skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need for that kind of grunt work, plenty of people have wandered that before you. China trade alone has a smaller impact so here’s numbers based on total net imports - exports: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

In 2000 US emissions totaled 6.01 billion tons vs 6.25 billion in terms of consumption.

In 2021 that then drops to 5.03 billion tons total vs 5.57 billion in terms of consumption.

To scale per capita numbers divide 6.25 B / 281.4 million in 2000 and then multiple by 331.8 million in 2021. Which suggests 7.4 B T if we had done nothing vs 5.57 = a gap of 1.8 B tons over a shorter period.

> You do realize that it is still largely enough CO2 to make large portions of Earth (around the equator) literally unliveable for humans? Meaning that billions of people will have to relocate, meaning global instability, wars and famines absolutely everywhere, right?

The projections that suggest larger areas become uninhabitable assume massive contributions of CO2 from coal which are already unrealistic. Roughly half the the words coal is being burned in China but they are transitioning fast. “In 2020, China committed to have 1,200 GW of renewables capacity by 2030, but is on track to meet that goal five years early.” They added 216 GW of solar PV in 2023 alone, meanwhile demand is increasing by around 6% / year, so rather than just slow coal power plant construction it’s looking like they are going to start significantly curtailing coal electric production in 2024.

It’s said that 1.5C assumes China will end coal use by 2060, but the sooner they start cutting the longer they have to finish.
You make me wonder if this isn't the marketing/sales vs dev/ops misalignment.

Marketing and Sales focus on the good parts of our software. Simple usability, high stability, great reactive customer support, ... Apparently, during corona, we were the only reliable vendor for a national support hotline by a massive margin, and chaotically on-boarded call-agents had the least number of issues with our system.

But then, I as a team lead in ops have to wonder why a single priority ticket didn't meet SLA. Why a routine update caused 4 minutes of downtime. Why a usually stable provider ripped a system away for 3 minutes. Why strange cache timeout interactions caused some class of requests to take 30s+ to respond.

My world is very much a world of shitty non-working janky software and it is my job to fix and improve it. It might be one of the better solutions in our market and other people may be able to sell it to happy customers, but in my world it's a janky and broken piece of shit with a million things to fix.

And looking at the nation I live in... that's honestly not that far away.
* spoiler alert *

yes, the writing was annoying in parts (especially the Earth flashbacks).
What I liked about it was 1) if you don't know anything about it (I didn't even read the back cover) the surprises evolve nicely; and most importantly, 2) it was a story of humans cooperating with another species rather than either subjugating or resisting subjugation
The way child support works in my country, it is assumed the man will lay the mom and become a visiting dad (regular but infrequent contact with children) and the money given to the mom is supposed to provide for the children.

So possibly:
-maybe infrequent parenting is more than the dad was doing and so they must work less
-the dad may choose to chase money less as he is no longer supporting the wife and children as they used to
-depression and bitterness may make the dad less employable
-job changes influenced by first, third, and fifth weekend parenting requirements may dictate job change (e.g., no longer spending a few months on seagoing vessel, cross continent trucking, etc.)
-since child support is linked to income, also a spiteful send off to the ex
What exactly is considered when putting a dc together that jumps you from knowing that instead of maybe a very large/massive cluster of whatever 1024 core servers your project needs a mainframe?

I've been in cluster infra for like 15 years and couldn't tell you pretty much anything about mainframes other than a few names of them and processors.

Is it some sort of determined raw performance metric, teraflops of some processing work?
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Post-flight review found alignment pin detached during 'Galactic 06' flight
Had to shorten it from: Standard post-flight review found an alignment pin detached from the mothership during the ‘Galactic 06’ flight

Also on: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/virgin-galactic-report...
The other definition you got isn't bad, but I think it misses the point for this discussion: it is a rack or multi rack scale computer with built-in and centrally managed features for redundancy, failover, job allocation, scaling, etc.

As an example, in many main frames, you can configure them with a spare set of CPUs, and if one of your CPUs fails, the replacement is brought online automatically and transparently, the code you write doesn't have to know about anything related to the failure.
It's not a problem (depending on cup shape), but having anything very close to the camera breaks the passthrough illusion and can be uncomfortable.
The reason I don't like to use IRC is 100% the people. Just so brazenly rude and egotistical, and always confidently wrong.
>> Minimum per-minute amount of $0.44 and a per-mile amount

Oh, good grief. Think, before you mindlessly quote. A $0.44 per-minute amount means that every 10 minutes = $4.44. (And that's not including whatever is the per-mile amount!) When was the last time a DoorDash order took less than 10 minutes for delivery?

>You may see a $5 there - that's the MINIMUM pay for the entire order, and it is an or, not an and. There is no obligation for them to charge an extra $5/order and pass it on to the driver.

There is also no obligation for DoorDash to not pass the cost on to the customer (not "driver"). To put another way, you are saying that the only correct outcome here is for DoorDash to absorb 100% of the $5 fee, no ifs, ands, or buts.

But this is beside the point because, as I said, you are mindlessly quoting without thinking:

>> Minimum compensation: Network companies must pay the greater of

In other words, the floor for the additional fee is $5, no matter what. If anything, it sounds like DoorDash is doing customers a favor by capping the Seattle-mandated fee addition they pay at $5, with it absorbing any excess amount. Conversely, I bet some GrubHub orders' prices went up by more than $5.
SEC's rules on the definition of a dealer will help protect investors from HFT
People who say no get respect, those who say yes to impossible deadlines, work insane hours, maybe miss an impossible deadline by a few hours-or not, get fired.
I suspect this has a lot to do with the uncompromisingly dangerous and tenuous subsistence that is living in the Arctic. The inability to manage anger would be selected out as it would be detrimental to the survival of the tribe.
What's funny is that if we substitute Canada with Russia in your comment, every word of it still holds true.

I suppose "stable" and "stagnant" are two sides of the same coin.
> Out of curiosity, why? China's stock market is melting down in the midst of persistent deflation. A lot of people who thought they had liquidity may not anymore. Beijing could open the taps, but then that puts pressure on the currency.

The whole point of the money laundering operation is to get the money out of the country. China going to pot only accelerates it.
Most advice has bias. Of course the people giving business advice want to talk about their successes. Just like the people on social media post how perfect their lives are.

It's especially interesting to hear advice from people who lack empathy. Maybe high performers giving advice to someone with a disability. Or someone who got lucky that credits their hard work and denies luck had anything to do with it.

I'm tired of it. I'll look at some advice just for curiosity, but I'm done trying. What happens, happens. No point in repeatedly wasting effort.
If you're going to find yourself working with databases, I'd suggest learning some about the internals (that's probably true of anything). In particular Markus Winand's information[0] is great for building an intuition about why different types of queries work with different types of indices. I don't know about Oracle, but Postgres and Mysql have pretty detailed documentation once you have that foundational knowledge.

If you learn about the internals of a thing, especially when your background is in lower level dev like C++, then the use-cases are more obvious: you use the thing whenever you would've done what it does internally, but it gives you that functionality off-the-shelf and wrapped up in a way where you can write business logic without getting bogged down in details of tree-traversal and stuff. Once you get comfortable with it, you expand that to using it when you might not have done things exactly that way, but eh it's close enough and lower effort.

Sometimes truly equivalent SQL statements will be faster just because the optimizer is not perfect. e.g. I've had cases where I had a templated query with a GROUP BY some id, and then other code added on a HAVING for that same id, and I know it should be algebraically valid to push the HAVING into a WHERE so it runs before the GROUP BY (and filtering before the aggregation would be much cheaper), but mysql just didn't have that optimization. Dealing with this kind of thing can be annoying.

Other times you might have something like a compound index, and you might add a WHERE that you know for business reasons is redundant because the thing you're trying to filter on is not the first column in the index. Understanding why that works comes down to understanding what a compound index "looks like" as a tree. One thing that I imagine a database from the future could do is let you define logical implications like that (e.g. StateOrProvince = California implies Country = United States, or maybe deleted_at >= modified_at >= created_at, or a.id > b.id implies a.created_at > b.created_at) that it could use for query planning.

But in general, if you learn how it works, and then think of it as a way to not have to write that functionality yourself (but understand that the trade-off is some rigidity in your ability to customize it), it will make more sense, and you'll be able to become one of those wizards that just knows how to rewrite a query to something that ought to be the same, but is for some reason much faster.

[0] https://use-the-index-luke.com/
Libera currently has 34.5k users connected. And hi, I'd be someone under 30 that uses IRC quite often.
Not quite that simple. You can't just pin the program itself, you also have to pin its dependencies. Which means you have to run ldd to get the libraries it loads (whether directly or transitively), and copy those too, and then you patch the program and its dependencies to set the rpath to $ORIGIN/my/own/directories, then you have to examine all the other more subtle application-level gotchas (e.g. path search order for config files, hard-coded absolute paths, etc.) and port those too. Once you're done, congratulations! You've done 50% of the work of a package manager.
It doesn't even need to be that fast, as long as it's secure and credible. Stock trades in the US happen "instantly" (or near enough), but actual settlement takes place two or three days later.

The cryptocurrency people are hung up on the idea of "fast, irreversible payments" (that settle at the same time as the trade) because they desperately want a trustless, digital equivalent of cash for political reasons.

But for merchants and mainstream users, a fair, trustworthy payment system run by known intermediaries would be much better. It can be slow, as long as merchants know they'll get their money in some reasonable timeframe. The problem is that the Visa/Mastercard duopoly makes it hard to innovate.

It's possible FedNow will fix this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
"Are there better numbers?" is not a question that justifies trusting bad numbers. If the best numbers you have are known to be unreliable, using them just because you don't have better ones is not justified.

Let's say the real amount per year for the last 10 years is [100, 110, 120, 130, 140], and you have numbers that show [90, 89, 88, 87, 86]. Those numbers are much better than [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. It would still be absolutely wrong to use them to figure out the trend.

If you know your source of data is bad, you must throw it out, even if it's the best one you have. If our data is bad, we just don't know.
> The left-wing folks aggressively deny there is any sort of problem

I have to admit, I don't think I've heard any left-wing folks saying that at all.
> The costs after you susbcribe are also insane: $420 for a 15min online chat.
>
> I got the same type of appointment for something around $20 directly from Cigna. And that's with a high deductible account.

Cigna (and any insurer) is always going to charge you way more for services that they don't provide themselves, because their direct incentive is to encourage (or force) you to use the services that they provide directly instead of using independent in-network providers. Their profit margins are way higher on those (compared to in-network providers), and furthermore they have way more control to use those as a mechanism to gatekeep further specialized care. You can sort of think of it like a loss leader, but in reverse: providing those services "at-cost"[0] allows the insurer to save way more by using that virtual visit to deny you a referral to a specialist, or denying you a particular procedure, based on some clinical guideline that the insurer has decreed, when an in-network independent provider would have come to a different judgement.

Remember that, for in-network coverage, the amount that you have to pay is a somewhat arbitrary number that is entirely decided by your insurer, and has very little (if anything) to do with how much the providers on the other end are actually making. Cigna makes you pay more for independent providers because it benefits them to charge you more for those.

I'm using Cigna here because you mentioned Cigna, but to be honest, all the insurers operate like this.

[0] "cost" is a fuzzy term here; I'm being figurative
I'd ask how you decentralize without having a government requiring KYC?

Anonymity of nodes?

If avoiding KYC / government-control is the primary motivation, then more centralized ledger systems look a lot like current payment networks... just with anonymous operators. (Oof)
It seems like some people just can’t fail, no matter what they do.
Most of the "enshittification" that you're talking about is the result of having to find roundabout ways for people to get paid for their work, because simply charging the consumer isn't feasible.

websites charging money for the content and services they provide is not enshittification. it's just business. expecting everything to be delivered for free is what leads us to things like invasive tracking and targeted advertising.
> > Where US got the best talent from India, Canada got the worst,

In India when we graduated our professors would say - you are really good, you should go to the usa. you are quite mediocre, go try your luck in canada. and you, you are a C student, even canada won't take you in. go get married to some indian lady, get a nice fat dowry, raise two kids and send them to college here, maybe they will get better grades than you.

It was perhaps said in jest, but like everything else, there was an element of truth to it. For quite a while, the word canada itself became a pejorative. Many south indian films have a scene where the hero returns after studying abroad & wants to get married, & the heroine's father generally wants to make sure he is a good student & not a scamster from canada.
Quantum Particles Aren't Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From?
> The domain doesn't even have an AAAA record to begin with. The is the worst ranking a webite can get in the IPv6 database.

You are *tearing* me *apart* GitHub!
It's one of my favorite shows ever.
Counter-example experience: At some point I tried to find an active community to discuss Electrical Engineering. I sampled 8-9 Discords, and they were all dead and all had redundant #general and #offtopic channels.

##electronics on Libera otoh is highly active.

Discord sucks because it's way too fragmented and diluted.
Crime rates are a prime battlefield for culture wars.

The fact that talk about crime rates is usually an attack on progressive policies usually means progressives usually also respond in an ACKSHUALLY manner followed by a wall of anarchist crime theory which must account for all (not just some) of any disparity, because if it does not then you have stabbed your own side in the back.

Whatever you think about Elizier Yudowsky, I think he hit this one right on the nail.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...
Guys, I'm starting to think there's no amount of capital that can bring the necessary efficiency/low prices to the American healthcare system while also maintaining a profit motive.
People over 30 have similar thoughts about TikTok.
Where I live it is a) very sunny almost all year round and b) very common to have PVs on your roof. I currently have 5KWH installed on my roof, I have a Nissan Leaf which I charge every day whilst I am working for home and I've paid 70euros total for electricity in the last 2 months, whilst running the underfloor heating constantly.
Quality Assurance Across the Tech Industry
Maybe this service can just be replaced by a journal. Or email the letter now and put it in folders with names like "do_not_open_till_2040".
I've tried the Quest 3 and it's still not very good IMO. Quest 3 is still a low contrast LCD and at absolute best gives you close to a 720p virtual theater screen.

I think the AVP is the first headset that can actually provide a good movie viewing expedience in a headset coming close to a full 1080p virtual screen and with high OLED contrast.
> Mainframes are unbelievably powerful, feature-full, and cost-effective.

Maybe things have changed in the last 10 or 15 years, which is the last time I had a legit mainframe at a day job, but back then none of those things were true if you looked at it more than 20 minutes.

I seem to remember nothing being included in the base mainframe… when you started to add things like DR and data duplication and virtualization, it became extremely expensive. Like on the DB side, effing Oracle was much cheaper.
Have you looked for an independent Direct Primary Care doc? I use one in Wisconsin in addition to my usual PCP for routine stuff, vaccinations, lab tests, etc, and it saves me 90%+ off what I would pay with my PCP. My PCP is just essentially my catastrophic backstop now.
Ah ok, so we are talking about dumb old methods. I thought it was something like the fancy APIs that are all the rage these days.
Canada does need more housing supply, and ironically an influx of fraudulent real estate money like this helps to fuel more growth in the supply.

Still, fraud is fraud. Stopping it won't fix Canada's housing problems, but that's not a reason to stand idly by.
> The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate, with horrible service quality, terrible healthcare, no jobs, ZERO innovation, risk taking and entrepreneurship.

This is so true it hurts.

And while there's some numbers that outsiders can look at and gasp[0] at how absurd it's become, there's a whole lot that isn't being tracked or documented. Official immigration numbers are ~0.5mn for 2023, but (and I've seen it elsewhere, but I can't find it right now) if you use a common sense definition that includes all inflow (e.g. asylum seekers, tfw, foreign students, etc) then it's 1mn+. It's insane for a country of <40mn, with highly socialized services.

The quality of life in Canada is horrid in a way that's not comparable to anywhere else other than maybe australia. Everything is silly expensive, with low salaries, and it's not like in europe where you can travel 3 hours to go somwehere with cheaper services. It's crazy. Or what about crime, the right wing, tough on crime party leader yesterday said that if someone has 3 convictions for car theft that it should mean 3 years. It's no wonder that I know some crazy personal stories about people getting their cars stolen and the police doing nothing.

Anyways, I don't want to rant even more, all I can hope is that for younger people in Canada to realize that the best thing they can do is hop to the US or something.

[0] https://www.financialsamurai.com/what-if-the-u-s-housing-mar...
Sure, but they are also treating it as a business opportunity, just like the people compiling the data are. They should perhaps be pushing on the legal aspect of what's wrong with the situation rather than making money from it.
> Sounds like that branch is compromised

"Since 2015, the whistleblower concluded, more than 10 Toronto-area HSBC branches had issued at least $500-million"

It's not a branch. It's the whole bank. And you can safely infer it's not the only bank.
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Sorry to say that your previous "evangelism" shows. It would be very interesting to hear what "unbelievably powerful" means (as in facts and numbers) compared to what a hyperscaler can provide. E.g. SPEC for CPU, GFLOPs, Tensor-ops for inference, latency and so on. Last I checked the consolidation story that claimed factors of savings took underutilized ancient Intel boxes as baseline.

"feature-full" is also quite a stretch when it comes to software when most modern software needs to be ported or run in a Linux LPAR.

In addition I'd question that not getting access easily is the main reason for the lack of adoption. It might be part of the problem but the other problem is that the thing is a niche product and IBM doesn't seem to be utterly successful in either explaining what the niche is nor how to extend it.
This happened to me for a while, so I stopped.

Then I started up again, and I VERY CAREFULLY measure my dosage. 2.5mg THC and 20mg CBD takes the edge off nicely, is zero calorie, and works up my appetite even when I'm sick of eating ( I do a ton of weight lifting and the protein intake can be annoying ).

I've abandoned flower and use a little dropper of low octaine 4-1 CBD to THC tincture.
UC Davis still monitors latency to www.aol.com in 2024
Goddess and godess = god
I worked with an Indian migrant to Canada. He was very good at his job, a great team player, and overall an amazing guy.

Your description is unfair.
Guess it’s the same difference between caught exceptions and panics, you can either recover or you cannot?
the sheer number of even just active phones in the world right now, vastly outnumbers the amount of biometric/card readers ever made, combined.
I'm confused how the internet is just ok with Mozilla engaging with these extortion websites. These sites are not legitimate and now that Mozilla and Google are engaging with them they just play into the protection racket.
> I often pipe output to tee and would be pretty annoyed if that changed the behavior of the original command

The output sent to tee is usually not the same as the output from the command to the terminal, so you are getting something different than most human users expect from original command... the reason is that terminal escape codes and other formatting for humans may need to be omitted from output to a pipe. You do this by asking the OS, "is this thing a terminal?".

Python example

"terminal" if sys.stdout.isatty() else "something else"

C is very similar:

if (isatty (1))
fprintf (stdout, "Terminal.");
else
fprintf (stdout, "Not Terminal.");

(printf works, too).