skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions."

“Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that.”

"For the past 3 million years, Earth’s climate has been in an Icehouse state characterized by alternating glacial and interglacial periods. Modern humans evolved during this time, but greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities are now driving the planet toward the Warmhouse and Hothouse climate states not seen since the Eocene epoch, which ended about 34 million years ago."

Please read the article you're linking. Unless this is an awkwardly executed joke that I'm missing?
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Well then that’s a relief.
We've known human caused climate change has been a thing for over a hundred years. You can disagree with a take but it's a fact that this has happened.
The article doesn’t mention it but there are also pioneer bacteria/archae species that jumpstart colonization of fresh volcanic land before it cools to ambient temperature and starts to support other life. While the ground is still hot, they’ve got no competitors and are free to do their work. They’re the first to free carbon and nitrogen for other species to use.

Some species are capable of nitrogen fixation in the presence of oxygen at high temperatures without expensive organelles and there have been directed evolution experiments trying to get that pathway working at lower temperatures to use for fertilizer production.
> At current consumption rates we run out of both in ~50-60 years

At current prices. As prices go up new sources of fuel become economical and the cycle continues. Not to mention that methane emissions from agriculture are a significant contributor as well (30% from cows) so just removing hydrocarbons doesn’t solve that problem.

It seems like an unrealistic bet that hydrocarbon-based emissions drop to 0 just because you think we’ll run out of fuel in 50 years. Does that mean airplanes stop flying in 50 years? No one is making these bets in the marketplace alongside you for good reason. And remember, consumption grows quite a bit year over year so you’re looking at a much shorter time frame if your prediction were to be true.
You keep posting this link, but it does not support your arguments.

> A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
Assume the fellow is not well and was lashing out. Any human interactions can cause stress.
> so that people are less toxic and more kind

I agree but I don't see how this is possible at any scale because any rules would be subject to interpretation by other humans.

One example that happens a lot is the "code of conduct" in FOSS projects, bad users often use it as a false flag to justify suppressing opinions they don't like, AND bad moderators (in addition to the false flag approach) abuse their colorful interpretations of subjective terms to push a narrative.
> New Horizons nearly did.

New Horizons didn't nearly overtake Voyager. It's currently traveling about 4 km/s slower, and as it's still closer to the Sun, it's also decelerating more.
The last time I read Cosmos I hit the part about the Cassini-Huygens mission where he wondered what we might find under the atmosphere of Titan, and was able to immediately just find out.

I imagine a lot of people who work on space missions do not outlive their work - which feels sad but also ... inspiring?
There is this dichotomy - companies say they want stable codebase with clear justifications for each chnage (at least heavily regulated companies do).

But good practise here is continual refactoring - almost inimicable to that stability plus imagine the final sign off comes from business who don’t understand why you rewrote a codebase that they signed off two months ago and now have to re-confirm
He's my brother. And the last of my three siblings still alive.

Had I known this was his perspective ahead of time, I would never have brought it up, and I never will again, but he's not just some random person being wrong on the internet. He's someone I grew up with, shared my whole life with.

I think being upset to find out not only does he think we live in different realities, but he thinks mine is populated by heartless bastards is pretty fair.
Bizarre choice of example
I understand your point of view, unfortunately what I have told contains few words to explain everything behind a thought and I understand that from the outside it may seem like a reckless choice, but I know it will be worth it, if not for this maybe a project for others, but I know it's like this.

My mantra in these situations is: You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

However I accept your point of view and how you stated it. It's good food for thought, so thanks.
Thank you for being honest. If you could guide me a little on how to ask/reach customers that would be really helpful.
I am not coming at it from a moral view, simply a practical one: I don’t think many people can sustain this dissonance. I don’t think people are very motivated to vote for things that would make them change their daily life.

There are examples that would show me wrong, like plastic grocery bag bans. But on the other hand, there haven’t been very many such bans, and banning plastic bags is a relatively minor inconvenience, and does very little to slow climate change.
Nope, it is not inaccurate — but you are not wrong either.

Obviously, code will reflect the complexity of the problem.

But incidentally, most problems we solve with code are not that hard, yet most code is extremely complex — a lot more complex than the complexity inherent to the problem. And that's where you can tell an experienced, seasoned (and smart) developer who'd write code that's only complex where it needs to be, from an inexperienced one where code will be complex so it appears "smart".
I agree, but at least we can discourage people from saying things like, "Russia is doomed because of demographic collapse," when we are just guessing about the effects of a slow down of the birth rate on the economy of a country long term.
What has the US administration done in the past 4 years to make a significant impact on the global warming issue?
Let's appoint the big bad wolf to watch over the sheep.
With fairness to these "emotional lunatics", their assumption that Russia would be too afraid to attack NATO territories has thus far been proven right.
No, my chair was the one seen at the very end. (The first/last room in the video was my bedroom so I was sitting at my regular desk.)
I'm thinking of my old Landcruiser, which was secured by some fiddly choke-and-throttle work. And my VW van with its "security through obscurity" linkage.

The act of using them includes a signal to the rest of the world that they're in use (sorry, neighbors) and there's an unavoidable delay between signaling that intention and actually being able to use the equipment. Once in motion they require intimate knowledge of the machinery to remain in that state.

I'm wondering about "security through removing automation" at this point. E.g. what services am I relying on that could be reduced to manual commands when I need them?
I mostly agree, hence the

> end up copy pasting code instead

bit of my original comment
> I firmly believe life on Earth and our species will survive

Few people are doubting that. The issue is that

> millions will die due to extreme weather

and due to climate-related wars, and life in general will become less pleasant. Just breathing air with higher CO2 concentration already isn’t that great.
This article gave me some great laughs. It's clear that the author only studied Buddhism for four years (a very short period of time) and has some very fundamental misunderstandings of Buddhist teachings.

For example, this explanation of karma:

> Together, these tenets imply the existence of some cosmic judge who, like Santa Claus, tallies up our naughtiness and niceness before rewarding us with rebirth as a cockroach or as a saintly lama.

That is not at all how karma should be understood. If I go give out $10,000 to the homeless, I'm a damn fool if I think I'm going to get $100,000 back in the mail!
Apple's mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work
> We're shutting down sensors on Voyager because there just isn't much to see.

That's not why Voyager's sensors are being shut down, they're being shut down because the probes no longer have the power to run them.
Here's some basics about older systems:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346706377_Dismantli...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235916472_Gone_in_3...

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2011/09/24/where-th...

Newer systems use AES, which is at least less cryptographically unsound than the LFSR-based systems like Hitag2.

Microchip present an interesting theoretical approach to AES-based immobilizer authentication here:

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/article_ope...

Note that these all focus on the key-authentication side. The inter-module communication ranges from completely insecure (like in the parent article - the key module says "OK, the key is auth'd!" and then just blasts an unauthenticated CAN message) to some variant of the key authentication strategy. For example, newer VW immobilizers use an AES-based nonce+MAC strategy similar to the theoretical Microchip one for both key communication _and_ module-to-module communication on the CAN bus.
The "good news" is that US youth brain rot is probably a global phenomenon, so it shouldn't affect the rankings :)
Most people in the world do not eat that much beef. Some countries are outliers.
Is this a good choice for a company? These sorts of "hacker" solutions inevitably fall flat because people want a bunch of bells and whistles and don't mind things like never being able to find anything (arguably the single most important feature of a wiki) or being able to integrate their documentation with other systems.
> At current consumption rates we run out of both in ~50-60 years.

2050 is only 26 years away, though.
I've been trying to take them on with https://BestInternetSearch.com though implementing features including AI interesting facts is something that is done and other innovations coming soon. The problem with taking on giants is that more emphasis is needed for small businesses and their software services such as my search engine.
I would suggest doing a sleep test.

While I believe this can just happen to some people, in my case it was a result of sleep apnea. Getting diagnosed for it and taking remedial steps has been a life changer for me.
Given the state of post-collapse Soviet bookkeeping I also wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine actually does still have some warheads kept in secret. The problem though is those may not be enough against a country which spent the last half-century preparing for a war involving thousands of warheads.
My problem with Confluence is that I want a wiki primarily to be able to find information, and secondarily to store information, and I can never find anything in Confluence. The search function seems to be optimized for maximum frustration.
I think you are mixing up gravity assist with the oberth effect. I'm pretty sure Voyagers did no massive burns close to the giant planets for example. A (so far theoretical) Solar Oberth maneuver on the other hand...
Memes gone mainstream, gallery of popular brands using memes
QBasic was the first language I learned so I still feel a fondness to it 40 years later. I even wrote a modern version of it for the web.
"Prices are high!" came with both a lack of counter narrative from the Democratic candidate AND a scapegoated narrative that blames the government and migrants for the prices. If you give the masses a narrative they'll buy in. All you need to do is provide a meaningful narrative that accurately describes the situation and builds solidarity/class consciousness.
Even if USA reversed 180 degrees, the rest of the world is going to continue fossil fuel usage.

Developing nations will continue to increase individual CO2 usage as their economies improve.

People want to live a modern western lifestyle, and that requires more energy.

Realistically the world is going to generate far more energy, not reduce energy usage/production.

Moving to solar and nuclear is the only likely solution that will result in reduced CO2 volume.
I'm a really big fan of the more modern way of doing things.

A lot of old school maker projects are fun, but they're also basically E waste making kits now that phones do almost everything.

Not having a bunch of low tech gadgets laying around is really nice, they can easily become the biggest clutter challenge in a space, the same way paper used to back when more people still used it for things other than books.

Building a small solar energy system is fun and easy, and also practical.

3D printing is fantastic.

Meshtastic has a lot of DIY and learning potential and is like the lite edition of ham radio. What's really cool is that range testing gets you outside.

Maybe design something together with JLCPCB and have it made(Leave off any through hole connectors and solder them yourself for both fun and pretty decent cost savings).
I'm not sure if this link is intended to contradict or reinforce the image from the previous link. The text of that link indicates that the research concluded that the Earth is currently much warmer than it ought to be given known natural processes.
And we all know how well adapted humans were for that period, right.
Cost of fuel is not the whole picture if they don't have the infrastructure to consume it

Maybe they'll do decades-long investments to set up new oil infrastructure after we've moved away from it, but even then: it isn't a 1:1 exchange. What we reduce doesn't simply pop back up elsewhere because, evidenced by our moving away in this scenario, there's economical alternatives. Even if it came back 100% in another country a few decades later, buying time really does help us here because we can take more and more preventative and adaptative measures. It won't prevent any and all issues, but a +3°C world in 2200 is still vastly better (and more predictable) than a +5°C world from accelerated oil use

Rather than buying and re-burying oil, you're probably getting a higher ROI (lower climate change adaptation costs) by spending those euros (that you'd otherwise spend on burying oil) on helping everyone (including oneself) not produce greenhouse gasses
>Nothing lasts forever, and if you don't figure out when it's going to fail, it's going to be sooner rather than later.

You might be surprised about the reality of the situation.

I had a professor who worked on the design and fabrication of the Apollo Guidance Computers, which likely was a somewhat similar process to the one being discussed here. It's been quite a few years since his lecture on it, but the process went something like this:

They started with an analysis of the predicted lifetime/reliability of every chip type/component available to potentially include in the design.

The design was constrained to only use components with the top x% of predicted life.

Then they surveyed each manufacturer of each of those component types to find the manufacturer with the highest lifetime components for each of the highest lifetime component types.

Then they surveyed the manufacturing batches of that manufacturer, to identify the batches with the highest lifetimes from that manufacturer.

Then they selected components from the highest lifetime batches of from the highest lifetime manufacturers of the highest lifetime components.

Using those components, they assembled a series of guidance computers, in batches.

They tested those batches, pushing units from each batch to failure.

They then selected the highest quality manufacturing batch as the production units.

When he gave this talk, decades after the Apollo era, NASA had been continuing to run lifetime failure analyses on other units from the production batch, to try to understand the ultimate failure rate for theoretical purposes.

Several decades after the Apollo program ended, they had still never seen any failure events in these systems, and shortly before the time of his lecture, I believe NASA had finally shut off the failure testing of these systems, as they were so remote from then "modern" technology (this was decades ago, hence the quotes around "modern").

This is what happens when you have the best minds committed to designing systems that don't fail. Yes, the systems probably will fail before the heat death of the universe. No, we don't have any idea when that failure time will be. Yes, it's likely to be a very long time in the future.

(And, of course, this is typed from memory about a lecture decades ago on events happening decades before that. This being HN, someone here probably worked on those systems, in which case hopefully they can add color and fix any defects in the narrative above).
*Enjoy the windier, wetter, stormier, warmer weather

The Spanish are just /loving/ the wetter weather right now. And so did the Bangladeshis in August.

/s
We lost our daughter a few months ago, 30 days before her due date. We decided to terminate due to a rare genetic condition.

The pain feels too strong to handle some days. I find myself in tears after some seemingly random trigger: seeing another baby in a stroller, listening to a beautiful track named "Never Known", our first daughter saying she wants to play with her friend's small sister, seeing a painting she made with her to-be sister, writing this comment etc.

I have accepted that the pain will always be there.

Thanks for sharing your story.

P.S. there are subreddits where people share similar stories
I didn't say saturated fats, I said fats - obviously, oil is pretty much 100% fat by definition.

Of course, it's also controversial in some circles whether saturated fats are bad, but that's a separate discussion. There is more to a cooking oil than it's saturated/polyunsaturated/monounsaturated fat ratios.
Yeah that's fair. In terms of "things with good perf" I'd rather be writing C++ or Rust, but there are significant issues with using either of those on a large team.

I'm more comparing it against languages like Kotlin and Swift, or even Scala.
The author doesn't seem to understand Buddhism, nor I but it could be important to remember that "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him", and also the concept of Upaya [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upaya
MediaWiki. Is there something wrong with the solution powering Wikipedia? It’s very simple to set up, and you can one-click deploy it on DigitalOcean for $10/month.
Maybe that's the key... sites should not become so large that it creates big echo chambers for one person to reach millions, it keeps other people having to search for answers and do their own research instead of just everyone listening to the same group of idiots.

Perhaps you could also force a limit on how much time was spent (or how many posts made in X time) on the site.
I don't know why so few people realize this, but by solving any of the problems their performance is superhuman for most reasonable definitions of human.

Talking about things like solving the Reimman hypothesis in so many years assumes a little too much about the difficulty of problems that we can't even begin to conceive of a solution for. A better question is what can happen when everybody has access to above average reasoning. Our society is structured around avoiding confronting people with difficult questions, except when they are intended to get the answer wrong.
DRY for the sake of DRY is like not drinking water when you're thirsty.
Pretty bad takes and pretty shallow. It seems rather obvious this person is at the beginning of understanding, which is good, and the skepticism necessary, but too bad they quit already. They’re missing out.
Genuine question to experts: what could be the positive contribution of agriculture on this and exactly how?
This. Also because it's not like low income countries are going to stay low emission forever.

If you think about it, that's disrespectful towards people living there; they are not noble savages.

They are people just like you and me who are just a little bit behind in the development curve and they will surely want to have all the goodies that we have and emit all the greenhouse gasses associated with that lifestyle.

Countries who are currently high emitters but also applying active measures to curb it must be praised instead of pointing fingers. The political will to improve things is fragile and people can easily vote for populists that will easily exploit resistance towards guilt shaming.
Replacing CO₂-emitting technologies is already happening. To argue for this plan would require proving at least the following:

1. Spending Wisely: Invest in technologies that work and also do not introduce more problems.

2. Trusting Who Spends: Governments or others must use funds on solving the issue (not just giving money to cronies).

3. Global Cooperation: Countries working together (does Russia who sees warming as helpful comply).

4. Dealing With Inflation: The plan should address the inflation it causes, as it will raise living costs for people already struggling.

5. Better Use of Funds: Proving this use of funds is better than spending on other global issues.
> It’s pretty shocking how secure those early systems are

I generally don't think this is true; most early immobilizer systems were DST80 or Hitag2 based and are broken both cryptographically and practically.

The reason enthusiasts re-flash ECUs is that it's easy, permanent, and works across a whole model line of cars, compared to reverse engineering immobilizer cryptography which is difficult, transient and requires re-work for each individual car.

Even modern systems are generally broken in private; you can find "emergency start" and "all keys lost" products for most newer cars, even European ones using AES. However, they're usually much more complex to use than the fake JBL speaker in the parent article's attack - most revolve around extracting key material from a control module using a software exploit. Common approaches include leveraging a leftover development artifact of some kind which allows sensitive key material to be exfiltrated from RAM, or locating a state-confusion or memory safety exploit against a CAN message handler.

But, at the end of the day, most modern cars are attacked using simple bent-pipe range-extension/relay attacks, so there's less investment in cryptographic attacks or compromising the actual system anyway.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
I’ve been to Portugal over 20 times in the last 10 years. In Lisbon and Porto, the Portuguese people speak English very well and most with an American accent. Foreigners who come to Portugal [1] and may work service jobs (a more recent phenomenon) may not speak English as well as the native population, while many of them still do still speak English well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Portugal
/me waves to user Cliff:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll
Agreed. Overall I find Confluence an anti-pattern and just obnoxious.
Most people I know who voted for Trump did so because they hope for a better version of the country.

Most people I know who voted for Biden stayed at home this time. Fear causes paralysis, hope drives action.
> It's clear that the author only studied Buddhism for four years (a very short period of time)

This kind of response always sounds like victim-blaming to me.

If your system of <whatever> is so complicated that someone can't even hope to get the basics right in four years of study, maybe the right thing to do is, in fact, to ditch it.