skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's a bit dramatic

I suppose so. But no more dramatic than the collapse of many previous civilizations. It's not an unheard of occurrence. Especially when faced with sudden loss of habitat.

> Some areas will be destroyed...destruction of viable cities...mass migration...

So you think that's all going to happen, and then what...somehow the climate system is going to return to a habitable, stable state? We're in the midst of abrupt and irreversible climate change, with tipping points triggering further tipping points.

And even if somehow the climate system stabilizes, we'd already be well on the way to collapse of civilization, and we'd have to deal with all of this social upheaval and habitat destruction in a sane, non-destructive manner. I think that history, climate projections, and known human behaviour are all pushing the odds toward civilization collapse, and possibly another extinction in the genus Homo.
Does this put Zuck in contention for Worst CEO of All Time?
My biggest pet peeve with the Spotify iOS app is the offline mode - it’s total garbage.

- Every time you open the app you get a “turn on wifi to enable downloads” alert. This may or may not be an iOS thing
- I try to navigate to an artist or album I’ve downloaded and I just see loading spinners until it finally times out and shows me my offline content
- Music I’ve previously downloaded just…not available - i.e. It needs to be redownloaded. Well thanks a lot Spotify - leaves me shit out of luck when I want to listen to something you’ve deemed as “expired”. My most recent one being Taylor Swift’s Midnights this evening, an album that came out and I downloaded on Friday.
Never have I ever worked at a company where tor browser usage even shows up in our metrics (would it even show up in metrics? probably not), nor have we heard from anyone about using tor browser, so to us, those users simply don't exist or if they exist our resources are so limited that it's not worth pandering to that usecase.

Considering something like 98-99% of users at our current company use chrome or safari, we don't even prioritize firefox / edge unless there are user complaints (which there aren't many of because we use modern JS so there are generally only tiny differences between browsers if any). Again our resources are limited and there's only so much we can do
We can also invent and engineer new tech that makes more production sustainable.
> Paper is also recyclable - you can break down paper and use it to create new paper.

You say this like it wasn't completely routine to do it with vellum.

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

> Paper also can be produced in various thicknesses/with various textures to allow for different kind of work. (Think newspaper paper vs. watercolor paper

Again, this sounds like it's purely driven by cost concerns. Newspapers aren't printed on paper that's better suited to being a newspaper than the normal stuff. They're printed on awful, kleenex-like paper that will tear in a light breeze and that smudges ink all over you if you touch it at all. But I assume newspaper paper is even cheaper than other paper.

(And indeed, newspapers with a high opinion of themselves produce separate "archival quality" editions on non-awful paper!)

Clay and vellum can also easily be produced in "various thicknesses" (see: palimpsests!), though admittedly it's tough to get clay to be as thin as you'd like.
> That learned me.

That taught me?
Ask HN: Best upskilling courses for software engineers?
I'm looking around for courses to recommend to members of my teams to help grow their software engineering skills, and coming up... pretty short.

I've got a few books that have proven to be excellent -- Sandi Metz' are at the top of that list -- but not a lot of interactive courses, coaches, or teachers that I feel I could recommend.

I'll take recommendations for specific courses on Coursera and the like, but I'm particularly curious about small-group classes and/or coaching, where there's actual feedback and critique on the work being done.

Any pointers?
Sony A7IV uses 16.4Wh battery that is equivalent to 4432mAh/3.7V. It's on par to latest smartphones. It's true that it could have bigger battery but it's not everyone want.
I agree that we shouldn't destroy value, especially by accident. My original point was that having this conversation in engineering terms is the only sensible way to have it.
Linear use a similar effect on their Customers page when you hover over their customer's cards: https://linear.app/customers
Now we've gone in a circle. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33365040

If the law mandates USB C, then it mandates 3 amps for cables.
We should make connected green corridors for the remaining mammals migration routes, and humans too to enjoy.
Humans are but one species of animal.

We may like them better, given that we are them. We may like our families more than strangers as well. That does not mean that a machine that used unfathomable cruelty to concentrate the rest of humanity into a slurry for the pleasure of our family members would not be a horror.
Only vaguely related, but the site (https://pokemontcg.io/) that the high resolution card images are from is very big and fancy for something that is:

> This website is not produced, endorsed, supported, or affiliated with Nintendo or The Pokémon Company.

...which surprises me, because in general Nintendo are Not Amused by people making money off of their IP... but, it's been around for a while, so I guess they don't care?
1. De-saturate your reading intake. Are you reading a lot of short-form content like HN, reddit, twitter etc. on your phone? Cut that noise.

2. Find a read that you are looking forward to. To me, this was some science fiction. I discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds via the adaptation of his Beyond the Aquila Rift story by Netflix' Love Death and Robots. I started with his short story collections which have an incredible reading-time-to-payoff ratio - some of the most satisfying world building in short form. It helps that he is an astrophysics PhD.

So basically find what you love reading and let the pleasure pull you into the experience.
They don’t care. You are the product, to be sold, not bought.
I find it more depressing than anything else. The amount of those sales that was actually needed instead of upgraded for vanity is quite small. Imagine all the wasted resources and e waste so someone can have a different model number that is one higher for their phone, so they can feel better than their friends and spend more time looking at their phone. Our largest company is based on profiting from human greed and self-esteem issues. Doesn’t speak highly for us.
> So the solution is to let another big tech be the gatekeeper? If a customer thinks Google is a better gatekeeper then they should stick with Android. Nothing wrong with that.

Nobody is going to be a green bubble for access to the play store. This isn't textbook forced bundling[0], but it sure feels close.
[0] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

> As for the right to install/manage software, I view it similarly to what the FDA is doing now to protect me from products that are dangerous. I don’t have the knowledge to be able to vet all chemicals that are dangerous to me so I’m happy to let them handle it. Is such a view considered insanity?

You're fine to think so, but why can't I opt out?

> In the end is all this talk about rights and freedoms really just a veil for the fact that some devs just want to make more money?

There are whole classes of applications where the margins don't really make sense because of apple's cut. I don't know why they need to extract so much rent?
Where are you seeing that this statistic is only about megafauna?

I know the article talks a lot about megafauna extinction, but the specific statistic I posted does not mention this, at least that I can see.

https://ourworldindata.org/mammals#wild-mammals-make-up-only...

I think the title of this post should be edited if it is indeed misleading.
Gnome Evolution closing all mailing list
I always thought Windows ME was the Wii U of Windows.

Microsoft was expecting people to line up around the block and fork over $100 for Windows ME and everyone was just confused.
It's idiomatic slang. Same thing.
I have got those before, no wash levis 501, they last me about 2 years of (very) regular wear before they get a hole in the crotch area(in addition to other areas I don't care as much about) and are not really usable. I've had a pair of unbranded brand (14.5 oz selvedge) for about 4 years with not nearly the wear.
Sounds like the classic correlation vs. causation canard. Consider, for example, Massachusetts vs. Mississippi. Are the differences due to the political leanings of the state or to other factors, such as socio-economic bases, etc? This kind of story is simply pre-election propaganda.
On Feeling Competent
In the specific section that I took this statistic from, whales seem to be included: https://ourworldindata.org/mammals#wild-mammals-make-up-only...
Does jellyfin have variable speed playback?
Think of it as “a car every four years for every person”.
<3 thank you for the quick fix! no unit switch yet right, or am I missing it?
Regardless of what humanity beliefs or justifies, while unlikely, sincerely hope for our shake that we never run into more advanced life form, including true artificial intelligence — since in my opinion, our actions will likely require explanation and struggle to find such an explanation given how intelligent we claim we are.
I was not expecting to see solder in there.
Recognized the reference immediately. What a movie.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/LAStory
Funny you mention that. I recently stumbled onto software that does just that [1]. It implements Google’s stacking algorithm that it uses for the pixel line.

It’s Mac only, but fantastic. Even a two photo stack produces much better noise reduction than I could get from software.

[1] https://burst.photo/
> Some recent ones that come to mind were Tenet and the Invincible tv-show.

It is a known issue: [1]

> Every time a new Christopher Nolan movie comes out [...] one complaint which seems almost universal at this point is that the sound mixing in many of his movies has resulted in dialogue that is frequently muffled and sometimes even downright inaudible.

[1] https://www.slashfilm.com/577777/christopher-nolan-sound-mix...
There's no reason Apple couldn't pay more than nation-states for bug bounties; They have a ridiculous amount of money after all.

In Crypto there exists a service called ImmuneFi, it's essentially a arbitrator between hackers and services offering bug bounties that provides an impartial third party ruling on the payout.

They recently paid out a $10 million bug bounty. That really needs to move into Web2.
> oil heiress

Does not imply she wields actual power to change the oil industry. Does not imply she agrees with the moral choices of of her parents. And Getty Oil is no more:

> Getty Petroleum filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) on December 5, 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Oil
You need only few % of the population protesting in the streets (less than 5% imho) to topple an authoritarian regime.

I suppose with sufficient vegan base the political will to remove (huge) subsidies for meat/dairy industry will materialize.

It simply doesn't make sense that meat burger/milk is cheaper than plant-based burger/milk now.

You need 100x more land to produce same amount of calories (beef vs. peas). Removing subsidies will drive prices of meat/dairy up, and plant based food prices will go down (as seen now with increasing competition and growing vegan movement).

With higher prices of meat/dairy many more people will switch.

As things are now, we need to remove subsidies for all unsustainable stuff, meat/dairy/oil/plastics/agri poisons ... we can't pretend forever that (negative) externalities don't exist.
> The purported goal is to “prevent ewaste”. How does it prevent ewaste if you still can’t depend on the cords working the way they should?

For charging, it's fine.

> Is that the bar we set now? It’s no better than what came before?

A charging standard shouldn't care about data except to avoid getting in the way, and it probably shouldn't mandate more expensive cables for devices that don't have data.

Also USB C supports more power than lightning.

But to directly answer: That bar is just fine, because the point is the make everyone use the same thing. It doesn't need to be better, it needs to be good and everyone the same.
What do you mean by “remoted”?
Don't worry, @vikingerik will continue to double down.
Ask HN: How long did your MVP take to develop?
Wonder how long did it take to ship your first product and how did you end up building it. Did you outsourced it someone to build, or just stack it up with available tools?
I used to buy 501s every boxing day when they were on sale. They'd last 2 years before they'd start getting holes, which I didn't really care too much about, except when they got them in the crotch, which is when I'd toss them.
I'm using CALDav for syncing. DAVx⁵ is on f-droid, I think.
On android you’d be lucky to get more than a single OS update that added new features or functionality.
I highly recommend Mike Hannah's book "Extinctions
Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" which puts modern extinction rates into deep time historical context.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/extinctions/A4B6AA42F40...

He's also written in the conversation:

https://theconversation.com/humans-are-driving-animals-and-p...
I’d rather be brainwashed than constantly re-assuring myself that the users of a different brand phone must be brainwashed.
The current system is broken. I don't think I agree with everything in the post, but I'm excited to see movement in this space given that this is a space I spend a lot of time thinking about. (I'll expand on that below)

Even if I disagree with parts of this, this is still one of the most interesting things that I've read around OSS licensing in a minute! Having actual VC money behind this movement is awesome.

For context: I run an Open Source company that's YC + VC-backed. We use a hybrid of Apache and Business Source License (BSL, a "non-compete" license that converts to Apache in 2-3 years). Our license file[0] has context about my thought process around this, but I still am not totally happy with it. (BSL isn't an "OSI-Compatible" license, but feels like the "best compromise" license out there currently.)

To come to that conclusion, I've read both Heather Meeker's book, "Open (Source) for Business"[1], multiple times now and I've also blogged about this topic[2] before. (She helped write the BSL license.)

All of that is to say, it's complicated and there are some perverse incentives that can prevent you from always "doing the right thing".

Problem #1: You lose control. You may begin with Apache but, as OP states, you eventually end up with the incentive to "rug pull" by switching the license because of market forces/VC influence. (I'm the founder of my company and I would resist it, but eventually our investors might control the board and make that happen anyway by firing me.)

Problem #2: The hardest part of building a company is getting traction. Just getting anybody to care about you takes a ton of effort and having a permissive license makes it way easier to get that early adoption. And, by the time you have adoption and you decide to go raise VC money, you now end up with Problem #1.

Problem #3: If you start with a copyleft license like GPL/AGPL then you make Problem #2 (adoption) harder. Many companies simply won't use your software if you're using a copyleft license (like Google). (Linux is a notable exception here, while companies like MongoDB switched from AGPL. It's crazy.)

We are using BSL because it feels like the best compromise (it becomes Apache 2.0 eventually). I do still think a lot about switching to Apache though. I just really hate the idea of "rug pulling" and I'd rather be honest from the beginning with a license like BSL, even if it is more difficult to get that initial momentum.

Does anybody else have thoughts to share about this?

0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/LICENSE.md

1: Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing - Third Edition https://a.co/8SLjVZI

2: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-build-an-open-source...
how do you feel about the word "triaged"? There's some reports that are obviously going to be worth an immediate response and some that aren't. And some will slip through the cracks, in either direction, because the queue is being watched by a human and not a robot. If the report contains a screenshot of your private admin panel, it's getting escalated.

Anyone serious got advanced notice of meltdown/spectre/heartbleed and had longer than 15 minutes to decide a course of action. Whether that's a good or bad thing about infosec as an industry, I can't decide.
Look maybe it's just my bubble but I'm not sure that is the case. I take environmental concerns into heavy consideration while voting but beyond that what actions I can take personally are highly limited (I already don't own a car, which is going to pretty massively produce my footprint compared to the average western adult).

The thing is short of performing an act of what would essentially be terrorism (assaulting and injuring an oil company executive or a politician who screws up my nation's commitments to carbon neutrality or blowing up a mine or something) I don't think there is anything approaching a direct way for me to be involved in actually fixing the problem.

People acknowledge the problem, they just also feel powerless to fix it because in a lot of ways they are, and it's awful, and that powerlessness just makes this sort of "awareness seeking" activism rankle me even more.

I live in Sydney and I while back some activists glued themselves the road on the harbour bridge, massively fucking up traffic for hours (ironically this protest probably hurt the environment by causing a traffic jam). Nobody became "more aware" of climate change as a result, but they did have their day disrupted and have to spend more time stuck in cars and buses, they did have to stress about getting to work late, and in some cases probably stay at work late to make up the time. Those people are facing jail time, and as much as I normally do respect that protests have to be disruptive to be meaningful I agree with the penalty in this case. The only people they disrupted were normal people just trying to make it through the goddamn day. I think this whole thing with the art is similar. Absolutely be disruptive, but be targeted: glue yourself to the car of an Exxon Mobile exec, glue yourself to an access road leading to a refinery. Don't degrade public spaces like major roads or art galleries unnecessarily - the people making decisions won't care or be impacted and the rest of us will suffer just that little bit more.
More than a vocal minority: HN has a vocal individual thing.

Relative to other sites, the commenting body of HN is small. The frequent commenters represent an even smaller group. Combined with an interface that deliberately draws attention away from who exactly you're reading with desaturated text, and you've got pretty ideal situation for the opinion of one frequent commenter to produce what appears to be a somewhat popular view.
It's actually not too difficult. The camera turret has incredibly precise GPS and knows exactly what angle it's at. With that, it's pretty straightforward to figure out where it's pointing at on the ground, grab the relevant map data, and overlay graphics.
https://archive.ph/xJzUo
I wonder if at some point a leader has to step away - not necessarily because the strategy is wrong (I have no idea); but because for whatever reason, right or wrong - no one really wants that leader to win.

No one in the community likes Zuckerberg. No one wants him to win. Meta - the company - could restore its image and rebuild trust with a new leadership. But not while he is there.

Not commenting on whether this is just - whether he has gotten a bad rap or not. Am speaking just to the reality of the perception.

If it were me - I would step away, not just for the sake of the company - but for my own as well. I would want to take my wealth and see what else I could do with it - how else might I be able to contribute and give back? Think of both Gates and Jobs when apart from MS and Apple. It's not just a chance for the company to reinvent itself, but the leader as well.
Sony cameras actually used to run Android. You could even sideload apks.
A few days ago I asked this exact same question. And I have been told by HN comments that in the US he would still be sued even if the shareholders have non-voting rights and Zukerberg has absolute control of the company.
Yeah. If a game isn't well suited to Unreal, that game may well just not get made. But then again Factorio is one of the best selling PC games of all time. Maybe gameplay finds a way.

On CDPR specifically, I hope didn't make the decision to drop Red Engine because they happened to be at their lowest/weakest point in the last couple years after Cyberpunk came out and before Cyberpunk had a comeback -- and that's why they didn't feel strong enough to maintain their own engine.

Before that moment they were on top, and very recently Cyberpunk has had a sort of public redemption and a surprisingly strong long-term player base, so it feels like a shame. I still haven't seen a game in Unreal that matches Cyberpunk on high end PC hardware overall. The only game other than Cyberpunk that justifies raytracing is Minecraft RTX IMO.
These art protests have had the most clickbait titles I’ve seen in a while. The art never gets damaged because it’s behind a glass protective layer. “Activist glues his head to ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ painting in The Hague” is an outright lie when the painting was never touched.

What’s the hn protocol on when titles are not just misleading but presenting falsehoods as facts?
>WA got rid of emissions testing because almost every single car passes

These planes keep returning with bullet holes in these areas. We should reinforce those spots!
Indeed, both the name and the very clever combination of existing components sounded familiar when I first heard about Tailscale :)
1970: "It's kind of sad to see only one or two people with large-format cameras at any "vista point" I visit because it brings back memories of talking with other amateur photographers. Nowadays everyone has these stupid SLRs that you can just hang around your neck."
This just makes me realize how long it's been since I played Pokemon TCG (the original Base Set). This is amazing, great work! Wish there were another game like the GB Pokemon TCG and TCG2 games.
Making Books Better Through Digitization
I don't know why developers are so infatuated with laptops (and at this point I'm too afraid to ask? :)).

But seriously, I need a full-sized keyboard, a mouse, and at least 2 monitors to feel productive.

Yes, I realize you can probably hook those up to a laptop with a bunch of adapters and hubs too, but I also use my machines to game, so...