skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the 2014 paper by Friedlingstein et al "Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets" [1] helpful in framing the situation in terms of a cumulative emissions budget.

In terms of feasibility for potential solutions, there are different facets: is it supported by scientific evidence? is it feasible from an engineering perspective? then the trickier one: is it feasible politically (at a national level or internationally)? if not currently politically feasible, what is a pathway for the solution to become politically feasible in future? I'm not well read enough to suggest a good book that digs into this.

An anecdote:

in last month's economist/yougov poll of 1500 US adult citizens who respond to lengthy surveys [2], people were asked "How important are the following issues to you?" -- there's data for 14 issues, ranging from "health care" to "foreign policy", including "climate change & the environment". If issues are ranked by the percentage of respondents who say the issue is "very important", "climate change and the environment" is ranked 12th out of 14, with 44% of respondents saying it is very important -- placing ahead of abortion (43%) and trailing immigration (46%). The three issues deemed "very important" by the most respondents were healthcare (68%), jobs and the economy (67%) and national security (62%).

When people are asked to rank what their single most important issue is out of the 14 considered, climate change & the environment ranks 3rd (12%) behind jobs & the economy (17%) and healthcare (16%).

It'd be much more feasible for politicians to do something about climate change if there was broad, bipartisan public support for prioritising solutions ahead of other competing priorities, but at the moment that doesn't seem to be the case, at least in the US.

[1] arbitrary pdf link https://www.lakeheadu.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/53/outl...

[2] Refer to data summarised in 112 and 113 of https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/vtm70v61hq/econToplines.pdf
The developer market may be hot, but I'm also seeing that they - and I - are getting more picky, especially at my current salary (which isn't high for modern standards, I think?).

I'd like a new job doing full-stack development with some Go involved, but there's very few jobs like that, or their requirements are well beyond my abilities (despite 10+ years of experience in half a dozen languages across half a dozen domains).

I have a comfortable job at the moment; it's nothing exciting, but I earn well enough and I get to work from home (and the company says they'll keep this up, at most they'll go back to two days a week at the office, but they're thinking of moving to a more comfortable / fancy co-working space instead of dedicated office space). This means I get to be picky, and I don't need to accept lowball offers (below what I earn).

I rejected an offer two years ago that was 25% above what I earn now; it was going back into consultancy and I wasn't convinced I actually had the skillsets they needed for what they were offering, their tech interview was a take-home assignment and at most an hour of reviewing it. I didn't feel like I had earned it. While I haven't had an offer like that since, it did set me a benchmark. Unfortunately, nobody's made me an offer like that since.
Is light pollution a problem? [video]
Learning not to need or want what you don’t need is liberating.
I do, but there are shows and movies unavailable in my region.
Your stories got me inspired, so I downloaded the FreeBSD 8.0 image, released 2009, and fired it up in a VM with 256MB memory. I then created a 2TB dynamically-allocated disk in the VM and used it to create a single-vdev pool.

ZFS does complain that the minimum recommended memory is 512MB and that I can expect unstable behavior. However basic file I/O seems to work, I copied some multi-GB files around and such without issues.

So seems the bare minimum was lower than I recalled, at least on a plain system.

A proper test would include heavily fragmenting the pool, and preferably with more vdevs. But it's something.
This is very circular. You prefer companies to the state, because we can chose which companies we deal with and companies can’t use violence. But it’s the state that says companies can’t use violence.
I think before you can understand binary operators, you’ll need to understand binary itself and how to convert it to and from decimal. This crash course computer science video may help: https://youtu.be/1GSjbWt0c9M

In fact the whole course might be useful!
It is real, the country has been covid free since late 2020. How can you under report virus being covid free? The title is very misleading. It is not China locks down, it is a few cities will have affected communities locked down. Mostly massive testing, contract tracing and then resume to normal once cases are back to normal. My parents are in affect areas, people are less worries about the cases due the minor effect on new variant.
Indeed. Some developers just choose not to provide easy installation methods. This doesn't change the issue: a bad UX for me. It doesn't matter who is to blame.
We'll need to improve our collation and storage of the sum of human knowledge.

Today if you took the scrapable internet + wikipedia + all academic journals, you still probably lack enough detail and method to reproduce techniques in manufacturing, mining, tooling, medicine, and so on.

If the hypothesis is that humans will survive so long as we are off-planet, then the humans leaving the planet need to be able to do everything fully disconnected from the home world to really survive if something happens to the populace on the home world.
I like it a lot. Two things: it'd be great to be able to sort by comments / points, and you have a broken link - click about and then about again (suggest this link should actually change to "home" when you're on the about page).
In my experience, building into a "red ocean" of 200 competitors, the MVP concept is still valid, but the goalposts have shifted.

Whereas before the advice might have been "just build a tiny solution to the problem you're solving, and see what people think", these days folks don't take you seriously without SaaS-like features around it, like inviting their team to the tool, auth, etc
SEO will respond by creating 100% robot-operated communities that upvote their blogs, essentially shifting the burden onto Reddit/HN/Twitter staff, which will surely fall just like Google's did.

It looks so obvious to me yet the article doesn't even mention the word "bot" as a factor in modern Internet. To solve such a hard problem one has to try a lot harder than this.
As a techno-optimist myself, I understand where the doomerism is coming from. Civilization-ending wars and disasters are still very much in the cards today, and collectively human behavior shows at best a fluctuating will to live. So far we have detected no hint of alien activity out among the stars, or found any of the remnants we would expect a galaxy-spanning civilization to leave behind in our own neighborhood - leading us ever closer to the conclusion that long-lived interstellar civilizations are either unattainable or that we're the first intelligent life form to arise within billions of light years. So far we don't seem to show any large scale willingness to spread out to other worlds or to even consider the developments necessary for a sustainable long term future. Expected advances have not materialized, especially in medicine and physics. We're hostile to ideas like radical life extension, improving overall quality of life globally, getting rid of systemic injustices and suffering, using technology and foresight to dig ourselves out of environmental disasters.

Finally, instead of steadily gaining public support for science and technology, we seem to have left even more people behind whom we may not be getting back for generations, if ever. It is fully possible that humanity may split into several completely incompatible factions, and that may be the optimistic perspective! The growing fissures dividing us are very visible even on a technology-centered medium like HN.

Outliers notwithstanding, as a civilization the last two decades feel like we have given up on radical improvements. However, I believe outliers could still fulfill some of the promises of optimistic futurism, even though it may take longer and we may not get to a high enough level in time to master the challenges ahead. It's still worth trying, and it's still worth building momentum towards a better public acceptance.
They're literally legally required to do that by EU sanctions, and Eich has been clear that they comply with the law, but no more.

A lot of other search engines could also be doing only that, but are not communicating the scope and whether they're doing more than what they're compelled to. The chief concern is with search companies editorializing out of their own volition.
> that wont persist for ever.

Being good tech staff is a hard skill. This idea that there will ever be enough just because the demand is high (and therefore there are many people getting schooling) is not healthy. Even when there are a lot of tech workers, there will be sourcing trouble. Instead of not finding anyone at all, companies will find very poor tech folks. In a very real sense this is already a problem today.
> that is pure Russian propaganda

Looking at comment history, so is most of what the account posts.
The top of the range QNAP rackmount models have ZFS natively.
As long as the API provider specified what a “success” response looks like, the fault goes to the API consumer.

I also find it crazy that anyone would consider failing open for a payment API like this, at least not without a lot of forethought and oversight. Failing open can make sense in some cases but even for a company heavily focused on growth…it seems like a horrible idea.
I agree that 'unlimited leave' is incompatible with at-will employment.

However, this presupposes that most (all) employment is at-will, which obviously isn't true, especially globally.
For large organisations the amount of entries in the dropdown is probably very large. To fill the dropdown would then require significant work on the server, and to build up and show the dropdown would require significant work on the client.

Edit, of course a proper solution would be well-thought out and would not crash, but that solution would also not be using a single dropdown to show all possible values because that is not usable when it is more than 20 entries.
Starting a sub thread for underpaid developers. How do you feel reading about this "white hot market" on a regular basis while not experiencing it?

Be it because of geography, not having the right experience, or working on techs that don't pay well.
Or successors.
Jesus. It is easy to dismiss religion as pre-scientific superstition or opiate for the people, but hear me out for a second.

I find that Jesus gets two things fundamentally right:

- humanity's brokenness
- the moral values that underpin human flourishing

It may seem counterintuitive, but recognizing humanity's brokenness as a whole and on an individual level is actually necessary to have hope. You can't fix a problem you don't see. Seeing the problem is not enough, though. You also need to avail yourself of a solution. Jesus is that solution. He has transformed the lives of people, but it is a deeply personal experience that you have to choose for yourself (if you want it).

I think humanity needs religion (without a religious worldview your cognitive framework is incomplete), and i think Christianity is the most rational, most plausibly effective, and most likely to be true religion we have.

Having said that, i'm not here to argue, though there are myriads of arguments to be had. This is just an invitation in response to a question.

To anyone reading this who has been burnt by Christians who may feel the need to vent their frustration: I am sorry for your negative experiences. There is no perfect system in this world. Even among so called humanitarian aid workers there are rapists who go to foreign lands and leave struggling females pregnant and alone. Yet we all recognize the tremendous good done by charities despite the despicable evil. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Thanks for saying it:-)
Hyperbolica released. A game in hyperbolic projection
> I'm sorry but you can't tell me you weren't aware of wars in Afganistan or Chechnya?

I am. See my "untangle" response in this thread.
because toy apps that use dropdowns like the OP mentioned will do a "SELECT * FROM security_groups" at the backend (requiring RAM for the whole thing to format the response) and then send it down to the frontend which will then spend eternities formatting the list in the DOM as a complete UL/LI of objects that will blow up the front end.
I really like the IPFS solution to this. Basically a torrent where each chunk is addressable, so you get deduplication on each mirror even across unrelated file hierarchies.
Ok but does any of that work in practice? Can I write a random distro ISO to an SD card and expect it to work on any RISC-V board that has the same pointer size? Cause that’s how it works in PC land thanks to ACPI tables.

I just checked the Ubuntu RISC-V download page and it has 2 different ISOs for 2 boards from the same vendor! And apparently those are the only 2 boards with ISOs available 0_o
Falling when it gets granted is good, as long as it goes back up before it vests, which is at least a year away. The history of share prices is that something good happens at least once a year.
It has only been a couple of weeks yet. We will see how much will be left of Mariupol and other surrounded cities.
The optimum efficiency comes from discarding our meat bodies and uploading ourselves into highly efficient software simulations. At the Landauer limit, the amount of computation is proportional to the total energy; it shouldn't particularly matter how quickly that energy is burned, what the "simulation speed" is in real time.

Maybe the optimal future of humanity is a simulation powered by the radiation of a supernova, simulating 10^100 years in 1 hour. Who knows?

(Top advantage: you wouldn't have to worry about hostile ETI's, since your entire civilization's light cone fits in one light-hour. For all practical purposes, your society's causally disconnected from the universe, as if it had hidden itself inside a black hole).
Keep in mind that it is very likely that your new employer is treating their own employees the same way.
My apologies you're correct. I made an error.
Also lots of smaller black holes as well…

At the very end we may use proton decay to power virtual world running on computers composed of folded spacetime. Subjective time within the simulation can continue no matter how slow the computation looks from the outside.
the wiki is a visual representation. The representation is 0s and 1s.

The use case for bitwise operations is to control the value of 1 bit.

Consider if you have a 0000 1000 value. It's mapped to hardware output so the 4th LED is on. Now you want to turn the 5th on, and the 4th off. You would use a left shift so the output becomes 0001 0000.

That's all there is to it. Bitwise operators operate on bits, not bytes. Because computers operate on bytes, and you can't address a bit - you have to modify bytes to accomplish your goal.
A cousin of mine actually rented a flat at 13 Hercules, Lambeth, about 20 years. They were doing some home decoration, pulled back some ancient layers of wallpaper and found a layer with huge, hand-drawn Blake-like artwork in one patch. At the time they didn’t know the Blake had lived there, and although I have no idea what happened to the walls since then, they didn’t disturb or paint over the art. Who knows, might still be there, waiting to be discovered! The very unimpressive building is still standing and is a short walk from the London Eye.
Is it simple for everyone else? When I was looking into going north from South America to Panama a few years ago, it seemed like there wasn't even any sort of regular ferry service, and if you wanted to move a vehicle you had to attempt to negotiate with cargo shipping companies.

Perhaps things have changed :)
I have bought memberships and superchats just fine through Vanced. YouTube has many different revenue streams.
> At my current job (Series E+ fintech) 3 of my team of 4 are quitting over an 8% pay rise being too low.

With RPI at 7%, this is actually fairly understandable, it's essentially no raise in real terms.
Show HN: Out-of-the-box graph database solution in the cloud
Any insights into why companies are allowing people to walk? I've been at both ends of the carnage which can occur when a senior member exits, replacing the knowledge that went with them can sometimes take years (and in some cases it never happens). Training replacements is expensive and has a measurable impact on a team's output.

Why is offering even a small raise so unpalatable?
> Leading to developers still being one of the best paid resources inside organisations with almost limitless tolerance for their non-conformity

> tolerance for their non-conformity

> non-conformity

It's an occupational hazard: hiring-mangers really do put their jobs on the line when they decide to start employing ASD folk.

And I salute them! (seriously)

But I think the spreadsheets show it's more than worthwhile: when utilized appropriately ASD people can be absolutely massive force-multipliers for a software project. The question is: will the stuffy east-coast elite be able to withstand the blood-pressure spike of learning that their most profitable employees come to the office to work while wearing what's known colloquially as a "kigurumi" instead of a suit-and-tie?

-----

(in case you're wondering, I own dozens - and I make it a sticking point whenever Amazon recruiters call me the three times a week like they do...).
The Russians are murdering, kidnapping, looting and raping. The destroyed multiple cities. They deliberately target hospitals. They deliberately target refugees and journalists. Terror is their way.

The claims they are trying to minimize damage are misguided.
OSINT + unless the Ukrainians are dressing up as Russian conscripts raiding supermarkets for food, some things are by their nature apparent.
I don't think that's fair. The Russians could have wrecked central Kyiv by now but clearly have been ordered not to, it's largely untouched. Of course there are good reasons for that, the Kyiv skyline is an iconic part of the shared Ukrainian and Russian cultural landscape. Images of it ruined by Russian bombardment would be impossible to square with Russia's propaganda position.

On the other hand, clearly any such 'minimize damage' directive is not protecting smaller Ukrainian cities and towns.
The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus, the Nobel Prize winner. He argues that climate change will be costly but probably not uniquely catastrophic (hence the word 'casino').
>At about three years old, what protocol has a standards board? It's too young.

Your point is moot due to Gemini's immutability.

It isn't a protocol carefully designed by a committee. It is just somebody's brain fart. It cannot be fixed and we are giving it too much attention.
For a lot of companies, this is economically sound thinking. If someone who is considering leaving because of a low salary is already a good few steps towards the door in terms of decision making, pre-empting any such motivation from occurring can be a lot cheaper than losing employees who are fully up to speed and have a lot of internal know-how. They're not getting an adequate replacement for the same salary after all.
Well… that’s what makes settling the Moon and Mars kind of urgent.

Also pointing a couple big mass drivers to Earth so to incentivise humans down here behave.
Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (Subtitles)
There is a fork of NewPipe with Sponsorblock built in.
It’s somewhat surprising if there aren’t already very old civilisations there.
I’ve never been offered a crypto token or asset as a form of compensation, but I’d count anything liquid and with reasonable volume as cash equivalent assuming you can sell it.

Ironically I’d count crypto towards TC more than what you actually see more often which is counting ISO or private RSU as TC. Mostly since I think there is much more risk they will never be liquid. And even if they go liquid they are tough to evaluate exact dollar value unlike something being actively traded. For example many private companies got valuations before bear market that would be worth a lot less if actively traded but doubt the recruiters at those companies admit that.
Here is a taste of my bad experiences:

* "My card machine is out of order, only cash."

* "That will be $[some outrageous and clearly fake meter amount].

* "My meter is broken. I'll just estimate it."

* "There is a $10 surcharge for luggage" / "there is a $5 surcharge for that neighborhood" / there is a $10 surcharge for cards." Bonus points when they only tell you after you arrive.

* Driving me the long way. This happened ~25% of all of my trips. It was particularly egregious before mobile phone GPS became ubiquitous.

* Unsafe driving.

* Stinking / dirty taxis

* The cars took hours to arrive, and often never arrived at all. This is probably my biggest gripe. If there is one thing I require, it's efficient transport from A to B. If they can't even do this, they shouldn't be in business.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've had any of these issues with Uber. I do agree that the price gap between taxis and Uber is increasing, but I gladly pay it. As above, I would gladly pay 3x more for Uber, so until the price difference arrives there, I'm sticking with Uber.
Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
> with no evidence backing it.

Nobody that is asked to do illegal (or grey area) things or that gets threatened in person will yield to your demand for "evidence". To ask for it in this context is not very humane of you, it's not hard to imagine why it isn't there.
> So of course people are going to seek sources that do not gaslight them and condescendingly hand them down information

And what they find are usually other sources which gaslight them far more, but whose (dis)information they then proselytise as if they've Done Their Own Research and finally Seen The Light.
Maybe generation 3? One of my grandmothers worked on a farm in a developing country.

Times change. Subsistence farming doesn't cut it anymore. The lessons learned from that generation are something we have to grow out of.
"...Using trolley-style problems in the context of autonomous vehicles as a case study, I argue

(1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought experiments because

(2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and

(3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however,

(4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in ethics..."
I struggled with this as well. Now I'm a bit rusty as I haven't used it for a while, but what really helped me was to start thinking about binary numbers more as strings. It also really helps me to visualize binary operations in binary space, not hex or decimal. That's still very confusing to me.

For example left shift by 1 on this 8 bit number (decimal is 32)

00100000

you just shift all the numbers to the left

01000000

--------

There's some wrapping behavior of course. Like what happens if you left shift 3 here? If it's an unsigned 8 bit number the 1 would teleport to the right side.

00000001

--------

the logical operators work like this (read downwards)

00010000 AND

00010000 =

00010000

--------

00001000 AND

00010000 =

00000000

--------

00001000 OR

00010000 =

00011000

With this in mind, I found it to be a good exercise to implement common bitwise operators that work on fixed length strings with some tests against the real binary operators in your favorite language.
The same happened to me this past week. A 30% "re-benchmarking".