skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can wax poetic all you want about anecdotal values differences between the first and third worlds, but speaking in terms of actual practical impact: what you are saying is simply not true. Greenhouse gas emissions scale super-linearly with income: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitte...

There are dozens and dozens of studies all reaching this same conclusion, if the International Energy Agency isn't good enough for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenhouse+gas+emissions+by+...

OP's point was that the global rich (most US citizens included) have lifestyles and patterns of consumption which produce an outsized amount of greenhouse gasses, and any attempts to alter those behaviors are routinely met with anger and political backlash
Is there perhaps nothing at all we should refrain from i the name climate change? Reset humanity to zero.
Well, BLDC doesn’t really use induction at all. It just makes a magnetic field that pushes on magnets.
He referred to is as castration which is only the removal of the testicles. What a good show.
> the solution for reducing emissions in China and India is relatively simple: commit string-free resources and money to building renewable grids and nuclear instead of coal

Money is fungible. Subsidising Chinese power means subsidising its military. Given it’s presently a dictatorship, that’s a dangerous proposition.

We should focus on decarbonising ourselves. Once our per-capita emissions are lower than others’, we can show them the way.
yeah i'd love if ocean liners were a thing again. afaik there's only one, and it's a ritzy and touristy affair
> It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change.

It can't. I did the numbers some time ago [1], and they are bad. If you take electricity as a proxy, western countries consume something like 5 times as much as the global average per capita. So if we are willing to let the poorest to get to the global average while not cutting global consumption at all, the west should reduce their consumption by something like 80%. That's not crashing the economy. Thats... destroying the society most likely.

There are two solutions: 1. We force the global poor to stay poor. 2. We figure out how to make lots more stuff sustainably than we currently do.

Feel free to make your choise. Reducing consumption in the west is not going to make a dent anywhere and should be not on your list of worries if you choose 2.

Edit, add [1]: I don't habe the numbers now but you can replicate it pretty easly by taking population and electricity consumption data by country from wikipedia.
Its possible to think that, but at the aame time the cost of adjustment would be trememndous.

I would think food costs would skyrocket before canada and siberia are pumping out grain in massive quantity.

Adjustment at that scale can also carry other risk such as disease and civil war.

Or nothing at all may happen

It really does depend on the rate of change.
Well given the likely amount of inflation between when your mom got married and now it probably has appreciated. It hasn't kept pace with inflation though.
Your nationality determines where you can live and work. That's not conflating anything.

The fact that some tiny lucky subset of people with very specific credentials can get permission to move across borders does not change this at all. (In fact, H1Bs generally making less than others for the same work reinforces my point.)
Yes, you can.

If the theory is well-formulated, rests on vetted facts, and you understand the context sufficiently, you can say: "This is a good theory." If it's not well-formulated or does not rest vetted facts, and your understanding is sufficent, you can say: "Bad theory."

There's an entire world of variation between those 2 extremes, but there's no reason implicitly why you can't understand a theory just by reading about it.
I don't mean dox yourself.

I mean if that was happening on a reasonable scale then there would be stories about it.

There were many stories about disagreements.

There were stories about subtle disagreements leading to bans.

I am just saying "if people got banned en mass for saying aerosol where is the proof".

I don't like anecdotes because people interpret their words by intent and so will assume what they meant to say is why they were punished.

"I don't know why there is a mask mandate it is completely ineffective" as a hypothetical. Is that someone saying that aerosol viruses need more effective masks? I could see someone claiming that.

Is that what they wrote? Not at all.

Moderation tends to be context free and unless people are willing to do a similar mental process they won't necessarily know why they got banned.

I don't think the poster above should do that analysis. I think feeling betrayed and wanting to leave when it happens is a perfectly reasonable response from them.

I just don't plan on listening to anecdotal evidence of bans from individuals on that kind of thing.
When I started my current job, they asked me Mac or PC laptop and I said Mac. A couple days later a PC arrives. When I'm on the call with the IT guy to get things set up I mentioned I requested a Mac but PC is fine too and he said he never heard about my choice. Later I find out someone else on the team had the exact same experience, and we found out the preference WAS communicated. We've long since gotten a new IT guy and I'll probably switch to Mac when my current machine gets to three years old.
Microsoft in particular seems hellbent on putting touchscreens in everything. They REALLY want to make it happen but seemingly no one is having it. There's ONE person I know who owns a touchscreen laptop and genuinely touches its screen on purpose.

On your scrolling complaint — well, there's this desktop-specific thing that OP doesn't mention but that becomes very apparent once you start looking for it in old-school desktop UIs. Controls never, ever scroll. Only content does. If controls don't fit into a window, you don't make it scrollable — you split it into tabs or you put the extra controls into a separate window that opens via a button. This appears to be universal at least for Windows and macOS.
Most Static Site Generators generate blog from markdown, which is not feasible for projects like company websites etc. For such projects I like Middleman (https://middlemanapp.com) which provides layouts/partials and things like haml templates.
True, but considering it's the only one we've found and we have no idea what it is it doesn't seem a good idea to assume that.
You see similar performance improvements in bencharmarks of Litespeed & PHP LSAPI [1].

Unfortunately said benchmarks are usually done by the software company making said webserver, so have to be taken with a pinch of salt.

1. https://www.litespeedtech.com/open-source/litespeed-sapi/php
It's not like anyone on this message board has a little 'crash the economy' button on their keyboard.
More than that, you will have to find a new product to demonstrate the value of your continued employment at the company. The team is incentivised to keep tinkering.
Oil will eventually be very cheap because demand will be a lot less than it is now.
> Maybe what you describe happens with automated/integrated tools, but I doubt it.

Why are you doubting the truth, when you can easily verify? Even most small hotels have connected reservation systems. Booking will simply ping the system for available rooms, put in a reservation if the client makes a reservation, and now there's one room less available for that date. Nobody that is sane will pre-book any of their rooms to booking.com, that is a thing of the past.
> Western rich countries have too many really spoiled consumers.

That's because I live in a market economy and I have no desire to live in your planned economy without any democratic process in place to represent me.

> but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change.

"We should make decisions that will kill people and shorten their life expectancy, because I believe there aren't any other compromises that can be made to impact pollution."

Yea.. it's is weird to say, it's also demented and inhumane.

> And yes, I don't believe it's only rich people, it's also middle class people who generate a lot of emissions, and I'm a leftist.

And the rest of the world that hasn't developed yet? We still just don't spare any thoughts for them at all.
I think it's actually more complicated, because a lot of the construction, etc. is caused by demand from the western countries. Also, western countries consume proportionately more flights, cars, electronics... pretty much all the actual major industry-sized consumption is disproportionately consumed by the west, even if a portion of individual westerners (certainly not all) are eco-conscious, no-waste, plastic-free vegans.
Why Does That Sound Good? Real-Time Fuzzy Chord/Scale Identification with MIDI
I made this web application to help me learn some music theory in real time whenever I stumble upon happy accidents such as chords, chord progressions, or scales that sound good, all without breaking the creative flow. The application can also fuzzy-find everything when I don't play the exact notes.

Written in ClojureScript and is a private/static site hosted on Github Pages.

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pHL7TzVDfk

Let me know what y'all think!
Yes, that was golden when US mandated larger, more powerful cars with the cover up of green regulations. Do not disagree here.
It’s not fundamentally impossible. The US armed forces and the UCMJ is centuries-old evidence of that.
I think architecture has the same problem. The best way to stand out in the 50s/60s was to break with every good rule of traditional architecture and create the Brutalist style.

They completely ignored the human emotional aspect of buildings and living spaces.
If it wants to compete with digital, sure. That's not the point though. There's a world of "low-fi" photography that's closer to art than modern photography has become.
The type support in OpenAPI is fairly good (enough for us), and using a tool directly built on our stack allows nice things.

Thanks for the link though!
There is a misconception that consistency == usability. It's an important part of usability but there is a lot more to it. Tunnel vision on consistency (or anything really) doesn't lead to good outcomes. The big picture is what matters: can someone do what they need to do?

Articles like these also have lots of opinions, no research and stats, nor have decent explanations of how much impact these "problems" actually have. Granted I have not seen much research on desktop apps, but in other fields things have measurable improved a lot.

Even going by opinion, my memory from that time was that everything was pretty bad. How often do you lose work because of crashes or not enough undo steps? And could you do the same things you can do now? Also don't forget about all the horrible Java software that didn't use the OS UI.

People romanticize (software of) the past. The stuff I use today is magic compared to the old crap.

Obviously not everything is perfect and I do recognize/understand some of the criticism in the article, but focussing on the little things really misses the big picture that is usability: completing the task that you need to complete, and that is easier than ever.

> You're old and angry! You bet! Now get off my lawn, punk.

Fair enough, I'll see myself out.
Most folks on HN who are interested in PLs, including me, are familiar with transducers at a high level. Composable, performant, yada yada ya. What we (or maybe just I) do not have is a nontrivial example of advantage.

Your comment sharpened that for me. I don't want FizzBuzz; I want someone taking a reasonable toy problem, such as a trad+photon+quadtree raytracer and demonstrating advantage by applying the concept.
I have nothing against the SDL project. I have everything against the DirectMedia style api of 1997. I get that people are actively developing with it and that roadmap towards 3.0 is getting close but my experience is it’s designed for legacy games, legacy rendering styles, legacy ABI’s. No one is shipping games for Dreamcast or PS2.

2/3rds of the library is dead code when working with Vulkan.
This is pointless semantics, like the perpetual insistence on correcting "monopoly" to "oligopsony" or whenever monopoly is discussed.

No one knows the word "dower," and the term "dowry" is used pretty widely to describe the entire mess of different customs that do and did exist. IRL, these are all symbolically complex and play a role that is usually different to the symbolic one.

Engagement rings are a riff on these.
Total Advertising Denial
Favorite Quotes:

> If an advert were to make it past an adblocker, this should be seen as an incident in itself, warranting full investigation and postmortem. If this sounds overkill, that in itself probably indicates you have come to accept the failure of adblocking far too often, and are accustomed to seeing adverts anyway.

> Browsers are supposed to be user agents; they are there to be on your side and advance your interests, nobody else's.

> Advertising is not socially neutral. It is shitting in people's heads, or squatting in them.
Good question re: chance of ramp. Hard to say, of course.

I do think, concretely, that our chance of selling this year is BETTER than last year and that's due largely to being more focused on our core sales channel(s) rather than trying everything imaginable to drum up dollars - like last year.

But I'm not saying that our chance of selling tons and tons of business is obvious. There's just what anecdotally feels like a clearer path forward.

Rocket ship success? Not sure.

Maybe to ask another question back: is the experience worth it for a year if I can otherwise stomach the pay cut? I truthfully didn't join this company thinking that I would make $50M, but instead I really wanted learning/experience in the start-up space.
I feel like I've read some variation of "new thing will make tooth brushing obsolete" every few years for the last two decades at least, but they never seem to come to fruition.
I hate to say it this way, but it’s our own darn fault as voters… imagine a DA (or a local elected prosecuting attorney…) does that. If they stay in their current role, now the police become hostile and unwilling to work with them. Now let’s say they want to run for higher office / get reelected. Police union comes after them, opponent calls them soft-on-crime and anti-police. The general public doesn’t have the energy to actually follow the chain of issues or understand the situation, but they do respond to sound bytes. Often, the media can’t understand the situation well enough themselves, so even in the event you still have a local news source, they are unlikely to report in a way that the public understands what’s really happening. And - the press may not want to anger the police either, as they want the inside story. So… the wheel keeps on turning.
Five minutes research":

Wiktionary - Underpaid: "Getting too little financial compensation for one's work."
Meriam Webster - Underpay: "to pay less than what is normal or required"
Cambridge Dictionary - underpay: "to pay (a person) too little"
Dictionary.com - underpaid: "not paid enough"

Only the Cambridge version of those could imply (to me) only the definition of receiving less than what was agreed upon.

I personally like the Meriam Webster definition. If a software engineer is normally paid $ X, and you are paying $ 0.5*X, then that person is underpaid.
Adding a mention of Hover.com which has a very simple user interface. So ads or other junk. I’ve been a happy customer for years without any issues.
I don’t think older A/C units used brushed motors, but A/C induction motors. A/C induction motors often have a clunk when they start, because doing speed control is more expensive than just turning them on all at once. Once you have a brushless motor, you don’t need a clunk anymore to start it, you necessarily have enough control to smoothly start and stop it. But my question is why do they call it an “inverter” motor and is that the same as an brushless motor?
> 1) I didn't say it was misogynistic.

Right, the person you responded to was talking about misogyny but you subtly changed it to "it’s bad to transact other human beings".

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

that's basically what I was arguing in the previous comment?

>I don't think the parent is arguing that financial transactions involving humans aren't bad
> Though analogies between artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons can be overstretched, the way this concern went from idle speculation to serious concern can teach us lessons regarding fears swirling around today's emerging technologies.

Sounds like an overstretched analogy.

There is no such principle which says that just because a theoretical concern in one area turned out to not be a problem in practice, all theoretical concerns will not be a problem in practice.
Someone's trash is someone else's treasure. Probably what it will turn out to be.
The personal and family service doesn’t, but the business service does.
lol I've had this exact same occur multiple times... basically every time we have staff turnover in our condo office no one knows how to print to pdf... so every year or two I have to show someone how to do it, including up to 2022.

My pet peeve is that even in 2023 I still receive scans of printouts from accountants. They print out their reports to add cover sheets and add pages, and then scan it back in to deliver as a financial statement.
I want to hear from people who hold a different opinion, not academics.

Would this be the fallacy of an appeal to authority?
I'm pretty sure that was a money-laundering scheme disguised as some silicon valley-esque startup to not trigger alarm bells with institutions
It wouldn't have worked regardless of what they ran it on, it's the runtime that terminates.
Examining Vivek Ramaswamy's Hindu Faith
Probably some item that can be found somewhere on AliExpress.
Thick client - these hold some state and functionality on the client device.

Thin clients are just display devices, completely incapable of anything without a server.
the analogy doesn't hold for me. my mom just finished chemo the other week, and it definitely wasn't close in effect to what she'd've dealt with otherwise. she went on living her life as usual, minus some household chores
Same with animation when switching to/from full screen. I mostly just want it to happend in an instant.
I'm not sure what kind of web frameworks they have in mind, but "specialized scientific applications" is not the only reason for it -- BigInt is the only way to get standard 64-bit numbers (uint64/int64) in JavaScript without emulating them, since JS number type, aka 64-bit floating point, is limited to 53-bit integers. There are also Big[U]int64Array container types to load/store 64-bit arrays of integers from ArrayBuffer.
But nuclear plants can’t explode, that’s just nonsense. There are 436 nuclear plants active on Earth and there was only two accidents in more than half a century, one with the older tech we already knew back than that it is bad design plus.. the whole soviet management of it, the other is a neverbeforeseen sized tsunami plus mismanagement.
First world countries already have 1 child per family with the rest of the world also moving that direction as they grow wealthier. This policy wouldn't actually do much to help and would likely cause massive unintended consequences like China is dealing with right now.
> It is impossible for human civilization as we know it to thrive longer term if we keep the current amount of CO2 (and thus carbon) in any way that is circulating.

I’m not sure that true. Han civilizations “thrived” under much worse conditions than we can reasonably expect (by that I mean that technological/economical/social progress historically outweighed environmental factors and I don’t why this won’t be the case in the future)
Poor people don’t have the luxury of caring about the environment. Making people poorer is guaranteed to make things worse.

I don’t think we need to make everyone’s lives worse. It’s not politically viable. We don’t need to give up computers and well insulated homes and medicine. Technology will help us reduce pollution and emissions. It’s just going to take time.
Then maintaining Wine is more like O(lg n).
I know this isn’t the point of your post, but in case it helps your experience in MacOS:

1. You can change the setting so that workspaces do not change their position/order. See: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/214348/how-to-prev...

2. The third party app “alt-tab” provides an alt tab experience that is much better than the native one, and is likely more similar to the behavior you expect from Linux. See: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app

I also personally like to use Rectangle for window positioning using keyboard shortcuts, tried the various auto tiling solutions like yabai and amethyst in the past but I think the flexibility of Rectangle is worth having to remember and use a few keyboard shortcuts.

I think it’s unfortunate that so many third party apps are required, but with a bit of babysitting MacOS can be pretty decent to work with.
From what I remember, some 9600s had the same hardware as a 9800 but had features/processors disabled from the card BIOS. Those could be unlocked with the right BIOS.
the point is that if it's that vs. the oceans consuming continents, it's probably not that big a deal BY COMPARISON. stop virtue signaling.
I was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447928 which was clearly about "disinformation", and how one must actually debate the merits of the subject, instead of doing alignment tests. Obviously that means I have to debate the substance of the issue, but at this point, I think I've done enough to show that there is room for debate (you attacked one plank of my argument, even if I were to concede that point, it would not be a critical blow), i.e., this thread is a kind of existence proof for abandoning alignment tests. Ironically, you are now disputing all of that and tarring me with an alignment brush. I consider my point made, regardless.
how do you deal with msvc's `std::deque`? (or maybe you're not using literal std::dequeue)
Ah but the keyboard... The worst ever keyboard since ZX81. Would it be your next customization maybe?
One note, while the author recommends the 1000-nit HP Sureview display, those SureView panels have significant downsides. A short summary from a Notebookcheck review: https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-865-G9-Laptop-rev... But basically, with Sure View, viewing angles are extremely compromised even with the privacy off, brightness and contrast can change w/ head motion/position, there's graininess to the display (due to the Sure View layer itself), and at least last gen's model had a <60Hz PWM, which is awful for eyestrain.

While it has an older Zen 3+ CPU, for those looking for an AMD GPU model that plays decently well with Linux, I've heard good things about the 2022 Asus Zephyrus G14. The big bonus is that being last year's model, they're usually on clearance if you can find them in stock.
> So you can’t measure it,

I didn't say that, I just decided that I'm not doing your googling for you. As the saying goes "Dude, I've known you for ten seconds & enjoyed none of them, I'm not taking homework assignments from you. "

The usual play by anti-vax trolls is to act persuadable enough to send people off on long excursions. They're not actually convincible of course, no matter what you say to them they'll trot out the same garbage talking points to some else soon.
Google Cloud Domains FAQ
I have a student who uses a TI-84. She's a high schooler taking university courses. Hers has a backlight and a USB-rechargeable battery, but it's basically the same machine otherwise.

The downstream costs of how we do standardized tests are bonkers.