skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "radical" solutions are not just throwing more technology at the problems. That's how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place.

The solution is to stop mindless consumption. We use the same material to wrap and bake food and drink unhealthy drinks as we do to build airplanes. We use plastic for use cases that take place over seconds and minutes and then throw it away. We drive everywhere because of poor urban design. We use plastic to carry food home from stores and restaurants. We fill our homes with plastic, metal, wood, and electronic junk, very little of it actually needed.

Mindless consumption makes the U.S. waste 1/3 of the food produced every year. 96% of that goes directly into landfills. It is literally throwing energy away, energy that we sapped away from the ground and ecosystems. Only 4% of the waste is composted. Full adoption of composting food waste and reducing it in total could bring emissions down by as much as high single digits or low teens percentages.

We also need greater wealth equality, which brings education and health equality as well.

It's almost silly how simple the real solutions are.

I planted milkweed last year, or rather let the milkweed that the previous owner would put mulch over. Surprise, we have monarch caterpillars this year.

There are real consequences to our actions, and if we reverse them, we get real consequences back.
I think only the environmentally unfriendly refrigerants will be banned.
Care to break down the actual math of how that would work?
World hunger is on the rise.

I'm full, 8 o'clock in Paris.
I'd characterize it as sending up the genre of criticism as performed by fresh college grads. The piece meanders in and out of the regime, but I found it funny largely because I had to read a lot of the form he's taking the piss of here in college, and have even written some of my own under duress!
Your summary of Deus Ex was spot on.
So jets were under the resource curse after the 70s.iran- Iraq war and resulting oil surplus killed them.
Not advocating for digital only, but I can't even remember the last time I carried cash.
Peeeew.

Dude.

> The richest people and biggest corporations own such an unimaginably large amount of wealth that taxing them would fix just about anything.

Still peanuts comparing to the "global" economy or a country needs (in terms of pension or health). Also a significant portion of this wealth is paper money that will take a significant hit at sale.

> In 2017, Apple's cash reserves were $250 billion. That's just a single company, hoarding reserves that could clear the national debt of most countries. Think about that for a second.

Why not then, dip into your bank account? By this logic, there are trillion of $$ in bank accounts all around the world. That's a lot of money.

> There is absolutely no shortage of wealth in the world. There is easily enough to pay all the pensions, including far into the future, even considering demographic change.

> But of course, if governments are OK with allowing corporations to act like sovereign countries, raising the retirement age can seem like a reasonable alternative to moving all that wealth to where it actually belongs.

Sure, let's make every 20-30-40 something work for these 60+ all day instead of having a life. The reality is that the pension system of France was pretty good when it started because there were very few pensioners. Now that the situation is not the same, it means each pensioner will get a little less. And the system is already maxed out to maximum max. Many people are deserting France because of the high taxes and high pension system contributions.
Firing thermonuclear bombs doesnt sound like first thing on the list we should try. It feels like it belongs atleast in the middle.

Same people (the rich) have been in power for a long time in much of the world. Its like they need anyones permission to do anything.
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How do you think they made the money?

Growing trees?
British man in Cyprus convicted of manslaughter of terminally ill wife
"A district court in Cyprus has ruled that a British man committed manslaughter when he asphyxiated his terminally ill wife in their retirement home on the island in December 2021.

Judges sitting in the coastal city of Paphos said they had not found the former miner, David Hunter, 76, guilty of premeditated murder – the charge he had faced, which carries a life sentence."

This goes on in every country, but it demonstrates very subtly that each and every one of us is owned by law whether we like it or not and they have the audacity to not teach law, even in a tl;dr form in order to debate the aspects in a democratic way, subverting the idea of living in a democracy.

If ever you need to see how untouchable ideas steal your autonomy, then look no further at this case and the so called pillars of society, the best minds to run a country, doubling down and still charging a compassionate husband for manslaughter.

Just how bad was the suffering for a wife to beg her husband to put her out of her misery with full knowledge of the penalties he would face like prison time, the theft of privacy with the world's media glare, and the experts persistent refusal to admit their system of control and knowledge does not work which is why people are being forced to break the law?

This court's actions demonstrate that the authority of the medical profession should not be challenged even in the obvious face of suffering, so all logic was put aside to maintain the power base held by the legal and medical professions, in a unwritten union not bound by typical union laws.

Medical knowledge has yet again demonstrated its hubris and lack of understanding by ignoring this lady's desire to end her life in as dignified a manner as her circumstances and suffering would permit. Its backed innocent bystanders into a corner, torturing them whilst they can only look on as these authority figures are not to be challenged. The medical and legal profession have stolen her trust like fraudsters and not provided her with a legal escape route when the medical knowledge has run out.

What sort of society wilfully ignores these intellectual crimes, many of which are not even recognised as crimes simply because the laws and frameworks do not exist?

TL;DR - You cant be trusted to think for yourself!
The EU regulation is about industrial use of fluorinated greenhouse gasses.. I don't think that will ban other refrigerants
If I can download and install Discord on my PC, I would describe it as a "desktop app". We have the desktop, we have mobile, and we have the web.

The word "native" shouldn't even be in a user's vocabulary. And I believe it wasn't until Electron polluted the world with inefficient wrappers around a Chrome tab with a custom icon slapped on top.

Once we were living that nightmare, developers of apps aimed at power users, who actually bothered to create a good experience, started differentiating themselves by offering "native apps", as in, "we actually coded an app for your OS". And as the time went by, the Electron web app resellers adopted the term as well.
They’re not, they want legal protections to stop companies from replacing them

For example paying someone for a day, scanning them, and using their image forever in AI content is both legal and allowed under SAG guidelines. Even if you think that what writers currently do can be done well by AI I’m pretty sure most reasonable people think that companies being able to do that is BS and you should get residuals or a really fat check if a company wants to pull that shit. It’s also about generally deteriorating conditions for actors and writers like shit pay and steaming companies not paying residuals. I actually think the AI part of the writers strike is mostly off the mark because ChatGPT is nowhere near good enough to replace a human writer and won’t be for years but general mistreatment of entertainment industry workers is totally a thing
Radical solutions are known but don’t involve risky Matrix-Style geo-engineering: very heavy taxation on CO2 emissions, 3x-4x those taxes for aviation emissions (due to radiative forcing), ban on ICE vehicles, successive ban on heating other than heat pumps, phase out of non renewable energy generation, in particular coal and gas.

Parts of these are being tried by the Greens in Germany (part of govt), but everyone is getting totally histerical, with all sorts of influence groups coming out of their holes and trying to shut down all the efforts.
At this rate LLM is going to mean Lazy Layman’s Marketing.

Maybe I should ask ChatGPT to help me come up with more ideas…
Looks like a bun (bao) to me.
Note that that clause was added to the constitution as a consequence of De Gaulle's military coup in 1958. The coup is what created the extremely strong French presidency.
Almost reminds me of the whole parallel debate around nuclear...

Better than fossil fuels but has some of its own (comparativly smaller) waste problems, and its also getting phased out.
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Rich people don’t pay income taxes.
The sad part is, it's not happening because we couldn't do anything but because we didn't do what we could.

Remember the sinking island scene in Erik the Viking?
gives some strong early node.js vibes with all the precious and quirky naming schemes
Where did you get the plant ?
And let’s not forget Google’s Snafu with Bard.
i self-host my presence but being responsible for my friend’s social media presence too is too much responsibility for me to bear if i fuck up and it goes down for a day
As someone from a such country of 5 million, this crosses my mind almost daily now.
Going to stick my neck out here: I read a lot of technical books, have a masters in math and 10+ years professional experience but man that book was too much of a slog for me (only made it a few chapters).

It sure _seems_ like a no-brainer to read such a classic, but I wonder how many copies languish on the shelf without ever getting finished (same goes for The Art of Computer Programming).

Don't let this discourage you from giving it a shot, but also don't be discouraged if you aren't able to finish it. Just keep reading and challenging yourself as best you can -- a few years of that and you'll be miles ahead of 99% of devs out there.
The bad actors are using ChatGPT.
Besides, properly written, curated recipes are fantastic. Mommy blogs or the likes are not.
>sweetness is determined by how much water you give them and how long you leave them on the bush

with wine grapes, sweetness (and other flavor qualities) depend on the sunlight times ratio of surface area of leaves to number of "berries". If the weather is great, you can grow more great grapes, but if the weather is poor you prune off half the fruit when it is still small and green (it's called the green harvest), and the remaining grapes come out higher quality, concentrating the sugar from more leaves.

You might try it with a blueberry bush to see if those fruits taste better.
This is really neat and way easier to read.

I’d like the inverse too (the rejected links! Politics, history etc).

They are a great source of weekend reading. But you’ve included the repo, so now that’s on me.
did they lose the right or did they just not want to run it anymore?
They've been jacking interest rates for quite a while to no avail. So now that prices are sky-high, the oligopolies have slowed their assault.

"Reduced inflation" does nothing to roll back the disgusting price-gouging that has gone on for years now. So the gouging is decelerating. Whoop-dee-doo.
ccTLD which this is the part is supposed to be under full control of the government of the owning country. It is supposed to be for local used. So such TLDs are equivalent of opening a shop in the country so they are free to do so.
Ever heard of single point of failure.

Yes, you can hack every company but he have to target them one by one.

Now you only need to take down MS
Show HN: Writing stories by using GPT engine
Kessler syndrome is both loss of satellites but also rendering orbits unavailable. My comment was presupposing malicious actors so the hypothetical orbits aren’t going to be identical to what we currently have. It doesn’t take that much material orbiting in the opposite direction to render geosynchronous orbit untenable for example.
One big difference is that in many other countries, fixed rate mortgages are not available.
> We could at least get everyone here to use Firefox.

That would accomplish nothing.

> But the important thing is checking in automatically as a Firefox user in the logs of every other site online.

No, that's not important. HN users are a tiny minority compared to the billions of people that use the web daily.

I'm sorry, there's no easy way to say this: Firefox is never coming back. The web of old is never coming back. It's over. Even if this particular proposal gets defeated somehow, a future similar proposal will make it through. There is nothing you or I can do about it. Google is more powerful than most governments, and they are vastly more powerful than any random group of like-minded people who get together on the Internet in the belief that they can accomplish something.
> Lots of the Reddit alternatives, including Discord, seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

Lemmy has this aspect nailed down. Reddit is not special in that regard. Reddit was special in the way it presented itself as a community driven service that was easy to join. Once you get rid of the community aspect, which Reddit's CEO did with his persecution of anyone who protested against his decision, then alternatives such as Lemmy jump ahead as the best option out there for community driven service.
We purchased a nearly 4,000 sf home on an acre 2 years ago. There are apartments within walking distance of our house that have rents higher than our mortgage payment. And not even that nice of apartments.
there’s 301works.org at least
The NYT Rent v Buy calculator is pretty out of date at this point, but it's definitely not as straightforward as rent being throwing away money and a mortgage building equity. Upkeep is a non-trivial expense, opportunity costs of money put down, money still being not turned into equity via, e.g., property taxes and insurance (higher than renters), etc.

Add in the bigger intangible of the flexibility you gain from renting, and it's going to be a very individual decision.
Apple is really the only party in a position to be a savior.

For example, they threaten to remove FaceTime and iMessage from UK iPhones if the government there changes the law on encryption [1].

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/20/apple-threatens-to-pull...
I thought it was a new Gruv Box theme. However, this is equally as cool.
US 30 year mortgage, fixed rate as they are, are risk subsidised by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's a regulatory subsidy of the mortgage and ex-mortgage home owning class.

That 'problem' is caused by regulation, structural regulation, not day-to-day regulatory enforcement or change. So where does that risk 'go'? Where do you suggest? What can regulators do to un-risk the risk that's been un-risked/passed on from those that take out mortgages?
The placement is not random.

Spain and France have Nuclear estuaries north of this area and the mistral pushes the hot surface water south.

http://move.rupy.se/file/nuclear-sources.png
Interesting. Any examples?
wp can be the choice for an e-commerce site.. woocommerce is pretty good and hard to match
Royal Flying Doctor Service
That depends on the country the card is issued in.
Sundews are perfect for fruit flies and they will not hibernate if they get to eat and have light/sun year round. They’re also pretty hardy! I had them deal with fruit flies to the point that I started getting wingless fruit flies to keep them fed, although you don’t even have to feed them. They’re easily my favorite plants ever. So easy to care for.
The same applies to .UK, should Scottish independence succeed. If anything, that seems more likely than the UK giving up control of Diego Garcia.
Yes the article seems to be written with the undertone that mortgages are somehow exploitative. It even goes all the way back to the GFC to point out the weird edge case where NINJAs were lent out like hotcakes. The reason that become toxic is because brokers were getting insane commissions signing people up for them.

Any mortgage at almost any fixed interest rate, assuming a market amenable to the local prevailing median income, will always beat renting. If the value goes to 0 somehow you still have a roof over your head. That is, assuming that the government doesnt take your property away. Which shockingly they can. Different discussion though.

There is a remark that's important here though. The math both you and I agree on assumes that the property is not an investment. The reality is all property is effectively an investment because even in good times 5-8x your salary was a decent price. Now it's more like 20x in some places. No one would make such a leap without being guaranteed something back. The calculus changes at that point. Even for first time homeowners.
Successful food harvests
I'm more interested in knowing what was this guy's plan to reach the tiny island in the middle of the ocean once he heard about the hypothetical apocalypse.
OMG! I think I still have nightmares about X11 modelines! I spent so much time changing one thing and restarting X. Definitely not one of my favorite things about my Slackware experience.
Above all, journalists should be skeptical of Nate Silver.
Individuals should be skeptical of all sources including journalists.

The question to ask is 'what personal experience have I got off the claim that is being made?'

Is it possible that I am just being steered by consensus, where consensus is presented in print and on screen by journalists? Is whatever-it-is just an idea/theory supported by 'experts say' or is any evidence presented that can be verified/tested? When I test the idea, have do I agree with the conclusions? Etc.

The scientific method should be applied personally in one's life.
if you make a bond type mortgage in Denmark, then you trade your bonds directly in the market. this has some benefits to the say home owners. They can speculate:

When interest rates go up, refinance and sell you previous mortgage for cheap.

When interest rates go down, refinance and reap the lower interest rates for just the refinancing costs (you can always repay this type of mortgage at rate 100).

needless to say, the volatility on the bond markets had been extremely good for Danish home owners.
Oh really? Based on what behavior?

Remember that it's the Republicans who piss and moan about "illegals stealing our jobs," but refuse to require employers to use E-Verify. Why? Because the corporations they serve rely on cheap illegal labor.

It's Republicans who oppose the government setting up the means for us to pay our taxes free online. Why? Because they're toadies to H&R Block and Intuit.

They also opposed Net Neutrality. Why? Because they're toadies to telcos. Do you need more examples?
Well, you could argue the pressure/vacuum would suck the marinate deeper into the meat, thus starting the process deeper inside the tissue causing a more deep and even marination.

Just playing devils advocate. I really don’t know how this works.
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"Quantum tunneling of the flavor atoms" sounds like the title of an amazing 80s SciFi novel dealing with the fleeting nature of life amidst a group of chefs who let themselves not be stopped by the laws of nature in pursuit of new, better food experiences.
It seems that refrigerants get a lot of bad press. In particular in heatpumps. Nobody seems to really cares about the gasses used in refrigerators or aircos in cars.

Obviously, it is good to ban particularly bad gasses. Freon because of its negative effect on the ozon-layer. The same way some gasses have a very large greenhouse effect and can be replaced by gasses that are better.

If a new technique becomes mature and it has obvious benefits over the existing solution, that it not a bad idea to prohibit the old, poluting way.
> 2. ultimately getting rid of cgo would probably help a lot anyway, cgo calls are pretty slow

It’s slow compared to a function call in C, but it’s still measured in nanoseconds. If you’re not calling C functions from a tight loop in Go it’s unlikely to be noticeable.
Who enjoys coding pure PHP?
All true, but right now those risks pale in comparison to the ongoing disasters caused by fossil fuels.
Related ongoing thread:

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 - July 2023 (282 comments)
Except owning a house costs way more than the mortgage itself, that renters dont pay. Taxes, maintenance and improvement costs, which are massive considering most people can only afford houses built in the 60-80s, and governments like Germany has strict regulations. Couple this with the risk of suddenly not be able to pay - you can sell, like if you want to break out of the inflexibility of living in one place, but then see your maintainer investments flow in most cases.
On timescales less than a decade or so, this idea that rent is "money sent down the drain" is often inaccurate in certain VHCOL markets like the San Francisco Bay Area. Rent typically costs much less than a mortgage payment, and the numbers work out that investing what you save by renting puts you ahead. This is a major reason I've stayed a renter even though I think my quality of life would be higher as a homeowner.
Hopefully overreaches like this let lawmakers know why privacy is important, the executive branch has a few too many tools, and secret courts can be abused.
The only reason that nothing is being done is because its people are not that inconvenienced yet. Once climate changes starts affecting things, Im like 90% sure humans will figure out how to adapt.
> What if you actually can’t predict the future and climate change is actually good?

Is this how rational people react, or is some spiritual response talking from fear?

How can be the depletion of biodiversity, the increase of temperatures and the disappearance of ecosystems that we need to survive "good"?

As a community we do no have a crystal ball to predict the future, but we have science and technology and the predictions from there are clear: it is not good for us, and it is not good for the current species.

The far future, the very far one -- sure -- the are good chances that new ecosystems will appear adapted to the new environments, but those will not be "nice" for our current expectations.

A doing-nothing-and-hoping-for-the-best strategy is a guarantee for massive wars, hunger and suffering, as happen many times in the past (but never in a scale of 7.000.000 population)
Walking around "feeling" clothes sounds like a terrible waste of time. I can just order a $100 T-shirt from a brand known for its high quality rather than spend $200/hour of my time checking clothes in the whole city in the hope of saving a few dozen dollars.

The point is there are brands that don't compromise on quality or don't mix cheap fabrics.