skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I am currently optimistic about the future and think we’re on a good course WRT anthropogenic climate change and (peak) oil production, I do remember 15 years ago when I was worried.

The two big differences between what I wanted done and what actually happened are: (1) mandatory solar systems on all new buildings (unless there is a very good special exceptional circumstance), and (2) bike lanes automatically added to every city road whenever and wherever roadworks occur, and those made grade-separated when the existing roads are 3 or more car-widths in each direction.
That's actually been pushed down the road: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections...
They haven’t spent any where close to trillions on think tanks. People want cheap energy don’t need think tanks to keep demand for oil high.
It was inextricably linked with nuclear weapons; Greenpeace got their start protesting against atom bomb tests in the Pacific, and later against the dumping of radioactive waste in the sea.

The pollutants are uniquely permanent, and not enough effort was made to not just contaminate the world.

Perhaps the nuclear industry needs to examine why their marketing failed where the oil industry succeeded.
very impressive - will definitely try it out!
Apparently the author has never used a monochrome interface if they think gopher is “green” and Linux (which has nothing to do with hyperlinks either) is “white”
"Counterintuitively, the famously thirsty industry can even improve the local water supply due to a focus on reclamation and purification—Intel has funded 15 water restoration projects in the Grand Canyon State with a goal of restoring 937 million gallons per year, and it expects to reach net positive water use once the projects are completed."

Here's arstechnica's article regarding fab in AZ

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/why-do-chip-makers-k...
Biden is murdering US civilians now:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-expl...

Biden must resign!
I tried to do that and I puffed out of two places in my body at once and got a questioning look from my wife. My advice is don't try this at home.
For the record, there is an anthrax vaccine at least in the US, but it is reserved for service members and politicians due to the potential for side effects. I believe we have a stockpile of a few million shots in the event of an outbreak, but that stuff is guarded by national security confidentiality so there's no way to know how prepared we really are.
I agree that having a mix is good. Many times this occurs without intervention by having a mix of old and new (or renovated) buildings. An old city like Stockholm I imagine could have a large spectrum of buildings in various states of decay and thus prices. But on the other hand cities that are experiencing a rapid inflow of migration can quickly have their aged housing stock bought up and flipped. Many of these issues are exacerbated by restrictive planning and zoning regulations in city suburbs which prevent the higher density city life people desire to be replicated in new places.
I would love if links to the same domain would have another color, so that you know if e.g. a news site just links to own content or the source, without clicking all the links in the articel.
Yet this article was published in the middle of the covid crisis on of the hot topics.

I can't imagine the journal's reviewers being careless.
Ah the old “don’t hate the player hate the game” argument.

It’s quite possible to hate both. Yes we as a populous need to do our part too but the oil companies aren’t providing us with their services out of generosity. They’ve been actively campaigning against change. Which is literally what this submission is trying highlight.
Why would you? I don't like paywalls either - because subscribing to them would mean paying constantly for actually reading just a couple of really interesting articles a year. Nevertheless, when paywalled article makes it to the HN chances are it's worth some extra clicks to bypass the paywall.
Quick answer: "Because blue is neither red nor green".
Do you have sources for those claims? As computer scientist I’m certain you should understand the importance of reproducible data and analysis.
Their pricing for GCP is way off. If you were looking for an instance with 32 GiB of RAM, you do not have to buy one with 40 CPU. There are other options such as:

> n2-highmem-4 4 32GB $0.262028

Which turns out to be the cheapest price and that is not even preemptible which is $0.06356
They do invest in renewable energy, as it becomes the clear replacement for diesel and gasoline.

First you had the decarbonization of the electric grid, and of course that those companies de-carbonized first. Now that cars are getting de-carbonized, you see Shell, BP and others invest in green energy as well.

These are companies that respond to shareholders, not sure how they could "invest for the greater good" at a loss without betraying their investors. Only governments can invest at a loos, if the public opinion can stomach it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/03/29/shell...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-bets-future-on-green-energy-...
While I'm no expert in propaganda, Newsspeak was certainly a major topic in Orwell's 1984. The purpose of Newspeak was solely to build language to control how people think about certain topics [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Thought_control
Yet people usually mock Richard Stallman for insisting on proper terms being used as a condition for being interviewed…
Maybe. Apps wouldn't have to bundle their own versions of libraries if those libraries actually cared about backwards compatibility. Bundling is just an unfortunate workaround for libraries continually breaking their ABI.

Windows 10 can run virtually all apps compiled against Windows 2000 just fine, and those apps did not have to bundle their own graphical toolkits. Windows has gone through several new toolkits but they always preserve the old ones so that old programs continue to work.

By contrast GTK has regularly broken things between even minor version updates. Distributions also drop the old major versions of toolkits much more quickly. GTK3 was first released in 2011, but by 2018 most distributions no longer provided GTK2 pre-installed.

Is it any wonder that no one can ship and maintain a binary app that targets GTK without bundling it? Of course bundling sure looks like an attractive solution in this environment, but it's the environment that's the problem.
yeah I agree, it's a bit confusing. I meant "host in your cloud account" as opposed to "use a managed service". The vast majority of SaaS seems to be built cloud-first, it's quite easy to forget that other ways of hosting still exist.
I would say its two pronged. One is definitely helping the homeless but another has to be upholding law and order. Otherwise people like that guy the article mentions as minting 10k euros per squat is going continue whether he has a roof or not. Its a classic broken window syndrome. If a small crime is tolerated for any reason, it encourages bigger crimes or organized crime (like the stories about stores not calling cops in Cali due to lack of response).
This article isn't about "you" though. Its about the average joe who does. All the censorship and radicalism we're seeing in real life is because of these wierdos who do nothing but spend their entire existence commenting and accumulating internet reputation - then turning it around to silence any opinions that disagrees with them.
Or lootboxes, which guarantee you'll spend about $500 per unlock.
Probably, if you used words they know instead of acronyms they don't.

"Do you want the radio signal that allows clocks to sync to keep running? Here is a list of devices you might know and use that rely on them: ..."
This was my impression as well.

By coincidence, I recently stumbled upon this 'Discord for Business' support post from 2018 (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600302...) that generated almost 200 upvotes and 100 comments. I

The post starts as follows:

> My company is presently evaluating alternatives to Slack internally. Turns out, Discord is one of the most feature rich alternatives, with a relatively smooth UI and voice/video/screenshare capability. I couldn't even get half of about 10 people on the testing committee to try it.

> The reasons:

> -The logo in the tray is a video game controller

> -The home screen shows a listing of games

> -The chat bot addressed a female employee when she joined as "love"

> -Touchpoint emails aren't asking for feedback, they're talking about the journey for users to share gaming experiences

> Except the third one above, none of these are "bad" per se. And the product is really solid. There's a market there that could certainly use it as is, but perhaps an even bigger (and more lucrative one) that will be turned off to the current state. We're not moving forward with Discord because we don't feel it really has us as a high value audience. But some tweaks to modify the UI/UX to meet these differing needs based on license type may be worth exploring.
China has a lower CO2 per capita emissions than the US.

Of course, the environment doesn’t care about who has the most per capita emissions, just “cares” about the total emissions, but in terms of measuring efficiency of “how much CO2 needed to support the lifestyle of each person” it seems they currently have a better rate.
Like, if you replaced a random subset of China with the population of the US, with another copy of the US, the total emissions would [edit:on average] be increased.

Therefore, I think in order to get them to decrease their rate (which is important to do due to their large population/ their large total emissions), it may be useful to lower our own rate in order to have a convincing position.
Reminds me of the Negativland album "Free" which discusses the use of language and marketing.

Can't find my CD, but there are samples and one says: "The right words, said Stalin, are worth a thousand regimen"

EDIT: Found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAVvmpNYhM
My takeaway from this article is "Big Oil" should have invested their billions in research on renewables, batteries, etc, instead of lawyers and fighting change.

If you have a short-term-great, but long-term-dying business (which is all business), it's really hard to make the decision to invest in alternatives that - if successful - will invalidate your current business. You are basically investing against yourself. On the other hand if you don't do it, someone else will. This is the innovators dilemma.
Despite Challenges, 2021 Apt. Construction Tops 330k for 5th Consecutive Year
On the money.

I read Snow Crash about two years ago and the theme of virality increasing as dynamic systems get larger feels all too real right now.
FYI to the blog author, the image showing the machine CPU and RAM configuration incorrectly uses Azure's names for the Google Cloud VMs.
I think the challenging thing with this is that it's a niche market that is easily handled well enough by small local players if they want to, but I think it'd be a touch sales process to make it scale by aggregating fulfillment at scale and get people to think about this as something they want. From my perspective, in terms of the tech side it'd be "easy", and finding people to do the work shouldn't be that hard, but the sales process is something I'd be wildly uncomfortable with.

I suspect this is one of those things where you need a lot higher margin than you think to offset really high customer acquisition costs. You need to find people who believe they'll visit often, probably will visit less than they think, yet won't care too much about putting down 2k/year+ for the convenience, partly aspirationally.

A quick search shows storage units in Nice to stick with that, easily comes down to <8 euro month per cubic metre, btw., so it's certainly doable to make something like this into a relatively cheap subscription. The effort is in finding customers + signing up local partners to deliver.
So, is there somebody there who knows Marc Andreessen or Eric Bina and could aks one of them to confirm they choose blue because it looked good on white while red or green were obviously too much loaded ?

This looks simpler than listing a bunch of other UI, many non influential and none of them giving the answer.
I often do want to go back to XP, yes. My experience is approximately the inverse of yours. W10 is better for included drivers for sure. I've had to do many more registry and group policy changes on W10 than I ever needed in XP. Sometimes it feels like the GUI is lying to me about how the system can be configured. The most obvious example is that from the Windows Update GUI is appears updates can only be delayed temporarily, and must be completed before another temporary delay. This isn't the case; they've broken the connection between GUI and the settings, then lied about the existence of the setting. This isn't entirely new (95/98/XP had TweakUI), but it feels more deceptive or controlling now vs. just not exposing a feature. The cumulative updates are a huge improvement.
I'd agree if San Francisco was full, but it's possible to build up and increase density so people can live close to their jobs.

People per square mile:
San Francisco: 17,246.4
Brooklyn: 35,369.1
Manhattan: 69,467.5
Exactly. If consumers stopped driving, how much retail auto gasoline would big oil produce? If people stopped buying airline tickets, how many airline flights would fly?

I can’t buy Big Macs and then blame McDonalds for farming the cattle.
The ui bits atop qt, silica, is indeed closed. But you can develope for sfos without silica. I have a pure sdl app. Still, they are trying to find a way without going the data hog way. As they are doing license foo in automotive space, i'd guess it'll take time. But it is also the value in jolla. Excellent industrial design.
The incentives to use renewables are there... where the costs of fossil sources are high, and where the energy consuming process will be reliably profitable long enough to pay for all those renewable energy sources.

That last bit makes me doubt this would push renewables - who trusts that mining will remain profitable for years or even a decade? In other words, it may well incentivize energy sources with low down-payment costs.

Also: all those GPUs are expensive; is a miner really going to slow down mining significantly just because it's dark or no longer windy? Or will they prefer constant power, given the fact that GPU's will become obsolete much more quickly than the power source, and thus there's pressure to recoup that investment as quickly as possible, I'd guess... thus incentivizing baseload power, not unreliable but cheap power - conceivably, anyhow?
The problem is that it's not possible to unbundle the business acumen and the "profit above everything" mentality. Developers need the former, literally nobody needs the latter.
Interestingly, out in the more rural counties here (not Spain), we still have squatter problems.

I posit that there exists in the human population a percentage of people who will always try to get something for nothing, no matter how fair the prices might be. You might be able to lower some theft and squatting by policy, but that will not eliminate that rock-bottom percentage of people, and therefore you must construct policy as to how to deal with that group.
Yeah this has been my hope too. The fact that you can’t separate the two right now is holding the platform back. I also wish for a business grade frontend that can be sold as a digital office (we have been experimenting this week with using discord as such), but in lieu of that I think simply supporting multiple accounts in the client would go a really long way. The problem is avatars are account bound so you can’t separate your work persona from your social persona, which matters when your social persona enjoys nsfw hobbies or even simply when you want a punk avatar for one and a headshot for the other. IMO having separate personas is the only way to allow the platform to retain its good qualities while expanding into markets where the masses preside. If people have to use one identity for everything then that identity becomes sterile, and Discord’s biggest success is that it fosters private communities where you can shitpost and trash talk with your close friends while breaking some sweat in <game>.
I don't think Dang et al. use it except in cases where the person is being flagrantly abusive and unreasonable.
Oh, I see, I misunderstood. Thanks!
Communists gonna commune.
I'm not saying you should "trust" me, or anyone. Just consider the facts:

A)

- Apple have complete control over the hardware, the OS and all the most popular apps, including Photos and Mail.

- They also have complete control over iCloud, which is not encrypted

- They can and do scan your photos and emails so that they can classify photos, find possible appointments, emails etc, and now they even OCR your photos.

B)

- They are now building a very high profile, limited and locked in system that relies on hashes, external databases, a large number of matches, human review etc.

Do you really think they would use B if they, the FBI, the Chinese government or whoever, would want to spy on users? For all we know they are already spying, it would be completely trivial to do so. Clearly system B is a complete red herring when it comes to spying. They don't need it.
Before you start pumping out that kind of power I'd invest in a spectrum analyzer (which are surprisingly affordable today) to ensure that the signal that goes out is clean.

Those mini SDRs when used for transmission will output a ton of harmonics because they are almost by definition not going to have any filtering on their output because that would limit their usability. When used for reception that is not a problem, if you start using them for transmission it's a completely different matter.

Keep in mind that a power stage that responds well to a particular signal absent filtering is going to respond quite well to the main harmonics too!
> Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok.

Not ok:

https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2

> because they had an political incorrect opinion

After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum.

> specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to

Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communi...
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4096, here we come!
Okay, so if we're using energy consumption per unit 'utility' as a metric, how much energy should bitcoin consume to be in line with its utility?
Kick the can down the road. Climate, debt ceiling,....
I think it may be easier to build a "lava submarine" ...
> You don't get to tell your users how to use your project.

Sure I guess but "don't footgun yourself" is pretty different. But I guess some people just like using linux for the novelty of breaking shit and feeling smart about fixing it.
From what I understand, nuclear power was “inextricably linked with nuclear weapons” because it was designed to be that way. From what I hear, it can, and could, relatively easily be designed otherwise, but the powers that be wanted nuclear weapons at the time.
A lot of comments here seem to be focusing on the fact that individuals use oil products beyond what is necessary for basic life and in fact do have some personal responsibility. This seems to me to be missing the forest for the trees.

Sometimes society ends up in a situation where we need things that are not sustainable, like oil or coal. Producing those unsustainable products to meet the demands of society does not make the producers solely responsible for any side effects. What is immoral is trying to artificially delay the transition to more sustainable alternatives or to socialize the costs of doing business.

Oil companies have repeatedly run well funded PR campaigns with the explicit goal of discrediting arguments that more sustainable energy technology was necessary despite knowing them to be false. Similarly, they have lobbied hard to ensure that when the impacts of oil to the environment are larger than expected, society picks up the tab. This lets them be more reckless with our communal environmental resources.
What frameworks do you mean? I still use Classic Editor and things are working fine, I guess?
What do you use for maps, OsmAnd ?
The use case we had in mind initially was that teams often set up their production using Heroku db or RDS (naturally, because it's easy and reliable), and then when they need more environments they naturally do the same. But reliability often isn't that critical for dev environments. You lose your DB, so what? Just make a new one.

Then we realised that we could actually near production-grade reliability by doing backups, snapshots etc. So the choice is up to the user
> Region: US West – Los Angeles (US West in Azure, US West 2 in Google Cloud)

Also, while I'm not familiar with AWS or Azure's pricing, Google Cloud's us-west2 region is relatively expensive for a US region, with compute costing about 20% more than us-west1.
> Interactive states should always be styled in your stylesheets. Examples include: touch, visited, hover, active and focus.

Agree in general, but I wonder if a separate style for visited hyperlinks is still useful these days? Does anyone benefit by visited links being differentiated (by colour or another means) from unvisited ones?
No, what basic economics says it that a price ceiling causes a shortage of supply _if_ no other variables change. Which they do in general but especially in the housing market. That is the principle called "ceteris paribus".

And that is in addition to having the right supply curve in the first place. The potential shortage of supply created by a price ceiling may very well be irrelevant when supply decreases from other factors.
It is very depressing indeed. Has eBay or second hand given good results on this to anyone?

I guess we'll have to wait for https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/krakensdr but I can't imagine the price will be very light-hobby-adapted.
* Oil, at minimum, gets much more expensive, more quickly.
* Renewable energy develops more quickly because see the first bullet point
* Nuclear doesn't die
Thank you for sharing. These are good examples of Albert Borgmann's focal things and the device paradigm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_paradigm
There are UX quirks to solve for sure but those are entirely solvable. Discord does private audio chat really well.
Tortoise eating bird caught on camera by conservationist
> in the long-term he could have monetized that even better.

Could being the operative word. We're talking about "blow a million dollars on random shit every year until you die and still have multiple millions left over" amounts of money. Why would anyone who doesn't already have hundreds of millions of dollars opt for that? The whole point of this tangent in the discussion is that he probably realized his time in the spotlight was limited, so any plan that assumes longevity is statistically unlikely to come to fruition.
No it's really easy, I had Linux running on a 2006 model iMac and I am as far from a Linux expert as you can come.
According to Starman, yellow means go very fast:

https://youtu.be/g3WtvzmKCQQ

(Starman learns much like ML apparently.)
> However in order to legally use the tx-capabilities of an SDR you probably have to be a ham anyway.

You can transmit in the ISM bands without a license. There are still power restrictions which most SDRs won't exceed anyways.
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there's a special place in hell for people that remove the underline from hyperlinks