skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> but I think much of it could also be attributed to countries going through their own industrialisation processes

Is that not just a misconception about how countries develop though?

See Andrew McAfee - More from Less.

E.g. we know that as a country’s manufacturing capability matures, it produces more product with less raw material and energy inputs. It’s somewhat counter intuitive though but the end result is the opposite of what you suggest - maturation of industry reduces emissions and reduces raw material consumption and it can be to such an extent that the amount of product produced increases- example, motor industry of America or Japan, example battery production industry of china. Raw material consumption and energy use went down, manufactured product went up. Andrew McAfee’s book has better examples than mine but these were the ones i looked into to try to disprove his argument.

>> The big issue in China is the CCP have no reason to care or abide by any global rules on this

Wait, the US emissions of co2 per capita is just over 16tonnes per year. Why is China who’s per capita emissions at just under 7tonnes per year the key to moving forward? The key is america but the political approach is always to use the metric of convenience- currently that is absolute volume since that paints china worse than the US, and yet it would be only fair that we adjust for population.

>> There's a strong correlation between economic strife and deaths

Sure, but can we quantify it? We need to figure out if we’re over-prioritising covid response. E.g. if there were 1mm excess deaths and only 25% were attributable to covid, that sounds like the cure is worse than the disease.

As it stands though, it appears almost 100% of excess deaths are attributable to covid, that suggests we need to keep focussing on preventing covid deaths rather than focussing on death ultimately caused by economic harm, correct?
> They just need a signature.

And you need to pay Apple for the certificate to sign them. And never piss them off lest they revoke it.
You're using IM wrong :)

You don't have to read the message when it arrives just because it instantly arrived.
> - automatically opens related macOS app if any link contains redirect to app

I hate this on iOS. Quite surprised there appears to be no way to disable it globally or per-app as it's such an annoying feature. The only way I know of is to press-and-hold a link to get the context menu, then open it from there... or more usually, uninstall the app in question!
The source of the derivation of the continued fraction part is https://mobile.twitter.com/duetosymmetry/status/130202147174... and it was an attempt to simplify a derivation due to Jacobi. Perhaps he explains how he comes up with it, though you’ll need to be able to read Latin. Possibly this is a relatively standard technique for solving differential equations with continued fractions which people no longer use.
Having systems working without maintenance would be a true breakthrough.
This heats up the computer as well, just like the real thing!
The goal kind of is that it's a pretty low bar in terms of time investment but that you get the feeling after each video of "hey yeah ... that sounds like something that might make my work easier". Happy to hear you like it.

I've started a thread on this on github here; https://github.com/koaning/calmcode-feedback/issues/61.
I don’t find a !ddgde equivalent operator for India(en).
that's a nice path. But what if you misstep and forget to enable the right vpn? You work and your social selves will get merged.
There are plenty of no name products or chinese brands. I ordered a bunch of sonoff devices not to long ago to be controlled on my rpi with a conbee. My wiz bulbs are also locally controlled, my no name cams exposed via http anyway ...

Its not exactly hard finding such devices these days. Often they require a cloud connection for only the initial setup.

Nest and co was totally out of question for me because of the forced cloud.
Eight years after Microsoft's first attempt to move to ARM with Windows RT, you still can't run legacy 64 bit Win32 software on a Surface Pro X. There is absolutely no excuse for that.

Just as there was no excuse for the Surface RT not having a touch native version of Office despite them selling it as a tablet, or the Surface Pro X not having ARM native versions of ALL of Microsoft's software.

Where's the ARM native version of Visual Studio?

How can you expect other vendors to take Windows on ARM seriously if Microsoft doesn't?
Out of curiosity, why do you blocks HTTPS when you otherwise seem very privacy conscious?
Yeah, Backgammon is rad, I really enjoy playing it. It's also an incredible tool to teach both probability (given that you use two dice, and understanding the probabilities of dice events is crucial) and risk/reward judgment calls. It teaches many of the same lessons of poker, but without the gambling aspects.

As for the section on that page, you could make the same arguments about monopoly, or any game that uses dice. Backgammon can be played for money like any game, but it's not the usual way to play it, and it's not integral to how it functions. Indeed, the conclusion of the judge in that case was that it was NOT gambling, but a game of skill.
> What ends up happening is that people on these sites don't get any value from betting on events that are 90%+ likely.

Sure they do. Even if you never reinvest your money and pay the entire withdrawal fee, it's still worth betting on a sure-thing when PredictIt is selling you dollars for 92 cents.

This profitability threshold keeps increasing the more you're willing to stay on the site and let the money ride - a bettor on PredictIt can consistently get minor returns just betting on events that have essentially already happened.

The $850 cap per market and research required make it a bit of a tedious endeavor, however, which is why there's still pennies to pick up so often.
The Great Molasses Flood
This, short & sweet, to the point. Should be top comment.

Seriously. The other Orwellian agency installments are at least iffy with some potential justification for their existence, but I struggle to think of any way my life would be worse if the DEA were to just... not.
DDG works well for Swedish. As for Finnish, DDG doesn't suck more than Google does.
Two thirds of UK car-owners have off-street parking so it simply isn't true that "most people do on-street parking" on a national level. In London, sure it's much rarer. You point out that public transport is bad outside of London. Certainly true but it is also the case that we are then left only with the problem of places that have poor public transport and very little off-street parking as the most problematic areas. That's quite a step down from needing a charger at every parking spot.

The real meat of this is the additional £1.3bn of funding for on-street charging. That is enough for hundreds of thousands of simple Ubitricity style lamp-post chargers which will go a long way since private companies are also installing chargers on concession contracts with local authorities and at shopping centre car parks and other convenience charging location. I don't doubt that further charging funding will be required.

It is true that fast and rapid charger roll-out requires reinforcement of the electrical distribution infrastructure which makes them substantially more expensive to install but that is because they are both high current and "must run" - when you plug into one you want it to charge your vehicle immediately as fast as possible, not decide to wait until 2AM. Most on-street chargers on residential streets will be for slow, overnight charging which can be co-ordinated to do the bulk of their charging during the low-load overnight period.

Then there is the timing: this is a ban on new sales from 2030 which means that there will be substantial petrol and diesel cars on the road until late into the 2030s. New hybrids are not banned until 2035 in the current plan. So even properties that are still not near a charging point by 2035 will still have access to brand new hybrids and five year old ICE vehicles.

The current share of electric cars as part of new vehicle sales is 8% already and without this intervention probably would have reached more than two thirds anyway, the whole point is to signal that this is coming well ahead of time to accelerate that transition.
Climate change and coronavirus are pretexts for the rollout of a technocratic system. They are geopolitical stories to get our buy in to all they have planned for us. This can be seen in the way all our governments are acting in tandem. We have a 'new normal', 'build back better', etc. Klaus Schwab lays out the plans in detail if you want to know what's coming up.

What happened to 3 weeks to flatten the curve? We're 8 months in, and it is clear this is going to continue perpetually, and we are going to be vaccinated twice annually for covid19/20/21 - there is no end to this. And climate change is the 'carrot' - we all want to save the earth! But what if that is a fake story to frame our situation in order for us to subscribe to the plans?

If you try to correlate climate change to personal experience, you will see just how much you are putting trust in organisations that are not there to serve you.
Telegram is installed by default on Mobian (an attempt to bring pretty vanilla Debian to the Pinephone, but running the Phosh UI).
That if is not even an if.

They ask for: Gender, Age group, Zipcode and City

HIPAA already considers that too much under their safe habour rules, and k-anonymity (expert determination) can hardly be applied if you need to provide full zipcode and have a data-set that will grow/shrink over time.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...

edit: oh, and it seems they also ask for a "encrypted patient identifier", definitely doesn't seem kosher
> I've got a feeling that it is almost as a 'dumb' phone. You got your calculator and SMS app but that's about it.

GNU/Linux phones are full personal computers in your pocket. They can do everything a computer can do: terminal, desktop Firefox, games, convergence (external screen, keyboard, mouse) etc. See my other links about Librem 5 in this thread.
It would certainly be unnerving, but I would expect their command and control procedures to account for some amount of context.

In this case, the context would be:

"Holy shit guys, NK just launched a rocket that looks like it's headed for LA!"

[3 minutes later]

"And now the US just launched 14 rockets, and they might be headed for us, but they're probably headed for NK."

China's best option is to wait and see, because if they decide to fire, and were wrong about China being targeted, they'll see another round of launches three minutes after that one, and those will be headed for China.

They've played this all out. MAD really does work.
I've spent the last 9 years buying TONS of Sony games and products, and I also have not been screwed by anything! In addition, I've gotten to play an absolutely incredible array of games, including some of the greatest games of all time.

You should let go of this grudge.
1. I don't think NK would first strike, I see no reason but I might just not think broad enough.

2. I don't have numbers, but say NK starts 40 ICMBs, the US shoots down 95% then 2 ICBMs would reach the US, at least California and NYC wouldn't be livable for decades.

3. I don't think this balances out
"decapitation of military capacity"
One of the things in these proposals that isn't as eye-catching as "ban petrol cars" was investment and subsidies to get to 4x wind power generation.

Right now it's windy and the UK gets about 10GW of electricity from wind turbines (maybe a bit more) the past few days. But at 4x that would be 40GW of electricity, which would actually be enough to just power the whole country on a typical weekday evening (as the sun goes down, day time place of work usage isn't all stopped yet but home usage is picking up).

Now, obviously it isn't always windy, but on the other hand it also isn't always a weekday evening. At 3am on a Sunday in June the country is ticking over at 20GW, and the weather doesn't care so your wind turbines might be kicking out 40GW anyway. We need to store or export that. That's a key challenge for the next decade.
> It doesn't make sense as being cultural because there plenty of real examples of effective writing that starts with what you are writing about.

This is a non-argument. In the US, writing is considered effective if you put the bottom line up front. GP wrote that BLUFfing is considered offensive in their culture. Now you respond that lots of people like BLUFfing.

Now you say it's not culture-dependent but a universal truth that BLUF is better.

Well, other cultures disagree.
>During the covid19 situation we've seen the impact of shutting down parts of the economy on GDP

I believe we've also seen the impact of not locking down due to fretting over the economy, which is a longer lockdown further down the line because the health services got overwhelmed. Basically not locking down saved 4 months of economy at the expense of the next 2 years.
Is it? Most of those countries are also at 2030 with just two in the 2020s. Admittedly that table is way out date.
As for hot new 'old games' I may recommend enjoy free multi-platform games by Retroguru devs[0,1], especially their "Hermes"[2] game.

[0] https://twitter.com/RGgamedev

[1] http://www.retroguru.com/

[2] http://www.retroguru.com/hermes/
Sure, but what is that something?

Surely the “something” has to be impossible to achieve given your assertions (which i agree with) that there will be severe economic consequences.

The idea of some magical possibility where we all get to keep doing what we’re doing but climate change does away is impossible. There will be economic losers (and winners)
The pay difference is nothing new, global companies with offices in different countries already pay employees different salary based on where they live. This is not caused by working remote.

Why do you think so many software companies have offices in india? Because it allows them to pay less based on cost of living.
I'd say it's doomed because not even Microsoft has bothered to create ARM native versions of all their software.

Apple went all in on ARM native versions of their stuff on day one.
I hate long form writing with a passion. I barely got my decree because I hated writing that trite crap they call a thesis so much.

On the other hand I consider myself a good communicator, I can type a succinct email with a clear structure, I can create a damn fine Wiki page with indexes and all and I also communicate pretty well over text-based chats (started with IRC in the 90's).

Still, I couldn't write a 10 page report to save my life (still have one due for a course, been putting it off for 6 months now...)
Exactly my thinking and what I teach in my book[0]. Things like setting up NGINX or systemd live in separate units and can be rerun (changing NGINX config means just rerunning NGINX part).

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
I'm from the UK (England in particular) - I think most people from England would say they are British (sometimes depending on context / person / non-requirement for brevity: 'from the UK' instead).

Perhaps a higher proportion of non-English UK people would answer otherwise.
Servo is a WIP. Some components are mature, and have actually been merged into firefox.

Embedding is a primary aim, but certainly requires a lot of wrapping at present to be as functional as more mature engines.

No doubt it would be nice to have an easily portable lib - maybe with a compatible interface to other engines - but its certainly not there yet.

I agree that the project could/should be a bit clearer on its current status.
Actual research vs. "back-of-the-envelope maths". I'll go with the research.
The Pinephone thus far is mostly for tinkerers. The super low price point is what will enable the community to form. It's not really a mainstream daily phone yet.

Maybe the Fairphone is something for you? It's 3x the price but still far from premium pricing gives you a decent 4G/64G Android phone without fuss. I had their first phone which was good enough for an everyday phone and support in Lineage was great. Removable battery, 3.5mm jack, and they try to keep spare parts around for at least a new years.
If NK launched a nuke against an American city, and the American president told the world "I am decapitating NK in response," I don't think China would look at a strike against NK as "Oh no but what if it's a strike against us secretly, let's start a nuclear war with America just to be sure."

China doesn't want to enter WWIII any more than the US does. And the US response to an NK attack is very predictable.
Do you grow your own food ? Where does your zero trust end ?

Science is very difficult to cheat on such high visibility issues. There is a huge scientific consensus on climate change, from experts of all countries and diverse backgrounds. For it all to be a huge conspiracy seems like a pretty big leap of faith, that they are genuine is a simpler explanation.
the market can and will correct itself. there are two problems however:

- actually getting rules implemented and enforced (political suicide by regulators - had an example of that in my own country just a couple months ago, made a mess in the government, the new rules didn't pass in parliament, governing party lost 10 pp in polls anyway)

- very irregular period of convergence from old rules to new (societal turmoil guaranteed, political consequences very likely) - see thatcher's closure of British coal mines for a good example
Well yeah that’s an excellent point. I think i’d rather be in NZ or Aus than in the UK today.
The responses to your comment are the epitome of our society: This is fine. We're fine. We'll be just fine.

Even among people who don't deny climate change this complacent attitude prevails.

It's why I believe this video presents everything nicely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsA3PK8bQd8
A hook is not an abstraction. A validation function is not an abstraction.

An abstraction would be to say: "These programming statements are actually objects." Or, the time and ordering constraints implied in this program should be explicit.

In addition, I was talking about anticipation and preparation of abstraction. Not the actual abstraction.
Sure, if you can do that, why not? I was also searching for a good explanation on I/Q data when I found this. I posted it since I found the page interesting, but also, I did not dive into the details. I'm more interested in the conceptual explanation, and not the hands-on details.

If you could add another (potentially better explanation), that could be beneficial for future learners (not necessarily limited to the HN community).
> Dont most IDEs solve this.

Working IDEs do, but Go's PLS doesn't, and that's part of the GP's complaints:

> Of course, that wouldn't be so bad if pls was actually usable and helpful. But at the moment it would be hard to call it either of those things.
The US has shown it will impose sanctions on Iran no matter what, so yes it does make sense to divert away from the only resource they ever have a chance to sell.

>Generally". Weasel wording doesn't impress.

I can't say that every use of the term over fourty years has been translated as "down with," but that's hardly "weasel words." They've made very clear what they mean by the statement.
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.

I think you take a commonly-seen approach that tends to argue that any even moderate efforts to deal with the problem are too extreme. I do not think the phrase you have repeatedly used - “all or nothing” – has any value, since it tends to define even relatively modest steps as “all”.

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

Yes.

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

In other words, you are probably advocating for a more extreme approach - that is, perhaps make these commitments legally binding and provide the infrastructure and planning to follow through on them. I completely agree with this, and that’s the point - this decision itself is pretty weak, and cannot credibly be called a “climate hysteria” response.
In the comment section there was a mention of keyboard case possibly comming in the December update, can't wait to throw my money at them.
Yet each language does have defining characteristics, and you work differently in different languages. I regularly write both Rust and JavaScript, and I will design and architect things quite differently between the languages, playing to the strengths of each language. So languages are fairly tribal in this way, and in others also once you add the rest of their ecosystem.
> Rust has very few OOP features like an optional notion of a `self` on a function bound to a structure. There's no classes, no subclassing, no message passing, no inheritance at all (structure, interface or implementation), limited dynamic dispatch, no polymorphism.

As an embedded developer for a living, if you put it that way, then the first thing it comes to my mind is "so why should I bother learning Rust" for embedded.

Other than the usual "please consider UB and network/memory handling/security issues" (reasons that don't really affect me), so far nobody could provide a convincing answer.

It's not that the usual answer I get is wrong or invalid or doesn't have a point. But if I ask "ok, what else?" there is really little motivation for me to move on.

Someone once told me I'll become an outdated curmudgeon here on HN, but I think I'll be long gone before something truly deserves to replace C for embedded (and low level).
Do you know how could they integrate OpenGL context with JavaFX?

I tried to do the same few years ago, couldn't find a reliable way.
exactly. our western standard of living is simply too cheap. too many costs are externalized and, even worse, people like to pretend these costs don't even exist.
> This is the same as my committing to start my diet, by giving up one specific thing, but not for a decade, after my doctor told me I gave 6m to lose weight or die. And to celebrate I'll eat two pizzas and 4 litres of soda, for breakfast.

Great analogy. But to be honest politicians don't make drastic changes as they fear they will loose the next election.

But I do believe they under estimate people's interest in dealing with climate change.

Then again Brexit happened and people vote for Boris and Trump so what do I really know what the electorate wants.
Yep this. Let's equalise SF salaries with Europe and India first. What's that? You don't want to? Yeah I didn't think so.
I guess this is what Marx was thinking about when he wanted the workers of the world to unite. Without unity it's super easy for capital to flow to the cheapest labour possible. So far software engineers in the U.S didn't really feel it, but things can change.
> drastic action which tanks its economy

None of what you proposed can be reasonably considered drastic action, so you're not really in disagreement with OP there.