skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They feel all accomplished and that they did their part. But if that doesn't have any real impact on the problem, then we've done lots of work, used up people's goodwill, but not dented the problem.

Does the evidence support that people's goodwill get "used up"?

It seems as plausible a theory to me that, when people get involved and take direct action, it ends up driving them to take further actions. Being personally invested in the result may drive more action rather than using up the goodwill.

(To be clear, I agree that we should always encourage action with the highest impact, and if tree planting actually does nothing to help solve the problem, then we should direct people to other activities. I'm not really jumping in to defend tree-planting initiatives, but more to question the assumption that people have a fixed amount of effort that they're willing to put into a given problem)
I found similar outcomes. I just did some math and I am standing up nearly 14 hours per day. I eat all my meals standing up now too. The only time I sit down is when I am playing games, driving (rare these days), or getting ready to go to bed.

As mentioned by other comments in this thread, there are issues with standing completely still all day. I find myself shifting weight between my legs throughout the day, and finding occassional excuses to walk in circles or visit the whiteboard.

After a while you don't even process it as some sort of inconvenience. Sitting down actually drives me nuts now. It feels "wrong" for some reason. I have no trouble getting to sleep at night though.
A few other problems - 1) trees take a lot of water to grow, and 2) all the carbon they sequester can go right back into the atmosphere in a forest fire. Some very scrupulous carbon-offset companies (like YC co terraformation!) are careful to plant diverse, native species in a way that rebuilds habitat and fits local water supplies. But there are a huge number of irresponsible tree-planting orgs that plant monoculture trees in places they don’t belong. For instance, eucalyptus trees in California - an invasive species that sucks water out of the ground, then burns up like an oil rag
$4950 wow! I mean that’s crazy…
Such comments totally ignore the human element of warfare, totally agreed with you.
> When accounting and controlling are done setting up their cost centers, the most logical place from their view would be to fire all developers and double the sales team, as that's where the money is made.

That's great for long term shorts.
You teach them karate for self defense. The best defense is not being in a fight. As soon as a fight starts you’ve rolled the dice. No matter how good you are at karate or any martial art you can still get your ass kicked. That is the most useful thing karate teaches you. It’s a sport and a practice. Real life isn’t like the movies.
First off, China isn't a traditional communist country, so the idea of corporations is already kind of weird. 2ndly, China is already apart of the companies and run many aspects of the companies. Therefore, much like how companies in the US are effectively weapons used by the US government, so are the Chinese companies. Therefore it makes no sense to destroy your weapons. I actually don't think this works out very well for China. I think it ends very, very poorly. but time will tell.
Sir Francis Drake raid on the Spanish Armada in 1588 [1]

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, defeating the Confederate charge at Little Round Top in the battle of Gettysburg is arguably the key turning point of the US Civil War - the entire war and subsequent history could easily have turned out entirely differently without Chamberlain's successful order of the 'right wheel forward' maneuver bayonet attack when the 20th Maine was out of ammunition, which held a key ridge in a pivotal battle. [2]

Those are merely the first two that come to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Round_Top
You're sure it's not comments like these? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27826277

I thought it was funny to see similar sentiments back to back :)
Not an Android user, but I can speculate about reasons.

Most people don't install browsers. They barely know what a browser is. So they use the one pushed to them, or the one familiar with. In the case of Android, I believe Google Chrome is typically shipped as the default browser.

And as it works fine, there's no incentive to install anything else. I doubt young/new internet users would even know about Firefox.

If not set as default browser already, Google pushes it from widely popular services like Youtube.

Bottom line, Google can reach billions of people, Mozilla none.

Please remember this: people do NOT chose browsers, compare them, pick their favorite. They do none of these things. It's a collective illusion by us tech folks.
Does Sourcegraph support Scala, COBOL, RPG, PL/1?
Beyond the languages in the docs, how much work is required to use any of these languages? https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...
I dig this - his travel is powered by his work ethic. Love to see it.
So just because you know how to count the $ does not mean you know or are competent to decide how it is deployed or see the bigger picture.
if this is real, i doubt the intention is to get a bunch of publicity. really seemed more like venting
Farming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis [pdf]
Hmm.. That’s not true. There were birds then. And a lot of dinosaurs that look like birds. https://twitter.com/serpenillus/status/1226553777983016960?s...

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_birds
You learn to work around the lack of generics quite easily. Sometimes this means having to write the same code a few times. But if I look at our entire codebase you're looking at something that impacts less than 1%. I think for most projects the lack of generics is not a major issue.
Agreed. If these folks are assholes, I want to hear the truth.
WAIC Opens; Chinese NLP Model Tops SuperGLUE; ByteDance Wins Best Paper at ACL
well scaling a natural process will change the chemistry of the ocean. Since the ocean is such a huge component of our planetary system it would be foolish of us to approach it without monitoring and planning for the consequences of this scale of engineering.

i've found https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.energy... to be a pretty good overview.
I can afford not to care. Sure in situations resembling servility I might have to revert to a more polite manner of speaking, but I make great effort to avoid them as they are debasing.

A lot of the folks here on HN are responsible for the current reality of tech. A nice polite discussion is great but I want to express strong feelings and make people feel bad for their choices. And politely debating the merits of something does not do that.
I think it's becoming more common. I do the same with a Pixelbook as my main computer nowadays!
Yeah my main thing is I refuse to sweat indoors. I think maybe AC will become more of a requirement as wet bulb temps go up in the global south over time. When you say hotels are expensive, how expensive are we talking? I'm in my late 30s, I'm willing to pay for some comforts.

I don't mind 'common' bathrooms, but I despise public restrooms with stalls. I want a clean, lockable bathroom / shower.
You just compared it.
A chemist can usually make an educated guess on most of them based on similarity to other substances, but it's hard to be very accurate and there's still a lot of potential for surprises.
If the War on Terror serves as any example, those freedoms and rights lost, will never be returned.
Governance is the only thing that can. There are no technical measures that can prevent it.
> A multi-day race where riders can disregard stages will turn into a nightmarish competition of inhuman endurance.

i think the most famous example of this is the RAAM - the race across america (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_America): "In length the RAAM is comparable to the Tour de France, but the races differ to a great extent. The courses of both races have varied over the years. However, in the Race Across America, the direction has always been from the west coast to the east coast of the United States, approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km), making it a transcontinental event. More importantly, the race has no stages, i.e., it is in principle a nonstop event from start to finish, with the fastest competitors needing slightly over a week to complete the course."
Manage cash flow in a unpredictable ever changing environment for a month and come back and tell us what you think a finance dept does cause from the comment its quite clear you really dont know.
I had custom soles a long time of my life, which were super expensive and made it agonizingly difficult to buy matching shoes. A good physiotherapy treatment and a few simple stretching exercises that i do each evening have taken away all that along with fifteen years of knee and ankle plain.

Anecdote is not data but I'm 100% convinced that the soles made it worse for me, apart from the >10k spent on soles and shoes. I can go running again without pain!
It's heartburn city whenever I have alcohol. I can have a bit, but ... anything to the point where I can actually feel effects from it is guaranteed to give me bad heartburn all night. That and the price tag are enough to keep me away from regularly consuming alcohol.
> In principle, in such cases they could expend effort to find similar (possibly simpler) optimizations that do not change the existing behavior of the code.

This wouldn't just be expending effort. It would be making all code GCC/Clang ever compiled be slower.

> Alternatively, they could disable the relevant optimizations at -O2 (and maybe -O3) level.

Ditto.
> * Things like fzf have bash completion accompanying files. I have not figured out where these reside using nix.

In general, ~/.nix-profile/share/bash-completion/completions/, although fzf in particular seems to have its in ~/.nix-profile/share/fzf/completion.bash. To be honest, I'm not really sure about why.

In general, ~/.nix-profile is more or less the Nix equivalent to /usr.

> * Things like mysql make heave use of directories such as /usr/local/var/mysql or similar. I was unsuccessful in surpassing permission problems with these.

If you're not running the services as system-level services, override their state directories. In the case of MariaDB that'd mean something like `mysqld --datadir=~/var/mysql`.
Hardware-wise the Yamaha Reface CS is a very stripped down beginner friendly but versatile instrument with which to understand subtractive analog synthesis better.
The general issue one runs into on Windows where you, say, install a bunch of dev tools and then, at some point, your registry gets corrupted and you find yourself needing to reinstall everything.

If you run your tools, and do your testing, inside of VMs, you can quickly "restart" from a known good state.

The Windows Registry is a lot like /etc in Unix-like environments. In either case, all that configuration can get co-mingled and corrupted and you have to start over.

VMs are a great way to solve that problem for developers.
A screenshot can explain the product and how it works at a glance. One screenshot is worth 1,000 white papers. ;)

For example, Userify (https://userify.com, cross-cloud ssh key management for teams, with a nifty color-coded dashboard so you can actually see who has what access) doesn't seem to have any screenshots anywhere.

Your question about whether I am the target market is an interesting point, but how does a screenshot (or lack) help in resolving that, and how does someone know if the target demo wants to see a screenshot?
Yes, everyone here seems to think CO2 is the most important thing to reduce, but we're not suffering from CO2 (2*C never hurt anybody), we're suffering from increased weather volatility as the homeostatic influence of the biosphere has been destroyed, slash and burned for cow pasture, drained for corn and soy farms, overfished and trawled until nothing is left.

But since CO2 is easier to measure than biomass and ecosystem complexity, everyone is focused on sucking carbon out of the air when we need to be restoring grasslands, forests, and coral reefs.

Source: Charles Eisenstein's "Climate: A New Story"
Redis too have an append only log at-least for backup and persistence. What’s the difference with rabbitmq?
This article is a bit sensationalist, but they claim to have gotten mid-60s efficiency [1]. I think I misread them initially when they said "47% more power" - I took that to mean 47% efficiency, but on re-reading it's closer to 66%. My bad!

[1] https://debugger.medium.com/wireless-charging-is-a-disaster-...
"Fired" aka she said I'm resigning unless you meet my list of demands, and they accepted her resignation.
Love it!

Quick way to get the Japanese food downed: click on the miso soup in the bowl and just hit W. Instant munches everything. Even eats the bowl!!
Do you have a link to a page with VPS sizes/prices? I’m only seeing marketing stuff with no real numbers. I’m on mobile, might have something to do with it.
Not automatic, but as a replacement for nix-env and nix-shell, it's great. When I need an x86_64 package, I find `nix shell nixpkgs#legacyPackages.x86_64-darwin.neovim` easier to recall and reason about.

(Or `nix profile install nixpkgs#...` for a persistent version of the same)
This is really interesting for small scale projects.

If you are a solo Dev and really want/ need data streams than you can only chose between Kafka and Redis Streams at the moment. While there are a lot of client libraries for Kafka for nearly every programming language, you really don't wanna manage your own Kafka instance and, to be fair, it really feels like overkill.

So RabbitMQ seems to fit into the same spot as the Redis Streams do:
Easy manageable and usable streams, even for smaller projects. Really hope that this will be usable in many different client libraries soon.
The trick is in handling the failures which will be high. So it's a question of whether the application/customer would tolerate something significantly less than 100% (and presumably fix it themselves) and/or your solution would include the manual mop up for when the automation fails. (i.e. there need to be business processes to fill in the gaps since it can't be completely automated end-to-end)

Also, if you have a specific industry/application to target you should be able to achieve better results than these services at a lower operational cost. This is a very common business need with solutions dating back to the early PC days and it doesn't look like they've come up with some unique solution. They've just bundled some rather tedious to develop functionality into convenient frameworks and services and marked it up for their trouble... but there's still quite a bit of assembly required.
About to take 4 weeks next Monday…
I feel like so many articles today are written like they are presenting a new idea, even when referring to 'old practices'.

I remember being taught that this is a common practice in use because of the benefits to nature...I definitely know this was 20+ years ago that I had that presentation.

I guess this is the downside of people no longer having books in their house, we now need to republish old information every few months to get the clicks and ad revenue...soon we will be discovering that water and soap actually cleans things more than just just gasps water.
The first implementation of generics is planned for Go 1.18, so no need for a Go 2.0.
This comment makes me think you may reading me differently than I intend, though I'm not sure which bit you're responding to. Perhaps my use of the word "operators"?

In any case, I do not intend to suggest any subsidy to fossil fuel producers, here. When I say operators, I mean the operators of capture operations. The only context in which I intentionally point to producers is around the possibility that they might also become capture operators if it was profitable.
You seriously going to gloss over the fact that Aimee Challenor is transgender? Like that has no relevance to their "questionable conduct"? Is this just the massive chilling effect of cancel culture?
> The CFAA covers use of a computer that extends beyond the authorized use.

Right. I have valid credentials for a system which grant me read access to a bunch of binaries. Are you saying that I need explicit authorisation to copy those?

> 2. I did not need to copy your comment to read it.

Agreed! I'm not going to be able to cause you to implicitly accept a EULA by doing something you already have permission to do, just as Microsoft wouldn't be able to cause me to implicitly accept a EULA by copying a binary that isn't subject to copyright law.

> But if they sue you, then obviously, they think there is something protecting their code, whether EULA or copyright.

You seem to be conflating two different situations. At present, since Windows is considered to be under copyright, Microsoft are in a position to enforce a EULA that would forbid me from doing that, even if the model I generated would produce output that wasn't considered to be a derivative work of Windows. If software couldn't be copyrighted at all then their ability to enforce that would be significantly weakened.
Yeah looking into the alternatives it doesn't seem like there's anything significantly cheaper (maybe I missed it).
Use the database directly? I hope you're not suggesting sharing a database between services...
Had it improved? We tried to ship a fairly large product on Flink a couple years ago and it was a nightmare. It’s threading model was guaranteed to blow up in your face and running it reliably on a noisy network was near
impossible.
> The protocol presents a leader-less solution, where any node can become an opportunistic coordinator for an operation.

Does leader = master here? My first reaction is that this is a multi-master system but I can't quite unpack "opportunistic coordinator".
No U.S. alternative.
Have you done the math on that? It seems like it would take an awful lot of poop to counteract a coal fired power plant.
Annoyingly TI-30X Pro is Europe only (also costs more, but looks better quality and design)... but you are right, it looks pretty good, as does the US-available TI-36X Pro. I will give one a try. My main gripe with TI is the school requirement for the TI-84 series.
> "Of course, the issue with this approach is most webhook providers... don't do that "

Embedded systems don't do that for webhooks because they can't (very little RAM or non-volatile storage) but customers clamor for webhooks anyway because it's what their web developers know how to use. So inevitably they're going to lose data but they're only getting what they asked for.
Honestly I don't know how you are using mail but I feel it's the best way of asynchronous communication. You have so many options and tools, I don't know how one could possibly use it the completely wrong way...
Tangent:

>That's part of the reason debate over seat belt laws is often misguided under the guise of being only about self inflicted harm. It's also to protect you from others becoming a meat torpedo.

Additionally, if the driver is belted in they are likely to have a higher chance of maintaining or regaining control of their vehicle if they aren't tossed around inside, allowing them the chance of preventing further harm to others due to a completely out of control vehicle.

Which is why there's still debate about motorcycle helmet laws. A motorcycle helmet basically only protects the person wearing it.
Calcium carbonate is a better fit - see Gates’s experiments. Likely to still be disastrous, but better than sulfur dioxide
The Gemini protocol is intended to exclude features that could be used for tracking. It has no cookies, user-agent, referer, etc and the protocol is not extensible enough that such features could be easily added.

Also, frankly, the spartan design of native Gemini pages (very limited formatting, no scripts or even inline images!) means that the circle of nerds who use Gemini will almost certainly remain too small to catch the eye of ad-tech. It's hostile to commerce in a way I find kind of delightful.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
>you're making space for eugenics.

With an ability to reach that long, you should be a boxer or basketball player.

Everything in this life is a compromise, a finding of balance between trade offs. I'm not about to support mandating that teenagers get a novel medical treatment. There are risks. You can cite whatever studies you want telling me it's safe, it does not matter. We are still finding new side effects of these vaccines. The trend has not plateaued, or dropped off, which implies that there may be more to be discovered in the future.

There are countless ways we can reduce the death, suffering, and pain in this world, but we must balance them against the ideals we have of personal freedom, responsibility, and trust. You would save more lives making breathalyzer lockouts mandatory in all new cars, or outlawing consumption of alcohol in restaurants and bars. You would save more lives by outlawing cigarettes nationwide. You would save more lives by outlawing backyard swimming pools. But these are not battles against your perceived political enemies on the internet, so you say nothing. You wait until some crazy anti-science (probably right-wing) nutjob posts in a covid thread that maybe we're moving a bit too fast on things, and you leap to accusations of cleaning the gene pool.
> Reason she didn't want to change it? So they didn't have to explain why expenses changed so much quarter-to-quarter during the next board meeting.

Seems like a win-win. Now she knows the reality of the enterprise and is okay with the expenses but she feels that investors would be bothered by it, so better not change anything in order to avoid having to answer their questions
Not, computer science, but Laurent Bossavit's "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering" covers exactly that: folklore that has mutated into fact. 10x programmers, the cost of change curve and more. Terrific read.

https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
Oh!! Thank you!!
If you want to drive up the price of oil for everyone, then instead of buying some oil and putting it into storage, you can just tax it, gaining revenue (that can be used for subsidizing renewables) instead of spending money to buy oil.

The problem is that driving up the price of oil for everyone significantly (so much that there would be a meaningful reduction in usage, not just a slight decrease) is politically unacceptable. Looking at historical gas crises, even literally doubling the price of gas probably would not cause sufficient reduction in driving; but a government intentionally doubling the price of gas to reduce driving would not get popular support, it get voted out for daring to impose such punitive measures.
Does not work on macOS 11.4 / Safari 14.1.1. Click Run Game and nothing happens, even after enabling WebGL 2.0. Suggest listing system requirements.
Asymptomatic is not pre-symptomatic.
I'm curious what job you're describing where this is the case. It seems like one where extensive long term planning is common, and adaptability is not required.

Everyone at my company who is good at their job would have their absence felt over the course of six months. For different positions, it would be different amounts of time, but I can't think of a single role from entry level to executive where someone could be so thoroughly good at their job that the company could ride along fine in their absence.
You are right that these are very comparable. A few years ago I was very experienced in both as I created Lightbus (lightbus.org).

From what I can still recall, AMQP (RabbitMQ) looked great to me until Redis Streams came along. RabbitMQ always seemed more heavyweight in various ways, whereas Redis Streams was very easy to pickup and get going with.

Redis Streams isn’t simple, but I always found RabbitMQ to be more complex and to have more gotchas.