind of Wikipedia-y snark:

> "WP:CANCER" redirects here. For editors who improve Wikipedia's articles about actual physical cancer, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Hematology-oncology task force.
To be considered an invasive species requires that the species is introduced to an area, become overpopulated and harm the ecosystem.

Which honestly describes humans pretty much everywhere…
> a few guys in suits collecting the profits while the robots do the work, the governments might as well expropiate it.

i dont think the logic follows.

Those "few guys" are the people who put up the risk capital. If the risk pans out, and they succeed, only to get their reward expropriated, then why would anyone ever take that risk?

Corporate taxes should be sufficient.
Best selling car in the UK apparently. So it's quite a decision to make to ditch it. Cars going to be less popular in the UK, Japan, India and Australia, but he probably feels those markets aren't as important at China, the EU and US.
Group names are 10/10
Are We Sixel Yet
The key is "nonprofit".

Capitalism cannot unlock the potential of the web the way Wikipedia, project Gutenberg, Stack Overflow, Internet Archive, the Pirate bay and open source software has done.

Humans are social and moral beings. Our motivations are not limited to profit maximization and rent seeking. Micro-economics can never explain Wikipedia.
> Tax liquidity

This is essentially the argument for positive inflation.
Language Tooling Antipatterns
I understand that it might not work for you. That's unfortunate. But you shouldn't expect Xorg to keep working for you either. The time where Xorg is a well-maintained project is past us. That's the point.
> Capitalism cannot unlock the potential of the web

Luckily you can just log in to the communist internet, invented before the capitalist one and with way better content and potential. Right?
So using a country’s own legal system to protect the free expression rights of its citizens is imperialism?

Feels like you might be debasing the word a bit there.
> Economics isn’t science, it’s politics hiding behind math.

That's the kind of thing people say when math tells them what they want is not feasible. Surely the math must be wrong!
PS3,PS4 and PS5 system software is based on FreeBSD. So it's actually one of the most popular OSes that are used for gaming.
Costinot adds: “If you are at peace with some high-level assumptions about the way markets operate, we can tell you that the only objects of interest driving the optimal policy on robots or Chinese goods should be these responses of wages across quantiles of the income distribution, which, luckily for us, people have tried to estimate.”

Seems pretty wonky. Robots have compounding effects, gradually then all at once — and at some point it reaches a watershed moment. Consider the extreme case of putting half or more of the workforce out of a job. Where is the money going to come from to give them a UBI?
No one will start them if no one can buy the products. You are just being a drain on local resources. Few companies produce no waste, no noise, use no electricity, use no water, make no use of roads... and so on. Your company is simply exploiting the land and resources without bringing value to the folks that live there - and that is the point.

Act like you are part of the community and wider world you live in or don't be in business, in other words.
In the US freeways are not illuminated except near cities.

The headlights of your car are expected to be able to illuminate road signs.

This leads to design differences with US vs European headlights, with the US headlights aimed higher.

The next time you see a European car with fancy advanced headlights and wonder why you can't have that in the US realize it's because in Europe they illuminate road signs.
What is a robot? Should we tax dishwashers? How humanlike does a machine have to look to count as a robot?
There’s plenty of useful information on Wikipedia, but the biggest motivator that drives contributions to its generation and maintenance is the desire to control information. It creates a system for people to promote their own views as the truth (for whatever reason they have for doing that), and suppress all opposing views. Nearly everybody implicitly understands that this is the nature of the content on Wikipedia, that it is a repository for the biases (whether well informed or not) of the Wikipedia power-editors. Knowledge is incorporated into Wikipedia via a political process, not via merit or rigour (whether or not this process chooses to consider merit or rigour in any particular case). Having your edits included in Wikipedia is a way of exerting power over others, and considering that, it’s not a miracle at that it’s managed to attract an army of passionate contributors. There’s nothing miraculous about people passionately seeking power for themselves.
> That whole blog post is angry, misinformed about the target market, and talking to no one while telling everyone to eff off. And we shall - not an issue at all.

I like the honesty of this take. I think if we’re honest with ourselves as self funded opensource developers, our projects really have a target market of 1. And you’re right - it’s not you. If the entire target market (the asahi Linux dev team) want to use wayland, that is absolutely their prerogative. You and I aren’t customers of theirs. Our needs don’t pay their bills.
Stack Overflow isn't a non-profit though?
Yeah - I never understand this train of thought. It seems like some edgy teen ranting while working as cashier at the movies. It's a company - they can pay whoever they want, however much they want, and they are not obligated to keep anyone employed or have their internal compensation dictated by society.

What society can do is organize into unions and push back, so when they lay off nurses while taking bonuses, the remaining nurses go too and the business goes out of business. If that's the consequence of laying people off, instead of remaining people being unhappy being underpaid for 20 hour shifts, then the company will either use the bonus money for employees, or close down.
I already was a long time vim user when I did Drew's paid course a couple of years ago it was worth every penny. [I don't know Drew personally or gain anything from saying this. I just think he did a wonderful job.]
This is an interesting viewpoint. I might suggest prototyping game ideas with an existing "game creation" tool, even something like roblox. Then one has multiple pathways for their design to progress - world design, interaction, story, events, as well as engine. And one can much more easily test out different aspects of graphics and physics to see which their game engine needs or demands. There is also the ability to code engine algorithms directly and tweak so many variables in the prototyping stage, that the resulting parameters/functionality can be brought back into the actual custom game codebase.
And which of the possible common properties would be relevant?
Isn't that a tiny font size for a 14" laptop? It's roughly the same as what I use on my 32" monitor.
The people who used to work on X now work on Wayland. It is the way forward for graphics on Linux as Xorg is unmaintained. How does that not mean that Wayland replaces X?
About that content: back in the days there were numerous podcasts about Ruby or Rails or both. That was when podcasts were hardly as omnipresent as they are today. There were newsletters, blogs, and every e-learning platform had many prime tutorials on rails.

Those aren't all gone. But in the grand scheme of things, Ruby, and Rails' have been relatively decimated. There now are about twice as much (web) devs as back when it started but Rails nor Ruby is hardly twice as big. It's been going strong, solid, flatline.

I wrote a longer post, a while ago, with sources and numbers on this. It was featured on HN https://berk.es/2022/03/08/the-waning-of-ruby-and-rails/ (and frankly, it's going faster and is worse than I predicted back then)
Controllers and Their True Purpose
They may but they haven't
I agree that Wikipedia is one of the great success stories of the open Internet. Therefore, it is somewhat sad that Wales is being attacked from all sides in this thread.
>> that it will lead to the extinction of the species

Interesting, the more they warn about it, the more people are eager to invest in it. Kind of a Streisand effect.
He means that there is no good argument for getting the money needed for the things you mentioned through taxes, since taxes are theft.
Treat your partner well, you got some daunting times ahead of you as a team.

Your children will (need to) leave the house. Prepare and assist them.

Your family home will be oversized, if you can, pass it to one of the kids who needs it most.

Moderate your financial fix costs.

Get your car / bike / sailing / paragliding licence now.

You are still a player in the "looking for a partner" market, go for it now or forget about it completely.
Agree with everything except "nearly everybody understands". In my experience most people have absolutely no clue, to the point a large chunk of society, if you asked them who writes the content, will answer "wikipedia does!".
Never did I say what they should or shouldn't do. Having just tried giving wayland an other try last month for the heck of it and still noticing issues. I just found it surprising how blunt they are about this topic. I like to code and code even for fun, but I definitely do understand that people only have so much time to dedicate to something.
> Turkey is extremely important to NATO because

...because it's in a unique location that's been a keystone of military strategy for multiple countries for thousands of years. It contains (not just controls) access between the Med and the Black Sea. It's at the boundary between the steppes, the Middle East and Western Europe.

I don't agree with the "realpolitik" notion that you have to get into bed with countries that don't share your interests, just because there is a strategic advantage to be had.

> I'm sure the USA has very strong reasons to continue hosting its ICBMs in Turkey

I'm sure they do as well. I doubt there's any need to site "Inter Continental" ballistic missiles in Turkey, though; they're pointed at Russia, of course, which is just across the border, not a continent away. Anyway, I'm opposed to nuclear willy-waving in general.
If you consider human society to be the gradient between the newly created energy reserves via the big bang and the heat death of the universe, then equilibrium means death. Equilibrium models are static and don't feel alive. There is only one state and if you get off it, you make things worse, not better. Silly you, things are already perfect.

In reality the economy is alive and dynamic and imperfect.
The "one weird trick" to squeeze limes for extra juice
Yes, I was not being careful enough.

"We should kill all the Russians in Ukraine" -> "We should kill all the Russians invading Ukraine." is probably the right phrasing for the question I was asking.