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I have a Steelcase Airtouch desk. I think it's probably the best lifting mechanism on the market, fast, no electronics, single column. I want to make a new base for the mechanism that is much heavier so the desk doesn't move, probably adding 100 pounds of mass to it. With this I could mount a larger surface to the desk.
Early humans deliberately made mysterious stone 'spheroids'
I have been getting them on every episode on specific series. But yeah, could be worse.
I appreciate the honesty in this article.

There is so much virtue signaling online when it comes to testing and using debuggers.
I read somewhere that fine water mist sprayed into the atmosphere may have the same reflective effect as sulphur from the shipping industry without the negatives.

I’m fairly certain we will resort to this type of geo engineering soon - cutting down energy consumption is not a viable path, it’s just not going to happen. Quite the contrary, humanity’s energy consumption is likely to grow a lot.

I agree with you about keeping carbon in the ground - but it will only happen for economic reasons in reality (ie. solar being cheaper than oil and gas) and the transition will take decades.

I hope we don’t hit irreversible feedback effects in the next couple of decades!

I know every generation feels special - the pinnacle of humanity, a special time - but this time around it really feels like what happens in the next 20-30 years can have make it or break it consequences for later generations (not just climate, also chemical pollution, risk of nuclear/biological weapons use and possibly AI - though that could also solve a lot of our problems)
> I'm not sure, but I expect that I don't have to change oil every year in an electric car

The only critical replacement is brake calipers and fluids: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_eu/GUID-E95DAAD...

Brakes tend to last much longer because the car uses the motor to brake. Some Tesla motors are oil-cooled, some are just air cooled and the reducer just uses grease[1] instead of oil. There are no piston rings, no blow-by, no sliding friction, no wear items, the temperature stays below 100 C, the pressure is always ambient, and the case is completely watertight. The oil/grease can last practically forever.

> I can bring 100L gasoline with me to add 1000 km range on top of existing 500 range.

Driving 12 hours at a time is unsafe and you should not do it. If you are regularly driving 1500 km into wasteland, an electric car is not for you. If you only do it a few times a year, I recommend renting.

> I can charge it within 5 minutes, not 5 hours.

Have you not heard? They can charge 200 miles in 15 minutes.

> It does not get worse with every year

It's a car. They absolutely get worse every year. Driving at high speed over bad roads takes a toll and all cars fall apart over time.

> Electric cars probably are the future, but I don't like this future. They don't have a soul.

Did televisions, before flatscreens replaced them? I don't think so. I think it was just the nostalgia for a time when it was new and important. But a car now is a conveyance. 99.99% cars have as much soul as an elevator- another thing that used to be special and personal.

If you want soul in the thing you drive to work, you always had to buy something special. You did not find it in a Honda Civic. If you want that, buy a motorcycle, or an E100 car. Those things will still exist even if EVs completely replace gasoline, because they just aren't the same thing.

You are not afraid of electric cars replacing racecars, or grand tours through the mountains or deserts or forest. You are sad about electric cars replacing 8 lanes of LA traffic, of I-98 being quiet, of less children with asthma. That's a silly thing to be sad about. The soul of driving is not going anywhere.

[1]: Because I NEVER tire of saying it: grease is amazing. It seems inefficient because it's thick like peanut butter, but it's the best. It's shear-thinning, so that as soon as it starts moving, it spreads into an incredibly thin low-viscosity layer that's just as frictionless as oil. Unlike oil, it never drips off, never needs pressure, always covers the surface. Contamination works itself out automatically (unlike in oil, where it's recirculated). It's chemically and thermally stable. Grease is the BEST.
"if it can"

you have proof that it can and will?

this is the same "it's worth anything" arguments where "maybe" is treated as "it will happen" while ignoring the negative aspects (IE: human suffering, facts that poor people are worse for the economy, green tech is made from worse than carbon and is creating megatons of unrecyclable stuff like windmill blades and solar panels, etc.

Nothing like putting the lives of people on the chopping block for an "if" in response to a religious belief that "carbon is evil".
For years my monitor was a 22” Sony CRT which took two people to carry, which went with my to LAN parties. That thing was terrifying to carry down a flight of stairs.
I was just reading this and thinking that `nix build` would do the same trick even more nicely.
1) I didn't say it was misogynistic.

2) It obviously is misogynistic because in either case a woman is being held and transacted as property between men.

The point is that women (and people in general) are not widgets, no matter how you wish to transact them. There's nothing mysterious going on here: it looks like property changing hands because it's property changing hands, and those people were property for the exclusive reason that they were born as women.

In your widget analogy: the widget is absolutely a secondary player in the exchange and is treated as property as compared to both other parties regardless of which way the money flows. Any such transaction would correctly be called "widget-ist" if you wish.
Here in the UK, if I had to travel 'just 4km' then I wouldn't take a car. In any case it's the other 50% of journeys that are 4km+ (20% of journeys are 10+ miles) that are the problem:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc...

The USA is a young country, built from the ground up around the automobile. Undoing that both physically and psychologically is just not possible in my opinion.
Development Statistics for the Linux 6.5 Kernel
Who’s gonna take a piece of poop looking thing and actually bring it to verify it and grade it
So for a python django project this would replace gunicorn?
Not op, but I would be interested in seeing it.
This really jives with me.
Personal responsibility for environmental issues is a fiction peddled by the biggest polluters.

The moment you think an individual is going to make any sort of a difference through minor changes in behavior, you have already lost the plot.
FWIW, those door handles are a copy of the Tesla Model 3 door handles (along with their usability issues).

It’s very similar to everyone copying Apple’s auto-hiding scroll bars—usability be damned.
I think the first one at least was rather funny.
There’s a lot of contractual obligations and edge cases in domain names, and a lot of potential for fraud and disputes. It’s a business with high legal fees.

Also how domains should be managed evolves with time. For example GDPR has a huge impact on WHOIS, especially since the ICANN took so much time to acknowledge that in their specs, so there was a time where it was impossible for a registrar to be compliant with GDPR and ICANN rules. It’s still not 100% clear how it’ll be handled by RDAP (future successor of WHOIS)

And last but not least, some registries for ccTLDs are real pains in the ass to work with, and won’t hesitate to slap you with big fines if you make any mistake.
HBO's "We Own This City" (along with "The Wire") should be required viewing.

https://youtu.be/1BgwYXGdHE0?t=1201
The engineer-MBA-lawyer progression is commonly referred to as the enshittification cycle.
But… Hawaiian pizza?
"But it's you reduce the economy, think of what it will do to the poor!" it's incredible how ritch people will happily push the poor in front of them when it's beneficial.

The fact is "emmisions per capita" is heavily correlated with "gdp per capita": https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-emissions-vs-gdp

The "educated people in western countries [who] are incredibly eco-conscious" emit way more co2 than "85% of the worlds population".
Seems like it would have been a better option to do the final cooking which is around 7-8 min in the oven at the delivery doorstep.
"ditch weed" is not the same thing as medical/recreational marijuana cultivation.

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

SoCal is not one of the places you would expect to find much of it, according to the article. "the plant has re-seeded naturally and grown wild in states such as Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota, with Indiana reporting the largest concentrations nationally"
Well, yeah, otherwise those predictions likely wouldn't have been labelled conservative.
Multiemployer DB pension plans are a specific thing unrelated to taxpayer funded DB pension plans.

An examples would be multi employer Teamsters truck driver pension plans, and they are notable because in a multi employer DB pension plan, when an employer goes bankrupt, the unfunded liabilities get distributed amongst the remaining employers. Which means once things start going downward, the longer you stay in, the more of the bag you are left holding.

Which precipitated the recent bailout of some multi employer pension plans, since they had enough political sway:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/dealbook/bailout...
You're getting downvoted, and not unreasonably so, but you do make a point that's worth addressing.

The Dutch gas reserves were not 'wiped out' by the Ukraine war: if anything, the earlier decision to pretty much stop in-country extraction due to perceived earthquake risks was a bigger factor. Nevertheless, reserves never went below 80% or so: there are sufficient LNG terminals and storage facilities to make things work.

But the most important factor why The Netherlands are not facing (many) energy shortages, is that's it's very much part of the European energy grid. So, any local shortfalls can be compensated by instantly importing energy from anywhere between Sweden and Italy, the UK and Poland, and vice versa.

Texas explicitly opted out of the US-wide grid. What's available in-state is what you can get, and that's it. This has been sold as 'not leaking precious Texas Power to other not-as-prepared states', but the net result is... the answer to your question?
Out of interest, how did you see that coming? The discussions I remember here on HN were full of people wondering why, and being generally blindsided by the news...
Aren’t engagement rings supposed to be a surprise?
He won awards for marksmanship. I agree it isn't a hard skill to learn, but it's still takes some effort.
Forgive me if it’s common knowledge, but what’s wrong with SDL2 in this case? Broadly speaking, I feel as though there is largely positive sentiment around the SDL project, no?
> It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change. I mean there are plenty people in other parts of the world who don't have such a high standard of living, and it's not that big of a problem.

The thing is, we have no reason to believe halting climate will do anything other than boost the economy. The reason for inaction despite the fact that it’ll make tons of new jobs, and remove major consumer costs and widespread reductions to health & quality of life caused by cars, is that certain specific sectors of the economy will shrink. The fossil fuel industry has spent half a century funding science deniers and consolidating their political power to prevent action on climate change or their pollution. They’re not acting on behalf of the entire economy, just their shareholders.

A simple example: beef is a solid order of magnitude worse than other common protein sources (with the possible exception of lamb in some countries). We could see huge reductions in our food-related emissions simply by eating pork or chicken instead, and almost nobody would say that’s an intolerable lifestyle hit but the beef industry isn’t going to let that happen easily because it’s bad for their revenue even if it’d mean most people save money.
Someone’s nationality and their location are two different things. It’s a big stretch to conflate them like this.
Russia does not get to veto NATO membership, they are not at the table.

Saying if NATO just ignored Ukraine then Russia wouldn't have invaded us ridiculous. The entire reason Russia pushed to exclude Ukraine was to allow invasion. Otherwise they would have asked for a treaty guaranteeing Ukraine wouldn't be used as a forward base instead.

Disinformation was used because in the internet age propaganda isn't direct. When a Russian controlled newspaper posts propaganda it is obvious. When a Russian controlled social media post goes viral is it propaganda in the same way?

The West hasn't tended to use as much disinformation (I won't claim they don't use it at all) mostly due to not controlling their own news sources to the same degree.

Note how OP doesn't include anything about journalism. Journalists are considered an independent group in the US and so anything too nakedly false tends to result in everyone downplaying.

You can still pull off lies, we did have quite a few pointless wars after all, but it requires more focus and effort. They didn't outright lie about the situation just bent the truth about non public information.

But I would consider the "weapons" in Iraq to be just as much disinformation if it came out during the internet era just as much as it was propaganda before.

BTW "people believe it" isn't proof of anything. A non trivial percentage of people believe the earth is flat after all.
Singapore is going all-in on district cooling.

There are at least three areas currently served by district cooling, possibly spreading to older and newer towns in the next few decades:

- Marina Bay District Cooling Centre [1]

- Tengah Centralised Cooling [2]

- NUS University Town district cooling [3]

[1]: https://www.thegpsc.org/sites/gpsc/files/singapore_district_...

[2]: https://www.mytengah.sg/centralised-cooling

[3]: https://environmentjournal.online/features/singapores-utown-...
All it takes is for the district attorney (who thankfully is the person most familiar with the amount of lies each officer tells) to prosecute them for perjury.

It’s just a misdemeanor in many states so the DA can indict them without a grand jury! This is important because DAs use felony charges to pardon cops and launder it through a grand jury (we all remember the Buffalo NY cops that pushed the 75 year old man to the ground and left him bleeding from the head — cops charged with felony but GJ refused to indict, it can’t be proved but it’s obvious the DA sandbagged it).

But DAs almost never charge cops with anything, even the so-called progressive ones in the bluest states files a few token indictments against the a few token cops and then went back to business as usual.

If police are actually subject to the same system as the rest of us it will work, but DAs have pretty much always refused to do it.
Plain old functions & eager evaluation & a bit more awesome sauce.

Given transducers, we can compose mutually independent parts at will:

- Data source (sequence, stream, channel, socket etc.)

- Data sink (sequence, stream, channel, socket etc.)

- Data transformer (function of any value -> any other value)

- Data transformation process (mapping, filtering, reducing etc.)

- Some process control (we can transduce finite data (of course) as well as streams, and also have optional early termination in either case. I'm not sure about first-class support for other methods like backpressure.)

e.g. read numbers off a Kafka topic, FizzBuzz them, and send them to another Kafka topic, OR slurp numbers from file on disk, FizzBuzz them, and push into an in-memory queue. But each time, you don't have to rewrite your core fizzbuzz function, nor your `(map fizzbuzz)` definition.

cf. https://www.evalapply.org/posts/n-ways-to-fizzbuzz-in-clojur...
Dowries are the opposite. Paid by the wife's family to the husband's family. Justified because women don't work and are therefore a financial burden. So when a couple leaves their respective family, that's less expense for the wife's family and less income for the husband's family, the dowry is supposed to balance that.

It is not hard to understand why dowries are a thing of the past in western society. But it is still a thing in other parts of the world.
> Ask a nontechnical Windows or Mac user where their files are stored - they have no idea.

This. The move towards “everything on the cloud” was a double edged sword for non-power users. It’s great that you don’t have to make Grandma plug in a external USB drive and use Time Machine, but yes nobody knows where things are anymore. Does Grandma know what “the cloud” even is?

I feel like Apple is the biggest proponent of moving away from the idea of “files” and having your “content” be something you shuttle around between different apps. But each one has a slightly different “share” and “import” and “export” paradigm as well. And now there is an iCloud Drive “files” app! What does that mean? And how do I know if it’s on my phone or I’m just seeing a representation of what’s on my iCloud Drive? Does the cloud icon mean I’ve downloaded it or not, what if it’s it slightly dark gray or slightly light gray? </rant>
This comment will age badly, but it looks like a gold colored office chair wheel swallowed/encased by a jelly or sponge.
I can also add mandatory TLS to this list. Back in the day you could receive an entire webpage response in the first TCP packet with data. TLS requires more turn-arounds, especially if webpage uses multiple different domains, and network latency is not going anywhere, it's physics. I had 200 ms latency in 2000, I have 200 ms latency in 2020, I'll have 200 ms latency in 2050, that's just thousands of kilometers to travel.
Neat thing about trees is, you can cut them down, and then use them for things before that happens. Trees also provide ancillary benefits by just existing, such as reducing ground temperatures and acting as wind breaks.

It's almost like the entire universe requires compromise and there are no perfect solutions.
> I mean there are plenty people in other parts of the world who don't have such a high standard of living, and it's not that big of a problem.

As someone from Bangladesh—average CO2 emissions under 1 ton per person—I can confirm that it sucks and conservation is a stupid way of mitigating climate change.

The anti-development people are just evil. When my dad was a kid in Bangladesh, 1 out of 5 kids died before age 5. Capitalism and development brought us up to similar levels to where the US was in the 1970s in just one generation.
Slashing oil production by 50% in western economies is not a reduction in lifestyle it’s a full collapse with a huge number of collateral death.

But still you have a partial point: health/life expectancy and happiness have already started to decorrelate with the economy in the US, and US people consume more resources than other western economies with obviously better material outcome but no better quality of life outcome. This point to solutions were conversely it should then be possible to maintain standard of living with a decrease in the energy consumption. Red meat and leisure only air travel are indeed good candidates because you can live a very happy, healthy and fulfilled life without them. Same with cars weighting 1000 pounds less, putting a sweater in winter at home, having denser city centers with public transportation, etc…

This is not about left or right, this is about having an open look at some ideologies with data. It’s always hard to accept when people make economical theories a part of their identity and values, this a religious crisis for them not a simple discussion.
Yes. The mediator in this case is the scheduler. The one that actually calls the asynchronous block. Potentially retrying it if it fails. In the OP’s code, there’s atomic blocks, sequential execution of blocks, stateful blocks, etc for ensuring singular access at a time.

The meat here is scheduler.cpp. It uses std::coroutines.

This is like async/await in other languages. The scheduler has a queue of work(coroutines) and a pool of threads(N>0) to execute those on.

In this case, messages are passed between work that contains the data. No locks are required at the expense of memory footprint.
No one knows what fine water mist sprayed into the atmosphere would do. Good god let's not bank on these ridiculous massive-scale hail Marys that may just as well cause more damage than good.
Indeed. We ought to be eating them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297360
What does “per capita” emissions have to do with the physics of climate change?
Ransomware fiends pounce on Cisco VPN brute-force zero-day flaw
> You speak of a "majority of climatologists": was there a poll taken and an article published, a study done, or perhaps a citation you might provide?

Can you clarify which part is causing you the confusion? Are you trying to figure out if the majority of climate scientists have read this HN thread and voted on the question? Or if making things warmer causes more heat records to be broken? Or if almost all climatologists agree that humans are causing global climate change and the warming of average global temperatures? Can you clarify?

> Yes, the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists – 97 percent – agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change.

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-clima...
IME if you're digging into the finer points of netfilter, you eventually run up against the limits of published documentation and have to dig into the source code to figure some things out.
Whatever dental society that is gets paid for giving dentists licences is not gonna approve this if it means it will lower cavities by a lot, a big portion of dentists fees is from patching up cavities and it’s sideffects.
I'm struck by how beautiful that page design was.

We don't really daily printed things that look nice anymore. Certainly web pages don't look/read well, and as much as I like Feedly/Unread, reading an article there isn't better than reading a printed magazine article.. then and still.
That's fundamentally impossible. It's nonsensical to suggest that the government punish a private citizen for doing what the government forced that private citizen to do.

Any attempts to implement your proposal will lead to exactly one inevitable outcome: lawlessness. This is because, if the government does start punishing a certain class of private citizens for doing what the government forces them to do, private citizens will no longer voluntarily join that class.
All these comments mentioning cutting down on energy. It will help a bit, but the real problem is there are just to many people on earth.

A world wide one-child policy like it used to exist in China [1] would be a real solution in keeping earth a pleasant place to live.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
Saudi Arabians has an obesity rate (35.4%) that is comparable to the USA (36.2%).
Of course it's a political issue. Politics is fundamentally about a struggle for which interests should be given priority over other interests. There are lots of people with a whooooole lot of power who have a lot to lose from taking climate change seriously, how could it not become political?
With a post like this, however interesting, you really should link the code. Not only will it prove your claim, but others like me will find the idea intriguing and immediately want to see how it's done.
People who are part of the legal system should be held to an even higher standard, as their lying undermines trust in the system itself.

As such, their punishment should be even harsher, and tolerance for their lies should be even lower.
Experimental quantum imaging distillation with undetected light
Author here. Nice to see people appreciate simplicity. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!