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peraon Worst-ever job interviews: 'We had to crawl and moo'

unfortunately telling a potential employer to fuck off is a privilege not everyone has

peraon Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked

But that's the thing: if we are not adding as much as before then we should observe NOAAs chart curving, instead it still looks like a straight line (of course, it could also be that this reduction is so small that is not visible on the chart)

peraon Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked

Sorry the use of "peak" in the article and my comment implies a reduction right after (not a plateau):

> “We find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024 if current clean technology growth trends continue and some progress is made to cut non-CO2 emissions,” authors wrote. “This would make 2023 the year of peak emissions.”

peraon Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked

Is anyone familiar with the methodology used by Climate Analytics to create this projection? I find it really hard to believe that there is a 70% chance that in 2024 the world will peak in GHG emissions when at the same time CO2 measurements show a clear straight line:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

NOAA Research doesn't seem very positive either: https://research.noaa.gov/2024/04/05/no-sign-of-greenhouse-g...

peraon UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

Unfortunately this sort of news rarely show up in the home page though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240322155020/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240323161503/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240129162322/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240130140028/https://www.bbc.c...

Maybe because they are categorised as "Technology" instead of "UK" | "Society" | "Politics"

peraon EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story

That's disappointing: the European Commission has 100k followers on Mastodon (https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission) which seems enough to justify the continuation of this project.

peraon AI made these movies sharper – critics say it ruined them

That picture reminds me of all those horribly bad "HDR" pics 15 years ago

peraon AI made these movies sharper – critics say it ruined them

I really hate the result, they apply something like some gaussian filter followed by deconvolution which makes people's faces very uncanny: super soft skin with super sharp wrinkles

peraon Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing drug possession into law

Here in Scotland the government is starting to open consumption facilities to address (in part) that problem: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=38604&p=0

I don't know how feasible this would be without public healthcare though

peraon Timeline of the xz open source attack

While I do agree that M4 is not great I don't believe any alternative would have prevented this attack: you could try translating that build-to-host file to say python with all the evals and shell oneliners and it would still not be immediately obvious for a distro package maintainer doing a casual review after work: for them it would look just like your average weekend project hacky code. Even if you also translated the oneliners it wouldn't be immediately obvious if you were not suspicious. My point is, you could write similarly obfuscated code in any language.

peraon Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor

How would that help? In this case the adversary is likely to be a state actor/group with a significant amount of resources available (time, money, talent, secrecy, etc.)

Consider also that in many countries the government can force a honest national to collaborate with them on introducing backdoors to any target. This can happen both in OSS and proprietary software projects btw

peraon Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading

> Median net worth $192,900

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf

> [Bechtolsheim] net worth at $16.3 billion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim

So then (923_740 / 16_300_000_000) * 192200 = ~$10.89

Just for comparison, the fine for jaywalking in Seattle is $68.

peraon Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

Ah I was not aware of this, I guess it makes sense then? They could make this section of the ToS specific to their marketplace/store front products

peraon Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

Yeah sorry I meant in the context of cloud providers

peraon Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

They want permission to commercialise my content "for purposes of providing the Services to" me?

First time I hear such requirement

peraon Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

I believe the threshold for DMA is 45m MAU inside the EU.

peraon Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law

The reality is that most people don't want to be tracked:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/facebook-adverti...

peraon I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

Bristol <-> Bath is GWR, which is owned and operated by the British company FirstGroup; they're mostly known for First Bus but they do trains too.

peraon I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

I never understood why trains are so expensive in England: when I lived in Bristol I liked to spend time in Bath, it's just a ~10 minutes ride but it costed 10 pounds each way if I remember correctly... but at least you could bring your bike for free :p

peraon Claude 3 model family

Just a comment about the first chart: having the X axis in log scale to represent the cost and a Y axis without any units at all for the benchmark score seem intentionally misleading.

I don't understand the need to do that when your numbers look promising.

peraon New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift

I do agree that in a more fair world there shouldn't be billionaires, but at the same time it is curious that from all the stories posted on this website - where billionaires are making uncountable decisions that have a massive impact in our society - this is the only one where commenters would come to express their discomfort towards this fact of capitalism.

peraon Sora: Creating video from text

Artists do credit their teachers (Verrocchio in the case of da Vinci), schools, sources of inspiration and influences, so I'm confused by this comment.

What kind of acknowledgement did you have in mind?

peraon Sora: Creating video from text

I agree, to me the most clear example is how the rocks in the sea vanish/transform after the wave: The generated frames are hyperreal for sure, but the represented space looks as consistent as a dream.

peraon Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)

Thanks, that's a nice pdf: so what I called "x boxes" were actually named "check boxes" (although they didn't use the check mark symbol)

peraon Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)

Who created the checkbox widget? System 1 (1984) had check marks on the menu and "x boxes", which are equivalent, but not checkboxes afaik

peraon 250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released

Ah the dollar sign made me think you were in ARIN, and they used to charge $550 for new ASNs

peraon 250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released

Which RIR? I think you have a typo on that price

peraon On whether we're living in a simulation

Is MWI falsifiable in any way?

peraon Ask HN: How to find time to learn after full-time job?

> Since I started working at a regular job in an office two months back

Starting a new job is demanding, just give it time: in a few months things will look more ordinary/boring and then you will have more mental energy after work :)