skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Crashing the economy" is literally the worst thing you could do to fix climate change.

Even in a stagnant economy, people are still commuting to and from work in their gas-guzzling cars, and heating their homes in the winter. CO2 emissions aren't going to change a ton.

But what a stagnant economy does is prevent any kind of investment in renewable energy and electrification, because there's no excess money to use for investment. A stagnant economy is not installing solar panels, replacing ICE cars with electric and installing new charging stations nationwide, or replacing boilers with heat pumps.

And if we want to hasten the changes to renewable energy and electrification, that's what government policy is for -- via subsidies for desired technologies, heavier taxation for undesired ones, and regulation.

"Crashing the economy" to slow down climate change is like cutting university faculty by half in order to combat grade inflation. It doesn't make any sense.
We aren't doing it because pumping gases into the atmosphere does more than just reduce temperature. Sulfur compounds, for example, dissolve in the clouds and make them acidic.

So does the CO2 itself. The oceans are getting more acidic already, killing shellfish and throwing off food webs.

Throwing additional geoengineering on top of the geoengineering we're already doing will almost certainly cause as many problems as it solves. It would be so much simpler, cheaper, and more effective to just stop digging carbon out of the ground and putting it in the sky.
> Can't believe this comment is top rated.

Same. I think it's just helplessness, they feel something bad is coming, and they can't do anything about it, so they try to propose radical solutions that will not fix anything but just make things worse.
> And yet ancient Egyptians did it 4 thousands years ago.

Have you any evidence of Egypt having those kinds of wet bulb temperatures back then? It's physically impossible to survive high wet bulb temperatures even with an unlimited supply of water without some other form of cooling (i.e. not based on air movement such as fans) as water/sweat evaporation isn't effective.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature:

> Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F). A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure.
‘Compromise’. That’s the main issue with something as important and as ‘uncompromisable’ as privacy.
> red meat

I've been vegan for decades, and I would love to see humanity move on from meat, but the idea is so incredibly offensive to people that I find it far easier to imagine the the Amazon razed and replaced with cattle feeding lots before that will happen.
> you're taking the analogy too literally

The OP was the one who said "there's no FDIC protection for cloud", so..... ;-)

> trust is the product

Well, to be fair, too many people put too much trust in the cloud.

"upload all your data to us, we promise we won't look at it"
"trust our key-management service where we too have access to the private-key/API"
etc. etc.

I wouldn't "trust" any of them further than I can throw a 1U server.
Look further down in that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#The_warnings

> anything you say can and will be used against you

which is a version that is much more common in fiction, and also what vintermann referenced.
>modern productive agriculture

Industrial Agriculture is responsible for effectively burning off most of the carbon captured in the soil.

Using no-till, regenerative techniques can capture carbon back into the soil, improve water retention, reduce soil temperatures, reduce the need for chemical feedstocks (fertilizer, herbicides, etc.), and simultaneously produce livestock (and their feed), all while producing comparable amounts of crop.

The only increased input required is active local management, which requires downscaling production, but as an upside allows diversifying the nature of crops produced.
Loved Macromedia Freehand and Dreamweaver which I used to publish my the first website I made for someone via FTP!

My first LAN gaming experience was playing Doom 2 with friends in a computer class with a kind teacher at a school in São Paulo, Brazil.

Good times!
> Remains one of the few contexts where nerds would do drugs

Leaving aside the nitpicking of "umm actually, caffeine is a drug" (I infer from context that you mean "hard"/illegal drugs, which is reasonable), this one doesn't quite ring true for me. There's a particularly flavour of nerdery that views drugs as a means of hacking one's own body - "bio-hacking" is already a bit cringey and over-used, but it's not inaccurate. There's significant intersection between the nerdier people I know, and those who are interested in chemically expanding their experiences and perceptions. Maybe that's a more-recent development? (For context, I'm in my early 30's)
I have an Actor framework which uses a vanilla std::deque for method pointers, and to add messages to the queue, the locking technique is a Benaphore (the original Futex, which uses an atomic and a locking primitive, with the twist that my locking primitive is a combo of spinlock/mutex based on retry count). Nothing special.
Benchmarks show that very rarely does the message push function block, and the chance of an OS context switch is also very low, so even though occasionally we get a locked thread swapping out, it is so infrequent that it doesn't justify the lock-free algorithm cost.

In a nutshell, non lock free queues are much faster than lock free queues, however you must be prepared to accept the very infrequent longer delay due to a context switch (where the lock is not available to anyone). My benchmarks show that the price is acceptable since so much more performance is available with non lock free queues. 10 million messages per second per work thread can be queued on modern hardware.
And on this day a couple thousand more people learn that doing business with Google is a liability.
https://www.codingvc.com/p/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-...

Employee number 100 perhaps 10 basis points (0.1%)
Show HN: World Engine – Build Worlds Like Brandon Sanderson
Hey HN,

After hours of re-watching Brandon’s creative writing BYU lectures[1], we converted his ideas into a framework to rapidly iterate and build sci-fi fantasy worlds.

The app is divided into 3 sections:
- World: To create a unique magic system intertwined with distinct physical and cultural phenomena
- Characters: To create character arcs and give them unique traits that evolve over time
- Plot: To weave a series of events in this world following the character arc

We are newbie devs, any suggestions on the app improvements and usability would be great!

The idea is to capture the essence of Brandon's approach. We can't help but wonder if other 'earned insights' can be converted into similar applications for different use cases outside of fiction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3...
I may be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure the monochrome icons began well before Ive had influence on the software. OS X moved towards shape rather than color in eg iconography to support UI scaling (which had been an effort, and a more ambitious one, for years prior); and then eventually to support adaptive theming most recognizable (for its value anyway) in dark mode.
We're far more likely to pump a bunch of sulfates into the air than we are to stop driving pickup trucks everywhere. Humans aren't rational, and this is the kind of irrationality that democracy in particular cannot solve.
It's the arctic methane that is now melting.

We need a constellation of methane tracking satellites.
I think there is a flaw in this way if thinking.

Some people != all people

You are also assuming that most people like the burger for the addition (which may be true, but it's hard to know this for sure)

If tomorrow beef didn't exist the burgers would disappear as a regularly consummed food.
Brakes will be added in later design
I'd say it's more like thwarting cancer with chemotherapy: an unpleasant experience necessary for survival.
But if Instagram is blocking links in DMs between second and third parties at the request of the state (which we saw happening at Twitter), then that is a different matter entirely.

What makes you think Meta would be exempt from the same pressure Twitter received, given that Meta's platform is larger?
Climate change is an unintended effect of roughly two centuries of growth and development.

It seems much easier to have unintended effects, than to get exactly the effects you want with from a global geoengineering campaign on the first try.
I have a few devices on my home internet, on a handful of 192.168 subnets

The other week I moved my ISP. The AS my house belonged to obviously changed to the new ISP, and I got a new v4 IP

All I had to do was update my Wan router to forward trafffic from the new Ip.

Instead with ipv6 I would have to change every node on my network, update my internal DNS.

Now in theory I could have my own /48 which I take with me. That relies on my new ISP being willing to advertise it (which my current one does) but it’s not particularly common.

However a week ago my phone line was cut. I got a 5g mifi out and moved my wan connectivity through that until the cable was fixed. Again a nice simple masquerade on that interface and all was good (well not that good - very poor signal where I live)

But the elephant in the room is of course all that ipv6 stuff aside, I still need to run a dual stack (or use trashy nat abstractions). It increases my work for no benefit.

But taking about work, how about there?

I have a fleet of vehicles on internal 172.16/12 subnets, they plug together and route to each other, and route from where they are via a variety of vpn connectivity (hoping that at least one method will work, as there’s rarely a signal in the basements these park)

If I moved them to ipv6 then again I’m back to having to move my /48s. Except these vehicles get internet from various sporting venues - most of which struggle to turn off MITM/443 or unblock UDP, that’s just not going to work in a world where they turn up at 10am Saturday morning and need to be working 2 hours later.

What business benefit is there for me to double the workload and double the risk by moving to dual stack?
I don't do leetcode myself, but I frequently do clash of code on codingame. I do this for fun, and sometimes as a warmup to get better motivation before work.
People weren't deplatformed for saying masks helped.
Back in the early- to mid-2000s, I used to frequent a yearly recurring LAN party ("Hobslan") for up to some 100 people hosted in Germany, about 1300km away from my home. Of course, my midi tower PC that was specifically geared towards attending LAN parties was riding with me on the train(s) going there, and after a refreshing 14 to 18h trip (depending on the year's train schedule and my monitor-and-ride-providing German buddy (thanks, Han! :)) giving me the last-200-mile lift to the proper place), it arrived with me in all its glory: A Pentium 4 "Northwood" 2.6GHz (overclocked to 3.5GHz) on an ABIT AB-AI7 motherboard, a Geforce 4 4200 Ti AGP-based GPU with 64MB of VRAM, 512MB of dual-channel DDR-SDRAM at a frequency I cannot remember, and, of course, my trusty 160GB RAID0(!) SATA HDD array to store all the things you could leech on the sweet, sweet Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) fully-switched LAN that I was going to plug this thing into! The little beast had Gentoo Linux installed, and its hardware was perfectly balanced to provide that highly sought-after stable 125fps (where a certain physics bug in the game engine allowed for maximum jumping distance) under all possible conditions in Quake ]|[ Arena ;)

The events were a blast, and even the tournaments I did majorly suck at (playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo on an original SNES, hooked up to a projector that illuminated pretty much all of one of the walls of the school gym that the event took place in, for example) are forever etched into my memory.

One year, the network was plagued by the infamous W32.Blaster worm, and most of the Windows-based machines the local admins had provided fell to it in short order. People were starting to get desperate - most of their gameservers and DC++ hubs AWOL or even FUBAR, and many were going through the motions of redoing the Windows XP setup left an right, only to see their machines becoming infected again on the first network-enabled boot-up. It was mayhem, and a weekend of pure Quake awesomeness was threatened to be reduced to a week of reciting FCKGW-... from (muscle) memory ad nauseam. Luckily, my Gentoo machine was invulnerable to that particular problem, and my little gaming beast ended up on a separate network segment for "vetted", provden-clean Windows machines only, providing FTP and several Quake ][ and Quake ]|[ game servers at the same time for those who HAD machines that still worked, or were brought back from the dead. I even saved a relevant screenshot from back then as a cherished digital artifact: https://coloss.us.to/blaster.jpg

Makes me smile whenever I happen to revisit it :)
Before we can talk about food insecurity, (we have that too in the USA), we need to talk about the insane amount of food waste here. You can downshift the economy and IMPROVE food security if we take that as a priority. It's all about political capital.
And exponentially shorter with nested escapes.
I heard something like this a while ago. Paraphrasing: A company is first run by engineers (becomes a well made product that people love), then it is run by MBAs (so that it looks good on the balance sheet), then it is run by lawyers (to extract every bit of value created), then it dies (i.e sustained only by inertia).

But I find it hard to figure out what stage Google is at in this (maybe simplictic) progression.
By that framing the issue seems to be the "exchanging ownership of a woman" part than the "financial" part.
More jobs = more consumption = more resources. Their idea is for people to consume far less, therefore own less. If people own and consume less there's less incomes.

Don't own a house, only rent a small apartment in a dense urban setting. Don't own the means to your own transportation, only get by with walking and transit. Price meats so high most people can't afford them regularly.
Yeah, the narrative needs to be changed from saving the planet to saving civilization, but sadly a return to say the climate of the 70's (where the winters were snowy and summers weren't weeks of deadly 120 F weather) is even less realistic as people wanting to have a "America Great Again" (with current tech, wahey let's keep waiting for that deus ex machina!).
Many ISPs suck. That’s not controversial.

We have to deal with the world we live in, not the world we’d like.
I'll sound like a miserable old bastard here, which I am, but I'm all for bringing back Gopher and banning any non native applications on a platform. Electron I'm looking at you.

All the native apps on my Mac desktop, an ass end M1 mac mini, are really really damn fast.

The moment I put windows, any managed apps or anything web based or wrapped web applications near any computer, a world of pain opens. It's mostly energy sucking buggy crap which serves the developers more than the customers. That's a cancer in the industry which is only going to get worse when we ship towers of excrement on top of WASM.
> This wasnt the government suing Twitter for defamation.

I never said it was. The point was simply to refute GP's blanket assertion that any restriction on speech is tantamount to tyranny.

> There are exceptions to the rule and this wasnt one of then.

That's a thornier question which has not been resolved yet, and is certainly not a black-and-white issue.
> I think it really is case-by-case: the idea is obviously not to make it easy for someone else to spin up a competitor SaaS by doing far less work.

Yeah and it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. OP doesn't have to release the whole codebase. Maybe release small modules or little libraries that could help others get things done faster?
Rather spot-on criticism of all the flat-white-space-low-info-density design paradigms

Though

> On the desktop, however, a scroll bar is very useful for determining your current position in the content without having to break away from what you're presently doing and reach for the mouse.

You don't need a scrollbar for that, a tiny brightly colored (currently non-existing) indicator would suffice.

Along with

> If you're accustomed to a title bar being for handling the window and nothing else, it's very easy to misclick and activate an application feature you didn't intend to.

These are just a bunch of poor design features before "the decline" since they nudge the poor user to hunt down small slivers of windows (horizontal/vertical bar, and seriously, those tiny arrows on the scroll bar?) when instead they could have most of the window's area to perform these functions with some, dare I say, Windows key?
I think the most shocking thing is that the link to Squarespace is an affiliate link.

Google have sold Google Domains to Squarespace... but apparently, not for enough as they really really want to just make a few hundred bucks more from affiliate revenue.

Is Google really in that much trouble?
Who was the real Amy Winehouse?
https://archive.ph/hLbyx
I tried in it a zxcvbn simulator, and it qualified as a strong password ;)
Coolest for the rest of your life.

(Alas, that's not true. Next summer will likely be cooler, and the usual suspects will claim that proves climate change is a hoax.)
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?

old joke: a psychologist is a person who constructs mental hurdles between you and your goals and then, one by one, as each is jumped or knocked over, points it out to you.

Seems that maintaining the suspense of climate change involves a lot of mental "hurdle construction".
We are supposed to stop eating meat while our governments cut taxes for corporations as their management buys that third infinity pool.

Corporations are "people", my friend - while being absolved from any social responsibility.
> To a skeptic

You mean denier. We're way past skepticism, the overwhelming evidence shows climate change is real.
You don't need private investment to do electrification and renewable energy. That can be done by the government. Which doesn't have funding problems, ever.
Europe has tons of cars and air travel that is cheaper and more plentiful than that of US.
This looks interesting but I couldn't understand it easily from the abstract. Does this handle aleatoric uncertainty?
Literally, direct action from Republican operatives. It's called the Brooks Brothers Riot. The list of currently high-profile consultants/etc. That were there is quite enlightening.
I'm going to guess you've never spent much time outside the bubble of the first world.

After living extensively overseas in Latin America & South-east Asia and seeing how its part of everyday life for most people in the rest of the world to openly burn trash, plastics, car tyres.. litter everywhere, cutting the cat converters off their trucks, dumping construction waste straight into rivers.. it's been eye opening. Nobody in Asia is dropping plastic bags or single use plastic straws unless its a cafe for hippy white tourists.

Meanwhile, educated people in western countries are incredibly eco-conscious, have excellent modern waste management, have amazing huge national parks and conservation areas, clean waterways or have nets to prevent plastics entering the oceans.. are 'banning' gasoline cars by 2030.. and the air quality! Amazing.

The truth is 85% of the worlds population just doesn't care enough at all about the environment and no amount of western policy making will fix the problem. And only an ignorant college educated person from the first would assume that their 'solutions' will be exported globally. sorry to break it to you but the rest of the world doesn’t have any interest in that.

The middle/upper class whites you seem to deride so much are actually participating in one of the most eco friendly societies on earth
Ask HN: Why are many Web Frameworks using BigInt?
Pale Moon v32.4.0 release note - https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml - has the following interesting tidbit:

The BigInt primitive (base number format) in JavaScript allows JavaScript to handle excessively large integers (whole numbers). This primitive is especially useful for specialized scientific applications that need very large yet accurate numbers, but has seen widespread adoption for an as of yet unknown reason as part of web frameworks, causing general web compatibility issues for Pale Moon when scripts expect BigInt support and instead have an error thrown. We have now implemented this primitive for use so we no longer have compatibility issues with these frameworks. It is still unknown why BigInt is in use there and for what. Critical note: BigInt might be tempting to consider for JS-backed cryptography but this is very ill-advised, as BigInt operations are, by their nature, not constant-time and allow timing and side-channel attacks.

Does anybody have any idea why so many web frameworks are using BigInt?
We don’t have to accept it to this degree though. We have options available to limit who can participate in local markets, and to what extant. A foreign billionaire with loose ties at best to the locations in question should not be eligible to buy houses as they please as “investments”, in fact I find it a strenuous ask to allow local billionaires to do the same. I certainly wasn’t happy to hear a Silicon Valley billionaire moved back to my area and started buying up land in a vain attempt to “revitalize” the area, only to sit on it for the last 5 years.

The problem is that enforcing any sort of restrictions would be warped to disproportionately affect the 99% while the 1% would use loopholes to continue doing as they please. So it would probably be more pragmatic to eat the rich and their lackeys before anything else.
What's interesting here is SO₂ in the stratosphere, not the general atmosphere.
What I have changed my mind about in software development
True, though I think this is part personal note, and part intended as additional material for people already trying to apply transducers effectively. The author suggests this by casting it as "my" mental model, in a work context.

Maybe this variant of explanation will suit your context better:

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/n-ways-to-fizzbuzz-in-clojur...

I wrote the post as a way to explore Clojure's standard library using FizzBuzz as a device.
> Both trains and cars have stopping distances that are proportional to speed

Doh. Stopping distance is proportional to the square of speed. I knew this was wrong when I was typing it out, but I convinced myself it was right. I must have been thinking of the time. Being the square of the speed actually makes my point stronger, as the speed doesn't need to be reduced nearly as much to obtain a given stopping distance.
The government isn't inventing electric cars or improving heat pumps or improving batteries or making solar panels more efficient to produce.

You absolutely still need private investment in a growing economy to produce and invent these technologies.

What the government incentives then can do is speed up their rates of adoption and installation. But you need both sides -- public and private.
Is Colin’s recklessness a fake act, like Electroboom, or is he really as reckless as it seems? I’m not sure I’ve ever really figured it out, and for some reason it makes it hard for me to watch. I guess obviously they wouldn’t publish a video where something goes horribly wrong, though.