skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More worrying:

Among the areas expected to be the most affected by global warming are large parts of China, India and Pakistan. 1.5C on average might be 5-6C there, which is enough to make large, densely populated areas unlivable (as in you will die without AC).

2+ billion people living there having to move elsewhere is nothing we've seen before, the only direction they can really move is north, into Russia. All countries mentioned have nuclear weapons.
Mining has nothing to do with CBDCs
Shameless plug

I made an entire organ synthesizer in under 1024 bytes of html/js (use your keyboard):

https://js1024.fun/demos/2022/23

source / instructions / background:

https://github.com/ThomasBrierley/js1024-mini-b3-organ-synth

The javascript was significantly reduced in size by using regpack, which is a regex based dictionary compression algorithm targetting very small self decompressing javascript. Writing for regpack takes some thinking because you have to try and make the code the most naturally self similar, which often means consciously avoiding more immediate space saving hacks in order to make larger sequences of characters identical - e.g it would usually make sense to not duplicate an expression, unless it's very short and only used a couple times, it usually makes sense to store it in a variable, but the character cost in defining the variable is actually larger than simply duplicating the expression through regpack (even if it's used a lot).

This might be worse than the lzw type compression used in HTTP, I haven't tested, but this was written for a code golfing competition where source size counts not transmitted size... Then again, conceptually this should lend itself to any any dictionary based compression, so zipping the original source (minus the whitespace), may also work out very well.

Here's a web interface that includes terser and regpack: https://xem.github.io/terser-online/

Note that it's usually best to hand minify for regpack, terser is only convenient for removing whitespace, but advanced automated js compression libraries usually cause the size to inflate when regpack is the final stage.

[edit]

zipping the source comes in at 952 bytes - so it appears this technique applies when targetting dictionary compression in general, including the commonly used compression in HTTP.
It seems like you just need a reason not to move. If Utrecht is too hot the rest of the world will be in hell.
The book cites the following as a reference: "Testimony of Sebastian Mueller, Curtice Brothers v. Harry E. Barnard et al., in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 4:2989-995; Testimony of G. F. Mason, Curtice Brothers v. Harry E. Barnard et al., in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 4:2966, in the National Archives-Great Lakes Region, Chicago"

A quick search on "Curtice Brothers v. Harry E. Barnard" only refers back to the book. Didn't care to look beyond that to see if the case is online.
She was voted Naughty penguin of the month multiple times [0], so if there’s anything fishy going on I suspect her to be behind the scheme herself.

Definitely not as adorable as she looks!

[0] https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/penguin-of-the-year...
They are advantages, but they are not significant advantages.

The main problem holding back nuclear is its cost. Fusion, at least of the DT kind, makes this main problem worse.
No, it doesn’t matter. Security can be outsourced more readily these days to company’s who make it their core offering. It’s a better solution.
Thank you for that recommendation, published 2010 and seemingly out of print, but I've ordered a second-hand copy.

I don't expect it's unusual for a monarch to be something of a philosopher though - they're somewhat inherently well-educated, thoughtful, devoting time to deep thought, etc. Less usual (in modern times anyway) is to hear their thoughts in public as we did while he was Prince of Wales; we'll see to what extent that continues - he has said he's 'not stupid' and that he recognises the role of sovereign is different. If I had to bet though, I imagine he does see a bit more room for public commentary than Elizabeth II made.
That's a ridiculous statement. Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of California. You could pack up Los Angeles and San Diego and turn them into nature reserves and fit the entire state population into the Bay Area trivially if people just learned how to green light some fucking high rise apartment buildings.
Hiring is speeding up again in Australia and New Zealand in private companies. Government and public sector not so much, but all the consultancies have massive shortages which feeds into public sector quite a bit.

I don’t think it ever really slowed like it has in the US. Then again inflation is only just starting to ramp in Australia. New Zealand doesn’t really have an excuse.

Singapore seems pretty healthy too.
In 2015, it was reported and verified by researchers that a former nurse in Scotland could smell an odor unique to Parkinson's Disease. Now they can do it with a swab, that's quite amazing.
> "wait til you have an ESG score for your personal life"

How exactly do you suggest the 'G' part would work? It's short for "corporate governance" you know.

I get the feeling you're getting these bizarre talking points from some right-wing echo chamber where they're coming up with a new scary acronym panic on a regular basis. "Watch out, the ESG will CRT you into the NWO!"
CBDCs aren't cryptocurrencies.
gross. Look at all of those non-'A's
The iPhone Isn't Cool
Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone
In our organization we are looking for Stack exchange / Reddit / HN like clone that can used for "discussion threads on some technical topics". Any suggestions. We use Teams chat but UI for this purpose is not useful.
> Oof. That's really complicated and still doesn't do the trick.

> Concrete example -- when searching Reddit, I can check a box to confine the search to the current subreddit I'm on. That does a wonderful job of restricting results, and... it's one checkbox.

> You don't need to make search feel like filing your taxes to make it better.

I'm surprised at the Reddit example since Reddit's search capabilities are in-fact so awful that people have actually quit the platform for it or have at the very least resorted to using Google to search for specific Reddit threads (doable via Google's advanced search or simply adding the keyword "site:reddit.com").

In fact, the capability you described is present on the Advanced Search form. Look for the row "site or domain" and you can constrain your search to just specific sites.

I think the thing people miss is that Google effectively creates the function you're describing not just by having a multi-field search box (advanced search) but by allowing that to be achieved through just one text box (e.g "site:", "inurl:", "filetype:", and other key words), and for more tailored searches, Google provides entirely distinct UIs such as News, Shopping, Scholar (my favorite), etc.

I suppose I'm just lost as to what the main complaint is. I can't bring myself to work at Google because of how heavily they rely on adtech for revenue, but I can't hate their search.
https://archive.ph/A8xJc
> "Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future -- even from one year to the next -- once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed," Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist and one of the study's co-authors from the British Antarctic Survey, said in the release.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/05/world/thwaites-doomsday-g...

Thwaites gone would constitute a sea level rise of 10 feet, iirc.
Yes, I don't think it's worth it other than as an exercise in byteshedding.
Something that I've found really valuable about private chats is the ability to build rapport and trust with immediate team members in a way that just isn't quite the same in a public channel. You need both. I don't like the idea of setting policies of "almost all communication should be done in public channels". Humans need both types of communication, and I think it's a mistake to try to enforce your team to always prefer one over the other.
Mine too. I took a pair in that had symptoms exactly as described in the service program description. Both the left and right earbud failed in their test machine, but Apple said my Airpods did not qualify because they were not part of the program (manufactured a few months after the end date).

I suspect the issues weren't actually resolved by the date they claim.

Also, more annoyingly, they offered replacement refurbished left and right pods for $89 each. I can go to Costco and buy a new pair with a new charging case for only $2 more.

Moral of the story: Airpods are unreliable, if you buy them then also buy the extended warranty from Apple.
Apple Airpod Pro (2nd gen) lanyard on sale for $12.95
Available for $12.95
I once joined a team and in my first face to face meeting the person who was the technical leader was upset in a meeting that “people are still doing this process wrong”.

Being new-ish I felt like I could ask the obvious question.

“Where do we find this process?”

Leader: “Oh don’t worry, I’m not blaming you. I sent out the process in email before you joined.”

“I joined nine months ago.”

Leader: “Yup.”

In the end this person was actually pretty great to work with but man having a ton of wonky communication methods and etc just constantly causes problems.
Pretty and enjoyable. Do you mind sharing which tools you used for crafting it?

Thanks in advance.
The thing that's been the most jarring to me about climate change has been just that - the change. Every year feels different. You might have intense rains one year, drought-like situation the next year. One summer might be brutal, another pleasant.

I feel unmoored and untethered. The reasonable predictability of weather patterns is completely broken now.
Good luck with all that. Whether you vote Democrat or Republican it doesn’t really make a difference. The specter of corporate interest is eternally allowed to possess legislative avatars and parade about guaranteeing that status quo.

If there is a physical signal strong enough to orient the capable majority of 8 billion people with a common vector field in regard to the climate situation, I haven’t seen it yet.
Also from this article, between 1.5 and 2 degrees:

> widespread abrupt permafrost thaw

Which is “fun” because that releases a boatload more carbon into the atmosphere.
They do.
A very detailed article was posted not long ago :

https://acko.net/blog/the-gpu-banana-stand/
+1 for anything open source or free.
hckrnews.com user here. I might try it out, what are your hosting plans and are you able to keep it standing for the future? Good work!
None of these tipping points are exponential. Global warming is most likely an S-curve with a few degree maximum. Mispresenting the issue as an exponential is scaremongering.

In the worst case, we would likely end up with something like the Eocene, where the whole planet is covered with forests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Flora
All this negativity about SAP, but why do companies invest in it then? A quick search on google shows no happy users.
Cool, Steven Wittens is behind this. The header at https://acko.net/ is one of the first examples of WebGL I remember seeing in the wild, and still one of the cleanest. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
Ease of taxation
In many of my employers over the years where security mattered, it was rarely important enough to spend much money on. One place (covered by HIPAA's rather toothless laws) I pointed out how insecure all of our servers & databases were (single password, known by all), and the only response I got was "we pass our audits, and anyway we trust all of our employees". Groan.

An earlier employer had a single person in charge of security for a company with 50000+ customer investment accounts. Oh and the one that was there when I started was eventually discovered to have two full time jobs, which worked because he had unlimited vacations. After that person was fired, the replacement did nothing but run a few scripts every day, and our databases did not encrypt anything, and they argued for months on whether to buy disk encryption software instead of the just encrypting credit card numbers (which meant various applications had to be modified and no one wanted to pay for that work).

So if Patreon dumped their entire security team (or just one part, it's not clear) makes me reminisce about stupidities... not much has changed.
Only in the last year? That's impressive. I had a colleague at work about 5 years ago have a total meltdown at her desk as she realised that we are very unlikely to find a solution to this before extreme, severe damage is done...

I think doomerism is pretty common now, especially since groups like XR have started to become far more individualistic and neoliberal in their messaging, switching from more intense protests and occupations to more often just posting "please don't fly" things on Facebook.

My theory is that so many people in Europe especially are so incredibly wedded to their western democratic liberal ideals that they, as Jameson and Zizek said: find it "easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", 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.

And it is, isn't it? It's far easier to imagine that we will keep accelerating towards climate catastrophe than to imagine that the structural changes that would need to occur for us to stop it will actually happen.
Yep, and there are a lot of things surrounding the device (and its inventor and the company that should/will produce it) that do not sound "right".

There is a video (recent enough, May 2022) on Youtube where the inventor shows a prototype of the machine that - besides being "bulky" shows no signs of "industrialization", what is shown is an assembled mish-mash of more or less standard components:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvZTb2_C2pU

The "startup" that has been promoting this since 2018 has been seemingly been actually incorporated in 2019 and has a 2020 (2021 is not yet available) gross income of around 220,000 Euro.

On one side the company page is about a plant to produce it in Italy that will be built in Tuscany (with jobs for 150 people), and another one that will be built in the North (another 150 people), one that will be built in Switzerland (another 150 people or so), plans to expand in Bulgaria and other countries, on the other the owner (which evidently is a Civil Engineer) is promoting on the company site two of his books (about construction science).

It is strange, if it is a scam, it is so approximate to be unbelievable, if it is a serious endeavour it is so approximate that there is no way that the people managing it will be able to actually produce anything, let alone on a large scale.

I also have seen a couple reports about people having being quoted around 14,000 Euro for one of these devices and having paid some form of advance, that are waiting since several months to have the (at the moment non-existing) device installed.

And the same goes for the network of installers/maintenance firms, it seems like half the country is not (yet) covered and the few areas that are actually assigned are given to firms that - at face value - don't look like being qualified or large enough to reliably perform the installation and maintenance.

Finally, at least personally, I would not want an always connected device that can be tuned/regulated via internet, I mean it is not the usual crappy net enabled thermostat or webcam, we are talking of a device that - in theory - should produce heat and electricity 24/7.
So I started flipping the switch on and off as fast as I could for 5.5 seconds and getting the error message over and over. ;-)
that is super dangerous, just like some other dangerous parts of perl where it can run code during the compilation phase
I'm not seeing a meaningful difference since the boundary between a passive or active supernatural force is not always clear in any regional belief system.

Christians will pray to Saints, which appear to be beings, but the rituals having to do with their invocation often seem to be treating them like forces.

The difference is orientalism and the compulsion to label Asian beliefs as more mysterious and wise than usual.
I'd advise, do NOT take it personally, instead mentally detach and look for a new job, and when you land the new job, request a week or two gap before you start , then go do something nice, road trip or something in that time. If you had money saved up, I'd be tempted to stick it out but without savings you need to get another job. Personally I got laid off a couple of times 20 yrs apart, company financial problems in both cases. In both cases I got a pay rise and a nice break between jobs as result. ;). A good long-term lesson you might learn from this is be frugal e:g learn cheap cookery, drive a car you can buy out-right not borrow for, and build some savings, that way the whole thing is less stressful.
True, but people are going to be calling you, not Microsoft, when the app is instantly deleted when they download it. The worst part is that it isn't even consistent. It will be ok for a few months and then end up back on the virus list again.
massive construction of NPPs, with the last big share of works taking place in the 90s. the large majority of them are still in use today. average NPP age in France is ~30 years.

this is what allows France to produce electricity at ~50-100 grams of CO2 eq. per kWh, a performance that is only rivaled by countries with also nuclear- and/or hydro-heavy grids. for comparison, Germany sits between ~200-600 gCO2eq./kWh (last year's average). Germany's grid is renewable-heavy, but also intermittent, relying on the use of GHG-intensive backups (coal, gas). [1]

[1] ENTSOE data aggregated by @BotElectricity, https://twitter.com/BotElectricity/status/134536262422201548...
which discord?
And methane.
Related:

https://emmer.house.gov/2022/1/emmer-introduces-legislation-...

“Not only would this CBDC model centralize Americans’ financial information, leaving it vulnerable to attack, but it could also be used as a surveillance tool that Americans should never tolerate from their own government.”
I won't say anything yet but I expect another story to unfold in the coming days, with a spin that has nothing to do with security or financials.
Say that to the user.
Short of running for office, I just don’t really feel that my actions can affect anything. I will choose green options when available, I pay for an energy supplier that claims to be 100% renewable powered, I don’t have a car, I haven’t flown in years, I eat mostly vegetarian, but at the end of the day all this really does is slightly assuage my guilty conscience.

I’m not convinced activism is much more effective - everyone hates extinction rebellion every time they block a highway and politicians get points for saying they’ll stop it happening again. It really feels like the only real way a single person can make a difference is by running for office, and I would be a terrible politician.
Saying everything is ok because there are third-parties handling security is a major red flag.

Technically a tool like Snyk or Dependabot is a third-party security vendor, but would you trust your financial & personal information with a company that says their security posture relies solely on those tools?
In even the worst case the Earth will be fine. People, not so much.
> if parents see headlines about "Minecraft" (no, the specific server host won't matter) being used to exploit or otherwise prey upon children and stop buying it

You make it sound like it's an alien concept that only us techies understand, but it is actually quite a mainstream understanding that once you legally buy a thing then whatever illegal stuff you do with it is a responsibility of law enforcement and not whoever made and sold you that thing. What is alien here is this belief that intentional remote crippling of a product with no court order or anything is somehow even legal

Anyway. If you follow the money real threat to MS bottom line is not losing a 30 bucks one time per household but having people prefer the more moddable, unlockable OG version that the cool kids are playing (JE) over recurring revenue cash cow (bedrock).
For me that would be an effective way to target government money to people that really need it. Another comment pointed the expiring money, specialized money, etc as a distopia future but this is only if we let it become that IMHO.

There is also a utopia side to that coin where money like UBI can be easily distributed to all but can only be used to buy necessities like food, shelters, etc but cannot be used to buy stocks and prop up a bubble in the stock market like a lot of the stimulus checks were during the pandemic. One could also easily target programmable money toward low income people without needing to wait a tax statement or having to double check at the end of the year.

Programmable money is a really powerful concept and I do think it is inevitable that we will come to it at some point since it lowers of the cost of implenting economic policies and increases the speed at which they are deployed. But we do need to make sure enough laws are on the book to prevent authoritarian use. In a stable and alive democracy that should not be too much of an issue, but elsewhere...
I'd very much think that being able to get ~8% of what is paid to creators (2 billion in 2021) make them pretty much able to run their operation solely with their own revenue if they wanted to. Most of the activity would be concentrated on the large creators, who tend to have the top plan (12%), so Patreon's average percentage revenue over that payout would likely larger. And they seem to be consistently growing in both creator and member counts of the platform. So in 2022 they will probably distribute more than 2 billion.

So they don't seem to have any problem with income. VCs have little reason to pressure them for anything either - this is a startup that is making 125-130 million revenue every year already, and its subscription revenue - the holy grail. Any pressure that comes in from that side would likely be in the direction of pushing for growth. Which may be one of the reasons for the layoff. Excepting some major incident related to the security, of course.
There is no accepted theory. There are indeed multiple defining differences between the 6th title and all others including earlier titles: the first Windows title, the inavailability of detailed backstory (thus a fertile ground for derivative works), the only title with obviously Western characters and so on, but none of them seems crucial for the eventual popularity. If you ask me, my guess is that it was just a pure luck.
Isn't this story rather a strong sign that many managers are simply incompetent? I mean: how can you seriously manage things if you don't even know what kind of tasks you actually manage?
I’ve always interpreted it as the intersection of happiness & self soothing. Sort of like a hum or song for humans.
I liked the authors book on The Reactionary Mind so will check this out.
I have a pet project I'd like to make with this, but one piece of data I'd be missing is a measure/identifier for "important"/"newsworthy" bills. Clearly this is subjective, but I'd be open to most interpretations. Any suggestions for where I might find this?
That's nonsense, people interacting with software are by definition users. If they pay for it we call them customers.
HexoSynth Modular Synthesizer in Rust – Devlog #11
> This shit right here - {#if <condition>} {:else} {/if} - is why Svelte is deterring me. For the love of god, can we stop coming up with weird custom syntax for templating code?

I noticed that, too. Also, the {#each posts as post} struck me as being different as a fashion statement t. What was wrong with the good ol’ “for item in items” syntax?