skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some simple back-of-the-envelope maths shows that, due to the massively increased amount of energy needed to manufacture an EV, it takes somwhere near half the life of the car (assuming 100k miles) to pay back that "CO2 debt". And even then, you are still limited by the net CO2 emissions of your electricity source.

This is why I claim that the CO2 benefits are minimal (not none, or negative). The abstract of the article you linked only claims that the net CO2 of EVs and heat pumps is less, but does not indicate by how much. I would also love to see the assumptions made, especially if manufacturing energy cost is considered. Do you have a non-paywalled version of the article body?
> From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993)

This is hearsay. You were not there 3000 years ago, or even 100 years. You have been told a story and are re-telling it to me. Why should I believe it? I know how people can mislead into lying with statistics, for their work, etc to prepare information that is not accurate. I just don't have any faith in science. (I love the scientific method, but that's a different story, that pales into insignificance when funding is involved.)

> In 2018, the all-species index in the UK, based on the aggregated population trends of 130 breeding species, was 11% below its 1970 value.

We have had industrial farming methods take off at that time, and we do throw some awful stuff on the soil - I'm prepared to believe that this is probably fair data. However, how can I know this is really true?
Why not present the recipes as GANTT charts then? Even for a somewhat experienced home cook, it would be quicker to eyeball, and it would remove confusion for beginners.

I was going to say I'm just going to try this out on one of the recipes I've recently used, but someone did that already:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170420110020/http://www.matthe...

How is that not strictly superior to traditional "word-problem" recipes?

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Also, one thing that I hate about recipes, as a person who cooks only occasionally, is the "to taste" direction. I know what to do when I've done a given dish 10 times. But the first time around? Why no recipes ever provide any kinds of bounds? "Add to taste; between 0.5 and 5 tsp, 2tsp is typical".

(Truly, cooking is what happens to process chemistry when you care so little about the quality of the outcome that you can wing every part of the process.)
I've had all those features in every editor I've used since the late 80s so no, no one is taking a page from vim or emacs.
Wow ok, surprised that they are unmetered! Surely that can't scale? What is an estimate £ cost in electricity for filling an average battery?
So land it is, since we can both agree on it.

My thesis remains, that "real production value" does not exist, or at least is dwarfed by people "electing" a store of value. Like Tesla, gold or land.

Bitcoin seems to me uniquely suited to become the next store of value elected by the most.

If it does, even land might lose value compared to it.

Volatility might lessen over time, in any case is only a real problem if there is a long-term down trend. Else, just DCA in and out.

Of course, this is all hypothetical, no guarantees.
That video is stuttering for me and it looks like you have about 10 fps, even when it's completely loaded (but I believe you, no worries, it's just funny) :P

This is Chrome on Linux and I don't usually have problems with video, e.g. YouTube.
Oh, those guys are still around? Thank god. And thanks for bringing it up. I remember reading their articles ~9 years ago, I'll need to revisit. That was about the only cooking-related site I felt speaks comprehensible language.
Do you really think I advocate for no action to be taken? Taking your first sentence at face value it appears you believe in an all or nothing approach.

Also, and again I know this is a sensitive area so I understand why you are coming across this way, but comments like 'you should be much more worried about this problem than you are' are unnecessary and divisive.

I am extremely worried about climate change. That is why I am concerned by extreme 'all or nothing' impractical approaches that will simply achieve nothing. I prefer something to nothing.

>in ten years you folks will need to be in a position to switch to a technology which is already reasonably viable so better get scaling

Do you consider needing to upgrade 400,000 substations and installing charge points along ~200,000km of roads within 10-20 years reasonably viable?

My whole issue with this is not that we should take NO action, it's that for any action taken we should either:

a. Speak honestly about the actual efforts required to make it happen and then take that action (e.g. start the substation upgrade, start installing the chargers),
b. Take more practical action that requires less drastic work.

The option being touted is:

c. Ban non-electric cars by 2030 and hybrids by 2035, say absolutely nothing about the VAST £100's of billions required investment to make that feasible, feel good and move on.

Do you think option c is more or less likely to result in anything changing? I think this requirement is likely to just get rolled back and ignored.

"translate into pressure on all governments globally to build credible plans for decarbonisation"

I actually agree with this, but I don't think unrealistic plans that ignore actual costs are any kind of solution.

I absolutely do NOT advocate putting off addressing climate issues. I personally believe in taking as much of a global approach as possible (if China refuse to stop using dirty coal plants everywhere, economically divest from them for example), correctly counting the CO2 cost of e.g. electric cars/renewable energy from raw material to functional capacity, not just discounting all CO2/other nasty climate gases from production and taking as practical an approach as we can.

I am also a realist and realise that if a country was to go all in on what many deem necessary and suffers a colossal economic impact that'll likely discourage any other country from taking that or probably much action at all.

It's a hard problem that feels like it needs drastic immediate action but the problem is made harder from the fact that that is simply not possible, I'm sorry.

Those who truly are worried about this should be being as practical as possible in order to get as much change into the world as they can.
And for the last 9 years I didn't buy any Sony anythings and I didn't get screwed by anything. Including this, because I already wrote them off a decade ago. Fool me once, etc.

There's no coming back from a 23 day outage.

Your comment is especially ironic considering the games you mention are among those that are no longer listed.
Why Windows on ARM is doomed? It's there. Microsoft just doesn't have immediate need or reason to switch to it immediately, while Apple does.
No matter what we think of him, he didn't start any war during his mandate which is quite a feat for a US president!
To consider your simple question:

If the UK (unilaterally) sets an example and does everything the climate activists request of them, but this results in economic depression and unprecedented unemployment and poverty, then no.

Not only will no single country in the rest of the world use their example, plenty will seek to take advantage of an environment in which the UK is rendered deeply uncompetitive, as countries tend to.

And if the constant allegations of climate movements’ funding and influence being manipulated by foreign powers beforehand were strong, they will evolve straight into legitimacy following an event like this.
Here's the episode on ListenNotes:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/product-club-with/dusti...
>we (Mosh)

HA, when i read "UDP" mosh instantly came to my mind ;)

BTW: Thank you very much for mosh, working in trains on a shell is now perfectly fine
Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Eod.com.np
This isn't forced or planned obsolescence, just plain obsolescence. Because not enough people care enough about it.
The rust compiler team now tracks LLVM performance, see [0]. They are able to spot regressions as soon as they get merged, and petition to get the change reverted or performance fixed when the impact is large. This has been fairly successful so far, but obviously needs sustained efforts if we are to ever dream of ever getting halfway decent compilation times.

[0]: https://nikic.github.io/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html
A longer article about that point - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/02/oil.business1 (nothing about the outcomes though)
The info can been found elsewhere, but I don't recommend trusting Sony even to keep available the games you paid for digitally either.

Yes, that means no discless PS5, and getting your games (at least those you want to keep) on disc.
It’s the hosting provider they use that want to charge more money for more traffic. It’s lame but not unreasonable. Personally I would not host my sites with that hosting provider.
But you don't have to charge the car from your house, just as you don't need to have your own personal petrol pump.

So rather than being utterly ridiculous, it just requires a different mindset and acceptance that many more charging points will be available in the next ten years than there are currently.
Coincidentally I was planning to write a blog post about what I/Q are, inspired by this very terrible explanation. I recently started playing around with SDR and went to look up what I & Q are, found this page (it is one of the very few explanations) and got completely confused. My main objections:

1. It's actually a fairly simple concept but this page jumps into pages of formulas and irrelevancies. It is also missing motivation for why I/Q exist. No way is this "for dummies"

2. This: "I'd say the true signal is complex, and the real signal is an incomplete projection of it" is factually incorrect. The signal coming down the antenna is real.

I feel like I could explain it better in 1/4 of the text. Would anyone be interested in that?
Right on. I can listen via Apple Podcasts but not via Spotify, which as usual declares that it’s “not available in your country”.

By the way, an Apple device is not required—Apple podcasts work on Windows, and on Linux you can paste an Apple podcast link into a podcast client like GNOME Podcasts.

If I don’t have any app, at least I can read what podcast is that and find it elsewhere, while the error page seen after following a Spotify link takes care to not disclose a single bit of information about the podcast that could let one find it elsewhere online, and even podcast URL offers no glimpse due to being mostly a hash. Each time I am given a Spotify link without further context I basically can only respond with “sorry can’t access that, give me at least a name so I can find it elsewhere online”.

Of course, a canonical link to podcast page, if such exists, is best.
HN Kiss of Death. 508 Resource Limit Reached.
As far as writing is concerned my moment of enlightenment came when I read "Nobody wants to read your sh*t". The book is not about any particular "effective writing" skills, etc. it is about writing in such a way that someone will actually read what was written.

The author applied that to copy-writing (he was working in the ads business), but this applies so well to everyday emails exchange or writing documentation.

Making someone to read and comprahend something is not an easy task since a lot of people are getting used to (or maybe already got used to) communication using 200 chars tweets or a memes.
There's gambling on backgammon in the same way there's gambling on chess (or any game): sure, you can play for money, but that's not really the usual way to do it. Nothing in the game requires it. Backgammon clubs work essentially like chess clubs.

And no, the doubling cube does not make it similar to poker. The doubling cube is just a way to add another element of risk/reward to the game. In poker, you literally have (fake or real) money in front of you and the entire point of the game is moving that money into the pot and trying to win the pot to gain more money. There's nothing comparable in backgammon.
I still kinda feel like the market beat the polls. Kinda.

In order to interpret the polls, you need top statisticians with lots of domain knowledge. In order to interpret the betting market, you simply read the odds and are done.
well, electric cars were invented in the late 1800, so it's a matter of market more than technology. If we had this policy launched 10 years ago the market would have been way different now.

Even considering the same market offers as we have had without the policy: hybrid cars exist since late 90s and the first fully electric cars were already available 10 years ago. It could have been done.
pkgsrc, 'the portable package manager', support Apple Silicon:

http://pkgsrc.org/

No binary packages yet, but using it from source is pretty much a matter of downloading and extracting the 'current bz2', then:

cd pkgrsc/bootstrap
./bootstrap --prefix=/opt/pkg

The default prefix is /usr/pkg, but that's protected by macOS' SPI. You might want to add /opt/pkg/bin and sbin to your $PATH. Then to install a package:

cd pkgsrc/sysutils/nnn
bmake install clean

Full documentation, including on how to create your own packages:

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/
>Most countries don't support terrorist (sorry, 'resistance') organizations and don't officially announce it on every corner.

Yeap, and the US is not included into this list of the "most countries" as well. Simply instead of "resistance" they call them "pro-democratic rebels" and they have a long tradition in this area (e.g. search for a humble "freedom-fighter" Osama). So we got back to the starting point.

>You're mixing JCPOA and several different types of sanctions.

Again, I've linked the document, which clearly lists the 1747 resolution as to be terminated. AFAIK it is the only UN resolution affecting Soleimeini. So do please clarify what exactly I am "mixing"?

>ISIS started from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group that Iran and Syria were happy to support so long as they bothered Americans more.

LOL what? When ISIS has started making territorial claims Syria was already for two years in the midst of the hot civil war, Asad was losing territories to the Sunni rebels supported by the US, Iran at the time tried to help Assad by supporting Shia militia, but its supply lines got disrupted by ISIS, which motivated them to persuade Russians to help Assad.

If anything, it's American support of Sunni rebels in the hope that they will overthrow the Assad government resulted in the creation of ISIS as a quasi-state. One of the big American goals in Iraq is to prevent creation of so-called Shia Crescent and the Suni rebellion was a great way to achieve it. This is why you haven't seen much US action against it until they started to threaten Bagdad, and even after ISIS lost all its territories the US supported "moderates" which are close to the Syrian Al-Qaeda branch. Though in the end it spiraled out of control. As usual... Controlled chaos rarely stays controlled for long.

If your next message will be as ignorant as the last two, I no longer see the need to continue this discussion.
Time-Management Tips for Developers
I checked and you're right, they've fixed it. Thanks!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnGSHiCWEAcwHse?format=png
> As I said: You can write the perfect email, and there will always be someone who will misinterpret it. The problem is not merely in the content, but in the other (including their worldview, culture, social status, etc). The solution isn't to try to become a more perfect writer, but to understand the dynamics involved in communication (written or verbal).

Wiio's laws are always relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws

The main thesis being "Communication usually fails, except by accident".
Steam marketshare is slow to change because it includes a lot of people with older PCs. Look at new sales and the picture is very different: https://imgur.com/a/yEKDpd2
You put discs in and play games. From that perspective you don’t need an internet connection.

However, if you want to play blu ray movies, you need to connect it to the internet to download a license. Sadly.
No I don't think it means people will suffocate. I'm saying that carbon dioxide should help trees grow. That we have a natural buffer against too much.

Did you know that some farms, pump carbon dioxide into their greenhouses to improve their crop. It seems self-evident that any extra would be mopped up by trees, bushes etc in the wild.

I hear what you are saying about snow and your experience. But you should also ask the older generation what their experience was of the winters there. There may have been times that there wasn't always snow. And unfortunately, I don't think our weather today is entirely natural - that weather modification has been around for a few years now.
I was using gentoo-prefix for the longest time on MacOS.

I never got why homebrew got so popular given how terrible it is. But it was more accessible to people unfortunately. I spent some time trying to become a Gentoo developer for a while and then just gave up because there was no response.

I used to updated the clang patches to make newer clang versions compile things on osx before most of those things made it upstream.

I think it's vastly superior to macports and while I find nix interesting I don't really find it that practical. I think what makes homebrew more popular than the rest is how many precompiled packages exist. If gentoo-prefix had the same amount of precompiled packages, then I'd think it would definitely be much better for most users.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix

[2] https://github.com/fishman/timebomb-gentoo-osx-overlay
Old games never really benefit the corps, it is the hot new games that get all the attention.
>Nintendo knows to capitalize on their history far better than Sony or Microsoft.

Exactly, it's because Nintendo is a Toy-maker (in a good sense), but Microsoft and Sony are Technology Corporations, just look at that PlayStation Classic BS, they cannot even copy Nintendo.
What they've noticed is that the trend toward cannabis legalization has left entire departments within their agency with little or nothing to do. This is anathema to any government bureaucracy, including the DEA. Accordingly, they are now looking for new ways to justify their budget.
That's the oft-forgotten other half of the premise of the film Idiocracy. Everybody talks about the (inaccurate and unrealistic) premise of natural selection favouring unintelligence, but overlook how the future society is supported by ageing high-tech easy-to-use machinery which is falling apart.

Maybe Idiocracy was right, but not for the reason most people assume...
Those are cool when you live in the CLI. My mom doesn't though, being part of a small cluster of hackers is cool but not what the internet should be.

My goal once I can finance it is to create a virtual island that my family and close friends can rely on for vital services: emails, file hosting, calendar, contacts, a public web space, etc. If every hacker did this for its close circle the impact would be far greater than the current hacker communities we create.

Notable mentions: https://chatons.org/en & https://yunohost.org/
>I've been pretty lowsec on telling my medical practitioners about my drug use.

Also a good idea because physicians are less likely to prescribe you the same as someone else who doesn't use illicit drugs. They often make no distinction between someone telling them they use LSD once a year, or someone who admits they use opiates recreationally.
No worries. I totally get where it comes from actually.

Also, I really want this website to be a calm experience. That means that this sort of thing really shouldn't happen.
I'm not sure it's so easy to buy second car in Beijing. Anything is possible if you are very rich, but that doesn't matter if there's a 1% more cars instead of 50%.
> But in general, it seems you are still learning the craft.

This is a completely unnecessary personal attack on OP.
They’re asking for your religion because it makes a difference in your taxes and days free of work
It's not that the definitions are broad, it's that many sites have been incrementally integration social media features over the years in the belief that doing so drives engagement, so the lines between what is and isn't social media (or what should and shouldn't be) have been intentionally blurred. Just as with literary or media genres, "social media" as a classification mostly exists as a marketing term, not science.

And I do believe forums count as social media, albeit a primitive version of it. Hacker News is social media. It has a culture, it has memes, it has gamification and dopamine loops.
It's just a shame the UK is so densely populated / overpopulated.

When the rules were relaxed in the summer, it seemed like every outdoor place I normally go to was overrun with people. Makes you realise how many people we export to other places in a normal summer.
I suspect it was sarcasm. Overwatch is Blizzard's new flagship, and the first game by them to not run on Mac (Hearthstone did). They'll Soon (tm) release Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2, so we'll have to see what they're going to support with that.
If you’re going to pay people differentially based on where they choose to live, why not pay them differentially based on whether they have kids, too?

This opens a whole can of worms. If a person moves to a lower COL location but then has kids would they break even?
Chromium:

- pinned tabs don't transfer to a new window

The entire 'pinned' premise is out of the window with this
Show HN: Nitro is a Go framework for distributed app development, IoT, edge, P2P
How much is a Tesla? Many tens of thousands of pounds. They have to be a lot cheaper or I am just going to buy another second hand car and just use it as a donour car for my existing vehicle.
I wouldn't say that it is cringey, but I agree with the sentiment. It always seemed kind of weird that programmers would attach themselves and identify with a programming language tribe, even though they are very well capable of learning other languages and frequently do.
No, the rest of us have a sense of humor.
People used to eat little meat, not because of a "traditional" or "localized" way of living but because they were too poor to afford it.

As soon as they got richer they could do what they dreamed of.

It's like cars, really. People used to walk. Not because it was nice and healthy but because they had no choice. Then bikes and public transport werean improvement, but really people do prefer the comfort and freedom of driving their own cars and when that became possible and affordable they did not need much convincing to jump at the opportunity.
No immediate victims.