skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good to see a breakdown of the environmental benefits brought by modern tech. For instance:

- switch to streaming/downloading from physical media eliminates manufacturing and transport

- switch to online retail lowers transport/delivery costs of physical goods due to better logistics

- high bandwidth internet plus office collaboration software has enabled WFH, eliminating commute

- availability of information online saves unnecessary trips to speak to people

- online market places provide much more efficient markets for 2nd hand goods

- better safety, security and fuel economy tech in cars reduces waste

- better surveillance reduces crime such as vandalism

Any others? Quantifying things like that could be a nice morale boost for the people who think we'll be swimming to the office in 12 years. There's also a few things which have potential for much greater impact because of the decoupling they bring. Eg. electric cars will work just the same with a greener grid that what we have today; WFH will enable people to relocate based on factors other than where their employer is - maybe going where there is cheap, plentiful renewable energy, for instance, or less need for aircon.
It all comes down to the CO2 footprint of energy production. Instead of finding 10000 things where you can shave off a few percent, without ever getting even close to 0, concentrate on getting energy sources that do not produce CO2.
Their peers have the same material interests to keep wages low in order to keep profits high, so they rarely side with the workers. There are many documented cases of explicit collusion, even.

It's why it's important for workers to act collectively. Since they can threaten the owners' profits through strike, there is much more leverage.
I think my comment agrees with that? I was curious on the solution. Thanks for answering.
> But wrapping their head around algebra and trigonometry and making them conceptually "think" about them was extremely hard.

You should abstract these concepts in some way. For example, when you are moving an object in 3D you don't need to spend time projecting 3D objects into a 2D display using linear algebra. You just set the x,y,z coordinates and the engine does the hard work.
It is interesting that the example given for startup times are browsers when that is one of few applications where I don't care that much about startup times because I have the browser always running anyway.
What is even "for software developers" supposed to mean?
On an individual level, it’s hard to argue with what a person knows or doesn’t. Regarding my assertion about the band’s relevance and impact in popular culture, wikipedia says the following:

On the band -

“Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they are regarded as one of the most groundbreaking acts in the history of popular music.”

On the album -

“It is frequently listed as the most influential punk album, and one of the most important albums of all time... In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named the album the second best of the previous 20 years, behind only the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The same magazine named it 41st on their list of 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003, maintaining the position in its updated 2012 list. In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest albums ever.“
“To be honest, digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions compared with, say flying even once a year”

Move along, nothing to see here.
Indeed it should.
We also need to get to a state where "minimising our CO2 footprint helps us stay in business" is a more likely statement than "minimising our CO2 footprint means our competitors destroy us and we all get fired".

Incentives are _completely_ broken. Until we handle this at a government level we're effectively punishing people who are trying to do right by the planet.
Ha that made me laugh. I'm a professional juggler who now codes for a living. Because the whole people-oriented thing isn't working out that well this year..
I posted a negative comment here (look it up), and I can explain why I still believe my comment is constructive, and why I don't think I fit in "people with little frontend experience". It's not an appeal to authority, but more a rebuttal of you affirmation that HN is full of "non frontend people"

1. I have a passion for front end, I have a PhD in Human Computer Interaction.

3. I am the cofounder and CTO of a company whose main product is based on CSS-in-JS (Emotion, Chakra UI)

2. I really like Tailwind and used it on several production projects.

4. So I know very well both of these approaches. I know their advantages and drawbacks.

5. In my comment I state the sad truth about this particular project: It combines the worst of both approaches in terms of performance, without any added value as compared to these approaches. Slow build AND slow runtime, without any added modularity.

This approach is objectively bad and this is why people react like this.

And to be constructive: If you want to use tailwind, use tailwind and you will have performant runtime but less
customizability. If you want to use CSS-in-JS, use it and you will have customizability, but slower runtime. Engineering is trade-offs, but twin is still the worst of both worlds.
You are unbalanced, bested by a girl who had never held a light saber, YOU FAILED!
If the corporate mindset were to change, how would you know? What actions would convince you that they were putting safety first again?
The tradeoff is to keep design complexity as low as possible while carving out sections of the chip for specialized tasks. Apple’s new M1 chip has a ‘neural processor’ that works with Tensorflow to provide a speedup. They thought it was worth the added complexity. They also have 4 low power cores for background tasks.

Alot of DSP and networking tasks are handled by the modem itself.

Software and Compiler toolchains are often quick to optimize for any improvements that a processor provides but the bottleneck generally is cost and complexity which don’t scale linearly.
My experience teaches me that everything born for "fast prototyping" is going to temporary stay for years to come. So tailwind, like bootstrap, just moves the problem from css to html class attribute.
Not necessarily, eg the famous Japanese saying 女三人寄れば姦しい (three women will be noisy). Most Chinese characters are not limited to a single meaning.
Hard agree. Talent is overrated.
I'm 1021 on the Just.is Waitlist
Don't know why, but I am on the list.
It's quite a few years old –https://web.archive.org/web/20170724120441/https://insoucian... – but I still see this in some packet captures
"PINE 64 is not a business" is a bit of a red flag for me... it has a store, takes money and ships product, it's a business. It's on the hook for various things including 1yr mandatory warranty in the EU.

This two price idea is a mess... just price the things how they have to be priced to be sustainable and allowing for some reseller percentage if that's the plan.

The support thing can eventually be eased by picking the most evolved distro, supporting that and shipping the phones with it, and making it clear the others are unsupported.

Pine model is certainly effective, but it's not the same results ecosystem-wise as Librem 5 premium cost paying for long term contribution to upstream projects and development (which Pine inherit). There should be room for both hopefully.
I can't imagine it, just like I can't imagine why you'd want to do it in a DSL oriented around set theory instead of, say, the DB implementation language. I assume they're thinking of deep learning? Why you'd want to do it "in database" is beyond me.

The only reason I thought of doing it was skipping the "marshall the data" step for online algorithms; performance basically. If you look at something like Vowpal Wabbit, it stores/consumes data in this ridiculous text format dating from when people invented the Support Vector Machine in the 80s. This annoys the shit out of me, as it involves creating the ridiculous 80s text format. What if it consumed database columns instead of this nonsense, and did the hashing trick and everything you needed to solve the problem? That would be cool. That, in fact, would be something like how the universe is supposed to function instead of the stunted grotesqueries we have today. You could do crap like exploratory analysis right on your database, as a query. You could even get fancy and do wackadoo online matrix decompositions while you're writing the data out in the first place (or at least when nobody's looking), and store it as metadata, meaning you know all kinds of good shit about your data even as you're writing it down. Anyway, because marketing departments keep bellowing about "deep learning" instead of the actual breakthroughs in machine learning and linear algebra of the last 20 years, nobody gave a shit about it. Even (large research group in gigantor corp) couldn't figure out a way of selling the idea. I went on to a productive career in something entirely different, and all I got out of it was the ability to make snarky comments about seemingly clueless academics.
> some unique appeal

It's a standard for the main Lisp language with multiple very different implementations, including commercial offerings.

For example at least two quantum computer companies use Common Lisp deep in their stuff.

Currently D-Wave is looking for a Lisp developer for their processor group:

https://jobs.lever.co/dwavesys/eca1f300-d90b-460f-9b7e-2660b...
>>claiming it was because the law not conducive to the greater good

No, I never claim the greater good, that is what people that support government and regulations claim.

We need all these laws, regulations, taxation, etc "for the greater good"

Anyone that claims to be doing something for the greater good chances are is evil.

>>Robbery is illegal even if you steal from a criminal, or if people are BEGGING for someone to do it.

Some how I bet you would not agree in all situation, income taxation as an example...

That said, I do not place much stock in an argument "well that's illegal", as an Individualist libertarian I assess things based on the ethical foundation of liberty or the principle of self ownership..

So I base my support or rejection of a public policy, law, or regulation based on that ethical foundation. I do not outsource my thinking to a legislature.

>>I'm trying to assume good faith but replying to me while completely ignoring the content of my comment or twisting my words to imply the exact opposite

I was not "completely ignoring" your content, it seemed to me then, and continues to be my belief now based on this further comment that you desire increased regulations on Uber to make them fall inline with existing regulations, to "close the loop hole" as it were

This is in stark contrast to my belief that the regulations are the problem and adding regulations to uber is not the solution to the problem

Eliminating regulations on everyone is the solution.
I expected something similar to Instacode (http://instaco.de/) with more options and filters and was a bit disappointed. I used Instacode a couple of times for nice images in otherwise dry blog entries.
> but I would hope that Xcode 2020 has more features than Xcode 2008.

No, not really, and definitely none that need to be initialized at application startup. There are some truly baffling performance regressions in Xcode over the last years. Like starting for the first time into the debugger taking almost half a minute.

> If Xcode is too slow, users will stop using it and prefer alternatives that provide the performance that we want.

There are no alternatives if you want to build iOS applications. You'll at least need to use the Xcode command line tools for this, and some of the performance problems (like the slow start into the debugger) seem to be rooted there, because VSCode has the same problem.
If they are so rich and forward thinking, why do they use slave labor?
I had no idea this was possible. The *nix userland just keeps getting cooler the more I learn about it.
The depressing thing is that, in this pandemic, we're longing for things to be as they used to before, rather than take the chance to change it into something good. But we're subsidizing air travel and mass tourism, and push for governments to act as stake holders in those industries big time, while there's no chance for returning a profit for years to come; let alone the fact that overtourism contributed to the pandemic's spill. When just last year, the generation that'll have to pay the bills for our spending, negative interest, and rampant state financing, voiced their protest in Fridays for Future.

But yes, we absolutely should look at our power and data budgets, especially with "modern" mobile web (= ads and JavaScript for the sake of it) use.
Are you reading the whole 1 MiB in linear order? If so, then the prefetcher should help in exactly the same way.

If you're not, then why is all of that data packed together? Is there an alternate layout you could use instead where you iterate over the exact values you need? If performance is important to you in that context it might be worth it.
Redistribute the pollution taxes as UBI. This is logically equivalent to polluters paying compensation to everybody else for polluting their environment, and could be framed as such if "UBI" is politically nonviable.
Isn’t that just the sign of the cross product of the direction vector and the vector from the object position to the target (or the orientation of the bivector in geometric algebra)? No need for trig there, I don’t think.
> What do you suppose happens when, for example, Saudi Arabia can no longer feed itself? It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

As a Ukrainian, I’m very optimistic about the future of democracy in Russia that would have a chance once it stops being a big gas station. We then might see a better, open Russia, without military aggression and disinformation campaigns.
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> peak web traffic already behind us

I absolutely don't see peak traffic being behind us. The internet is moving more and more bits on HTTP; videos' size is always ever increasing and is always distributed on HTTP, VR is coming, the default protocol for any Service is _always_ HTTP... we've definitely reached the maximum yet
Indeed. That said, what will they diversify to? I wonder if it will be solar energy generation due to natural abundance. Barring that, it will have to be something like high tech, which itself will be dependent on importing talented labour. That will only happen with low tax rates, with Dubai acting as a hub for transient talent looking to save for a few years, then head off.

Meanwhile, given the local Emirati will form a small fraction of the economy, they may effectively act as rent seekers on income and corporate tax from the rest of the economy.

Will this be an ideal egalitarian society? Probably not, at least in terms of my values. But those seem like the underlying dynamics, for better or worse.

Of course, if diversification isn't competitive relative to the rest of the world, things will go the other way.
Thank you very much for the suggestions.
I wonder if eggs and embryos from a time before certain environmental risk factors will be useful in modelling epigenetic changes, in the same way low-background steel is useful for making sensors because it has lower nuclear contamination.
Offer a $100 "retail edition upgrade" when they ask for support, pointing back to the disclaimer?
"New efficiencies in electrical devices has partly driven a huge decline in real emissions"

Maybe. How many people have convinced themselves to buy a new device because the new one is 'environmently friendly'?
So it could have been titled, "The Urbit Plan" or "Urbit Principles"?
If the smoke is the only issue then presumably you can also get an edible with your meal in family restaurants alongside your beer? No? Not normalised then is it?
The day silence falls over South Korea.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46181240

Planes grounded as South Korean children attend exams.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/1...
Unsure what this app is... can anyone elaborate?
You should check out Elm[0] if you haven’t already. It’s also worth noting that things like JSX and Vue templates are just syntactic sugar over render functions that look very similar to the example you gave (albeit less terse).

John Sundell also has a Swift DSL[1] for generating HTML in a similar fashion, though Swift on the server is still very niche.

Obviously these all still ultimately produce HTML, but they do offer some nice accordances for the developer.

[0]: https://guide.elm-lang.org/

[1]: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot
I pay several hundred euro more a year for renewably sourced electricity to heat my cottage.

My neighbours all cut turf from a local bog and burn it - one of the only fuel sources WORSE than coal! They handily destroy biodiversity and emit enormous amounts of carbon at once.

We are reforesting land and grow our own veggies. We compost as much of our own waste as possible.

We drive a 49 MPG 11 year old vehicle about 6000 miles a year between the four of us.

And my neighbours enjoy their free turf, subsidized roads, big-ass Land Rovers, ecological desert lawns, and as an added benefit climate and the connection to their actions _doesn't even cross their minds_ while I'm sitting here agonizing over accidentally introducing plastics to the compost and its impact on earthworms.

I'm tired of being a chump. We need governments to make it more expensive to kill the planet than to not kill it. Unti then every liter of fuel I save is just more for my neighbour's second Land Rover.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278781
You can now assign specific wallpaper to your WhatsApp chats
EDGE won't cut it for any modern bloated site, http/2+ or not. Will timeout long before the page is loaded.
From what I understand, the plane always has two sensors and MCAS always only used one of them (with Boing arguing that the pilot was the "redundancy"). The plane was supposed to show an alert when the two sensors disagreed, but Boing made a mistake and that alert only showed when the airline had purchased an additional add-on package to show the sensor value in the pilot display. Boing discovered this in 2017, but did not consider this a safety-critical defect and thus didn't inform anyone or prioritize a fix, despite internally also assuming that the pilot realizing the issue within seconds was the redundancy for correcting MCAS.
Mindfulness Is Useless in a Pandemic
8x $small_num is still very little.

I prefer low definition for other reasons and will therefore do this anyway, but saving the environment (or improving any other metric) is function of cost and benefit — while switching to SD is low cost (in my case negative cost) it is also not beneficial enough to make a noticeable dent in annual emissions, given the more detailed estimates for energy cost in the following article:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-is-the-carbon-foo...
I think “people being miserable” is because of the short-distance social isolation, not the long-distance one.

I don’t think the world would be any less happy if personal air travel returned to 1970s level, cars were half the weight and drove a bit slower, etc. Certainly not if we compensated lower consumption with a four-day working week.

And yes, that wouldn’t solve everything, but it is unlikely there will be a silver bullet. If solar/fusion/whatever turns out to be one, we can always scale up again, if we want to. Meanwhile, do whatever we can to give us more time to work on solar/fusion/whatever.
US blocks cotton imports from China region over reported forced-labor abuses
I don't know yet. It might be that smth good is coming up!
>they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value.

I dunno man, the culture came from McDonnell-Douglass which was actually purchased by engineer-centric-at-the-time Boeing. How this culture spread in Boeing ought to be some kind of HBS case study, except they wouldn't notice that it should be taken as a cautionary tale.
This might be of interest although quite an investment in both knowledge and equipment. Home built IC.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
How big are the changes? Most reviews I do are smaller bits of code so I can see what it does quickly and highlight any issues

If u don't get react and are expected to review it then u need to learn it
I guess one would be able to check via an app like seatguru.com instead of perusing a long list on wikipedia. I also think someone would make an along the lines 737-Max-or-not if Boeing tries too hard with the renames.
Beyond it being "hard" to fight bloat, it's against the individual interests of most of the company. Let's say you have a job at Google or company X or wherever, you're a PM/dev/designer/manager/productGuy. You don't get promotions and earn more responsibility for saying "we don't need that feature." You get promotions for that cool new thing you shipped and hey if it ruins the UX or slows the app down or whatever, who cares if it's UX or your career what do you care about UX your career is dependent on MORE bloat.

Incentives are totally misaligned but I can't imagine the situation will change anytime soon.
As the math teacher at the first year of university once said:

"i know two things:

[cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2 = 1

i*i = -1

but can re-derive all the rest"
> Burkina Faso: important once, I cannot remember why

Probably because at the time it was in danger of becoming a successful socialist country (under then-president Thomas Sankara), a state of affairs which obviously could not be permitted to continue (Sankara was duly assassinated in 1987 by his best friend who was much more compliant to the West):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara
Dupe (655 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278781
This graph does not consider that CO2 conscious parents can teach their children to be CO2 conscious. This means the effect of consciously having less children to fight climate change is highly overstated.

I mean, imagine being a parent who is only eating a plant based diet, buying green energy, not flying at all and living car free. Somehow you are assuming that your children will violate all of these rules despite living in the same household as you. They somehow eat meat, they somehow fail to use the green energy you bought for them and they go on transatlantic flights on their own and they even have a damn car! By definition no matter what you do for yourself is going to matter because you are creating a CO2 spewing monster according to this graph. Is that really what happens in practice? I doubt that. It is far more likely that your child has learned some CO2 saving measures from you and therefore when you are having one child less you aren't eliminating the CO2 monster, you're eliminating a CO2 saver.

There is also another more obvious issue with the graph. It is double counting emissions by counting your children's emissions as your own. Meaning there is no real upper bound to how much CO2 you save. If humanity colonizes the entire universe the impact of your decision to not have one child would be literally astronomical. Your decision could have avoided hundreds of trillions of lives being brought into existence or even infinite if all humans die without having children. Just think of the CO2 savings!

Because the last section of the graph is highly misleading I hope nobody bases their decision to have children on it. If you really want to have less children then first consider whether your child will be a CO2 monster or not.
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I am not sure what you point is here?

US diplomats (& members of the Blob) like their counter parts in the foreign service (UK) quite often use humour in internal documents.

Listen to podcasts by insiders like the bombshell's there is also a famous SIS (MI6) document about the death of Rasputin written in the style of teh Daily Mail.