skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India and China are not against fighting climate change together. What they need is fairness. CO2-equivivalents per capita is the fair measure stick (maybe adjusted to imported and exported co2eq)

Government level climate skepticism is mainly problem in Anglo-Saxon countries.

China and India are enemies and competitors but they work together in energy sector. They are trying to push renewables and nuclear. It's just that their energy needs exceed the progress in these fields. They build Nuclear as fast as they can, It's just hard to build them in schedule with conventional reactors.

Bill Gates had experimental nuclear power plant planned and ready to go in China. It had green light from both governments. Then came Trump and it was forbidden. 5-year setback when there is no time to waste. Any sane government would have granted exception for the project.
Not at all. The 737 Max added new, larger engines which had to be located more forward of the wing, leading to very different thrust balance characteristics compared to the previous models. The new software was made to try to prevent a pitch up change caused by too much thrust forward of the center of gravity.
Migrating to GraphQL at Airbnb
I’m pretty sure I used to see a physical therapist as a kid who knew you well. She knew I was building websites and told me about you and what you were working on. If I remember correctly you used to be quite stoked about Coldfusion. What a small world!
TDP of Intel chips like the PXA270, amirite
Wow, sounds neat! Look forward to seeing what you create
"Well of course the models were right", you say to yourself. Who is still arguing about this? The evidence has piled up to the extent that being "skeptical of the science" is unacceptable in educated, elite spaces (such as Hacker News and the tech industry generally).

But now, as you can already see proliferating in the comments to this piece, the new acceptable contrarian take on climate change is that of course its happening, but since life thrived on the planet during other climactic conditions there's nothing to worry about.

The message is the same as it's always been: trying to do anything in response is foolish, and we should all continue to just focus on making as much money as possible.

But the real issue with climate change is and has always been that it will socially and politically de-stabilize the planet, because quite a few people live in places that will become less livable in the near future, and those people will want to go somewhere else.

Those people will have a quite strong claim on land and resources in wealthy countries that emitted most of the pollution and have lots of mostly empty and more habitable land. This will cause global conflict on a scale beyond any that exists in living memory.

Yes, "life" will survive. Our societies in their current configurations will not, and decisions we make now will determine how messy or violent (or not) that transition will be.

Pedantic retorts about geological time should embarrass you in the face of the leaders of the tech industry evidently using their immense wealth to prepare for social collapse[1].

And although these people are clearly willing to spend money to prep for climate change, I still can't get a single one of the recruiters who cold-call or email me about HOT NEW SILICON VALLEY OPPORTUNITIES to find me a single credible company working on anything climate or energy adjacent. I can just hear their jaws slackening every time I bring it up.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...
> Every ARM based PC I've seen has been disappointingly slow,

The only ARM based PCs I've ever seen are the Raspberry Pi and other products intended to compete with the Pi, and one of the core features of these PCs is being a complete computer for under $100. Keeping the price low was always the top priority, not performance.
It’s not the cooperation that’s the issue. Every country can come together for the Olympics. It’s the cost. Green energy and co2 emissions reduction needs to have a cheaper price point to be globally adopted. If being green meant being more efficient and cost reduction it would be a no brainer. This is the challenge of green tech. We have to create the alternative. No one is willing to jump in a lifeboat made out of good intentions.

Also, I understand your frustration with this topic. The method of guilting people into changing makes me sick. I can’t think of a more counterproductive method of evangelism. We need to make real products that do the things that will give humanity a prosperous future. Politics isn’t how we will get out of this, imho. Science and engineering is the key.
I think contrasting is what they were doing, not confusing.
Yeah, this is like the stories about the guy who correctly predicted the winner of the Presidential election decades in advance (Bloom County said Trump would win back in the 1980s was it), or did well on some stock investments that did well based on events they didn't actually predict.
Oh yeah, almost anything besides that one is way cheaper, even a big 1600x1200 model. For what it's worth, doing the Pantone Color IQ test on that screen was a triviality compared to the same on the Dell U2410, which is pretty easy compared to performing the task on a cheap temporal dithering office LCD in 2014.
On the other hand, I have pretended to be a flat earther many times for fun and I've noticed there are some people who seem convinced you're genuine no matter how silly you make your arguments. That's kind of a sport in itself; seeing how ridiculous you can get before other people realize you're having them on.

> "The earth used to be round but over a timescale of billions of years it slowly flattened out like a ball of silly putty left sitting on the table."
Huawei Aims for Desktop PC Market with Motherboard for Kunpeng 920 ARMv8 Chipps
I do! I started one in the summer of 2013. I originally started it as a way to aggregate links & helpful information for my game development endeavors, but it eventually evolved into more of a recounting of what I did or how I was feeling on a particular day. I now have daily entries for the entire time period since I started it, and I consider my journal to be one of my most treasured possessions. Sometimes I'll get busy and not add entires for a few days at a time, but I always go back and at least put a one-liner of why I was too busy to write anything.

I've found it to be a slightly more structured & useful way to essentially interact with my own brain -- it's a place for me to vent, a place to record not-so-important but still fun-to-have memories, to keep notes & sort out plans for the future.

It's a lot of fun to be able to scroll back and say "hey, what did we do for my birthday three years ago?" :) It's also fun at times like new year's to flip back through my journal and remind everyone what they listed for a resolution last year.
I'm mostly concerned about the scale were looking at. A 50-100 year uptick is nothing on the timescales that the planet operates on.

Even 20k years is miniscule.
> the point is that the cupsd process runs sandboxed with its own permissions while my text editor, my password manager and my web browser all share the same UID. If there's a security vulnerability in Firefox and some attacker manages to hack my printer it's pretty bad. If they hack my password manager it's really, really bad.

That's true, but what it primarily suggests to me is that Firefox should be sandboxed. It seems possible that the main reason cupsd runs in a sandbox is that it's a source of attacks on you, not a target. (Why is it pretty bad if someone else hacks your printer?)

Firefox is a plentiful source of attacks on you. Your password manager isn't -- it already knows all your passwords; you trust it by necessity.

The password manager is a high-value target, and might (does) deserve extra protections for that reason, but the parallel in your example runs between cups and Firefox, not cups and the password manager.
Surprised to see that mparticle isn’t listed as a competitor. I’ve seen what Salesforce is working on in this space and it’s nothing compared to mparticle and segment.
Well I'll take that bet. Climate activists have advocated that precisely the opposite should happen: that they should maintain or even increase their growth since they are developing economies.
Where did I say anything about danger?
"It's a similar line to AI - if the people talk about it like it has the potential to (and eventually will) destroy the world"

Surely we can all agree that it doesn't take human or better intelligence to destroy the world.

...how about a nice game of chess?
The World of Teletype Computer Games (2017)
It works with local media, but requires an internet connection to initiate the stream (by connecting to Google's servers)
That's not how it should work. You could just go fish for anyone's data on the basis that he had a relation with someone that broke the law.

Data should be protected just like the intel you are giving to your lawyer or your doctors. There is absolutely no reason a government should be able to simply catch your data without a reasonable cause.

Knowing someone is NOT a reasonable cause. If they had proof that he did something that's a different story, but then they'd just catch him wouldn't they?
Kinda. These studies made big news and even ended up in some school textbooks. Yes, they were a minority belief but let's not exaggerate how fringe they were.
Tangential, but it appears openwall.com is on several of my pi hole blocklists. I'm guessing its because of the tools they offer?
That's what valve says. Luckily not everything in their nonsense license agreement is enforcable as a judge recently ruled: https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/19/20874384/french-court-stea...
Apple followed Samsung in SoC design, but Samsung (in 2016) followed Apple (2011) in core design. I expect that’s what they’re getting at.
By just looking for the music that plays at the beginning of some ads?
Skepticism of the government is part of the culture.

Don't trust bureaucrats further than the rope you need to hang them
Blazor will only work on an Electron-ish setup. You'll never see adoption on the interwebs.

It reminds me of the ole UpdatePanel/AjaxControlToolkit/ViewState world where big/complicated/bloated frameworks with big runtimes were trying to solve super simple problems.
Doesn't this partly fall into the weather Vs climate difference? I can't run fluid dynamics in my head but no matter how much you shake up the box once it's on the table I can say "I think the water/oil/honey will end up at the bottom".

But also yes, it's complex, that's why independent groups dedicate huge amounts of time researching and building them and then models are compared against each other.
This is a genocidal argument couched as environmentalism. It's not acceptable, because you and I know full well that the world's poor and those who already live in warmer climates will be the first and most helpless victims of this outcome while those of us from richer countries will be much more capable of navigating the coming changes.

If you're eager to reduce the global population, start from yourself and your family rather than writing off most of the global south. Stop consuming energy and don't have kids.
Change of attitude may be when they bought movie companies and around the time the Playstation came to market. This put them in the middle of the conflict of interest between media producers and media consumers.
Fair question, I totally get your point. But yes, i've been full-time entrepreneur since i was 19. 6 companies, 20+ years, and lot of mistakes by now.
Taking a corner at 80 km/h on a snowy road seems like an interesting proposition overall.
Docker has had it's fair share of breakouts because the default configuration doesn't use user namespaces (one of the most significant security isolation features in Linux) and runs as root. It's not indicative of how secure a properly set up container is -- I don't remember the last time there was an LXC or LXD breakout (which use user namespaces by default).

Source: I've found a fair few Docker breakouts. I also maintain runc, which is the lower-level container runtime component (where most of the breakouts are found).
You invest heavily in deploying technologies so that they become cheaper, and either win on cost alone or at least become an easy political choice to switch to. Ramez Naam talks about this in much more detail here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america...
Also for reference on the history of climate science:

Here is a paper [1] from James Hansen in Science magazine, in 1981, that warns of crisis-level warming. From the abstract --

> In the 21st century, we will see "creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage."

For whatever it's worth, this also appeared on the NYTimes front page in 1981. That's just one publication. Throughout the 1980s there were broad-based studies, mandated by Congress, that indicated the scope of the warming problem. See [2], from 1983.

By contrast, I don't think the possible cooling effect ever received broad support, it was more of a hypothesis.

[1] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha04600x.html

[2] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18714/changing-climate-report-of....
I'm a crime researcher in Chicago and I work mainly on aggravated battery (shooting) and homicide cases. There have been many homicide and shooting investigations that have been substantially aided by Ring footage (always received with the (often enthusiastic) consent of the homeowner). But it typically takes at least 3 years before homicide cases are tried in court, and no responsible law enforcement agency would release information that could impede cases, so it will be a while before any agency does this kind of analysis and decides to publish it (very unlikely without being incentivized by a consent decree or something). A lot of people (read: relatively well-off (white) people who live in safe neighborhoods) are pretty irrational about cameras and law enforcement in general, but the people who live in the neighborhoods where homicides and shootings happen generally hate living with the constant possibility of their loved ones being accidentally shot in a spontaneous shooting, they want these threats removed from their community, and it's much easier and safer to provide footage rather than testify as a witness over many court dates 4+ years later.

TLDR: Yeah, there are many investigations that are only cleared because of CCTV footage, including Ring footage. No, that data isn't public.
There are lots of people who can observe climate change in everyday life. Anyone who regularly spends time in mountains around glaciers can see this change with their eyes.

Or people in Houston who see 500 year floods yearly. Or Californians breathing wildfire smoke. Or Hondurans suffering from drought. Or people in Miami wading through floods on sunny days.
I wasn't making a claim that requires proof, but the attitude described can be found in many of the Amazon threads on this site, at least when wages are discussed.

Also, if Americans were unsatisfied with the way Amazon's employees are treated, the market would respond appropriately, and Amazon would be forced to change its practices to remain productive. As it is, the market doesn't appear to value the welfare of Amazon's employees over its current business practices.
We have a similar saying but we shorten it to "man bites dog".
Congrats, Porsche has discovered the 3-phase AC VFD. The same technology that has been used for decades in diesel electric locomotives.

It's well known that it has fantastic anti-slip properties. I'll have to dig up the source but in the transition from DC->AC in rail engines there was a massive increase in traction. The inherent principal of a 3-phase motor means that it will naturally resist overspeed(in the same way EV regen works) unless the VFD drives it faster.

[edit] I remembered right, the improvement is on the order of 100% over DC[1]

[1] https://www.republiclocomotive.com/ac-traction-vs-dc-tractio...
Realistic. Everything else sounds like hopium. Sure, let's try and clean up our mess and change our energy sources but looking at how things have been and are going it wouldn't be realistic to think we will solve this or even mitigate it. What else are we going to do though?
Stupid Static Site Generator
My first thought: It's could be very difficult to build a product to a stage where product-market fit can be assessed without external financial assistance. I think most products can be brought to this point in a year or two with a team of 2 or 3 people, but that's a pretty sizable chunk of living expenses and possibly salary that needs to get paid.

If the only people who can start companies are the ones that have at least a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank, that really limits the field. I think VC probably plays a beneficial role here, opening it up to people who otherwise would have no freedom to spend a year or two pursuing an idea that may or may not convert into a profitable business.
This also happens with Ticket to Ride. But fortunately, most people I've played with, don't intentionally block routes they don't need at all
The ice age hysteria was big in the 70s as well. I don't know what year it started but 70s through 80s climate scientists were saying a global ice age was all but certain, based on sound science and those who disagreed were science haters and all around bad people.

Interesting the guy noting this historical fact above has been flagged and censored and this subthread removed. The truth isn't allowed to be known on HN.
lol... Documentum... there's name I haven heard in ages.

The legacy cms... Interwoven, Vignette, Teamsite. Seems like Open Text acquired them all! What a mess!
Like ABS?
You missed the umbrella:

"It's all part of God's plan, and therefore it is both futile and in aid of the devil to work against it."

I think there are some people out there that may want to bring on 'the great flood' so they can actually live through a biblical story, as if they themselves desire to be chosen to build the boat of salvation.
You say that, but some countries have big weapons.
>It's pointless because China and India

Just China really. They've seen explosive growth in carbon emissions since 2000 and plan to keep growing into 2030.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...
It's probably only a matter of time before household appliances, like cars, connect to cell networks to exfiltrate data about you.
Yes! Man bites dog. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)
Those predictions were based upon projections that we would not address the growing levels of smog and other particulates, and the cooling effect from those would be larger than the warming effect from greenhouse gases.

We did address smog. Without growing smog, those models predicted warming.
If the bug was time based but not related to anti piracy would this even make the news?

What about disc rot? Or n64 not working because nobody uses RCA anymore?
What I meant that only in US there are significant number of politicians to bake climate skepticism into government actions.
> Funnily enough, that's exactly what you're supposed to do in a Porsche (assuming it is a rear engine 911). Unlike most cars, 911s will understeer (or correct an oversteer) when you mash the throttle, and oversteer when you lift off the throttle.

That is only true for pre-1994 911s. The 928 never showed that behaviour due to having a Weissach axle from the very beginning of production in 1977.
How about plasma TVs as an alternative?
> As noted in TFA, they looked at 17 forecasts from 14 models

Pardon a little pedantry:

>> The researchers compared annual average surface temperatures across the globe to the surface temperatures predicted in 17 forecasts. Those predictions were drawn from 14 separate computer models released between 1970 and 2001. In some cases, the studies and their computer codes were so old that the team had to extract data published in papers, using special software to gauge the exact numbers represented by points on a printed graph.

They compared annual average surface temperatures across the globe to 17 forecasts, from 14 separate models.

But....how many models did they look at, before choosing those particular 14 models?

TFA doesn't say.

Articles written in this style provide rich fodder for conspiracy theorists, particularly because there is no shortage of examples in the past where authoritative, trustworthy organizations have gotten caught in lies. Rare is the climate change article I've read that can't easily have similar holes poked in it.

What's the real truth here? Based on the literal content of this article, no one knows. It is speculation vs speculation.

I've said it before, and I will say it again: if your persuasion tactics aren't working, it might be worth considering whether you should change your tactics.
Supporting Ukrainian volunteers who are helping their army to repel Russian invasion.

Mostly guilt. I've been living in Russia for many years, and was paying taxes there. Left years before the war started and never looked back, but still, somehow I feel responsible.
This is why Colorado now requires chains in severe conditions for passenger vehicles. AWD gets you up to speed, it does not get you back down to 0.
The motive could be “think twice before dismissing climate scientists because they have a pretty good track record.” Your interpretation seems to display the exact bias you are attributing to others.
I've been using Far Manager since forever, but also "mc" on linux/osx machines (as you've said, it's not very useable on Windows itself, tried the cygwin version, and meh).
.net core in general has grown, building cross platform scalable apps is a breeze. Also they have really built some great performance libs, (Channels, Pipelines, Span, Memory).

The tooling is a little wonky at times when it comes to blazor. Hopefully they will turn this into a flagship product.
There could have been a point 40 or 50 years ago where that was harder to argue. Today? No. The modern right is part crime syndicate, part cult.

I'm honestly beginning to wonder if conservatives vs liberals is a form of speciation, and if at some point in the not too distant future interbreeding will no longer happen.
Really, I think it falls on the company that chose to license DRM in the first place. Unfortunately, there’s nothing compelling vendors legally speaking that I’m aware of, but there damn well should be. I also think unavailability due to DRM downtime or issues should have ramifications, as well.
Inequality has never been the thing that matters. And it doesn't change now. Any policies and discussions targeting to reduce inequality will create perverse incentives and lopsided, unjust outcomes at best.
People who make more money are more likely to marry and to stay married.
> the Clean Air Act and other similar efforts around the world reduced the amount of particulate aerosols in the air.

You just found a solution to global warming. Since you agree that particulate aerosols in the air were going to cause an ice age and the Clean Air Act would fix that, then the Clean Air Act is what has contributed more than anything else to global warming. Repeal the Clean Air Act, reintroduce those old aerosols, and the problem is solved. The global cooling certainty cancels out the global warming certainty and normalcy is achieved.
It's an option for illegal aliens in the US too. However some of them do not seem to share your preference.
Just added it to my platform, hope that's OK!

https://www.podalong.com/TheProgramaudioseries