skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct that loading times are not valuable for B2B apps or apps behind a login. But the main issue is that there is no simple or straightforward process to achieve performance in load time / run time if its not followed from the start. You build the same capabilities but they are just smaller.

I worked for an analytics product that never really bothered about performance on load or any of the web vital metrics. When they wanted to strike a deal with a fortune 20 customer, they were questioned on the performance of the app. It was not good. Took around 5 to 10 seconds to load everything on a macbook pro.

Now all of a sudden we needed to fix the performance for all the pages. I helped set up the processes we needed to follow to measure and focus. This was one of the most complex scenarios you can face in an Enterprise product. Touching old code for the sake of speed.

btw, the biggest perf improvement we realized was when we switched from React to Preact. There were some issues to iron out but it was okay considering the perf benefit.
Are you looking for total carbon on carbon per hour?

Because the second can be estimated via electrical use. But the first involves the building of the machines etc.

https://engineering.teads.com/sustainability/carbon-footprin...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...

My guess is these will get within an order of magnitude.
Only thing that's missing (as always) .. ECC RAM.
Never trust any Bank.

I Only use Credit Unions, and have multiple accounts, 100% of my loans, checking accounts, saving accounts etc are with various Credit Unions

I have a credit card with a non-credit union, and I have an investment account with a non-credit union, but for cash assets I want that in a credit union not a commercial bank
It's fun to imagine what would happen if Stewart Butterfield was given the rights to Half-life 3...
Camera manufacturers and SD card manufacturers can't start shipping SD cards formatted with btrfs until Windows supports it out of the box. They can start shipping SD cards formatted with FAT32 and software/firmware which reads and writes FAT32+BigFAT.
Definitely...
Part of the reason why we study history is to learn from past mistakes.
If anything, the reason there's such a controversy in the first place is that they've gotten far more attention than they wanted. This sort of activity is only possible while skulking in obscurity.

Damnatio memoriae is devastating to a public figure, but it is doing KiwiFarms a huge favor. It lets them scurry away under some new rock and keep going under a new name. The worst thing you could do is probably just shine the brightest spotlight you can find square at their activities.

There is a good reason we erect monuments and museums to atrocities. It's not for ease of rubbernecking, but so that we can learn and avoid them in the future.
That's a much more correct example than the one in the article. The "real-world example" in the article describes doing something completely different than intended, not out of necessity but by distraction.
>Surviving a forest fire still invokes a huge release of otherwise captured carbon for no gain

The cycle of life for some trees involves forest fires, so I wouldn't write off forest fires as having "no gain".
Every time I read more about marketing (for my business) it enrages me more.

I basically don't use twitter, but I find myself on the platform in rants about how exploitive and manipulative some people are willing to be.

There is one company that targets vunerable people with their relatively affordable Veblen goods to make them feel socially insecure if they buy an Android instead. It's so obvious when you read about it, but it's masked in edgy advertising.

Reading about a company's marketing strategy is probably not good for my health.
Big impact for gas, yes, but limited. That will rid us of about 15% of emissions. Going renewable with nuclear could go to 50%.
Gas also has a problem of leaking, and methane is a potent GHG, so it's not just emissions due to burning it.

The remaining pieces are manufacturing and transportation. Former can be hard to make clean. Latter is the question of how quickly we can develop power grids for EV or hydrogen infrastructure and rebuild rail where it is insufficient.
Also clean up mass shipping.

New small block nuclear power plants are likely better than gas at filling in intermittent wind load (which is usually month spread) and can be toggled as needed.
Yes. I provided a link you can click on, but you can also go to the Kiwi Farms Wikipedia page that catalogs victims killed and nearly killed by Kiwi Farms harassment campaigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Wait, what's the difference between this and 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'? I've been using the latter.
Infrastructure analogies are terrible. It seems everyone on HN wants to have their cake and eat it too.

"I" don't get to install infrastructure. Instead there are any number of codes that control it and licensed installers must certify it and then it must be inspected (and depending on what, at a regular basis). If at any point the infrastructure becomes harmful (for example a gas leak) that infrastructure will be shut down for the safety of others. The problem must then be remediated and then again certified to be safe.

Society, in general, does not allow unsafe infrastructure

I mean, yea, we can hold groups like Cloudflare to that standard, but I don't think this is going to be the panacea for those that like to intimidate and use violence you think it is.
Wow ! I think you got this completely reversed.

Lego _was_ a carpentry making wooden toys (not bricks, that concept came from another company: Kiddicraft toy company founded by Hilary Fisher Page). They acquired a very expensive plastic injection moulding machine. They spend several years working on the "Automatic Binding Brick" before nailing it down. By the time the wooden toy warehouse caught fire in the 1960s, the LEGO system was already -by far- the biggest selling product line of the company. Wooden toys were simply discontinued, not a pivot.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/lego-group/the-lego-group...

PS: Plastic toys were held in low regard when they started experimenting with it.
>>It's unfortunately the power we decided to give them to prevent money laundering.

"We" did no such thing, most of these regulations are created by non-elected administrative state that has far far too much power
Enough that three people have had their suicides linked to KF. KF isn't a place that you can ignore if you're a target; they will harass you until the day you die, literally.
That sounds great but they don’t grow bananas in Canada, they also don’t make teslas or gpus here
I noticed... Limes grown in ... Peru or Uruguay, packed in ... Europe (might have been Italy, but maybe Poland)... then shipped to someplace in the US, then driven to me. This was on a bottle of lime juice. That is all of ... $1? Yet... I'd need to buy dozens of limes just to squeeze enough juice to get half that small bottle.
Deplatforming is analogous to quarantining a person with an infectious disease. It works. The FBI can still monitor whatever's left of KF on Tor or Discord.
With AWS last I checked (which might have been 2 years ago) they advertised regions powered by renewable energy sources. You can see it better here: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/around-the-globe?ener...

But as to calculate exactly the amount of carbon footprint for your VPS, I think you are out of luck, because exact numbers are either opaque or required you take AWS at their word.
Absolutely. When there is a due process and it is done with the accordance of law that we are all supposed to abide. Not by unilateral decision of a tech CEO/Staff.
It's having a moment.
The same could be said of 8chan doxxers and harassers.

It turns out that when you mess with people's lives, those people fight back. Stop doxxing people and harassing them if you want business partners to host your forums.

You smother their 'community'. It's a last ditch effort that should be used rarely, but this isn't the first time something like this happened, and it won't be the last.
Yes. Lately there has been a lot of slowness and 500s.
> It was the automated decision-making processes that Robert Noyce set up that made sure the 4004 continued to get funding

Can you talk more about this?
> Speed is critical. More important than perfectionism or wish for well-structured, easy-to-read, maintained code.

The thing is, poorly-structured, hard-to-read, unmaintained code is the enemy of speed. I don't think it's ever a good idea to go too far in either direction. If you spend all of your time on refactoring/cleaning up code, you never get anywhere in terms of functionality. But if you never refactor, you're development speed slows to a crawl, and making meaningful changes becomes impractical.
The reason it brings joy is because they think it's from a human. If they knew it wasn't it wouldn't bring joy.
Yeah, you’re right that there is not a national blanket ban on burning wood for heat. But there were (and still are) a lot of regulations that made gas and electric more attractive than wood for heating.

There are national emissions standards for residential wood burning appliances, and in some cases state as well. In addition many localities have restrictions on wood burning and can issue temporary blanket bans based on air quality measurements.

The development of this regulation went hand-in-hand with a broader cultural awareness of the importance of air quality (indoor and outdoor)—and a desire to not cut down all the nice forests around the country. So wood has suffered from a source restriction as well.
If you wish for an fs common to both BSD and Linux, ext2fs would be perfect - better than UFS for the job.
Seems to be up for me
I believe that the trucking portion of handling the container has weight limits; the machinery that handles the loading and unloading have their weight limits; the ship and the way it is loaded from bow to stern has weight limits, and a container itself has weight limits. Somewhat analogous to freeway overpass heights, the tendency over time is that the various limits harmonize with each other and you get typical shipping practices.

A shipping container full of raw cotton is indeed quite different than one full of "iron ore" but actually, consumer electronics and various car parts, their load limits, are more commonly restricted in the way they are loaded and handled.
Frame is just a small part of the cost and complexity of building a house. Considering you still need the CNC, and expensive materials, and a contractor, this doesn't seem like a win.

On the contrary, I'd rather see more open designs for modern post-frame homes. They're lighter, cheaper, simpler, faster, and provide some design benefits. The only real downside is zoning needs to catch up.
The real down-side to this, as with deepfakes, I think, is not that it makes fake things look real, but that it makes all real things possibly fake.
The problem is you’re not solving anything with these antics. KF still exists and will continue to exist. It’s just book burning for the sake of feeling better with absolutely nothing to show for it. In this case not even the satisfaction of seeing a burned book.

People desperately want the world to be different, and it isn’t. It isn’t, and it won’t change massively within your singular life. So you can grandstand and congratulate yourselves on “winning” with the IA and CF decisions, but KF is still online and all you’ve done is make more people aware of their existence.

Furthermore, this idea of banning objectionable content ultimately ends in tyranny as the only way for you to possibly succeed on your mission is to add fundamental filters to the internet. No thanks.
Good find, enjoy the community and the overall experience.
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735734
I wouldn't outright call it bullshit, but the cost and effort involved make it only a marginal improvement over traditional buildings. Plus it doesn't scale as good as the US based 2x4 wood system, which can be mass-produced / prefabricated much easier.
Unlikely. It’ll probably just develop in to a regular occurrence to have bad think sites wiped out and deleted from the archives.
I hope in 10 years we could compare the state of the internet with today and see what else has slowly became the norm. It feels like we are moving toward a tech tyranny bit by bit. Every day we wake up and things are change a very little bit and we assume this is how it has always been or it is supposed to be.

Note that I do not defend any ill action that anyone on KF has done. What I am trying to point out is how the Internet is becoming a playground for few big tech to do as they see fit. Maybe our regulation/laws didn't catch up, or that they are inefficient, and that opens the space for tech staff/CEOs to make judgement calls and execute the judgment.
Flickr was actually created by the same person that created Slack, and it both cases it was a pivot from a failed MMO/MMORPG.
That post is a day old
I am baffled by the comments here, not in a good way
> You just added a minute of friction to your next purchase.

Hmm, barely. Amazon is very smart and actually allows you to add items to your cart while logged out, and they remain between sessions. So you might still find yourself on the couch mindlessly shopping, and then, the next day or so, you say "I want to order those 20 things" and it takes only one login to make the purchase.
>The reason for the unholy UX mess with no signs of converging is, of course, marketing [...] [Windows Explorer] thinks "Share with Skype" is the second most important file operation, right after Open.

Well, the reason for this is not 'marketing' solely; what's happening is internally at every gigantic company like Microsoft is teams are competing for users. The 7DAU line must always go up for our little product area (like Skype). So product managers engage in their own internal political wars to sprinkle the damn Skype entrypoint everywhere in hopes that some users will accidentally click on it every now and then and keep that magical 7DAU line going up before they secure their promotion and parachute to the next company and do the same thing.

If a product manager asked the engineers and user experience folks "Should we put a Skype entrypoint in the file manager?" I'm sure they will say "No. But let's look at the data... it also says no."
I'm confused. 75% of the suffering (large majority) is still happening outside the US...
> If humanity wants to stand a chance,

Why is it so commonplace now to conflate climate change with basically armageddon? I thought that most models predict some hard times (mass migrations and everything bad that comes with it), but species extinction (or even, civilization collapse) is still a fringe belief among the scientists.
Aquacremation is a low energy, environmentally friendly alternative to gas or electric cremation.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-water-cremat...