skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BATNA stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement. In other words, it's your plan-b if you don't accept the current offer. It's a fairly common acronym when discussing negotiations, and is also spelled out in the article.
There are a lot of factors at work here at the same time.

It's far off (or perceived that way) and people naturally seek relief of immediate pain. It's human nature. You tell somebody that they'll save $X over the next 10 years by spending a fraction of it now, most won't bother. On the other hand, if you're currently spending $X on something and you need to invest in something to get that cost down, they'll do it almost immediately.

Because it's far off, there's not a sense of urgency to it.

Additionally, there are some fairly strong factors that call a lot of climate change activism into question, like wide spread opposition to nuclear power by many of the same activists. Examples like Germany shuttering nuclear facilities only to turn around and turn to coal power certainly doesn't help.

Other factors such as the need for change across the entire world complicate matters when numerous businesses will just send their pollution to countries that don't impose the same requirements.

Separating hyperbole from practical application in pursuit of pre-existing goals is another huge factor. We've heard about methane emissions from cattle ranches for years. It seems like we have a great solution for this by adding an ingredient to the feed:

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/publications/from-b...

But rather than pursuing this, activists are more interested in continuing to attack the industry and pushing vegan diets when a potential solution seems readily available.

Factor that in with alarmism over temperature increases as if every potential increase is man made while other factors are ignored by most outlets...

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3204/tonga-eruption-blasted-un...

https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push...

There's just a great deal of inconsistency and alarmism that undermines credibility when ignored.
I agree with all of this. Much regulatory action amounts to forcing people to make different choices. If they just made those choices, we would need less regulation. There are cases where individual choice alone is inadequate, such as when we need to pool our resources to achieve something or we need a central organizer to make collective action possible, but a vast portion of the legislation proposed is aimed squarely at changing individual choices.

On top of that, making a choice oneself inspires hope and commitment. If you make the hard choice, sacrifices near-term comfort for the common good, cognitive dissonance rewards you. Likewise, if you make a morally lazy choice, cognitive dissonance soothes your conscience and makes it harder to choose otherwise in the future.
Yup, that's what I meant! Care to comment on something substantive now?
"different pins get shorted together"

But phone connectors have built-in switches, so I would think there must be some configuration to route the powered lines through the switches so that the power is only connected until the plug is fully inserted, I think. For instance, if insertion of the tip control a double-pole double-throw switch, then one of those could route the ground pin and one could route the power pin, such that those power lines are only routed once full insertion has been made.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules are a 'farce'
We've been training custom LLMs using indices pulled from domains. For example, we demo'd the NFL with a Chicago Bears custom Chatgpt site search. We trained it using over 900 pages from their site, and then used reinforced human training to really polish it up. https://sapien.ai
This analysis is incredibly incorrect. Relays are not fixed. There can be as many relays as anybody wants to run. There are backlinks. There are ways to dereference a PDS from a username.
Electric cars help, but are not the solution. If everyone in Asia and Africa bought electric cars, it would be a disaster.
We may finally again get affordable access to the rule of law in the United States.
I've had some concerns about the namespacing issue.

Bluesky accounts should be permitted to have both a bsky.social username and one with a custom domain. If I am a company and want to use @myname.com as my username, I would not want someone @myname.bsky.social to fall into the hands of anyone else. So it sort of necessitates signing up for 2 accounts, if only to reserve your name so nobody takes it.
i read it as percentage applied to the first half, but not the second -- perhaps only on the grounds that to distribute the word "percentage" would make the claim obviously false.

Whether false by percentage or not, I'm not sure relative percentages are of that much importance. Surely the hundreds of thousands of american soliders dying in the US civil war wouldnt be relieved to hear that perhaps more black people were enslaved today, only to feel their sacrifce justified when hearing it was a mere 0.5%
I did this once and the resulting message was incredibly depressing so I don't think I would do it again. For me there is no value or point in engaging in such actions. It's probably only worth it if you have a positive outlook on life.
You can buy a LOT of TV for what you paid for the AVP, and other people can watch with you!
Rainbow's End, and Vernor Vinge in general, probably also fall in that category of referenced often, yet not actually read. Somebody actually reads the book, finds the one cool quote or example everybody likes, that idea gets repeated a huge amount, and most people don't actually read Rainbows End. Yet you hear about it so much tangentially, you feel like you have (or must have).
Where are you going to plug in, and how often? The Prius is $7,000 cheaper than the Prius Prime; I don't think many would pay the premium for the Prime unless they had a convenient place to plug in.
> what you’re seeing is a good content, but worth considering when you get shown policy-charged content - when and why is this in my feed.

That's always a worthy, necessary even, consideration.

> you should try to answer the second part of your comment - why is a state-sponsored social media company the only one showing me this right now?

You may be right in this specific case, and I tend to agree - though mostly out of lack of knowlege.

But I gotta object the insinuation that private media is somehow more reliable. Every outlet has an agenda. Al Jazeera English is by far the best journalistic TV I know (disclaimer, haven't watched in a few years). Funded by the government of Qatar…
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I've been saying this for years: climate science isn't science (in the falsifiable sense), climate is nonlinear and humans don't like to rock the boat. This is especially true with a big, cross-disciplinary project like the IPCC report.

(Yes, I understand parts of climate science are falsifiable... I'm at least semi-educated as a former meteorologist and former PDE guy. But the conclusions of the IPCC report are not testable.)
Perhaps not "old money" looking at those dates, but I'm still reminded of:

> They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

-- Making Money by Terry Pratchett
> But also software is better then ever was

It depends on what you're measuring and what you consider "better". In many ways, it is better. In many other ways, it's worse. Which you think it is depends on what you value.
Well, or a group of users can come together and attach their identity to a DNS server run by an admin they trust. If I register pinksky.com, it is fairly cheap for me to hand out subdomains to Bluesky users -- certainly easier than running a Mastodon instance.

I think the questions about indexers and firehose servers are more relevant to the question of centralizations. Identity is much easier to solve.
How do you define "future generations" anyways? People that aren't born yet? Because that sounds way more optimistic than I am.
Show HN: Forum where posts slowly disappear unless interacted with
I'm always nervous to post online (this is my very first HN post), so I built an anonymous forum where posts are automatically deleted after 24 hours. Every upvote or comment resets the clock.

Some things I like about this concept:

- The sheer volume of information on the internet is overwhelming - disappearing.chat keeps that volume low

- Unpopular content slowly fades away, so you can visually watch bad takes disappear

- Content is always fresh because even popular things will eventually stop getting interaction

- Takes the pressure off that your content is going to stick around forever

fwiw this just started as a toy project to play around with the Next.js app directory, Tailwind and deploying to Vercel, but I figured I'd get it fully functional and share it.
Ultimately even the behaviour of big polluters is driven by consumer demands. Consumers make financial choices that are incongruent with their values, all the time.

If consumers didn't demand so much cheap energy we would have less coal burning power stations, for example.

People fund corporations, we have to pay for alternatives which are usually a significantly higher cost that we refuse to accept.

Narratives that corporations that are responsible for a majority of pollution are BS. The corporations are at the mercy of our individual wallets.

I do think it's a government's role to unify and lead people through this. Provide quality alternatives, support offramping, etc. Without this essential cultural contract it just won't work.

Individual effort is only meaningful if it's coordinated and a majority of people buy into it. But we can't get that leadership behind the effort if we, the people, just keep voting it out.

So while it's admirable to individually "do your part" we know for a fact the overwhelming majority of people don't actually give a flip enough to prioritize the planet and work together.

Raindrops do contribute to floods, but you need coordination to get there.
tl;dr: you're not a Zoroastrian if either of your parents weren't.

A grim fact of social organizations like religions is, they have to have some recruiting mechanism or they inevitably die out.

You're Jewish if your mother was Jewish; Catholics catch them as babies, baptize them. Baptists and Mormons recruit vigorously. Even Unitarians are a catch-all for folks disaffected from other religions.

It's a kind of social Darwinism I suppose.
It's nice to see this is the case now, though I worry it may be a bit too late. Having BlueSky stuck behind an invite wall gave a huge boost in popularity to other alternatives like Mastodon and Threads, and even now I'm unlikely to find most of the accounts I want to follow on the former service as a result.

It just feels super quiet to me at the moment, and I suspect the long time exclusivity played a big role in that.
The aftermath of a hurricane is like nothing you've ever experienced - there's something deeply unsettling about all the trees in a forest being bent uniformly in one direction, or entire neighborhoods completely erased. 285 km/h sustained winds comes out to roughly 3.8 kpa pressure on all surfaces. So for every 1m^2 of surface area perpendicular to the wind direction, you're getting ~350kgf applied.
This isn't true at all. Even between two perfectly rational actors, there's a lot of hidden information in the hiring process, contradictory goals, and orthogonal goals. This demands negotiation.

At it's most basic, the company wants to pay me the least I will accept. I want to be paid as much as possible. These are contradictory, so some middle ground needs to be found. There's also a lot of hidden information, on both sides: What's the most the company is willing to pay? What's the least I'm willing to take? We can also have orthogonal goals: personally, I put a pretty high value on PTO, so there's room for trading salary expectations for additional time off.

By not negotiating, all you're doing is leaving money on the table. The company is going to represent it's interests, you have to represent yours.
Are you saying that world peace could be fixed in short order?
It's pretty appalling the number of people in this thread trying to rationalize and justify slavery.
Portland screwed up. Circumstances were beyond their control, but they botched the "reaction".

Essentially, with the decriminalization was meant to come a whole host of support network and rehab and other programs (regardless of what you may feel about the viability of the same). Then COVID happened, everything was decriminalized, and all of the other stuff did not, or barely, got off the ground, and is playing catch up now. And the result has been entirely predictable.

> voluntary uptake of drug rehabilitation offers has been terrible as most skeptics suggested

As a paramedic who administers Narcan multiple times a week, I get this. But the rationale is "if someone is using drugs, is even a 2% (arbitrary number) entry into rehab a success? Certainly if compared to 0%".

Let's also be real, it's not the legality of harder drugs that determine whether people do them or not.

I'm entirely in agreement. Dealers and suppliers? Those are, and should (and in PDX are) be illegal still. Portland Police have to shoulder their share of the blame, too, here, not (just) the social constructs - Portland Police were some of the worst in the country when it came to things like BLM, Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys and similar (and behind Seattle were one of the top per capita when it came to "number of officers who attended 1/6") and have been happy to "quiet quit" (worse, really) the last few years.
If you scroll down to the bottom of this thread you’ll see a ton of flagged and dead posts from people who question this stuff. There are plenty of normal people who doubt the scientific conclusions of climate scientists. It doesn’t help that the solutions to the problem almost always seem to be taking away freedoms and raising taxes.

See: farmers in the Netherlands getting their farms taken away by the government, French folks rioting over increased taxes, ULEZ cameras in London fining people for driving in the wrong neighborhood, etc.

It seems that the solutions are all sticks and there are no carrots.

The majority of people want to fix the problem, myself included. But I also deeply care about the growing authoritarianism that we are seeing across the world.

I want to decouple fixing the climate from authoritarian governance.
If the notion of future generations sounds way too optimistic, you are likely far too pessimistic (if this is about climate change).

There is no realistic scenario for lack of future gens due to climate change in the next 100 years even with absolutely terrible undiscovered positive feedbacks.
I've done a similar thing using calendar events in the future.

It's easy.

Just open up your calendar app to a date like 5 years from now and type away.

This derisks the possibility that the "future you service" goes under, taking your cherished letters with it.
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The fact of the matter is there will always be lay offs and just because you have your dream job doesn't make you immune and in a lot of case the same wave that brought you in is the same wave that will bring you out.

I've wanted for a while to create a laided off movie playlist. Of course at the time I wasn't laid off so I didn't have the time and now that I'm laid off I also don't have the time. Nowadays finding a new job is in itself a full-time job.

But off the top of my head I would say that the movies Broadcast News and In Good Company are descent picks.

Older now I look back at how many layoff cycles have been in my life. If you make it through without getting hit, you're a very lucky person, though after my last layoff I chose stability over risk and that was just as terrible as being laid off.
GitHub's entry there: https://gosix.net/en/database/websites/git/githubcom
Maybe. Or we know junk science and fake data when we see it. I guess the 'replication crisis' doesn't apply to the holy climate science.
I know someone who works at a big studio and they constantly tell me they get threats and hate messages all the time from die hard fans of the franchise the game is based on.
Other programs can use a later version of the library.

This would be analogical, if commands always included their version. For example:

rm-2.44.287-SNAPSHOT -r /
This reminds me of one of those old jokes where someone is called stupid and ugly and they respond "I'm not ugly".
I'm not surprised, when I broke my leg and on the mend I had lost agility from disuse. Agility exercise is a great thing to have as part of your routine.
Yeah this pretty obvious to anyone with an anxiety disorder who tries pot as a solution. It gets recommended by users, who think it’s a cure because their anxiety is due to THc withdrawals. But if you aren’t a user and try it it explodes your anxiety and is just the worst.
> But that is because there are a lot more bad developers than ever before.

The overall quality has decreased. We learned to expect more from computers, yet the computers evolved in pieces of spyware with dumbed down UIs, making people spend more time to do the same thing.

When there is 1 (one, uno, eins) text input field in an application that has focus, why doesn't this field has keyboard focus ? Why do i have to click with the mouse in year 2024, after more than 30 years of Windows, to be able to write in that field ? 25 years ago this was working.
1- Bullshit I've been in several and still firmly believe in rehabilitation, as do many. Some victims and families even forgive murderers.

2- You are purposefully conflating imprisonment with slavery.
[dupe] / Related:

New EU law sets to make repair more affordable for selected products

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252957
This article gets a few things right but the author doesn't seem to understand the full purpose of characters like David in the Bible. You don't even have to believe they were real people or be religious, much less Christian, to see and understand their purpose.

Right in the beginning in the Eden narrative there's a prophecy about one who will ultimately defeat the snake. Characters like David are portrayed as anointed by God yet flawed because they are supposed to build anticipation for a true Messiah or Christ who will not make mistakes or sin and really, truly offer redemption for mankind and a return to union with God. As you read the Bible you watch each leader rise while hoping they will be the one to defeat the snake and then you return to anticipating the true king when they fall.

This is one of the reasons Jesus was consistently referred to as the "Son of David."

Jesus is presented as the true and greater version of every flawed leader of God's people who came before him, especially the big names like Noah, Moses and David.

What's interesting to me is that you don't even have to agree with the claims of the Bible to see how the characters function in the story. But as I've learned more and more about the Bible, it seems that most people make arguments about the claims of the Bible or its purpose as a religious text without understanding how it actually functions as a group of different stories and types of literature.

For anyone interested, Robert Altar's works about Biblical narrative and other literary styles delve deep into these subjects.
bluesky is really a bad name for a social network. sounds too entreprisy, compare it to: twitter, instagram, tiktok
Let's just call it "composting." Something flowers and blooms into a beautiful experience, draws a critical mass of users, which draws the attention of parasites, the flower withers, dies, and turns to crap... compost.

The composting of the internet.
The more I do fullstack work the more I see an obesity crisis. I under the need to modularize (I dearly think I do) but god you have relational model, reimplemented in your framework, reencoded as a middleware to handle url parsing, the one more layer to help integrate things client side. I find that insane. And Postgrest was a refreshing idea.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Mitchell has been a disaster for Mozilla (her only accomplishment is squeezing more money out of Google for the search deal despite an ever dwindling user base for FF - we measure DAU and MAU and the hemorrhaging hasn’t stopped).

Very few people in the org actually work on FF. It’s increasingly other bets that don’t pan out or weird acquisitions: Hubs, Pocket, FakeSpot, VPN, Relay, now Monitor. Eventually these lose enough money and they’ll cut them. Then inevitably Mitchell will run a surplus in the budget by cutting projects early and squeezing more money out of Google, funnel the money back to the Mozilla foundation which she also chairs, and then doll it out to her pet political projects.
Yes, that's what I am saying. Are you fighting with your neighbour right this moment and can't stop the fighting and talk?
omg, thank youuuu
> (2) why would I want to leave if it's so great?

A lot of people felt burned by the changes at Twitter over the past 14 months or so. They made meaningful connections on there and with new ownership came changes that altered the character of the platform, in their eyes. But because Twitter is centralized, it's difficult to move your social graph to a new platform in a robust way.

The promise of the AT protocol is being "billionaire-proof." If Bluesky gets bought out and you don't like the new owner, you can move your entire social graph and all your posts to a new atproto service without needing permission from the old service.

That would be the nuclear option. A smaller step you could take before that is use a different set of moderation services to curate the experience you want (more info: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation)
> Collective action requires individual action.

This is demonstrably false. I'd posit that basically no lasting societal changes have been implemented by large scale individual sacrifices.

In a similar vein, as this has recently been in the news and on HN a lot lately, when it comes to the obesity epidemic, we've been talking about "individual responsibility" and "diet and exercise" for literally many decades and we've only seen global waistlines expand year after year. The technological advancement of semaglutide is literally the first advancement that many obesity researchers believe will actually make a dent in overall obesity.
Martin Kleppman is a technical advisor to Bluesky but his real job is as a researcher in distributed systems and security at the University of Cambridge. He also wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications, which many of us on the team have been fans of for years.
> can't even fantasize about humans coming together to solve a civilization ending threat

You'll enjoy the Three Body Problem trilogy.
The internal DNS records are very handy if you host local services.
> Sorry but I've been hearing this for 15 years now.

Really? Care to share the cost per KWh of batteries numbers from 15 years ago?
What about $/Watt for PV modules?

Or maybe just deployment numbers of solar/wind?

I mean maybe, just maybe, we can have progress on the renewables front without people crying about "greenwashing"?

> No one listened, and people/media latched on to the most absurdly optimistic models as a sign that everything was fine and we could continue to procrastinate on this problem.

Many areas in the US will be fine. Rich people ignore it because they have the money to move away from affected areas, and poor people don't really have a media voice. But that's typical USA for you, so nothing surprising there.