skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a (smallish) portion of the western carbon footprint is directly correlated with having a decent life.

Yes, the entire world cannot buy larger cars than what we need them for, we cannot fly around the world on vacations, we cannot throw away half the food we produce, we cannot buy clothes to use them once, and so on.

Such needless things, often more related to consumption culture than living standards, is responsible for a large portion of emissions.

Not only that, but we live in societies with an enormous capital in infrastructure built up from previous emissions.

I think westerners should at least start thinking about not emitting CO2 just for the fun of it, before telling others to not have too many children.
I'm just wondering if people who claimed to believe Bitcoin would end the banking system came up with that amongst themselves or were basing it on something "Satoshi" had said.

I had the impression Satoshi was relatively matter of fact about Bitcoin, but I haven't read much of his/her/their own words.
>>Using hydrogen, especially today, is a disaster waiting to happen, since any idiot with a medium quadcopter drone carrying a small explosive charge could easily outrun and shot down an airship then post the FPV video on social networks.

Literally the exact same thing could happen with a regular plane(just send a drone into a plane as it takes off), and yet somehow it doesn't happen. I guess people aren't psychotic murderers, or at least there isn't enough of them to worry about it.
Ask HN: Technically Interesting vs. Interesting Product Area?
In the case that you can only optimise for one of these, do you think it is more valuable to have a role where the work that you do interesting with a company/product you are indifferent about or the reverse, work you are indifferent about for a company / on a product that you are extremely passionate about?
> Aside from CO2 what's the problem with energy consumption in itself?

I agree with this entirely. Some countries managed to reduce CO2 emissions from their electricity production. However when you look at primary energy consumption, including heating, industry, transportation, no country manages to reach a low-CO2 energy profile.

> There are plenty of people in the UK who have a financial problem in keeping warm in the winter.

There are plenty of people in the UK who live in old, precarious buildings with very poor insulation. Mandatory paid-for insulation in these buildings would reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions and increase comfort of living. That's part of the measures pushed forward by Jancovici.

> And who defines excessive?

That is, indeed the key question of our times.
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> airplanes, where EVERYONE tends to die

Overall, about 95% of passengers survive airplane crashes. If you arbitrarily restrict the stats to just the most severe crashes, it's still over 50%.
> How do you route dependencies to the correct service?

Reload the nginx config with proxy_pass switch from blue -> green or green -> blue.
> Wondering if I should just quit? Is career salvageable?

Yes save your career quit your job.

It sounds like the upper management want the business to make money not a product, a common mistake.

Your team lead is an obvious problem but the founders put them there because they don't know any better.

You can fight the team lead, you can even do it successfully but upper management will always want the business to make money not a product.
Towards spike-based machine intelligence with neuromorphic computing
Here's a video that made me feel like I almost half-way understood one of the main underlying principles (AdS/CFT correspondence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klpDHn8viX8

re: "Following the discovery of this duality by Juan Maldacena"

Semi-unrelated: If you like articles like this, I bet you'll love that whole channel.
The cognitive bias is the effect of the big lie. Anti-semitism was already prevalent throughout Western culture at that time, and so the lie was easier to believe because of pre-existing cultural prejudice, and later because the propaganda was simply inescapable.
"This scheme also provides nonrepudiation since it proves that Alice sent the message; if the hash value recovered by Bob using Alice's public key proves that the message has not been altered, then only Alice could have created the digital signature."

This is a common misconception.

Just because a signature verifies under Alice's public key, it does not necessarily imply Alice generated the signature. For many common signature schemes, if Bob makes a signature using their public/private key, Alice can produce a different private/public key such that Bob's signature will verify under Alice's key.

Paper (we) wrote on the impacts of this: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/779
> It's not just me saying it, it was one of the more important cases the US Supreme Court

They might be the authority on who can tax who, but I don't trust them to know how the economy "really" works.
Severn Suzuki at Rio Summit 1992
Or my favorite order never heard on the bridge of Enterprise "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure". Fine, often it would go against the ethos of what they are trying to do. But sometimes, they could have beamed home the away team and proceeded to rain fiery death from above with photon torpedoes or whatever.
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I'd strongly dispute that. Why not include the spark plugs as well? And the fuel pump?

The ECU is a computer, a packaged bundle of chips which plugs in to wires and does nothing but communicate to other components via those wires. That's what an electronic control unit means.

The driven devices, amplifiers etc. are under the control of the control unit. They are not part of the control unit. They're located in areas subject to much more heat and mechanical stress, and in most cases (ignition coils excepted) are mechanical in function.
As an Australian, no, not at all, but many people are certainly quite sensitive about such things and we generally have to acknowledge/modify behaviour as decent internet citizens because of it.
> Are there any dangers associated with wearing [...] no lenses at all when they are necessary?

The dangers associated with not being able properly come to mind.
Honest question - does it bother you every day that any cryptocurrency is valued above $0? Does this violate you intellectually?
The dehumanization of agile and objects (2017)
Same. I can't describe how thankful I am that a freaking pill [!] exists that can prevent dark thoughts from digging their claws in. It's been almost two years now and I wish I'd had this my whole life.
I did not talk about compile time checking, but refactoring, making assisted transformations on the source code.
> Why doesn’t everybody do this?!

Because I am more productive when it is dark or overcast. I get nothing done when it's bright.

I struggle to focus during the day and become more productive when it is dark.
I think the argument is that technology "should have" led to a massive deflation as the price of a bunch of goods and services crashed due to automation; but, instead, that value has been being captured by a combination of people "at the top" simply making more money (hiring fewer people but keeping prices the same somehow, maybe due to supply chain oligopolies or intellectual property barriers <- this is all ancillary to the point, btw, and yet the point doesn't feel complete or honest if I don't add this first effect) and the levers that can be used to cause inflation (which I think are what people are really talking about here when they say "inflation": not the measurable result, but a specific set of deliberate causes of an upward force--whether or not the sum of all forces, in total, is up--on that measurement), the latter of which then leading to an "on average" leveling of the inflation measure where the price of things that can be automated goes down slightly (instead of dramatically) while the price of things that can't be automated goes up.
I would just say, keep it practical. Explain how real life stuff works that the students are already using, such as apps on an iPhone or streaming on Netflix.
The Plot Against Fracking
What purpose does this collection of information really serve? I like having things organized neatly and easily accessible, but I have a hard time seeing what goal thousands of scattered annotations, text bookmarks, podcast bookmarks, etc. serve.
...almost nothing has changed in 28 years...unfortunately. However, beautiful video
Rewarding what matters: Status in academic ethics
Reminds me of inertia.js!
How Dyslexia Is a Different Brain, Not a Disease
Decrease of White Matter Integrity in Obese Adolescents [pdf]
HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
https://fibery.io/anxiety
Nice, are you getting any traction with this? The land page says "No Installation Required" but the users desktop does require either VNC or RDP enabled correct? And from the "user inside the firewall" perspective, ports have to be opened for RDP/VNC?
Hi Hacker News. I started developing this over two years ago when I become dissatisfied with what I felt was a lack of good options for an easy-to-use Python messaging system. I didn’t think it would take this long (of course!), but I’ve certainly learnt a lot about messaging and distributed systems. I tracked my progress in issue number 1 on GitHub, and I feel pretty happy that I now have 98 of 98 tasks complete! [1]

I’ve been using this in production now for about a year and it has faired very well. I found a few weird bugs along the way, but it has felt stable for quite a while now. I’m therefore finally making an official release. I wanted to call this version 1.0, but I’m going to play it safe and call it 0.9 for a few months and see if anything crops up in other peoples’ environments.

Before embarking on this I spent a long time talking to other developers to see if anything similar existed. The most similar I could see was Nameko, but I didn’t feel like that ticked my boxes. Lahja is another one which I saw pop up more recently. I’ve also written a short comparison with Celery, as it something I’m often asked about [2].

I’ve also spent a lot of time writing up the docs. A crude word count indicates I’ve written 23,400 words of narrative documentation :o

I was also keen to not strictly limit this too Python. I’ve therefore documented the Redis interactions required for other languages to interface with Lightbus[3], albeit without the various niceties that Lightbus provides).

Constructive feedback is very welcome!

[1]: https://github.com/adamcharnock/lightbus/issues/1

[2]: https://lightbus.org/explanation/lightbus-vs-celery/

[3]: https://lightbus.org/reference/protocols/
Founder of a different startup here. Sounds a lot like your boss is being pressured to fix the issues and doesn't know how to do so or how to lead the team to do so. This is pretty normal in a startup. Most people have 60-70% of the skills they need and are learning the other 40% on the fly. Especially if your startup is bringing a totally new product to market.

Here's the question: do you like what you are doing, other than the bad boss? If so, go to the founders and have a talk about your situation. If you don't like it, then you will be much happier with a new job.

I can't tell you how thankful I am when an employee comes to me with this kind of problem. Your founders cannot fix a problem they don't know about.
A dui costs about 5 to 12k before lawyer fees. Not sure most people have tht mu h lying around. Current dui laws effectively criminalize being poor. Then you want them to pick up and move, with no car and no job? I get it, crime is bad, but forcing them into destitution is no better.
> Basically, services that have to be provided by western labour in the west have got much more expensive, while goods that can be imported have got much cheaper.

This is broadly true though the bit about the West and imports is unnecessary. Manufactured goods have gotten cheaper whether imported or not in real terms, and services get more expensive in relative terms as a consequence. Some of this is probably a result of government misregulation but not all. Cosmetic surgery isn’t covered by insurance, nor is LASIK or hair loss treatment and in inflation adjusted terms prices have been basically flat for over a decade, neglecting the huge increases in quality. Education probably has similarly large inefficiencies, even outside institutions that exist only because of easily available student loans and non-existent quality control like the University of Phoenix.

But Cost Disease is the inevitable product of economic growth. The more capital you have the more labor will be paid because Money is just less valuable to you when you have lots and labour vice versa.

A long report on Baumol’s cost disease in the US context and internationally.

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a...
> ...that HELPS us ADD-iacs focus waaaay better

That's interesting since I too can only really focus at night or late evening. I knew someone with ADHD and I could see some glimpses of me in their behaviour.
Core contributor here: Happy we made it to HN, maybe a notch too early :)

Right now there's only two not very supporting comments here. Glad the authors have solutions that work for them, but Rest + SPA is overly complicated for most small/mid sized projects in our opion.

Everyone else: Feel free to join our Gitter if you like what you see!
This is great advice.

From someone who has been through the burnout trip on a founder level, the most important way to resolve it is by removing the pressure on yourself.
It sounds like OP has put a ton of pressure on him/herself with the code, and founders love employees who are this dedicated. But if you are not the founder nor the team lead, it's not your responsibility to make it work. Let go of some of the self-perceived responsibility and have a talk with your employers.
Thank you! Pardon me for passing on a couple of unsolicited thoughts . . . I probably don't have to tell you, but these moments with your son are better than most of the bullet points that suffice for life accomplishments. Seize as many of them as you can. Your presence is every bit as important as the activities that may make up a list; arguably more. Validate his struggles because they're huge to a young person with such brief life experience. It's practice for the stuggles to come. Provide context and perspective. Speak a bit beyond his understanding. The point isn't that he gets it right away; it's to teach him how to approach life philosophically; how to resolve difficulties through communication; and that one way of expressing love is to listen and understand. The aim is that when your son grows up and faces difficulty, he'll pause and say to himself, "I remember when Dad used to say . . ."
You can drive drunk, get caught, get prosecuted and still get another chance.

Just can’t do it twice, I think that’s fair.
This may sound flippant or pushing of stereotypes, but teach these things:

The value of planning before cutting code:
What exactly, precisely, unambiguously, is the desired outcome? Ask enough questions to determine whether the requester really knows what they want or whether they're fishing for self justification of their own role. Create some brilliantly frustrating examples of ambiguous requests, get your students to create a solution, then examine all the different ways they interpreted it. Demonstrate the questions to ask to get to the brass tacks.

Don't expect non-technical people to innately understand the parameters you have to work within. It's your job to explain the boundaries of your ability to create a solution. You know the "why's" of this, but the non-technical folk don't, otherwise they'd be the technical folk...

Don't take criticism personally. If you're taking it personally then you're exposing your own sensitivities about your competence. If you can't do it, ask someone for help. If the platform or tools can't get you the best solution then work towards the nearest best possible solution or change the tools / platform.

I've seen and experienced a lot of ICT angst that is entirely caused by the wrong mental approach. Nothing to do with anything remotely technical. Get that shit sorted early, and the technical stuff becomes eas(y|ier).

"First you must fill your head with knowledge. Then you can hit ice with it"

(Obviously not for the early stages as it will probably scare / bore them away. That's where scenarios or real life examples may help though)
And then that device will do the same tracking/spying as the TV
How does it compare to servo?
In particular, see also this 2005 paper by Thomas Pornin: http://www.bolet.org/~pornin/2005-acns-pornin+stern.pdf

EDIT: Looks like this paper is also already included in the list of citations for the 2019 paper :)
I'm sorry to hear that. My psychiatrist told me the anti-anxiety/-depressant I'm taking is noticeably effective in 1/3, someone effective in 1/3, and not effective in 1/3. I got lucky and fell into the first group. I would've definitely jumped around to other medications had this not worked so noticeably and so quickly, but that's easy to say. A friend of mine who wasn't seeing good results from the typical medications has started something called Rexulti, which he told me has been a godsend.
US law also has a very similar provision

https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-315
Using machine learning and AI to accelerate battery improvements
This is a great program. A few of the stories stick with the viewer ... for me, the man who had mental illness but by 35 or 42 seemed to recover somewhat. I am not sure what happened to him.

I also wondered a lot about the people who dropped out at a relatively young age.

Wasn't there an American version started at one point? I remember seeing the first episode when the kids were 7 (probably in the early 2000s) but I don't know if it was ever continued.
Unlike VIM people don't use emacs for the keybindings, so you can't just configure the IDE to work like emacs, because IDEs do not have those features (e.g. creating quick throwaway functions for some current task which can be inserted into the editor live, without restarting, etc.)

If Emacs has access to a refactoring library and completions via LSP then it could have the strength of Emacs combined with the strong language support of IDEs. I'm saying this as a long time Emacs user who also used Android Studio a lot for Java programming, so I can appreciate the fortes of both sides of the fence.
Isn't that like using a big OTDR?
New and Noteworthy Vue.js Open Source Projects. Part 2
Go to the founders and tell them it's either you or the team lead.

Remind them of all you've done for them.

If they side with the team lead or ask you to work your differences out, quit.

Your career will be fine.

Also take a vacation as soon as possible, no phones no email, no devices at all.
C2 Witch King: << Gothmog, I'm detecting a large movement 5 miles south of your position. They're not friendlies. >>
This isn’t about calculating the average life expectancy of everyone based on outside factors.

It’s about the individual decision to drive drunk and the risk that this individual decision creates each time.
Solenodon genome reveals convergent evolution of venom in eulipotyphlan mammals
Out of curiosity, why did you choose this comment to call out, rather than the numerous other comments that used "he" to refer to the TL?
Eventually you will need another barn
I agree on both counts, but the reality is that in China, politically agitating for separatism is going to get you in very serious trouble.

I find that in Western reporting, the actual issues involved in Xinjiang are not discussed at all. Instead, it's presented as if the Chinese government had a problem with Muslims. The entire issue of separatism is rarely mentioned, nor is the fact that the largest Muslim group in China is actually the Hui (rather than the Uyghurs). The media is not really trying to inform the public about the situation and underlying conflicts (e.g., the East Turkestan movement), and instead painting a vastly dumbed-down, cartoonish picture that serves other propaganda interests.
Then you know the answer
Millennial farmer makes more money from his YouTube channel than his crops
I don't really think they need to directly apply it? I've never had a direct application for biology, but I'm really glad I learned about it. It informs my thinking about things like funding research on new antibiotics.

This is more about demystifying IT than anything else. It takes years to be able to use all these technologies to build things, but if you cover one layer per class and you get 30 classes, you could cover a lot of topics.

I took a law class in high school (New England has pretty good public schools), and the whole class was basically: Let's talk about something interesting in law today. Having an IT version of that would probably go a long way toward educating the general public on how all their stuff works.

The bigger thing for me would be finding the kids who love learning about it, and getting them the opportunity to go further.
Instead of shitting on Flask (which is in fact great as-is and nicely suited to large projects via Blueprints), why not just build your own web framework and try to get support from the community based entirely on the merits of your framework? And I agree with others comments that this project seems to be adding mostly a bunch of magic Django-esque contraptions to the code, which I very deliberately choose Flask to avoid.
Extended BPF: A new software type [video]
I put a bulb like this only in my office. Has helped tremendously although you notice the difference in light color between it and the other lights in the house right away.
>I've long been of the opinion that the public trading of companies is directly responsible for much of the social injustice we see in the West.

Based on what? And in contrast to what?

I suspect we differ in our fundamental ideological assumptions, especially if you subscribe or are friendly to Marxism - because I completely fail to connect Apple (or GE, or some publicly traded mid-size company) to any sort of 'social injustice'.

>As soon as there's a fiduciary duty to maximize ROI, morals go out the window.

No, they don't. Certainly, if you're a widget company, the focus is on making the best widgets within your constraints (and not solving homelessness) but that's as nefarious as a saying a carpenter doesn't have morals because he focuses on carpetry.
Then you are not accurately tracking your food costs by unit of measure. Nor tracking pricing at restaurants.

I have seen a combination of both Shrink and Price increases. The cost of eating lunch at my favorite restaurants has steadily increased, and the Average price per unit for normal groceries has increased on a weekly basis. Even if your bill remains the same, that 32oz Ketchup is now probably 28oz

Looking at some commodity index's Beef is about 2x the price it was in 2009, Bananas are about 40% higher than 2009, Milk over 2x higher than it was in 2009.

So I really do not understand what data you are looking at that shows food prices are not going up? Both Empirically and Anecdotally my food costs are increasing
I think it would be far more difficult to take down a plane than an airship given the enormous difference in velocities. Even at takeoff, a drone-sized IED would probably only be fatal to a small part of the plane's occupants, while it could probably 100% destroy a hydrogen airship in flight.

That said, I don't see any reason we'd need to put humans on these, so that probably lowers the risk massively.