skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the things you mention are minor fringe activities unlikely to be more than a rounding error in overall pollution.

I can't find an exact % for how many people in CA heat with wood, but it looks to be <3%. It could be much higher for you locally if you live in a rural area, but for state-wide pollution, I think it's mostly irrelevant.

That doesn't make them good (for places with pollution issues, wood isn't entirely bad as an energy source) or things to encourage, but I don't know that they're worth focusing on on either.

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The reason cited by the article for worsening air quality in the West is wildfires.
Was 1985 really towards the end of its popularity? The 800XL (the most popular model) wasn't even widely available until 1984.

It was never as popular as the c64 but as far as I can tell its peak was after it became dirt cheap around that time (and the follow up XE series was the cheapest).
The best book on leadership IMO is the Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17.

It's very short, about ten lines, but it contains all that you need to know. The final verse, especially, destroys or subsumes pretty much all concepts of leadership.

YMMV:

http://taoteching.org.uk/chapter17.html

http://www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz17.htm

https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-17.htm

https://taoteching.daodejing.org/17.htm

http://tao-in-you.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-chapter-17/
>I don't feel that some of the recent technologies - Docker, lambda, etc have contributed towards taking the CS, as a subject, or the Software, as an industry, forward.

I wouldn't except consumer software like Docker or Lambda to have any measurable impact on computer science. How much is the landscape of astronomy shaped by advancements in home telescopes?
I assume the guy who voted against the Patriot Act suffered the same emotional impact. It didn't prevent him seeing the long term deleterious impact of such laws, and he wisely voted against it.

Judgement lapses happened obviously, but emotional impact is a lame excuse for judgement lapses in any steward.
FCC tries to bury finding that Verizon and T-Mobile exaggerated 4G coverage
yep, it's called linux! :)
Apple to use carbon-neutral aluminum
> For real world applications, this is absolutely crucial, users want latency numbers on the order of milliseconds, not seconds.

You should follow Google's approach - give fast live results that don't depend on data from the future, but also go back and correct old words when you do have that data. It's kind of how humans work really.
Thoughts on Brave?
Micro implants could restore standing and walking
I think I'd just pick from a list of lawyers that had recently won criminal cases in the nearest large-ish city--big enough to have full-time cops that do more than write tickets for moving violations.

Spot check your choice by pulling public records for cases in which they served as attorney for the defense, just to make sure they didn't make any obvious mistakes. Bonus points if they got an acquittal from having obviously incriminating evidence suppressed. If they can get a criminal who did the deed off, they should be able to defend a wrongly-accused innocent, right?

Let friends and family know who you want them to call (and pay) if you get pinched.

It seems like low-value research, though, unless you consider yourself at higher risk for being arrested.
> There are also examples

Fyi, the other 4 example links there are 404. Also in the root README. The linked README's are missing, or diversely suffixed and mislinked.
Groan. But I still smiled.
I think DDG hit a sweet spot here by relying on Advertizing, BUT not personalizing ads and search results:

* ADs are acceptable to me. I just don't want creepy ads that follow me around. And data about my browsing behavior being traded in Ad networks.

* Personalize Search Results drive society appart, and lead to radicalization. Not a fan.
Mystery of how early animals survived ice age
Apple is not inserting itself as law enforcement, nor does your comment provide any justification as for why you think that'd be the case here.

Now, I could point out that absent any rationale, your comment fails to make the conversation "more thoughtful and substantive", as requested per HN commenting guidelines. However, I'd also remind everyone that HN isn't moderated by replying to comments you feel break the guidelines. Quite the opposite: "don't feed egregious comments by replying," if you really believe a comment is that bad then flag it.

However, said guidelines also remind us that critical comments are teaching moments and can be inherently good. Wit is frequently a valuable component in criticism, and there's a different between wit and mean-spirited snark. Thus, we're left with maybe the most important guideline: Assume good faith. I genuinely believe the article OP is well-intentioned, and was hoping the comment parent would provide some additional justification or perhaps reflection based on the distinction between good ideas and BigTech overreach. Instead, meta-commentary.

Regardless, have a good day.
Really cool, I bookmarked it!
A dictionary? I mean, that's neat and all, but not all that useful is it? I might check the weather once a day, tops.
This is better solved by having a widget on my smartphone. Same for the dictionary, and same for short google searches too (Firefox Focus).

I had a twinge of hope that this might have been more of an introduction to using the terminal effectively on Linux for diagnoses.

I'm new to Linux, and every time I have an issue and find a thread addressing it, they ask for me to run a whole bunch of commands and paste a bunch of logs. I'm happy to do that, don't get me wrong, but I rarely have the faintest idea of what it is that I'm typing in.
I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free.

Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
I don’t have a reference available but the concept of ‘Mission Command’ used by the UK Army amongst others contains the best and most succinct description I’ve seen of how to delegate a task to a subordinate. And is perfectly suited to many civilian situations as well. From memory, and paraphrasing, it boils down to

State what you, as the leader, are trying to achieve, and why ('the big picture')

State what you want the subordinate to achieve

Define the resources available to the subordinate, and any constraints

Say how you want progress / issues to be reported

You don’t define how the subordinate should carry out the task – if they are competent and you trust them, they should be able to figure this out themselves.

[Edit] - the military distinction between command and control is also relevant to the civilian distinction between leadership and management. Paraphrasing slightly: Command is getting people to do something. Control is stopping them from doing something else.
Analysis of Northwestern life sciences inventors and their inventions
Apple begins buying carbon-neutral aluminum
This Will Make You a More Productive Procrastinator
> For real world applications, this is absolutely crucial, users want latency numbers on the order of milliseconds, not seconds.

My wav2letter research does not use streaming, despite supporting streaming, because I get lower average latency (roughly 0.02x RTF including decoding, or 80ms for a 4000ms input audio like you describe in the article) by running the entire encoder CNN at once instead of running it in chunks.

This is also nice because the CPU usage is practically nothing (0.1%) until you stop talking.

I have a web demo here [1], with a relatively terrible language model (mostly just been working on acoustic modeling so far, as it’s just me). Most of the latency is waiting for the JavaScript VAD (which is much slower than webrtcvad and I couldn’t figure out how to tune it) and waiting for the network. If you look at the network inspector, the server should report its encode and decode times.

[1] https://web2letter-west-1.talonvoice.com/
Cracking 60-year-old mystery of Sun's magnetic waves
Retired cop here - listen to this dude. My job was to sit down in a room, read a person their rights, make sure they understand it, have them initial 4 places, sign, and date that they understand it, make it clear to them in no uncertain terms that everything they say will be against their benefit, and they have nothing to gain by talking to me.

Then they'd talk to me. Many cases started with a great suspect who had motive, opportunity, corroborating evidence, but there was still reasonable doubt. Then the suspect would tell me all sorts of stuff that I didn't know, which really helped out.

Further, the cops don't assume your arrest, or statements, are invalid due to a lack of Miranda warning. Statements made by the suspect who hasnt been advised of their rights are only inadmissible if the suspect is in some sort of custody, and under some form of interrogation.

If you are sitting on your couch in your home talking to a single cop who hasn't arrested you or anything, you aren't in custody, so the cop can ask you questions all day, and its fair game.

If you get arrested and the cop asks "Are you feeling okay", and you go on and on about the crime you committed, you are making spontaneous statements that aren't the subject of an interrogation, so these are likely admissible as well.

There are gray areas. If you are in the back of the cop car, and 2 cops up front are having a conversation about the case, hoping to guilt you into giving up information, those statements may be inadmissible unless you were advised of the miranda warning.

There was a homicide case where the cops had a suspect, but couldn't prove it. It was the victim's boyfriend. Detectives spoke to him, and asked if they could take him to breakfast on Saturday. The guy cautiously obliged, because free breakfast. He drove his own car, met them there, and they had a nice breakfast. Talked about sports, TV, life, etc. No mention of the case. The cops asked if they wanted to meet them for breakfast again next week. He did. They did this for over a month.

One morning, between bites of pancakes, the Detective asks, "So why'd you kill Jane". The suspect, not missing a beat, replies, "Man, she just pissed me off".

In hindsight, if you didn't commit a crime, follow the advice of the parent post. If you did commit the crime, always talk to the cops; you're smarter than them, you can convince them you're innocent.
Creepy indeed:

climb down
YOU CAN'T CLIMB THE BOTTOM OF THE CHASM
?THE BOTTOM OF THE CHASM IS THE ONLY EXIT
THE ABOVE ROOM IS A GOOGLE+ GROUP OF YOU, ME, AND A BUNCH OF BUDDIES
Extreme ownership is not about the pressure of having to deal with "lives on the line".

It is primarily about owning responsibility yourself, and not externalizing blame. Even CEO and CTOs are prone to deflecting blame when there's politics and external parties involved.

All of the case studies show how managers suffer from defense mechanisms and logical fallacies that are harmful rather than helpful.

It also talks about the dangers of operating in a high complexity environment and the need to develop an understandable and legible method of communication.

* He says that leaders aren’t trusted implicitly in the Seal teams either, btw, and it's part of the job of the leader to build rapport with their teams, sell them on the plan, and make sure everyone understands the higher intent, if the team is really to be effective rather than dysfunctional. (this comes later in the book).

The war stories are what folks seem to focus on here, but I feel those are there mostly for entertainment, in addition to an example of the underlying value it's trying to demonstrate.

That said, the book really boils down to continual repetition of a few core points over and over. That may be necessary to drive the relatively few points home, with even fewer actually changing their behavior.

This is deliberately not an academic-level treatise on leadership. It is a challenge to accept the most fundamental challenges of responsibility - how many managers have you met which fail to do that?
rouge meaning the powder you apply over foundation that makes it red.
It's so dystopian though. The company consists of its employees. Usually the interests should be aligned.
I got the same when I opened it using my browser. So I opened it in my "remote browser" (this is not a plug, just a help): https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz and it was much more usable.
Do I see a case of the Blurb? I'm not sure, but it does resemble it. (By the way, you'll have a hard time finding any site written on Python that doesn't use monkey patching, e-comerce or not).

Anyway, parameter or objects enumeration are when a library uses both the field names and their values as input, people use them to define DSLs on a function call or object construction. Parameter enumeration does afford applicative semantics, but (mutable) object enumeration affords full monadic semantic, so it's easy to construct Turing complete DSLs (and I guess, why Python people avoid it).

It is really hard to explain how those concepts are useful, mostly because they only work when everything else on the language help. If you try them on Java, they will be mostly useless. C# for example has a fully generic implementation of monads, with specialized syntax that isn't very far from Haskell's, do notation. Yet, with its bad type inference and the inflexible interface hierarchy it got from copying Java, it is nowhere near as useful.
Depends on why it is getting restarted. If it's exceeding mem limits and being oomkilled that's the kernel, not k8s. If PID 1 inside the namespace is terminating then k8s will restart the pod. No way to prevent that I am aware of, but presumably you can't do much debugging once that happens anyway. If the process is failing liveness probes and getting terminated for being unhealthy probably the simplest approach is just to patch away those probes until you have the workload stable.
What is "silence in a non-custodial interview" and how is that different from no interview at all?
"This attack did not work against any Linux distribution we tested until
the release of Ubuntu 19.10, and we noticed that the rp_filter settings
were set to “loose” mode. We see that the default settings in
sysctl.d/50-default.conf in the systemd repository were changed from
“strict” to “loose” mode on November 28, 2018, so distributions using a
version of systemd without modified configurations after this date are
now vulnerable. Most Linux distributions we tested which use other init
systems leave the value as 0, the default for the Linux kernel."

Anybody happen to know why systemd decided this was something they should be messing with?
I have been trying to reach out via the contact email provided on the website but never received a response. How may I disclose a security vulnerability related to simplepay.cloud ?

Thanks!
Ask HN: Iterm2.com Is Down?
I tried to upgrade my iterm and it seems that https://www.iterm2.com/ is down?
I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS?

[0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/

[1] https://lunrjs.com/
Most books on leadership give principles and science, which don't hurt to know, but leading is a practice -- an active, social, emotional, expressive, performance-based field.

We learn to perform by practicing the basics in any field.

Leadership Step by Step https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/... gives a set of 20 exercises that teach the basics of leading yourself and others. If you practice, you'll develop the skills, experiences, and beliefs of an effective leader. Other books are like music appreciation. This book is like learning to play the piano.

Written by a PhD in physics (me) then started several companies, got an MBA, and teaches leadership at NYU to stellar reviews. http://joshuaspodek.com/reviews-leadership-step-step

Leadership Step by Step: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/...
I am sure usecases are slightly different for these two. At least for me personally, "plug and play" offer was the key - so I could easily move stuff around and not think about it. And it has browser access so non-tech people can use email/Nextcloud/etc.

But perhaps Yunohost can be used to model what you have in mind, and once solidified, use it as a base to build VM with precise setup.

Ansible is perhaps the closest you can get to declarative config... See "sovereign" on github - I migrated from it to Yunohost, as things kept breaking and I was looking hands off setup (hence Yunohost), but given that Sovereign is ansible-based - perhaps you can leverage it.
I’m not sure what you mean. The image in the blog post clearly shows small chunks of decode time happening during the speech (every second).
> GAARs ultimately boil down to the question of "did you do this rather than a more obvious transaction structure simply to pay less tax", a sort of Occam's razor.

Okay, so it is a "just trust us" system of deciding who is breaking the law and who isn't. In that case, I'll gladly take multinationals not paying taxes over some government official arbitrarily deciding that I am avoiding taxes and should be punished. Even more so because I live in a country where that same official might be untrained, apathetic or downright corrupt.

> This happens all the time in precedent-based systems whenever something unclear is litigated.

Which, AFAIK, the European system is not.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I find it interesting that they want to charge $0.33/hr just for the image. For an equivalent spend on electricity, i could run 3 full size refrigerators per hour (1kw each).
15ish percent voted nay in the House.
I know many non-technical small-scale entrepreneurs who would love to use OSS self-hosted tools to run the basics of their businesses and get away from BigTech. I'm talking little shops, yoga studios, restaurants, recording studios, etc. All they need is basics - email, calendars, maybe some shift management, inventory management, and obviously documents. These people are completely non-technical and I don't know of any tooling that would let them set these things up quickly and reliably.

I fantasize about running a little consultancy that would set up and maintain a tailored package of self-hosted OSS software for such small businesses. But I haven't actually studied whether there's a workable business model to be had, or whether there's enough quality self-hosted software out there to adequately cover the needs of most small businesses. I'm curious if HN thinks this could be a viable business...
I like reading through https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we sometimes
I invite you to go to your local Fox/ABC/CBS channel's website and TRY to read an article vs AMP.

AMP is about stopping....that. It's indescribable how horrible these companies have become.

1. Auto-playing ads
2. Scroll-jacking
3. Overlay...after overlay... after overlay.
4. Popover
5. Paywall
6. Popover again for good taste.
7. Oops you scrolled too far better redirect you to another page entirely.
8. You wanted the video version of this article right? Better force you to read the article in 20% of the screen so all of our ads, bars, and video can fit on the page.
It's using letters, not words, so in theory anything that can be spelled in English can be output:

https://2r4s9p1yi1fa2jd7j43zph8r-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/fil...

Or, if you prefer the code:
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/0427c1572ac8f7253...

(well, I suppose technically it's in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/master/data/alpha... through https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/blob/master/util/text...., but I mean come on)

In practice ... meh. It gets some things predictably wrong. They're readable, just wrong. So the good news is that WER is words it has 100% correct. The remaining errors aren't usually totally unreadable, just irritating, going from "totext" instead of "to text", but of course names go pretty wrong and don't get better. It butchers my name, of course.

If you test it yourself, please do realize it really doesn't deal very well with accents.
> infuriating cutesy techy-language

Happy to see I'm not the only curmudgeon around here. I'd say this trend is at its most loathsome when employed by big corporates - it's as if everyone is so terrified of being mischaracterised as old or uncool (daddio) that noone is willing to point out how facile, affected and obnoxious this type of language is.
A problem with simplifying/reducing context around a number like this is that air quality can vary dramatically within relatively short radii and timespan.

It currently shows 16 for my address, but that's the realtime value: the average for today on PurpleAir is 53.

Also, the measurement point is on the opposite side of the city I live in, in which the AQI varies street-to-street by ~70+ at any given time.
Strong Towns Talk at Google
I agree with you. I am further saddened that when I look at our history, it is impossible to say "this isn't us". This is 100% the kind of deep evil the American state has sanctioned throughout our history from slavery, to genocide of native peoples, to imperialism in the Philippenes, to the more modern firebombing of entire cities, funding (through narco trafficking) death squads to overthrow elected governments, starting three wars based on lies (Spanish-American, Vietnam, Iraq) etc.

The security state is 100% antithetical to the aims, morality, and interests of the population as a whole.
When I first tried DDG - more than 5 years ago - it was worse. I was unable to find the answers I needed and ended up back at google. I tried off and on a few times over the years, and about a year ago I found it good enough to switch. The few times DDG doesn't find what I need I tried google: it too failed to find what I needed.

In short, if you last tried DDG a long time ago try again, it is much better.
On ZX Spectrum, games often had fonts based on MICR[1] or OCR-A[2]. Example: [3]. I still don't understand why. I see these fonts in the wild very, very rarely. Was they popular in UK in 80s maybe? Was they used even outside bank cheques?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A

[3] https://archive.org/serve/zx_Alien_8_1985_Ultimate_Play_The_...
i'm not sure that's true, at least that wasn't true about 8 years ago when we moved accross the country and had verizon. it barely worked at our house, verizon actually sent out a truck and they measured signal strength on our street and did say that it was sub par and that they would let us out of our contracts. about a month later they must have added towers in the area because the speeds increased dramatically and we never ended up switching.
"Turn the Ship Around!" has been awesome resource for our team, most definitely recommend
I found the article interesting enough to post if only because I used to work for a company (RootMetrics; since bought by $SOMEONE) that had people driving around and going to airports, lugging a big case with a half dozen phones recording signal strength. There are other options as well (OpenSignal, or summat?). I'm not saying the FCC needed to go give RootMetrics, et. al., ongoing money. But I would think that instead of driving around in FCC cars they would have, you know, first asked "anybody else already do this? Think they'd sell us some of those data?"

OTOH, that comes with a very large assumption of no cronyism nor glad-handing the industry.
That's a very edge case - its more that front end design and developers need to get their act together and design and build for speed!

Don't use complex but nice images designed for print on the web and not just copypasta god knows what js library.