skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the worst case is not how much of the world is forest. The worst case is failure of the world agriculture system, widespread famine, poverty, disease, war, death, and eventual failure of the human race.

If you're worried about whether stuff will continue to live on earth it's not a big deal. If you're worried about whether humans in particular will continue to live on earth and the parameters of what 'live' means you should be very, very concerned.
Plants lose less water to the environment when CO2 concentrations are higher because they don't have to open their pores as much to effectively breath. That is why CO2 helps plants grow in more arid environments.

And CO2 is definitely not pumped into greenhouses to help them stay warm. CO2 is a very weak greenhouse gas, and the tens of vertical feet in a greenhouse couldn't possibly trap any measurable amount of heat from heightened CO2 concentrations.

The glass of a greenhouse is responsible for the 'greenhouse' effect, not CO2.
Regarding large scale decision making, I believe in democracy; the way we currently implement it, with many layers of indirection and a senate (in the US) which is designed to defeat the will of the people, is not the only possibility.

If you're able to help to any degree, for any reason, then you've done your part. It'd probably be healthier if it were hopeful and motivated by wanting to build a better world, but if it's nihilism and rage, then that's okay. If all you can do is work less or consume less, or just not to stand in the way, then that's okay; that's enough.
They do not promote anarchy, they promote totalitarian rule. Put all those 'climate change deniers' in prison, force them to eat bugs instead of meat, deny them any human rights, that kind of thing.
I think most people are in agreement that an aggressive CO2 tax (greenhouse gas tax, to be more precise) would be effective. Just make it expensive to cause climate change, and the market will take care of it. The problems are that accounting for all emissions is difficult and that the price points where it would be most effective strongly overlap with the price points where it would be a dramatic shock to the economy.

There are milder versions like the cap-and-trade schemes that the EU or California implemented. They aren't perfect, but any perfect solution would be outright rejected for the massive impact it would have.
The old Dixiecrats said the same thing about Jim Crow laws, laws against miscegenation, etc.

But that law was in fact “argued against” in the very red Georgia and it was repealed by a Republican legislation and Republican governor
I think you might have wrote furries instead of infosec/software?
One of the reasons why ERP systems were ao sucessful is because they replaced the majority of administrative jobs by automating them away. One of the results is that those remaining are either highly knowledgable and skilled, or working in a function that has yet to be automated away or outsourced to a cheaper country in that specific company.
We aren't exactly overflowing with "solutions to climate change", and capitalism seems to be incentivising for further and further exploitation of the planet, rather than a reduction. Can capitalism support a degrowth economy?

Also I literally said

> where for "capitalism" if you don't agree with a totally Marxist analysis you can really substitute any structural issue that is causing us to not take anywhere near enough action on the climate.

If you don't agree that it's capitalism, choose your own systematic issue...
The former can be simplified to:

wget -i ./urls
For me the AirPods Pro are one of my most loved and used pieces of tech in recent memory. Assume OP uses iPhone and there are a handful of unique features AirPods offer when paired with iPhone that I assume Samsung pods would not. Things like syncing across devices via iCloud account… spatial audio… IOS integrated noise canceling control. And for me the fit and sound is fantastic.
> set aside the next 82 years of your life to do nothing but work on that, and you should have a pretty high rate of success.

Not if you don't have a decent amount of capital to start with. Don't forget that many people, the majority of people, despite their best effort, can't really raise themselves above a certain basic wage and salary, and therefore can't accumulate anything.

Without capital, there's no compounding effect of capital, and you're not going to be rich.
Mmm, do you have some examples or sources to cite? I don't know where you're getting these ideas, but I've worked for many nonprofits and considered starting my own, so had to understand their legal and financial structures a little bit.

If you have to beg every 2 years for money or you go bankrupt, that is some terrible planning. Nonprofits are usually run like businesses, and have revenues and expenses like any other business, usually continuous. It's not like they fundraise every 2 years and then spend money the rest of the time. That's just not how it works. They have boards, managers, staff, salaries, etc. that they plan for day to day, like any other business, and their revenue streams are not limited to donations (there can be grants, sales, memberships, endowments, whatever).

Wikipedia, as an example, uses that bullshit to stir up a sense of urgency as a call to action, but they are actually doing just fine:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

You can also look at their Form 990s for a clearer picture of their financials; https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... (it's not FAANG money, but it's enough for what they're doing, and they get richer every year).

The reason typical nonprofits don't get rich is that you can't really "invest" in them via capital injections, because investors can't get a return. That's what makes them nonprofit. But nothing stops them from doing routine business activities to make money on a predictable, cyclical cycle -- not a lump sum every year. That Wikipedia thing is just a marketing gimmick, the same way many charities will use holidays or Giving Tuesday to beg for money, but that's not their entire income stream (or even most of it).

The choice to become a nonprofit is exactly that, a choice. They don't "have it bad", they just choose their mission (well, ideally) over profit. Of course scams exist and some are just tax havens or whatever.

There are also non 501c3 nonprofits, like churches or issue-based advocacy groups, that have their own funding structures (tithes, corporate affiliations, whatever). And nonprofits can and do have their own investments, their own funds, etc. that earn a return, but it just goes back to the org and/or its staff (as salaries and perks, etc.), not shareholder return.

Overall, though, for the most part the primary differentiation is just that they don't have shareholders/owners to give money to. Aside from that they are mostly just businesses with a bunch of small technicalities of IRS rules to adhere to.
SAP, Excel, and Bloomberg Terminal are applications where there such a long tail of uses that it is hard to see them being replaced in the corporate world anytime soon.
They haven't. The actual policy preference is to build renewables, but it helps to use rhetorical tricks or cherry pick a few nutjobs to make it appear ridiculous in order to get to the desired conclusion that actually we shouldn't be building renewables.
slow is putting it very polite
It isn't difficult, but it is friction. You hit compile and a few seconds later you get an error that is unrelated to the change you wanted to test. I agree with all those errors once those changes are for production, but sometimes I wish the compiler would just shut up and let me test the actual change I just made to ensure it works.

Commenting out a few variables isn't always easy either. Every try to add const to a legacy C++ project - it can take days to fix all the errors resulting from adding const to something that clearly is const in usage. I don't know zig, but I wouldn't be surprised if sometimes you get into this type of situation in a large code base (does anyone have a very large code base in zig yet?)
I like jitsi, want to switch our whole organisation over.

Why did you decide to have it deployed on your own instead of using https://meet.jit.si?
Show HN: Guided inpainting with Stable Diffusion using DiffusionUI
I made a web interface fronted using Vue to have a nice interface for text-to-image, image-to-image, and inpainting.

It allows doing image-to-image inside an inpainting region!

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZvW5qURes

GitHub: https://github.com/leszekhanusz/diffusion-ui

Gif: https://github.com/leszekhanusz/diffusion-ui/raw/main/doc/cu...
So when you say a "threat to rule of law" you mean too much law? That seems confusingly worded.
except that it's not. Every government who ever did price fixing said literally the same thing. Then people make black markets trading chickens for goats. It's literally impossible to prevent and the first time someone does it your price fixing scheme evaporates.
We all know the solutions but for that we need to give up comfort, """progress""" and convenience on many aspects

> If they were serious, they would propose something less anti-human.

Turns out living in the desert in a 200sqm house and driving a ford f350 to move you 80kg ass and buy 10kg of groceries isn't sustainable

If your kitchen is on fire you have to extinguish the fire, not move to the living room, close the kitchen door and start the TV
Ask HN: What happened to theregister.com?
Asking here because I think there is probably a lot of overlap and maybe some knowledgeable insiders.

I used to visit The Register almost every day up until a few years ago. Back then, it was famous for its punny headlines, tongue-in-cheek reporting style, and all in all being a self-identified IT tabloid.

I visited it again a week or two ago, and it seems to have dropped the humourous tone and intentionally-obscure headlines, to become just one more samey IT news page.

Does anybody know what caused this transformation? Has it been acquired by a conglomerate or something? The nearest thing I've found is that its original Chief Editor left in May 2019...
>It will certainly demotivate many employees who are used to the old way

In my experience, what demotivate them is that a lot of the features in the marketing materials for these types of products are lies and they are filled with bugs. The executive who chose the product typically don't use it so they think it's a great tool. When you report major problems or workflows that makes no sense, they brush it off like it's just small details that need to be ironed out in the future because aren't the ones dealing directly with them on a daily basis.

The exec get sold on an AI feature and it's the intern who is then forced to deal with a search bar that take 2 minutes instead of 0.5s to search and gives you vastly inferior results.
An Update to the Quad9 and Sony Music German Court Injunction – August 2022
Fees

> removed from the economy

This is untrue. Bank fees are not placed into landfills, figurative, literal or otherwise. At best you can say that dispositive decision making power for the money is changed from the transaction participants to the transaction facilitators. One might say that the leaders of banking orgs spend it on the frivolous, like large boats. The boatwright’s children might differ as otherwise they’d be beggars.
This comment itself is an example of forgiving customers.

If we agree to not make it a big deal of people not receiving the products they paid for and if we agree not to make it a big deal for delays and low quality then sure, Tesla is just as any other company.

If people didn't make it a big deal that Theranos runs its test on Siemens machines we wouldn't have had a Theranos scandal too!

If we not make it a big deal for Tesla missing the targets for making the cars cheap and collecting pre-order money for products that not deliver(or deliver late if you kick the can down the road long enough) we can say the exact same thing about Theranos. Let's not make a big deal on how much blood is actually required to run the tests today, it would be 1 drop next year(update the next year every year)!

If you choose to put the threshold of "subsidy received" above what Tesla received, you can claim that Tesla did not receive subsidies. I think TicTac sweets had some trick like that, i.e. if you define 1 TicTac as one serving and if the calories of 1 serving is below the threshold to report you have 0 calories per serving and as a result you can claim the whole box is calorie free!

It really depends on what you choose to forgive or not, I guess.
Heat lost due to convection. Let in cold air and the greenhouse cools off.
Since it's a closed system, that is pretty much to be expected
Because that's the one that actually can happen, unlike apocalyptic visions of "Earth burning", or "famine"
For passives, I have a bunch of resistor/capacitor/inductor/etc kits for through hole and SMD. You can buy them on Amazon so they're usually available fast. You don't have too worry much about the specs but definitely learn the basics like electrolytic vs solid state, voltage/current/power ratings, etc.

For ICs search Google for "<part description> breakout" which will often show you Sparkfun, Adafruit, or some other hacker focused shop/blog. For example, some results roughly ranked by obscurity: 8-bit shift register [1], thermocouple [2], air quality [3], CPLD [4], crosspoint switch [5].

For anything more complex than that - for example, a DLP micromirror device - you'll have to dig deeper and search for "<part description> dev kit". Manufacturers usually make dev kits using their flagship chips from which you can easily navigate related parts. Be prepared to spit your morning coffee out at some of the prices of this path though (i.e. aforementioned DLP dev kits are $1k+, easily twice what you'd pay for a DLP projector using the same chip)

I assume that's what your Amazon/Aliexpress searches have done by proxy (I often do use Amazon too for more basic stuff like relays, ESP8/32 etc. when I'm impatient)

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10680

[2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/269

[3] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3566

[4] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/XC9500XL_CPLD_breakout_b...

[5] https://hackaday.io/project/167228-adg2128-breakout
I think they mean P2P for federation, discoverability, searching.

Handling payments, subscriptions, fraud, local tax kinks are mostly solved problems with the right intermediaries. Yeah, it's more than letting somebody else handle it, but —depending on your content— it's potentially 15% of your revenue.
Before becoming too alarmed, one might want to read about the Holocene Climate Optimum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum). Temperatures 8000 years ago were significantly higher than 200 years ago. Did the lucky people 8000 years ago just barely escape disastrous climate tipping points? Or maybe such tipping points aren't so likely...
My chunk of the planet was suppose to be underwater 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, last year, in 3 years, and in 7 years. We are a naive species that does not understand climate or how and why it changes.
If you're stressed by typing in your team chat you don't trust your team and therefore there's a deeper issue already. I strongly believe you are wrong because all the examples you mention signal different team disfunctions. You need to understand everyone is different, yes, but your team should use public channels to communicate.
> Jira for non-IT software. A slow corporate mess nobody wants to log in

What problems do you have with Jira?
> . The SAP solution missed so many edge cases that a huge number of lab reports were either inaccurate or completely wrong because information was lost in SAP translation between different labs.

Is this the story of every migration, every rewrite though?
Private jets and yatchs are exempt from carbon taxes in Europe [1]! This makes it even more obvious how much business 'leaders' and politicians care.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbo...
I think the problem is that it just so happens that the areas and peoples getting the worst impacts happen to not be part of the developed West. Why worry about a few billion people less in the third world if your home transforms from a frozen tundra into a lush paradise?
I worked on home grown internal apps a long while ago and saw the same happen. Upper management gets sold on some ERP system (SAP, Oracle doesn't matter) and believe it will save money, streamline things, etc. whatever the marketing/sales people of the ERP say it will do. The yearly expense for licenses on the ERP was enough to fund a team of 5-10 developers and QA.

Here are things upper management doesn't consider:

* Picking the same ERP solution everyone else in your industry uses means you have zero competitive advantage now. Homegrown solutions with teams staffed to run them could give you an advantage.

* You need to pay expensive consultants to do things with ERP. If you want any customizations they will be a bottleneck for all future updates, possibly having to bring in expensive consultants every time you need to upgrade.

* The culture shift for employees is usually negative across the board. The IT people supporting it, the end users inside the company, basically the choice implies that management doesn't value its people or their thoughts on how to do their work.

* Vendor lock in. Switching from one ERP to another isn't likely to happen. They can raise their licensing/cloud costs when contracts are up and your company is likely stuck.
If you dig you find as much screwed up ERP projects for SAP as you find for Microsoft or for any other system. Differences in absolute numbers are caused different market share of the systems in question.
I think he's saying its not a serious discussion. It shouldn't be a surprise many are not on board with a plan that is largely performative and doesn't do a thing but send the majority into poverty.
ManageEngine vulnerability posed code injection risk for password management
Well, before it was a cool identity to have, geeks used to go into computing often in order to escape what they perceived as reality that was hostile to them. I guess if you think you are an animal (even if ironically) you would also be more keen to stay in the virtual world.
And infosec is one of those fields where hiding behind an avatar or a nickname is still somewhat accepted.
> When the revealed policy preference of world leaders is to shut down the AC in summer in a desert, turn off the heat in a Scandanavian winter, and restrict energy supplies to developing countries, you don't have a workable solution.

There aren't a huge number of possible solutions here. In fact, there are only two: 1) decrease energy usage, or 2) increase sustainable energy production. Claiming that one of these is not a workable solution is not particularly helpful.

> Current policy prescriptions are going to kill a lot more people than the warming they are trying to prevent.

Reference for this statement?
Yeah I kinda wonder if that's ever going to happen. They aren't using coal because they like it, it's cheap and they have a lot of poor people with very real energy needs.
> It's a bit of a catch 22 for B2B startups hoping to use the YC startup network as a source of early customers,

Does YC really help you get customers? Just wondering--in my experience VCs can help with intros but getting real customers requires legwork.
Yea but Tokyo is in a different country with different rules, laws, cultural expectations, etc.

I’d say before building skyscrapers in existing neighborhoods, California could dismantle highways and build them there instead. Then you get a win-win of more housing and fewer SUVs and trucks.
Doubtful. They were hiring remote pre-pandemic too, it's part of how amazon operates.
Agreed, I would go with separate running headphones. Even if the sweat doesn't destroy them, I've lost several pairs of quasi-waterproof headphones to sudden heavy rain etc.
Yeah, this was hard not to notice.
Burning coal also costs lives, both directly through pollution, and indirectly through climate change. "X costs lives" isn't a worthwhile argument unless you show that it costs more lives than the alternative.
Many are structured around "x time period of continuous employment" leaving the severing of the relationship vague.
I don’t have a “zig/rust is better than rust/zig” point here. The point was to say you have to judge Rust’s success against the unsafe code it occasionally forces you to write (you don’t get to hand wave it away), especially since a great example of such unsafe code is data structures code, and that is where a lot of my memory errors occur. Then we got diverted into some minor points about how much benefit does memory safety at compile time give you in different domains.

I wouldn’t build a company or long-term project around Zig right now, since it’s quite young, so if the choice was just those two, I’d probably always pick Rust. But ignoring that, since Zig will probably “graduate” in a year or two: both are good for all those domains, and I’d be hard-pressed to say one is better or worse than the other without further constraints. Zig certainly seems less indirect and more lightweight, and has less of an immediate cognitive burden, but Rust’s additional burden there is providing some additional value. I really don’t like Rust’s allocation story though — AFAIK there are plenty of allocations in std that can only be controlled by swapping out the global allocator, possibly even at link time. C++ is clunky on this front too, just in a different way. C is “better” simply because the standard library is so meager, but that has never been a problem for me in practice.
It will be effective, but only if every country agrees to do it. And if I know anything about global politics, it is simply not possible.
It's mentioned at the top of the page that WebGPU isn't enabled by default in _any_ browser. The linked^1 caniuse page mentions this as well, while available in Safari, it has to be enabled in the developer config.

[1] - https://caniuse.com/webgpu
I say this as often as I can.
We have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer with ~83% efficacy.
Following the "bread-crumbs" seems like a good strategy to me.

We have this little beasty in wild.
Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, but no vaccine.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-t-lym...

We have correlation with cancer with other viruses. Hep C for example.

How many more clues do we need to expand research in this direction?

Could the implications for the existing cancer "industry" preclude finding prophylactic methods? Asking for a friend.
This kind of thing is that gave rise to RPA as an industry.
> I've noticed there is a tendency among folks on the left (and for all I know it's also true of folks on the right) where people who do as you say are cast out and labeled "centrists", creating a dynamic where internal criticism is silenced.

As to whether the right also does it, Eric Greitens literally released an ad showing him "RINO hunting" with a rifle (RINO meaning "Republican In Name Only"). Leftists may infight, but at least we know how to use our words.

(As compared, for example, to the 1960s and 1970s, where bombing was a much more common tool of the left. I'll definitely take the verbal infighting.)
Important people get fired all the time and no meaningful percentage of Patreon users are going to care. If you stopped using a product every time someone important got fired you could probably use nothing, live nowhere, and would just sit in the dirt until you were dead. The only difference with this is the publicity and people trying to get it to gain traction. I don’t expect it to though and the world will continue to turn.