skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't misunderstand me here. I'd rather be wrong regarding my "doomism," and I no longer worry about climate change; it doesn't make sense to worry about something that can't be changed. However, I observe that people aren't scared enough to take action. They continue to dance around the issue in political euphoria. The changes to our lifestyle are happening too slowly to be effective. The gas and oil industry is doing a lot of carbon emission washing, like CSS. Many optimists argue, "We can't predict it, therefore we shouldn't be worried."
Ah shit, here we go again.

> which translates to around 1 or 2 tablespoons of kosher salt per quart or liter.

Yes.

> You also don't need a huge amount of water—just enough to be able to keep the pasta moving

That's highly depends on the pasta itself. There are some cheap local brands what greatly benefit from having way more water (1L for each 100g of dry weight) than usually needed for a proper one. Sure, if you want some soggy mess what you need to rinse, because otherwise it would cook itself to a single slob in just seconds after draining in a colander - it is all up to you.

> Pasta water gets added throughout the process in order to adjust consistency. Don't be afraid of it!

Can't agree enough. There is no one true recipe what would always work.

> Pasta don't wait around for nobody

Yep!

Amusingly just an hour ago I did a variation of 'pasta with sauce' what would be heart-attack inducing to anyone snobby enough about Italian cuisine: two big onions, chopped, steamed, fried, a bit of soy sauce, leftovers from a veg salad, harissa, tomato paste.

I can do 'a proper' one, but I can do 'not a proper' one too. And I can be just lazy enough today.
Don't we mean 2024 - 42? As in they missed a keystroke?
I don't think that would work, your inner ear would still detect the absence of movement.

The part that makes Star Tour work is that your entire body is moved around when the ship is tilted (because you're strapped to your seat). That wouldn't work with a tilting floor, I think.
I'm not sure about a room with this, but I remember seeing a demo of this concept some years ago: https://youtu.be/1orUctibUow

The keyword is "redirected motion/walking".
ps. make sure you get bronze-nozzle extruded pasta, not teflon extruded .. [ if you get dried pasta ]

It creates a nice rough micro-texture on the pasta surface when extruded, which helps it cook easier, and hold more sauce.

Swear, not making this up ..
> Some', 'could', 'mostly', not too strong arguments for the abolishment of generic rules applied on all.

"Some", "could", and "mostly" are words that people use when they're concerned with saying what's true, not when they have a weak argument. The facts are rarely absolutes and if you don't use qualifying words like that, what you're saying is rarely strictly true.
2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point
How did the lyrics to that song go? And when you ask them, "How much should we give?" Hoo, they only answer, "More, more more more!"

I gave up any hope of having meaningful relationships with other people in the name of building a good career in my life because that's what my parents wanted from me. I got into pistol shooting because it was primarily a solo activity.

Then the government passed laws decreeing that handguns have no place in civilized society. So I wanted to get into motorcycles. But that's just wrong because CO2 emissions. Now I'm being told that having space for myself, for a work from home office is wrong too because we need to increase density for the sake of efficiency.

Meanwhile price my groceries has went from $60 what I paid for in 2019 to $110 for that same bag of food. A small bag of flour went from $2.50 to $5 this year. Rice has gone from $14 to $22 for a large bag. And rent has became mad in many ways; last year average rent in this city was $1450 a month. This year, it's $1700 a month.

Then you've got one side that's yelling that we need to transition cars to electric but the nearest one to what you have is $20,000 more. And you're being told that we need to be looking at a way to get rid of the terrible CO2 emitting gas furnace for something more efficient like a heat pump. But the heat pump that can handle our climate is $15,000 to install.

Then they ban single use plastics like bags because of the issue of microplastics. And it annoys you but at this point it doesn't overly matter because you can't afford to eat out as much anymore anyways. But you're lucky enough to be able to afford rent and food, because you know people that are asking food banks for anything and being told the wait times are now at least 1 to 2 weeks because of the number of people in front of them waiting for food too.

All that verbal diarrhea to say... I'm tired. I'm tired of being told that it's my fault the world is screwed up. I'm tired of seeing seeing the roads I took to whatever little stability I have now being closed behind me. Tired of it seeming like that at some point in my future, the only thing I'll have left to enjoy will be the jab of a syringe full of heroin.

Overly dramatic yeah. It doesn't make any sense but it's how I feel. Dunno if it's anyone else that feels like this way, be a little surprised if it's really just me.
I live in Central Asia, and we have huge influx of Russian engineers here. I did not ask which city they are from, but they all are good. Better than average I think.
The plan appears to be massive gun turrets at every southern border at this rate.
The last line is so true. Italian cooking is a really good way to measure your progress as a cook, because you can use the exact same ingredients and get a completely different result with better skills. The simple recipes are a great testbed for the techniques you are picking up.
That post itself is not really readable in a quick, eye-strain-less fashion.
My leatherman wave+. Over 20 years old, still use it weekly. Still sharp.
Also my Brompton foldable bike. Also 20+ years old. And elementaryOS, with a desktop that allows for picture-in-picture of any screen area you pick. And my 20 euro Bialetti Mocca stove coffee maker, of 20+ years old.
Looking at https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy The Reddit exodus brought "active users" from ~0 to 70k. Half of them have left again since then.

That matches my subjective perception. Activity has significantly waned again. Larger communities are good (e.g. !europe@feddit.de). Smaller ones (e.g. !rpg@ttrpg.network) were good but are dying now.

It would be good timing for another exodus scandal by Reddit now.
Hmm. I think a lot of people who were silent about their positions on this topic are much more inclined to say them out loud now, even on websites like HN. Not that they are right though.

As for the reasons why I have (like anyone else) two or three ideas.

And whatever it is, it ain't making me feel optimist about what's to come.
Mise-En-Place - The front-end to your dev env.
Please take your activism elsewhere...
Estonian Song Festival
Anthony Bourdain said: “Encapsulate the essential Italian philosophy of cooking here: Get a very few excellent ingredients, then proceed to not fuck them up.”
I LOVE anki!! I’m a heavy user.

Everything goes in my morning flash cards. Knots, geography, language, tar commandline flags, papers, statistics homework. Fill them with things you like, is my advice - it’s fun to say hello to hobbies on the verge of your memory in the morning.

Bird calls! I’m learning sounds of bird calls since I can’t see very well so I can’t learn by sight. I listed eBird’s set of common birds near me and downloaded their calls as mp3s from the Macaulay Library and batch-imported them into my flash cards (for my personal use). It’s always rewarding to hear a bird outside and go “hey I think I know what that is!” Pairs well with Merlin Sound ID.

Another great use is as a mnemonic Rolodex: I frequently forget to reach out and catch up with friends in my life, so I have a deck with just names of people to say hi to. Every time somebody comes up, I say hello, and then answer the card for whichever interval feels appropriate. This way, the SRS itself will make sure that I never forget someone for too long.
-Wunsafe-buffer-usage: A Clang warning to adopt a bounds-safe programming in C++
Simjacker – Next Generation Spying via SIM Card Vulnerability
There are similar results for other IQ tests as well. You can study and practice to improve your score. Which shows that they aren’t really measuring raw intelligence. But, that doesn’t mean they aren’t measuring fitness for a task at least at that point in time.
By this logic, assuming you're American, one is free to do anything to your property, justifying it with calling out some bad thing the US government is doing, e.g. supplying bombs that are being dropped indiscriminately on Gaza.
Solyndra? Smell like one.
It's the opposite – it's gasoline that causes carbon deposits on the engine, and ethanol acts as a detergent.
Show HN: Roast my MVP todo app, please
I would argue that the majority of people do want conveniences like the latter example you give. The "American Dream", if you will.
Also you’re in what, likely the top 10-20% of the wealthiest people on Earth?
They might be wrong. And since they might be, and we have a chance to mitigate things somewhat, doom is not a useful response. It is paralysing.

Imagine fighting a war. If you and your fellow troops believe you will definitely lose, what happens to morale and the outcome? Morale collapses and you create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The situation is serious but extreme doom predictions are the outlier in all credible models.
Somewhat related, I just discovered that the Boeing 737MAX replaces the CDU keyboard in the cockpit with a touchscreen emulating the same keyboard.

https://www.gableseng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/G7330-....

I am lost for words...
VR Game Review: Get the Heck Out
All I know is that my army captain was the first real role model I ever had.
Perhaps it doesn't work out that way for everyone, but I bet it does for many.
> https://xkcd.com/1357/

This aged very poorly in light of what happened in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic.
Every five years, up to 60,000 Estonians meet for Laulupidu to sing songs together.

The next iteration will take in July 2025 (https://2023.laulupidu.ee/en/registraton-to-song-celebration...)

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdOiCa0-4o for a beautiful excerpt of the 2019 event.
up to the UHF band and don’t think I’d want to go any higher in KiCad

Didn’t Michael Ossmann create the HackRF on Kicad?
2008 and Boeing CEOs killed plenty of people
NPM flooded with 748 packages that store movies
If you give me a high level explanation about why goto is bad I can basically /s/goto/pubsub and it will still hold mostly true.
In a way, yes they did.

If your energy infrastructure has a significant amount of nuclear, and your solar power is over-producing during the day, it is cheaper to have negative energy prices than to shut down the nuclear plant.
Finland has a nasty neighbor.
I mentioned it because it contains a lot of GPL-licensed packages, and a lot of it's used on linux, and it's at least near the scale of the app store. It falls a little short along all three axes, but it seems to be the closest.

I don't think either Debian, Fedora or Arch are anywhere close to a million packages or a thousand updates per day. Well below 10%. They're GNUish and 100% linux, but really bad on the size axis.

The app store has at least two classes of problems that those three don't have, and have to handle the problems at much higher scale. "Those guys manage to handle a simpler problem at much smaller scale, so it's possible for the app store too" is hardly an argument.
It’s funny how tech bros pretend to be ultra-rational about anything they like to think about and “oh just look on the bright side” on the things that makes them a little sad.
Another point to consider is the old "don't feed the troll". Even if the other person is not really a troll (which I agree they usually aren't, they're just not thinking like you do) if you keep coming back for more you're just giving them the chance to argue their case for longer. So sometimes, if you want to promote your view, the best strategy is to let it drop and pick it up in another thread.

That's... not 100% honest, I guess, but at least it makes for easier to read and easier to handle conversations.

Conversely, arguing on HN has definitely helped me find the words to explain my own thinking to myself, so there's something in flogging a dead horse, sometimes.
We don't need another tax to make another commodity available only to the richest, but a change in culture that above all prioritizes consumption.
Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
The real practical reason, everything else aside, is that you’ll need IPv6 connectivity to reach IPv6 services as the world continues to adopt and transition over to IPv6.
You are wrong, as polling always introduces jitter (due indeterminacy of the event arriving moment between the last entry to the polling loop and the comparison operation). If you want really precise timing while reacting to external event is to sit in "halt" state, with interesting interrupts enabled.
The one defined by ISO/IEC 14882 in a vault in Geneva.
On the other hand, the grandparent comment (by guilhas) was engaging in strawman fallacy by misconstruing the top comment (by jiggawatts):

> Giving up on the future of the Internet in a futile attempt to stop your porn habits being tracked is not a valid argument against IPv6

should certainly not be simplified into

> If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

in the context of the full original comment which mentioned that hiding behind an CGNAT IP address is _not_ hiding, given that other more robust (and already prevalent) methods of tracking exist.

Obviously, two wrongs do not make a right, but since we are already talking about logical fallacies I might as well warn all the readers here that this thread is full of 'em - take the comments with a grain of salt.
> Amusingly just an hour ago I did a variation of 'pasta with sauce' what would be heart-attack inducing to anyone snobby enough about Italian cuisine: two big onions, chopped, steamed, fried, a bit of soy sauce, leftovers from a veg salad, harissa, tomato paste.

Just declare it as "Indian", "Phillipino" or something other south-Asian and it will be fine. There is a huge variety of cuisines there and there are less self-proclaimed experts on them in the western world.
I’m also going to go with data entry errors

There are legitimate areas of malfeasance, as well as outstanding areas where transparency is non-existent, but this reporting is missing all that and conflates it all
Should have started during Obama's time. Now too late. The mid
-segment and low-end chips prices already cornered by the Chinese. The high-end cornered by Taiwanese. The best USA can do now is economic trade barrier on silicon - have to do it now to have a chance recovery within next 5 years before Chinese reach 2nm mass productions especially going for quantum and AI GPUs.
On my first 'big' job I printed 927 and posted it on a random blank wall. Recently I visited the office again, even though I haven't worked there for ~2y. Wall is still blank, except for that comic. It brought me joy to know people still see it from time to time.
Err - have you heard of a fella called "His Holiness The Pope"? Here is a recent summary of remarks made recently [1].

'On the subject of birth control, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).”

St. Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae, the landmark encyclical reaffirming Church teaching against contraception, on July 25, 1968.

In the encyclical, Paul VI warned of serious social consequences if the widespread use of contraceptives became accepted. He predicted that it would lead to infidelity, the lowering of morality, a loss of respect for women, and the belief that humans have “unlimited dominion” over the body.'

Now, mainstream Catholics are relatively moderate in terms of many modern political positions, but I hope that the fact of approximately 1bn people adopting and affirming this position establishes that my assertion isn't bullshit. Beyond Catholics I think that the "true right" (someone help me please) have many folks (often with undercuts, wild eyes and tattoo's that they regret only because if they are discovered they will disqualify them from public life) who have far stronger views. To find out about these people (I will restrain myself from more powerful descriptions of them) please investigate the "tradwife" [3] and "incel" [2] movements.

[1]https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251920/pope-francis-...

[2] https://theconversation.com/incel-violence-is-a-form-of-extr...

[3] https://jezebel.com/trad-wife-wellness-influencers-are-tryin...
For any of you data folks out there:

In this context EDA is Electronic Design Automation, not Exploratory Data Analysis
Nicolas Flamel would disagree.
No useful comment, except to say I thought that was a great response. Thoughtful and detailed despite being an extended "it's complicated". My ignorance feels much better informed ;)
A point is high value items, investment grade diamonds, expensive watches could reunite with their owner trivially because their sales are tracked. The point being insurance and compensation has been paid. So the closing ethical concern is perhaps overstated. It's the more personal effects, a treasured family memento, letters which beg questions.
A snowball earth with a thin band of warm enough weather in the tropics is easier to survive on than an earth with 6 months of warm spring to tropical weather and 6 months of pitch black winter darkness.
> the if comes last and it is a significant ergonomic problem

Such is the issue with Forth in general.

> You add complexity to the system in order to compensate for its deficiencies

It is often true that to make the language simpler you must make its implementation more complex. I view this as a good thing. Having one slightly more complicated implementation is much better than many slightly more complicated programs.
OK, I'll bite: What happened to the first amendment in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Are there really toilets that are filled with liquid?
You're saying the entire indoor volume of the "superloo" gets flooded with water, like a sinking submarine? Don't be absurd. That'd be a monumental waste of water and it wouldn't even clean that well.
Yeah it’s certainly possible, it’s just personally I found it tedious.
GP?
The only way for Putin to win in Ukraine is to open new frontlines in Europe to divert attention and resources. And the most likely place is between the Baltics and Poland. That's exactly why part of Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise is taking place there.

A surprisingly straightforward article from Xinhua correspondent Zhang Zhang:

"The central locations involved in the drill are the Baltic nations, identified by NATO as particularly vulnerable to a possible Russian assault. Other areas include Norway and Romania, situated on the outskirts of the alliance; Poland on the alliance's eastern flank; and Germany as a central hub for reinforcements."

https://english.news.cn/20240128/95fbdec4ab7b4285b8f017ffeb1...
> what the last one is supposed to do.

It's indicating an iOS device being locally, e.g. for administration, backup, file transfer and the like.

> Are the things above that row buttons? Why don't they look like them then?

Haha yeah. That's modern Apple for you!

> what does fast forward and rewind do?

They sort of behave the way ff and fr does on a remote. Click/press fast and you skip to the next/previous song/chapter or equivalent. Hold down and you scrub at something like 4x speed.

> Is that slider a progress bar or volume slider?

A volume slider.

> Where do I click and drag to move the window? If it's in that top row, why are there things cluttering up the title bar? How much space do I have left to move the window?

I ask myself the same thing every day and have the same problem with many many apps, also in Windows. For example Firefox has the same design problem where its buttons have nor border and therefore have no clear place where draggable top space is and button is.

> I assume the coloured things are the window management controls.

Yes, these have remained mostly unchanged for over 20 years, they have gotten a bit flatter and lost some subtle small iconography.

> Does clicking the red one close the window and keep the music going

At least this part works well and in a predictable fashion. It consistently follows Apple's Human Interface Guidelines since well over 30 years: Closing a window or document of a Mac OS application should not quit the application. (there are some exceptions, but that is the default behaviour).
Today I learned that Americans cook pasta with the sauce. Just when I thought I could not be more appalled after how Americans make tea. >_<
Off-peak Friday fares on London's Tube
this is a clever idea, nice!
There's also https://horizon-eda.org/
> it is simply not in our interest to do so

That's the most bizarre statement I have seen in the context of VN probes.
No idea on pricing but met these guys at Devcon Bogota.

https://salusec.io/audit/
This is not about past content that is lost, this is about future content that is still being posted there.

Including things like info about security incidents that affect me.

At least I think most government authorities have stopped posting life safety information there.
It sounds odd to me. I'm merely recollecting a news report from probably about 20 years ago, which is probably going to be hard to dig up. If it's another case of the press getting something totally wrong, that wouldn't be surprising.
> If shit hits the fan everywhere else but North Europe remains safe - will it be business as usual there?

No, it will still suck, but it'll be the kind of suck you can survive without fleeing.

Unless the thermohaline circulation changes significantly, in which case the northern Mediterranean coast starts to look like Toronto, Paris starts to look like Vancouver, and Scandinavia starts to look like Anchorage.

> Won't hundreds of millions of people (or more) from India, China and Africa flee to to wherever is safe?

Yes, although in the case of China they'll probably flee to elsewhere in China, because it's huge.
I wonder how IQ higer than 85 relates to the chances of dying, maybe still relevant? There's probably a sweet spot not too dumb but dumb enough to join the military.
Because they lower the price of goods that you are using now and possibly with better features. You do need to care just you don't understand the economics.
If you're referring to the article they say to finish cooking in the sauce, which is not bad advice at all.
A classic example would be a description of the findings about some security bug or breach.
I'm not against learning things, I'm against learning how to fiddle with css to make a diagram. that is not the right tool for the job imo, i want something i can use to knock out diagrams with quickly and easily. canva & excel are already passable
>Reddit is dead

Reddit is different.

Reddit still holds a lot of value for me only in the subs I join. The smaller the community (niche) the more likely politics or social topic of the week will not get inserted into a post.

Stay off /r/all and the main politics-esc subs (There are many now) and it is fine.
Yeah, but are you building a bunker in Hawaii? Because Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker in Hawaii.