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by sshine | 2025-09-14 17:52:36+00:00
What you’re arguing is in favour of standards.

And that’s an undeniable feature of Kubernetes: people know about it, and smart people use the same (CNCF) building blocks, to keep maximising the probability that your next Kubernetes engineer has also knows about it.

But do you want to turn your software system distributed at the cost of immense complexity?

Only if you’re already cultivating something immensely complex, and you’d be better off with a common language.
by chaps | 2025-09-14 17:53:00+00:00
I didn't say it exhausts the knowledge.. what I'm saying is very much the opposite of that -- knowledge is front and center. I'm more referring to the experience and new lenses on past similar experiences, which I think we're in agreement on.

Go play Outer Wilds if you want to experience what I mean. It's the only game I've played that's affected me so strongly in this way.

"No man ever steps in the same river twice"
by timeon | 2025-09-14 17:53:01+00:00
> The ones that can lead must lead.

I get frustration that people feel in some countries like Netherlands where emissions per capita is 6.56t CO2, while others that also can do something like US, do not (14.3t CO2 per capita).

> If everybody keeps looking at the others, nothing happens.

On the other hand, this is true.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 17:53:04+00:00
> That truly does not make sense

Reality doesn't have to make sense to you.

> renewable subsidies are being phased out around the world

Nope. Countries are trying to phase out renewables subsidies. And failing. Recently, the UK, Denmark and Germany have had offshore-wind sales with exactly zero bids.

> fastest growing energy source in human history.

People love those delicious subsidies.

> In contrast nuclear power is backsliding

Nope.

> and the few projects which get green lit have insanely large subsidies attached.

Only in markets that have been thoroughly distorted by subsidies and other preferential treatment for intermittent renewables.
by Herring | 2025-09-14 17:53:05+00:00
I actually think he was telling the truth (from his pov). Conservatives see the world in a very us-vs-them fashion. Makes it very hard for them to even notice nuances like in-group enemies (nevermind actually deal with them). It sounds like an oxymoron.

Democrats correctly understand that immigrants are out-group benefactors. But they have blind spots too. We all do.
Ask HN: Is there a easy connector between MongoDB and Postgres?
by singlepaynews | 2025-09-14 17:54:12+00:00
I have a postgres schema for relating authors, posts, comments, likes, follows, and all kinds of stuff that works great for relational queries.

The articles table in particular is great, with the exception of the "body" column, where all the sudden I'm hosting a large markdown file.

I want to have an "article_bodies" table in MongoDB that holds many [article_id:article_body] entries, which in my understanding is what MongoDB was made for. I'm thinking this will open higher performance from my postgres, while allowing me to keep writing relational queries everywhere.

Is there a fast and easy way to connect my pg "articles" table to a mongo "articles" table? I'm using PostgREST to host the rest API, will this have the performance impact I'm expecting?

I'm a self-taught webdev, but it seems like more or less everything is either best served by a relational db or a document db, with mongo and postgres being the most widely used standards. Are there any projects/companies dedicated to supporting tooling that links these two? Could we finally be done building new databases?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-14 17:54:24+00:00
I didn’t realize until after social media how a lot of people’s whole lives revolve around the community of the church and how lost they would be without their church community. That’s not by itself meant to be an insult.

But I saw it in real time with her. Everything I knew about her as a person was at odds with her support of the current MAGA movement. I thought she would be bemoaning that Republicans didn’t choose another of the candidates last year like Pence who was a traditional religious conservative Christian and she would at least admit that she held her nose and voted for Trump because she thought Kamala was worse. I could have respected that if not agreed with it.

I do have a good friend who is slightly on the other side of the aisle than I am. But he doesn’t demonize anyone. He is the good ol’ boy that I could have a beer with.
by ivanbakel | 2025-09-14 17:54:58+00:00
Isn't the consensus from climate scientists that emission reductions are totally necessary, and there is no solution which is solely based on capture of greenhouse gases or cooling technologies? Even if reducing emissions is not enough, I thought it was clear that it needs to be done - and the economic impact is a necessary evil, since in reality we are just seeing the reversal of economic benefits obtained at the cost of planetary temperatures.
by rickydroll | 2025-09-14 17:55:19+00:00
You are right that there are individuals who should not practice meditation. From what I've read, it's usually people with severe mental illness who are already predisposed to suicide, depersonalization, etc. It gets worse if you practice on your own without community. Having a teacher and fellow practitioners helps achieve balance, equanimity, and kindness to yourself and others.

I started meditation practice before I was diagnosed with a mood disorder. I was fortunate to have a teacher who is also a practicing psychologist. After diagnosis, meditation provided me with the strength to withstand the emotional storms that medication trials put me through.

My psychologist and a teacher taught me one of the basic techniques for dealing with complex reactions or feelings that might arise. The practice that worked was sitting with the feelings/emotions/thoughts. Let them hang out in your mind, and every time you engage, stop, disconnect from them, and then start again. Initially, the cycle lasts about three minutes. I learned how to recognize when it was too much, to take a break, and be kind to myself. With practice, those uncomfortable feelings and thoughts gradually fade to the point where they are no longer intrusive as often.

All that said, I don't want to minimize the issue of suicide. I've had brushes with it and survived. I had a brother who didn't. His death has left me with many feelings that don't respond to rational thought and analysis. All I can do is sit with them and not engage.
by amluto | 2025-09-14 17:55:52+00:00
> The Cookware Sustainability Alliance, an industry group formed by major cookware companies, urged lawmakers to oppose the bill. “The proposal risks taking safe, affordable, and reliable kitchen essentials off the shelves, leaving customers with fewer options for the products they use every day,” the group said in a statement.

> The alliance says PFAS is a category that includes some chemicals—such as fluoropolymers used to coat nonstick cookware—that have been deemed safe for uses in food preparation by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Food Safety Authority.

> “They are non-toxic and inert, they do not bioaccumulate, and importantly, they are not water soluble,” the alliance stated.

Wow, what a lie-by-outrageous-omission. I would believe that the fluoropolymers in nonstick cookware are, in their intact state, inert and rather harmless (if quite persistent). I would even believe that most of the definitely-not-safe stuff that’s used in manufacturing them don’t end up in the pan.

But these things are in cookware, where they are regularly heated to high temperatures, and a lot of fluoropolymers start to degrade at temperatures that are well within the reach of the average stove. Have any of these people ever contemplated the state of an omelette pan at a restaurant? Or basically any Teflon pan that has gotten any sort of regular use without extreme care taken not to overheat it? Heck, overheated PTFE is so non-inert that it rather imfamously kills birds.

I will he delighted to see Teflon pans phased out at California restaurants. You can buy perfectly fine PFAS-free “ceramic”-coated pans these days at reasonable prices. (You can also buy non-PFAS-free “ceramic” pans these days — read labels carefullly, consider looking up the listed patents, and keep in mind that if it doesn’t see its PFAS-free then it probably isn’t. PFOS/PFOA-free does not mean free if other PFAS.)
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-14 17:55:58+00:00
I think a lot of advertising is extremely effective in that it implants the brand in your subconscious through repetition and familiarity. I would much rather go to a local sandwich shop that a Subway, and I've been to a Subway maybe 10 times in my entire life, not once in over 15 years, and am not especially impressed by what I got for the money, and yet every time I go past a Subway my brain immediately goes "ooh look a Subway" and I have to almost deliberately go "no, walk on" to myself.

Which lines up with the rest of what you say that if it's just about hammering the recognition into your grey matter, it's not especially important if the hammer is gold plated.
by peterspath | 2025-09-14 17:57:44+00:00
I kinda agree.

I however think it should be a personal responsibility. Not something forced upon you or being pushed to the government to solve. People have more personal responsibility. Lots of them aren’t bothered anymore because they think the government will fix it.

For example, I don’t have a car and choose to live in walking distance of my work. When I go somewhere I take the bike or train.
by whizzter | 2025-09-14 17:57:47+00:00
And that's a big big part of the issue, Germany said "fuck ghg" and closed their nuclear plants.

We also have soaring energy costs in Sweden.. but _only in the south_ close to Germany, in the north we still have plans on using relatively inefficient electrolysis to produce hydrogen to in turn reduce GHG's from steel production, because we have so much power generated from wind (uneven) and waterfalls (even).

Sweden is once again building nuclear plants after 40 years, but we could've started far earlier.
by ForOldHack | 2025-09-14 17:58:01+00:00
Compromises. We had BCD for finance, binary for games, and floating point for math. I wrote a sample 'make change' using floating, BCD, and integer( normalizing by multiplying by 100). The integer ripped thru it, but surprisingly BCD kept up with FP, and with compiler optimizations, in certain edge cases and unit tests was significantly faster.

You get surprising things with common place problems.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-09-14 17:58:45+00:00
> In a sense yes

By definition, yes.

> is any newsfeed with a comment-section or a hobbyist forum social media?

Some are just larger and more centralized than others.

> Can I monetise my contributions here, advertise products, sell my karma-points or create networks of like-minded individuals here?

"Show HN" basically is that. And yes you can create connections here. I don't think I need to go on.
by evanelias | 2025-09-14 17:59:37+00:00
In the "paid SaaS" situation, the SaaS version almost always has proprietary changes and enhancements, which are infeasible to open-source without ruining the business. With the code fully available, since anyone else can then launch an identical business on the same codebase, there's little chance for the project creator's own business to succeed, as it can't stand out on feature-set.

With a CLA on third-party contributions, the project creator can still operate an enhanced SaaS without that massive problem. And revenue from the business can then support sustainable development of the project as a whole.

fwiw, I have recently seen at least two "Show HN" posts where the author was running an enhanced paid SaaS on their AGPL project, which accepted many contributions without a CLA, but did not offer the enhanced SaaS codebase to users. That's a clear copyright violation and any of those contributors can sue the project creator if they wish; this is what I meant by "cannot legally host their own SaaS" although in retrospect I should have clarified the scenario.
by modeless | 2025-09-14 17:59:49+00:00
I haven't seen an analysis of stratospheric aerosol injection that suggested it couldn't solve the problem. We know it works because it happens naturally via volcanoes, and if we do it ourselves we can do it almost entirely without the other bad effects volcanoes cause. The opposition I've seen to it has been on moral or ethical grounds, or misunderstandings.
by mdasen | 2025-09-14 18:00:01+00:00
The UNIX specification is not the same as POSIX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification.

You might say "their exact view of what UNIX is isn't important and POSIX is," but POSIX is not the UNIX spec. You might think the Unix spec isn't important - and it really isn't today. Linux generally targets what is important and what users care about - and that isn't the UNIX spec. It is often the same as the UNIX spec, but not always and there are deviations.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-14 18:00:16+00:00
Some will say we do nothing, some will say we do better. Imho, the latter is winning over the former at the moment. That might change, hopefully it doesn't. As you say, this is an infinite ooda loop of humanity in the aggregate.

(1GW of solar PV is deployed every 15 hours as of this comment; battery storage is ~$52/kwh, half of new vehicles sold in China and 25% of global auto sales currently are battery electric or plug in hybrid electric; manufacturing capacity and uptake trajectories continue to steepen)

Solar:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...

Batteries: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

Heat pumps: https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-heat-pumps/executi...

EVs:

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025

https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/global-elect...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250904191345/https://www.ftpor... [pdf]

Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+) : https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...
by vouwfietsman | 2025-09-14 18:00:43+00:00
I'm not sure why you keep spinning this as a valid response to anything.

This is the full quote of the parent: > As for people getting sick and dying, they either don’t care, or they want people to get sick and die.

Lets break it down. Lets say some of your actions are causing harm, there's basically three options: 1. you don't know this is happening 2. you know, but continue because you don't care, and you can make money not caring 3. you know, and somehow this is beneficial to you, unlikely but possible

(The default option, which is always available, is to stop operations, which they have obviously also not done.)

Since DuPont obviously knew this was causing harm, #1 is out, so #2 and #3 remain. This is just deduction by elimination, not a value judgement.

No amount of spinning this argument is going to change this. I think your last line here makes it obvious who's straw-manning.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-14 18:00:44+00:00
Not really. That solution only works if you are willing to maintain your fork forever just for your one patch, and you're happy to build the software yourself every time you need it and it's a "leaf" project (e.g. it's not good if you want to add a feature to Linux and it only exists on your machine).

This answer is very much like "well if you don't like Trump you're free to live in another country!". Technically true.. ish. Practically dumb as hell.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-14 18:01:13+00:00
Quote: Contrary to what left-wing optimists had hoped, Democratic nonvoters in 2024 appear to have been less progressive than Democrats who voted. For instance, Democratic nonvoters were 14 points less likely to support banning assault rifles, 20 points less likely to support sending aid to Gaza, 17 points less likely to report believing that slavery and discrimination make it hard for Black Americans, 17 points more likely to support building a border wall with Mexico, 20 points more likely to support the expansion of fossil fuel production, and, sadly for economic populists, 16 points less likely to support corporate tax hikes (though this group still favored corporate tax hikes by a three to one margin). Overall, nonvoting Democrats were 18 points less likely to self-identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
by twixfel | 2025-09-14 18:02:42+00:00
I'm similar in that I had hugely admired the USA for as long as I've been politically aware (so a bit over 15 years) and dreamt of living there one day. That's all changed now of course, I think we need to keep the USA on side for as long as possible but we need to cut ties with them as soon as we can. Not only do they not give a shit about us, they seem to actively hate us. I don't recognise their right wing any more, they just worship that fucktard in the WH. Basically everything I believed about Western civilisation and America's role in leading it, turned out to be a lie. I mean, I wouldn't even call the USA a western country any more.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-14 18:02:57+00:00
> Your reading, meanwhile, requires transforming a rhetorical question about whether someone should be "treated better" than someone whom Kirk clearly sees as highly virtuous, into a claim that every single aspect described of that person is a basis for denigration. That is supremely uncharitable and frankly implausible.

That's kinda wild. You've not seen much of the anti- black, female, gay, and/or drug-using rhetoric that people use. It is an obvious dog whistle.
by arminiusreturns | 2025-09-14 18:03:42+00:00
I grew up in the mountains at about 8500 ft, but was often spending my freetime at higher elevations surrounding the village. There are lots of little things about living at high altitude people don't think about, such as cooking times and quirks, sealed containers exploding when going up, etc. My favorite has to be just how superhuman (when I was in my prime) going down to low elevation made me feel.

The biggest issue people don't talk about? Remote high alt places often become unlivable for people when they get elderly due to altitude interference in certain medical conditions, and the general distance away from hospitals.

I miss the mountains so much all the time, and hope to retire back up there.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-14 18:03:56+00:00
> Recording and distribution aren't anywhere close to zero, and a myriad of other costs haven't changed.

Recording used to require very expensive equipment to do things that can now be done with free software. Medium-quality microphones etc. are now a dime a dozen and reasonably high quality ones are well within the reach of any artist who would be making enough money to pay rent.

Distribution of music over the internet is, as close as makes no difference, free. A music track in lossless quality is on the order of megabytes. That amount of storage is completely negligible and transferring it would be fractions of a penny even at the extortionate bandwidth prices charged by EC2 et al. If you're charging $1/song that's a rounding error and if you're distributing music for free in order to sell concert tickets you can use P2P and the users will handle the distribution themselves. This used to be something that required pressing LPs or CDs and physically transporting them on a truck to thousands of records stores.

The "other costs" are mostly the problems the industry creates themselves in order to sell the solution. Monopolizing distribution channels so that only signed artists can get featured, payola, etc. The world would be better off if they would dry up and blow away.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-09-14 18:04:22+00:00
Are we just not teaching The Jungle, Silent Spring, etc… in school anymore?

Also, please enlighten me on where I can shop around for alternative tap water.

I’m being petty, and understand the linked article is more fear-mongery than what the actual situation is, but simply eliminating all regulation is not the solution, as history has shown.
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-09-14 18:04:31+00:00
As a person with long experiences in trauma responses, I see this sort of behavior pattern everywhere. There’s so much “trust your gut!!” advice when the gut can be deeply wrong especially when it comes to identifying interpersonal threats. We don’t educate people in how to process their feelings in a healthy manner and to differentiate what they feel is happening and how they should behave. This results in anything like saying someone has “bad vibes” to be a reason to exclude them, to actively covering for someone with a known pattern of harming people simply because they are charming.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-14 18:04:44+00:00
I could see an argument for trying to impose a per-population cap (it’s our shared world so we should share the capacity to do damage to it equally). Or an attempt to use the market to figure out the best expenditure of emissions for economic activity; some kind of carbon tax and credit scheme.

But, by whatever metric we want to use, India is with their huge population is going to end up with a lot of it. Unless is it some sort of per-country cap, which would be totally unfair, right?
by arminiusreturns | 2025-09-14 18:05:57+00:00
No, because it became a locked down ecosystem that is user-hostile and not user-controllable. I realized this when I observed the younger generation, who I thought would be much better than us at computing, who had not a clue how anything worked because they never had the ability, need, or desire to tinker with the underlying systems, with only rare exceptions (roms, etc).
by chowells | 2025-09-14 18:06:13+00:00
Ok, I see where the "actually 2000" misconception would come from. A mile is 2000 steps, and "mile" comes from "mille".

But "mille" means 1000. Specifically, it was the distance covered by 1000 paces from a marching Roman soldier. It's more consistent to measure paces than steps in the face of left/right asymmetries, so it's the unit implied when you just say you're marching 1000.
by ForOldHack | 2025-09-14 18:07:53+00:00
"An sNaN (signaling Not-a-Number) is a special floating-point value that is designed to trigger a hardware trap or exception when it is used in an arithmetic operation. This differs from a qNaN (quiet Not-a-Number), which propagates through calculations without causing an immediate exception. Handling sNaNs requires a more deliberate approach that involves enabling floating-point traps and writing a custom trap handler."

Just learned something. Thanks.
by supertrope | 2025-09-14 18:08:11+00:00
This is why attorneys use more emotion based arguments when before a jury instead of a judge. No only do lay persons like you and I not have legal education but we’re less likely to follow dry technical and boring evidence and legal details. (If the legal technicalities and detailed evidence do help their client they might ask for a bench trial!)

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” –Carl Sandburg