skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germans sponsor such projects in China because European emissions aren't growing much and are an irrelevant slice of global output. If you want to subsidize people to reduce emissions you have to go where the emissions are. At this point the developing world completely dominates emissions and emissions growth:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

China, India and Asia swamp all other contributors in terms of growth and (with the exception of America beating India) also absolute amounts. The entire EU emits around the same as India alone.
> Please explain how I have earned this?

You didn't answer the question.
Everyone is defrauding the German government, including every politician and every other branch of the German government. It has more to do with the Germans than the Chinese.
If the childcare is on site, then it's not just money, but also time. When a place I worked at had on site child care it saved me 30 minutes per day.
Because all taxes have the downside that they reduce the thing being taxed.

One example was the window tax. People started to build houses without taxes.

LVT is unique that it doesn't reduce the thing it taxes because land is constant.

If you would tax the combined value of the property then people would avoid to improve the land.
Because the primary reason people want the land is to build buildings on it. If you need one acre of land to build one housing unit because of zoning, there will be more demand for parcels of land than if you can build 50 housing units on one acre of land, because in the first case you need 50 times as much land for the same number of housing units.
Definitively the NAFO gang and NATOwaves listeners!
More than "one free article"; I checked and TheBaffler seems to allow you read 4 articles(/mth?) before subscription-walling.
> I wonder how much of that was due to primarily associating the visual effect with gasoline.

I thought, like the poster in the neighboring comment, that it could indicate early spoilage. Also with fish scales. I think fish scales are more disgusting than gasoline...
He did grow up with the original unexpurgated Ag Pleez Deddy *.

Not that's any excuse but that was how the twig was bent.

* Original being more or less contemporous with the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure which lampooned the times.
Replicated Growable Arrays (RGA for Short)
The Apple Watch will let you rest
"[A] fitness tracker’s ultimate goal is to help you improve your health. Feeling like you can’t rest because of an arbitrary streak is the opposite of improving your health."

Now if I could only stop my Watch from bullying me when I don't move as much as it wants me to (and when) lol
You can do multiline formulas in the advanced formula environment, but still follows the same syntax as the formula language (with comments). i.e.:

=LET(

x,1, // assign 1 to y

y,2, // assign 2 to y

x+y // add x and y

)

Same with LAMBDAs
Privacy is a part of the equation and while Apple could gather all the context off my phone's local data and give ChatGPT the whole thing to really give it the best shot and providing a useful and helpful answer, this would not be a polished product on all axes, mainly the responsiveness and privacy ones. The tradeoff of using local models for less than SoTA inferrence but with unbeatable privacy and latency seems right to me for Apple and what Apple customers want and expect.
Yep, pretty much.

The great thing about this belief is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough years of stories in the media about elections being controlled by Twitter bots and people in the government-NGO-complex start to believe it must be true because why would all these respectable media outlets and academics mislead them? Then they start to think, gosh our political opponents are awful and it'd be terrible if they came to power by manipulating people. We'd better do it first!

So now what you're seeing is actual attempts to use this tactic by people who have apparently read claims that it works. Because there's no direct evidence that it works, the existence of such schemes is itself held up as evidence that it works because otherwise why would such clever people try it? It's turtles all the way down.
But, crucially, it seems that the Chinese subsidiaries are the ones that came forward to set the record straight to the German government. So basically it seems to be multinational corporations defrauding Germany by trying to hide behind Chinese laws.
Like the alternatives, it appears to be limited to adding forced movement (shift each frame by X, Y) and only the most predictable motion, like moving fog, water or sand.

These constraints (and most of the morphing) come from these type of image generators always going for the most plausible interpretation of noise. They don't have any actual temporal coherence yet.

It's very cool, but fairly limited in practical application with the current capabilities.
And thank you very much for making this app, I'm excited to see how it progresses and help you get more users and customers.

I tried so many apps, and was debating whether to build it myself. But it's impossible for me to build - no time and no creative juice left from my main job.
NPM is anything but fun, I’ve seen tertiary dependencies cause complete application failures due to bad patch version releases.

Packages depending on packages not maintained or containing security issues.

I don’t know how many times Next has released broken updates without any mention of it in their change log and then you find a GH issue where it’s essentially “works on vercel hosting”…

Easy to find developers is often touted as a plus, but the process for making sure you get the right ones are scarce, and JS code bases almost always ends up as complete spaghetti as a result. As someone doing JavaScript for a very long time my statement is that it’s one of the hardest ecosystems to get right and it requires exceptional developers to do so, unfortunately it’s also where many start their journey and without exposure to other technologies becoming great at it is very hard.

The fact that I can do `mix hex.outdated` and get a code diff on dependency changes makes me smile every time, compared to the insanity that is updating npm packages in any sizeable project with hundreds of updates weekly.
What new tax is that? Or do you mean the changes to the Grundsteuer (which is more like an update to the value that is being taxed, I think, and it was a forced change).
What the name implies if interpreted without any context pales in comparison to the repeated and explicit instructions and warnings given to the driver that clarify that the driver should always be in control
Those stores don't exist everywhere and usually the prices are higher.
Claude and Kimi AI Copilot
It’s not necessarily only good news.

The golden age of plastic that we live in allows for food packaging that cannot be penetrated by microorganisms, which in turn increases shelf life of some produce from like half a week to multiple weeks.

Once there are more such microorganisms in the next one hundred years we might have problems packaging our food.

And plastic is in essence a multi-step “life process” of crude oil: Instead of incinerating heating oil for our houses, plastic lives a first life as packaging, and then gets incinerated and provides heat over communal heating – ideally.

Of course, the problem is when it ends up in the water instead of being burned.
I've seen a lot of JS frameworks come and go. Eventually they all become hard to work with as complexity accretes to address more use cases and keep performance up. The same is true of native frameworks. SwiftUI and Compose are great when you're just getting started but as soon as you start building complex apps things get hairy fast.

I think we still just haven't figured out how to build a UI toolkit that is both highly expressive to use and performant for complex UIs.

I think there are some really great ideas in hooks but it might take a new language built around them to make them truly ergonomic. The React compiler is a step in that direction.
Meta..
Any specific examples of "really good" high end from their current catalogue

I find it funny you've asked another poster for the exact price of a piece of Amish furniture. But won't substantiate your grand claims. Interesting
As Tony Benn said: "There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again."
Sites that want to do that already have plenty of more sophisticated tools for that. And if they don't use user tracking and only collect "basic scroll data" anonymously, honesty, I don't see the problem. "How far/quickly did people read my article?" is useful information to have and (again, without tracking) doesn't seem like a privacy problem.
Spreadsheet SuperStars: The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas
I hate such data presentation. 40 / 60 = 67%, this is a figure that we are all used to understanding, just because plenty of things are in percentages.

Or 2 out of 3 - this is something we can relate to as well.

The next one will be 378 out of 2567, quickly is this a lot or not. Sure you would say that 78 is about a third of 1000, and we have about 2.5 thousands so it ... etc. Instead of just saying 15%.
I also understood it this way (native German). In Germany companies want to claim "as much saved CO2" as possible.

> Das Ziel war, möglichst hohe CO₂-Einsparungen in Deutschland geltend zu machen.

The federal authorities knowingly approved the fraudulent UER projects. What's spicy is that the secretary is a green party member.

> Das Umweltbundesamt und die Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle genehmigten 75 dieser UER-Projekte – fast ausschließlich in China. Und das, obwohl weitere Hinweise dafür sprachen, besser nicht dort zu investieren. Denn China lässt unabhängige Kontrollen im eigenen Land nicht zu. Peking verweigert entsprechenden Prüfer:innen die Einreise.

Also, apparently a simple look at satellite images should have at least caused suspicion when Chinese companies raised the concerns. There is still no reaction from Steffi Lemke.

> Was Rostek mit dem „Durchwinken“ meint, ist die anscheinend unzureichende Prüfung der Bauvorhaben durch das Umweltbundesamt und die Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle. Über Satellitenbilder wäre einfach zu erkennen gewesen, dass einige der eingereichten chinesischen Vorhaben schon vor dem eigentlichen Baustart existiert haben.
Not "the Chinese subsidiaries". Only one of them.
Sweden was "neutral" but big on nazism topics such as eugenics. I spoke about this yesterday with some Swedes (I recently moved to Sweden).
> simply be billing for carbon actually emitted

Many companies (and induviduals) would cease to be viable going concerns if they had to pay for their emissions. The transition from unlimited free poluting to full pay for emissions requires some smoothing and the credit system seems as reasonable as any.

> There is just no way to prove what you 'would have done'.

Base it on output - energy generators can output X per GWH, steel mills Y per ton of steel, transport Z per passenger / tonne per mile etc. If you can do it cleaner you have excess credits - dirtier and you pay. This is essentially the system we have today (and it is fantastically capitalist in its design).
> 1) Shares don't do very much on their own, so there isn't really a problem with that. I mean, dude owns a billion in shares - if they earn income dude will pay tax, if they don't the only true to get to the value is to sell them.

Are you aware of the "buy, borrow, die" strategy? In short, you can borrow against the value of appreciated assets to get income during your lifetime, then pass the assets (and the debt) on in inheritance, and your heirs don't have to pay any capital gains tax because of cost-basis step up when they sell the assets to pay the debt. You effectively avoid any taxation on the appreciation.
Not in the interest of the workers, in the interest of the union (LO), they used the companies own money to do this, ie take the company own money and use that to buy the company’s shares by forcing them to sell by equity issuance.

The end goal was to take over companies and be owned by the unions.

This had disastrous consequences for Sweden, many companies left, one was IKEA. It created an hostile climate, instead of the previous decades of consensus between buiness and politics it created an antagonistic atmosphere.

The Social democrats lost their first election in 40 years.

The system was scrapped in the early nineties.

Kamprad got paranoid over the realization that politicians and bureaucrats could take over his life work and thus he moves to Switzerland and then created this non-profit to make sure it always remained in his family.
There is a subscribe (in exchange for monthly payments) button under the article, an unaddressed irony. Or perhaps news outlets need money and software shops don't?
It's just dicking around with a serious problem.

The fundamental issue is an accounting trick has allowed people to offload the true costs on to others.

This is the same trick but it's for the assets column.

The actual impact doesn't change.
Lidl is a non-profit too btw, funny how it works
I agree, at the low end it's miles ahead of pricier, worse stuff from Wal-Mart or Conforama (in Europe), covered in wallpaper instead of synthetic veneer. At the higher end, it's very good value. In the middle, it's hard to even find competing products.
Crazy to me that people think 2049 was a masterpiece. That film was full of the most generic sci-fi story tropes possible and entirely missed the chaotic, visual genius of the original. It’s a forgettable sci-fi action movie that no one would have looked twice at if it weren’t named Blade Runner.

Previous discussions on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21960584
This doesn't prevent linkrot but it can definitely cause it. If the author ever so slightly changes his algorithm URLs that previously worked (but were incorrect) could stop working.

I don't see the problem that this is a solution for but I can see a couple of problems that this solution causes.
It depends.

40 out of 60 is easier to grasp for many people than 67%.

Percentages are better in cases where the numbers are harder to imagine (like your second example).
Tesla is legally required to put the driver in control. They do not have permission to sell a self-driving vehicle for use on public roads.

Secondly, it is already established and disclosed that the driver assist cannot self-drive. This would be comparable to a Therac-25 machine being sold as being incapable of limiting radiation output, and then not limiting radiation output.

There is absolutely no other company in the world where a predictable and disclosed shortcoming of the driver assist combined with the failure of the driver to fulfill their responsibility to be in control, would be blamed on the driver assist program.

Both Musk and Tesla are far from perfect, but the lengths that people go to to attack them is obviously agenda-driven and a result of emotions.
I agree. It seems to me that people just ... like to forget stuff like that. They just want someone else in charge. And now with the advent of TikTok a certain party frequently targets young people and tells them that there are easy solutions to their problems. Sad thing is, other parties don't seem to get that they need to be where the young people are and provide content that matches what they like to see.

I can also only recommend to read "the invisible doctrine" by goerge monbiot. Sad enough that I can't think of a similar book in German. Or a newspaper that would be able to match the Guardian, for example.
Seems to be the case for so many assistive technologies. It is even more frustrating considering how high impact some of these technologies are.

Do you have any insights on how this space could grow other than State Funding or Insurance policy changes?
As a European I am all for China criticism, really. But this is wrong. Chinese companies have raised the concerns and the Green party federal authorities in Germany have knowingly and actively ignored the warnings and continue to do so.

So you got:

- American oil companies defrauding Germans in China

- Chinese companies raising concerns to German authorities

- German Green party authorities actively ignoring said warning which are easily verified. I mentioned Green party because it is not far fetched to claim a political motive given the ease of prevention
That would make the submitted (or possibly: auto-edited) title editorialised, which is against HN guidelines.
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The report says, that China does not allow independent auditors for the subsidised investments to enter the country.
This should have been a red flag.
It would have been easy to change the policy to only support investments that allow independent auditors.
That's what they always do.

Here's what they did when they actually joined: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-can-finlands-armed...

( As mentioned before)
But this is kind of my point. Capital gains tax is a dumb tax, it mostly screws middle class people and creates several perverse incentives, and we'd be better off to use a simple consumption tax instead. The argument against this is supposedly that "rich people" are the ones who pay capital gains tax, but in practice "rich people" are the ones in the best position to avoid paying it using fancy accountants and cross-border shenanigans. The middle class people actually paying it wouldn't be any worse off with a consumption tax that lacks all of those perverse incentives, and might even end up paying less because then the super rich would pay the same rate as they do instead of a lower one.
> The entire EU emits around the same as India alone.

With only a third of India's population. Don't worry there is still a lot to do in Europe.
If your propulsion system is developing leaks as you go, and, for good measure, you are also loosing thrusters in critical flight phases, than yes, this is terrifying.

What you have is a known failing system, with a very high probability of additional failure as soon as it is repressurised and it enters its next stress cycle. Which is normally when these things like to fail.
> I can’t imagine working on any performance critical low-level code without a good sampling profiler.

cargo-flamegraph: am I a joke to you?

https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph
If you look at the recently leaked documents Google often do not tell the truth, or the whole truth.

301s are what you are supposed to do with things like changed URLs, so I cannot see it being a problem in this case. A 301 is nor duplicate content - it is one of the things Google likes you do do to avoid duplicate content.

It would probably be good to add a threshold to the similarity to prevent urls redirecting to something very different.
What we have is a system where people get paid for counterfactuals; carbon credits awarded for things they didn't do but claim they would have, like getting paid to not cut down a forest. Fraud is easy because investigators cannot be sent to the counterfactual universe to verify the claims.
The AfD still does not believe in man-made climate change.

How are you supposed to reason about that? If AfD members ignore obvious scientific developments, you can't really do much more than present yet another paper saying that yes, man-made climate change is indeed a thing, just for then to ignore it, too.

You cannot reason with someone who does not want to be reasoned with.

You can claim that many policies by the AfD are made in good faith. (I don't believe that, but I'd be willing to entertain the thought.)

But once you get to something like if climate change exists, there isn't really any way you can argue with reason anymore. You are met with pure denial. Denial, which is used as a base for action that is clearly and actively destructive.
Autopilot is NOT advertised as being able to drive perfectly on its own, and your disingenuous analogies won't change that.
I think this is still a tech-centric view rather than a product-oriented view.

E.g. Apple generating emojis using a diffusion model is clearly less SOTA than other image models, but could be a really neat feature from a product/user perspective. Would a better diffusion model help? Maybe, but it probably changes the product less than all the UI and tight integration work they will have done.

If I was to guess, I would guess many more emoji's will get created through this feature than images generated in Microsoft's 'Image Creator' in Paint (I could be wrong - just my gut feel).
The Ai that comes up with that would be the dumbest LLM I have ever seen.
Oh yes, because China, the #1 polluter in the world (exceeding US, Europe, Russia and Brazil combined together) is very known to be the first and foremost voice in greening endeavours
You get a pass because nobody who drives a Tesla can reasonably believe the vehicle can drive itself. That it can't fully drive itself is fully and adequately disclosed.
Yeah. This is the same mentality that causes search engines, AI and many foolish and frustrating humans to avoid at all costs saying the words “I don’t know”
Maybe he's not the retirement type! There is some nuance in that he's retired, from military service with a 4 month gap until before taking a new non-military role.
That only helps people that live near an Amish community. Ikea is available globally.
In a well functioning country, regulation is one of the best ways to control this.

Better regulation would force the manufacturers to spend R&D on alternatives and push down the prices so that the rest of the world can also afford a cleaner alternative. Even if that takes time, we would at least have a huge reduction until we have the right tech at an affordable price for the developing world.

The world is a huge place and many countries will never have good regulations due to corruption/lobbyists and continue to pollute. The only way I see regulations would work is if the first world governments, which are the largest consumers, were willing to impose import restrictions, but that would go against the ideology behind the global market. It would also risk retaliation where the affected country could block exports of rare earth minerals and other critical resources.

The US market is one of the largest influencers, and would need to get on board. I'm not an American, but given the political climate in the US right now I doubt they could regulate it effectively.
Also the healthcare system is unbelievably better than what I experienced living in the UK

I know, saying Germany is better to live in than the UK is hardly much praise, but I will probably stay here for as long as I can just because the quality of life is just so astoundingly better here than it is back home
> I'm not sure my feet have the accuracy to work as a mouse.

You should be thinking more of like a trackpoint for your feet/foot.

> Foot mouse will unfortunately stay niche, but when I saw the device in this article, I thought, "Why not for everybody?"

I can feel my tongue having a muscle ache just by looking at this.
Who could have thought that under the protective veil where every critique about a policy or program is succesfully labelled as right-wing, climate-change-denialist, or naz*, corruption would flourish?

This is neither the first nor the last case of illegal activities environmentalism has produced in Germany (Prokon scandal, Graichen scandal, Christmas benefit payments, corona benefit payments, Harald Friedrich etc).