skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will import those meat and diary products that won't be competitive enough anymore to be produced in Danmark. This kind of taxes work better if implemented uniformly in all the EU, but then they'll import from outside the EU. Ultimately it's a way to tell some industries to pack their things and go away.
> I think their space suits are not compatible/rated for that.

The article says "If the Starliner is not safely operational, it’s possible Williams and Wilmore will have to catch a ride with the crew on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is also currently attached to the International Space Station on the opposite side."

So if that's false, it points to more issues with the journalism. The headline can't correct article text, because headlines are widely understood to be far less reliable.
The EU isn’t a country but they are basically a unit of national security, if they don’t defend each other the whole project will fail.

Putting the US in the list of rivals is a bit of a silly rhetorical flair I think. We aren’t rivals. We are close allies. But the EU as a whole is a friendly competitor to the US. Germany has a shared destiny with their EU partners. The US, we’re very close allies to Germany and the EU. But we aren’t conjoined.
Dang or mod please remove the "?xf26hn" text from the end of the URL so it is able to used to find the past posts by scripts:

145 points 1 year ago 105 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482226

19 points 4 hours ago 5 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798224

Further suggest that HTML query params be disallowed in submissions; if URLs with params are relevant they can be added as comment(s).
Sorry, I was in a hurry before, the standard approach is exactly what I wanted to refer to with option 1!
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050
It's easy to throw around the word "externalities" and just ignore what it means to real people who have been farming their land for generations.

Everything has externalities, just being born and existing has negative externalities, why don't we just confine everyone to their apartment to limit their externalities? Why don't we force people to pay a tax every time they leave their house to internalize their externalities?

This rule is authoritarian, and it is wrong for the government to use its monopoly on violence to do this to farmers.
I am by no means a vegetarian, and I enjoy a good steak or burger very much. I hope the possibility of accessing them never goes away.

But it seems pretty obvious that we need to shift our consumption habits towards more sustainable foods.

We've gotten spoiled in the last 50 years by the insane availability of almost everything, but eating meat three times a day simply isn't sustainable at a global population level. I don't know of taxes like this are the answer, but something's got to shift.

I think we could all live comfortably in a world in which beef was a special dinner once a week, instead of every day.
Not the OP but I use all the programs full screen / maximized. I change windows with alt+tab or maybe I reach down to the dock to select the app icon quicker. I only see my wallpaper when changing workspaces, because the animation shows it a split second. I do use the command line but it's not the only way to not show the wallpaper. This is true whether I'm on Linux or macOS.
That's a lot of hyperbole for "price of beef gets closer to the real cost of producing it".

Chicken and turkey have always been cheaper and are just as nutritious, if you want to stick with meat.
> A very small percentage of Americans, let alone those around the world, have the privilege of analyzing how their job makes them feel

From my interactions with Americans, I'd have to say that there are way more people around the world have that luxury than Americans. Exhibit A: The French.
Tradition is by no means a valid reason to destroy the one planet we share. Times change, adapt.
> I generally prefer PRs that have multiple atomic commits to be split up in separate PRs. If the atomic commits can't be reviewed separately/introduce non-working states, they are probably too small.

No commit should introduce a non-working state but it often still makes sense to review all commits that form a new feature together. After all, you are not just reviewing if every commit does what it says and doesn't break anything etc. but also that the commit is the correct approach for the final goal - and that often requires knowledge about how later parts are implemented.
It's absolutely wild to do this, and simultaneously:

- Place extremely punitive tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs and solar panels.

- Shut down nuclear power generation facilities. Make it effectively impossible to build new ones.

I mean, as a reality test, if those bureaucrats sincerely believed the Earth was about to become an uninhabitable flooded fire ball due to CO2 emissions, they would actually propose serious solutions -- nuclear power expansion, solar power expansion, subsidies on already-low-cost foreign EVs to make them the most attractive default option by far, investment in indigenous cleantech, etc.

They're not really doing that. Hell, nuclear power generation is banned in Denmark.

They're fundamentally unserious and this is a punitive new tax that's probably targeted at political opponents.
Over a long enough timescale CO2 gets sequestered so the net impact over 10 million years is ~zero. However we don’t really care about geologic timescales.

20 years is a ‘long’ time period from a human perspective and it’s 80x worse over that timeframe.
> Coal is used for chemical processes, heating (locally and remote) and also generating electrical energy (also locally and remote).

What do you mean by "chemical processes"? What about burning coal is different than burning natural/methane gas for these "chemical processes"?

How is the heat from coal different than the heat from gas or nuclear? Is not water boiled to generate steam in all cases?

If coal seems to be special/different, and not replaceable by other generation forms, why is the plan to get rid of it?

* https://www.euractiv.com/section/coal/news/coal-phase-out-ge...

* https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-shut-down-seven...
>This is the kind of oppressive tax a spiteful hegemonic elite would impose

it'S lITERalLy ninEtEeN eIghTY-four
There's some sleight of hand going on here. You can have pasture-raised chickens and pigs (with similar soil benefits; chickens are great at picking out pesky bugs, too), and you can have factory-farmed cows in feed lots.
Related: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt
What's the difference between your offering and the plethora of others? [1] Do you offer all checkpoints and LoRas even those who are not free to use in generation services or the IP-adapters with insightface as requirements? Rather fishy tbh.

Also offering workflows from your team that infringe on copyrights from the mouse is a bold move.

[1] https://openart.ai/ https://comfyworkflows.com/ https://comfy.icu https://cogniwerk.ai/ https://www.runcomfy.com/
The key is on which farms is this applied. If it's on big companies I find it ok: they have the power to emit a lot of gas, I guess. But on the small/family farm?

A grand-uncle(?) of mine had to kill one or two of his 5 cows when the country entered the European Union. Just about retiring age. I totally relate to your comment.
> It's not really "insurance" at that point then, is it?

You've never had to or wanted to quit a horrible job, but been stuck because you needed the income/benefits?
Do you have any idea what lives in those tubes ?
Maybe I’m using the wrong term but my understanding is that the carbon comes from the feed, which itself pulls it from the atmosphere. Thus, it came from the air, and goes back into the air.

The fossil fuels did the same but on a grander scale and longer timeline where the carbon becomes sequestered. Carbon taxes on that make sense.

I’m not seeing the benefit to taxing the cattle.
> You get to meet the people whose lives are improved by what you do, every day

Yes! When I retired I started volunteering at a raptor conservation centre, and got given loads of simple mundane tasks. Some were really tedious (cleaning the birds' water bowls, removing poop, getting rid of nettles that blocked a view, etc etc) but at the end of the day my minder could see that the tasks had been done and that I wasn't a flake. They also demonstrated commitment, which helped me move up to helping with the birds themselves, and now I help fly them in experience days, showing them to paying members of the public, and bringing in funds that resource critical conservation projects (nest boxes, anti-poacher campaigns, etc).
Lenders have to request a credit score from one of these agencies, because that's what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require.

This is about regulatory capture, which is of course entirely within the control of the regulators, and very indirectly by voters at the ballot box. We continue to vote for politician who allow this to continue.

We can't be taken advantage of without our (collective) permission. Let's vote for some folks that remove the regulatory capture and free up lenders (really loan originators, of which there are a great many) to compete for borrowers by (in some cases) dispensing with the credit score and other items.
40 a week on unemployment for low wage in CA
Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
It will also undoubtably put many farmers out of business and force more consolidation within the industry to the largest players who can afford to deal with the extra taxes.
Meat consumption has been a sign of affluence throughout human history. It's only fairly recently that beef has become broadly accessible to lower income consumers.
> makes you go looking for some kind of loophole. But there isn't one.

Doesn't it require fractal cuts? Seems like a loophole to me. It only seems paradoxical because you assume the resulting pieces are smooth at some scale, like real cuts are.
Denmark was not very eager to investigate the NordStream leak, source of gigantic methane emissions.

All European countries support a stalemate war, oil laundering shipped via massively inefficient routes with high dirty ship diesel emissions, military CO2 emissions, private jets traveling to Davos (there is no fuel tax for private jets in Germany!) and a lot more.

But let us take away the milk from poor people.
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> Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters.

That's entirely on you. There are some big names in the (european) comic book industry.
> It's easy to throw around the word "externalities" and just ignore what it means to real people who have been farming their land for generations.

I wonder if we could invent some form of farming that doesn't depend on cows? Technology is pretty amazing these days.
The problem is that this is a regressive tax. It falls disproportionately on the poor, working class, and farmers. This will only lead to a populist revolt that will set the whole project of reducing GHG emissions back by a generation or two, not to mention being grossly unfair.

It's also going after a bit player in global GHG emissions. Replacing coal for electricity generation and oil wherever possible (land transport) are the big ones and where the vast majority of the attention should go.

You don't solve a problem by going after the hardest aspects of it down at the end of the long tail. You solve it by going after the head, which is carbon-rich fossil fuels.
> just ignore what it means to real people who have been farming their land for generations...

It's an extra $100 on a cow worth $3k that'll produce 10k+ gallons of milk in its lifetime. A penny per gallon of milk.

It likely means little to them.
I agree. I see two use cases here: 1) an audience of the people that havent' touched SQL in a while (like me) or less (even non) technical folks. You can get quite complex queries without help from someone that knows SQL. 2) I asked for a P99 query that used some Postgres built-in functions I never heard of. I would take me some googling to find out even if I were used to SQL. Or I would take more time to come up with a more complex solution.

Here's my prompt and the query:

-- distribution of byte sizes of sessions without review with avg, median, p90, p95, and p99
-- ERROR: column "blob_stream" does not exist```
SELECT
percentile_cont(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY octet_length(blob_stream_id::text)) AS median,
percentile_cont(0.9) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY octet_length(blob_stream_id::text)) AS p90,
percentile_cont(0.95) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY octet_length(blob_stream_id::text)) AS p95,
percentile_cont(0.99) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY octet_length(blob_stream_id::text)) AS p99,
avg(octet_length(blob_stream_id::text)) AS avg
FROM
public.sessions s
LEFT JOIN public.reviews r ON s.id = r.session_id
WHERE
r.session_id IS NULL AND s.blob_stream_id IS NOT NULL;
That does seem handy for string manipulation.
People cannot live on $7.25 an hour in the US, and the government has a responsibility to promote the general welfare. Inflation skyrocketed in the past 5 years; minimum wage has not changed for 15 years. So, no correlation there.

The corporate tax rate should be increased, as well as taxes on high-earners, as well as the minimum wage. Capital gains taxes for individuals with 1M+ of assets may be considered, but is unprecedented in US tax history, no?
No, TTF is fully turning complete. Maybe I should have specified that in the original post. WAV is just "vibrate speaker this way" over and over again.
"Great artist admired other great artist." Not really breaking news. I think the work of Disney and his team of animators has long been recognized as brilliant. There's no need for the chip on the shoulder.

The idea of Eisenstein as a live action animator is very cool though. I've only seen Battleship Potemkin, but even from that I see what the writer of this piece means. It took an admirer of animation to think that creatively about editing, and to make the move from realism to something more/less.

Fun fact: my grandfather was a dyed in the wool commie, and he saw Battleship Potemkin probably 1,000 times. My grandmother could not understand how he could watch it over and over again, but even after one viewing, I get it. It's thrilling.
A common hack around this is to donate the “compensation” to a charity of the persons choosing.
When I changed from a Slack-using employer to a MS Teams-using employer around 2 years ago, I found it impossible to argue that the usability of MS Teams was even close to the usability of Slack. Slack was significantly better in this regard.

MS Teams had better integration with some other MS services such as OneDrive. That's obviously going to be so, that's what it's for.
Great article!

you may be interested in the relationship between programmatic Junctions and Interval Arithmetic ...

a question in our Discord channel asked "why are arithmetic operations on Ranges restricted" with some examples like this:

(1..2) + 3 => (4..5) #ok
(1..2) + (3..4) => 4 #not (4..6)!

to cut a long story short, I made the Math::Interval module to extend the Range class to provide a working Interval Arithmetic model that uses a Junctions of Ranges to represent disjoint results

# a divisor that spans 0 produces a disjoint multi-interval
my $j1 = (2..4)/(-2..4);
ddt $j1; #any(-Inf..-1.0, 0.5..Inf).Junction
say 3 ~~ $j1; #True

(The long story is at https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/junctions-for-i...)
I think people forget, it's literally your money. Yea it's theoretically subsidized but the amount of money you put into the system over 40 years is probably more than you'll ever get out of it.

- You pay roughly 1-2% of your salary to it every year

- The max weekly benefit in California is $450 for 26 weeks, so roughly $11k. But it's also a percentage of your salary

- Unless you get fired/quit jobs every year it's probably very hard to get more out than you put in and even then there's probably other safeguards
That would be an acceptable outcome. Currently red meat is priced lower than it should be. If we want a market based solution to climate change we need to accurately price goods based on the damage they do. We have been discounting externalities for too long, and it's catching up with us.
Because if you don't join NVIDA your likely hood of success goes down. So the "more profits" you speak of is gambling money. Most corporations arn't going to gamble.
Having been vegetarian for 10 years (vegan for 7 of those) and having had no health issues, I disagree completely with your disagreement.

Perhaps we need more people to be lab rats so we can have a meaningful sample size for a fact-backed discussion.
It isnt really fair to mock this viewpoint. Everything genuinely is 1984 now, but worse because we have AI on our cameras, and 1984 didnt have the internet. Or robots, which may soon be relevant.
The government you (plural) elect is the government you (plural) deserve. If as a society you (plural) cannot figure out how to work together--due to ideological intransigence, culture values that preclude it, unwillingness to put in the hard work of figuring out why "they" feel the way they do, etc.--then you (plural) get fractious government, or what the Greeks called stasis.

> I want a republic where educated people have disproportional power to those who are less educated and produce less value

Because production of "value" should be the basis of aristocracy? And what is the definition of value? Does the uneducated farmer produce less value than the highly paid FAANG engineer? Well, if the transportation lanes get clogged, their value is going to go up in a hurry when there are shortages in the grocery stores. Does the uneducated garbage man produce less value? Well, stop collecting garbage in the city and you'll figure out what his value is. Does the uneducated janitor have little value? Well, have your company fire them all and you'll see what value they produce.

Plato saw the ideal aristocracy as wise, selfless civil servants, which seems like a better system. (Note that education does not produce wisdom. Some educated people are unwise, and some uneducated people are wise.)
The first half of your comment was alright, because a statement was made without proof. But your second then undermines it because you're making a statement without proof. All sources say "afghan informant names were leaked", but you are claiming they weren't - what is your source?

Anyway, Wikileaks was urged to hide / censor the names because it put their lives in danger: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-wa.... Some were released, others containing most of the names were witheld by wikileaks and the partnered media outlets: https://www.wired.com/2011/02/wikileaks-book/, https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701412231. Basically Wikileaks admitted fault and carelessness, and people died as a result: https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-e...
>101

never been. Is that the one from the phantom planet song?
Taxing at exchange would disproportionately affect the wealthy.
Interesting. Can you talk a bit about how the process is faster/better optimized for the dev teams? Sounds like there's a big potential to accelerate time to MVP.
> I don't really get why most the discussions here about the rape case. While very important to him personally, to us the rest of the world the implications of the WikiLeaks should be way more important, or am I wrong?

Why do we nowadays talk about Harvey Weinstein's rapes and not ignore them because his movies are far more important to the "rest of the world"?
Humans don’t need milk. Poor people should still get all the nutrition they need, even if provided for free.
There'll be a new one tomorrow saying the opposite, anyways. Food science studies are historically... sketchy.

Often it's one industry or another paying a tame scientist to p-hack their way to a forgone conclusion; https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
The quality of discussions on HN seriously seems to have plummeted in the past two years.

"Differing opinions than mine are evil. There will be no discussion."

And it's the top comment too. Good Lord.
thanks! We're getting a ton of traffic right now and having some issues scaling... looking into this
Hi. I use Spotify in a web browser (at the office), on Linux (at home), and Android (mobile). To me, the Spotify UI has barely changed in 3 years.

You wrote:

> The product has gone to hell

Can you provide some specifics? To be clear, I am not defending Spotify. One big thing that is lacking: They need a plug-in system like modern web browsers. This will allow them to offload a lot of the UI innovation to tech savvy users. At the moment, only Spotify can make changes to the UI.
>The score from what I have gathered when I learn really rewards those who remain in debt and pay substantial interest,

Way back when, getting my first credit card was difficult--although there are a lot more credit options today.

But, at some point, you absolutely do not need to be in debt to have a good credit score. I guess technically, if you use credit cards and pay them off every month without paying any interest, you're in debt all the time but that's not what most people mean by "debt."
A lot of that I think was rooted in low self-esteem. Which is something I still struggle a lot with. The mind is very powerful. At my last job I stepped up to head of engineering after our CTO resigned, and never got a raise. In my mind I didn't deserve it and was a horrible engineer.
Well they just announced that they are doing tens of thousands of rides per week. That either works or it doesn't. And they seem pretty comfortable doing that. Also there's a distinct lack of horror stories involving Waymo cars. And I assume that they don't have thousands of mechanical turks wielding a joystick somewhere, which means these things are mostly working as advertised (i.e. autonomously) with the very occasional manual intervention.

So, what you are asserting and that cannot be true at the same time. So, my conclusion is that whatever you think you know here is probably wrong.
Sure, but the "it depends" is carrying a lot of weight. NVIDIA's moat will get you testable software straight out the gate; any other stack currently is a game of "how long can we take to get this going".

Corporations simply arn't interested in long term gains unless there's a straightforward path.
Meanwhile paying down my debt faster than I'm supposed to often leads to my score dropping a few points. I've also lost dozens of points for closing rarely used accounts to reduce my financial attack surface. It's all bullshit. I was in the mid 700's while struggling my ass off with debt only to drop into the high 600's for cleaning up my debt habits.
> However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account.

Github accounts of open source software are now for sale?
Not an appeal to nature: an appeal to tried and tested foods for centuries of human history.
Hah! I've done something similar. In my case, I could have something like this in my .env file:

SOME_CONFIG_OPTION = @AWS::some_config_option

And I've written a config library that knows that when a config value starts with `@AWS::' it needs to resolve the config option to an actual value by reaching out to AWS's Secrets Manager service and looking it up there, in which case it receives the value and caches it locally so that subsequent references to this configuration option don't require an additional call out to the cloud.

It works surprisingly well.
If my family had to pay the true cost of the food I ate before becoming independent I wouldn't be here.

Now my family has a couple of engineers, and my work has a positive impact in mitigation of climate change.

There are many realities out there. And many ways to fight climate change.