skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve learned there are two distinct groups of people who claim to be concerned about climate change. One group that sees it coming and sincerely wants to find viable solutions to the problem, and a much larger group who use it to fuel somewhat misanthropic psychological control issues. This second group spend most of their time thinking (and arguing!) about how other people are not riding bikes to work, not using reusable grocery bags, not buying electric vehicles, and voting in ways that they don’t like. They see Greta thunderberg as the solution to climate change, “if only we could shame enough people into riding their bike to work, we will save the planet,” they think. “If we just invest in solar” they say, never mentioning the tricky details like battery manufacture and placement, “we won’t solve the problem, because it’s too late for that, but it would be better.”

These people are not going to solve the problem of climate change. That’s not really what they are in it for. And so the much smaller first group of people, who aren’t focused on changing behaviors of other people (social control) are the only hope. They, the first group, are hampered at every turn by the second group. The second group indeed are the cause of “climate denialism.”

It’s good to learn to spot these people and simply not engage. When they make inane claims about nuclear being unsafe, just correct the record and move on.
Games were showing rather then telling long before half life. That was not something special. I don't know whether people here did not played games other then half life back then or half life is only thing they remember.

And the difference between full cit scene and what happened in half life was really really minor.
and for mri https://www.clovisopenmri.com/blog/512
1) We already have a ton of nuclear weapons laying around, without even getting the upside of lots of electricity. Stopping nuclear power to avoid nuclear proliferation has not worked.

2) The alternative for lots of the world is coal. Between letting the Germans have access to refined Uranium (not highly refined) and letting the Germans continue to burn coal, I’d take the former.

3) This argument falls apart once you realize how little we’ve invested in Thorium reactors, which don’t post a nuclear proliferation risk.

I think that the ugly reality is that fossil fuel companies have cynically co-opted legitimate fears about nuclear power (and there are legitimate concerns) in order to shut them down or push them off into “we can use them once <impossible condition> has been met” specifically because nuclear power is the only serious threat to their continued profits.
All good choices, but it's also worth noting that the structure of the author's DAG is strange. The way this is set up, you would have to change Python code to run (or rerun) this task for different days.

In canonical Airflow, the job would be one DAG, and each day would be a separate DAG run. Then you would backfill all the days that you would like the job to run. If there's some sort of max-concurrency requirement, that would be handled by setting the `max_active_runs` parameter or by using Airflow's pool concept.

If I had to venture a guess, the author is not an experienced Airflow user, and just wanted to give a new technology an honest try.
But it's clear and precise, which is the definition of good code to me, and good developer experience. Clear, consistent rules applied uniformly, everywhere. That's what I call good design. Bad developer experience is having to remember 17 levels of precedence, as in C++[1]. It leads to ridiculous things like (*foo).bar, which requires new syntax to make readable, and that's just one more thing to remember and teach. Do you know how much that confuses students new to C and C++?

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_preceden...

But if it's really so onerous to read, you can always put a more ambiguous version in the comments!
I hear you, it isn't great when people are apathetic to what happens in prod, especially when there are things that can be done.

That being said, here's another way to view it: of all of those deep seated fears you have, what do you know you can do to avoid certain issues and what can you actually not do?

Let's take the database for example. What's the deep seated fear here? Maybe:

> The disks crash, the data center bursts into flames and all the data is gone!

A solution to those is perform backups and get the backups off-prem. You have to explain the risk and justifications to the company as best as you can. Once you've done that, what is left?

Technically speaking, bugs in the backup script could exist, or maybe the backups get corrupted. Beyond that, there are the human ones. Maybe somebody else manages the script and breaks it, or maybe backups get unintentionally poisoned by malware getting into the backups. Or maybe even before that happens the company goes "eh, risk worth taking to save costs!" and you don't even get to implement the backups.

Here's the thing: these things are _not_ in your control at this point! They are out of your hands, and with humans like us who make mistakes like us. So problems are going to be expected, especially ones you don't realize right now. But they're not in your control! And yet, you did your part, and things will continue on.
I don’t think they did, either. Nevertheless, cars are a huge waste of ressources and energy and there is no realistic path to net zero in the next half century without a significant reduction in consumption. Electric cars or not.
The Van Gogh Museum showcases a rejected early masterpiece
> Doesn't matter, because the vast majority of players just tune out the story. As long as you let them skip past it, it's fine. There are a lot of people out there who have put hundreds of hours into World of Warcraft, myself included. If you quizzed us all on World of Warcraft lore, 99% of us would get an F-, guaranteed.

Doesnt compute. Not only the above particular tidbit about Wow is his own personal perception, but also the longer you game, the more you get bored of 'pew pew' and you want something that actually is memorable.
>Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not many people use them. It's not necessary – we aren't training for the Tour du France on the way to work.

A big factor here is that Copenhagen is quite flat. It's easy to pick a comfortable pace that stays below the "sweat threshold". If hills (even small ones) are involved, it can be impractical to move slowly enough to stay below that threshold.
The Airbnb service’s API is implemented over HTTPS. Falcon is built on top of Async. As its README says, “Each request is executed within a lightweight fiber and can block on up-stream requests without stalling the entire server process.” So whenever an API request comes into Airbnb’s service, Falcon creates a fiber to handle it in-process. If that fiber makes an API call to Genesys, control returns immediately to Falcon in the main fiber’s event loop to be able to handle more requests while the request fiber is awaiting Genesys’ response.

I don’t know the details of where this service sits in the service diagram. I think it may actually be something Genesys calls, and it in turn sometimes calls back to Genesys. No, the point of this service is not to get consistent latency on Genesys API calls.
yea that would be great to bounce ideas off each other and figure out new things... we could talk over discord.

I was thinking of manually filtering people and then having a point system. Also really hone on skills.. i.e. you can't be just a frontend developer, you have to be react expert, a sub-specialist. So you can select up to 3 stacks. i.e You are an expert in postgresql, bash scripting, aws RDS. Or Typescript and Reactjs, Or D3js and CSS.

Like any given developer would know many things, we want only the thing you're MOST expert in.

We could allow even smaller chunks of times for stuff like webpack, npm, composer, rack... errors.

There are two sides right, experts and users. I think it'd be best to target b2b companies. As they can only pay and will pay to attract true experts. Otherwise, why would I pay out of pocket until I'm really desperate. Companies would pay to keep productivity up.

I was thinking of targeting startups who don't have a budget to hire a top devs in many skills and their dev is wearing many hats. Usually they are struggling in space of Devops, DB admin, maze of AWS, or some weird library like mapping library that usual fullstack dev normally won't be good at.
Help me to understand your math then, because it doesn't track logically.

realRate = nominalRate - inflationRate

Raising nominal rates increases real rates due to higher nominal rate.

Raising nominal rates decreases inflation, also raising real rates. Decreases inflation by reducing availability of credit, thus reducing effective money supply/demand.

Please explain how the relationship works otherwise
> When you're programmer and you're 25 it is. Even with a family.

Just out of curiosity, which country are you originally from, and where have you moved to? Because I too live in a third world country, and it's not easy to do at all. The rich "West" has put huge barriers on immigration (which is their right and I respect that), and only the very best (or rich) can move there though education or work visas. The mediocre one among us (like me) have no chance at all.

I can always move to another poor shithole, of course… that's easy, but pointless.
> "Why not openly ask the users those questions and show them what information would be sent to the vendor?"

Why not pay money to people who spend time helping Wacom improve their products? Then lots of people would willingly help, fill in surveys, test configurations, write feedback, etc.
Almost 2 years in as a dev and how do I avoid this?
Obviously BioChar carbon increases the microbial community, but does it lead to increased yield ? Or, less incidence of plant pathogens such as root rots ? Unfortunately almost anything coming out of China these days needs to be replicated by "Western" researchers to determine results . . .
Great idea, so much time is spent reimplementing the wheel.

Some other options I've found in this space:
https://nextlessjs.com/

https://usegravity.app/

How does yours differ?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted; it's probably very true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_mammals_and_sonar

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/science/oceans-whales-noi...

> Some scientists say the noises from air guns, ship sonar and general tanker traffic can cause the gradual or even outright death of sea creatures, from the giants to the tiniest — whales, dolphins, fish, squid, octopuses and even plankton. Other effects include impairing animals’ hearing, brain hemorrhaging and the drowning out of communication sounds important for survival, experts say.

> A 2017 study, for example, found that a loud blast, softer than the sound of a seismic air gun, killed nearly two-thirds of the zooplankton in three-quarters of a mile on either side. Tiny organisms at the bottom of the food chain, zooplankton provide a food source for everything from great whales to shrimp. Krill, a tiny crustacean vital to whales and other animals, were especially hard hit, according to one study.
As I said: "At the least, the title should say it is a specific driver that has such problem."
I like that the main website looks like the OS itself!

https://toaruos.org/
Oil giants try distancing themselves from Exxon.
I think you want the opposite of a walled garden (app store). I think you want a completely open garden, such as we have with a typical Linux distro.

A walled garden just changes the entities which can control your devices. It doesn't fix the problem of agency, trust, choice and consent.

My tablets can't have spyware, because the drivers are stock open source. The folks making the hardware aren't in control of the driver software that runs the device. I can trust the community that any attempts to do this nonsense in an open source driver will make the news. The track record against spyware in the linux kernel is spotless.

This kind of nonsense is only a problem with closed source software.
I highly doubt that your way of thinking reflects in any way the definition of ethically.

Of course not everything is black and white, but its probably more ethical to not play something from a company with clear violations of ethical rules than not.

Of course using a product from a company implies supporting or not caring enough about it.

There is no need for you to play games from blizzard.

I personally bought and play Diablo 2 and not because i think its 'ethical' to do so but because i actually care less about the current blizzard controversy than i care about playing a game which has very strong childhood memories.

I'm fully aware that i'm doing what plenty of others are doing:

- Driving by car while we are aware of climate change
- sometimes keeping my PC running while not necessary
- Buying sweet and highly processed food
- Not using my money to help people to eat

And if we all would actually be more aware of this and agree altogether we could make the earth a much more awesome place. But thats not how it is.
> be cheaper than other reliable sources

I don't see this as a requirement. The cheaper options that provide the large base load needed are all fossil fuel based. They are "cheap", but only if you don't charge for the CO2 cost to the environment.

Ontario has a 60% base energy load provided by nuclear. Smog is rare, except when it blows up from the south. The CO2 production is very low.

> no waste that takes >100y to decay

The waste from alternatives are huge amounts of CO2, which is causing far more harm to the world than the small amount of nuclear waste that would be produced.

> don't disturb the neighbours

NIMBYism is not a valid argument.
The problem is that "100% renewable in 20 years" is practically impossible. It might be technically possible, but for various political reasons I think 20 years is far too optimistic. Even 50 years is. The only realistic option I see it nuclear power, although it's kind of too late for that really (should have done this 20 years ago).

> I have to trust that a handful of people in charge of that plant are exceptional at their job, otherwise we all have a really bad day, and there are no safeguards or precautions that any of us can put in place that will protect us from a meltdown.

It's not that bad; you can design systems with safeguards in place to prevent Chernobyl-like idiocy from happening, and modern reactors will just shutdown instead of meltdown on cooling problems. Also remember that both the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents actually had very low casualties and injuries, comparatively speaking.

Loss of control is always scary; that is why airplanes are more "scary" than cars, even though cars are far more dangerous. This is something education can help with. I appreciate it can feel scary but if it's not actually then, well... I don't think we can make such important decisions on the basis of feelings, even though I don't want to dismiss them.
There are many (maybe all) examples from nature in which resources will get consumed until they are gone. "Logic" has nothing to do with it. That doesn't mean we should hunt species to extinction, but its definitely a natural thing to do.
True, but my reasoning was that we cannot really "lose space" for 1000 years by Kessler syndrome alone. The lower orbits self-clean much faster than that.

And Kessler syndrome, even if fully developed, will likely not prevent you from flying to other celestial bodies. Compared to an orbit, you only spend a very short time in the region cluttered by debris when leaving the Earth entirely.
yea that makes sense. This way it'd be less stress for both sides. If I'm really good at CSS, I'd want to be hired for THAT. Not just as frontend dev and asked to debug some typescript error, sure I could do that in time, but not in an hour, unlikely. Too stressful. But If someone else was passionate about Typescript they could sign up as TS expert.
Under features, the first bullet point is "Dynamically linked userspace." Can someone say what this means? How is this different than a userspace made up of dynamically linked utilities and shell?
How to bring sex work out of the shadows
Two things that may seem a bit tangential at first but relate to how you're thinking about your life.

First, having "nothing to be proud of" is not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps you simply have high expectations for yourself. This is a good thing. You will always be striving to improve your craft and the things you create.

Second, not to sound harsh, but the stuff you did as a kid doesn't really matter to prospective employers beyond "he's pretty passionate about programming". In a few years, your college projects won't matter much either. This is just how it is.

Finally, you're only 25 and 1 year out of university. No one expects that you have accomplished anything! Combine this impression with your past projects to emphasize how you are willing and able to learn the practical aspects of software development on your own. That you are enjoy tackling new problems and exploring the unknown. And finally, that you not only toy around but actually deliver products too!
Where Is My Flying Car? J. Storrs Hall
Can we keep this kind of tone off HN please? Thank you.
"Volatile" renewables absolutely do help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As the renewables share of generation has been increasing, the CO2 intensity of electricity generation in Germany has dropped from 542gCO2/kWh in 2000 to 296gCO2/kWh in 2020[1].

Btw, your link brings me to a table on agricultural CO2 emissions?

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/development-o...
Just to give you some perspective, I'm 24, have been coding for 6 years, got my first real job recently and I don't have much to show for it except my current job. That's fine by me. If you can already make a living, sometimes the hard part is to sit back and relax, and enjoy life.

The only thing that I'm really proud of is a small Go application (90 lines of code) that automates some manual work for my mother. Almost anybody could have written it, it's not complex at all. I could have written it when I was 15, and certainly didn't need 5 years (that actually took 8) years of studying for this. But I did write it, and now she spends less time doing tedious manual work. It really makes me proud. Way more than getting a master's degree, way more than getting a job, way more than doing good at my job.
> Nuclear is obviously renewable and proven.

Nuclear is obviously not renewable; the fuel it consumes was created before the formation of the Earth, and there's a limited amount of it.

(And this shows that being renewable is not the most important factor if what you're worried about is global warming. Nuclear is not renewable, but other than the huge amount of concrete needed during the construction of a nuclear power plant, it emits a very low amount of global warming gases.)
The small “sugar pumpkins” are generally used for canning. I think those are harvested with much less waste.
> They are renewable and compostable —both things are often not possible to achieve in other activities.

I was thinking and wondering if all those 1000s of acres could be used to grow something else, which people could eat and not throw away. :)

But you make a great point. It is better that we carve pumpkins, which are compostable, than use some kind of non-compostable stuff.
Two-way cargo transport through vacuum has zero net energy cost, just like a counterweighted elevator on Earth, only more so -- no vacuum here. With reasonable intelligence and infrastructure we should approach that limit.

Design sketch from 1978, with numbers: https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/1976.skyhook/pap...
I have no idea if true but I've heard a heuristic is 1 subscriber equals $1/year.
I played WoW for almost a decade and the only story I remember with much clarity is that of Pamela.

Otherwise things happened quest objectives lit up and I think Arthas married Thrall or something.
You're not wrong, I just think that those who are going to explore this, but who don't already work around the limitations, are a small enough group that it's not going to be any big fundamental change. I'm personally looking forward to it, because I do that kind of thing, and right now have to use hacky solutions like using tons of midi buses and running one note per midi channel to get per note bend.

Don't get me wrong, an improvement on Midi is long (like decades long) overdue, and I'm looking forward to it. It's just not the sea change that the hyperbolic article was claiming, not even close.
Scary that anyone could think that nuclear is not an option for clean power generation.
Should COP26 be taken seriously or should there be a more intelligent option?
I am not sure how the works out either, but Donald Kessler's paper [1] on the subject might help. Kessler syndrome [2] is named after him. The exponent seems to be controlled by the number of objects launched per year, i.e. the rate.

----------------------------------------

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110515132446/http://webpages.c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Besides the specific Wacom related issue, I find this snippet fantastic:

>The first is a principled fuck you. I don’t care whether anything materially bad will or won’t happen as a consequence of Wacom taking this data from me. I simply resent the fact that they’re doing it.

I have rarely seen the concept expressed in such a clear, direct manner.
People buy a lot of stuff during Christmas, but they get used.

EDIT: I think so.
Sarcasm aside, no, it doesn't sound right.
You are right. I am planning to add PHP, similar to wasmer-php[0], but based on Service Worker.

[0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php
I don't see any valid reason for Wacom to look at what application people use. And in a proper operating system that information should not be easily available (not without the users' consent).
Any "scientist" who "reviles" styropyro is no more than a gatekeeping elitist with a chance of envy. He clearly knows what he's doing, stresses safety all the time, and makes great, informative, entertaining content. I've never seen him do anything dumb or unsafe.
Can we just execute the billionaires already? I'm fed up of our world being controlled by these parasitic abusers.
Can it? (Genuine question). I understand SELinux can block processes from opening network sockets for example, but aren't drivers modules loaded into the kernel and not their own process, so you'd have to block the kernel from doing things or not? Or can SELinux go more granular than that?
Oh, i didn't miss that part, i think you may have missed my assertion that Energy is crucial to flourish. One may see a society "Flourish" by innovating their way out of an unsustainable path.

Everything we consider advanced tech today is built on an economy made possible by vast, cheap and accessible energy sources such as the ones we're dissing.

I agree that we need to stop using energy sources in a way that threatens our existence. But i assert that there are massive benefits we have to be thankful for as well.
Right now I’m working with a jazz/improvisation teacher and he has me play through a piece once strictly as it’s written, once again strictly but singing the melody, and then the third time through with improvisation on the melody. Sheet music is thrown away as soon as possible. Of course jazz compositions are much shorter than classical pieces, but I do think the premise of getting it down strictly and slowly opening it up is a great way to practice.