skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the climate emergency? Can someone show me something I can see?

Sea levels haven't risen. There are more small birds around where I live than when I was younger. Things seem to be doing ok.

I am a skeptic and I'm very far from trusting experts. I don't want to be in a state of belief, I want to know. But I am put in a position that I must take it on trust that it is real. Is carbon dioxide bad? Surely, it would just make trees grow. In reverse, if we had more oxygen in the air we would be more active. How is it that in the 70s we were told we were going into a mini ice age?

On the other hand, I can lay my hands on documents that indicate the Club of Rome and other organisations, want to use climate change as a lever to change the world. I mean, how does coronavirus relate to climate change, such that we cannot go back to normal, unless we take all these actions?

So, for me, climate change and corona virus are a means to get everyone (almost) on board with re-sculpting the world, to suit those who own the big corporations and run those organisations like the UN, WEF, etc. It is an excuse to usher in a technocracy where those who own everything are able to micro-manage every detail of our lives - where we go, how much electricity or water we use, what job we do, etc, etc.

Frankly its dystopian. Its also blinkered to talk about climate change in isolation of how this issue serves the mega-plans that are in place.
x86 containers will be supported with qemu just like arm containers are supported on Docker for Mac now.
> The American public would demand a nuclear strike against China in retaliation

This... doesn't seem likely.

> If the US goes down - eg loses its top 30 cities - why shouldn't it take every Chinese and Russian city with it? Try convincing the American public to not want revenge against anyone that has ever assisted North Korea.

Okay, I see where you're coming from, but this was not the scenario being discussed. The scenario presented was "NK lobs a single nuke at Los Angeles." The expected response is closer to "US decapitates NK before they can fire any more, everybody shits their pants, but no additional nukes are fired."

Decapitating NK in one fell swoop might be possible... decapitating China is highly unlikely. The US should therefore not initiate firing nukes at China unless a substantial number of US cities have already been hit, because doing so would all but guarantee that those cities would be hit by China in the next volley.
That's exactly the point I want to bring across. As simple as possible, but not simpler. However, solving one problem, but causing dozens down the line is not engineering, even though your problem is 'the simplest'.

You see, in the 'problem solution lattice' there are multiple bottoms [1] (most simple solution). Knowing which 'simplest solution' is the best, depends on your knowledge of the problem, your anticipation on how the problem might be extended in the future, your array of possible solutions, etc. etc.

For example, the original solution to the recipe problem in OP uses a very sequential and object oriented approach. That solution is one of the infinite number of solutions that fixes the problem. The extension of the problem (an extra recipe) plots a graph upwards through the latice towards another solution that fixes both the original problem, as well as the new problem. The number of steps required (the distance) is dependent on choice of the original solution. And since there are multiple bottoms, we could have a solution that is not able to be further simplified, even though there is a parallel bottom, that has a much shorter distance to the second solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_(order)
Who mentioned China? USA is more of a problem, twice the CO2 emissions per capita as the average developed economy, China makes more EV busses every day than the rest of the world has in total.
Surprised the Author didn't mention IBM Canada being a very unstable place to work.
I suppose I need to by that big V8 I always wanted before it’s too late
And yet we manage to build skyscrapers.

Almost as if in the last 100 years we mastered the art of generating more electricity, laying out high voltage cables and constructing enough electrical substations to meet the demand, whatever that demand might be.

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_(Great_Britain)#...
I am not sure if that is good idea. With carbon-free energy and carbon-capture you can have the efficiency and energy density carbon fuels and net zero emissions at the same time.
It can only be done in both directions. That's the entire basis of the conflict, and of NK's foreign policy for the last three generations.
Groupthink Has Left the Left Blind
If anything, this shows how out of reality FSF is. There's no way mere mortals can afford such a mid-range smartphone for a high-end price.

PinePhone is affordable. Fairphone 3 (much more expensive than PinePhone!) is sustainable, self-repairable (10/10 iFixit), and fair for the workers and miners.

Each of the above have important values, FSF be damned.
Complete guess: I think part of the issue is that a lot of Xbox games that aren't exclusive to Sony or Switch are also on Windows. So maybe there is a slightly smaller incentive?
The supermarket ones are free - though only 7kW, as they're for customer use. I park up and go for a walk round the local park then do my shopping.

For the rest I use Charge Place Scotland - it's a scheme where you pay £20 a year and get free unlimited charging at various locations around Scotland, they do have some separate locations you have to pay, usually for faster charging. Certainly amongst my friends with electric vehicles it's a point of pride to never pay for charging beyond that £20.
A fitting username for a completely accurate comment.
Did I suggest not addressing it? It's entirely this dismissive attitude that harms the cause. This 'all or nothing' attitude that reminds me of the gun control issue in the US.

Since you've ignored most of what I said there, let me reduce the surface area of the discussion and ask 1 thing:

Let's assume the UK does everything the climate 'activists' request of them, and this results in an economic depression and unprecedented unemployment and poverty - do you think this increases or decreases the likelihood of other countries following suit?
Your solution is similar to mine, but I've gone a step further and put in times in my calendar when I'm available for questions/updates/requests etc. It doubles up as the admin-part of my day where I update my GTD-style inbox of tasks that may have come up and then allocate times in my calendar when I'll deal with various tasks in future.

There is a larger problem you're touching on that in most knowledge-workcompanies there is little to no attention paid to the production line process of how that work is 'produced' with the inevitable miasma of low-value busywork ('quick question, where are we with X','thoughts on X??' etc)
I’d quibble over that characterisation. JavaScript uses neither UCS-2 nor UTF-16. Rather, its strings are a sequence of 16-bit Unicode code points, with surrogates handled according to UTF-16 rules, saving that unmatched surrogates are permitted to remain (that is, JavaScript strings aren’t necessarily valid Unicode).

There is no requirement whatsoever that the browser actually use 16-bit code units to represent strings. This is what Simon Sapin achieved for Servo with the WTF-8 encoding, which extends UTF-8 to allow surrogates, including unmatched surrogates: it makes it able to represent these strings with 8-bit code units, commonly halving memory usage and improving the speed of various sorts of linear processing (though at the cost of random access speed which becomes O(n)).
Well, can't have it both ways…
Which chatbots can extract data from CV or resume?
Or they can go 'Disney' and really cash on nostalgia. You need not need keep everything alive, just smartly use Vault and Remakes.
McDonald's is an amazing company. We are discussing product/financial health here, not whether you like them.
And especially it follows common Unix traditions - packages are installed in a system wide way without permission fuck-ups.
I continue to be impressed by how good the libraries and tooling built around Rust are. Sure, there are areas where Rust isn't a good fit (yet), but whenever there are libraries, they look absolutely solid and the documentation includes everything I need to know.
But the people involved literally don't have a choice. What do you think their alternative is? Let it be, go home, take a beer out of the fridge, lay down on the sofa, watch some football and call it a day? That's not how the life of those generals looks like.

Easy to claim what "a sane person" would do from the arrogant POV of a western average citizen, but reality looks very different.
> odd/even rule for license plates

Friendly reminder that Beijing has been implementing exactly that, then later a variant of that, since 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_space_rationing_in_Beijin...
Also, link to backend repo:
https://github.com/folkehelseinstituttet/Fhi.Smittestopp.Bac...

This is absolutely a departure from the previous installment which rejected the very notion of publishing its source code out of "security concerns", and was subsequently deemed illegal by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.
I think what he meant was that people will dig thru your history to find stuff that (they find) is no longer socially acceptable and cancel you.
By 2040 climate will be so hot food will stop coming to the cities.
If the Korean peninsula goes hot again tens of millions of South Koreans will die within days. Probably within hours.

There's no doubt the US and allies will be victorious, barring massive strategic blunders, but there's also no way to prevent horrific levels of destruction.

To say nothing of China stepping in and kicking off WWIII.
I “loved” the idea of the cell when I heard about it, but the development community’s struggle with it should be a salutary lesson to us all!
How is improving our energy supply so it's cheaper and cleaner going to harm the economy? Pretty sure there's a lot of jobs creating new power sources, and once everyone has cheap power they'll have more money left for the economy.

The cost to fix global warming only gets greater each year.

China buys more electric cars than all other countries.
It's also why I didn't by consoles anymore since the PS2. The PS2 was awesome and the backwards compatibility to PS1 games got me hooked. However, I have no desire to buy 3 new consoles every 6-7 years that don't support my previous collection of old games. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility all the way to the PS1, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since it doesn't, I won't buy it.
I'm so surprised to read so many people complaining on HN.

I live in Oslo where electric cars are normal and everything is fine. It changes a few habits and these cars are not cheap brand new yet but I really don't see a problem.

If it's going to be a challenge in 10 years, because they are still too expensive or it's too complex to install power plugs for example, it will simply be delayed. UK is very good at delaying things.
Yeah, Rust's module system is also something I find very difficult to work with after working with Go. Any time you end up with a lot of code/logic/types in a single module you have to either deal with a multi-kloc file, or try to shoehorn it into further namespacing, even if it doesn't make sense. Both options are annoying to both read and write, and

I wish I could just split up complex modules into multiple files without the extra namespacing.
Where can I buy an autonomous vehicle?

Perhaps in 2030 we'll have them. Most likely not.
There is a list available: https://mglapps.frama.io/
It's a combination of various factors. The games definitely play a role (PS3 has more exclusives, Xbox360 is mainly Halo and even that has been remastered on PC now).

Another factor is how the projects are maintained and managed. The maintainers of RPCS3 are more active and pull requests get feedback and merged relatively quickly.

On Xenia side, pull requests can remain open for months even though they should be merged, and this has caused multiple (potential) contributors to stop making pull requests.

Source: I'm a contributor on Xenia
I believe the technical term is 'alienation' ?
Theory: If people read conclusion first, then people tend to evaluate whether they agree or not after reading conclusion. Emotional reaction toward conclusion will bias interpretation of arguments.

The remaining arguments are more likely to be accepted or rejected based on what you know conclusion is. So instead of asking "is this true", people will start either with "I am looking for nitpick cause I see this is going toward bad conclusion" or with "yeah sure, it shows what I think".

However, they will still feel like they evaluated arguments on merit. If the conclusion is last, people can and some will go back to arguments to bias them, but it is easier to see what they are doing.
With some of my clients, I go even further. Where possible, I figure out what the possible answers to my question might be and write them in a concise numbered list (with a “something else” option at the end”). Ideally, the response is a number with a little context. At the very least, it prompts a response that challenges my assumptions, which is useful too.

I started doing this because I received so many short and incomprehensible or long and incomprehensible responses that rarely included the information I asked for.
Does a CS degree really matter? I suspect not. Where I work there are more programmers who did maths, physics, engineering, or something else (or nothing!) than there are programmers with CS degrees. Based on random people I've talked to it's probably like 1/4 of people have a CS degree.
Can confirm. I played WoW recently, even the 9.0 prepatch and worked perfectly with Wine Staging 5.21.
Our hackerspace name https://coredump.ch and logo are based on core memory :)

We still want to build an 8x8 (or maybe just 8x7) bit core memory one day to be able to store the word "coredump" as ASCII in it.

Some time ago we bought some cores on ebay and did setup a 2x2 matrix with them and played around a bit with using an oscilloscope and some FETs to write and read them.
> Aren’t all Java UIs cursed?

That gave me a chuckle
Automatically collected data can be just as misleading as voluntarily reported data.
It's especially surprising given Dijkstra wasn't a native English speaker.
Similar in nature but much better https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAb...
Elastisys Announces General Availability of Compliant Kubernetes as Open Source
> I personally think the appropriate compromise is to move forward with very efficient hybrid vehicles.

which is exactly what this legislation allows for
Some places here you get no street parking, and if you're building you need a minimum amount of spots for cars in the plans.

In some parts of Japan, when you buy a new car the dealership has to get confirmation from police that you have a designated parking spot. They come around and measure it, then get back to the dealership who then gets to sell you the car. I'm sure now they sometimes have records and stuff they can go off but the gist is the city won't be providing space for your car, it's up to you.
I take great pride in always typing things like 5¼″ and “Mambo № 5” with the exact Unicode scalars that I desire. I love my Compose key. (I have Compose+'+` produce ′ (prime), Compose+"+` produce ″ (double prime), Compose+:+: produce “, Compose+;+; produce ‘, Compose+"+" produce ”, Compose+'+' produce ’, Compose+N+o produce №, and Compose+1+4 produce ¼.)
OMG how have I not played this game!
Sea levels have risen and will continue to rise because of climate change - https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html
> I do wish they had a Pinebook Pro and Pinephone with a bit more oomph.

The new SOC they say they have planned for their 2021 lineup seems to be just that.

I wonder if I will be able to buy a simple mainboard upgrade to my existing PinePhone once they have something shipping.

I certainly wouldn't mind more "oomph" in my PinePhone and it would be nice not having to buy a new device entirely.
Except that autonomous cars vastly far away despite all the hype by silicon valley. They still cannot deal with edge case scenarios at all well and are far from being proven to be safe. Relying on this being in place by 2030 + lifetime of 2nd hand cars is a huge gamble.

See https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/03/01/av-safety-myths-and... and his blog in general for a more in-depth analysis of the situation. It's likely we need new AI techniques to have fully autonomous vehicles that function correctly.
I'm not convinced it's bad for economy. It'll just inspire innovation: new electric cars, alternative transportation modes, new ways of charging electric cars, better isolation for building, etc, etc.

The sooner countries start to embrace it, the more they'll be able to economically benefit from the required changes that we're all facing.
Even as BigCos do their best to ruin the mainstream for everyone, there are plenty of alternatives popping up. Gopher, Gemini, shared Unix terminals, Tor, etc.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your prediction, but I predict if things get so bad, there will definitely be a healthy community of counterculture hackers who will do things differently.
I mean, I agree to some extent, but there's also no public transport service to the place I'm buying a house other than a single bus that runs twice a day for taking kids to school.
Documentation is all well and good, but also having people who can solve domain problems rather than just describe them ought to be a priority among many to have a mix in the organization. Less capable people can document what someone more skilled solved if they're not great communicators (I knew several people exactly like this). Having all documenters doesn't necessarily allow tackling hard problems but could risk reducing the bar to who can communicate in-lieu of doing hard things. There is a finite supply of hard problem solvers and even fewer far who can communicate well. It may or may not be cheaper to hire one who can't communicate and a technical writer or junior staffer rather than an all-in-one unicorn who can do everything.
When it comes to rural populations in places like Europe, I can see bio-fuel and things like e-diesel being a decent alternative for the country-side in the short term. It would cover most of the use-cases that are commonly used as "what if" counter-arguments, and it doesn't stop the urban populace from using electric/public transport.

Besides, it's not like the entire farming industry is going to switch to electric just like that; where I live, it's not uncommon to see 40+ year-old farming machinery in active use. In other words, it's going to take a long time before we get rid of diesel engines.

The major challenge, as far as I see it, will be to implement different rules for different people, and getting the populace to go along with it. People generally dislike being told what to do, and any exceptions that can be considered unfair for anyone will be used as an argument against new legislation.
Yeah who would ever attack Hawaii?
Sea levels absolutely have risen. Here’s the data from NASA: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/
You might be ignoring some big issues, such as grid availability on highways, and the capacity of the grid in those areas.
How are you going do "defend" with your nukes, when the first think the enemy will do is to shoot your silos, airfields, and send their whole fleet to hunt down your icbm submarines?

You don't need to defend your ballistic missiles if you already fired them.

Ballistic missiles are an inherently offensive weapon.
Companies don’t seem to respond to threats of threats. Only direct threats to their existence. I know it’s late and may get changed, but any car company now has to take it seriously or risk going out of business pretty soon
Looking at how the author is belaboring the equation for computing time - I suspect this lost was written for the layperson.

So I feel like this was intentionally omitted. But the salt is intended to make dictionaries not viable.
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China has levelled of since 2011 while still maintaining their incredible economic growth. Quite remarkable actually. On the other hand it's quite easy to spot the outliers.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Wonder when the 8GB one will release. Main concern for me is the sms/call being reliable and if it will "just work" on carriers like Boost mobile.
Also when using as a "desktop" be nice to have some simple toggle to reduce GUI load by going into something like i3-wm
>> Firstly - any response to climate change that does not include China and really India

Are these not mostly proxy emissions for western countries? E.g. is it the case that people in these countries are emitting pollution due to their lifestyles, or is the pollution mostly from energy, transport and manufacturing in the pursuit of selling products to western countries?

>> During the covid19 situation we've seen the impact of shutting down parts of the economy on GDP. That naturally always translates into deaths

Is there any evidence of deaths attributable to shut downs so far? There’s over a million deaths worldwide due to covid, how many attributable to non-covid causes? E.g. suicide etc.
https://www.mapcrunch.com/
`mod shard; use shard::*;` doesn't seem too bad IMO. Unlike Go, the compiler won't just parse all files in the source directory, but rather it'll build a tree of modules from the entry point and parse those.
This has the side effect of punishing those too poor to afford a petrol car, instead they can increase the cost of purchasing a petrol car, which directly taxes the more wealthy (new car buyers).
There are these diaries with preformulated questions where your dad could write answers to. Most of these questions are cheesy, but that isn't important.

"Who was your first love?", "Where did you meet your wife?", "what was your dream job as a child?" that kind of thing.

I found them extremely interesting to read since people tend to write more than they say or would casually mention. I think it also helped the writer as it lessened the fear that things were left unsaid.

Otherwise if he enjoys his routine, maybe it is the most important thing to do right now.
> Corrected, not intention to make a "tone", just pointing out that information is intentionally omitted.

Cheers.

It seems we agree on a lot of things (though I believe 6 char is a bit on the low end for a password).

> Yes, but that's not available in generally available email clients. There are OTP extensions to IMAP.

With regards to TOTP, if IMAP server can auth via PAM, then you can use a TOTP extension in PAM (OATH IIRC). It does mean the user cannot auto refresh their e-mail as they'd need to enter the TOTP after a timeout again. If you combine that with the fact that people often use TOTP client such as Google Authenticator on their smartphone, then it doesn't make their smartphone with e-mail client more secure. It would, however, allow a user to use a YubiKey as authentication method.
Ergonomics of SNI / domain rules suck, you think it’s ok until you have to choose whether or not to whitelist all of SQS or something and you end up having giant holes in your firewall because you can’t be specific enough and few services cater to those behind proxies..
They call it "your own" as a marketing strategy.

Same thing with other companies that say they want to empower the user or change the world. No. They want to make money and they make it by attracting users.
Can blockchain help to eradicate poverty?