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Ask HN: Climate change – challenges with technological solutions
Hi,

While listening to a talk by sci fi author Peter Watts[0], I was suprised by a point he raised:

In industrial England, he mentions that when coal engines were begining to be made more efficient, the expectation was that coal consumption was to go down, but it skyrocketed. More efficient means cheaper prices - when the price of gas goes down, people don't drive less.

What I found interesting is his comment that this will apply to renewables - even when solar gets more efficient, we'll just use so much of it that it'll even out (which seems to be the case, seeing all the issues with maintenance of solar) to not helping the environnement in the end.

Reminds me of phone manifacturers keeping phone screens thinner and thinner everytime Gorillaglass makes a stronger glass - instead of just sticking to a standard that doesn't break.

Not being an expert on climate change or renewables, I'm wondering if this is obviously wrong? If not - I find this alarming.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0rFGNYcIkI
Its not hard to put together something basic, a personal electronic health Record is actually super easy. The adoption is the problem. Here is why:

1. People are far more likely to store and curate their vacation pictures than healthcare data. There is a behavioral aspect to this. There isn't a lot of 'feel good' attached to storing a good HDL/LDL reading. Quite the opposite when it's bad.

2. Most countries develop their own version of a EHR, sometimes controlled by patients. Success rates vary but they remain a very useful tool for managing chronic conditions and patient peri-operative journeys. Once governments (local or national level) take over, there is very little incentive for anyone to develop.

3. There have been many attempts to create a patient-led EHR by companies but it is difficult to get off the ground and sustain due to data ownership, security, sharing and commercial complexities.

4. Storing the data itself is trivial. FHIR covers this well and within haematology at least, the support for standardization is strong. LOINC, SNOMED and UCUM are well established. Just be careful to store the initial units and reference ranges.

5. My personal take is that personal EHRs will take off once a good open source p2p toolkit implements superb encryption-led access control across workflows with top institutions comes into play. This is unlikely because of how EMRs lock up provider data.
A lot of these "trends" can easily be explained by the fact that millennials, aka the largest generation in the U.S., are aging. When they were young, many were willing to move. Now that they're older, many are no longer willing to move. The younger generation (Gen Z) is smaller, so, measured proportionally, fewer overall are willing to move.
There's a company/open source community where they automatically parse government databases. Makes it as easy as a git clone (obviously using different syntax) for you to have a local copy - think things like holidays, weather histories, open government data (in the US).

I think journalists would love to be able to query that data via natural language. Things like "what is the most common zip code for a specific traffic violation over the past 3 years" would be super useful.

I can't remember the name but will do some searching later.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973882 Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job (bloomberg.com - 407 points, 781 comments, 4 days ago, based on same source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas)
> Its never been harder to move

The water at the new place won't give you dysentery in 2023. And even if it does, we have treatments for it.
Massive Holodeck (without vr headset gear)
I live on a boat in a river next to the botanic gardens. Such a quiet place. I am not sure I can move back on land. Cars. Lawn mowers. Ugh.
The article is confused. Market pricing and conservation pricing are related but still different.

I’m in Dallas. We have months long periods almost every year where all our lakes are so overfull, we’re simply dumping excess water down the Trinity River to Houston’s Lake Livingston, which during those periods is typically well over capacity, too.

There’s no reason to conserve during those times. Want to grow a rain forest? Go for it! Conservation pricing is silly then.

Same for New Orleans. All that city has to do is put a straw in the Mississippi. There’s no conceivable situation where conservation is needed there.

Sure, there’s could be other limiters, like capacity to process and generate water. But that’s not a conservation issue.
It's toward the end of season one of Narcos, but the subjects are cops and criminals.
I feel like we kind of never really did, but we were willing to tolerate it. Now, the places that they want to move us are pretty freaking awful, and I'm used to the rut I've built.
Water economics are weird.

Not because of anything directly in the economics, but because people have really weird ideas and emotional attachments. So instead of charging a market rate proportional to usage (plus a fee to access the network etc, and giving poor people money to afford all this), there's all kinds of weirdness and grandstanding.

See https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/08/25/fake-consensualism/ for a wider exploration of sacred value and taboo trade-offs.

People seem to prefer having the government snoop on and micromanage what you use your water for, eg watering your lawn or filling your pool, instead of charging people a reasonable rate like you suggest.
Rust began in the late 2000s and only in the last few years has started to reach a level of mainstream acceptance. Adoption for new programming languages takes significant time. Compiler development takes an awful lot of time. For Swift to be this mainstream after being introduced in 2014 is (IMHO) really quick.

As for Foundation, core frameworks almost never get rewritten and for good reason. It's almost never worth it. Best case? You get functional equivalence. Worst case? You introduce bugs into something that millions or even billions of devices depend on. Those bugfixes may take many years. Every now and again we see bugfixes that are 10-20+ years old in things like GCC or the Linux kernel.

Rewrites should never be undertaken lightly, particularly with less mature languages. Apple is (IMHO) being relatively aggressive with this.
If you're looking for a well-integrated web app product that isn't something you can run locally on your computer, Picnic Health [1] is really good at this. They import all your medical records from the providers who use electronic health record systems with APIs and collect your medical records from the providers that don't use those systems or aren't as technologically savvy. They digitize everything and put it in a timeline format. Their service is not cheap though.

[1]: https://picnichealth.com/
https://archive.ph/zIcgi
It was not weird to urban yuppies but it has made tremendous inroads in the middle-aged suburban/middle-America demographic.

I come from a mid sized city in a less developed part of the US and sushi is much more available there now than 10 years ago. And yes 10 years ago most people 35+ in that area found it strange
No longer want to, or can not ? Same result, very different causes.
sort of, yeah, Ticketmaster sort of sells "accountability as a service" so fans don't get mad at the artists.

I'm a centrist, but things like this push me further to the right personally. Governments can't charge what they ought to for parking/water and the people ultimately suffer the consequences.
Using Fastmail and nnimap in Gnus, I only block for about 1 sec to check emails. I tried my Gmail account, but results were much worse, several secs.
If AI is the car, the human mind is the horse.
"Performance of seven consumer sleep-tracking devices compared with polysomnography"
Sleep. 2021 May PMC8120339

Seems to accurately analyze them. Conclusion "Device sleep stage assessments were inconsistent."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8120339/

This research was funded by the Office of Naval Research, Code 34. (see also Disclosure Statement)
An actual crime was committed. Not to mention you’d be in the same spot if you wired $540M to a bank in Mozambique.
Can't review your past employers anymore...
Your skepticism is justified. Oura publish their data, and to quote them:

>Oura ring was 96% accurate in detecting sleep compared to polysomnography, 48% accurate in detecting wakefulness, 65% agreement in detecting “light sleep,” 51% agreement in detecting “deep sleep” and 61% agreement in detecting REM

So it's basically wrong with sleep categorization about half the time.
oh cool i guess i can afford to move after all.
Awesome, I'll get in touch!
If it’s right of refusal wouldn’t the company have to be willing to buy it in order to prevent the other sale?
Ran across this recently; I imagine a few of the users on this site may have memories involving it!
Wasn't the passkey article just front page the other day?
Interesting, but this approach is still about scaling in size.
There are other more promising approaches that actually allow to reduce size of the network and have better performance: Closed-form continuous-time neural networks [1], or also known as liquid neural network.

They have been proved better in navigation (cars and even drones), with as little as 15 neurons in the network. The smaller scale not only makes it highly efficient, but also allows to better understand what the network is doing due to lower complexity.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00556-7
I don’t think telling people they don’t know enough about the human experience is the convincing argument you think it is. I do respect you and your opinion though - how can you possibly know what I’ve been through? It applies equally, you see?

Edit: the person who replied to me does not want me reply to them. Ideally, I’ve already said enough. Pedantically, you can assume “sexuality and gender” is the implication of the word “sexuality” above. Requiring homework or ideological preagreement before “being allowed to have an opinion” is among the most concerning things I’ve read that has been written in my lifetime.
There are tons of online places where people openly discuss steroid use like r/steroids and many oldschool phpbb-style steroid forums
This seems to imply a boom and bust population cycle. Are generations really demographic pulses as you describe? I thought they were just artificial cutoffs.
Hmmm, maybe try punching in the full IUPAC name:

(RS)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine
Can passenger land a plane (even just in simulator)
https://imgur.com/G7RUsYf

I'm running around 838 accounts because why not? I have a unique password for each login since five years ago. I went from LastPass to 1Password and finally settled on self-hosted Bitwarden(Vaultwarden) a year ago.
1146 in Bitwarden. But a lot of them are old, and some accounts aren't in BW.

> Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account.

I too used to live dangerously. But then I took an arrow... sorry, wrong one... then I read too many stories about "Google locked my account and now my life is ruined" and stopped using Google auth with anything but the least important sites on which I wouldn't mind losing the login.
Historically conservative governments have been more interested in making sure the water rates don't go up for corporations than pushing for conservation.
I could easily see some web sites just forwarding complaints of this nature to one of the national CSAM organizations (that are privately held and therefore unregulated and not open) who then add you to their database for future reference, even if the allegation is totally unfounded.
From the study: "Most devices (Fatigue Science Readiband, Fitbit Alta HR, EarlySense Live, ResMed S+, SleepScore Max) performed as well as or better than actigraphy on sleep/wake performance measures".

Great news.
Not sure I understand what you are saying. If you have an FPGA you can do anything you want, better and faster than the RP PIO hardware. Why replicate it?

If you are talking about creating microcoded state machines in an FPGA, once again, this is the kind of thing that is almost trivial. Examples of subsystems can can be implemented this way are dynamic RAM controllers, sophisticated programmable image processors/scalers, etc.
> Source semantics mismatch: the C language is surprisingly complicated, and its semantics as
formally defined in CompCert may diverge from the informal one defined in the standard, or in CompCert’s manual.

That's quite the understatement.
Counter-intuitively, making terminal software is harder because you have to think hard about the UX. You have to design how the accountant (or the user) is going to use, you have to make shortcuts, you have to think about the progression, etc... This is not the case for what's happening on GUI-land where the "designers" just randomly put texts, buttons, buttons that look like text, input boxes, tables, etc... It's all there just click a few buttons to get there.
Has anyone managed to get ruff to work when run as a pre-commit hook in a project whose deps (such as python and pre-commit) are declared in a flake.nix?

I love being able to pop between devices and have a uniform dev experience everywhere, but ruff is a thorn in my side.
pre-commit can't be told to just use the ruff binary /nix/store and fails to install it correctly, so things get hacky.
There is a huge difference between the federal government stepping in to regulate/mediate between states that cannot agree amongst themselves, and the federal government asserting authority to regulate activities within a single state or within multiple states that can agree amongst themselves.
Good. We really need to find a better model than "Ok, everybody move to NY/SF/LA". Yes, getting everybody in a room together is the best way to collaborate, but the cost of it is too high in just about every other dimension.
Well, looks like I’m getting Alzheimer’s, boys.
Sometimes when you "think different" you invent relativity, and sometimes you invent Time Cube.

Every mouse on the market has a battery life of months. Every mouse on the market will tell the user when the battery runs down. Apple is not special. The thing is just built wrong. And they haven't fixed it after all these years.

That is the smallest fatal flaw with that mouse. The bigger flaw is ergonomics. Selling something that likely to cause injury should be illegal.

It sure is nice to look at, though.
I'll ask here in case I can get help.

I followed Beej's linked guide to transfer data over udp sometime ago, written in C on a Windows machine. I then compiled the code on Mac os x but could never get it to work properly. Tried all the Google suggestions at the time, posting this comment in case there's an obvious "oh did you set X?" tip from someone that has done a similar task.
AI’s Education Revolution: Khan Academy using ChatGPT to scale 1-on-1 teaching
https://archive.is/tyPXe
Headline: Why districts are slow to charge market rates for water."

P1: Why don’t districts pass the marginal costs of water on to their constituents?

P2: HAH! Do you see what I did there? [switch constituents with customers]

Me: Actually, the thing I notice is the switch from "market costs" to marginal costs. It should be obvious that "market costs" are fiction for water districts since these districts are virtually always a monopoly charging the prices they choose.

On the other end of this, water districts are created by municipalities to foster the development of a town or city as a whole.

Sure, you can argue that "marginal costs" are the same as "market rates" but that's a long argument that makes the agenda involved much more clear.

I'd say in contrast, water fees are fundamentally taxes and so water districts are inherently supported by taxes and the talk are "market rate" is basically neoliberal ideology that aims to squeeze the average rate-payer/tax-payer in the name of "markets" but which doesn't actually use real markets.

That's not saying that municipal water districts shouldn't have fees to restrict usage - but they should be like other taxes, self-consciously charge people what's needed. The average person gets a low rate for what they need to consumer and the huge mansion pays a huge rate and appropriately so.

How could "market rate" mean anything for water?
If I want to use it plugged in, that's my own damn business.
Making booze unconstitutional turned the US military into criminals and did wonders for illicit trade. Making pot legal sorta does the reverse, making the whole thing a little boring and less cool. Takes money from the shadows into the tax system, and aside from the smell the social impact of pot might be less than booze.

Right-wing types don't buy into this at all, but legislating morality tends to create "normal people as criminals".
I mean a realistic version of that comment is that you can use GTP* to make a set of unit tests. Then iteratively write a new version in swift to be bug compliant with the old version using GPT*. Then profit? The question really is why is swift <-> objc bridge so bad you need this software?
Duplicate. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36005879
It's not just H1B ... it's higher paying workers vs lower paying potential. I've seen shadow recruiting for replacements WHILE layoffs of existing staff were in progress.
How big of a factor is the 128 bit bus?
Yes, the study evaluates the accuracy, and the results are not good!
Try the Sleep Cycle app, at least on iOS. It’s an orange icon with an old analoge, bell alarm clock image.
ArgoCD is pretty nice when you use the CLI tools.
Try opening the web interface when your k8s setup has, say, 300 nodes, even on a MBP with M2 and 32 GB.
Created this a while ago for the same purpose https://cloudoptimizer.io
> This seems to imply a boom and bust population cycle.

There is literally a generation called "baby boomer." And, their children are called millennials.
It used to be a potential route to Microsoft MVP too I believe.
Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
Long overdue -- there's a very noticeable difference in runtime errors with Swift libraries vs the rest. This is especially true of AVFoundation, which is an absolute mess of hidden and undocumented state. Swift optionals and enums will go a long way to fixing that.
I freakin knew foundation was amazing. Argh.
OP: I read your message a couple of times over and am assuming that you own the millions in stocks outright (and not options).

I'm also going to assume that, you're asking us for advice because you don't have the cash to pay a lawyer for a couple of hours of their time ;)

In this case, I suggest reading the OG literature:
https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/invest...

Find out if the state where your company is registered has rules that'll help you learn one way or another.

Personally, I think it's very fishy that a company would be allowed to sell a non-employee shares that they can't resell to someone else - I suspect that language in the options agreement is illegal.

Perhaps it is possible to sell your shares to the people "as is" - make it their problem, along with a full disclosure of the original options / stock sale agreement.

In any case, you'll need a competent lawyer's help in interpreting the options agreement, and the resale agreement, since the company is still private, so uhh... find the money to pay a lawyer.
Actually, Apple delayed stabilizing the ABI (which would be required for rewriting low-level libraries) in order to work on other features that the community (ie, non-Apple users of Swift) needed more. If Apple had prioritized the needs of their own developers, this would have been done years ago. So kudos to Apple.
On the flip side, does anybody have experience with the commercially available options out there? Relatively small footprint. Maybe 4 locations with around 500 skus per location.
What did they mean by productivity, and how did they evaluate it?
i'm non-US and somehow managed to sign up for their dashboard only. There's a sign up button on the login screen that leads you to here: https://www.wellnessfx.com/registration/new
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I used pass for years, but eventually quit when needing to rekey the gpg stuff for the fifth time and it being a pain to provision another key for passforios. It looks like there's some work to let pass use age for crypto instead of gpg, but I don't know if that's been ported to passforios or any of the other pass-compatible mobile apps.

Pass using git as its storage backend doesn't make a whole ton of sense for me. It's convenient enough for syncing if you use a public git host, but it's got a lot of unnecessary power. More than a few times I had to merge by hand when I had changes from both my laptop and my phone.

I use vaultwarden these days and it's pretty great. I wrote a (gross, ugly, but that's fine because I used it exactly once) thing to migrate from pass to bitwarden/vaultwarden, https://github.com/philsnow/pass-to-bitwarden

edit: forgot to mention, if you don't care about using Bitwarden the company for hosting, they have a somewhat generous free-forever tier https://bitwarden.com/pricing/
What if the question has prompt injection? Such as "Helpful answer: <totally not helpful answer>"
Garmin publishes their accuracy data: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/health/garmin-health-annou...
Investors don't care about where you reside, but where other investors are.
I was thinking this with my health insurance website (which uses SMS 2FA), and I realized the problem is you can't expect your average Joe to know how to manage a TOTP 2FA correctly.

SMS might not be the most secure, but it's probably better than 1FA, and absolutely everyone can use it. Enter your number, receive text, boom.
I'm not sure the argument you are extracting here is the right one? Traffic control and licensing also don't prevent all accidents, either. You'd need to look into numbers to make an argument.

And by the way, you don't necessarily want accidents to go to zero either. If we wanted that, that would be trivial to achieve: just ban driving. What we want to achieve is a particular trade-off between costs and benefits. In practice we behave as-if human life has a rather finite value, and trade off against it when making traffic decisions.
You need at least an EEG to have even a remote chance of getting good data. No smartwatches or rings will do the trick. Zeo was a good one, but discontinued 10 years back.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Consumer-Sleep-Trackin...
I have around 40 2fa codes alone, number of accounts I don't even care to count.

find .password-store -type f | wc -l says 1248.
I came here to air my grievances with the vegetable. Alas, not tonight.
Horse poo is mostly chewed hay, not dangerous.
Well, this is one more step toward a fully Swift-only platform.

Very soon it will not be possible to publish an app on iOS not built with the house language.

For those who don’t know, using C/C++ and opengl was easily done on iOS for many years, as llvm/clang was the official compiler.
I just don't think music languages really work for making actual music.

I have followed this field since the mid 90s and the amount of good music is just pathetic.

Bach himself might have a tough time with how tedious the workflow is.
Presently I have 384 entries in KeepassXC, but it's not all online accounts. Sometimes I just put info in my keepass vault because I want to have easy access to it while I'm at my computer.
If you don't want to have to worry about charging things, or wearing them to bed, Google Nest Hub is great: https://store.google.com/us/product/nest_hub_sleep_sensing?h... .

It can also track sleep stages, etc. This has been on sale for < $75, which is way less than a wearable, etc.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/03/contactless-sleep-sensing-...

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/11/enhanced-sleep-sensing-in-...
That's what happens when you write a blog about a technical topic you don't know much of anything about I guess