skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many startups in that space. Smart grid management, drones to support wind turbines maintenance, robots that clean solar panels (yes, that is a thing https://www.ecoppia.com/), water leakage alerts using smart valves, all the alternative meat wannabes, vertical farming? (questionable...), the list goes on and on. There are VC funds investing solely in these things. Good luck!
All these technologies existed in webpages in the 90s. There were a lot of popups too, it's kind of a meme https://www.techly.com.au/2018/02/14/techly-explains-fascina...
Offhand, I’d suggest reading it over a long period of time, starting whenever you feel like you have a good mastery of whatever project you’re working on at the time, and taking breaks to rest or sprint on need-it-nowish topics in between.

The benefits of understanding how computers work at low levels, how algorithms work and are built/studied/compared, and how data structures can change how you think about programs and processes (to call out a few barrel-sized buckets) are likely to be helpful over the long term, while the likelihood that you happen upon the key thing that you need today (or this month) at just the right time is pretty low.
I believe so on average, but for individuals it depends on the impact your kids have :-)
> I don't have to go round trip very often

I'm willing to bet that you are an outlier
This doesn't have anything to do with running a local PiHole, it's just a feature of having a local DHCP server. Any typical home router also has a local DHCP server, and if you change the DNS associated with the internet connection on the router this will be passed on to any device which connects via DHCP.
It's a failure in most of Canada too, every successive provincial government decides to slash it's budget or 'reorganize' community care to the point it's just a weak pill dispensing model with no oversight and thus you get mentally ill in the street at all hours running wild with drug and alcohol addictions.

I think Andrew Yang style UBI is really the only solution, a guaranteed monthly living income that's illegal to take loans against or illegal to withhold because of debts. That or some kind of accountability where we are able to personally sue politicians who have turned our cities into poorly run asylums.
Why what? Why does it make me cringe? Mainly the section headings. "All about interrupts" followed by "More about interrupts." If the first section was all about interrupts then there shouldn't be any more to say about it.

Yeah, I know, I can be pretty hard on myself :-) (And I did say it made me cringe a little. I'm mostly pretty proud of what I did back then.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol : absolute ban on CFCs worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead : EPA mandated reductions of lead in gasoline worked.

Not to mention the thousands of little things (drunk driving, slavery, universal suffrage, speed limits etc) that were overturned relatively successfully without any market-based approaches. There is a right-wing philosophy that all government actions are inherently inefficient, but the reality is that laws work. It is possible to ban a behavior on day one and see it substantially reduced on day two.
There's no point quibbling with one word in the headline when the article answers it:

"The 'why' behind this resurgence is hotly debated and not well understood. That said, most experts in the field suspect that all traditional sources (natural and anthropogenic) are contributing at least in small part to the surge, and that the biggest contributor might be wetlands responding to climate change (though there is some dissent on this point)."
I was surprised to read that some WASPs are distantly related to 19th vent opium smuggling. For example the Forbes family made their fortune in opium and now they have a business magazine
I would say it depend of the way the car was stolen, if with violence I’d say maybe, if not I think it is worth looking for an alternative to prison
The scary generalization of this idea is that all governments engage in this activity to some degree.

The liberty nutjobs really have a point about being intolerant to the minuscule interventions: by this model, its a way of domesticating people.

OTOH I don't believe this idea is right, because humanity has had slavery and oppression since time immemorial, and freedom as we know it is relatively new. It is a natural desire of human beings to fight against glaring injustices, and for the oppressed to fight back.
>god can people stop being so hysterical about literally the most important existential crisis of today
PyCon: everybody pays (2011)
I totally understand where the author is coming from. Though a full stack dev like an ER doctor.
If there are any Googlers reading: I'd love if Maps implemented this. Helpful for saving people some cash, too, which I am sure would be popular! As it is I have to consider distance, time spent, hilliness, speed limits (to limit wind resistance), and amount of stop & go, then guesstimate.
That's true if an IP only serves requests for a single domain. With ESNI it's now possible to connect to a server that hosts services for multiple domains without the domain being divulged in the clear on the wire.
Totally agree with both points. I came to the conclusion that liquid democracy could bring about political change more rapidly than any other “movement”, so I built this: https://liquidcenter.org
Unfortunately, Sybil-resistant online identification is still a really hard problem to solve.
I think there is a deep naivete in believing you can turn situations like NK or china with politics, diplomacy and no dead bodies.

Lets not forget what stopped nazism!
Debian 10 Buster already install Stubby DNS by default as your caching DNS server.
The hassle is because of the implication that is super easy to run a self hosted solution. It's a decently complex task that your average person couldn't come close to doing, and many here would still take a bit of time to grok it all.
This vulnerability is an intentional "feature" in Bing, Google, and Twitter.

1. https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1056626456770428929

2. https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1055751684146655232
Oftentimes the run-up in M needed to maintain hyperinflation comes from the need to maintain the loyalty of the army (and hence, keep yourself in power). A private business might choose to pay its people daily, but the government is constrained by its taxation infrastructure and bureaucratic delays to collecting much less frequently than that. If you're a group of guys with guns, and a wealthy private business owner can pay you $X today or the government can pay you $X which will be worth 1/10th as much at the end of the month, who do you work for? (Well, in practice the answer is likely to be "both of them", which is equally problematic for the government.)

So the government makes up the short-term shortfall by printing money and increasing the denomination of bills. Now they've increased M, and the cycle continues.
Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the Starlink constellation
The answer is in the first few paragraphs: they live beyond their means in a high income tax state, have 3 kids and farm animals, are addicted to consumerism - and want to participate without spending the little money they have.
You're right that the actual fallacy is using an appeal to authority as proof for a statement - that is wrong.

However, it's perfectly fine to defer to an authority as a working hypothesis when you're not proving something, though - unless that authority does not have relevant expertise.

I think my point is probably better worded by https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

> nor is it reasonable to disregard the claims of experts who have a demonstrated depth of knowledge unless one has a similar level of understanding and/or access to empirical evidence.

But that does not dismiss that you're entirely right in that

> it is entirely possible that the opinion of a person or institution of authority is wrong; therefore the authority that such a person or institution holds does not have any intrinsic bearing upon whether their claims are true or not.
I've tried building software to organize activists to use shareholder rights -- those things you don't realize you already have through your retirement funds. E.g. https://www.yourstake.org/ask/vanguard-vanguard-endorse-a-na...
I've started developing an idea for a kickstarter-like platform to document, socialize and (forgive me) gamify individual actions towards climate change improvements. If we could get a certain percentage of populations to change some basics in their lives, and influence governmental policy in kind, we could take more responsibility for our own impacts, and our collective contributions.

Very nascent, researching and blue-sky-ing, but I'm just putting it out there for anyone who might like to discuss this.
You clearly lay out the future costs of both options in a way that demonstrates you aren't just unaware of how much work will go into the change.

That said, rewriting a system you don't understand is pretty hard to do successfully.
China has continued to leak CFCs despite the ban.
Byte Launcher
>A fallacy I've noticed often in sw engineering, and might fall under the nirvana fallacy definition, is the assumption that there is one best tool for doing things

AKA "We must use git." :-)
Widlar, Bob Pease, and Jim Williams are all worth reading about if you're not familiar. Bigwig semiconductor designers from a bygone age.

There are some great application notes by Jim Williams from his time at Linear Tech if analog design application notes are your thing.
> if you reverse that, you will often have to remember many different foreign words for one card.

This is one of many, many reasons why spaced-repetition systems should support dependencies - as in, "delay card X until after cards A, B, C have been solidly learned." Then you'd just gradually learn a sequence of reverse cards for that one word: most common first, then second-most common (prompted as: "<word> (2)"), third most-common and so forth. With each "depending" on the previous cases in the sequence.
This should be a reminder to everyone that regardless of how annoying ads are, they did serve a very useful purpose!
The list of Tor exit nodes is public.

I can detect public Tor IP addresses and give them a different redirect with Zerodrop: https://eligrey.com/blog/zerodrop/
Is this Why there is a methane surge? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012612
Get high as possible salary and donate as much as possible to https://www.rainforestcoalition.org or other nonprofit.
Technological proficiency is very distributed too. Some people are really good at web apps but have no idea how to program in a compiled language. There is so much out there and its not really feasible for everyone to know about everything.
That would make more sense if, in fact, engines failed or didn't fail as a group, but in fact they tend to fail individually. This can make the difference between success and failure for the mission, when other engines of the same type fill in for the failed unit.
You have a point but there is also quite a bit of churn in the billionaire ranks. So if you include all that have been billionaires in the last 10 - 20 years you'll have many more than just 2,000. And for practical purposes, having $500 million vs. $1 billion is really the same league of wealth. So if we make the criterion $500 million my point is absolutely true! 5,000 at any given time vs 480.
I'd like to discuss this - can you create a forum or similar, or I will?
>Define works. Appeal to authority destroys engineering, scientific, critical thinking and decision making.

Appeal to authority is a tool. Whether it improves or worsens things depends on how it is wielded.
1000% agree. My team is in the middle of building a new system, and it’s gotten to the point where I’ve found myself saying the phrase “let’s not paint ourselves in a corner” 2-3 times a day.
An additional benefit is that you get to testing your solution in the real world sooner, shaping your perception of perfection (and therefore the list of needed improvements) in production rather than on paper.
If that's the case, Congress could simply have voted to prevent Treasury or the Fed from doing it. By not doing so, it consented.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not, but HTML5 and lighter web pages are not a solution to climate change. There's no way in the world that math works out.
I think your concept of "dynamic" and "static" is exactly backwards from mine. datetime specifies an API (tzinfo) for dynamic objects, so that a single object provides the time zone information for many datetimes. pytz's localize function attaches a different static object to each datetime, depending on which one is appropriate.

pytz defaulting to the last offset instead of the first would cause a lot more silent breakages, because it would probably be right about half the time, and wrong about half the time, and even when it's wrong it won't be obvious. Defaulting to the first value in the list is as close as pytz can come to failing loudly without actually raising an exception, because it's obviously wrong nearly 100% of the time.
I am still on it
I think I see what you're saying. I wonder what you think about the descriptions of the deepening levels of dhyana which do involve "detaching from reality" in some sense. Even the one-pointed concentration needed to approach the first dhyana stage involves tuning out almost all normal perceptions, for example by sitting in a candle-lit room and concentrating fully on the breath in the nostrils. But you keep a strong and stable kind of agency in order to maintain your concentration and to progress in the dhyana series. It seems different from being a "qualia sponge" with a delirious lack of desire or intent. The Wikipedia page for clinical delirium describes distractibility and failure of attention as a primary symptom, whereas deep meditation is almost always described as a result of non-distractability and highly trained attention...
This is a bit of the "fallacy fallacy" issue. Fallacies are mental shortcuts. Fallacies are wrong when you say "X is true because Y" where Y is something like an appeal to authority. But their use does not imply "X is false because Y is a fallacy". The move isn't good because Kasparov said it's good; Kasparov said it's good because it's a good move. Which means that if you asked him, "Why?" he would give you some reasoning, which is the real Y for why X is true. Granted he might appeal to authority by saying "Because my intuition likes it", but that's a good reason to think deeper on the move in order to come up with a grounded argument
That's not what I was suggesting. I was suggesting that dismissing any calls for any change (whether it's whole rebuild or any degree of aggressive change) is often justified with "but we've already paid $x for this project". Couple that with then also complaining about further costs just grinds my gears.

Probably 1/3rd of the projects I've worked on over the last 20 years were software systems that were objectively/measurable poor, and probably half of those warranted a rebuild, and genuinely not 'flavor of the month' justifications. You can't cheaply and safely, for example, run a business on foxpro/db2, relying on one person in a different country with all the source code, running in a virtualized windows XP environment on Windows server 2000, while also wanting to modify your business processes and grow your business. I'm not saying it can't be done, but the costs and risks outweight whatever benefit you've already bought and paid for the last 20 years.
Hardly. I suggest reading the paper. Here's the conclusion:

> To summarize, our analysis of the association between cigarette taxes and adult cigarette use suggests that adult smoking is largely unaffected by taxes. At best, cigarette tax increases may have a small negative association with cigarette consumption, although it is difficult to distinguish the effect from zero, and in practical terms implies that it will take very large tax increases, for example, on the order of 100%, to reduce smoking by 5%. This finding raises questions about claims that, at the current time, tax (price) increases on cigarettes will have an important beneficial health impact through reduced smoking. It may be that in a time (2010) when the median federal and state cigarette tax is approximately $2.40 per pack, further increases in cigarette taxes will have little effect because the pool of smokers is becoming increasingly concentrated with those with strong preferences for smoking. Alternatively, as cigarette taxes and prices continue to rise, smokers are taking other steps to thwart the impact of the price increase such as switching brands and increasing purchases on the black market. Notably, we rule out border crossing as an important explanation of the small tax elasticities.

The pool of carbon emitters is not concentrated with those with strong preferences for emitting carbon. Cigarette taxes were already high at the time of the study. Anyone serious about carbon tax to counter global warming says that the tax needs to be very high.

If we get to the point that most people are carbon neutral, carbon taxes are high, and would need to be far higher for a 5% reduction in emissions from people with strong preferences for carbon emitting activities, great!
For listening comprehension, radio and podcasts are great. Some state broadcasters even produce dumbed-down content (such as news broadcasts with simpler vocab, read slowly and clearly) in their country's language, specifically for non-native speakers.
All politics is local. Imho the most promising stuff from tech startups is the e-scooter rental stuff. City councils are naturally conservative about big transit-oriented projects, but e-scooter rentals and public transit could work together to be a great system for making dents in climate change.
By uninstalling it?

https://cdn.tweaks.com/img/article/RemoveIE2.png
My friends in telcom from years ago would regularly tell us about H techs who would come install equipment. And while doing so would disassemble every rack and switch in the room and photograph everything.

Thats an unprovable allegation, but I know these folks to be reliable sources of information. Having read about the internal incentives for techs providing IP intel and outright rewarding of theft, I'm convinced.
Sending telescopes to space will be cheaper as the volume of launches increase
You're correct, but only because we live in the core of this empire. The story is different for folks who live in its periphery
Polar looks really cool but it looks like there isn’t a self-hosted version? I’m basically done with cloud data i don’t control (as much as possible...)
> If I’m reading an important Wikipedia page I save it to Polar...

So sick of seeing this pdf annotation software. You're never safe on this site, you'll be reading a comment or blog post then bam it's a polar ad.
People who defend make (or its evil companion autotools) are suffering from the Blub Paradox. http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox They likely have never used any better build/configuration system so they think make is the best there is. Discussing build systems is like discussing programming languages. If one party has only ever used Java, then they will never get it.

Personally, I switched to WAF a loong while ago and have never looked back. Perhaps it is not the best build system there is, but it is leagues ahead of autotools/make.
I would love to be kept up to date with something like this.
given that you do not consider these good-to-ingroup-bad-to-outgroup people "mean or bad people", who do you reserve and apply that descriptor for? any examples?
Could you be specific? What are the problems with the codebase?

I've found that as a user, there are some really powerful features in Anki. The distinction between notes and cards wasn't clear to me at first, but once I discovered it, it allowed me to create some really useful decks. Being able to create multiple cards, with HTML and CSS styling, testing various elements of the same note is really nice.
These doomsday scenarios have happened before. There are mechanisms that quickly bring things back to normal. Unfortunately, “quickly” is on a geological scale. An 8°C temperature raise for 100,000 years would be rather problematic for humanity.
Same here, I somehow need any app that I use to have feel like a modern up to date design. Said that, this sound like an interesting exercise to do.
The /pol/ version would be more explicitly racist in one way or another.
Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
Git is one of the most widely used distributed protocols on the internet. GitHub is just one node on the graph... seems like a decent use/definition to me.
I think this is a "we shouldn't bother with X because Y also helps (and is more convenient for me), even though they're not mutually exclusive" argument.
I've read that the RS-25 level of "reuse" was highly qualified, they required a significant rebuild between flights because they pushed the margins so hard. Wikipedia says "refurbished" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_main_engine

But you're generally right about the insanity of the Senate Launch System.
Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
I don't want them to become victims of phishing, hacking, ... any ideas? Any ideas how I could prevent these?
No, we didn’t have better polling. We don’t use polls. We did ask the users. Just not through polls.

The teams always make decisions. That’s why they exist.
My own experience is that from running adblock all the time, aggressive blocking measures, and disabling targetting/personalisation, I get the absolute worst ads/ad networks when I do get them (for example when Firefox broke all addons a bit ago). Borderline malware, redirecting popup driveby Flash Player installers, it just feels like without enough of an ad profile built up you get whatever trash is left, no major brands or companies
> Until China fixes their government, they will never be taken seriously on the same level of other "first world" countries.

I think russia has been taken seriously for a century now, with not better track record. What makes your country be taken seriously is your military strength, which is your capacity to flip-off any other country that tries to take political advantage over you.

> I wonder what Chinese people think about the odds of any of this improving.

What I think is that the vast majority of chinese don't care about this topic at all, and would rather not think about it. Remember, most of them dont know about Tiananmen square, not because the government censored it, but because they don't care about it.
Student fallacy is also called Baby Duck fallacy, because you imprint on the first thing you see. To this day I have no idea whether Git actually sucks or I just saw Mercurial first.
The Intel hate is somewhat consequentialist. Software was written under a security assumption that wasn't true, the alternative code is slower.

Whose fault it is and the ramifications for the relative performance between different processor designs are separate matters, and people understandably aren't going to favor the vendor with the larger performance loss.
Ignoring the topic will not make the problem go away.

As for cows, the biggest source of methane emission in livestock comes from belching rather than farts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
We shall see. A lot can change between now and then. The SNC affair will fade over the summer and the truth is the economy is doing very well - that typically drives election results.