skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a dozen black t-shirts

A man after my own heart.
> from Primark.

Try Tesco, they are 2 for £8 but they last forever, dont fade and look the same after a couple dozen washes as they did new, also they never run.

I find the fit better and they keep their shape without going saggy around the collar.
Shepherds can believe the commons are being depleted without it altering the incentive to graze their own sheep there. It would be nice if the option were between

a) cut back on carbon emissions personally, and climate change will be undone

b) do nothing and let climate change take its course

but the reality is the option for your average consumer is

a) cut back on carbon emissions personally, and whatever happens to the world will happen regardless because you're only a microscopic contribution to the problem/solution

b) do nothing, and whatever happens to the world will happen regardless because you're only a microscopic contribution to the problem/solution
This city is offering you $10,000 to move there
This set off one of those "hey, didn't I read about this a long time ago? Like quite a few decades ago?" bells.

A quick trip down memory lane, and here's an archive of one of the stories I was following, back in the day: http://rexresearch.com/marks2/marks.htm. Lumeloid was broadly the same as what NovaSolix proposes -- cheap ultra-high-efficiency PV with optical rectennas -- albeit using polymers rather than carbon nanotubes. I had high hopes that these would be just around the corner in the 1990s, but alas the technology seems to have vanished into the mist. I'm curious to know why: was it a failure of the technology? Financing? Personalities? Alas its demise seems have been undocumented.

Hopefully NovaSolix will fare better; at least today there is complementary infrastructure (far better batteries, electric cars, etc.) which makes investment in any kind of solar tech much more viable than it would have been in the 1990s.
Protection for US 5G Corporations to allow them to catch up.

Then there's the other side of the coin. The Chinese boycotting of US Corporations. China alone has more population and manufacturing than the US and EU combined. Does the West really want to lose a market that's 20% of the whole world? Probably not.

"Trade Wars are good and easy to win." /s
This isn't healthy. The robot will never provide an adequate amount of companionship required by humans. Even children don't bond with these robotic toys. The fact that elderly people are bonding with the machine is a sign of severe loneliness and not a sign of successfully creating an android companion.

I get the problem they're trying to solve though. Currently there's already a solution in modern society that solves this issue though albeit comes with it's own inconveniences... Dogs. Get these people dogs. If dogs can lead blind people than they can take care of the elderly.
There's a social scientist, Mayer Hillman, who advocates this view[0], and that we must accept we're doomed to have a chance of fixing it. He has quite a remarkable track record of being right long before an idea catches on [1].

The trouble, as I see it, is we're all being encouraged to shuffle around some trivia whilst avoiding the real issues, with only a very few truly reflecting the scale of the problem. Instead of making a concerted attempt to get households to reduce energy by insulating, changing fuels, changing tax incentives and subsidies we're given LED light bulbs and faffing around with drinking straws etc. We still often heat by gas, or bring home tonnes of plastic in the weekly shop. We need policy to achieve enough.

I think the only other route to change is via groups like Extinction Rebellion (Who are trying to get "enough" people imprisoned to get public opinion and policy change. Peaceful marches, after all, achieve nothing. Civil disobedience has been the route to the significant changes through history).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doo...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/nov/02/weekend7... (Long)
We vary how much we produce by having over-capacity, and using a portion of that to 'turn up the generators' as needed.

If there wasn't enough generating capacity in the fossil fuel system it would be equivalent to 'can't make it sunnier'. The flip side to 'can't make it sunnier' is you can add more solar generating capacity (over-capacity) and add mixed generation through wind/solar/tidal. Both options end up at the same place - over-capacity in order to meet peak/daily/yearly loads.

Classic fossil fuel generating stations quite literally sit idle waiting to go, that's the over-capacity. The same thing can be done for renewables (the whole mix, not just solar).

And to answer the inevitable 'but we've always got access to fossil fuels, like at night when the sun doesn't shine'...

Right now we 'store' the electrical energy in fossil fuels (really we release it) and say this system if inherently more stable because we assume access to those fuels is immutable. And we say that the energy 'stored' in the wind or tide or sun is not.

In reality, fossil fuel energy security is a delicate balancing act of just in time logistics and political power plays, for most nations without vast resources or nuclear generating capacity for instance.

Functionally, perceived limitless access to fossil fuels gives the false impression of superiority and conversely give the the perceived absolute need for renewable storage because of the very obvious daily cycle of light/wind/tide.

I simply say that adopting a system of over-capacity like we currently have for fossil fuels and recognising that neither renewable/fossil fuel resource access is certain is a sensible middle ground upon which to build a sensible generating program. Both systems can rely on having more capacity to handle peak loads, both systems have the ability to plan for their faults and both can work without massive grid scale storage.

Adding storage to renewable generation would actually be a huge step up over the current system and would be fantastic. I would love to see such a system work, and I believe it will do anyway through distributed smart grid/EV usage and large grid scale battery storage.

It's just the uncertainties of the current system are hidden from the average user and I'm just saying we're setting a higher bar for renewable use and storage because the access limitation are that bit more obvious on the daily cycle.
In my experience, the GPU, USB and SATA are the causes of sluggishness without CPU usage. Not sure what could be the problem with your dock - does it have a USB 3.0 controller that the laptop does not? eSata? You are 100% sure the CPU is not being heavily used by anything after first time docking?
Erlang throws plenty of other ideas into the mix though, I prefer my concerns separated. It assumes multiple threads for example, in plenty of applications that's needless complexity. You end up sending messages between processes when all you wanted to do was encapsulate some state.
A few startups (including mine) are trying to help with human interaction in this space:

Papa (joinpapa.com): bring college students to seniors as short term caregivers

Ayuda (ayudacare.com / I am the co-founder of this one): We connect seniors in assisted living facilities with freelancers such as musicians, fitness teachers, and more.

A VC with General Catalyst wrote a useful summary on eldercare startups: https://medium.com/@alerner_93836/disrupting-eldercare-97454...
so either they don't know that you can use an issue tracker (or VCS) to get insight into productivity, or they don't use an issue tracker (or VCS), or both.
I've heard about this happening, fortunately it's not that bad where my property is. Not yet anyways...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504592 and marked it off-topic.
Ain't that the truth! I've got an easy list of all the projects and stuff I want/need to do, and can easily prioritize and reprioritize that (and often procrastinate by doing just that). But when it comes to actually sitting down and doing it...well, that's where I struggle.
I'm surprised that the nanotube antennas seem to capture all frequencies equally. I would have expected resonances and nulls.
> hopes to use carbon nanotubes to...

> a process they hope will yield...

Yawn. I hope to get a new truck for Christmas- let me know when Santa Claus is real.
You are right. In London as a foreigner I’ve always found the Tube easy to use. Even when there is an interruption there is always someone to help and give guidance. The Oyster card is convenient and cheap for one day tourists.

In train I’ve only ridden on the GWR Paddington-Bristol route. I found it very comfortable although it was still diesel powered. I’ve heard the line now has been electrified up to Swindon I think. I’m a railway worker so I can ride first class for free. It’s great because with GWR you get free drinks and snacks and the seats are really comfy. But if you have to pay it’s really expensive in the UK.
Dogs from shelters are 100000% better IMHO.
But what the government wants isn't necessarily what the market will support. Fairfax has a very high office vacancy rate, particularly in newer buildings, so I'm not surprised that developers don't want to build buildings that will stay vacant. [1]

When I say single use, I'm not talking about the neighborhood, I'm talking about the land itself; it sounds like the developer is restricted from building anything other than commercial or retail on that particular portion of the neighborhood. Even in the overheated property markets of New York, the new all-office World Trade Center is struggling with vacancy, and Hudson Yards had to be revamped from all-office to mixed-use because there's simply too much office space on the market. And even after they did that, the city had to offer tax breaks so that companies would populate the new district.

[1] - https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/04/23/in-fa...
Go runs NxM threading behind the scenes, it's far from the same thing. By choice, but it's not what I'm aiming for.

And it needs to be built into the core (as opposed to gevent), otherwise it wont run as fast as it could and can't integrate deeply enough with IO to be seamless.
Interesting - that's exactly the reason I don't care for gevent as much.
Bring on the light rail revolution.
North America desperately needs more light rail options. High speed as well, but one step at a time.
> If the whole damn species pulls together in a concerted effort “without historical precedent”— if we start right now, and never let up on the throttle— we just might be able to swing the needle back from Catastrophe to mere Disaster. If we cut carbon emissions by half over the next decade, eliminate them entirely by 2050; if the species cuts its meat and dairy consumption by 90%; if we invent new unicorn technologies for sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere (or scale up extant prototype tech by a factor of two million in two years) — if we commit to these and other equally Herculean tasks, then we might just barely be able to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C.[1] We’ll only lose 70-90% of the word’s remaining coral reefs (which are already down by about 50%, let’s not forget). Only 350 million more urban dwellers will be exposed to severe drought and “deadly heat” events. Only 130-140 million will be inundated. Global fire frequency will only increase by 38%. Fish stocks in low latitudes will be irreparably hammered, but it might be possible to save the higher-latitude populations. We’ll only lose a third of the permafrost. You get the idea.

> We have twelve years to show results.

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433
How long does each improvement achieve widespread adoption?
I don't think photoshopping to eliminate irrelevant content is malfeasance. All the way back to the days of film, photographers have cropped images, changed exposures, depth of field (aperture), focal length, "dodged" or "burned" different areas of the print, all to achieve a better presentation of the main subject of the photo.
I want mine to start every sentence with "I'm going to need you to go ahead and um...."
Agreed, it's a meaningless statement.

Considering the space shuttle's cargo bay was dimensioned to accomodate Hubble-sized spy satellites to be aimed at earth rather than the cosmos, practically everything on the surface of the planet is visible from space.
Yes, there is the AFD but the general tone is much more civilized.
I don't know how to even begin figuring out whether something is enforceable or not. I read a news article that Canada isn't that protective of employees in this sense, but forget the details.
> I think it's because in the end, it's hard to really believe it's not all for nothing.

For myself, at least, I feel that drone work is obviously for naught, which makes side project failures that much more demoralizing.
Adding to that: 15/hr is a decent wage in many countries, but you'll be paying at least 30 due to overhead and a middleman which will be the one really profiting.

And the middleman might bait and switch you on a 7/hr junior coder.
I think it's more about the client changing their IP, i.e. moving wifi networks or from wifi to mobile. Not so much the server changing.
Rating aggregator for Netflix movies
I recall a friend back in the late `90's commenting negatively about Trilogy's recruitment activities. I have no doubt their workplace culture left a mark on Austin.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463553
Big Four investigate their clients’ software use
They do browser caching, but it's not as long as many would like for a static resource like a font. There is no proof they use Google Fonts for tracking, though, it's entirely possible they'll use it for that in the future...but I don't see a reason for them to do so. Google Analytics is already on most websites.
Spend some time with Common Lisp, specially the commercial versions like Allegro or LispWorks.

Eiffel would be another possibility.

Then there was the way Oberon was originally designed.

The fact is that there is nothing special about Dart other than trying to save the language.
I am definitely interested to hear more.
Contd: Sorry about length, but I think that's a wonderful rant.

The best writing I know on particular favourite books/writers are Robert Louis Stevenson's essay Books Which Have Influenced Me[0] and Colin Wilson's book The Books In My Life. Also Chesterton's Twelve Types[1] and Emerson's Representative Men.

[0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848...

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12491/12491-h/12491-h.htm
Exactly. Even worse, most people, even here, mostly just talk about what other people should do.
I'm curious, what games have moved exclusively to TCP?

Most (all?) multiplayer games I play still seem to use UDP, though there is definitely more mixed TCP use than there used to be.
Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe
For barbell training, Starting Strength is a fantastic introduction.

For kettlebell training, I would sooner look to Pavel Tsatsouline's Simple & Sinister for a simple and effective program that can be run by beginners for a good long while.
Are you saying that Al Gore's above-average energy consumption (private jets, mansions, etc) invalidates his claims about climate change? Are we meant to infer from his behavior that nobody needs to make any significant changes to their lifestyle?
Don't forget heavy rail and regional rail! European EMUs and DMUs will go a long way towards making passenger rail in the US feasible again.

It's ridiculous how few places in the US have even considered subway anymore. Seattle's light rail, for example, is pretty much a subway except for one at-grade segment.
Well, not directly from shelters, but those trained to be therapy dogs (temperament requirements), definitely.
Are there recorded cases of this happening where the employee won? I've heard of those 'used a company laptop to work on the project so the employer is out for you' cases, but never read much in detail.
It was the most inspiring light dot I've seen, I didn't expect I'd watch in awe a light dot today.
The NEC is the one exception to the rule that the US is too big and sparsely populated to support dense intercity rail. (For comparison, the distance between NYC and Chicago is longer than the distance between Copenhagen and Zürich, which is to say, it's longer than the longest axis of Germany.)

The reason why we have such shitty HSR on the NEC boils down to two reasons: one, the corridor is too congested with commuter rail (particularly in Connecticut), and two, the route was rebuilt to "modern" standards in the 1930s. Rebuilding it again to truly modern 220 mph HSR standards involves needing to find virgin right-of-way in Connecticut, which is neither easy nor cheap.
Why 'flammable ice' could be the future of energy
> the entire point of "MacBook Pro" is that it's supposed to be for pro users who do engineering on a laptop

Very little of the promotional material from Apple features engineering being done on the MacBook/iMac Pro - it's almost all content creation.

Engineers are far from being the main target audience for these products.
Also see:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120672/

This is the study refereneced about mice developing chronic kidney issues from delayed hydration (even given the same amount of water overall). No sugary drinks involved.

Also, since PubMed doesn't have a PDF of the one you mentioned for some reason, here is a pdf link for that one:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramon_Garcia-Trabanino/...
> I always assumed everything was written to disk and loaded into memory on startup but apparently not. Everything critical to the machine running is stored on this SRAM.

I don't know your machine but the old process controllers I worked on a long time ago would store machine state in battery backed RAM. This was so that the machine could safely recover from a fault or power outage.
When did they start erasing your save data? I have a few SNES titles that still save correctly.

It depends on if they used SRAM at all, or how the SRAM was used. For example, Pokemon was notorious for killing its SRAM battery early because of running things like a real-time clock. SRAM itself doesn't take a whole lot of juice.

Also don't worry too much about your n64 games, most of them used EEPROM instead of SRAM. Some NES and SNES cartridges used EEPROM too, but it was much more expensive at the time.

If you have any soldering skills, or even if you don't, picking a up a few batteries and a soldering iron is dirt cheap and you could fix your old games pretty easily.
I tried making a living selling free software. It failed to provide revenue close to covering the stress I ended up dealing with.

I'm very much interested to know about these profit-making OSS projects.

How many of them are profitable enough that they are able to pay their developers $80K/year, which is the median salary for software developers in the US?

From what I can tell, the majority of them are "profitable" in the sense that someone else pays for developer costs. For example, when Guido van Rossum was at Google, Google paid for him to work 50% on Python development. The other core developers seems to be in similar situations. How many of them are paid by the Python Software Foundation?

The Django Software Foundation is profitable. It doesn't pay for any developers.

The Sage project didn't get a full time developer until 2016, and then only because of an EU grant.

Project Jupyter funds their developers. Their Form 990 schedule O for 2016 says they had $665,619 in contract labor. They could do this because they had $2M in grants.

These are for widely used projects.

Then there are the profitable OSS organizations like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which has operational control over Kubernetes. It charges high membership fees. I think it's best to interpret this as a way for Google, Amazon, and others to reduce their costs and prevent competition by commoditizing hosting. (See https://changelog.com/podcast/300 ).

MySQL made money from shaking the big scary GPL at people who didn't want to pay for Oracle. Some of the companies who dual-license under the AGPL use a similar tactic.

So, which profit-making OSS projects are you thinking of?

How many of them have the ability to pay 3 full-time developers (that seems to be the number of people at Hiri)?

How big was their developer/user community before it was able to pay for 3 developers?

I can research the last two questions - I just want names.

But if you don't know the answers, then perhaps your views of how projects with 100K+ users work might not scale down to projects with only 5K users. Yet 5K users willing to pay $100/year is enough to fund three developers full-time.

See also https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main... , which talks about some of the 'bad' and 'ugly' realities of being a F/OSS maintainer. And yes, I face some of those problem (like entitlement) in running my F/OSS project.

Note that that link is an example where the F/OSS project development was not sustainable as-is.
Emacs already has you covered. Good old C-x RET C-\ TeX will switch your input method to TeX, converting \alpha etc to unicode alpha, etc for most math symbols. Additionally, ^[char] or _[char] will become superscript/subscript unicode chars.

Once you've done that once in the session, you can just hit C-\ to toggle it on and off (C-x RET C-\ [input method] actually lets you select from a wide variety of input methods, and C-\ toggles on and off the most recently selected input method).
And this company seems to have cracked the system for finding, training and managing those people. I suspect many poor offshoring examples fail because those processes were poor - and expensive.
For more advanced needs there is Colourful .NET [1].

[1] https://github.com/tompazourek/Colourful
Reminds me of this video of the cameras on a booster during launch and reentry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c
Paywall workaround: https://outline.com/HDyBM3

Summary: "The Big Four accounting firms are routinely investigating their own clients on behalf of software companies such as Microsoft and SAP, raising fresh questions over conflicts of interest."
Your friend is right. Mad Max world isn't in your immediate future. Not even the most pessimistic forecast comes anywhere close
The first time I saw a Caltrain pulling into a station I thought it was an armoured Soviet ballistic missile train, rather than a local commuter service.
> these things require additional energy to transport the heat they generate away (i.e fans)

The 100% of the energy of the fan is eventually transformed to heat. The wind is slowed by the viscosity and transformed to heat, the friction in the bearings produces heat directly, the sound is absorbed by the walls and transformed to heat, even if it has a nice led the small amount of light is absorbed after a few reflections and transformed to heat.

So a fan is 100% efficient transforming electricity to heat, and a bitcoin miner is also 100% efficient transforming electricity to heat. [1] You can discuss which one has a better side effect, if it's more useful the wind of the fan or the blockchain security, but both are equally efficient to produce heat.

[1] The loss of using electricity for heat is that in the electric plant it is not possible to transform he 100% of the heat to electricity. (The transformation in the other direction is easy.) You can use the electricity in a heat pump to try ro regain part of this loss. And also remember that the transportation of the fuel to each building is not free, so there is some loss in the alternative method of heating. (Assuming you want to compare oil->transportation->heat to oil->electricity->heat. Comparing hydroelectric/nuclear/wind/whatever is more difficult.)