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Ask HN: What do you do for global warming?
After a lot of discussions with my girlfriend about global warming we are still wondering what we can do to help fight the problem.

Some Background:
There's evidence [0] that we will reach a point of no return regarding the climate change soon. Reaching this tipping point implies we create a self-reinforcing feedback loop where the whole 'Earth System' becomes destabilized which in turn leads to an increase in temperature of up to 50° in the next 100 years. See [3].

We think its clear there is reason to act now. There's some 'simple' points one can personally do to help:

* no flights
* use public transport
* use less energy
* buy local groceries
* cut back on dairy products

However, the largest impact on climate does not come from e.g. flights [1] but from the energy industry. One can only impact this indirectly.

Lots of the general public (including politics) seems to be oblivious to the problem at hand - ignoring the problem fully or at least partly. With Fridays for future [2] there is (at least in Germany) work done in this regard. At the same time it has just been decided there won't be a tempo limit on german autobahns and no CO2-emission tax.

It looks like the best might be to improve education on the topic - but it has to happen fast. If more people try to reduce their emissions it might force the 'bigger forces' to reduce their emissions, too.

This whole topic has a very negative ring to it - "Life is probably over in 50 years" is not something everyone wants to be confronted with. At the same time everyone has to acknowledge this and has to react accordingly.

So, really, I'd like to spark a discussion what one can do, what has been done and what you are doing. Also, what can give hope :) ?

tldr; We are fucked, what can we do?

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252
[1] check emissions by sector (link too long)
[2] https://fridaysforfuture.de/
[3] https://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage
Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript / fuzzy notepad
Most of that is starch, which you can wash of by briefly putting the noodle in boiling water (a few seconds) and then washing under cold water for a minute or two, then letting it dry.

It could also be prevented by coating it in a wax, like Carnauba wax, which will hold stable at up to 80°C and is chemically friendly to water, so McDonalds and friends would only have to lower the temperature of their coffee a bit.
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Thanks @cromwellian!

We are currently looking on what to do with our quite massive GWT app. Already in the process of RPC to REST switch, with Angular, AngularDart and GWT3 (depending what it would end up to be) as options.

Just wanted to check if we are missing an alternative
That really only seems to apply to livestock farmers. It seems more likely that it has to do with the all encompassing nature of that kind of life. A farm is a business, home, career, lifestyle, and culture. If something so central to who you are fails with no hope of recovery, what do you do?
never.

i like how bill nguyen, founder of the color app, used to say, and i paraphrase, but he never cares about what other people have made, just focus on creating the best experience or something to that effect.
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Good reference. My kids' favorite Doctor so far.
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Fair enough I got wrong on the date. It was just an example anyway.

It is still one year younger, and for the remaining of your statement it doesn't justify paying the extra 200 euros, not everyone swims in money you know?

When the phone finally dies or gets stolen, those saved 200 euros are more than enough to get a new one.
> It may be that they aren't properly tailoring their marketing to the target audience, in which case you have a clear opening.

Then you would start a marketing company. Or it will become a fight about who spends the most on marketing, and the only winner would be the marketing companies.
Why is there no 2FA?

Why can't I use my Github account to login (which already has 2FA turned on)?
He should get fired for saying "concurrency story".
Neat way to redefine "industry"...
I don't think we all spend hours in traffic every day. Nor does everyone pay through the roof. After all, I am surrounded by people who pay less than $4k/yr in property taxes for a $1-3m home that they bought for bargain prices or inherited.

It's just the newcomers and perpetually poor who suffer the economic effects.

But, hey, the weather is nice and I don't see many "no gaijin" signs here. Would be weird since we're closing in on 40% foreign born after all.
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One of the biggest thing to do is not to teach western style consumerism to the rest of the world. Example say Bangladesh whose population now responsible for one-tenth per capita emission, now even if population is constant and they upgrade to western style consumerism they produce 10 times emission.
That inside top cover with molded signatures is quite beautiful. I wonder what the cost of such an easter egg was back then. How'd they even do it? Chemical or CNC etch the tooling, or some other method?
How do you analyze GC logs, thread dumps and head dumps?
The goal is to have acronym's repository that we use in OSS word
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I realized a few years ago: You don't have to be the best. You just have to be better than some. You can always cannibalize the market share of the current worst performers. You get your start there, and build up as you can.
> Ever heard of win win relationship?

How could I not? It's one of the most repeated clichés in the history of clichés.

In any case, I am not denying mutual benefit or trying to forbid anyone from anything. I am just saying that if you are shouting "you ungrateful bastard" and the target of gratitude is a legal entity, you are just being silly.
>ageing alone

>I believe he was sick and didn't want to suffer anymore.

Just out of morbid curiosity: if you were in this situation -- quite old, quite sick, the very fabric of your body reminding you it's time to go, wouldn't it make sense?

With a spouse, there's obvious pressure not to. Without one, I feel like I'd do it. Ideally, I'd go somewhere where assisted suicide's legal so that I can end things neatly -- much bureaucracy, such dignity. uwu Not have aid workers find some messy or creepy corpse and depress the locals. (At $1,500[0], though, that may be a luxury.)

0: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/1023/How-Californ...
Then put a $50 filter at the tap and you're good for probably $25,000 of bottled water.

It's marketing that drives the preference. That's why most chronic bottled water drinkers I know surround their life with other bullshit irrelevant products. It's the same mechanics
Does Amazon really have a "climate problem"?

Certainly in the US if people don't order online they will drive alone in their cars to the mall.

Many observers think that Amazon actually cuts use of cars and related emissions.

Unless there are factual data available this seems like BS to attack Amazon.
Yeah, my question was more about 'how many' than 'what'. There is no question Google doesn't think I'm not a real person, it still shows me two to three pages of image clicking making me its worker robot for free.
As a long time (10+ years) Linux and macOS user, I accept most of the things you say, and macOS is an extremely time efficient platform to do work.

However, the lack of unifying vision is not an Achilles heel of the open source community. It's the essence of it. I like how any two installations of two distributions are never the same, and this broad ecosystem just works, tumbles, fights and creates new stuff.

I've created a compression algorithm [0] for my graduation project. It was a novel approach, but performed worse due to some technical reasons. One of my professors asked why I didn't compare it to a similar algorithm instead of plain old Zip. I said that our algorithm is never tried before, and it's pretty novel, so we had no equal to compare.

Then, one of my other professors replied to other professor asking the question. "There's no need to find an equal to compare. They did something new and untried. This is research".

Equally, Darling doesn't need to surpass macOS to be useful, because "this is research" too. Maybe they will learn something useful from this endeavor and incorporate it into Linux or their future development career.

This Katamari Damacy nature of GNU, Linux and free software community makes it so powerful and unique. Let Microsoft, Apple and Google have a top-down approach and others play as they feel and everyone improves the world as they wish.

[0]: https://www.academia.edu/20575315/Lossless_Text_Compression_...
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Yes? Not sure how this is a reply to the comment...
That's mostly related to "hot" coffee, right?
> After a marked decrease, piracy appears to be on the rise again [1].

Not really. It fits some people's narrative for that to be the case, but the evidence it's actually happening is very sketchy.

Sandvine's report shows no real increase in the US - the increase was primarily internationally. And Netflix never had this sort of "peak content availability" overseas, and there isn't a marked increase in content fragmentation this year either.

The likely explanation is simply that bittorrent's fall was primarily because pirates were using Kodi plug-ins instead, and the explosive rise there has been chopped off by enforcement actions by the studios and governments. So some of those people have switched back to bittorrent. But that doesn't show piracy overall as increasing.
What exactly is a gig? Is it burner jobs or perhaps a one-day job give or take? I'm curious to know more except I've never had any odd jobs in my life.
There are definitely steam exclusive titles. Just like how people get upset now when they buy a physical copy of a game and it's just a license to download from the eshop, Steam did this first. I have a bunch of physical pc games that just include the steam installer.
"Q: Why did you delete my GitHub tokens before notifying me" - I feel offended
Without some very disingenuous mental gymnastics it can't possible count as piracy if you were never able to purchase the media in the first place.
Overproduction is also protection against famine and blight.

Produce doesn't keep very long; you can't keep a large store of it in case this year's crop fails. You also cannot suddenly ramp up production in the event of catastrophe; it takes months between planting and harvest. Instead, you have to produce much more than you think you need, so that in the unlikely event that your yield is half of what you anticipated, there is not a food crisis.

You also have to destroy the excess when it's not needed, so that you don't distort the market, or acclimatize it to extremely cheap food.

Deliberate overproduction is a good use of government funds. It stops people from dying.
I despise sites that change the mouse icon and think browsers should have never implemented this behavior, but this one particular instance hit me right in the nostalgia. Kind of wish they'd hijacked the scrollbar look too.
I notice this too. However I've come to see that the building twice folks are cranking on writing code and getting praise from management while I'm finding some bug in yarn and not getting any actual work done..
How technically do people who own their homes outright, get 'priced out'? Just due to the real estate tax? Anyway, they get priced out, but they pocket hundreds of thousands or millions of free money from insane appreciation of their homes. And can start a new life in a cheaper place - probably getting about same money for the same job - but with whole lot of money in the pocket. Why should we feel sorry for them?
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Who beat you to the reverse address book? I haven't seen a de facto option for this
> (a) there are fewer films produced every year than music albums, and therefore the revenue can be shared among fewer producers,

But there are probably more films and television shows produced than music albums.

Not sure why you've focused on films here, because films aren't the market.
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Always tailor your resume for each job
I don’t think it’s that hard, we are well on the way in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43709656
The term « erlang expert » made me wonder : since erlang is supposed to be a much saner and stricter architecture ( share nothing, code inside the actor in a synchronous manner, etc), what are the usual troubles someone encounters performance-wise in that language ?

Apart from a particular cpu intensive task that would make just a single request perform badly, it seems ( from just reading about the language) that just following the guidelines ensures top performance.
Avengers Endgame smashes box office record during opening weekend
I also find it frustrating that they are not stating when exactly did the breach occur. The message implies that they know, due to the "brief period" claim, but they are not explicitly stating one of the most important facts. No mention in the FAQ either.

I'm guessing that they are either not quite certain about the exact timing and duration, or that the brief period was actually embarrassingly long. Otherwise, that's one of the most important facts that anyone would communicate.
Signed commits would be useful, right? I don’t know much about GitHub permissions, but I’ve skimmed GitLab’s. Why would Docker hub have write access to the repo? Is there really no read only access for repos?
It's not really comparable though. You don't pay for the extra store itself, just for the game.

With streaming services, you need to pay each one of them, each month to watch your stuff.
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I fully agree. However, there is also pushback on ordinals vs cardinals, and monoids vs semigroups.
And why do we need to sign in with username and password to push an image!?
I'd much rather either use some type of access token - or even better, a certificate - to push, hate to use passwords in CI!
Good question, and something that's always on the minds of open core companies these days. In my case, I don't mind, and in fact would welcome it! It would solve my no.1 pain point: discoverability.

I'm not planning to build a billion dollar startup out of Typesense, so I don't face the same problems that Mongo and ES do. I also don't plan to offer a hosted version of Typesense. If somebody else fills that void, I will happy to let them do that. For an infrastructure product, there will always be people who want to run it in-house -- there is enough $$$ to be made in that space.
Something keeps causing Safari Mobile to crash and reload.
Cod Modern Warfare 4 is incoming this year
Software development is much more than just programming languages, I have seen teams outperform with lousy languages thanks to a great team spirit and understanding of customer needs.
They most of the time dont actually sell those mugs, the 6€ are a deposit.
> They downplayed it as "brief", "non-financial user data", and "less than 5%" of users.

This caught my attention, as well; rubbed me the wrong way.
It's obvious that the projects with the lowest bug counts are maintained by one person with a vision. Projects that accept any drive-by pull request without serious scrutiny inevitably suffer code quality and consistency issues. It is often more important to know what features to exclude from a project as knowing what to include. The "heroes" know the history of the project and are responsible for a consistent design.
For a few years, paying for everything was just the easiest way to watch.

Slowly this has morphed now, with all shows being splintered across services, regions, and devices.

Somehow, using a torrent is once again the easiest way to watch a show.
Projects usually walk before they run.
Plenty of people do it out of laziness or perception of quality.
My understanding is that it was part of the mold. (the case was some sort of plastic and I recall seeing a lot of metal shielding inside as a result) I had a 1000 back in the day and it was a great machine.
I imagine it's easy to be in love with a philosophy that dehumanises employees when you are an employer. Startup founders are no exception.
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I imagine farmers also have a gun ownership rate much higher than the national average. And gun ownership is highly correlated with suicide.
I want to re-watch Futurama. Can you tell me where it’s available to stream?

It was on Netflix for a few months, now it’s a Hulu exclusive (IIRC). For how long? No one knows.

How many services do I need to subscribe to to get most of the content I need/want? 3? 5? More? How much will it cost?

Oh, and you’re lucky if you’re in the US. If you’re outside the US, finding whete content is available becomes a never-ending exercise in frustration due to territorial limitations (which for some reason still apply to globally available and accessible internet services).
>I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective.

Really? In my experience not many people care about logout CSRF, it's the lowest of low risk vulns that infosec consultants write in a report when they don't have any real vulnerabilities. I'm not sure its presence really says much about the site overall.

Effort is much better spent elsewhere - strict Content-Security-Policy, for example. Or, if there are 'real' CSRF vulns that actually do damage
I don’t think they are ‘steam exclusive’ titles so much as they are only released on Steam.

They’re allowed to release elsewhere, it’s just such a pain compared to steam that nobody does so.
I see a lot of problems with this idea.

1. Why do you assume MBA programs are positive role models? MBA degrees are about networking, not learning a science (or even engineering).

2. In the real world, most of us rarely run into concepts taught in CS programs. Whether you think CS programs should be more like job training is a different issue. A huge number of us are employed in ad-tech, using high-level languages, and will never even have to manually manage memory -- let alone implement a sort.

3. You can write dozens of real-world programs that accomplish useful things without actually understanding much of what you're doing. "Mistakes" that you make may not even matter until the program has to scale, which is something most programs aren't lucky enough to do.
That looks interesting, and what sets it apart from other solutions that I know of, is that would allow me to host it myself, so instead of handing over my precious pixels to some company.
A lot of these objections depend on context, though. The culture at large organisations taking on large and/or long-running projects is necessarily different to the culture at small organisations that can't afford the same overheads and wouldn't enjoy the advantages of greater redundancy or interchangeability anyway.
I think it's possible, but I'm not sure what DockerHub does. GitHubs OAuth tokens can't be restricted to be read-only or to specific repos (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26372417/github-oauth2-t...) but I think Deploy Keys can.
Fair enough that not all tap water is created equally. I live in Australia (Sydney) and tap water tastes fine to most (obviously a very subjective thing).

To be honest, the argument for bottled water (I incorrectly thought) was more due to the convenience factor rather the taste. Clearly there are other points to consider.
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No. I live in a pet free building and also travel too much for the poor thing to be left alone.

I didn't mention five corgi plushies: one memory foam pillow and four Unicorgis. One pair of the Unicorgis are set to fly -- they had wings and the previous owner left hooks in the ceiling so it was pretty self evident what I needed to do...
Dang, this is awesome. I love everything about this.
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Nor is appealing to the absence of popularity/authority.

Step 1 of the scientific method is a plausible hypothesis.
You hear this from doctors because they are the ones who are smug and most likely feel their professions are threatened.
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Ask HN: How to deal with a senior colleague who acts like he's boss?
I have a senior colleague who thinks he's my manager and talks in a way like he knows everything(in reality he doesn't and is transferred to our team because his previous team laid him off). He can't understand simple logic and I have to explain him simple logic and then he acts like I don't know anything. I can't complain to my manager as he's a friend of my manager and I am junior and new in this company!
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to run it from one PSU's 12v line and buy two (or four) 12/5v step down converters? 10A versions aren't even that expensive and the loss of running the PSU on only 20W will be huge (below 50% efficiency for sure).
I have doubt it being anything modern. Chinese city planning of rectangular grids of increasing order is very old. Some of oldest historical cities are built exactly like that
And it failed spectacularly in mid-90s-early-2000s.

Every flat surface is parked over with cars, often for weeks, decomposing on kids playgrounds. All activities happen in the center of the city or in big malls anyway.
Then you don't live in perth where their water is measurably different to east coast water just by it's unusually high alkaline.
... never mind the other potentially adverse effects of platelet activation. Like, you know, clotting.
For sure. A good craftsman will do good work with any reasonable set of tools.

They'll still achieve their best possible results and performance with high quality tools of their own choosing, though.
Styrofoam essentially lasts forever. The planet has finite landfill space.

Also, not everything ends up in the landfill but ends up polluting our oceans instead. Unlike paper which will eventually decompose in the ocean, styrofoam will just pile up.
yep yep yep. people in software are _incredibly_ arrogant in thinking that their approach works for other industries, when tech is really an outlier compared to most fields.
Yeah I have seen exactly the same.
There's definitely more music produced in the world than films. This is due to the fact that music is so much more accessible, cheaper and easier to produce. Just look at the electronic music genre: today it takes one musician, a computer and a few days to weeks to make a professional sounding track. There are of course slightly more expensive genres like indie rock, ethno, then there's classical that require a whole band of musicians and a studio. Still nowhere near what a typical full-feature film production process involves.
Low-wage employers often don't generate or issues schedules far in advance. The longer they wait to issue a schedule the more flexibility the employer has. Often this involves giving shorter but more frequent shifts to keep workers who work 4 or 5 days a week from accruing enough hours to be consider a full-time workers (and qualifying for benefits).
Anyone running small online business in a EU? How do you handle VAT?
I'm currently researching it, will probably end up using Paddle.com (they charge 5% plus 0.5$) but would like to have some alternatives that similarly handle VAT across EU with better UX ideally.
Chinese army practiced taking control of Taiwan for years. This will be their first move in any armed conflict.
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That NodeJS to Go definitely needs a write-up :-)