skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that providing public climate shelters will have to be part of the solution in some countries. There is a wide spread between “humans can’t work multiple hours outside” and “humans can’t be outside at all” for the likely temps in the next 100 years.

(To be clear, this is a stopgap to cope with the change as it happens, not a full solution.)
Holy crap, JS in a PDF! I wonder what mischief might be wrought with that.
I just try to contribute something as best as I can. I don’t use cars for example. It won’t change my life or the world, but it’s a little pollution I can commit to removing.

Working on reducing meat, just one more thing I can commit to removing (unnecessary death, I’m not that hungry). Even a 10% reduction.

The rest is on the universe.
> It is like creating a new whatsapp group or a new instagram profile nowadays, which also has higher chances of succeeding, inside the walled garden of someone else.

The point is it's now quite easy to get banned from the whole platform. Whereas in the old days it was pretty hard to get banned from a whole IRC network (it would happen if you were DDoSing the network or insulting an ircop directly, but never just because you said the wrong thing in your own channels, and worst case even the IRC networks were less centralised than today's social networks) and virtually impossible to get banned from the whole web to the point that you couldn't make a new web forum.
For sure they will push their citizens to drop their cars and buy brand new which are more ecological, to make the car industry go on. Throwaway things like washing machines that last 2 years are in the agenda too
I think TfL should focus more on the "transport" part of their business.
I feel relying on WINE and Proton instead of building a proper GNU/Linux ecosystem will eventually backfire, it didn't happen already because thus far Microsoft chosen to ignore it.

However as Steam vs XBox slowly escalates, Microsoft might eventually change their stance on the matter, forcing devs to rely on APIs not easier to copy, free licenses for handhelds, taking all Microsoft owned studios out of Steam, see which company has bigger budget to spend on lawyers, whatever.
> As were 1985 coders and founders in 2005. Heck, 2005 didn't look too kindly upon 1999 Silicon Valley mindsets.

> I'd presume today's "golden child" will be a very problematic person in 2045, unless they learn to change or hide behind signals.

It's probably worth pointing out that most people do actually grow up and change with the times.
A webshell is a page (typically a .php file) uploaded to a site by an attacker after a compromise (e.g. an RCE), which is then used by an attacker through their browser to perform further actions on the compromised webserver. These premade webshell files however have been made by other attackers and come pre-compromised with a backdoor. In this case the CSS in the webshell makes the attacker's browser snitch the webshell's location to a domain controlled by the author of the webshell.
Is it this one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1auprxl/whats...
Oh, I like LLMs and use them all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that CEOs are lying to get more VC money. No one is replacing 30% of their workforce with AI. This whole narrative is spun to attract fad investments. I don’t like this part.

But I guess it’s just like programming languages: either people rant about them or no one uses them.
Certainly, and to be clear I'm not arguing for communism as a realistic system. It would be ideal in an ideal world without greed and selfishness. As long as those exist, we need to have a system that functions when the individual actors place their own interests far above the interests of others.
https://archive.ph/20250113130448/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Well, the tide is going out now. That's unlikely to happen until the virus mutates and reappears in thirty years' time.
If you're unwilling to accept the science of this, get off your computer. Don't drive your car, or heat your house this winter. The same scientific processes which led to all of society's advancement are utilized in predicting the consequences of climate change. There is no conspiracy.
The Linux version would almost certainly not run on any current Linux. I have a vague memory of trying to run the demo nearly 20 years ago and it failing due to requiring some now-deprecated X11 extension. If you want to try, the Internet Archive does have a Loki software demo CD, which includes Railroad Tycoon 2: https://archive.org/details/linux-games-cd
The funniest part is probably that this rapid recent rise is partially due to attempts to switch to cleaner fuels in maritime transport. Ships burning sulfur rich bunker fuel have been helping quite a lot by already doing lite geoengineering and we've abruptly cut that stopgap like absolute idiots.
Tenure or not, the university doesn't have to have the salary keep up with inflation. Really, bottom line, a prof has to continue to please their department colleagues, chair, and dean.
I did not read till the end yet, but "woke" is also a very successfully weaponised word for anyone to help push their ideology to further extremes, both left, right, not center. Woke is also a very good detractor from rich and poor discussions.
It’s a combinator. Most people’s passive income here depends on AI stocks.
Related: People wonder why English has so many weird spellings. It's a complicated answer. The Vikings seem to show up way too often (grin). One of the reasons, though, is that several hundred years ago we all thought that Latin was the bees knees. The Greeks and Romans were the model. So took words that were perfectly-well phonetically-spelled and "fixed" them, returning them to some kind of bastardized form that was "better".

For some words it didn't work -- people went back to the old ways. But for some it did.

This chaotic priggish churning in society is not new, as pg points out. I love how language, manners, idioms, and cultures interact. It can be a force for good. It can also be extremely destructive, usually in tiny ways and over centuries.

While I love these intricacies, I also always fall back on the definition of manners I was taught early on: good manners is how you act around people with poor manners. Add complexity as desired on top of that. The form of communication and behavior can never replace the actual meaning and effects of it. (There's a wonderful scene in "The Wire" where they only use the f-word. Would have worked just as well for their job to have used the n-word. 100 years ago, the n-word would have been fine and the f-word beyond the pale. Draw your lessons from that.)

ADD: I always try to be polite and abide whatever traditions are in place in any social group. One thing I've noticed, though: the more people express their politics, their priggishness, their wokeness, etc -- the crappier they seem to be in their jobs. I don't know why. Perhaps it's because this is such as easy social crutch to lean on and gain social advantage that it becomes kind of a "communications drug". Scratch a loud prude or moralizer, you find a dullard or slacker. Conversely, people who produce usable advances in mankind tend to be jerks. I suspect this relationship has held up over centuries. cf Socrates and the Sophists, etc. (A good book among many along these lines is "Galileo's Middle Finger")
> But, geoengineering seems to be the only plausible mechanism for preventing global warming at this point.

I'd rather geoengineering being beta-bested on other planets first than in the only place we can live.

Besides, global warming might not be so bad, if we consider that we are currently in one of the coldest periods in human history.

Temperatures have been going up and down for millions of years, with or without humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
> we really had two options to reduce CO2: massive decrease in standard of living

We could cut a looooot of useless shit before our standard of living are impacted. And for the things we can't do without we have huge margins to improve.

I feel like a lot of people think "any kind of concession or compromise is an unbearable attack on my god given rights to do whatever the fuck I want whenever the fuck I want", if that's your point of view then of course, we can do absolutely nothing about climate change
It cuts both ways. There's a lot of change coming that we can no longer avert, and yet we could still do hugely more damage. It's a tough pill to swallow that we have to live in a drastically changed world and we still have hard work to do to not let it become New Arrakis. Nobody seems to know how to tell an optimistic narrative about this reality, but I believe it to be possible
Oscar winning book about rendering accurately 3D scenes, written in literate programming : https://www.pbrt.org/
Sounds like then that “the cargo-cult mentality referred to in tech circles” departs from Feynman’s original usage of the phrase- indicating that the phrase really has become a cargo cult itself after all!
I don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.
> they didn't have any separation between SREs/on-call engineers from the people who implement their services

I.e., treat DevOps as a way of working, rather than a role meaning something akin to "Ops person who knows terraform, or k8s, or Ansible etc".
>most words are rooted in a notion of social dominance

Most, I don’t know really, that would need a lot of statistics, but we can certainly agree that a significant portion of the vocabulary pertaining to social matter do.

>words like reign or empire or dictator are absolutely rooted in a notion of social dominance, but we accept that it's completely fine if we use them as a metaphor or as an hyperbole.

Yes, sure, when the context is appropriate, we totally agree. We might lake enough proper bandwidth with flat text alone to discuss that properly though. :D
I’m confident it would be far easier to have a conversation on that topic topic around some drinks and laughs for example.

That said, in all example given here, the connection to the toxic social attitudes are obvious.

Every competition-focused sport is rooted in the parable of imposing one dominance on an other, carrying a supremacist perspective with it. That’s why for example yoga competitions will be controversial, while it tennis is not.

As for the two latter celebrities, they don’t really have a reputation of being paragons of empathy that we can point to and say "if everyone would act like this in its interpersonal relationships, humanity would live in gentle bliss and harmony." To be more precise, I don’t know them personally, this remark is really not about these individuals, but more on pointing that in these specific cases, the matching reputation doesn’t serve well the point of uses in metaphoric or hyperbolic ways.
I've never heard of this. How do you know it's windows "gaslighting" users, and not something dumb like thermal throttling or page faults?
wow good job!
He is making an analogy it seems to me, rather than trying to redefine socialism as bad loans subsidized by taxpayers. The point isn't that they are the same, but that they are the same in a way. The way the are they are the same was left up to readers rather than being made explicit but I think the idea is that people are much better at allocating their own money than allocating other peoples' money.

A fair point it seems. Of course the 2008 crash was about credit default swaps too as I recall. Mostly private sector failings.
> we're still more or less screwed

"less screwed" here means "fewer dead people". I think it matters how much screwed are we.

BTW this is the exact switcheroo I expect from the climate deniers - first it was "climate change doesn't exist, why should I limit my consumption?", when it's too undeniable they're going to switch in a second to "too late to do anything about it, why should I limit my consumption?"
The "average person" using this is not some average citizen - they're developers or business folks, and such nonsense as has been going on will not go unnoticed by them. People don't want to build a product on this system and have to wonder whether the plugin they're using will be removed by Automattic or whatnot.
Well I must sadly inform you that we're officially unable to go to Mars until we "fix all of our problems here on Earth" as people put it. /s
> your kitchen is burning, won't you do anything about it ?

> so what ? it burned once 40 years ago already
I found that this plugin really helped: https://www.fbpurity.com/
Can't stop thinking about all the sad and angry circus clowns who are associated to things like serverless or other interesting "bandwagon effects" :)
What is the non-geo-engineered solution?
> We could cut a looooot of useless shit before our standard of living are impacted.

Do tell.
I went to UNC Chapel Hill, and this was already done back in 2005 there. CS major intro classes were numbered in the 400s (401, 402, etc) with a focus on data structures, basics of big-O (later refined in algorithms), etc.

CS 101, 102, etc. were the “non-major” intro CS classes and exactly what you describe here. They didn’t count towards a CS major at all. Neither would non-calculus-based physics classes.

Note that, at least at UNC, in every other department I know of, 400-series classes were generally graduate level. But UNC CS operated a bit differently.

I loved the challenge and the knowledge I gained, but it’s worth noting that CS at UNC was much, much harder than nearly any other major there (Chemistry may be the one exception).
Long ago I installed dozens of irc clients, joined a few dozen servers, a few hundred channels. Most didn't do well. Then there was kvirc that just sat there at 0% CPU no matter what I did.
I've analyzed the tech stack of nearly 500 open-source companies
I run a website dedicated to gathering the best open-source companies. Recently, I analyzed the technologies each company uses. It was a challenging task, but I was able to identify nearly 250 different languages, frameworks, and development tools.

Enjoy!
Ah, yeah no problem :D

I also had no social media in my upbringing, a bit of ICQ via dial up though. Got an Facebook account and smartphone way later compared to my peers.
10 years ago I said to a group of friends that I thought in about 10 years time air travel would be a very very highly regulated thing, with international limits placed on how many miles an airline is allowed to fly a passenger (I even thought a secondary market for airline miles would emerge) - I figured by 2025 we'd have nuclear back on track and large scale nation state projects to implement a rapid shift to solar/wind/nuclear funded by a global $xxxT fund.

How unprophetic of me.
You’re completely discounting networks, yet most of what people achieve comes through them.

Nobel physics prize winners in the 20th century were very often Jewish. And that’s neither evidence of bias for them in the award process, nor evidence of some kind of genetic superiority. The Jewish researchers just happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right networks and mentors.

Apply the same logic to the lesbian firefighters. Their leadership positions probably don’t have anything to do with either their genetics or any bias, but their personal qualities and their networks. Being a conspicuous “outsider” in the system may have helped them develop relationships and leadership skills.
Is it really brutal? Can you single out "nature" and its characteristics?

Brutal sounds like a value judgement, one that I suspect explains nothing about the fact.

Can we accept that it just is, and we're part of that, for all our vices and virtues?
Google Kinda Gives Chromium Away Because Antitrust
Yeah, that's what they all say. Tinder and Spotify were both named specifically and both denied it. I don't trust any of them so I'm assuming they're lying, you do what you want.
Being a real change happening in the world, it could also be a chance for YOU to join the powerful and wealthy if you can adapt to the new reality while other people are stuck in the old one.

But I suspect your logic is circular, because people who gain money and power through canny anticipation of change will just get lumped into your category of "global elites" confirming what you already believe.
The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations
If you accept that PV will continue to grow exponentially, the historical trend is ~1000x growth over the last 21 years, or 10x every 7 years.

PV is about 10% of global electricity demand and about 1% of all-forms global energy demand today; 7 years (even without wind) and its going to be dominant over electrical generation, 14 and there's enough electricity to electrify everything else we do, too.

If you accept that the exponential growth will continue. It's not guaranteed.
Fluid Simulation Pendant
"Editor’s note: This story contains content that readers may find disturbing, including graphic allegations of sexual assault."
You mean stories like this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/environmental-science/ship...
I've heard of tab vs spaces flamewars, but never heard of "space completion" camp.

It clearly references to LLM doing a tab completion.
Climate has always been changing. Even before humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles still holds, and explains quite a bit, though recent research added a few more factors, none of them human related.

There's no conspiracy, you just seem to believe more to the "TV approved" science.
I think the reason some people have problems here is that the term "cargo cult" is in the middle of transition from being merely a reference to a story (which you need to explain to someone half the time you utter the phrase), into being an independent phrase with its own established meaning - i.e. taking meaning from how it's used, instead of the original story.

(Now I wonder whether Tamarian language is really referencing stories, or referencing the popular understanding of those stories. Sokath, his eyes closed.)
I can assure you my comment has nothing to do with any Netflix show. Or any ancient history.

We only need to go back 300 years to find the history we’re told isn’t reality. Do we think the Voc went silently into the night? Did the banking families of the 1800s reproduce to such a degree their fortunes are no more? We can keep going.
The tech itself works, unlike blockchain, but the narratives are way overblown. I know a few small companies that have legitimately let people go without even having a proper replacement.

The leadership then hyped up Devin or whatever, only to find the whole workplace in chaos after a few months. All this was done to attract VC money, and now they're hiring for the same position again.
It's funny the very things the author decries are when IDEs do for us automatically. Hide the imports, expose the abstractions when needed.
I feel like I've seen this comment so many times but actually genuine. The cult like dedication is kind of baffling.
Migrations Morpheus, like the swallow.
It would work. There are guides for obliterating (large) animals with explosives. An RPG would be safer if it's still moving.
The (turrible) Black Sunday novel [1975] made quite an impression on young me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(novel)
The only time scale we care about is the duration human beings have been around. You know the planet being fine it's humans we are worried about and all that jazz.
>otherwise what you have are silly bookmarks.

My literal several hundreds of tabs are silly bookmarks in practice.
I've recently been running it via Proton on Linux, and it runs quite smoothly.

(Haven't tried any multiplayer on it though; the game is old enough that networking doesn't automatically mean "use TCP/UDP/IP," so I can see that stumbling bad on modern OSes.)
I can’t find any evidence that the plan outlined in that article was actually launched. The owner of Twitter says a lot of stuff, but most of it is made up.
A breach of a data broker's location data threatens the privacy of millions
You clearly didn’t read the article. Feynman didn’t know what cargo cults were, he repeated misinformation from a movie that incorrectly dramatized real practice. And further, his “cargo cult science” definition doesn’t match the modern-day “cargo cult programming” definition.

The point is that the metaphor is not just oversimplified and misinformed, but means conflicting things and is overused to the point that is meaningless.
Thanks that makes sense, not sure how I could miss that.
The tenth golden rule:

10) Enable frame pointers [1].

[1] The return of the frame pointers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731824
It speaks volumes that Musk is seemingly unable to just shut the f up and be a happy mediocre (or a happy bad) gamer.

It's likewise quite telling how he's apparently totally fine with him cheating, not unlike he was and is totally fine with borderline-illegal election interference in the US and now in foreign countries—as long as its him pulling the strings. He has no qualms of accusing other people of interference, and it's completely irrelevant whether that accusation is founded in fact or fantasy.

For Musk, rules don't apply to Musk, they're just something that can be used against others if it serves his interest. The same goes for truth.
I would argue with almost anyone else, that this is a poor design, but...

Thank you for your perspective, work, and contributions.
Emit less CO2.

Does sequestering what has been emitted count as geoengineering? If not, that too; if so, then surely the status quo of emitting it is already geoengineering?
Let's start by not being so diligent on Diesel passenger cars' emissions, unregulated CFC production in China, not investing in PUE reduction sooner, not forcing effective filtering in coal power plants in some countries.

We can continue with (un)controlled deforestation for mining and palm oil (and increasing its use despite its health hazards), uncontrolled tapping of natural water resources just to sell it as bottled water (remember Nestlé CEO doesn't believe that water is a human right because they can sell it).

Let's add burning petrol wells, untapped methane leaks, oil companies' lobbying to slow down EV adoption, etc. etc. etc...

More on EVs & cars: Formula 1 cars are hybrids way before passenger cars were. This tech would have trickled down way earlier in history. SAAB made 4-cylinter Turbocharged 9-3 and made a compelling, powerful car for everyone, but everyone, esp. US. opted for V8s for "manly" reasons.

...lastly, let's not get started on single-use plastics and how we have been deceived with this arrowy-triangle and recycling.

We had the chance.

P.S.: I keep adding things, but there's also planned obsolescence. e.g.: I have a perfectly fine BT headphone with great sound quality, but I can't replace its battery without destroying it. How being able to replace its battery impacts my quality of life?
I would almost change 4 into "Binary search".

Wheeler gets close to it by suggesting to locate which side of the bug you're on, but often I find myself doing this recursively until I locate it.
I would complain to TfL, but their complaints form is broken

> Sorry, something's gone wrong
We have a technical problem right now. One of the following options might help you:
Can I mathematically disprove that if I take the Lagrangian of the standard model and combine it with with Einstein's field equations, and chase down emergent complexity over many levels, that the properties that DEI selects for are actually what makes a great SDE (in my world)? No I cannot. But we're getting silly here.

I will settle for the most salient factors if that sounds more precise to you. I will interpret that as a large number of sigmas, but we don't have to agree on the exact number of sigmas here!
My concern with Apple Intelligence is Apple devs being forced to shoehorn AI into the UX of a wide variety of apps, I’m not looking forward to the fallout from the added complexity.