skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bunch of them do. Heat waves, river floods, etc...

For the heat wave chart, the stated reason for this is that it's the date where most urban areas started keeping careful records.

They also, as a footnote[1] include an image going back much farther [2] which completely changes the picture and analysis.

However the text description is all about the increase since 1960, only barely mentioning that it was much worse in the 1930s.

How is it possible to look at this and not question it?

Making false statements? Slowing down and reminding myself?

I've spent countless hours looking at original noaa data related to climate change. I've seen a very clear distortion of data in reporting.

> Double check what you are seeing. Look for things that don't confirm what you already believe.

That's great advice, maybe we should both take it? [3] [4]

I don't need to go through every single measure here, it's pretty easy to discover for yourself if you take a real look at the data.

The severity and frequency of things like droughts, severe weather, heat waves are flat, if not in decline when you look across a broader window.

Sea level rise is pretty linear for as long as it's been measured [5]

NOAA data is pretty clear on this.

Arctic sea ice? It has a well known oscillation that generally runs close to 180 degrees out of phase with antarctic sea ice. Again, super easy to learn about if you dig in. Did you know that Arctic sea ice actually increased from 1979 to 2015? [6]

Also, measuring sea ice is notoriously difficult and error prone, and satellite data doesn't do a very good job of it. Also easy to learn about.

My overall point, which for some strange reason gathers a ton of open hostility, is that we're much better off focusing on concrete ecological issues that can be solved today (not draining aquifers, better agriculture practices, elimination of weird farm bill subsidies to harmful crops, etc...).

It's amazing how just pointing that out garners the sort of personal attacks that you leveled at me. Slowing down sounds like good advice!

[1] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/styles/small/private/images...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

[4] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

[5] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

[6] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S20959...
I just find I write code in a syntax that could probably be transpiled directly to C/C++ if I followed a few rules, and that it could also run on the web or in a JIT.

A dev shouldn't have to switch between syntaxes to write native code.
> Many of the most reviled monopolies throughout American history got there in no small measure because of government protection in the form of "regulation".

This is simply not true. The common reviled monopoly strategies include price fixing, collusion, natural monopolies, markets with high barriers to entry, network effects, and others in addition to regulatory capture. Regulations that contribute to monopolistic tendencies are "vanishingly small" in number, you just hear about them a lot because people don't like them.

> if this makes GM vehicles more expensive or causes a consumer backlash that damages sales, GM will change their behaviour.

It may be time to walk through history and see all the dark patterns that were solved by regulation. Before the EPA, it was common for manufacturing companies to dump industrial waste directly into rivers, for example.

Consumers only have so much energy for backlash, and your theoretical system requires everyone to have an encyclopedic memory of all the shitty things that every company does and weigh all of that in their minds when making consumer choices. It's impractical and impossible. Regulatory agencies are a much better system and that's why every modern economy depends on them.
You have to work with a dealer no matter what. But in the "old days" (pre-Covid) you'd probably be surprised at how many vehicles were available with the options you want. I've been leasing my vehicles for a long time, and I've always been very specific in the options I want. I've never once had to order a vehicle to get what I wanted, the salesperson either had one on their lot or was able to find one nearby and trade for it.
What if the ancient Greeks and Romans had terrible taste?
> Most JS devs have been using the same language for a very long time
> now, whereas non-web devs are jumping from Ruby to Scala to Go to
> Rust to Zig, and then the next thing.

Most non-web development has been in Java or C# for twenty years. All of the languages you list summed together have a market position smaller than Visual Basic[0].

> The problem I see is that I'm sure there are a ton of Rust projects
> that don't want to do anything particularly low-level with a string.
> They want to operate on it in the same way a JS program would.

What does it matter? There's people who write web frameworks in assembly, or write firmware in (Micro)Python. You can't force the whole world to make decisions that make sense to you personally.

> That's why I'd love to see a simple language that you could easily drop
> down into low-level stuff when necessary without a giant context switch
> and new compiler toolchain.

The ability to drop down into low-level stuff is what adds complexity to a language.

You can either have a simple language for high-level code with affordances for occasional low-level optimization (Java, C#, Go, Swift), or you can have a language that directly exposes things like struct memory layout or SIMD intrinsics at the cost of a larger reference manual. There's no meaningful in-between.

[0] Per Tiobe at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
NHS IT services held hostage by ransomware hackers
Part of it is to do with emigration from India to the US (where money talks) during the communist Cold War era when there was discrimination against upper castes in India (and note that an upper caste person may not have much money). In the UK and other English speaking countries, immigration was varied and across a much longer time period with predominantly middle class and skilled people.
One notable recent thing that stood out to me is that the kids' show Baymax! had an episode where the plot was that a 12-year-old girl needed help shopping for menstrual hygiene products and got recommendations on what was most comfortable from a transgender man. Which is likely to be very confusing for most kids to say the least and was clearly added to score political points, not to make a better show.
Fwiw, that 42 is visually confirmed total losses, not estimates.

I think the other comment is probably correct that the nominal 1228 planes in service is an over-estimate of flyable airframes by several multiples.
And at a top speed of 0.6km/h, easily avoidable by pedestrians.
The Rush song "Red Barchetta" was inspired by a 70s sci-fi story that addresses this vehicle size arms-race issue.

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadand...
How we Built Homechart's Go API Server
Anecdotally, most kids I know only interact with devices that feature strong guard rails like phones and tablets.

Those kids are generally more ignorant of how software systems work than someone who grew in the 2000s.
Title could add "in urban Australia" to dissuade the idea that sustainable backyard chickens as a whole are a threat to public health.
>90% as much as truck bed as F150

Volume and mass are not the same thing.

The F150 max payload 1,000kg

The Subaru Sambar max load is 350kg

The Ford or any truck in US/Canada may not need to be that big since they were not that big years ago. But the Subaru is too small for US/Canada roads and what is hauled.
Part of the reason is that road engineers basically adopted a standard that treated all roads the same as highways in terms of buffer zones and so on.

So they treat a 2 lane road in suburb the same as a highway. Literally.

So you end up with local roads that can fit 4 SUV next to each other despite being like a 2 lane road.

Literally everything is built to accommodate huge cars and even has safety margin for huge cars.

Its actually funny, go to google maps and compare car subburbs from the 50s with those from the 80/90s and you will see the roads being like twice the size. And then you compare it to old street car subburbs and the roads are even thinner.

Ironically those street car subburbs often have population density that make them almost city like.

This all works together to make US style sprawl such a distinctive feature.
Well the electricity prices (according to the article) rose 55% in Germany and 83% in Finland, while the server prices are just going up by 10%, so electricity is just a part of it.
I like simplicity and for that reason the first thing I do on any project larger than a bash script is setup a container for it. It helps isolate my OS from the project, allows me to easily share it via dockerhub so others can run it, lets me have a sharable dev environment so people can just open it in vscode and edit the project, etc... I've yet to regret using a container and it takes barely any more time than setting it up once for the OS anyway.
Ask HN: How to use Anki effectively for spaced repetition learning?
Today, we are inundated with constantly learnings and context switching in tech. I have taken a lot of courses and read a lot of books, multiple times, on the same topic due to poor memory.

This is tiring as I get deeper into my career and would prefer to have more things stored long term.

I used Anki a couple times in college, but curious how you use Anki or other spaced repetition tools for learnings things like a new language, framework, software, theory, etc.
They're not.

They're quite obviously pointing out that cutting the antenna does nothing about the fact that the subscription is still bundled and active.
Suggested Apple Counter-offer:

Replace the Google exec's responsible for their messaging s*it-show with new exec's appointed by Tim Cook. Those new exec's will have authority over all relevant Google people & resources, report only to Tim Cook, and be paid by Google - at rates set by Tim Cook.
Getting flashbacks to programming ABB ACS800 motor controllers with some hideous block diagram based thing many years ago. Oh god.

We also had a ton of horrendous LabView spaghetti which was even worse.
I am still waiting for an open source version of Total War, or a least the top down map strategy portion of it.
And the fugitive methane from fracking? Or will we just blame the farm that was fracked under without consent which had its bore water ruined?
This is just isn't true. Way way more AC gets used when offices are involved than when they are not (especially if the office building didn't exist in the first place in the flipside scenario). They leave office AC on 24/7, and people leave their home AC on anyway, so it has a multiplicative effect on carbon footprint.
I am a little surprised how much press this is getting. They are just hiding an MSRP bump in a mandatory 'option'. A bit of an oxymoron for sure. They're not the first manufacturer to pull this stunt, for sure. RV manufacturers, for example, do exactly the same thing but on a far grander scale.

I don't think OnStar is the noteworthy part. They've been putting OnStar on all their vehicles for years.
Perfect way to say it, yes. It's a mirage in the desert that we'll be chasing forever, because to the business stakeholder's eyes, the water is just right there over that hill.
I’m wrong, and confused the older UIWebView with WKWebView.
This seems like speculation not based in reality. Do Montana, Alaska, Oregon, Delaware, or New Hampshirite do this?
Hmm I still don't see why you can make that argument?

I'm thinking that by chain rule d/dt S = dq/dt dS/dq. But we assert that the variation of S is zero for real trajectories. so dS/dq = 0
Just like on the Disney channel they don't have ads, they have programs "brought to you by our proud sponsor"
Melbourne's general aviation airport (i.e. light planes like Cessnas) is Moorabbin, in the south east. The map shows the City of Kingston which contains it with a dark green dot, meaning safe. Planes often do a circuit south and then turn and follow the coast (over my house...) and all those places are shown as safe.

The neighbouring City of Casey to the east is shown as unsafe, but this contains a "noxious industries area". Planes usually take off and land on a roughly north–south alignment because of the prevailing winds.
> My main issue with low-code/no-code is that it attempts to solve the complexity problem, without understanding what "complexity" is.

I get your point. But without low/no-code tools I would argue a lot of simple workflows have to be implemented using code. These usecases, where the technology-side is simple, is a good fit for low/no-code platforms IMO
Office Space and Scrubs are satire, Silicon Valley is grim, highly accurate historical fiction set in the 2010s that happens to be funny.
People seem to forget that competition in the way that we talk about when we talk about the free market only really occurs with people who want to upset the established order. When you have a group of long established manufacturers who, broadly speaking, are happy with how the land is divided up you start to see innovations like this one where it raises the profits for all firms. Because you don’t want to risk being a defector and creating a race to the bottom when you can all be fat and happy.
Its not lizzard brain, a larger car is objectively more useful if the environment is build for large cars.
"CEO's get it right 17% of the time" was a great quote that I read.

Seems about right. We draft 10-20 design documents for every one implemented.
And yet that is exactly how gasoline is sold across the country!
This has got to be a big competitive disadvantage, unless a lot of consumers cave at the dealership... or all the competitors pick up the same tactic.

If you're comparing a GM vehicle to its competitor, you will not see price parity, as this $1500 "option" will show up on inventory web sites as part of the price (it already does now).

In general, I don't want companies to fail, but I certainly want to see this strategy fail horribly.

The automotive industry is huge because U.S. infrastructure demands having a car, and also because everyone wants to buy "just the right car" for themselves. But these GM luxury brands might struggle with a big price hike like this.
So you're admitting you didn't read the whole thing but don't agree with me? I think that we do agree, I don't want to buy onstar either.

But people like to say freedom like - right to work, which makes it sound like this magical thing. What it really means is that you can get fired at any time, and get nothing. Which is really the right to get fired. It's kind of like the right to die, it's not really a "right" so to speak. It's just the default. If it were illegal to die, then who would you punish?

Look at the people that don't work under those laws. These are people with contracts for employment. Pro sports (NFL, NBA, etc), executives with golden parachutes, etc, etc. This is how Adam Neuman can be an idiot and run a company into the ground and then quit or get fired, then cash a billion dollar check on the way home while everyone else is stuck waiting for unemployment systems to be built so they can register for unemployment to hopefully maybe get some of the money that they are entitled to.

This is also unions, unions work under contracts. This united auto workers. Teachers, police, etc. All of these people are being ground up into powder. Union busting is living its best life.

IMHO it's a much better idea to read the entire post before replying. I did for you. If you have the time to reply you have the time to read?
What about those that felt discriminated? Where is their forum to talk about what happened to them?

Might I add, if you weren't a party to an experience, an off handed observation that those are just subjective experiences, is frankly not yours to make.
In France, yes.
This is something that makes me laugh at SeriusXM - tons of commercials that let you know there's no commercials and then advertise their other stations and apps.
That is great. Until you get smashed by a truck and you/a family member get seriously injured.

I don't drive a truck but my family has been in life threatening accidents and my parents both drive massive vehicles. All Black Secret Service like SUVs. I cant really blame them.
Proton is basically Wine.
Wine creates a "Wineprefix", which is a folder hierarchy similar to that of a Windows installation. You can run the installer within that Wineprefix using wine. That will install the files. Then you can run Civ 5 and everything should be in place.
We Might Already Speak the Same Language as ET
That policy was recently hinted at here: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=trjs0tcd

But it hasn’t been enforced yet for big apps like Yelp and Instagram.
I didn't know about that. For me this is also an ethical issue. Raising a household pig and feeding it your own food waste and leftovers is fine, but when done on an industrial scale, for commercial purposes, we are bound to see regular abuse, possibly with sanitary consequences.
The areas with highest quality of life have declining population, so your premise is flawed.

Obviously the solution is to increase our resource usage. If we had abundant clean energy (e.g. nuclear, maybe even wind/solar) none of this would be a problem.
Weirdly, I'm not in any of those categories, and yet, I haven't been mobilized.

Nor have the countless numbers of men I see every day, walking around central Kyiv.

Heroim Slava.
Amazon did something similar with Freeve (or whatever it is called). So today streaming services have specific days they air their blockbuster series episodes (same as traditional TV) and now we get ads (same as traditional TV). Both, I assume, to remain profitable. So how exactly did streaming disrupt traditional contebt broadcasting again?
Contrarian to what?

This is about social welfare and policy as opposed to "let the market sort it out".
How would “God” explain subjective experience? That just seems a stand-in for a non-explanation, a bit similar to how the terms “dark matter” and “dark energy” are used as stand-ins for as yet unexplained phenomena.

Personally, I see no problem with subjective experience. I believe what makes it difficult to grasp for a conscious subject is mostly the recursivity of it: You not only have an experience (perception), you also have an experience (perception) of having an experience. And those levels of experience each have a lot of texture/structure. This is probably evolutionary useful to have, and the (literally ;)) mind-boggling physical complexity of the brain certainly allows for it.
> In Latvia it costs: 1,240.00 c/kWh

Note that this is particular price point today (11.08.2022) at 12 - 13. Record was some other day for 2100 c/kWh.

However at particular moment, you can get 27 c/kWh fixed price contract. (last year it was 6 c/kWh)
sorry, but I'm with the others here - one's personal experience does not negate the experience of others, and it also doesn't inform the question of whether this is a "google problem" or an "industry problem" (which btw, I'm inclined to believe). It's just a single random datapoint among (literally) 300,000.
Quite a big increase, pure money grabbing move, since they launched the ad service at the same price as the current service.

Sure they assume this is basically free money, anyone that doesn't want to pay extra just has to put up the adverts, anyone that doesn't can pay extra. The board likely love this idea.
Gold has a special hold on people's imagination. I find it interesting that some people in ancient Rome were paid a few pounds of gold a year which is in the same ballpark of what people get paid in the U.S. today.

In general if there are more asset classes and people feel wealthier because of them that should lead to more spending, and that spending could ultimately drive inflation if demand starts to outpace supply.

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

I'd be careful at assigning inflation one root cause. Whenever it gets out of hand there seem to be numerous interacting problems. Just to look at some recent events we've had stimulus checks that empowered people to buy manufactured goods, shortages that drive up prices, food and fuel supplies endangered by the Russia-Ukraine war, and the last administration slapping a 20% tariff on imports from China.
Similar claims that are used a lot, except for by cis-straigh-white-men (for now), is that their favoritism is a form of "Robin Hood" behavior (Literally referencing Robin Hood). Basically, they feel that their particular identity group has been discriminated against in the past, and justify their otherwise unethical behavior as "restoring justice" by "stealing from the rich/those that have much" to "us that have less". A similar statement I've seen is "It's our turn now!"

You will find this everywhere from pickpockets in Thailand, credit card scammers in India all the way to top universities.
That is implementation specific. And oversimplified. An income tax is regressive if you only look within a tax bracket including the highest one which arguably contains the highest level of disparity within it (quantitatively, though perhaps not qualitatively). More so income tax on capital gains. Just the ability to have the majority of your income taxed as gains is regressive. Sales tax that are limited to luxury goods are progressive. Food assistance is often exempted from certain sales tax, which is progressive.

We can make either type of tax regressive, progressive, or vary by income level to push people toward the median lifestyle.

Implementation costs and the ease of avoidance should be larger concerns I think.
Don't use a "server" server, unless you really need that. Use a desktop from a few years ago, from some oem who advertises power efficiency. Stuff it full of hdds and ram.

I've made very good experiences with Fujitsu. The power consumption figures they publish in their energy consumption white papers has been matching my measurements very well, so you can check ebay for used machines that match your performance/price expectations and then google eg "p920 energy white paper" and check the pdf. (Note, some models are available with different PSUs, ie 90+ and 85+.)

My "home server" mostly idles at 14W with one hdd running, one in standby and one ssd.
> As someone who got their start in tech with a low-code environment (ServiceNow reporting) I have found the true value of low code is the ability for business/ops teams to create tools that serve their needs without waiting on a team of "real" developers to make time for them.

This is because a lot of so-called "real developers" nowadays think their job is to keep up with the latest fads and finding ways of chopping the business needs in a way so they fit better to the popular framework of the day.

Business quickly grow tired of hearing "that's not possible" when what the developer actually means "what you want to do is against the architecture of the framework I've decided we must use". If the business insist, the developer spends a lot of time fighting the framework.

Now, from a job market perspective, it is entirely understandable that the developer prefers to do RDD - resume driven development.

But it also makes it fully understandable that the business people wants to find ways of solving their needs, that do not include waiting on the "real developers". Hence the Excel and Access monstrosities present in every org.