skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good CO2 detectors are not that common on the ground. You'd think they'd be built into all "smart" thermostats, smoke alarms, etc. But no. The part costs about $50.[1] Power consumption of the latest models is about 75mW, so you need a power source for long term use. Not going to get a year on an AA battery yet.

I have a CO2 meter, and it's interesting to take it places. California coast at the ocean, about 380ppm. That's as low as it gets. My own house indoors, which is not very airtight, around 550ppm. Half-full restaurant, around 800ppm. Classrooms and meeting rooms reportedly can hit 1000-3000ppm.

Historical CO2 prior to 1950, around 300 PPM. Today, around 400PPM.[2]

One study showed that human decision degraded measurably, around 1000ppm. Human decision making degraded severely, around 2000 PPM.[3] But another study for the US Navy did not confirm this.[4]

[1] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/sensirion-ag/SCD30...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/14/it-was-deg...

[3] https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2012/10/17/elevated-indoor-carbon...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29789085
Whenever I travel outside the US, I'm always struck by how different the chickens look. Chickens in the US have a pale appearance, with flabby, almost mushy meat. They look as if they were grown on a tree, never alive and running. While chickens in say, Italy or Mexico tend to look like they were alive at some point. There's color in the meat, often a yellow tint. Their skin and muscle look used and not atrophied.

I wonder how these differences extend to nutritional value?
> Like the assertion that the language of Orientalism serves to create an other in order to. . .
> Like, wait right there.

Then you got further than I did! Someone should have dragged that guy to math class -- before you can prove two things are the same, you have to first define both of them, then make your case.
Code navigation with fzf/vim/ctags/ripgrep
Driving is technical and stakes are higher (literal death if the wrong move is made) - it makes sense to have a more active monitoring system (learners permit) for that.

>Same thing about drugs, pregnancy, STD, etc... The stakes are too high to just rely on apparent understanding.

Drugs is not prevented by monitoring - but by education. Pregnancy is not prevented by monitoring - but by education. STD's are not prevented by monitoring - but by education.

>I agree 100% about education. Educate, but verify (in a healthy way).

I do agree, there is a bit of a balance to be struck and being able to verify gives a lot of relief to the parents.
This guy has a company doing $100M and I bet you his kids wish he was at home more. He talks a good talk about cashing out but he has already done enough. What is he waiting for? Theory: he doesn't know how to stop. Being a captain of industry is tied into his identity and he can't give it up. It has power over him.

One definition of addiction is when you engage in a behavior despite its deleterious effects on other aspects of your life. A lot of things we do to "feel control" are closer to that end of the spectrum than they are to healthy behavior.

People live beyond their means and their boss can make them violate their ethics simply by threatening to fire them. In many, many cases this is a bluff, and someone who's financially stable can tell their boss no, or take a risk on a new job.
Evolution and selective breeding are opposites.

Evolution is designed to increase the chances of survival by introducing genetic diversity and adapting to an environment in order to maximize life expectancy.

Selective breeding actually reduces the chances of survival and introduces massive defects. It's much more likely all of the chickens will die of a single disease with selective breeding, while evolution allows them to survive.
It depends on the age of the kids, and personal situation of course. But as an app specifically targeted for kids - particularly by a big company - it is the absolute worst possible thing on the Internet.
Imo the problem with the article, and perhaps if it is a faithful representation of the original idea of orientalism, is that it is incoherent.

>As Said argued, Orientalism’s failure was “a human as much as an intellectual one; for in having to take up a position of irreducible opposition to a region of the world it considered alien to its own, Orientalism failed to identify with human experience, failed also to see it as human experience.”

Alright, but considering the rest of continental philosophy and post-modern thought it is a literal impossibility to do this ever, even with one's own culture and even with one's previous and future selves.

How can it be an indictment on anyone to not have done something that one is actually unable to do?

If, in the 19th century, before Amazon and YouTube, and Instagram, and Facebook, you lived in England, in a village where most people barely even ever travelled farther than the next village over, and you came into contact with radical alterity how else could you be expected to respond. And as, again according to post-modern philosophy (say Baudrillard in this case) you get closer to this difference you actually start changing it so it becomes more and more like you. So you are either in this state of being orientalist, or in a state of intense globalization, and someone making a critique from this moral high road of globalization about this bucolic, parochial state of the orientalist is probably someone similar to a policy wonk referring to a basket of deplorables, which is just another kind of power-knowledge relation, which is what the critique is meant to make clear in the first place.

To think about Foucault's preface to Anti-Oedipus, the problem is we can never really escape from this stuff. And the problem with ever even making a statement such as this is that it is incoherent in the sense that one never comes away clean, basically because always and already the claim of tu quoque can be leveled. I mean sure it doesn't strictly speaking invalidate the claim there is this power relation, but when we're so stuck in the middle of them all the time in every way, as Foucault said, the strategic adversary becomes fascism itself, not the historical fascism, but our love of power and how it causes us to act everyday, and how it makes us love it even as it dominates us. And that is very difficult to uncover if you're leveling a claim of inappropriate relation to any one group, because the problem is our humanity, not the content of our relations or historically contingent facts. Putting names to faces makes it opaque, because the reality is any human occupying a similar role would act inappropriately, so what you do is you attack the role not the name.

It may be that Said does that. I have never gotten around to reading the book, but just going off of the confused article posted, I just felt there was a sort of mishmash without a really clear and distinct thesis, and that what the facade was hiding in a metaphorical sense was paving stones to be thrown in the next revolution, rather than an attempt to end violence or power relations altogether.
He also said that he'd require slaves.
It’s problematic, because it’s reinforcing a particular worldview and ideology and it’s giving the reader a vocabulary that continues the status quo of American supremacy and American hegemony.

If your small contribution is allowing you to delude yourself into think that it’s enough to ever have a cumulative effect for the positive, then that contribution is still an engine for the negative outcomes of the status quo.
And it should be further noted that Kurosh'e Kabir (Cyrus the Great) was half Median and half Persian. (His mother was Mede.) Both are Iranian tribes.

And further note that as a Persian I have no interest in diminishing the decisive and leading role of Persians in the historic context of the Iranian civilization.

Modern usage of the name "Persia" to refer to Iran by certain elements of the Anglospehere is in my opinion a malicious imperialist construct. We reject it just as we reject the absurdly denuded "Gulf".
Storytime:

> Meet Bob.

> Bob is the world’s worst market timer.

> What follows is Bob’s tale of terrible timing of his stock purchases.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
Did you consider working part time on your day job? 4 or 3 days a week.
Chris Coyier interviewing his own hacker (2014)
It seems to have been a combination of a traffic surge and a third-party API being temporarily slow. The slow API meant that I ended up paying for more idle CPU time during the request round-trip.
Japan: Streets at Night (Photography)
It is trivial to copy all of Wikipedia to a USB drive. The entirety of published books in the world would fit in an off-the-shelf hard disk under your desk, ready to be duplicated endlessly with zero loss. Now compare that to the sheer amount of human history and knowledge that has been lost through the ages due to wildfire, flood, wars, politics, negligence and every other force imaginable.

Not saying that digital storage is perfect, of course, but asserting that a physical copy of a book in a library somewhere is safer and more accessible than bytes on the internet is ridiculous.
Memory usage, compile time, simplicity, readability and deployment story are notable fronts in which go is several miles ahead.
I don't see the appeal. Don't you agree it would be better if the user- ran this software on their own machines?
While that's true I think protobufs are (correctly) seen as the standard preferred way to use gRPC. The first point from the main page:

> Simple service definition

> Define your service using Protocol Buffers, a powerful binary serialization toolset and language

It's a little unfair to call it that orthogonal.
Just change your damn color scheme to what you want and get on with the actual work. They're not "wrong", you're just being dramatic.
Some Bad News for Dane (and DNSSEC)
I have 2 children. The greatest menace on line to them is addiction. I have blocking and monitoring software (Kaspersky), and it prevents me of arguing and fighting about turning down the devices. It doesn't really solve the problem, but at least relieves me of a lot of stress. Without it is really difficult just to take them out to do anything.

As all the fathers I think they are smart and intelligent. We talk not just about the perils of the Internet, but also of the world at large. I tell them the etiquette on and offline. I think the monitoring functions are almost useless. They get annoyed and sometimes angry, like when he searched for Isis, the Egyptian goddess, and it was blocked due to terrorist category match. I really don't know if it will be necessary when they start to search for pornography.

BTW, Kaspersky has a terrible interface. I really hate it, but other options are much more expensive or does not work (e.g. Windows 10 parenting features).
It continued to be a pretty tedious article.
Interesting point. Should have mentioned this difference though, it's a quite different architecture with different tradeoffs.
I think in general this is good advice for parents. Long before the internet, kids in my parents and grandparents generation would've avoided many cases of abuse had they been brought up in a environment where they could come to their parents with problems without fear of judgment/punishment.
It’s neither of those fallacies. The fallacy is to suppose that if you know several people using technology X then it must be quite popular. We see this all the time on HN where people suppose that, say, Erlang is quite popular because there are dozens of companies, each with five engineers, using it. But then we ignore that there are five companies with a hundred thousand engineers each that do everything in c++. It’s the same with these other things. It’s quite like that K8s satisfies the requirements of 80% of the projects at Google and it’s also quite likely that all of them put together consume 1% of the production resources, so it leads to the question of whether it’s even capable of solving a really large problem, as mehrdada argues elsewhere in this thread.
I would guess that all the obvious opportunities for arbitrage are already being taken?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15414922
gRPC isn't a requirement for response streaming (as is quoted as one of the main reasons for doing the migration). That can all be achieved with http/json using chunked encoding. In fact, that's what the gRPC-gateway (http/json gateway to a gRPC service) does https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway.

gRPC adds bi-directional streaming which is not possible in http, but the use cases for that are more specialized.
Told you so. - tptacek
I’ve done the “jump” two years ago.

My life is different now. There is much less stability, constant fear of not making enough money to pay for my expenses, my retirement, etc... also, I’ve never been so tired in my whole life.

Having said that, I feel _happier_ than when I had stability in my previous draining day job. I also don’t have a single drop of regret.

If you have something work wise that you love, just make the jump. You’ll survive and learn a lot.
This may be a trick of translation, but couldn't "The one who handed me over to you has the greater sin" refers to God (the Father)?
> Personally I wish index funds were abolished, forcing everyone to pick and choose the companies they think will flourish or fail.

Given that even the so-called professionals that manage active funds can't consistently beat the index, J. Random Schmoe has no chance:

* https://www.aaii.com/journal/article/most-mutual-funds-do-no...
* https://www.ifa.com/articles/despite_brief_reprieve_2018_spi...

PDFs:

* https://us.spindices.com/documents/spiva/spiva-us-year-end-2...
* https://us.spindices.com/documents/research/research-fleetin...
The 11 year story behind my first app: ChatStats
> an independent investigator

It's possible for public experts to voice their opinion in an brief amici curiae. They don't need to be unbiased, but they're supposed to be independent from the parties.

There are some stats that 80% of such statements are accepted, although it's up to the courts discretion how and if they make it into discovery. It certainly helps for a "both sides try to hide some aspect from judge and jury" situation though.
If you start with a weak model that doesn't contain all the knowledge you have available, your anomalies will contain many irrelevant or already known things. If you start with a strong model representing the best current understanding, then correcting the model is not so straightforward.
Given this;

>It makes me feel miserable, depressed, and tied.

And this;

>I have enough savings to survive for five years.

I'd say leave immediately.
Most users of a tool like this don't know (or don't care) to install command line tools.
You might want to read this quite short article by scholar Elza Dunkels: http://cdn.agilitycms.com/wacc-global/resources/md-2014-1/6-...
No - keep a job, but possibly change jobs [no idea other alternatives you have]. Regarding your side project: Use some of your income to pay a freelancer to grow the business in areas you cannot. Growing from $100/month - $5000 month, etc will take a while to figure out. Spend lots of free time doing that - but while you have income. Then turn on the gas. The stress of no income happens much faster than you'd think.
Google is getting tremendous value from Go, on multiple fronts.

For reference, Go was meant as an alternative to Java and C++, to develop distributed systems. Given the direction that Java went, acquisition by Oracle and $10B lawsuit against Google, it is a well worth having an alternative.
White Collar Fraud: The Crazy Eddie Saga
Check your launch costs - they've come down a lot since SpaceX got their rockets going. You can get a reusable Falcon 9 for about $60M and it'll put 5.5 metric tons in geostationary transfer orbit, or significantly more mass in your choice of low earth orbit. A return capsule for metal/rocks pretty much just needs to be a heat shield on the front of a dumpster with some parachutes, so not very heavy. And an imperial ton of platinum would only be roughly half a cubic meter (surprisingly small, but platinum is dense), so volume isn't exactly an issue, either.

If you had the asteroid in orbit already and in-orbit mining + refining, getting the metals back down would be profitable.
Why you need backpressure/load shedding for queues?
The facts behind Mailchimp's pricing change
Knuth was in a fraternity, meaning living with a dozen people and going to parties, so I don't think asocial = great programmer. I also agree with the other posts that in the end it's really just design skills that makes a great programmer. Designing these highly complex systems to somehow all fit seamlessly together, be self documenting, be maintainable, easy to reason about for future optimization and easy to add features to. The more professional programming I do the more I realize how bad I am at it when I come across a designer who is able to implement the above and make it look easy.
I remember the first time I saw Mosaic - a friend of mine was reading a digital graphic novel. I was absolutely gobsmacked at how incredible that was: not only did someone create something in a country far from mine, I was able to look at it in my home—perhaps minutes after its creation. So quickly, we become accustomed to the amazing.
I think the shame of it is that 95% of most TOS's are as you said, essentially harmless or nearly harmless boilerplate. My concern is more about privacy policies which could in many cases be very short if user privacy is being respected.

In either case, if I'm presented with pages upon pages of small font #888888 text, I defensively assume these is something nefarious hidden there (e.g. "we don't share any of your data with anyone except our 3rd party affiliates, marketing partners, your nosy relatives, people who claim to be law enforcement, anyone who wants to connect to our open s3 buckets, etc.")

I would hope there could at least be standardized agreements developed so that I could decide which I'm okay with or not and have enough companies using them to make it worth the effort to read once. I'm thinking of various flavors of FOSS or CC licenses as an idea template.
Not to a CIA "load station" ?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Have you considered GraphQL? Lots of overlap with gRPC, but much more web-friendly. Much better support for optional vs. requires data, too. And comes with server push, replacing the need for WebSockets/SSE.

Only downside I can think of is that there's no analogous mechanism to gRPC streams; you have to implement your own pagination.
Brainwash: Dataset of webcam images taken from a cafe without patron's consent
Maybe the trucks were Snowed-in and No Safe Arrival times Could be Indicated on the trAcking number....

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You are transparent.

I see plans within plans

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> How? Google respects privacy more than Apple does.

[citation needed]
Spaniard here. If you live in Madrid/Barcelona, try to find a new position in a smaller city. I don't see myself living there.

In my opinion, if you are losing your motivation, maybe your guts are not the best advice you should follow.
I always try to take risky decisions when I feel comfortable with the current situation.
What do you think of censoring, like blocking porn sites and possibly obscure sites that might depict awful gore? Do you think education suffices? At what age?

I want to agree with everything you said, but there's some crazy things on the net. With children being the curious and impressionable creatures that they are, I find it scary to think how much they could be influenced by what they happen to come upon or search on a whim.
AMD Teases First Navi GPU Products: RX 5700
Docker on Windows runs in a VM through Hyper-V, by default it allocates 2GB of RAM per container (you can change the defaults if necessary).
Have more of a sense of humour about it. I think most complaints I've seen about people on this seem to mostly be tonal.
I'd also object to "stop", as in at a traffic like, connoting "bad". A break from driving is often welcome!
But how to know when that equilibrium is reached? Even retrospectively how might someone spot temporary glitches where things have gone too far from looking at market prices?
Streetlights are usually white, which means there’s a phosphor, which drastically limits the modulation frequency. Also, the lights themselves (at least where I live) are owned by the city or PG&E. Good luck getting them to cooperate that deeply with carriers. Also, the lights are off in the daytime.

That being said, in the absence of fog and heavy rain, optical communication between light poles isn’t that crazy.
> Our initial thoughts that a bark shield would be too fragile for use in battle were turned on their head by our experimental work which showed that the shield could stand up to heavy impacts, including protecting from arrows. A bark shield, although not as strong as a solid wood or metal shield, is much lighter, allowing for speed and movement.

I'd like to know more about this. I find it hard to believe that a bark shield could provide significant protection against iron weapons, which is not to say that I don't believe it, but I would certainly like to understand how.
And if you want to read more about this, Matt Levine writes about it fairly often.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-07/regula...
Try to negotiate to change to a part-time position at the same company you're at right now. Or start looking for a different job elsewhere which will give you part-time hours, which will free up more time for you to work on your side project while also having a stable supply of income for yourself/your gf.

In the mean time, I believe you need to revamp your diet and keep up with your gym activities. If you eat well and keep working out, you may become strong enough to handle this current workload and still be able to work on your project.

I wish you the best.
> Unfortunately trying to release a Smalltalk creation into production always turned out to be the most complex task. Smalltalk is an island. A beautiful island you can get lost in for years. But still an island

This was always something which prevented me from really digging deeply into Smalltalk -- a nagging feeling that I was tossing bits into this VM, and eventually it'll work the way I want, but it's now bound forever into the particular VM and that I wouldn't even be able to get a code listing out. I'm sure I was over-dramatizing the challenges for myself, but I would really be interested to hear how you actually do get source code out and distribute it to others.
I wonder what the backstory is to this.

You don't issue a press release for two missing packages. And since they were "important commercial documents" I am assuming that US intelligence must have intercepted them for some reason.
Yea, the V8 json parser is implemented naively and optimized alongside the engine in a way that other serialization methods in Javascript, and JSON in other languages, is generally not.
I strongly agree regarding the monitoring. I have a hard time seeing myself monitoring what my kids do online. I would have been furious if my parents would have done that to me. I definitely agree that kids have a right to privacy.

IMO, trust is vital when trying to raise stable and self-aware persons. If my kids will do really stupid stuff online I think I would rather take away their phones for a limited time rather than monitor what they do.
If it’s what you desire, then yes, you should quit.

I’ve done it before and it’s a great experience. 100% worth it. Follow your dreams.

Just don’t delude yourself into thinking you will grow your side project into a full time income. You may. But don’t count on it.