skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are talking about cutting the energy consumption of ~446 million people by 55%

Emissions and energy consumption are not the same thing.

> We are talking about a combination of things like reducing productivity, reducing mobility, reducing living standards, reducing heating and cooling (comfort), reducing amenities, reducing material possessions, reducing social events, etc.

Economic growth is no longer tied to emissions in the EU.[1]

> the Chinese and Indians and other countries are pumping out emissions at rates that are way beyond the worst the west has ever produced

Not on a per-capita basis, and not considering the total CO2 output since industrialization began.

> China produces twice as many emissions as the USA, but only 75% of the GDP; India has half the emissions of the USA, but only produces 10% of the GDP

China manufactures more than anyone else on earth. They have an artificially low GDP because they devalue their currency to make their products more attractively priced.[2]

Next time just cut to the chase and state that you don't believe that modern technology like renewable energy exists, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

[1] https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Scree...

[2] https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/20858.jpeg
Choosing the right hardware can help. I've had Lenovo Thinkpads from work and I never have a problem with suspend or hibernate.
For me, it was Avara. An online multiplayer FPS in 1996, when 3D graphics and the internet still felt like science fiction. The skill ceiling was high and games were very competitive. Shout out to the ®ed §quadron, the clan I was in. I am still in touch with friends I met in the game, more than 20 years later.

The game has been ported to modern OSs: https://github.com/avaraline/Avara/

There is a video of gameplay with commentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutG8KO4DsY
and it was at that moment that I looked at my partner and smiled because we knew that Cloakist was onto something big
Tbh. That looks badass to have in your garage
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Third party cases will be available in about a second from when they launch.

It's a non-issue.
"Key people" is maybe taking poetic license.

A small number of data scientists discovering a sense of morality (after cashing a few very large paychecks) doesn't feel like the tidal wave of employee dissent that many people are waiting for.
Damnit. I've been watching some Quadras on eBay, I'm guessing more will join me now.
> So it’s over 3000 young, well educated, working age people, in cities dying a day?

More than 3,000 people. None of the other factors are relevant to the claim that the US death toll will exceed 9/11’s each day. If the headline said “Death toll of young, well-educated, working people in the urban U.S. will exceed the 9/11 death toll every day for months”, then you’d have a point.

> Compared to Europe you’d expect about that number

Europe is hovering around 5,000 (oscillating above and below) out of ~747M per day; the US at the same per capita rate would be around 2,200 per day. So a floor of around 3,000 per day is significantly higher.
Agreed. If you go up two graphs to "Excess mortality for all ages"[1], though, you can see the same stat as a percentage delta from the average of the five preceding years.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mor...
The problem is - both could be right!
Most likely we would not. There are whole classes of sicknesses that dissappeared last 200 years which were caused by lack of various nutricients. Both difficulty to get them and lack of knowledge played role.

Add to it easy to cure sicknesses, injuries that are nothing more and would kill you back then, their higher chance to contact said injuries and it is unlikely they would be so much healthier.

Also, there is reason why agrarian societies pushed away hunter gatherers - it is just easier to stay alive and healthy. Getting all the food a hunter gatherer in all seasons is hard.

In addition, childbirth in their society would both kill or forever damaged more women. They would also have harder time to leave physicly abusive situation, meaning likely more of it, meaning yet another negative impact on their health.
Did you read the bottom half of the linked website?

It clearly states more alone time does not necessarily mean they’re lonelier as individuals.

Perhaps as a species this nuclear family model we have to start with should really be giving way in later life to more autonomy?

After 20+ years being parented and pushed into team work, is it so terrible to consider enabling free agency and experience?

What makes me sad is the idea there’s objective truth to living in what we know was often an abusive and stifling lifestyle for many many people.

The easy fix: don’t personally seek a holy war where one does not exist. As soon as we start wondering what to do top down, we start focusing on arbitrary correctness and ignore the individual. Cultural “facts” always lose to facts of physical reality. No culture has found that perfect social glue. Maybe it’s a mirage fed to us through historical story, not something that is real?
Yes! an IRC channel would be great! Do you want to start it and post the info here? Or else I can start
You reply implied I had said things I didn’t.
Interestingly enough for your example, Rolex is closer to Apple than you think : Mass-markey Luxury. Like LV bags or Apple
Hubble Discovers a Strange Exoplanet That Resembles Long-Sought “Planet Nine”
Chiral was awesome. I still remember how my pulse would race during the harder levels.
Why do folks believe that Apple won't replace the batteries for a reasonable price like they do everything else?
This is a well known phenomenon :) The best way to get closer to family is to move away, absence makes the heart grow fonder. If you want to have positive and constructive and long-lasting relationships with your family, move away from them, even if it's just an hour (whether that means an hour drive or a different time zone depends on the family).
If comparing to 9/11 seems like an "apples to oranges" comparison, we can compare with other natural disasters exacerbated by poor government response:

Hurricane Katrina (2005) killed 1,836. That's like 12 hours of Covid.
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Productivity as a software developer consists chiefly in not making mistakes. That can lead to the situation where your best developers may appear to do nothing for long stretches. Research and deliberation are desirable. Blind hacking is the least valuable yet most visible activity of inexperienced programmers. All common "objective" measures of productivity such as closed tickets, lines of code, or PRs are seriously flawed.
Thanks and sorry - not open source and in testing with single client at the moment.
The week the Unicorn died
Indeed; I previously had these papers on the list but had to take them out for time this semester:

- Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers. Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, Eric Eide, and John Regehr. PLDI 2011. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1993532
- Compiler validation via equivalence modulo inputs. Vu Le, Mehrdad Afshari, and Zhendong Su. PLDI 2014. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2594334
I think what we need is another free day, preferrably on wednesday. I think that might improve everyones performance. Too bad that that can never happen on a large scale due to historical/religious reasons.
What ressources do you recommend I read, or what I can do, to learn more about applicable compiler knowledge?
Your experiences matches my own closely. My desktop machines have done as well though!

Suspend/resume to memory and to disk have been exceedingly reliable on every machine I've touched for a decade for me. On my old Dell convertible laptop, the wifi would only turn on every other time it woke up.

The machines waking up is a real problem. I have `HandleLidSwitch=ignore` in systemd's logind.conf[1]. I see there are other options though, which I might also try setting to ignore. I too sometimes have unexpected wakeups. I'd like to learn more about how to debug these. I've asked twice on IRC & gotten no reply. My backup plan has been to write a daemon to make the system go to sleep, and whenever it wakes up, put it back to sleep, unless I "disarm" the daemon. I'm in a fairly low-visibility environment now though- I feel like I should work the problem some, fix whatever is going wrong, rather than hack around, but I have not been successful at figuring out second steps in debugging systemd daemons, once `systemd status` & upping the logging level falls short.

I too have problems with some desktop things intercepting my power button, which again, I wish I had better visibility in to. I don't know other than trial & error to figure out who might be grabbing the input devices.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/logind.conf....
Very impressed by the proportion of people who primarily use daemon/emacsclient. (I don't, but I always sort of think I should)

Surprised, and if I'm honest a little distressed, to see about a third of respondents use vi keybindings.

Absolutely amazed that so many people report using org-mode daily. Either the whole survey is primarily a survey of org-mode users, rather than Emacs users in general, perhaps because of the HN posting (I get the impression HN loves org-mode) - or nobody else uses Emacs.

Even more amazed about the questions on "completion frameworks" and packages for error checking (what?) in both of which the winning answer is something I've never heard of. I shall have to see what they're all about.

Finally - oh blimey, everyone reads /r/emacs. Perhaps that explains it all.
Smoking is banned in most public spaces when the smoker is at risk of harming others via second hand smoke. The taxes on tobacco are also extremely high to restrict usage. There are bands on tobacco advertising. The government invests in anti smoking ads and cessation programs.

You really didn't think twice before hitting reply, did you?
I see what you did there. That's good.
To the best of my understanding, one of the main reason that MSRs have not gone to market is that the salts are so corrosive that containment over the long term is not currently possible. Note the questions about materials, alloys, and flow sensors in the video.

ORNL had fully functional reactors in the 60's, but those reactors were only safe to operate for a few years, and they were at lower temperatures than what we are targeting today. Liquid fluoride thorium salts at 700+ C will readily dissolve chromium, which makes working with stainless very difficult. Other common alloying agents are susceptible to radiation (Co & Ni transmute when irradiated) which further shortens the lifespan. There is also the issue of tritium, which can permeate stainless steels, cause embrittlement, and escape into the environment.

ORNL developed Hastelloy N to help address these issues, and there is an effort to certify other structural steels to for use in reactors (316H, 800H, inco 617). None of the studies that I have seen indicate that any of these metals will survive for more that 5 years or so.
Another interpretation is that the most vulnerable have already been culled, so now the virus has to work harder.
Seems a pity to throw out the various advantages of the high-level solution just because your regex engine doesn't support a scalable syntax.

Advanced regex systems such as the Ragel parser-generator support a composition-friendly syntax, [0] but the average regex system doesn't, and I guess there's no quick fix for that.

[0] http://thingsaaronmade.com/blog/a-simple-intro-to-writing-a-...
> where's the list of everyone who... got nothing?

It's not nearly as big as the list of people who are afraid to try.
Accelerate it!

Put a 5 year hiring freeze on any Facebook engineers that still work there after 2021.

If you're willing to sacrifice your ethics to work for a company that cheats and spies on folks, you can't be trusted with our company's product or culture.

It doesn't even have to be strict or real. You can say you waive it for candidates that publicly renounce Facebook's practices. You don't really need to check, just send a message that you don't tolerate Facebook's behavior.

Reverse Brian Armstrong.

edit: flagged? I think this is seriously worth discussing. We choose the world we build and live in.
Let's not fall into the "whataboutism". Only one "side" has the President of the United States and other key leaders actively advocating for violence.
> https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/pandemic-reveals...

It's interesting you quote the Irish Times, as Ireland is where I had my trouble.

> In Dublin availability was almost double what it was a year ago, with nearly 3,000 homes on the rental market on August 1st compared to fewer than 1,600 in August 2019,

It literally doubled the market, something much needed. And there's honestly probably still more where the owners didn't hop back into long-term rent. Hopefully it stays like this next year when I plan to go do a masters. And that the government works on fixing it.
The smallest organizational unit at which productivity can usefully be measured is an agile team of about 7 people. Below that size the effort of quantifying productivity exceeds any possible value of doing so, and incentivizes the wrong behaviors.

A good manager can get a reasonable subjective sense of individual productivity but won't be able to quantitatively measure it.
Chemical storage (as methane or whatever) would work fine and the operational side would be more or less carbon neutral. The cost is high compared to burning fossil fuels, but we could do it as a society (have an excess of solar to meet household winter electrical needs and synthesize methane in the summer to use as household heat fuel in the winter).

Just pulling numbers out of the darkness, the upfront cost here in a cold region would be ~¼ to ½ the cost of a house. High, but also clearly workable.
the most popular form of computer, a smartphone exists for that.
I guess my feeling was that an email-only provider would have better service than a web hosting provider where email is more of an afterthought. Also, while a shared host is comparable in price with fastmail or protonmail - if I went with tutanota or a similarly priced offering, it's about 1/3 the price (for 3 accounts).
Do you have a group for us to join?
It’s a good idea but the problem is the skill build-up. Mozilla development and HQ would have to be relocated to EU shores.
And it will definitely go away if we obsess over it without having any actual means to affect the outcome.
Finally, he says something I can agree with.

MBAs are for optimizing stable firms. They're walking death for startups, I personally have seen it happen.
What programming languages can you currently use this with?
'Torching the company' implies they're figuratively burning the place down, which seems like an exaggeration. A more appropriate fire idiom might be 'flaming the company', or you could say they're 'spitting fire.'
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Maybe enough of my friends have already left, but facebook has seemed like an empty husk for at least the last year, and the ratio of ads (which ublock origin doesn't seem to filter) to content seems higher there than any other website I frequent by at least a factor of 3 or 4. It's so unpleasant to read anything on there that I usually just check notifications and bail as quickly as possible. Also, the ads they show are terrible.

The last useful thing I can recall seeing was a day-after-thanksgiving virtual friends meetup invitation. Events are the only reason I haven't bailed completely, and it seems the reason that this feature remains sticky is that lots of people don't want to bother to maintain email address books anymore.
Well again as someone who talks to both extremes very often, they’re honestly not. They both just be left alone but have been led to believe by their media consumption that if they don’t do something the other side will, a kind of reverse prisoners dilemma.
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Yea, plus people completely forget the narrative anyway after 2 weeks. No one really has any attention span whatsoever.
gem of the additions is definitely COVID-19, the screen-saver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDxZXbO8mY
Whatever the stock configuration on their stock combo modem/router/AP device is. So, probably, yes, some kind of "enhanced" DNS. I know, I know, friends don't let friends use stock firmware or stock ISP gear. But when faced with the infinity of emergencies that has been 2020 when not having infinity time to work on things, low latency even during times of heavy throughput has pushed re-doing the network in this house way down the priority list.
One out of 1000 posts is hate? Gosh, I don't spend much time on Facebook, but I easily scroll through 500-1000 posts every few days. I haven't seen one I would truly call hate. Oh sure, there are a few friends who say nasty things about the politician they dislike, but it doesn't strike me has hate speech.

Now I'm not denying that they're out there. They must be. But 1/1000 seems like a pretty high estimate. There are sooo many pictures of cats and grandkids and that cake someone just made.
We’re going to be buying a house with my family, mother and her husband in 2021. What struck me as interesting is the responses of my friends to these plans; how much trouble this would cause me, that taking care of your parents is a huge effort, that they would never do this, etc.

I consider this attitude a good example of why things are the way they are. But I take pride in going against the norm here.
Do note this kind of wave of articles is recurrent, is not tied in general to COVID-19 (might be in the current situation, but I've seen it at least once or twice a year), and has been almost always false. "False" in the sense that no, learning COBOL is not such a great career choice to enter a life of wealth and untapped riches.
The most significant thing he said in this interview was probably on the regulatory burden that California businesses have to deal with. He compared regulatory creep to a frog boiling slowly in water. He also indicated his 2 companies Tesla and SpaceX are the last - automotive and aerospace companies in California, a state that was once a leader.
I'm curious if you have a multimonitor setup? The times I've dabbled with it I got neck/eye strain pretty quick from not only moving from left to right screens, but also just never being able to look straight ahead.
> wants to _feel_ like a luxury company. It's just a good bit of marketing.

This is fundamentally true of all luxury goods, so this distinction is not meaningful. Which is why it is commonly used as a marketing tool, you can create this distinction at any level you want, to make your customers feel exclusive.

Sure, apple plays at the lower-price-broader-market end of this than say, McClaren automotive, but it's the same game.
3K deaths per day in USA.
Political decision to save many lives. Wait three days and 10,000 more die.

Trump should have force vaccinated the military and federal employees starting last spring with Moderna vaccine.

Challenge trials should have been done.

Easy to see in hindsight.
Just don’t be like a recent organization’s job board that I had the misfortune of visiting:

To get to page 12, you have to:

Starting on page 1, you can see pages 1-5, so go to page 5. This will allow you to get to page 6. Go to page 6, where you can see pages 6-10, click page 10. Now you can click on page 11. Now you can see pages 11-15 and can finally get to page 12.
I have tried netconsole, but the kernel froze right after PM restored memory from swap.

IIRC it wasn't sending logs to my target machine at this boot stage, and I couldn't even get a flash of a kernel panic message to record it in slow motion on my phone. That's why I think only an USB debugger cable could help in this case.

And to be fair, I'm just guessing the modules weren't loading, after they got compiled in, everything worked like a charm. Didn't debug it further, as this happened in the beginning of the pandemic and finding an USB cable not shipping from China, with reasonable costs, was impossible.
Lol. I have the other side telling me that this all misunderstood and then they’ll point you to the AOCs, Sanders talking about “make lists, lock them up”. They’ll say one side is only talking, but look at Portland, Seattle, DC, etc. there was actual violence. Then the other side will point to Kenosha, which the Trump side will point to as well as proof for them. And they’ll tack on Portland.

The truth is very much in the middle.
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death, period.

You are trying to downplay COVID19 by comparing it with the leading cause of death among people, contemplate on this.
I don’t think so. If there are 5 billion pages on the internet, one could have a compressed 1KB-per-page index of the entire internet on a single consumer-grade computer in their bedroom in 2020. Size of the web should not be an issue, in my opinion :(
Senate overwhelmingly passes defense bill despite Trump veto threat
This is doubtlessly why Facebook likes to buy their potential competitors. Any particular social media platform might be a transient fad, but the company itself can remain relevant by buying all the new fads.
Ask HN: Which job sites are people using for remote jobs?
I’m looking at finding my next software engineering position. I’m based in U.K. but don’t want to be restricted to just U.K. companies so I’m looking for remote positions too. There seems to be a ton of job sites out there now, does any one have any recommendations for which ones are worth the time signing up for?
I wouldn't dream of using the provider's domain - but it's still a hassle to switch email providers (especially if you want your old mail ported over)
They shouldn't dogpile to downvote though! Instead, they should provide meaningful comments.
In a more morbid observation, the 2020 data in that chart ends on Nov 1, 2020.

I would be surprised if the 2020 line doesn't jump right back up again once the rest of November and post-Thanksgiving numbers are added in given that we're seeing large numbers of reported deaths again in recent weeks.
I know this is highly subjective but what is a "good personal reason" for having kids?
You realise that 9/11 deaths refers to Al Qaeda-caused deaths only. The all cause US death toll was also several thousand per day over the 2001 period, and may have exceeded the Al Qaeda-caused excess deaths on 9/11 in any case.
Small integers do get special treatment as the same values share the same object.
I'm very interested in that. I was using zig for a while, and I wish I could build my own (simple) memory allocators for certain things in Haskell like that. I have a project where I want to be able to directly control the memory layout of the data structures but since that's just a tiny part of the whole program I don't want to build the whole thing in zig or something like C, I prefer Haskell for this specific purpose (it's a stream processing application with a small [code-wise, the data set can be huge] in-memory tree database which I want to be able to do the memory object allocation for myself).
It's pointless to compare morbidity of local, acute and national, protracted events.
You can start :)
Another is that respiratory pandemics cause "waves" of mortality...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio...
The reaction of the markets to Airbnb's IPO is definitely an echo of the dotcom days.

The only question is, is Airbnb's IPO equivalent to Netscape (ie. near the beginning of the boom) or Pets.com (near the end). Only time will tell I suppose.
Thanks to another commenter I found https://github.com/evansm7/vftool/issues/2#issuecomment-7354... which is exactly what I needed for Ubuntu 20.04: the idea to use cloud images which bypasses the silly installer.