skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the return on investment on most proposed “changes” is negative. I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.

If we turned off the fossil fuel tap today, I think life on earth would get markedly worse for humans, with negligible/no impact on fauna.
Hmmm. From:

> What has food habits to do with evolution?

to:

> Changing Diets changing the gut is hardly in the same order of magnitude of time frame as evolving from herbivores to omnivores.

As your first question has nothing to do with time frames, that's what my response was to.

Not sure why you're trying to then use my response with... whatever this reply of your is supposed to be. :/
My attempt at Gitlab PR review environments with Nomad
Yes but installing solar rooftop is simple and won't use any additional land and get opposed by environmental groups. From that point of view, your $ will be more actionable than waiting 15 years to get your utility solar deployed.
Facebook, Twitter, Eanes ebay all use torrents internally for various things. The story might be

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/exclu...

https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/engineering/bittorrent-f...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803026
Have you ever driven across the US? There is an unfathomable amount of open space. Same in most countries, aside from maybe Europe. We are nowhere close to running out of land.
> I got elective surgery without insurance which included full anethesia in a private clinic and they were very sorry because the total would be 600 euros.

600 Euros for elective surgery with full anesthesia is insanely cheap. Even by EU standards. There must be some subsidies involved from the public health sector for that surgery or something to knock that price down. In Austria a surgery is thousands.

Doctors at a private clinic won't even get out of bed for 600 Euros let alone pay for the whole staff and clinic.
The comments here are mostly doomers (and a few global warming truthers somehow)

Don't despair: we can fix this! Hackers and engineers are in a good position to help here. There's lots to do in decarbonization that will directly help, while also working on interesting problems.

This Noah Smith article has a great overview of the situation, the progress, and the next steps: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/a-bunch-of-handy-charts-about-...
> Many people seem to think there will be mass die offs

Humans have already caused many mass die offs. Go into a forest today and try to catch dinner with your bare hands and you'll find it is near impossible. Yet it used to be possible - that's how our ancestors lived.

Us inventing aids like the bow and arrow has depleted the wild animal population enough that we now couldn't survive without such aids.
> climate always varied along history

Over much (much much) larger timescales, with much (much much) smoother transitions (due to the timescale).

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/

And, I mean, the Earth will be fine and "life finds a way". The "internet native" generations' grand-children? I'm not so sure.
I try to write docs like this. (Not markdown files, heaven forfend, and definitely not a random file in the root, of course, but these are quibbles.)

A problem, though, is that many things lack an architecture; they were grown and are a mess, and the procedural knowledge can't be put to a document without just pointlessly recapitulating the code itself in what is possibly a more confusing form.
Wow, I thought you were overreacting, but no, that looks terrible.
Right to repair is great. Does it make sense ecologically to repair that NES with a lot of energy, chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide etc? I honestly don't know and guess everyone must decide for themselves.
If the data can conveniently be split in to lines, I wonder if there is an advantage to this format over a single json list e.g.

[
{"name":"Bob"},
{"name":"Alice"},
{"name":"Alison"}
]

You're already working with json anyway so you could just stay in that world rather than mixing new lines and json.
This is neither cheaper or simpler. Kernel methods are much more computationally expensive because the cost scales with the square of the dataset size.

Neural networks are actually decently efficient, they mostly seem slow because we apply them to problems (like modeling the entire internet) that are just huge.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...

That is all.
I disagree with this take. There are so many variables like job availability in area where person wants to live, graduation does not mean one is fit for job, job openings are for experienced positions and openings for recent grads are almost non existent.

If there are only openings for experienced people, as a recent grad you take whatever else you can find. Then people just get stuck in whatever they got as first job because they get experience there and get value.

It also doesn’t say what STEM people end up with - I bet a lot is clerical job and not moving boxes for Amazon or flipping burgers.
Is there? A credit card transaction can decline if you exhaust your credit limit. How is that different from bouncing a check?
Rather, a recognition of the current state of affairs. And not just my phone; my clothes, some chocolate I had recently, and probably most things I own. The overseer is more evil, but we’re all a little evil (or a lot?), though I doubt we’re all about to go off grid and be self sufficient, weaving our own clothes, building our own shelter, foraging our food, etc.
Apple have all the money to do anything that they want to do, as does Google, Amazon, etc.

But..

1. Not everything is within a company's culture to achieve, no matter how much money is thrown at it.

2. If you _really_ wanted to do something with urgency, then of course you'd consider acquiring people, tech, teams, and IP to accelerate that thing, but point #1 says you still might not succeed (and the ruins of so much M&A across the whole industry says you really need to consider that first point hard).
This seem like a hysterical response.

Look at the warming forecasts and how accurate they’ve been (they haven’t).

Then look at the error bars on predicting the impact to weather (they are all over the place).

A reaction like not having kids because the world will end places way to much confidence in predictions that little probability of being correct.
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Yeah, not all unions are created equal. We saw some of thst with the Hollywood strikes last year. That's sadly a part of why some anti-union sentiment spreads organically; if the people who are supposed to be looking out for your interest end up being another corporation to fight, what's the point?

That doesn't mean collective bargaining can't work. Especially for critical jobs like medicine and teaching. But it falls back to the issues of sole people not being at wits end and needing to be at wits end before going nuclear, instead of seeing the long term and being able to withstand short term sacrifice.
> A 2/3/4 C rise in global temperature is going to happen, and humans might put the brakes on, but they will never put it back the way it was.

I think CO2 emissions are going to decline – not fast enough to prevent a 2/3/4 C rise in global temperatures – but I think that rise could well be just a temporary thing for a few centuries, after which the climate goes back to what it used to be.

People are trying to limit CO2 emissions – not hard enough, but they are trying – and renewable electricity, electric vehicles, etc, are in the long-run going to win out because even if you don't care about CO2 emissions at all, they have other advantages.
I remember being surprised to learn a while back that all writes over NFS were treated as sync, so putting a ZIL on an Optane (for example) helped with NFS performance enormously.

This would have been on FreeBSD, I don't know if the same is still true, or true on ZoL.
Another one? Why?
Why fake research is rampant in China
https://archive.ph/RcDXB
The trends are not reversible, but they may be attenuated if we don't adopt a "dooomed" worldview. In the french speaking world, there's a wave of eco-angriness starting to replace eco-anxiety and that's a welcome change.

People are getting involved and putting their ass on the line to stop this madness. At a great cost, given that cops regularly maim and sometimes murder ecological activists trying to stop ecocidal projects (see NDDL / Sivens / Sainte Soline).

We have a choice to make: destroy capitalism and its consumption lifestyle, or let it destroy humanity and millions of other species. I strongly recommend watching END:CIV, a 20-year-old documentary that hasn't aged a bit.
Paywall. No, thanks
A quick search shows that TRICARE has 9.5 million beneficiaries, so ~2.8% of population based on 2020 census. I imagine the number you're looking for isn't far off from that.
> climate always changed.

Over much (much much) larger timescales, with much (much much) smoother transitions (due to the timescale).

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/
most JSON parser would have difficulty decoding an array with 1 million rows. For example in Python you could easily eat up all or RAM and swap and gets OOM'd
> We should be doing more about wetlands restoration.

Only if mosquitoes are eradicated.
> That's not at all what I talked about wondering about:

You did talk about wondering about it:

> I sometimes wonder how many American children get born while one of their parents is in service.
Shopify, for instance, uses this format if you request bulk downloads of records, for this exact reason.
Why do you think it will warm 5C? Most of the models - which are not especially accurate or battle tested - don’t put us there.

If we bumped to 1000ppm carbon, would the earth warm 5C? That’s a technical question. We don’t know exactly how sensitive the climate is or what feedback mechanisms are at play. I don’t lose sleep over it. But I’m just trying to give my perspective to counter some of the doom, since the doomers are very active online.
This doesn't work with streaming, e.g. JSON logs
Vikings killed even before the advent of industrialisation and when the temperatures were below freezing most of the time in the year (it still is for many Europeans and Canadians).
I dont think the killing part is a function of mean surface temp change.
My sense is that there will be a lot more killings when global poverty rates increase from unavailability of cheap reliable energy.
> Good old right-wing talking point, uh? Try being hostage of the Hamas, then consider the difference with having to ride a crowded train.

>Frankly the kind of people spouting this stupid propaganda deserve to be enslaved by their capitalist overlords.

To complete Godwin's law you only need to add some Hitler reference and win gold medal for smart discussion. Really good effort on your side.

See folks, and this is why it doesn't work. One side literally wants to suffer horribly and ideally die to move out of their shiny true way, they are so above everybody else. Reminds me 100% of those truly-to-the-core communists from back home from behind iron curtain that my parents suffered so much from, the same material, zeal, same methods, at the end same results.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
I was so impressed that I left France forever and Im never coming back. Couch activists like you have no idea the misery those constant distracting productivity-killing micro-movements do to the country in aggregate.

I wish you could enjoy them in your country and we wouldnt have to. But well, as long as we can leave France when we dont like it I guess it's fine.
The big benefit of JSON lines over a JSON array that you can easily append new records to your file by just adding new bytes at the end.
> Recorded history is about 150 years

Where does someone get the courage to just lie like this?
> we have to regenerate accounting when upgrading or
downgrading past this version.

> That should work more or less seamlessly with the most recent compat
bits

It is really good foresight that flags can trigger an old version of some software to delete/regenerate some data.
In similar vein: I've asked ChatGPT (3.5) electronics questions. It happily generates non-existent links to schematics images, and then refers to the schematics in its answer.
And no one cares, except those wanting to use this to further their goals in creating the dystopian new world order.
I just realized how much better is 3.5 in some cases. I asked ChatGPT to improve a script using a fairly obscure API by adding a few features and it got it on the first try.

Then ... I realized I had picked 3.5 by mistake, so I went back and copied and pasted the same prompt into GPT4 and it failed horribly, hallucinating functions that don't exist in that API.

I did a few other tests and yes, GPT 3.5 tends to be better at coding (less mistakes / hallucinations). Actually, all the 3.5 code was flawless, whereas all the 4 had major problems, as if it was reasoning incorrectly.

GPT4 was incredibly better when it first came out, and I was gaslighted by many articles / blog posts that claim that the degraded performance is in our imagination.

Fortunately, 3.5 still has a bit of that magic.
It is what I could find here. I have more sources but not in internet and in spanish language mostly though this is strictly an english speaking page.

Why I should believe Wikipedia? I have found plenty of times inaccurate infirmation in it as well.

I will let it go since it is a highly politicized topic but I think that bunch of negatives without further proof is not fair.

Life is not fair though :)
But survive and thrive we do. And if you go to many places in North America (or around the world) you can still see large populations of wild animals, many recovering substantially with improved protection policies.
The problem is text editor support. People don't trust binary data and want to see it in a text editor. ASCII has four characters reserved for separation so ridiculous formats like xSV where x is an in-band character are unnecessary. It's just the text editor support that is lacking. Even Emacs can't seem to do it well.
That's similar to what Discworld MUD ran on back then, although that needed frequent MUD reboots to keep the MUD and server somewhat useable (every 45 minutes or so).
Today it is on a 8GB VM and only reboots for bigger game updates. We're looking at moving it onto a PI5.
The added bloat can no longer keep up with hardware getting better :)
> The amount of thinking happening in the world depends on the amount of human brains available, and their level of education and knowledge

It seems to me that most of today's high impact "minds" come from relatively wealthy families compared to the world's average. They come from a small pool of candidates, compared to the vast world population as a whole that don't have the same opportunities. We basically throw away potential geniuses.

If we reduced poverty, corruption and unemployment, and made higher education available for everyone, we would increase that pool by billions of people.

We don't need more people in the world - what we need is to give those that are already here the opportunity to nurture their minds and have a place where they can apply them
> Money is fungible and not unlimited

There is no limit to the numbers in central bank databases. Resources and labor are not unlimited, though.
There would be some significant tradeoffs necessary for maintaining a trillion people population on Earth no matter the energy cost. Even if you assume cheap and abundant cold fusion energy source, living in mcmansion and eating avocado toasts with wild salmon is likely out of the question.
The problem here is the benefits are localised but the harm is globalised. Nobody in Micronesia can vote to raise fuel taxes in the US, despite being very much affected by US energy policy.

If we all voted together it might be different. Though I doubt it, to be honest.
I used to work at Ubisoft until recently and our recruitment was genuinely surprised why we can't find any candidates for senior C++ programmer roles offering the equivalent of about €50-60k/year.
>Isn't this how democracy is supposed to work?

Under the assumption of perfect information, yes. Politicians should be afraid of doing unpopular things that will not get them re-elected.

A problem that exists down there, outside the internet bubble of information overload, is that people _aren't_ reliably informed. A human in a vacuum without access to accurate information will never spontaneously guess that they should care about the environment.

A politician's decisions are informed by voter preferences. That's good.

But the voters, themselves, how should they know whether to care or not care about any particular subject they're not experts in? Who do you trust? Where does information come from?

Well, there isn't a widespread decentralized information effort. It's not billions of us independently doing investigatory work. It is a handful of us, a small relative percentage. Voters can't all be experts. They have to trust some smaller group.
You can look at the graph in the article. It starts at 1850. So, 174 years if you want to be precise.
The only solution is money!

And it isn't so expensive to turn things around. An estimated 100-200% in global GDP is needed to reach carbon net zero by 2050. Annually we need to spend 2-6% of GDP to get there.

Remember every bit of Co2 not emitted counts
How does it compare to Nostr?
Maybe because everyone and their mum is able to solder non smd components. Let's have him re-ball a modern GPU and we can talk again. It's okay that the process of fixing something is more complex than 30 years ago. The problem is that you can't get the parts you need from the manufacturer.
>Create an account to read the full story.

It looked interesting. Too bad.
Memory is a funny thing. I do not remember anything that I do not actively use, except when I have to.

Like the case where I was on the Mexico-US border and I was asked by the kind border police to give the dates of all my travel to the US in the last 5 years. I was travelling from France to the US like every month or two. Well, the perspective to stay in Mexico brought back the travel dates pronto.

Or the case I was in a taxi with a Spanish speaking driver who had no idea which hotel to drive me to, in the middle of nowhere. My years of Spanish in high school bloomed up pronto as well. I was able to say "my hotel is mauve with a garden in front and back, there is a view on a white church surrounded by a cemetery" My teacher would have been so proud! (I was incompetent to put it nicely)
much appreciated.
She's young and will feel the full force of some peoples ignorant stupidity.
As a human I like nice things too. But increasing human population even more by decreasing animal diversity I see as a bigger threat to livability on earth.
You are of course entirely right. humanity will continue to exist. That is not what the people are saying.

What will happen, and what is in fact already happening : food gets more expensive, people have to migrate because their current location is no longer viable, more disasters, and more conflict resulting all of that.

Humanity is not going extinct any time soon. But what sort of world do you want to leave to our kids? Should our objectives be not a tad higher than “oh well, life will be worse but at least as a species well still exist”?

Also note that while we have only started “writing” since a couple of thousand years, and indeed keeping track for less than that, we do have the natural record. That may not be as precise as the written record, but there is a lot of it over a very long time. That natural record puts boundaries on previous temperatures.

You’re entitled to feel that you don’t want to change your ways for the benefit for others. That is not ideal but it’s the rules. Don’t deny and invent false narratives to prevent feeling guilty though.
This bit becomes particularly ironic:

But the point is that without the available knowledge online and access to components needed to repair it, it would have remained a dead relic of decades past.
Someone in tech debated me on the term fossil fuel.

He said that oil is renewable because the platonic plates make oil and not some million old waiting based chemical process.

When people ignore everything and also ignore logic (why do oil wells disappear after getting the oil out) it really doesn't matter were they read it
Counterpoint once Co2 reduction is in place and the norm (as with Wind and solar) it becomes hard to go back to other ways of doing things.
it could work in the UK, the union you want is this one: https://utaw.tech/about/ UTAW United Tech & Allied Workers although others are options too (UTAW is part of the CWU Communications Workers Union).

want better rights and working conditions: join a union, get everyone that you can to join the union, strikes do work.

want better salaries: decline jobs solely and purely on the basis of the salary not meeting expectations, the signal that they cannot hire because no-one accepts the salary forces an employer to pay more. leave jobs that are not paying well, and give that single reason in the exit interview.

both require the same thing... solidarity amongst the workers.

it doesn't work in the UK because of a lack of that, everyone is very much in it for themselves, and so there is no solidarity. but better salaries and conditions are achievable everywhere that there is solidarity. the starting point can be to join a union, but needs to include everyone talking about their rights and conditions and discussing unions.

Signal is a great tool btw... DO NOT discuss unions on work owned channels, take the conversation elsewhere. where I work embraces a healthy relationship between the employer and employee, but I've been at places before where merely talking about a union would get you fired some entirely unrelated thing.

oh, and be very prepared to fight for people in a weaker position than you. the basis of a union is that when you act in solidarity to protect the weakest, you protect everyone else too. the poem First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller, this works in the context of workers rights too... protect your trans, black, women, disabled colleagues, and if they have equality and fair treatment, then you almost certainly all do.
Async Rust code is currently well-suited to both web servers and embedded. I, for one, would be very sad if they "just picked a side" that excluded one of these (very different) use cases.
There are people alive now who knew people born more than 150 years ago. Hell I'm in my forties and remember chats with my great grandmother born in the 1880's. And we've had writing for thousands of years, of course.
LessPass: Generates passwords offline based on a login, a master pass, and a url
This is very true across all businesses layers. I remember some years ago implementing a CRM system for a small training company. The result was great and they successfully use it even today, however at the time we needed one the junior administrators in some of the discovery sessions so we better understand the processes they do,etc. She was absolutely petrified. Even though the system was meant to make her life much easier,instead she only saw it as her replacement. It took quite a bit of effort to convince her that she's staying. I had similar reactions in my team too when I announced that some processes could be completely automated. Instead of excitement,I received ' what will my job be like then?'.