skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you've seen "degrowth" is a counter-productive argument and you are your own worst enemy and this gives ammunition to the side which claims that climate change is only possible via severe personal sacrifice -- which again reinforces the notion that climate change is an individual problem and failing and the whole "just recycle harder" idea.

We need to decarbonize the fucking electrical grid. Just get it done and that addresses the majority of the problem.

You'd also probably be better off if you focused on just changing the incentives and regulations which promote disposable culture. The CAFE standards need an overhaul and the Chicken tax needs to go away, that would do wonders towards getting us smaller, cheaper vehicles. Right to repair laws and EU regulations around replaceable batteries that are being imposed now on companies like Apple will help a lot. Better public transportation, sure, but that means building it (which means more economic output and jobs, but differently). But we're not going to manage to forcefully stop a lot of people from consuming, so we need to focus on making that impact less, particularly when it comes to GHGs, because that is more or less an emergency right now. We can have scalable carbon-neutral energy which still powers a lot of economic growth for the future up until we're all dead. And if you argue against that you will lose the broader war for the sake of trying to be a perfectionist (#include <leftists_being_their_own_worst_enemy.h>)
If you are talking about these in general terms about a hypothetical future, I don't think one example of medical care being delayed is very strong data compared to the 42,939 motor vehicle deaths the IIHS reported in 2021.

>(But also, counterfactually speaking, it is absolutely the robotaxi's fault that the person died. Had the ambulance been unhindered, they would have had a chance at life after receiving proper medical care; since the ambulance was hindered, they didn't get that care and died as a result.)

I'll take the certainty of life for that pedestrian if they weren't hit by a human driver over the "chance at life" that would have come from quicker medical care.
You can use the ungoogled-chromium flatpak on Linux for your secondary.
you're justifying your life choices, which is fine, but it makes it too hard to get any perspective from it.

$200k is not a high salary for SV tech, which i know sounds crazy, but a large part of this thread is about ambition and making it in the big city. Your data point isn't an earnest example of that trade off.

i like that you like Austin and seeing your family. I don't like that you have to paint that picture against some kind of shit terrible black hole that is California. It's just not true.

You wish you never moved to California!? I'm a california native, and perhaps that hurt me more than it should haha. Everyone loves California. How and wheher it's sustainable is its own question.
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From where I’m sitting it doesn’t appear to be localised.
As far as I understand it, the decertification effort seems to be about a previous unpopular collective bargaining agreement. The issue that the article highlights is that the union agreed to a workaround that didn't work for everybody. I'm not convinced that enough people would be so inconvenienced by this workaround to move the needle on the (already weak-looking) decertification effort, personally.
Specifically, they're talking about the fire starters which are cellulose soaked in kerosene.

Such fire lighters smell badly of kerosene (plane fuel - you often smell it at airports). I find that once the packet is opened, even if I put it in a plastic container a little smell still leaks out, so I now store them outdoors.
Leverage to finance something you have an edge on can be good. Leverage to finance something you have no edge, like stock picking, is a path to ruin.
>Please please please stop recommend benzodiazepines so casually.

benzo's and -olam's are a horrible drug that should not be taken except in the most extreme of circumstances - I compare it directly with electro shock therapy.

But these contexts are exceptional.

Never redose benzo's or any -zolam's, it will control you at a cellular level, that opioids couldn't even begin to.
For how long have Microsoft been about selling me to advertisers, and not only selling me software? For a company that is so much about selling licenses and services, it disgusts me to have to deal with this crap. I understand companies that based their entire existence on this, I try to avoid them, but Microsoft I think should be a safe choice. Disgusting.
They do often contain coal. Briquettes are weird. For smoking, you really want to be using wood (or charcoal and wood); charcoal has most of the volatiles burned off already, in principle leaving behind only carbon, so it isn't great for smoking things.
I don't see the risk. It seems German companies are making weak offers with "probation periods" even for international hires. One problem might be that such offers are not very attractive.
For things like "there's" vs. "there're", not too much harm besides a loss of precision, Grammer can be sloppy and meaning is still understood. But for "could care less" or "cannot be understated" or "irregardless" they're _literal_ negations of intended meaning used unsarcastically and unironically. How does that not irk you at a visceral level? Learning English is already hard enough, and we want to sprinkle in "sometimes what is meant is the exact opposite of what is said, good luck figuring out when, rely on context I guess?"
Still would be better to keep the carbon solid than released into the atmosphere, no?
This is very cool! I will check it out in more detail. I appreciate your recommendation!
https://pol.is mentioned at the end of the article seems to be very interesting.
I use Windows 10 IoT (supported until 2035) and I don't see any of those problems.
> It's nnDMT, not 5meoDMT. She will not hurt you

(my emphasis). You irresponsible idiot. That's equivalent to saying it's harmless – no drug is, all have risks both mental and physical[1] (mental perhaps being the main one here, but the almost instant 'lights out' of DMT can cause physical injury).

[1] and legal.
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If we were playing Civilization, then public transit would be the way to go. For the world we live in, expanding public transit is a slow and difficult political process, but people happily buy electric cars because they're fun.
What if a brand new, human-driven taxi breaks down, blocking the ambulance? Is the taxi company on the hook?
Republicans + Joe Manchin don’t care about this. Most policy makers aren’t captured by the fossil fuel industry and many are pushing for the kind of structural changes we need, but it’s hard for them to accomplish as much with active opposition at the U.S. federal level.
Can I suggest removing recently extracted or having a way to hide whatever you extract from the home page?
After 90% of my apple harvest gone to garbage due to Apple Maggot/Railroad Worm, I'm not surprised by the extensive use of pesticide in the agriculture industry. Probably like half of human population would die from starvation due to failed crops if we didn't use pesticides.
Could we use less toxic ways to keep our food safe? I don't know.
I'm not sure I've properly understood your criticism, but as far as "improvement in responses" goes—all I did there was bog-standard HN moderation. No change at all from my perspective.
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I don't even use Windows, but perhaps there's some way to take revenge on Microsoft and spam them with fake data?
Small monkey syndrome?!
Looking forward to feedback! I posted it on HN a while ago, but it can't hurt to have new input.
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When you try a bit of kerosene you never go back...

Just a cup-full poured into the base of any fire turns it into a roaring inferno within 10 seconds or so, and by getting hotter quicker you typically avoid lots of smoke that you'd normally get while starting a fire with newspaper - especially important if you're having a fire near other people who won't want stinky smoke blowing across their gardens on a nice sunny day.
Of course the problem is capitalism, to be precise: the lack of a mandate to price in externalities - not just water rights, but also CO2 and other pollution, destruction of extremely large swaths of land or devastation of biodiversity by ever larger monoculture farms - into the actual sticker price of products.

Something like the alfalfa or Brazilian meat trade should be exorbitantly expensive, as should be stuff like strawberries from Morocco or cut flowers from Kenya to Europe. The emissions associated with these products are absurdly large, and yet it's cheap enough to be worthwile.
Yeesh, that's good to know. With the dev response basically doubling down on ideology and ignoring reasonable protest, that's definitely an ecosystem to not sink time into.
The "set new tabs to be a blank page" option is missing from Chrome, too. I don't want a "new tab page"-- I just want a blank tab.
Stoker had Dracula transforming into a dog. "Hmm maybe it was related to another shipwreck with a dog name." - Really? Was there also a shipwreck of vampire bats? Every aspect of Dracula was based from various wrecks on Irish shores /s
> "If you require written records before you write about women in history, you'll find yourself writing about women in history far less often than they were involved in making it."

I've started reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, he talks about being apprenticed to "the cutler's trade". That sound like cutlery, as in eating utensils (knives, forks, spoons). I looked it up anyway, people in the cutler's trade made and sharpened scissors and knives. I would not have guessed scissors from the name. This isn't directly related, just an example of how words change meaning over time; the same way a building piece of land can change use over time.

I read a bit of 'The Analects' (aka Selected Sayings of Confucius). It is amazing to me how much space is given to filial piety - respect for one's father.

More recently, there has been significant commentary of female characters in Tolkien's writings, following the Peter Jackson movies and the recent TV show. Where did the Entwives go after all?
It's starting to bleed out of Edge, too. Recently Outlook showed me a popup explaining that they're going to start ignoring my system default browser setting and open all hyperlinks in Edge instead, on the pretense that Edge offers a better browsing experience for Sharepoint.

Mind you, it didn't just do this for Sharepoint links; it did it for all links. They did create a special, "no, really, respect my browser choice," but it took me a hot minute to find.
Alright how about coalgebra.
I don't disagree with you but I did find the linked article very interesting to read absent any context.
Climate scientists have been producing accurate predictions for the global climate for half a century. Large models like that aren’t perfect but things like the early 90s IPCC reports have held up quite well.
> convincing suburban Americans to buy smaller houses

In USA, a person's house value has become their retirement plan. A quick free-market solution is to eliminate the house mortgage interest deduction and make all of the sale price capital gains. Let the builders compete on quality, price, and maintainability rather than being subsidized by tax policy.
atmospheric CO₂ emissions doesn't really limit itself to state borders
> If you’re paying someone 50th percentile compensation and demanding a 90th percentile work pace and output from them, you’re just going to have endless turnover as you burn people out.

Only if they're a 50th percentile person.
> politicians who support funding rail, bike, and ped infrastructure

My eldest (who travels to school by train every day) has children in his class who are brought to school every day in their parents cars. I know most of these kids, almost all of them live in villages with a regular bus service which would take them to school, yet instead the children get a lift with Mum or Dad in the car.

I'm not sure this is just about more infrastructure. There are some pretty seriously ingrained habits at play, too.
You’ve repeated this a few times, but I clicked on several charcoal options on Home Depot’s website, and they claimed to be made entirely of “100% natural hardwood”. Maybe some cheaper ones have added coal?
> Counterfactually, that person would most likely be alive if the Cruise taxi hadn't been on the street that day.

That's a big statement. It sounds like it delayed the ambulance up to 90 seconds. 90 seconds can make a difference, but the patient died "later," and from pretty severe injuries.
As an Austin native I wish I could GTFO but family commitments preclude it. CA would be my preferred state but I can't afford to live there even though I make more than the parent commenter here. Maybe that's because I'm past my hustle stage and want a WLB that is more weighed toward life than work.

I agree that CA isn't some terrible black hole. My Austin native brother moved to SF a couple of years ago and while the magic of SF has worn off he would still never pick Austin over it.

Regardless, I can't trust someone that says they love the heat. 30+ years of it and every time I step foot in the Bay Area or PNW I wonder WTF I'm doing in Austin.
Thse articles repeatedly mention the Hummer EV, which is an absolutely ludicrous monster truck of an off roader. Not the Teslas, Mach-Es and Kias/Hyundais sold in volume.
Expensive watches are jewelry for men, that's about it.
Respectable move. My primary complaint with solo-turned-agency people is how grifty they get.

As a solo, the job is to add value and make the customer happy so you build your reputation. There are definitely solo contractor grifters out there but they usually struggle with the reputation issue.

Agencies develop a grifty dynamic where they realize that their job is to sell themselves and as many headcount and hours as they can squeeze into a contract. Now instead of hiring that solo dev, they’re forcing you to pay 20 hours/week to the project manager and to have two devs minimum on it, one or more of whom are complete juniors who will spend incredible amounts of hours solving simple problems, but that’s okay because that’s what they want.

Agencies rely on their status and size to impress clients, which short circuits the reputation issue and opens the door to these shenanigans. They also target bigger companies where wasting time and moving slowly might be the norm, or at least something they can gloss over by sending the sales people out to schmooze the execs over dinner again.

I knew some excellent devs and infosec people who turned into agency operators who just tried to milk companies for contracts and run a revolving door of junior hires who they can squeeze hours from until they quit. It’s sad to see.

To be fair, I know a few good agencies as well. They tend to be in such high demand from reputation that they’re always booked without even trying. It takes a long, long time to get there though.
Yes please. Being aware of just how much tax you’re paying will make people really interested in where it’s going. I’m ok with paying my taxes, but where exactly is that going? Let’s talk about this 35%…
> it’s “the farmers,”

No, it's "the shareholders". Large corporations don't care about farming, only making money. They just happen to also farm.
Since when has 'Got it!' meant 'I Agree'?

I sure wish there was a little more protection over what's considered a yes/no versus what's considered harassment and dark patterns in order to coerce that behaviour into profitable funnels. But then, who's dollar as developers do we fight for? The same one's that enable this crap. The thumbs are big.

So the cycle continues.
Reminds me of the Streamberry episode of Black Mirror https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Streamberry_Corporation

Anyone know how Netflix agreed to air (and create a likeness to itsself) such an episode. I enjoyed the episode, and was impressed with Netflix's liberal stance on allowing this, and impressed with the cautionary tale it tells -- i'm surprised because it seems against Netflix's interests.
In that case you would not need to produce charcoal in the first place
Lol being let down by the union?

That sounds like the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard based on the article.

USPS had a “catastrophical” payroll error and has been unable to resolve it.

This is USPS’s job and they haven’t been able to do it. The Union has stepped in and implemented a workaround that will be very helpful to the vast majority of USPS’s employees until USPS fixes its fuckup.

How is that a letdown by the union?
In context, it's clearer.

Don't be banking on that elusive big investment win to save the day if you're not otherwise on the trajectory you want to be on. Of course, you hope your investments will preserve your savings and augment them. But outsized investment gains won't in general get you there by themselves.

(Also remember that the 10 years since this was written have been something of an outlier for the stock market.)
But they were hit by a human driver. 42,939 people were struck and killed by human drivers. So in these present circumstances, delaying ambulance care (which is the immediate, not-hypothetical question here) is inexcusable.
Anime are way cheaper than anything on this list to produce and many of them are available on streaming platforms runned by ads, looking at the top 20 movies 2022 do not show how actually impactful anime are in the western world. Nowadays it's even sometimes hard to find an illustrator on Twitter that was not heavily influenced by anime.

Edit: and of course the vast majority of anime are animated series, not movies.
Only half
Why would da Vinci need to advertise?
The Spanish Flu is well known where I live (Canada) - because WW1 is a largest part of our history curriculum.
Google should've made an alliance with the newspaper industry. Yes, it would've been a little more expensive to pay for that content. But they could've single-handedly ensured the health of the newspaper industry -- and maybe even created a symbiotic, mutually-beneficial relationship.
> getting paid for every hour I worked (I billed by the hour)

As someone who is (overly?) honest/careful; this could be a con. Also, if you're able to, bill by the day.
I agree with you and think anything larger than 1% of GDP should be split but the problem is that other countries might not do the same, making it difficult for domestic companies to compete with a foreign company like Samsung, which is over 20% of South Korea's GDP. Even accounting for the difference in national GDPs, Samsung would have an advantage over the five or six Baby Apples that would result from the 1% rule.
Sorry, no. What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.

Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition.
Oh all those - brainwashed? - web developers who love and use vs code and other MS based things. This is what you get for your loyalty. MS gave you Internet Explorer quirks hell for decades. Now that everyone retired IE and finally we could forget about it, Edge is back to do the same shenanigans as IE did. Simply making your life miserable. Go on people, embrace MS, use their products, pay, pay, pay!

Now no matter whether you are a user or a developer, you will suffer. You have a feeling you are part of a human experiment, because nothing makes sense. Oh if Edge will reach a given userbase expect even more madness.

Historians, what a time to be alive! Just sit back and enjoy.
Maybe, but how big can the expenses have been?

I've worked as a freelance solo dev (sadly for far less than $500k/year) and the difference between my revenue and profit was close to zero. Expenses included accountancy costs and the occasional new laptop or whatever bit of hardware I could justifiably call a business expense, but it was a tiny fraction of my revenue.
Ugh I also have a local account. Crap. But Windows for me is now only for gaming.
I think the union failure they are referencing is the weak accountability that the union is holding USPS to. The union signed off on this money order compromise even though it has significant disadvantages for the workers and gives full absolution to USPS.

The root failure here is USPS no question, but the union response is weak.
>Do you hate yourself for living under a roof when so many can’t? For eating dinner when so many are starving? For drinking clean water when so much pollution exists?

Of course.
The blog post explains that the goal is to run this on a SBC that’s connected directly to my sound system. I don’t always have my computer turned on, or have Firefox open.
If you end up finding something interesting I hope you'll write about it and post it here!
It's not a prerequisite tho - I've arranged with multiple clients to work either 3 days a week or just a set amount of hours whenever I choose. And most of others I know who get into freelancing do the same - if you have offer for another project, and they can't wait until you're free, you can always recommend them to a friend/colleague.
I think there's a world of difference between "someone misunderstood something and published an incorrect article" and "someone deliberately wrote misleading headline".

My reading of GP disappointed post was that they were accusing them of the latter; which is, in my opinion, underserved here.
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Most agri land is also used to grow crops for animals for a tiny return on the calories fed to them (tropic levels).

We could get serious about that if we decide to get serious about agri land use, deforestation, soil depletion, etc.
> These vehicles were chosen because they are approximately the same size as the Model 3. You can make whatever kind of vehicle in whatever size you want.

What's the average occupancy in a Model 3? Like I said, our tiny car can happily transport four adults plus shopping or a moderate quantity of luggage...

If everyone drove smaller, lighter vehicles, they'd use less fuel (of whatever variety), right?
"Integration" is a very common term so it should be easy to read a better description that I'm about to give. My take on it is that integration is the process of reflecting on one's experience and figuring out what it means for your real life.

For instance, say someone is burdened with thoughts of self-hatred due to growing up with critical and non-supportive parents. Although they can intellectually entertain the thought that the self-hatred is due to this, under the influence of psychedelics, they might viscerally feel the truth of it. When sober again, integration means taking that insight and working on changing your mindset to align with that new belief.

There are plenty of examples of the flip side too, eg, someone with a string of bad relationships might, under the influence, really see that they themselves are the main cause of the failures. But an insight isn't enough. Integration is making changes in sober life to change things in the positive direction.

Or maybe your life is going great, you take psychedelics, and you have a hard trip that is filled with morbid thoughts about sickness and death. It can be interpreted as an indication that those thoughts are present but subconscious even in sober life, and maybe it is worth investigating more via conventional means.
It's "gotten" way way worse though. It used to be just pushiness against Chrome. Now it's all sorts of monetization crap.
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I’m encouraged by this graph https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline - hopefully the trend can continue for a while longer!
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