skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we're going to have to strongly disagree, for sure.

Absolutely Alberta and others will continue to supply the world with hydrocarbons for generations to come. But that is not the same argument as demanding that the entire nation chip in to ensure that the sector be aggressively expanded.

Saying the world needs plastics and lubricants is hardly an argument for expanding -- significantly -- production. This is an argument I hear often from folks in Alberta like it's some sort of "oooh gotcha" moment, but it's frankly insulting. Yes, we all know how stuff is made. They're not telling us anything we don't know. They're not smarter about fossil fuels because of their proximity to it. Just insanely and heavily biased.

What Suncor and others and the Alberta taxpayer and energy sector wants is not a trickle of oil used for those purposes -- it's what any corporation wants: year over year growth, large profits for stock holders, revenues for governments, and jobs -- lots of jobs -- for Albertans.

Unfortunately that growth is not compatible with the ecological scenario of the planet. And the rest of the country is under no obligation to shift policy and economic planning for it.

And this 2% number is an absolute distortion of the facts and simply a product of cherry picking how things are measured. North Americans impact on the climate isn't just from their direction product & emissions, but also from the imports they bring in from abroad. Emissions from Chinese factories producing products for western consumers is not "China's fault" that somehow absolves us such that we can aggressively turn around and increase emissions.

What we're seeing demonstrated here is just classic deflection of responsibility. The bias within the western energy sector will always be to find "facts" to back up a world in which they can continue to grow and, in fact, destroy the climate. Intelligent people should be able to see past this.

In the end, Alberta provides oil and gas for domestic consumption, and that's not a bad role. Contrary to what Kenney was saying when he was premier, the large majority of domestic consumption does in fact come from Canadian (primarily Albertan) production, and has since the mid-2010s when the direction on Line 9 was reversed. Only the Atlantic provinces are substantially importers.

Alberta must diversify. Amazingly it actually was, at the level of renewable energy production, and ... you can see what a threat that was to established energy sector interests, because one of the first things Smith did was to put an end to that.

Finally, there seems to be a misperception in Alberta that the energy sector and Alberta are somehow underwriting the whole Canadian economy such that Ontario and Quebec "owe" it something. This is a falsehood. As a % of GDP, even for exports, oil & gas is still behind manufacturing, despite the multi decade decline in that sector. Share prices on the TSX are one thing, dollars and cents in paycheques and gov't coffers on the whole are driven by manufacturing, real estate, agriculture, etc., too.
Shocking. Truly.
Solar a bright spot in slow progress toward U.S. renewable energy goals
The funny thing for me is that my FB feed is nothing but user-generated -- no glossy productions. While I've tried instagram at the instigation of my partner and the opposite appears to be true.

And twitter, which I've never really liked, is still for me at least small things written by humans.
I can. I’ve had it happen. That’s why I don’t use debit cards anymore. The fees “I” racked up were terrible because of bounced checks missed CC payments and so forth.
For a downtime of 2 hours they would owe you around 0.05$ (20x2/(24x31)). Perhaps they can give you a 1000 token GPT4 budget?
Switzerland also has a model of direct democracy that meets curious amounts of resistance when suggested virtually anywhere else.
I also found that Elon was always in my feed even though I don't follow him, so I blocked him and now he's gone.
Reading Zadie Smith's non-fiction makes me convinced that she has one of the most first-class minds I've ever come across (in writing). I can typically devour books in hours, but hers make me feel my intellectual capacity for synthesis and understanding is being overloaded. Too many ideas, too many connections. too much goodness.

Obviously, YMMV (and this is a novel).
Because he's in the lucky position of not needing it. They already split their revenue with creators, accepting such a bribe would not benefit him. So awful PR for no real benefit.
Came to ask the same question, but I got the impression a UK "grammar school" is analogous to a USA "charter school" or private school.
For fiction, there's Fantastic Fiction (https://www.fantasticfiction.com)
I don't even think it was a deprecation for a new product, just a standard version deprecation. Office Communicator became Lync and Lync became Skype for Business. They were successive major "versions" that came with rebranding and some changes in direction.
We're going to build bridges and trains and rails and roads and ships out of cross laminated timber?

And yes, you can build pretty tall structures out of CLT, but there's still smaller than what you can build with steel and concrete. The tallest one built that I know of is 25 stories. But at least 6 or so of those floors are all concrete+steel, and it still uses concrete+steel emergency stairwells.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/apply/w...

But what is the foundation made from? What do you think the elevator shafts are made from? Its not like its 100% wood. I would like to see more CLT construction, and modern building codes are allowing taller and larger stick construction as well, but arguing that steel and concrete aren't necessary is ignoring all the rest of the things supporting that structure along with all the other things that still need steel and concrete. How did all the building materials arrive at the site? What harvested the wood? What were the machines making the CLT made out of? What are the fireproof stairwells usually made out of? Steel and concrete.

We'll probably see more and more construction which looks like this, where some CLT offsets some concrete and steel, but chances are the whole building isn't entirely wood:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/styles/fs_wysiwy...

Using modern materials and building codes can let us reduce our usage of things like steel and concrete for more buildings, but its not going to fully eliminate their usage in our world.
> the logical endpoint of that is some crazy guy shooting up a pizza place

That's the likely outcome if people are lead towards that outcome and if that's the only given option. And so far the only voices that validate their concerns are those that would benefit from such outcomes. Those that want a "better world" are too busy berrating those that have genuine concerns and as a result the only people they can take refuge in are those like Musk. It's time for genuine innovation and genuine conversation without losing track of the good in both sides.
SSH over HTTPS
They made some pretty bad decisions during their decline. As a developer, it became infuriating how often the signing server was down. You can't push unsigned code to a Blackberry hardware device and the software simulator was not very good at replicating the actual behavior of code on the actual hardware. It was often broken at random for a couple of days but that stretched over a week sometimes. Even correcting a small typo like 'SEX Compliance' that should have been 'SEC Compliance' could take a week because the size of a change didn't matter, everything sent to the device had to be signed by RIM's signing server. This was at a time they were pleading for developers to not abandon the platform for Apple and Android, both of which had much simpler development on testing cycles for their hardware, even if publishing to the actual store could be a chore.
> I would be interested to see your thoughts from the perspective of a minority, especially one used as a scapegoat.

It is terrible what people say, do, have said, and have done to minority groups, but this sort of logic is a slippery slope to abuse. This means incentivized actors can intentionally identify with a group to pursue thought control over others. There should be a line in the sand when it comes to invading minds and forcing thought.

Treatment of minorities has gotten better over the trajectory of time through natural behavioral changes and intelligence growth. Why now more than ever do we need such progressive controls?

We live in a time where even the wolves do not necessarily have to be real to tell a story and now those stories can be used to force patterns of thought through censorship.
Apple, Google, Facebook - they are all bundling products - why should Microsoft be different?

Asked another way, why is Apple allowed to bundle Music with the iPhone, but Microsoft is not allowed to bundle Teams with Office?
One of the Twitter owners has people executed for political speech. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/saudi-arabian-...
People forget that as consumers we arent free to be choosey. We only can chose among options the market has already made available to us, options that are presented in the first place because economies of scale have been developed to put them in front of every consumer. All of that cannot be unwound overnight or restarted with some alternative since it took so much iteration just to reach this point at all.
> EDIT: thread is getting derailed by whether or not people have seen specifically Cheech and Chong.

As far as I'm concerned, this is a worthwhile line of inquiry.
That is not true... I would love to see a show made on the Calibre of Cheers...

however those shows do not fix modern narrative thus can not be made.

People want to watch good scripted shows, instead of they get terrible writing, terrible acting, and over all terrible shows....
To add some color: South Korea is somewhere between the size of Kentucky and Indiana (the 37th and 38th largest states), yet has over 51 million people, almost 15 million more than California, the most populous state. It has very few natural resources to speak of, and is roughly two-thirds mountainous, meaning most of the population is condensed in the few flat areas. In some ways, it's natural that the fertility rate would be so low, purely out of density, if nothing else.

It's honestly miraculous how far it's come. Within one lifetime, it went from a primarily agricultural economy to one of the world's largest and most industrialized. It builds (at times) half of the world's ships in tonnage, and its engineers and contractors are responsible for many of the world's tallest buildings.
The average lifetime co2 emissions per person seems to be in the tens or hundreds of tons (probably on the higher end of the spectrum for Americans, especially those decades in the latter half of the 20th century). Most trees weigh a single digit number of tons when fully grown, and many trees don't survive to full growth and in any case they may release much of that carbon through decay or combustion. It seems pretty unlikely to me that planting a tree actually offset your carbon emissions.
> (modulo assumptions based on your being a reader of this site) - installing a dual boot linux on your existing Windows machine will take you a couple of hours.

Doing a fresh install of something is like the smallest, most insignificant amount of work involved when doing a migration.

99% of the needed time will be solving dozens of problems like "can I get my P-touch label maker working with Linux," and if can I, does the solution actually meet my needs?
I use it and I am happy with it!

The interface is good, the plots provided are useful, I like their transparency on upcoming features, and the fact that the premium version is not needed and mostly a way to support them financially.

On the minus side, their search engine and recommendation system could be improved and it does not seem to be able to sort the books I want to read by most recommended.
Choose a *chan.
I like it because of the deep integration with Office
There are so many electric trucks out there that look like real trucks. Why would anyone buy the cybertruck?
Bard available in EU, local guides
Received this today

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I remember when this happened. It felt like everybody's parents joined at the same time almost overnight
Designing Abstractions
> I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivity boost multiple monitors are, whatever the resolution.

Or tiling window managers with virtual workspaces. When most applications I use are two keystrokes away, the need for more than one screen seriously lessens. Besides, looking at a screen on the side hurts my neck.
Addon: Whitelisted because found up voted on HN
This shop has nothing left to lose, so they might as well blatantly lie about being capable, or even willing, arbiters of truth.
Probably by backing off they meant they just re-orged and fired a few people in that department
I just think it's odd that you think that the solution to being picked on is to remove your right to defend yourself from being picked on. The 2A wasn't supposed to be just for "bigots". Use your rights. Relying on the government to protect you from bigots only works when the government itself isn't comprised of bigots. Then you'll really regret not having rights to effective individual defense.
AI technology provided by aliens who are being held captive in area 51.

Honestly, don't they teach you kids anything in school these days?
Probably elemental hydrogen.
I recall seeing an article once about someone immigrating with a single character name having to basically pick a name as the IT systems didn't allow it
I'd say it's four things:

- Dockerfile.
- Docker image.
- Docker container.
- Docker repository.

the docker desktop and docker hub is an implementation of one of those, other concepts like overlay filesystem as well.
Hey, it went public so the investors got their money back. What else matters?

People forget that VC is a (tiny) segment of the PE business, an approach that is entirely extractive.
Disagree too. These courses were also known as “weeder” courses so less students do the major, which can’t support all the interested students, so they’re overly difficult. Anyone learning, I would start with JavaScript and make small fun stuff.
This has been posted a number of times before with some good discussion- but it’s been a few years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cheats.rs
A niche sub equivalent succeeding on, say, Lemmy would either require the existing reddit sub to close and migrate there or for the Lemmy active user count to grow to the point where a critical mass of users interested in that niche want to discuss it there. There needs to be some way on Lemmy to promote those forums as well. A couple of niche forums I'm subscribed to are gaining a little traction, but I only found out they existed when they were mentioned on the reddit subs they're based on.
This is a consequence of what and how we teach and treat our students in school. School is considered to be a safe space where students are shielded from any speech that might offend them. Students who say thing that offend, or might offend, are punished.

No surprise that this carries over into broader public policy as those students become adult voters and officials.
Gotta love the cheeky euphemisms of these companies. In this case, disaster response isn't responding to a disaster, it's a response that causes a disaster. Preferably for people you do not like.
I assume you wanted to link to TurboBench and not that particular issue, which for some reason also contains a link for some car listing?

Secondly, did you not see my answer to ebiggers under this comment you replied to? Yes, for Silesia, libdeflate is faster, I can confirm, but there are at least two cases for which igzip is faster and one for which igzip is twice as fast. But yes, it heavily depends on the input data.

Edit: I was then wondering why I could not find any igzip benchmarks on the repository's ReadMe and then found https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 , so I guess this is the one you wanted to link to and the 3 got cut off.
I think the Matrix Architect would represent Netflix best here: "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
Meeting with C-suit.

COO: "This is turning out to be hard"

CEO: "F*it, let the planet burn".

CFO: "I'm down with that, I'm retiring rich and have a good 10-20 years of cocaine and hookers before my house on the coast gets washed away"
If you open the Finder preferences, you can add few useful things, like your $HOME to the sidebar.
Same, it's almost like ads are personalized and being bombarded by similar ads says more about the consumer than the supplier..
The only problem with that plan is that it's going to warp in ways that make us facepalm, especially because they like to have a named antagonist. Impossible to predict how it would go, but one thought might be that it will turn into "Bill Gates is investing in facial recognition so he can put us all in prison camps" or something.

Unfortunately the damage from that will be severe and will probably make everyone on the left double down about how AI is "safe" and all that. Remember Alex Jones et al conspiracy theories about powerful people being involved in a pedophile ring? For years it was widely mocked and dismissed (including by me) and then Epstein came to light. The prediction was far from perfect, but was right in overall gist, but the suicide was largely the end of the reporting. A lawsuit here and there but very little news coverage and a lot of weird stuff was happening around that, to the point that even "regular" people think it was a conspiracy and Epstein didn't kill himself. But it went nowhere.
This is highly likely to be a dumb question, but can each dish only communicate with one object at a time?
My wife and I have opted not to have children for reasons* and it's really sad how the conversation with the in-laws has moved from "you should have children because children" to "you need to have children because korea needs you to have children", and it's not just a passing comment here and there, the campaign to get us to single handedly re-populate SK is intense and sustained. I wonder if other couples are experiencing this.

*We can't afford to have children, Climate change, We can't afford to have children
You’ll never know unless you try. Stay focused on accomplishing business objectives rather than technical details or purity. Design pieces of the system to be replaced. If you’re building a business, the technology is a means to an end. Good luck!
This is like a project manager that agrees to ship code that is known to be buggy and doesn't actually do what was intended, but performs just enough to fool a casual user. No. No. NO. Please, update your definition of working
>In the past freedom of speech meant absolute free speech with a small blacklist of specific situations in which it would cause immediate, physical, danger to others.

You'll have to specify when this golden age existed. I suspect that if you name any specific date, we could find all sorts of respects in which freedom of speech was much more restricted in the US at that time than it is now.
> If I ever want an arm server for a homelab, I'll rather wait for something made specifically to run Linux with full upstream support (meaning SBBR/UEFI). A NUC-like thing would surely be a way to go.

https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
Pleased to say that since I switched to using the website in a browser with adblock and stopped using the app, I've not seen _any_ ads.

I was sort of hoping the extra inconvenience would wean me off it, but it hasn't yet. What is noticeable is how much non-political content is just gradually getting quieter and drifting off the platform.
Still relevant today...

-Post on 4Chan from a few years ago. I cleaned it up a little (removed retarded and autist).

The crux of Social media....

The need for attention, validation, to fit in, and be seen fitting it. Its encourages the worst traits of old internet forums. The upvote/downvote system is a compounding factor on all of this because it gives direct feedback. Violating the group think is instantly punished. Conforming to the group think is instantly rewarded. They are thereby programmed to attempt to appease the group constantly. They live for the rush of validation and dopamine when the upvotes start ticking.This shit becomes such a powerful feedback loop that they really have grasp on reality at all.

I've had the misfortune of talking to some IRL hardcore "social media people" face to face. They're socially inept in an entirely unique way. They're capable of basic social graces that an actual crazy/freak isn't, but they still lack critical self awareness. They don't know how to differentiate between the internet b.s and real life b.s. They're gullible and will believe anything from another person who is even half way agreeable to them. Its tragic. They're virtually lobotomized. Genuine NPCs.
What do you define as wealthy? If you read bogleheads / fire blogs, there are plenty of people I would define as wealthy that self manage their assets. A lot of them use spreadsheets, some use free / cheap software online.
IDE support is required if you’re building up complex scripts/custom functions.
Taiwan population is not that large (23M), and yet they can support a pretty convincing semiconductor industry.

I agree that we need a reasonable amount of people to build and maintain large projects, millions, not billions.
Indeed. Infinite growth as demanded by capitalism is not physically possible. If they wouldn't hit "the wall" now, they would hit it anyway in the near future.

Maybe South Korea's situation should give all ageing rich developed nations something to reflect on and start making preparations for the upcoming demographic plateau/collapse and reform stuff like welfare/pension systems, instead of blindly kicking the can down the road thinking growth is never ending.
You don't even have to ditch your car (an absurd proposition for most people), you could just get an EV.
"they ultimately still believed that the public opinion would still make it palatable to continue hydrocarbon fuels extraction for another 2 to 3 decades"

And they are right. There are viable alternatives to gasoline cars now and people still buy gas powered vehicles. Most of Teslas success I think has not been so much due to the hunger for an electric vehicle but because of Tesla's cool factor, performance and design. The rest of the major vehicle manufacturers have essentially failed on the electric vehicle front.
The trust of a small, private group goes a long way, but I also wonder whether we've internalized the idea that things you say on the internet can last a long time. Even if the UI claims to be ephemeral, someone in your close group can screenshot what you posted and distribute it anonymously.