skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We stink at it for a few reasons - some covered by the article - and some not.
Primarily it is due to population in total and our habits of which generate Co2. Our houses, energy expenditure on cars, planes etc are valuable to us, and are not at all easy to change.e.g. Thing about houses designed for A/C with lots of glass. Lifecycle is 50 years.
We are over optimistic about very large infrastructure change in wind / solar and despatchable energy replacing other sources and aren’t very practical. Did someone mention nuclear or is that verboten?
It is also a distributed problem. If one country gets ‘ahead’ it incurs a cost penalty (unless you are one of the few with cheap hydro). What’s the incentive?
Many intuitively believe in climate change but want someone else to pay (doesn’t work out). Who realistically can see widespread support to cut the standard of living?
So, some problems are very hard and this is one of them. No real easy answer. This is why we stink at it. Until the pain is far more evident.
Yes, but many/most nominal MLMs are effectively pyramid schemes in disguise. New entrants at the bottom rungs of the network are typically sold a "starter kit" by whomever one rung up the network recruited them. The starter kit is going to be some marketing materials and an initial inventory of product to sell. The marketing materials convince them they're getting a great deal on the wholesale value of the product and will make their money back in no time just by selling off the starter products (and then order/sell more and keep making more!), but the truth turns out to be that the upstream is banking on turning a mild profit selling the starter kit to the new member and doesn't care whether individuals ever buy the products, and the actual product doesn't sell very well to individuals because it's not a very good product. Then the only realistic way to make back the starter kit money is to sell more starter kits to another layer of idiots who think they'll be able to sell the worthless product, ad infinitum. In such a scheme there is a "product", but the vast majority of the product that's ever manufactured just changes hands through the starter-kit system between various levels of salespersons as a form of pyramid currency and almost no consumers end up buying it.
> Why not turn the fatalism and anxiety you feel into a paycheck?

I don't want to sound mean, but the only anxiety I am beginning to feel lately is that more and more people are turning to fighting a gas that all of us exhale, some of them fanatically and violently, and they seem to ultimately agree that we must wind down the economy to beat it. I don't want to lose everything that gave us wealth, progress, medical breakthroughs and freedom for the sole reason that some people are afraid of a warmer climate.

So, what do I do about it?
Vikram and the Vampire (1870)
Climate change was invented by the left after global warming failed. Next its fresh water shortages.
It's all about getting elected and jacking up taxes.
But what is the basis for your confidence?

The vast majority of students are working alongside the degree and not looking to go on to phd programs...

Imperial, Stanford, Columbia, Gatech, UIUC, Utexas Austin all offer online degrees.

Being in one of these programs myself I can assure you that the standard is rigorous. I attended a top university in the UK and the quality of education is not any lower.

There are some universities that are absolutely frauds but that is not the case for the universities listed above.

If you disagree go on the coursework pages and try and do the first problem set then tell me it’s not as difficult.
- configuration format/language

- system requirements

- convention vs configuration

- flexibility vs predefined paths

- tradeoff features vs their complexity (parallelism, caching, ...)

- level of integration with specific other tooling (VCS, languages, package managers, ...)
Genuine question: Of all games, why is this ugly Mario Kart clone the top post of the front page of HN?
> If at this point, the planet still keeps warming? What are "they" going to blame it on then?

On living beings, most of them exhale CO2. Those who are already yelling to have fewer children (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...) will go one step further.
I've seen an interesting demo a few weeks ago for calling GTK directly from CL without binding/libraries:

(load "./demostuff")

(defun gtkapp ()
(sb-int:set-floating-point-modes :traps '(:overflow :invalid))
(gapp testgtk
(window win testgtk "Test" 400 200)

(box v outerbox1 win)
(box v mainbox1 outerbox1)
(box h buttons1 mainbox1)
(box h numbox1 mainbox1)
(box h leftbuttons1 buttons1)
(text num1 "Press the OK button." numbox1)
(button b1nw "OK" leftbuttons1 (xtext num1 "Button pressed."))

(gtk_widget_show_all win))
(g_application_run testgtk 0 nil)
(g_object_unref testgtk))

This is enough to create a window with a button and a text object, in less than 20 lines.

The "demostuff" part contains a few function and macros that are used in the author's demo. The zip archive distributed in his GitHub page[0] also contains a dumped SBCL image at around 40 MB and a script to build it for people who want to try it without installing SBCL. Not small in absolute terms but, even without function tree-shaking, its size can be reduced with core compression to a little more than 10 MB (12MB on my Debian installation, your SBCL needs to be built with "--with-sb-core-compression"), anyway still an order of magnitude smaller than Electron... ^__^;

[0] https://github.com/mifpasoti/Gtk-Demos
There's nothing stopping a highly educated person from being an absolute monster, as we've seen repeatedly throughout history.
Ha, I totally agree. Actually if we’re being honest, it’s the programmers that are to blame.

But the downvotes indicate the cognitive dissonance here. It’s still fashionable to hate on Electron.
So far we've signed up and tested Darwin mail's free version using Brave browser. The layout looks very familiar to the now defunct Inbox by Google. Great job with the design and familiarity. In talking through the service, we've found that it is slow on mobile at this stage in the development. At one point the menu under your Google photo (the one with settings in it) got stuck on the screen even when opening the side menu with drafts, sent, etc. was open. Another thing we noticed and would like changed is that if you click drafts our sent mail or another category, you have to click again to close the side menu to see your chosen category. These are all things I think will be fixed soon if development persists. The one thing that's going to be interesting to see how it turns out it's the bundling. Hopefully he'll get it right!
Hmm is this growth in population predominantly in the working age group? If more babies are being born, then they cant exactly work yet. Furthermore, what about people retiring?
What courses did you take in the masters program?
I loved that show!
WP has always been fake news lmao.
This looks pretty cool, although it's missing a little more explanation on how to actually use it. I think the API section doesn't have enough information.
Recently released 1.0, and has characters themed after various open source projects.
True but the narrative is always about the possibility of a recession and companies being afraid to invest in their businesses. Rarely do I see this point being made.
Reddit has you covered: https://i.imgur.com/xa1MDnt.png
Nothing? If you don't believe in climate change or believe we should be fighting it, then please get out of the way.

The energy transition is a bigger economic opportunity that the Internet (Bloomberg estimates it at something like $10+ trillion). So you doing nothing is more money for me. Thanks I guess?
We exhale it because it's bad for us, and it's not the only thing in the fight against climate change.

The point isn't to wind down the economy to beat it, it's to find alternate ways of keeping the economy going while beating it. Green energy solutions are not winding down the economy, if anything it is supplementing it.
Because it's a Linux classic.
I remember playing this game over 10 years ago.
I wonder if the "data suckers" have any intention of creating a history of the world, in which no author imposes an interpretation of events. Besides remembering all the data, these companies have tools to parse the data and render it understandable, without imposing a meaning. Call it objective history. That would be valuable.
I read the whole thing as "here are some factors that may nudge you toward micro services, within the broader context that splitting your app into micro services has a big pile of complexity and other costs".

So it's not that any of those factors necessarily mean micro services are the right answer, but that some combination of them might make micro the right answer for some slice of a system in some context.
the fact that you couldn't tell just shows how eerily brilliant this is.
At least I still blame living (human) beings for the warming.
> If at this point, the planet still keeps warming? What are "they" going to blame it on then?

Gas heating ? Methane unleashed ? Ice-free arctic ? ...
You seem to be conflating two different issues.

Eliminating plant and animal diversity is dangerous for various reasons, but has little to do with climate change.

As to deforestation as a mechanism of CO2 removal vis a vis climate change, there are more trees now than there have ever been.
HTTPS: //Youtu.be/BkQHCTUkSX0
Watch game of thrones superstar sung
Do you know of any jobs in software related to this, or where one could start searching for such?
I think this is true for the most part, although poor development practices can eventually catch up to you (I once worked in a place with 5000 programmers working on the same thing and whose productivity averaged 1 line of code per day -- it can happen.. :-P ).

However, while many people will rightly complain about stress in the workplace and long hours coding, I'd like to also point out that stress and lack of sleep can come in a variety of packages. I've seen good programmers destroy their careers because they thought there was no problem staying up drinking all night on workdays. I've experienced (unfortunately) being in a bad relationship and arguing with my SO all night until it was time to go to work.

Stress and sleepless nights will cost you in your career. It might cost you a lot. It's not sexy to be the person that avoids drama in their life and manages their sleep schedule well, but it can have pretty significant rewards. If you think that in SV the difference between a top and middling performer can easily be in the $100K per year area, it puts a pretty hefty price tag on "Oh, I'm pretty sure I can catch up on my sleep on the weekend".

From the "hard to talk about, but I wish I knew this 20-30 years ago" department :-(
I used to think that writing or storytelling that “doesn’t have a point,” so to speak, was more profound or enduring, but later in life I no longer feel this way and have come to regard the modern trend to create film and written artwork like this as a mistake.

Maybe it goes in cycles? If society is prepccupied with formulaic narratives that stick to a tight setvof themes, then material written without a specific aim in terms of “a point” might help broaden discourse or generate discussion.

But if society is already floundering around with aimless discussion in a lot of areas, with big conflicts in terms of the basic moral or ethical premises of the world, then writing succinct, direct stories that have a point may be more useful.
>, but what is there to be opinionated about with a build system?

I think you're saying this because your idea of a "build system" is a very simple set of sequential steps from known source code input files to an output binary.

The differing opinions come in when the "build system" includes various contradictory philosophies of how to configure and specify the building of complex software.

Different opinions on:

- syntax : should build config be XML, or JSON, or YAML, or custom syntax? E.g. Ant and Maven used XML but Gradle does not

- dependencies search: should build system implicitly find and add relevant dependencies? Or should programmer explicitly specify each one?

- reproducible builds (version pinning) vs auto-updated dependencies.

- should the build system be "smart" about cross-platform differences? If yes, you end up with complicated build tools like GNU Autoconf "configure" bash script, or CMake's complex syntax.

- should build system do optimization and bundling tasks that's not strictly limited to "compile" steps? Some Javascript build tools try to eliminate redundant or unused js code to make downloads smaller.

- etc, etc.

I also recommend reading the blog post "So you want to write a package manager"[1] to get an idea of how complicated a build system can get. The title says "package manager" but much of the material is also about build systems.

The bottom line is that reasonable people can disagree on the priorities and therefore, you can't create The One & Only Build System to End All Other Build Systems.

[1] https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-m...
Building and deploying software is an unsolved problem and this bottleneck becomes increasingly costly and painful as the digital revolution accelerates.
Not fully. Cons I think so far might contain:

1. much lower performance than HAProxy;
2. there is no direct design for white/black lists, which has to be setup mannually and carefully;
3. only IP range, domain name, country of IP, regex pattern of domain are supported, no URL yet;
4. no UDP support yet.
I wasn't aware the Sharp CPU was a sort of hybrid 8080/Z80. Interesting series of blog posts here: https://realboyemulator.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/the-nintend...
Back channels would be one way, but then how to verify the back channel? Sibling "I know and your dumb" response not very illuminating here.
> The energy transition is a bigger economic opportunity that the Internet (Bloomberg estimates it at something like $10+ trillion). So you doing nothing is more money for me. Thanks I guess?

So where exactly do you think this money is coming from? It'll come out of your pocket (and mine) due to laws that force us to invest in new technology.
DPL elections 2019, congratulations Sam Hartman
I find it quite fascinating how long tailed single use technologies last. It's been 24 years, but if you encounter a N64, it's still safe to assume that you can flip the switch and be playing.

Whereas the multipurpose OG iPhone isn't even a good paperweight because it has dated styling.

And it's not just electronics. The Browning M2 is still in service. It's one job is to deliver reliable .50cal rounds. Versus the m16/4 or m246, which are constantly under scrutiny because they promised multirole capability.

Aviation, B-52 is projected for 100 years of service.
They're using locking blocks at the ends to stabilise things
Happy Easter Sundy HN! Bit of counter-programming for those indulging in too much Kyregma and Jelly Belly's ;)

Slipping into Burton's prose is like mounting a white elephant for a long stroll into humid, tiger-ravaged jungles.

Native folktales provide the antidote to Myth of a Thousand Faces Ur-texts. They're stochastic. Endless. Authorless. Abundant with seemingly coincidental frissons. "Pearls with a thread draw through" indeed!
Politicians, being decision makers having vested interest in denying climate change is the epitome of corruption, because unlike other corruption; wealth doesn't prevent themselves or their kin from getting affected in the long run.
Is it the same everywhere?
As someone on a dev team with little experience with microservices, including myself initially, you're going to make a big mess before you know how to clean it up. Take eventual consistency seriously. Limit rpc across services as much as possible. Agree on standards and your source of truth as early as possible. CI/CD the small stuff that doesn't matter (linting, test running). Also, have a good integration/e2e testing set up early - mock tests ended up being very brittle for us.
My friend had a Scooter that could be tuned with a Gameboy (In Norway bikes are capped at 45 km/h for 16 year olds.)
Article by Michael Haephrati
Show HN: Dino – Distributed group chat backend in Python for socketio clients
Geeks (rightfully) diss it, but The Big Bang Theory played a huge part in popularizing DnD in the mainstream, too.
This is almost a beat-for-beat rip off of MKBHD's well produced Game Boy "Retro Tech" special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy8zSYKkczI
Conclusion at the end is the biggest surprise.
Gitlab 11.4.7 Remote Code Execution Walk-Through
Wait!

It is this easy to run a web-based app? No heavy Electron dependency?
STK highlights the need to grow the open-license art community.
To be fair I don't think anybody saw systemic violence upon civilians during a war between states (as opposed to a civil one) as a realistic possibility during the inter-war period. It was well outside the customs of war in our corner of the world at that point.

The national-social cocktail completely tore apart common decency.
Parents and students in Kansas have concerns about the Summit Learning program
Nice walk-through. Re:bandwidth worries, for this crowd, you probably just link to: https://github.com/2bytes/website/blob/master/content/post/t...

I doubt hn will take down github...
> Versus the m16/4 or m246, which are constantly under scrutiny because they promised multirole capability.

F-35 too comes to mind.
Don't understand how people can drink beer at room temperature.

I've been to the CAMRA beer festival in Paisley a few times with some friends and we usually go to a pub afterwards as tradition.

That cold pint of Tennents is heavenly after dealing with all the lukewarm ale.
Sure!

Most distributed battery storage (Stem, Advanced Microgrid, etc.) and building energy management companies (Carbon Lighthouse, Siemens, etc.) have software divisions that focus on data analysis tools for their customers (think energy dashboards and reports). Also, most grid operators (CAISO, etc.), utilities (PG&E, etc.), and utility vendors (AutoGrid, etc.) have software and data analysis divisions that focus on figuring out how we can keep the grid running while ramping up renewables. Finally, regulators (Dept of Energy, public utility commissions, city managers, etc.) are in desperate need of software and data science talent to help them understand all this new energy advancements that are going on (often at policy hearings utilities are saying one technical thing, distributed energy companies are saying another technical thing, and the panel of regulators have no idea what the technical implications of all this back-and-forth is).

Hope that helps! In addition to the (A) and (B) suggestions in my parent comment, you can try searching typical software job boards (Indeed, etc.) for your language of choice + keywords (clean energy, solar, renewables, smart grid, climate change, etc.). For example, "python solar" in San Francisco returns a bunch of results on indeed.com.
Google has nap pods? Wow...that remindsof mats they used to have for us in preschool. Sheesh.
And there was a tiny amount of beauty in this era. The constraint and spirit of the day was more interesting. Today things have too much ambition in a way.
Jobs are a proxy for both productivity and for citizens' share of value. Productivity without jobs is inequality, in a capitalist economy.

If we had a socialist economy with a citizens dividend, we'd care more about productivity than jobs. Even so, a human is untapped potential, and jobs tap that potential.
We'll likely find out over the next 10-20 years.
I considered mentioned the A-10 and it's "replacement", but they're starting to get it together.
> I don't want to lose everything that gave us wealth, progress, medical breakthroughs and freedom for the sole reason that some people are afraid of a warmer climate

There were some/articles studies that were putting part of the “blame” for the recent Syrian Civil War on climate change (as far as I remember increased aridity caused by climate change had forced many rural Syrians onto the cities where they couldn’t all find jobs, hence the conflict) and as such I’m pretty sure that future climate change-induced wars will take care of our “wealth, progress and medical breakthroughs” unless we manage to somehow slow the rate of change.
Your post appears to be apologizing for the actions of Nazi Germany by comparing the Nazi legal system's civil protections with those of the modern-day United States of America.

The OP discusses instances where individual Germans refused to follow orders. One example:

> By his action to obtain this order, Griese refused the request of the SD to have his men participate in the execution of Jews in his area.

>In fact, the SD had shot the 365 Jews themselves while he was on his journey to and from Konigsberg

Nazi leadership recognized that mass execution of Jews (and others) by firearm was taking a psychological toll on the Germans being ordered to do so, which is one of the reasons that more abstract, industrial methods (e.g. gas chambers) were developed.
None of the boulders in the video are even close to 25 tons...
Germany's worst week in 2018 in terms of wind and sunshine had 27.6% of it's electricity produced without emitting greenhouse gases. Compare that to 45% of the total energy in the entire year being generated with zero carbon sources. 27.6% is 60% of the annualized renewable share. In other words even in the 5 worst weeks a year our economy only has to shrink down by 40% if seasonal storage beyond a week is impossible.
Great write up, you should make a Show HN with your project
While there is more going on, the subtle comment about hustle culture resonates with me. Cheap labor exploitation called "hustling", and currently everyone seems to want to have a hustle. It's because we are getting screwed at our day jobs, folks, and those same employers are exploiting you again when you leave and start your hustle.
Because it’s fun to build them and “do it right”... :)
I like a good cool beer or stout, but get disgusted at cold beer. It's not enjoyable, so it gives me time to talk with friends as the beer warms to a proper temp.
Well, for my company, the money is coming from homeowners and business owners buying clean energy products (solar, batteries, EVs, etc.). They are choosing to buy these new technologies because they want to.

I noticed you didn't really address my core assumption that you don't believe in climate change. So you don't think it's a problem, right? Can you talk a little more about from where you derive that conclusion? It's so rare nowadays to hear someone straight up deny climate change is a problem when there's so much scientific and economic analysis saying the opposite.
> A simple and fair solution would be to not allow a single person to inherit more than 50% of the wealth of their parent!

Pass that law and nothing would change, the money would go to some offshore bank account which is owned by a secret trust controlled by the kid.
Google says it won't support open source DRM over HTML implementations
I think it's worth noting that the armed forces and the Nazi party itself were not in lock step for the duration of the 3rd Reich. While the SS answered more or less directly to the Nazi party there were certainly individuals throughout the leadership of the armed forces that did not like their resources being used to carry out genocide and or help the SS because they had little interest in that, they wanted to fight a real war. A lot of the leadership of the armed forces resented the fact that the Nazi party has usurped some of their power so they weren't too keen on bending over backwards to further the goals of their unspoken political opponents. Also have to remember that until they got the death camp system up and running most executions were done by firing squad. Doing this to civilians at large scale is kind of a shitty task so there's going to be really little enthusiasm for it from the lower officers and the grunts who will generally drag their feet and stall.