skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Estimates suggest that cities are responsible for 75 percent of global CO2 emissions, with transport and buildings being among the largest contributors."

https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/resource-effici...
This is confusing - what is the thinking behind this? To list every single website you can buy stuff from online apart from Amazon? Is this basically what search engines are for?
> However, there are tricks that compilers cannot use safely.

Why not? VC++ emits cmov quite often, for operator ? and similar code.
We've already been doing that since Dodd-Frank was passed. It's part of the reason we're having housing crisis' at all.
I just did the same. Thanks for the nudge.
Maybe. Suburbs streets have so little traffic you can let a 4 year old play games in them. As you get closer and closer in there is more traffic. If I lived on any of the roads near downtown in my tiny city I'd be concerned about my kid running out the door and into the street. While I worry about that anywhere, the odds are in my favor where I live now because there are so few cars, while in the city there are cars all the time.
It's emitting a lot of signals to run the radar it's using so I imagine it's tougher to get the approvals to do that in all countries. They might have to get per country approval for the local FCC/Ofcom equivalent before enabling it in each country because it's a relatively new class of device.
I really don't like it when new services leave out the pricing and hide it under "contact us".

Testing and trying something new requires time and effort, which is limited, especially for companies that would be interested, if pricing/future isn't crystal clear, why make the effort?
I don't think the problem trying to be solved is: allow more people to exist. Rather: cluster more people in one geographic location.

The way to avoid the problem would be to not require everyone move to the bay area to be economically prosperous.
I wrote a whole story about a family member being incredibly inefficient in preparing for a class she got (but was completely unqualified for, save for a masters in education). It turned out to just be really depressing, so I'll just say this:

1. Teachers in positions new to them probably do have more work to do

2. A lot of that work may be due to their own inefficiency having not yet learned the role.

3. That inefficiency ends up being paid for with a) time and b) stress, including family stress.

4. Even still, I sincerely cannot remember a single time in my childhood where we were not traveling all summer long.

5. Fortunately budget cuts can end nonsensical programs and save everyone the hassle :-/

What a weird period of time that was.
Sorry, this is a dupe. OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235732
> As another depressive person, I have lost most of my social circle because I consider my thoughts dangerous for others, don't lose touch with people around you because you try to hard to insulate them from your thoughts that might damage them.

So far this conversation has been around dark pessimistic takes on life, death, and work. I'd like to throw out that there are some descriptive things I believe about the world that I have no desire to spread, because I think that people will generally treat each other worse if they accept the ideas. Because of the very nature of such ideas I hesitate to provide any real examples, but as an absurd and (hopefully) harmless illustration we could use Roko's basilisk. If you believed such a thing, and you weren't trying to spread it for selfish reasons, wouldn't you just not talk about it? I've made the mistake of arguing horrible things which I myself didn't want to believe to close friends and actually changing their minds in ways I wish I could take back... but can't. It's ugly, and I try to avoid it these days, but I do also feel somewhat disingenuous because of that -- I think that's just something I have to bottle up and accept.

>If you work hard to make your gallows humor actually funny, you can turn things around. No one really knows the person who is too quiet, no one really likes the bitter person who always complains about everything, but the depressed dark humor guy can be the life of the party.

I've been this person, and still am in some social circles. I appreciated working in environments that can tolerate dark humor. On a visceral level I really don't understand the other poster who brought up the mental anguish of hearing suicide jokes, despite having dealt with suicidal friends in the past. I don't understand what it's like to get triggered by a suicide joke, but that doesn't mean the experience is invalid, or that the benefits of me being able to make suicide jokes in the workplace outweigh the detriments of other people being sent into dark rumination cycles because of them. It seems presumptuous to assume that somebody else getting upset at a joke is necessarily a result of the joke not being funny enough, they might be in a vastly different headspace that is hard to understand from the perspective of somebody who relishes in dark humor.
I'm not qualified to discuss the details, but I WILL say I moved to Seattle,WA 7ish years ago and was amazed at how green everything is (like, because there are trees everywhere). I've heard Portland, OR is the same.

Despite this, travel times to points of interest (theaters, stores, restaurants, etc) are LESS than I've found in other non-major cities in the US, such as Richmond, VA or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, PA. Hard to compare to places like Boston, MA or New York City, NY.
Q. So, an atom decays and gives off some particles including a neutrino. So, we look at the mass-energy arithmetic before and after the decay and see that it all adds up but does need the tiny mass-energy of a neutrino.

That fact, that small difference, seems curious, maybe toward new physics? That is, somehow maybe the mass-energy amounts are, once again in science, whole number multiples of something small. If so, then we can look for how the other particles are whole number multiples??

I have to expect that 99+% of physics students have already thought of this.

Is there anything curious about that tiny bit of mass, e.g., why it has to be there at all?
Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
That entirely misses that the first universities were centuries before the first joint stock company, or consumer goods. There's a few pushing near 1,000 years old, though by the 12th century they were starting to spread across Europe. The innovation and productivity gains came after.
I'm not sure how decreased dereliction, increased greenspaces, and strengthening the local community are tools of government control. It kind of feels like the same goals an anarchist commune would have.
A couple old groups that I'm a part of have migrated off of yahoo to https://groups.io I think it's a step up in usability and interface.
>If one just trips for the sake of tripping, then there is not much to be gained except for several hours of happy serotonin hits in the brain.

Which is perfectly ok and probably preferable for most who waste trips by thinking that you must think deep and just get uncomfortable.

And while obviously there are results where people make large changes my own experience about those people is that a lot of insights are like New Years Eves resolutions said when drunk and happy; the change or insight goes away when a short time has passed.
Isn't the manual for discovery? Or do you try to use tools w/o instructions? I don't see what the issue is here, reading docs seems like an obvious first step for anything new
Alignment between teams. Agile at scale problems
Ah good point. She found the structures in which commonses can thrive, the permutations of which past generations had stumbled through and "discovered" (which persisted through the practices surviving time). But then we forget them and invented other truisms that seem reductive and perhaps wrong :)
US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
Credit Karma Is Launching a Savings Account
Uh oh, we have open-source app on Google play with Patreon banner. Seems like we have to expect trouble soon. Thanks, Google!
Sure, I’m just saying that it’s really weird that this is referred as no moving parts when things clearly move. I guess my point is that haptic without movement still feels “uncanny valley” (like on the phone), but with movement (or whatever else they do different on the MacBook) feels better.
> you can't make people want help.

You can make people receive help. We just don't do that anymore because we've adopted a principle of radical autonomy, which apparently includes the "freedom" for the mentally ill and addicted to literally rot on the streets.

Many homeless advocates seem to have similar fears as gun rights advocate. Whereas some people vociferously oppose gun restrictions because of an irrational fear of helplessness in the face of crime if they couldn't carry a gun anywhere and everywhere, some homeless advocates vociferously oppose forced psychiatric and drug abuse treatment because of an irrational fear--obscured by a simplistic, self-serving sense of empathy--that they'll somehow be forced into such treatment or otherwise lose their own autonomy.

The boogey man of big government out to get you isn't just a motivating fear of the right, it's also a motivating fear of the left.
I had the same reaction.

Every time I visit/fly over places like New York and SF I'm torn. Waterfront properties are beautiful, but then I think back to the dynamic ecosystem and landscape that was there 300-600 years ago and how different it is now.

It's just interesting to think about how the land we live on now was like before us. Are we living somewhere that could have been a beautiful national park?
The repression of sex instead of violence is THE single most bizarre facet of human society.

WHY are there so many taboos around an act that provides pleasure, reduces stress and literally creates life, that is the most natural instinct and urge of practically every single creature in known existence, but we can freely show depictions of ending someone's life and glamorize death, injury and misery?

What the honest, actual, fuck.
I think a bigger outrage is the obscene parking ticket and towing methods used in and around Chicago.

For every single street, there can be rules like:

* April - November no parking 3rd Monday of month for street cleaning

* November - April no parking any Thursday for snow removal

Then the next street over will have the same but different days of the week.

Then they will put up some signs randomly that are like no parking tomorrow! Construction! Then they tow everyone and don't do any construction. The construction gets rescheduled for next week, rinse and repeat.

Most of the time for the "snow removal" or "street cleaning" it's not done AT ALL. They just ticket or tow everyone on the block depending on how they feel that day.

It's designed for you to fail. And at $50-$90 a ticket, it's a regressive tax on the poor (like all non-progressive ticketing policies). God forbid the many multitudes of parking rules slip your mind, sorry you can't feed your kids tomorrow. Meanwhile it's not even a line item in the budget of the consultants and lawyers making $150k a year.

Meanwhile Chicago spends 40% of its budget on police.
That’s a great question, and it’s (relatively) feasible to answer. The object is coming in towards the center the solar system, so its past trajectory lies outwards. If it has been disturbed into this path from a hypothetical sun-centered orbit, it would have to have happened very recently: otherwise it would be long gone, never to return. So it would be necessary for the back-projected trajectory to pass very close to a compact, massive object. Dare I say that the vast majority of all such massive objects in the solar system are well known; so if the trajectory doesn’t indicate a close encounter with a planet within the past decade or so, then this possibility is essentially eliminated.
I agree with this. What I'd ideally like is to keep the Play and Apple stores, but also make it possible and easy to use 3rd party stores - kind of how you can add alternative package repos in the Linux world. Unlikely to happen without legislation, mind.
They used to call this "Ubiquitous Computing"
https://www.wired.com/1994/02/parc/
Me too. I stopped reading the article after that "who cares, the birds can just move somewhere else" kind of thinking. It's supremely ironic that the author copped this attitude about land use in the Bay Area, of all places.
The problem with a forgotten credit card is that you can't be sure if it was stolen and can be cloned, so is better to dismiss it and get a new one. Maybe he had a bad morning talking with his bank about it yet so the card was useless at this time.
I'm (USA) left on just about any position you care to mention, and am worried more by the Kurd/Turkey thing's apparent ineptness and failure to fit any foreign policy plan whatsoever. Bumbling incompetence is less appealing to me than either well-executed, cold realpolitik, or failed but well-meaning attempts at actual moral leadership. It's about as bad as it gets, short of outright evil for evil's sake.

I also don't think it'd be inconsistent to oppose going into various wars in the Middle East, while also opposing recklessly withdrawing once we'd stuck our noses in already.
The frequency spectrum is reserved for military use in certain countries.
Recently, new versions "Simple ..." line of open source apps from "simplemobiletools.com "on the F-Droid app store have started popping up requests for donations. Those now need to be checked.
Hawaiian pizza in Bolivia has pineapple, ham, cheese and glacé cherry. I always thought the cherry was a weird local innovation so it's interesting to learn it's "traditional".
My High-school started at 8 and university at 9.. I thought it was too early for both!
The example proposed, as a proxy argument (saying that there are alternatives), has nothing to do with Marxism or non-neoliberal ideologies. This is a derail, which goes from possibly earnest into the droll discussion about terminology instead of the point made.
That's a lot of words without much analysis. Can you please explain precisely how these studies are bad science?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/7n446x/everett_w...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/q13fox.com/2017/10/23/ex-addict...
> 60Ghz millimiter-wave radar

> so it can go through walls

60 GHz RF doesn't really pass through anything, which is the entire reason that the frequency is used for radar. A radar needs powerful reflections to detect things. Penetration impedes its operation, and would be akin to a camera that is out of focus.

I'm also unsure if the resolution of this chip is noteworthy.
> vim's commands like d0 are verb then text selection (noun), whereas in more conventional text editors (including Emacs) you'd first select some text (the noun) and then invoke a verb like delete.

I would say vim is also noun-verb as you can select text and then tell it to perform an action on it, but supports convenience methods for verb-noun, or just verb. It's just that most the verbs also have a default selection they apply to as well, whether it be a character, a line, or some larger block of content. Thus, 'x' deletes one character, but 10x deletes 10 characters, using 'v' to select text and then x deletes the selected characters. 'dd' deletes the default (current) line, '10dd' (or 'd10d' to mix it up) deletes the next 10 lines, using 'v' to select a range of lines and then 'd' deletes those lines. Additionally, you can just define a range of lines to apply a command do in command mode: 10,20d deletes lines 10-20.
Asstastic blond goddess Mia Malkova rides a big rod of Bill Bailey
Private ownership pushes the cost of upkeep to the property owner and charges them a yearly fee. I'm not sure society could afford to maintain those properties while cities lose their taxation ability.

It also anchors a person to society forces them to partipate.
Agree that 90% of people want to do effective work. The problem is that 6 people have 7 opinions about what effective means.

It's not about blame, it's about trying to ensure the team works together cohesively, and that individuals are unblocked.
I don't follow this line of reasoning at all. By all accounts, Microsoft should have been broken up. They were convicted of abusing their monopoly position in a court of law. It was a travesty of justice that it was not carried out. Had this happened, the new companies would have been vastly more competitive, and the current state of computing might have been much better.
The minimum target API level for the play store has been higher than that for a year now.
That's not a fair reading of the central thesis to my memory (which is going back more than 15 years, to be fair).

This is meant constructively: Some of the rhetorical devices you've chosen ("childish", "dumb", etc.) nearly always read to me as coming from someone who hasn't understood the work they are commenting on, so I suspect you might communicate more effectively with different choices.
What you write is only true on the economic axis. E.g. attitudes towards LGBT or immigration (as measured by number of immigrants, not hot air spouted by politicians) certainly haven't moved rightward.
China Beats U.S. 8-1 When It Comes to Charging Electric Cars
This is complete nonsense. There is not enough demand for all those satellites and capacity, so it's very hard to understand why they are making such a filing.

As of today, there is probably ~ 1 Tbps of usable capacity in space (wordlwide). With such a big constellation they could provide 100x this capacity, but who is going to buy it? How are they going to compete with fiber-delivered Internet in big cities? They cannot offer the same QoS, so you do not want space delivered Internet if you can have it through terrestrial networks.
I read a really interesting article about how Paris was transformed to how it looks today

> Baron Haussmann was the man responsible for the city’s new look. The Paris prefect had no background in architecture or urban planning when he started his project in 1852 under Napoleon III.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-mor...
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pretty sure I didn't get an interview invite but want to meet and learn from successful applicants. It can be as simple as a link to your site or idea. Just want to see what else is others are working on. Cheers!
> I do not owe you another 7.5 hours of work.

Only if you are a contractor and you've fulfilled your contract. If you are a salaried employee I expect you to keep your hopper of tasks full so you aren't sitting around idle 95% of the day waiting for me to feed you 30 minute taskers
Great comment. One word: religion.
Who do you trust more, to secure their infrastructure? Google or F-Droid / a bunch of volunteers who may or may not be very security-conscious?

Not to downplay the effort that F-Droid contributors (or any Android FOSS groups) make, but it's a very legitimate concern.

Would an attacker have an easier time infiltrating Google or a member of F-Droid the development community?

Are users of F-Droid higher value than users of Google Play, to warrant a direct attack? If one wants to pick off users who are fairly technically inclined, other developers, system administrators, etc...F-Droid is a pretty good place to start.
Yah, and could subsistence farming pay for nearly as much of the population to be resident in them? Economic development is important-- we have a greater portion of the population as academics and/or doing R&D than we had centuries ago.

And it continues...

Total R&D population is up about 60% in the United States in the past 25 years, in a time when the population as a whole has increased by less than 20%.
Hm, that's an interesting calculation. I'm glad you added it here, it's a useful reference point, but it does look like some serious sleight of hand was done to produce it.

The report is from 2017, and relies on a 300% increase in the rate of ransomware to get that 2019 cost. That sounds high, but apparently the 2016 rate did triple in that much time (although the WannaCry spike drove a bunch of that).

On the other hand, it appears to be assuming 300% growth in attacks with a a constant rate of victimization. This doesn't make much sense alongside stats like "In 2016, an average of 40 percent of spam emails contained malware links to ransomware, an increase of 6,000 percent over 2015, when less than one percent contained ransomware." That's a qualitative change from "not a threat" to "threat", and presumably 40% -> 80% would not double attack success rates.

Further, the damage stat attempts to include subjective costs like employee training and reputational harm, as well as a naive calculation of revenue costs which assumes no revenue lost to donwtime will be recovered post-attack. That's a fairly reasonable corporate estimate, but summing it across all victims this way isn't valid at all. Only a fraction of that balance-sheet loss is actual GDP-shrinking damage, while the rest becomes either loss to competitors or value-creating OpEx like security and training investment.

Hilariously, one of the linked Cybersecurity Ventures writeups also claims[1] that "cybercrime will cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually by 2021, making it more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined". It's amazing what kind of numbers you can invent when you compare the societal cost of one crime to the net profit of another. As much as I love William Gibson, I don't think the cartels will be swapping their chemists for programmers within the next two years.

[1] https://blogs.cisco.com/financialservices/ransomware-lessons...
He's been interviewed on the BBC at least a couple of times in recent years.
I mean, in theory you setup 3 WiFi base stations and you can use WiFi in roughly the same way. No where near as accurate, of course, but you can easily figure out which areas of the house a person is in.

I don't see why this wouldn't be an even better way to do the same thing.
Don't forget actual toxic chemical spills, caused by looting: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/the-city-...
They are not criminals. Immigration law has always been a civil matter. For reasons.

Enabling evil is a bad thing, whether the evil is to murder N million people or to separate children from their parents. Why is this hard to understand?

Technology doesn't care that you have no intention to kill millions of people, or that you do.
The space mouse is like a joystick or a thinkpad “trackpoint”. It doesn’t move around or measure movements of the body, but just uses force on it to control velocity. This is much less intuitive/effective than a direct movement. A mouse beats a trackpoint hands down for speed and precision in any context where mouse-user performance is important per se (the trackpoint’s advantage is that it is already directly under the fingers while typing, so does not require moving the hands to a separate device and reduces switching time between mousing and typing).

For just inputting rotation, the best ever tried is a trackball which senses a full 3 dimensions of rotation (most trackballs only sense 2 dimensions, with rotations in the third dimension ignored). These have only ever been made as research prototypes, but they were dramatically faster and more precise for people to use than a space mouse.

3D movement is hard to build physical devices to measure; for that maybe the space mouse is the best we can do.
Yeah, and Heroine can stop you from over-eating.

:)
That’s an unpopular opinion on HN, and not because you can’t learn those thing outside of university (because you absolutely can). But because there’s a push by the industry to make programming a low skill/low wage job. Many are still enjoying a low skill/high pay career and want to remain blissfully ignorant of their future.
Are there new types of interactions underway that may make neutrinos interaction feasible?