skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> every ton of CO2 that the west has reduced in the past decade China has produced three tons of CO2.

This is a really bad statement.

Reason 3:

This year China installed more renewables than the rest of the world combined [1]. In China, 50% of new cars are electric. Their per/person emissions is much less than USA. Meanwhile, we are putting up tariffs on Chinese EVs, etc.

Instead of blaming them, realise that they are taking climate change seriously and we are not.

Reason 2:

Look at your graph, ‘we’ have like 15% reduction in CO2.
You could divide by any growing economy and the result is the same, because we suck at ‘our job’.

Reason 1;

Lastly, we outsourced our emissions by moving production to China and then importing the products. That’s not much of achievement.

[1] https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-le...
You won’t be able to stop poor countries from spraying aerosol into the stratosphere if it gets too hot on the ground
If you momentarily put two capacitors in parallel, the charge will divide between the two, right? So how does all the charge end up on the other side?
Ideally, Claude should have told you about easier approaches. I don't see any reason to mess around with code.

There are plenty of website builder tools that will glue third party maps. Even the raw Google Maps API website will generate an HTML page with customized maps.
We have different definitions of hacker.

I played around with LLMs... Found they aren't very useful. Slapping a project together to ship isn't what hacking is about.

Hacking is about deeply understanding what is actually happening under the hood by playing around, taking it apart, rebuilding it.

When the craze started everyone here were out looking for ways to escape the safeties of the LLMs, or discussing how they are being built etc.

This comment thread is about using the technology to slap a thing together so you can sell it. There's no exploration of the topic at hand, there's no attempt to understand.

I'm trying to think of a decent analogy but can't think of one but this smacks of a certain type of friend who finds a technology you have been hacking on and makes it so unbearable that you actually just lose interest...
Is written language the only way you can conceive of empathizing?

Besides, people seem more than happy to ignore the suffering of fellow humans, even as they profit from it. There would be no cheap electronics without great human suffering in the mining industry, for a quick example.
does nobody think this will risk nuclear war? Is this really a place we want to risk it? I'm amazed at the comments section here
Found the person who actually read the article before commenting.
I would characterize this as potential rather than worth.
It is, and google and microsoft have similar.

But whether it's the best option is a big maybe.

Glacier is great at smaller scales, or to make things simple. (Well, great excluding the egress prices.)

But by the time your data won't fit on a large NAS (>200TB), a $5000 tape drive and a bunch of $5/TB tapes are cheaper than glacier.
KISS > DRY
If doesn't make sense to take the percentage of a quantity in units with an arbitrary reference point. In Kelvin it would be about 0.5%.
I wish I could upvote this a million times

But, I'll also point out that just like reading about exercise, merely reading the book doesn't help unless one is willing to practice and -- much, much more difficult -- get buy-in from the team. Because software engineering is usually a team sport and if one person is reading these kinds of books and trying to put them into practice, and the other members of the team are happy choosing chaos, it's going to be the outlier who gets voted off the island
That's actually later than I remember doing all that frontend work. It wasn't for production though, that's for sure, so I used it as soon as it appeared instead of my usual "red". Thanks for the clarifications.
These are consumption based numbers. So any oil that Saudi Arabia exports that is then burned elsewhere is counted in the other country's number.

Yes, there are uncertainties in these numbers, and it is quite unfortunate that OWID does not state them. However, I don't think the uncertainties are that high. Emissions from fossil fuel burning or agriculture are most of global emissions (>90%) and are quite easy to track in bulk.
I find that more analogue / mechanical type machines even more amazing in someways. Like how they say it ‘decided’ to switch to its backup radio. How are those decisions made on such basic hardware? I guess thinking mechanically is just a very foreign concept for me mostly making software
Other potential and future entertainment partners Netflix will be working with e.g. WWE, will certainly see my view as they will be questioning Netflix's capability after that major streaming issue we both saw.

This isn't Netflix's first time they had this live streaming problem.

People will see this as an underinvestment from Netflix's part and they will reconsider going to a different streaming partner.
Likely response is bombing whatever is left of Ukrainian power generation and potentially arming the Houthis.

The analysis I’ve seen indicates that these weapons will not fundamentally alter the course of the war.
Kursk was a gamble to improve Ukraine’s negotiating position, which has gotten consistently worse.
The effect of the shifting is minor. China's exports (to all countries, not just the US) make only a small difference to their emissions growth.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption...
Hi, to answer your hypothetical situation, what I do is save my passwords on apple passwords, and use two yubikeys as the security keys for the apple account itself (cool fact, apple forces you to use two keys as a safeguard, which I think is pretty cool and haven’t seen anyone else doing).
Can you share any resources about it?
We have some crazy incentives to install new gas boilers in MA. I very specifically wanted to switch from gas to an air source heat pump and found there was only one company in the area who was willing to quote it (alongside their own, much cheaper, quote for a gas combi boiler) and their quote was outrageously non-competitive with local fossil fuel burning (in large part because our electricity is around $0.30/kWh, but also because they were the only supplier and even they didn't really want to do the work).

Even if the ASHP lasted forever, required no maintenance ever, and you had to buy a new gas boiler every 10 years, it would literally never make economic sense even if there weren't $2500 incentives on the gas boiler, but the movement on electric rates is definitely in the wrong direction if one wishes to displace natural gas with electricity (even at 400% efficiency).

Every year that things stay like this is pushing back the likely time to next re-evaluation for that property by another 20 years.
Ah, had no idea it had a name!

My clearest memory of that was me as a kid watching a Bond-movie where a sportscar makes a screaching sound when driving down a sandy beach. I turned of the TV and don't think I ever saw a full Bond movie after that.

The list on the page you linked had one thing that isn't toally correct though:

>The very specific (but entirely unrealistic) echoing thud that is heard when all the lights are turned on in a large spacenote .

That sound is realistic if it is an old building with the heavy type of power relays or whatever they are called. They do make that sort of sound if the acoustics are right. They could be set up with timers so they don't start the lights at exactly the same moment to prevent overloading the fuses.
World Largest Battery Manufacturer Says Musk 'Doesn't Know How to Make a Battery
Not sure if you understand how LLMs work.

But the guard rails are intrinsic to the model itself. You cant just have a toggle.
All the people who usually make a big deal out of this usually oppose density and reducing car dependence. Degrowthers always seem to assume that the only job worthwhile is “guy writing meta-analysis paper” and “coffee shop”. They ally with groups that protect golf courses and oppose geothermal energy and nuclear energy.

So it’s fine. We’ll tech our way out of this without them. If we don’t, we die. So be it.
Step 1: Figure out how to monetize reversing climate change.
I tried to run Wiki.js in the past but it's really buggy and has a lot of spinners/loading pages for what is supposed to be simple html pages so i've been looking for a good self-hosted alternative since.

I love how there are so many options in the HN comments, and some of them look really good as well, however I still struggle to believe that none of them are self-contained. All of them require a a redis container, a postgres container, a frontend proxy etc.. for a simple wiki? can't the wiki run it's own redis-cache internally, maybe run with sqlite? Have all the oauth/proxy stuff optional?

In the meantime i've been running with mkdocs but since it's a site generator but it's not really user friendly as you need to redeploy to see changes, etc..
I think just blaming the oil corporations is too easy. I mean they do deserve their blame and they do deserve to pay up, but I allmost would say

"Climate change denialism is a natural state of mind"

We as apelike animals just did not optimize for thinking globally.
We optimized for the local here and now and the immediate future.

"Fire burns, fire warm, fire good. More firewood we need!".
As someone who works in small companies, and had to endure developers who were using gitlab as "offsite backup" or I guess "push-based 'does this compile?' workflow", please don't do this. CI minutes are rarely free, and for damn sure are not "glucose free". If you can't be bothered to run the local compilation step for your project, that is a wholly different code smell
Both Canada and the US have restarted production specifically to produce RTGs for NASA, but the process takes time to scale up and automate. It's gone up 4x in 4 years and continues to increase, so this is a problem that will eventually be "fixed".
This data would be more meaningful if adjusted for the total number of each model on the road. A high number of accidents could simply reflect that a particular model is very common, rather than inherently unsafe.
Notes on Google's new dialog generation model
No, doomerism discourages people from trying. It also comes from the same place intellectually as the luddite wing of the green movement, which is one major reason we didn't replace coal with nuclear energy decades ago. (The others being that coal is cheap and fossil fuel lobbyists are powerful. But without the luddite greens opposing it we might have gotten somewhere.)

Doomerism leads people to go ahead and buy a ridiculous gas hog SUV they don't need because why not, we're all gonna die. Doomerism means we should cancel all our green and next-generation nuclear development because it doesn't matter. We're all gonna die.

Look up the Moore's law like progress of solar, wind, and batteries. Look up how much renewable energy we're adding, the uptake rate for EVs, etc. We are not doing enough but we are not doing nothing.

The previous poster is right. The global average is below the threshold and the global average is the only number that matters re: physics. Physics doesn't care about politics. The goal now must be to keep chipping away at those higher numbers in developed economies and to make sure the developing world gets renewable and nuclear energy before they decide to industrialize with coal like China did.

Either that or at least make sure we're cutting emissions in mature economies as fast or faster than developing economy emissions are increasing so the average does not exceed the limit.
Economath Fails the Cost-Benefit Test
Nice! There was another technique of preserving the cadaver with oxygenation.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/08/nx-s1-5005407/transplant-surg...
I dont think so. SICP isn’t abstract algebra, it’s just unlikely to be the exact syntax you will use at your job.

Engineers rarely do laplace transforms by hand either.

The book is written for 1st year stem undergrads at MIT. So maybe 2nd or 3rd year at state school.
Wow what an upset! I wanted Korea to win.

The fact that we have an English proficiency Index worth spending more than 10 words on really highlights the bias of the people who organize this data.
On the bright side for a brief moment in time we created lots of shareholder value.
Using a cross-platform password manager, like Bitwarden or 1Password, would work in your case.
No? I mean I'm with you that it sounds like a really bad idea and would probably not end well, but laying on a table so someone can implant a device that handles it for you forever does sound a whole lot easier than having to actively balance your intakes for your entire life.

I totally understand the appeal, hell I'd do it myself if you could give me a guarantee, my problem with it is there is no guarantee and it's 99.9% likely to not actually be safe.
I don't think cleaning up is an option once you get a runaway atmospheric hot-house. Human population will fall due to global disasters and food-chain collapse, then wars, then the party is pretty much over.
Biden Approves Ukraine's Use of Long-Range Missiles Inside Russia
Grumpy old Coders podcast season two
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I prefer to describe them as a USB security key.

Everyone knows how USB security keys work and now we have a slightly newer standard that new USB security keys use but also we can use devices with a TPM such as phones to avoid having to plug in a separate USB key. And now everyone's acting confused about it since there's also an optional ability to skip entering a password and just use the passkey in some circumstances but that part is not what a passkey is.
The scenario where a gravity assist doesn't work is if turning sharply enough would require your minimum planetcentric approach distance to be less than the radius of the planet - you'd crash into it instead.

This is why Voyager 2 couldn't also do Pluto - it would have needed to change course by roughly 90º at Neptune, which would have required going closer to the center of Neptune than Neptune's own radius.

The most unusual gravity-assist alignment that we did was for Pioneer 11 going from Jupiter to Saturn. The encounters were separated by roughly 120º of heliocentric longitude. Pioneer 11 used Jupiter to bend its path "up" out of the ecliptic plane and encountered Saturn on the way back "down". Nowadays we wouldn't bother doing that (we'd wait for a more direct launch window instead), but the purpose of this was to get preliminary Jupiter and Saturn encounters done in time before Voyager's launch window for the grand tour alignment.
“Know when you’re testing the framework’s capability. If you are, don’t do it. The framework is already tested by people who know a lot more than you.”

How many times have you had to roll back a minor version upgrade because the library maintainers *absolutely don’t* know what they are doing? Spring, Netty, and Java ecosystem, I'm looking at you...
The Budapest Memorandum was a way to force a potential* nuclear player and/or nuclear wildcard out of the game.

When you see it for what it is, giving Ukraine nuclear weapons is the last thing anyone (except internet posters) wants.

* They didn’t control the weapons, nor could they financially afford to maintain them.
I don't agree with this take but I don't think the quiet part, that we should strive for the highest quality life right now and let nature sort out the consequences (if any) later, is necessarily invalid.

And I think why we're having such a hard time with "climate denialism" is because we're not really presenting arguments against the underlying argument.
A new energy source is not like a new technology that can be developed. It needs to be discovered - as in a scientific break-through. A plan can not assume that break-throughs occur.

GDP measures the total production of an economy. That is mostly equivalent to energy_consumption * p_efficiency.

Investing in new technologies that increase efficiency has always been a good decision. Maybe you can improve solar panels by a further 5% and batteries by 10%?

Realistically, energy_consumption will need to decrease, but that isn't actually that terrible.
If you follow your argument logically, it says there's nothing to do and we're in a good place.

You said we need to have 5.4tCO2/person/year on average across the world. You then presented a table that shows that we are in fact _under_ this target (4.7t). In your follow-up comment you claim that the lower-income countries are "never going to emit much more than they do now". So by your argument the world average will probably stay below the 5.4t goal and we're on target.
The CO2 concentrations we’re approaching also cause cognitive impairment
It's based on my knowledge of mathematics and software engineering. I have a graduate degree in math and I have written code for more than a decade in different startups across different domains ranging from solar power plants to email marketing.
Similar thing happens when you suggest about living in cages and not single family houses... Or banning cars altogether...
I wonder if this means that English proficiency rates subject vary a lot by locality.
Show HN: Understanding the Bloch Sphere
Open source is a thing because it's the most rewarding path. The respect I earn giving my software away is worth a lot more than any money I could hope to earn selling it. It's not possible to sell software. I also don't want to be in the business of managing other people's personal data, and get regulated to death, which makes SaaS not an option. All the paths to making money on your own in software are packed with stress, sociopaths, and landmines with little hope of striking gold. Software by its nature wants to be free, and most of the ways that exist to change that feel unnatural to me. It's much better to just live frugally and build things you love that you give away. Maybe this isn't the way things should be. If we had a sane and just economic system, then maybe I'd be an entrepreneur. I'm simply following incentives, and express no opinion on what's best or how the system ought to be.
I agree with this, as well as the $(git add -p) suggestion, which JetBrains tools make super-duper easy, but my reasoning is not for reverts but for cherry-pick. I can count on one hand the number of meaningful reverts I've seen, but have innumerable examples of needs to cherry-pick. I admit that will heavily depend upon the branching style used in the project, but that's my experience
> OpenAI's flagship models are not even correct 50% of the time[1]

You're reading the link wrong. They specifically picked questions that one or more models failed at. It's not representative of how often the model is wrong in general.

From the paper:

> At least one of the four completions must be incorrect
for the trainer to continue with that question; otherwise, the trainer was instructed to create
a new question.
This is kind of difficult to do in a vacuum; let's assume those are the only comments that these accounts have posted.

"sorry, but no to all of this: males cannot be lesbians" banned for transphobia for misgendering the second poster. Clear cut, get the fuck out if here.

No action for first and second poster.
Hey, I'm not trying to gaslight you into anything. I'm just arguing from my point of view, which you're free to disagree with.

You're right that I've probably used these tools much less than you have. I use them ocasionally for minor things (understanding an unfamiliar API, giving me hints when web searching is unhelpful, etc.), but even in my limited experience with current state of the art services (Claude 3.5, GPT-4o) I've found them to waste my time in ways I wouldn't if I weren't using them. And at the end of the day, I'm not sure if I'm overall more productive than I would be without them. This limited usage leads me to believe that the problem would be far worse if I were to rely on them for most of my project, but the truth is I haven't actually tried that yet.

So if you feel differently, more power to you. There's no point in getting frustrated because someone has a different point of view than you.
This is cool! If anybody is interested in looking at the bugs that were found, they can be found on Github: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues?q=author%3AYuanchengJi...

If you work with some interpreted language that is written in C or C++, it is actually quite easy to fuzz the interpreter using the scripting language natively. I outlined how to add fuzzing functions into the Pike scripting language to interact with the AFL++ fuzzer here: https://joshua.hu/aflplusplus-fuzzing-scripting-languages-na...

If you have a very large codebase in such a language, you can just replace whatever function introduces some data highest on the callstack with the (new, introduced) function that retrieves fuzzing data from AFL++, and effectively fuzz all of the internal functions that your codebase uses. PHP, Perl, Ruby, or some esoteric language, are all pretty good targets for this.
My guess is, that if USA will keep playing around and pretend that Ukraine is somebody else's problem to solve, they will find out that Eastern Europe can make a nuke too. Then what is USA going to do? Sanction Europeans? Then there is no reason to continue sanctioning Iran from Europeans perspective for exactly same thing.
I never thought of Windows 3.1 as an OS. The other 2 was MS-DOS and Windows 95.
OP here. Thank you!
I'll shout out his book Postsingular, which is a real head-trip and available under a Creative Commons license here: https://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postsingular
David Beazley is a bit of a legend in the python world and honestly this course seems a surprising idea but it took about two seconds thought before it seemed perfect match and Inhave signed up for the next one.

The relevant part is that this is basically how “software engineers continual education” is going to look like
If you like Vonnegut, then Player Piano too.
Yes, global geoengineering will be probably deployed to buy us some time to get off fossil fuels.
Awesome!

Let me guess: the LCD monitor sitting at the comfy empty chair was yours. Meanwhile, your friends lugged their bulky CRT monitors to your house—nearly breaking the monitors in the process—and instead of being jealous, they insisted it was worth it for the superior color accuracy, contrast ratios, and refresh rates.

Also, shoutout to moms with camcorders and minivans—two things we were all embarrassed by back then but now fully appreciate for their superior practicality.
It feels like we're getting much more than 1.5 degrees. Here in NYC it used to snow several times a month, we've had one tiny storm the last two years. Just 20 years ago I rarely used AC in the summer, now its on nearly every day from May to September. Its not just that the temperatures are more variable, and the rainfall patterns are much more random it really feels like we're at +4 degrees already.
It’s worth noting that in addition to the sample rate, the companding to improve SNR and filtering techniques for anti-aliasing and reconstruction usually employed to (attempt to) retain signal integrity play a large part in the character. A lot of people think of them as “dark” but that voicing can vary a lot between delays depending on how the designer chose to bandwidth limit it; therein lies the real art of analog delay!

I’ve been working on an MN3205 with digital controls and pushing it well past its reasonable specs is very fun; 4096 stages really starts to fall apart past 300ms, and when you clock it down to more than a single second you get a wet robot fart out of the other end!