skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> move to the richest city in the country, get a job as a barista or cleaner or similar, and rent a small studio apartment

I'm not sure which way you feel about this, but I'll emphasize that everyone else in the city is completely dependent on people making this life choice (or a related one, where they live outside the city in a stifling suburb, pay for it with years of their life spent commuting, and simultaneously lower everyone's health and quality of life by driving a car).
It was government mandated but it was an attempt by their government to strengthen security at the time when they couldn't import stronger crypto. Then it became established and hard to remove.

>Due to restrictions on the export of cryptography from the United States, standard 128-bit SSL encryption was unavailable in Korea. Web browsers were only available to Koreans with weakened 40-bit encryption. In the late 1990s, the Korea Internet & Security Agency developed its own 128-bit symmetric block cipher named SEED and used ActiveX to mount it in web browsers. This soon became a domestic standard, and the country's Financial Supervisory Service used the technology as a security screening standard. ActiveX spread rapidly in Korea. In 2000, export restrictions were lifted, allowing the use of full-strength SSL anywhere in the world. Most web browsers and national e-commerce systems adopted this technology, while Korea continued to use SEED and ActiveX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_So...
A static IP and a VPN solve unrelated problems. Even if you have a static IP, a VPN can still be useful.
Was a bit jarring, didn't realise it had that much "Context". And the wording is sneaky, "Clues" should not imply being able to tell me exactly what's on my web browser verbatim.
And the fossil fuel should already be taxed to accounts for its externality so I agree. I’m missing something here.
europe's being europe
Task Scheduler is available on Windows 10 Home. I think of it as "cron for Windows" even though despite being able to schedule the execution of specific tasks, it is really nothing like cron aside from that.
This is backed by both github, and YC? That's pretty impressive. Though sadly the demo on the front-page gives no results for me, just endless animations.
Ah yeah I wasn't picturing it right in my head. I guess triangles could work, though.
Well, if the "couch potatoes" live better than the exploited worker, then the corps are a greater negative for society. They would be somehow gaslighting people into having worst lives than they can have.

If an overexploited worker has a better life than someone unemployed, then the only moral problem is calling them "couch potatoes" in the first place :)
The problem for me is that you can't ever irrevocably remove a feature from the language, which means you'll end up having to read and interact with code written in the original version if you spend enough time in the language ecosystem. I've seen developers that continue to litter their codebases with `var` in 2024 despite `const` and `let` replacing almost every valid use case for `var`.

Server side developers yearn for their favorite language in the browser, but are used to living in a world where language deprecations mean "this feature will disappear from all modern version of the language eventually" not "you can opt-out of this feature by placing a string somewhere in your code". To me that's a hollow definition of 'update'. Golang for example completely changed the semantics of for loops this year [1]. Moving forward, if you use a modern version of Go, you will accept the way for loops work now — there's no
magical 'use old for loops' string. It's awesome that they were able to unilaterally make a breaking change to the language and force users to accept it moving forward. We can't do that in JS, that's the point I'm making.

[1] https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.22
Meyhane has more global warming potential.

https://unfccc.int/process/transparency-and-reporting/greenh...

If you are.asking.about econmics, who knows, but the pollution from cows is methane, so unless someone tells me theres some weird physics, what matters is the ability to insulate and the lifetimd of that insulation.
Scott Aaronson’s Quantum Computing Since Democritus is a clear, entertaining explanation of computational complexity theory as applied to both classical and quantum computers. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and have recommended it to a number of friends.

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aa...
It comes up frequently, but the price of electricity in Germany is not high in reality, mostly because traditionally the costs have been covered by the actual bills paid. The exception now is the renewables surcharge which will in the future be covered by taxes. The surcharge fills the fund for cases where the guaranteed price for renewables is higher than the market price. But even this used to be on the bill. There are hundreds of companies that sell electricity and it has a market economy there.

On the other hand France as the complete opposite example, it has a nationalized electricity company because it can't survive otherwise. They lobbied hard (successfully) for rule changes in the EU so they are able to fund their nuclear plants through government subsides. We are talking hundreds of billions for their plans to keep old plants alive and build new ones. This will not be on the bill, so the prices are not a realistic comparison.

But even with all that, the price in France is 24c as far as I know. In Germany you can get it for as low as 19c per kwh [1], but you only get a two month price guarantee and can get hit if the market prices spike again. Your choice.

[1] http://energie.check24.de/strom/vergleich/check24/?product_i...
specifically, it's 20x a GHG compared to C02, and I don't really know what you mean by it being part of carbon cycle.
Yes, OAuth2 is a toolkit that is open... for making proprietary non-interoptable auth solutions. One for each megacorp. That's why mail clients like Thunderbird have a directory full of configuration scripts written specifically for each proprietary oauth2 solution made by each megacorp.

Mail clients that do not go out of their way to support each corporation's unique out of band OAuth2 HTTPS solution are unable to access these oauth2 megacorp email accounts anymore (see gmail, office365, yahoo, etc). OAuth2 has made email servers proprietary. Simply supporting smtp or pop3 or imap is no longer sufficient. Custom HTTPS scripting has to be made for each corp and one corp's scripting won't work for another's login process.

OAuth2 has been the email tower of babel.
And as always, this will make the poor even poorer, that's why they're protesting these changes, but rich people on HN are cherishing them.
Some say pricing externalities, some say a spiteful hegemonic elite striving to humiliate its populace. Tomato - tomahto.
Ask HN: How do you find quality blogs these days?
How do you folks find quality personal blogs? These days, the only sites that pop in the search results are ad-driven rubbish publications with ever-popping windows with more ads. I'm getting really annoyed that I can't find a quality blog that is not full of AI content. I am interested in personal finance, self-improvement, and project management.
Add a couple of kids (single parent) and the picture looks much worse.
I think the carbon emissions is a ridiculous excuse and I think this is an attack on meat eating in general and it's based on the assumption a vegetarian diet is good.

Having been mostly vegetarian for 10 years (even vegan at points) and having had a number of health issues, I disagree completely with this assertion and I now eat almost exclusively meat.

People should be rioting - instead we're just a bunch of lab rats with smartphones.
I wish we put a tax on every animal exploited, from the position of suffering caused.
But we'd need to recognize animal personhood first.

Still, this is a step in the right direction, even if from a different angle.
The cow transforms the carbon from plants, originating from atmospheric CO2, into methane which has a GWP of 25, meaning its greenhouse warming effect is 25 times higher than that of CO2. So the net result of feeding plants to cows is an increase in global warming.
Your assertion here is that the lifespan of a healthy person and one of the unhealthy individual is the same. They are not.

The healthy person has less stress, sleeps better, has better sex, has better mood and energy and isn't spending most of his life having difficulty dealing with illnesses steaming from unhealthy habits.

Additionally, the time spend exercising isn't wasted, it's quiet enjoyable thanks to the release of Endorphins. Not to mention that it helps build muscles and keeps your body in shape which makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, thus increasing the chances of finding a partner. You also get all the cognitive benefits mentioned in the article for free.

To top if it off, the time commitment isn't 8 hours a day. It only requires an hour every 2 days or so (it varies depending on what you're trying to accomplish).

I highly recommend it.
> Base load is more of a fairy tail.

So the >9 GW of power provided 24/7 by nuclear on the "Supply" tab is a figment of imagination?

* https://ieso.ca/power-data
Your clothes are still mainly made by women and children, working 14 hours a day. They just don't live in the US anymore...
> This also assumes that library was used in a way that counts as derivative work, which isn't always the case.

That's something a court would have to decide.

Whenever the AGPL comes up, people start arguing that in their opinion it doesn't cover certain things and therefore criticism of the license is fear mongering, but this misses the point that even if there is room to argue for that position, no company is going to want to touch AGPL software when the situation is ambiguous, since that creates a lot of risk, so that ambiguity is itself a fatal flaw of the AGPL license.
Hog farms and chicken farms have much worse environmental impact than pasture-raised cattle, which are economically feasible and actually improve the quality of the soil.

Replacing beef with more factory farmed chicken and pork is an ecological disaster.
So we should just give up on trying to accurately price externalities until we’ve found a way to include all of them? (Hint: we never will, so that would mean never taking action)
I got burnout once where my concentration bone got broken. Like, I would try to concentrate and nothing. Scary dreams too
Common Cause vs Special Cause in Software Variation
You might be thinking of Objective-C metadata, which contains information about classes, protocols and categories. Unlike symbols, metadata can’t be stripped.
Crash after high intensity exercise is pretty common. One thing that helps is carbing up before your exercise. Problematic if you are trying to diet down I guess, so high carb before exercise and high protein after exercise is probably a good solution.
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In normal countries this is called treason. In Germany it's "developing trade relations".

You must not forget that Gerhard Schröder won the 2002 election by promising that Germany won't join the USA in invading the Iraq, a promise that many German citizens venerate him for. For basically everyone in Germany it was obvious that Putin is a criminal, but the mood in German society at that time was that the Iraq invasion of George W. Bush was to be considered a genocide. So, having a choice between continuing being aligned with a nation/president who wants Germans to join a genocide vs seeking alignment with a criminal, Schröder's politics of seeking rapprochement with Russia/Putin was rather well-regarded in the German society.
It's advertised as a scanner but for me Stack was essentially a tag/label system on top of Google Drive, something I think is still sorely needed on Google Drive. Having the same document appear in multiple "stacks" (eg "ID" + "Immigration", "Medical" + "Insurance" + "Bills") regardless of their actual folder was a good organizational tool.

Google Drive already had a fairly capable scanner.

The strange thing is that the business/education editions of Google Drive support labels mostly for compliance reasons (integrates with data retention policies), but it's not available for personal Google accounts.
Funny you should mention Studio Ghibli right after I cited the animated version of The Hobbit. ;)
I live in Denmark. We have way more pigs than people here. We export most. Only 2% of our nature isn’t farmland. The farming sector only contributes marginally to our economy, while being responsible for an extraordinary amount of the carbon equivalent.

I look forward to this change, and more like these!

Relevant reading: https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price
In my case I wouldn't describe the feeling as burnout as much as PTSD. Without the P of course, because it's ongoing since ever and will go on for ever and ever and ever :)

Worst thing in software development is the constant bombardment of the unexpected. There's not a single God-given day in this job that shit just runs smoothly. Always, usually when least expecting it, there's a "wtf is this shit?!!" moment, followed of course by "I must absolutely solve this completely unexpected and incidental thing which popped up that I've no idea how it works or why it happens but can't do any progress on my regular task before I figure this out".

A few years of this are enough to send any normal people to the nuthouse or out of the field. Yet, some of us endure it for decades. Seemingly without being affected. Seemingly ... because underneath there's a raging traumatic stress disorder we try to keep in check :)
The extra emissions come from several factors:

- cows need a lot of land. If you used that land for e.g. efficient crops instead (and if people ate that instead of all that beef) you would free up a lot of land which you could use for other things (say, plant trees for example)

- cows need to eat a lot of feed to produce 1 calorie of beef. It is much more efficient to produce 1 calorie of vegetables and let people eat those vegetables directly instead of having it go through a cow first

- cows emit a lot of methane

- deforestation to produce more feed (like e.g. soy) is indeed also a factor
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Hmm, so you mean we should kill all cows then?
That's like one third of one percent of the cost of a cow; I'm not sure that's going to move any needles.
This assumes people don’t care about the larger scale of poverty or that those regional/national poverty rates won’t have second order effects that will later impact these well-off communities.

One of the difficulties in game theory is mitigating all kinds of human biases that lead to suboptimal solutions. In this case, governments can be myopic in both time and space. There are examples in game theory where the rational choice in one context leads to worst conditions for everyone, overall.
I have worked on this idea for almost 2 years now and the problem I have found is; like APL, numpy and others, sql is a language of thought. Once understood even a bit, english is vastly less efficient. How are your experiences with this?
Your link is in support of a carbon tax on fossil fuels but makes no mention of farms, cows, or cattle.

Did you mean to post a different link?
Yeah, but how is the "net" greenhouse effect calculated? Over a long time period it should be zero:

Co2 from atmosphere -> Consumed by grass / grain -> Cow eats -> Methane released in atmosphere -> Broken down to Co2
If you don't like the Nix language, you're unlikely to like Nickel - they're very similar.
Some of it went to the Museum of Science in Boston--I think the Whirlwind was there (not sure if still on display). But, yes, a lot went to the Computer History Museum. Not sure there's much on display. Latterly, a fair bit of the collection was various donations from local computer companies demonstrating things like graphics and the computers themselves weren't necessarily uniquely important or interesting.
What’s the current roadmap regarding supported technologies and cloud providers ?
The web is already bloated with SEO junk and megabytes of fonts and other stuff no one likes. I imagine AI will just make that process more enhanced and worse.
> How to prevent job hopping just to stay on benefits? Taking a paid vacation before the next job?

In my country, the weekly "jobseeker's allowance" is equivalent to working 8 hours at minimum wage, or working about 90 minutes at a computer programmer's salary.

You could use it as a "paid vacation" but it'd have to be an extremely austere vacation.
It would increase a cow's cost by like 0.3% which would be spread over the meat/dairy and hides and hooves.
Milk is literally the only somewhat nutritious product that people who live on EUR 8,- per day for food can afford. Maybe it will still be subsidized, but the whole affair is more complex than to say "let them eat chicken".
The studies showing red meat is actually good for you, kinda make me believe this.
My health has also dramatically improved after eating more red meat and less low fat vegetarian options, but I'm a sample size of 1.
My personal lived experience about what actually worked for me, really makes me question more things.
> Basically I'd like to everyone (not just me) to have a default comfort level

Sure, this is what the whole social and economic systems are for, todays comfort levels are much better than 100-300 years ago. I surely hope AI will raise the bar soon, while it is happening it's good to understand how we ended up where we are and accept that so we can be ready for the changes.
Or, in this case, a tax pushed for by multiple large and small parties, negotiated in agreement with the agricultural sector. Long time since it was polled, but it was like 50/50. No elites needed.
> Do you talk to any Ukrainean person?

Yes, I have a few Ukrainean friends, initially they liked Zelensky, but now they hate him. I also visited Kiev in 2020

Stop repeating western propaganda.

> Do you Russian think, Russian soldiers like to die in meat waves?

I don't think they like or want to die, but SOME of them really want to participate in the war. This applies to both sides.

Not sure if you just tried to assume my nationality by using "Do you Russian think", but you are wrong.
To provide another data point, in France you are allowed to refuse credit cards or checks. Cash is the only payment method that you cannot refuse but there are exceptions for that as well.
OK Leibowitz...
If we could get away.from climaye denial, we would have.more interesting/productive discussions.

The problem with climate denialism is "honest" attempts at evaluating claims tries to "both sides" the logic and the available data, but there isn't another side to climate change. And trying to incorporate denialism makes your rational decisions wrong. Climate change is a singularity that has been passed. We're not going back to the way the climate was 100 years ago.

So, the real question is, how does 100$ per cow remediate the damage of trillions of dollars over the next century. I've got no idea, but it's definitely not nothing.
$40 a week? A full day at federal minimum wage is $58/day. FICA on that would be $8.87. That's $49/day. $49 * 7 > $40.

Even if you cut that in half that's still way more than $40/week.

And no, you're not paying federal income taxes on that low wage income.
I posted the website which seems somehow not updated; this reel is how it was brought to my attention: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8l-9RbshIE/
I'm not a climate scientist, presumably the Danish government has consulted some of those though. My understanding is that livestock farming, in particularly beef and dairy cows, contribute significantly to the Co2e(carbon dioxide equivalent) emissions of the farming sector, which itself is a major overall contributor. The negative externality is this emission, which is not accounted for in the price of beef and dairy products
In America, it mostly comes from farm subsidies. Subsidies on feed corn and feed soybeans make it cheaper to buy feed than to grow it yourself. So, rather than grow feed on the same farm, fertilized with manure, farmers buy feed trucked in from neighboring states fertilized with chemicals, much of which is petroleum based, and discard the manure.

And, then there are the cow farts full of methane. Methane is apparently a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon. I’ve heard for over a decade that there is some seaweed-based supplement that dramatically cuts methane from cows. But, I guess farmers have had no motivation to buy it yet.
I am not a German and while I have been in the country many times things look different from the outside, so take my impressions with a grain of salt.

First, the Germany indeed has significantly reduced its reliance on fossil fuels.

But this is not a one-parameter optimization for the country. For decades, Germany was also a center of advanced manufacturing in Europe, one of the very few places able to compete with Chinese manufacturing due to the quality of its manufacturing. It was everywhere: national champions, large factories, small companies, interconnected into a web of excellence.

That, I think, is slowly unraveling and expensive energy is a strong reason for it although definitely not the only one. I have recently met (on hikes and trips) three former owners of small-ish German manufacturers who sold their businesses "because running manufacturing in Germany is not great now" and expected the new owners to move production overseas. New owners bought for established, multi-year orders and being able to stamp the old company name on the products.

This is a very slow process that runs over decades and while the numbers in the study are undoubtedly correct, the reduction in availability of inexpensive, predictably priced energy from the nuclear exit likely accelerates the reduction of Germany manufacturing might. I would love to be wrong, we shall see in another 10-15 years. My 2c.
> The studies showing red meat is actually good for you, kinda make me believe this

Which studies are those?
Sorry, I had it wrong that Germany exported more to Poland than it imports, I had misremembered.

However, if you look here: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=... you'll see that in 2023, Germany exported 3.57 TWh of power to Poland, and imported 3.05 TWh, which is not very much.

For context, Germany imported 63.7 TWh of electricity in total in 2023, so the amount coming from Poland is indeed quite small.
If it ever comes down to affordable beef vs EU membership, I'm really looking forward to setting EU flags on fire.
Yet another example of how environmentalism (good) has been adopted by the political class as another wealth extraction tool (bad).
But the methane will oxidise down into CO2 in 8 years or something (according to Google). So essentially you pay the tax for the "GWP-bump"? It's resonable but maybe a bit hard (or at least non-obvious to me) to calculate fairly?
I guess from a certain point of view you're right, a credit score is a list of all the debts you've had an how you've paid them back.

So somebody with no debt is "unknown", rather than the expected "good".

In Finland we don't have credit scores, instead we allow looking up defaults. Which seems like a reasonably sane approach - known-bad borrowers find it hard to repeat that behaviour, and somebody with no history of taking loans/debts isn't penalized.
Predicting those things are kind of easy if you have the background in the technology that he does. But the singularity? How can you compare that to computers winning chess?
In the US when you quit it's $0.00. In other countries it's the same benefit as if you had been laid off. We probably agree the latter is the best policy. I'm just saying, other countries have done it. We don't have to guess what the results would be.