skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cruise ships are massive emitters of sulphur dioxide.

> The results [of the study] show that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more disease-causing sulphur dioxide than all of Europe’s 260+ million passenger vehicles. Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Norway are the most exposed countries to cruise ship air pollution in Europe.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/one-corpor...
Fair enough. Thank you.

In my case - C (as a language) had a smaller footprint, and if the targets were limited, it was easier to learn, to lint and to code-inspect.

Admittedly, this was mostly before C++14. I guess this might be a case of "once bitten, twice shy".

Thank you.
In Q2, as the COVID-19 pandemic had companies cutting ad spending across the board, Twitter's revenue fell short of analysts' expectations, falling 19% YOY, and earnings also failed to meet expectations. The one bright spot was that its number of average monetizable daily active users was 186 million, higher than expected. Twitter's stock is up 5.8% at time of writing.

https://www.investopedia.com/twitter-earnings-4706523
You think that's bad? Best Buy's website would for several years display higher prices if it detected you were at a Best Buy store!

"It says $80 online" "Here, let's pull it up on the website, $100, you must have been mistaken" Head home, nope, $80.

They got caught - or provably so - when mobile data became better. "Weird, if I turn store wifi off and hit refresh by 3G the price magically goes down".

That ended up in a lawsuit, and no doubt some gift certificates via class action.
update of comment above: I just learned from kentosi comment that "Porque" without a space in a question is gramatically correct if you are using portuguese from Portugal. So, consider that I made my suggestions in Brazilian Portuguese.
So there was this thinking in the 60s that the key skill of a firm is management, and so if one firm was a market leader in manufacturing pipes, they could buy up a struggling auto rental or accountancy firm and with their superior management skills they would make those better as well. This at least was the justification for a wave of conglomerates buying up smaller firms.

Others might say a better justification was the cheap corporate credit available to some (but not all) firms, and thus the competitive advantage of conglomerates was access to credit, rather than management. The smaller firms and individuals did not have the same access to credit.

But in the 80s, the pendulum began to swing the other way. The problem from the perspective of the credit markets -- whether shareholders or bondholders -- was the difficulty in obtaining detailed operational information from these large conglomerates. They became very opaque, as they could use the losses of one firm to subsidize another, and it was hard to drill down and figure out what was happening by looking at the financial statements. So then began a wave of slicing these companies up and selling off the pieces.

Or from a completely different perspective, it was the extension of new types of credit such as junk bonds that allowed insiders to do leveraged buyouts, which tipped the scales away from the conglomerates and led to a lot of asset sales that "unlocked value" while other operations were shutdown.

Not saying who is right, just offering some perspective that these arguments have been engaged with 60 years ago, and ended up with mixed results.
Nice. I've been driving mine directly with Home Assistant, but it has some warts. So I do have the itch to write my own daemon that controls them, and publishes a better interface via MQTT.
I've always thought that a good way to do a practical interview is to get the candidate to do a fizzbuzz. Then tell them that the requirements have changed, they need to add feature x. Then feature y, and so on. I reckon this would avoid ppl who just learn the test, and comes some way to emulating what actually happens in a real world job.

But anyways, I'm not a hiring manager, so someone go out and try this and tell me why it's a terrible idea.
That's cute. Not clear that a solderless breadboard wristband is useful, but it's cute.

A way to design flexible printed circuits, taking into account that the components are not flexible, would be more useful. Design to a minimum bending radius, and bond to something that enforces that minimum bending radius, like a watchband. Orient the longer components so that the long axis is the non-bending axis.
Of all the hobbies I picked up. Music was never one I learned to be creative in. I learned to memorize existing songs.
Started? That's older than the average HN user.
Its always seems like a bit of a waste of the carbon budget to get another t-shirt to me. Digital stickers?
I think the point is that since the power available at these wavelengths vary sharply with frequency in these regions of the solar spectrum, the plant can easily compensate for brightness fluctuations in these portions of the spectrum with minor tweaks to the target wavelength of the relevant photosystems
After switching to DDG (and recently, Bing after switching to Edge), I don't think Google's stock web-search is that much better. Not saying it's not better - it is - but if it disappeared from the face of the Earth, we'd all survive perfectly well on the alternatives.

Google Maps, though, is still unquestionably king. It is ludicrous how poor the alternatives are.
Saving $5 here and there is not going to substantially improve emergency savings for the average person. However, it will make their life a little bit less pleasant.

People frequently post on Reddit's personal finance forum saying they have tens of thousands of dollars in debt, they are upside down on their car loan, what can they do? And the first responses are always things like "cancel Netflix". That doesn't really help solve financial problems of that magnitude, it just makes people more miserable.
> Can you explain to me how I'd import proprietary software into google's source code repository?

You grab a .dll file with a library you like, or a .so, and you commit it into git. Voila! This happens all the time.

> The concern is about source code under the AGPL.

No, the concern is about AGPL programs in general touching anything Googly. Google has batshit crazy text like this: "Do not install AGPL-licensed programs on your workstation, Google-issued laptop, or Google-issued phone without explicit authorization from the Open Source Programs Office." If you run an AGPL drawing program, you've broken Google policy.

> While I was incorrect about punitive damages, you're also incorrect about "profit" as damages, it's not the lost profit of the infringed, but the illegitimate profit of the infringer. So the potential loss isn't the cost of a negotiated license, but the total profit of Gmail or Youtube or Ads or all three over the infringing period. Yes, that's potentially billions in copyright claims.

No, you're incorrect about everything so far. I gave a correct explanation of how damages are calculated in this thread:

"1) How much did Google profit from the code? 2) How much did the other party lose?3) Are statutory damages greater? Pick the highest of the three. If it's intentional -- and in this case it isn't -- you triple it. You might toss in legal fees."

Profit isn't "total profit of Gmail or Youtube or Ads or all three over the infringing period." That'd be fuckadumb. Profit is the DIFFERENCE in how much Google made with the AGPL code compared to if didn't have that code (so loss in profit from a bit less functionality in Gmail/Youtube/Ads, cost of licensing the functionality elsewhere, or cost of developing similar functionality).

Java is core to Android. Ergo, potential damages were high. If Google decided to replace gmail with an AGPL email client, than you're correct. Perhaps if everyone at Google is as dumb as this conversation suggests, you're right, that might happen without a policy like this. In that case, X>0, and this policy makes perfect sense. If your employees can't tie their shoelaces, you need draconian policies to prevent really dumb things from happening. I was assuming a slip-up where a little bit of AGPL code slipped in, though. Not something like that.

The alleged logic behind it doesn't make sense, but I can see why Google wouldn't post "Our employees are idiots, so we won't allow the AGPL. We might shoot ourselves in the face with it if we did. We're installing padded walls too, because our hiring didn't work out, and we don't want the liability if someone runs into the wall repeatedly." Perhaps Google is saving face here.
I actually really love the idea of browsers tailored towards specific segments. They were made before the dangers of always-on social were super apparent, but I loved the idea of Flock and Rockmelt when they initially came out.
A hard SAT problem:

Let nonce be 32 boolean inputs, representing numbers from 0..2^32-1.

Let other_bits and difficulty be a collection of constant boolean inputs, in the following expression.

Let f(other_bits, nonce, diff) be the boolean logic circuit used in Bitcoin mining, for a recent candidate block.

Roughly speaking, f combines nonce with other_bits to make a bit string, performs SHA-256 on the bit string, then SHA-256 on that, and then checks if the leading diff number of bits are zero.

Folding in the constants, f reduces to a boolean logic circuit with 32 inputs and 1 output, g(nonce) = result.

The SAT problem: Does there exist a value of nonce for which g(nonce) = 1?

If you can solve this quickly, you just sped up Bitcoin mining by a factor 2^32 iterations, which is a lot. You can take this further as well.

I don't know of any SAT solver heuristic which really helps with this.
>Employees have zero incentive to match a price and it forces them to input more data just to complete the sale.

but they're being paid hourly, so it's not like it result is more work for them.
Well, that is very gracious - esp. here.

I value yours.

You have different experiences than I do - so our conclusions will differ.

That said - I "feel" as if C++ is a dangerous serpent of a language. Maybe I need to spend 6 months re-acquainting myself in complex environments with more developers than just me, and re-evaluate that presumption on a medium-size project.

Thank you.
It's not refusing to price match that is the swindle - the swindle is promising it, and then using things like retailer-specific SKUs to avoid price matching otherwise identical items.

"Sorry, this is a 512GB-SANDISK-AMZN SD card, we only carry the 512GB-SANDISK-BBY, it's a different model".
Really not sure whether the person you’re replying to is actually correct, but the air is a lot denser on the ground than at cruising altitude. That’ll have an effect on energy consumption that works in the other direction.
Secure Boot provides an initial part of chain of trust. Rest of parts should be prepared by distribution.
That is a good point. I thought of that too. The only way to prove it's not a hoax is to time it, like you said.

I do think GPT-3 can allow us to potentially learn about human ideas, just because it's a statistical model built from 200TB of text input written by humans. So even knowing there's no 'consciousness' there it would still be interesting to see how well it could be trained to answer questions...like a kind of statistical "database query" over that 200TB of human text.
It works beautifully. We use driver offload (i40e on the Edge.)
You get considerably more power per dollar out of a VPS (at the cost of needing an internet connection to use it)
Thanks, I appreciate the perspective and link :)
Register allocation in compilers can be solved by graph colouring, which can be reduced to SAT and fed to a SAT solver.
I think people are missing the distinction between what you are saying happened and the theoretical situation I was noting. I said lend out something someone lent to you, you are saying they didn't actually get lent anything, they lent out something they weren't yet lent.

What you're alleging they did is equivalent to someone going to their friend's house and taking something of theirs to lend to someone else without asking them. I agree that if that's an accurate assessment of what actually happened, it's a lot less defensible.
Yeah and even then a high iq is not all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe for a career that requires a lot of logic, sciences, etc., but certainly not for the majority of careers.
> First we need to understand what we want to solve. The attention economy and PR war goes on just as much on the open internet. E.g. people only reading papers from big shots, MIT, Stanford, Harvard labs etc.

Well, I think there's two separate problems:

1. Academic journals not publishing "boring" results, which incentivizes scientists to bias toward novelty and not publish null results. I think the solution to this is for journals to accept based on methodology and subject matter of experiments/studies, and to commit to publish before the study is even done, so there's no chance that results can influence the decision to publish.

2. Science journalism being written by people unqualified to analyze the science who instead sensationalize for clicks.

I'm not particularly concerned that the people are "only reading papers from big shots". The problem is that prestige is measured by impact analysis rather than replication. If you incentivize a metric which is largely a popularity contest for ideas, it should be no surprise that what you get is popular lies[1]. One might think that the focus on impact in prestigious journals means there might be higher replication in less prestigious journals, but from what I can tell, the less prestigious journals are no better: they're mostly targeting the same metrics, they're just less successful at reaching their goals.

[1] My intent is not to actually accusing anyone of intent to deceive here--I just can't quite figure out the right word. Untruths doesn't quite match what I'm trying to say.
> which way over any entry level salary in Europe

The minimum wage for adults worked full time in the UK (and similar in France) currently equates to 1,524EUR, which comes out as 1,807USD. Most salaried positions would yield more than that.
I'm starting to think Scott Alexander's 2018 essay 'Sort by Controversial' is in danger of losing its 'epistemic status: fiction' label, and I'm not joking when I say that.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Trains at least stop and open their doors occasionally letting in fresh air. Each car has less people in it than a typical commercial flight, and my train trips are significantly shorter than my plane flights as well. It’s not obvious to me what’s worse one way or the other.
Credit card chargeback on that.
Get Yourself a Fake Male Assistant
As someone who voted for the California initiative in 2008, I don't trust the competency of our national (or CA state) government. Perhaps it can be done in a privatized manner somehow.
The govt. response ‘failed’ in so much as it is prescribed goals that each citizen is free to prescribe.

The curve has been flattened from the peak. Without a vaccine, all models point to >50% of people getting infected. Vaccines are not for sure going to even exist. The only known short-term vaccine is surviving covid.
Those images triggered my trypophobia mildly, even as someone who has worked with breadboards extensively.
CPUs might be a different story, but I have the same experience as others: if I've gotten counterfeit goods I haven't been able to tell. At that point I don't really care.
I’ve received crap from Amazon. I’ve stopped buying from there entirely.

The good thing was I noticed it. My worry is when I don’t.

I can usually find something cheaper on a different site (best buy, B&H, Microcenter, Newegg...although Newegg has been really bad for me lately, monoprice, Walmart). And the rare couple of times I don’t, I’m willing to pay the $1-$2 more (I’m much better off in the long run anyways).

Honestly, it’s really really hard to find something that is also available elsewhere, cheaper on Amazon than anywhere else for me. So I’m not willing to take the counterfeit risk, for basically no benefit.
The 3D design tool workflow for adding channels in the video is really cool! The tools do a lot of the tedious work for you, while leaving the more creative or opinionated choices to the designer.

Filling with conductive silicon is clever too - I wasn’t sure how they were going to add conductivity to a fully enclosed piece (no way to pop in metal bands).

I’m sure there are applications of this that make sense, and ones where this doesn’t make sense due to one constraint or another. Still, this a cool combination of many systems and a creative idea.
I really loved Opera before it became chromium based but I do still like opera. They've integrated a lot of nice features which makes it a more compelling offering than chrome without any additional add-ons.

I also think that setting resource limits for the browser is a good feature.

I do not see why this needs to be broken out as a separate browser for #Gamers though. I guess it might help them gain market share because it's "new" but I think it's more likely to cause a lot of eye-rolling instead.
Coil and Mozilla working on a web standard together, the fact that we now have a couple of years of examples of digital content creators being de-monitized on ad-supported platforms, and the fact that crypto currencies are more approachable now.
Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128
> That X% is at most the same for using proprietary software

In general (leaving out the specific $10 billion threshold, which I would agree is silly but detracts from the valid point being made), no, it's not, because AGPL software is far more likely to have lots of copyright holders who haven't transferred copyright, each of whom could sue Google, widening the litigation risk, and those copyright holders are more likely to be ideologically rather than financially motivated, which means they are more likely to pursue a case when the cost of litigation is disproportionate to the potential returns.
> And don't try to tell me an AR-15 is the same thing as an M4.

For all intents and purposes, they are the same. An M4 has a barrel that is 1.5" shorter than most civilian AR15s and it has a 3-round burst setting that is almost never used because it's worthless.

I've spent a considerable amount of time behind both of them and I assure you they are functionally identical in basically every real-world use case.
I'm a paying gsuite customer. Just a single account not some corp with many accounts. Every time I've had an issue I had the same experience. Quick access to a live support agent via chat.
Amazon sells over 100 million different products. At that scale, especially with 3rd party vendors, some customers are bound be to victims of fraud, while others are unaffected.
I remember you arguing that case and I appreciate that you have the guts and honesty to change your mind out loud.
Sounds like the same argument someone linked to chess - that playing chess doesn’t make one smarter. Funny thing is, do you know what has a direct influence on neuron growth? Lifting weights, running, exercise. Not saying we have it all wrong, but I would question every sensational article that’s out there.
Great story, thank you for sharing.
Even before this, the airline industry was downsizing. Boeing 747 and A-380 aircraft were no longer being ordered, and many were already parked. The 737-MAX debacle didn't result in a capacity shortage.

Business air travel, overall, will probably never come back. More meetings will be online; only for really important ones will people actually take an airplane. With more people working at home, there may not be an office to meet at. You'd have to book a conference center.
Yes and it's got the same counterfeits and totally fake garbage from the same sellers who sell on Amazon, Walmart, and Newegg.
Does Metals have a feature to add parameter names at method callsites? I use that IntelliJ feature of the Scala plugin all the time, it's such a lifesaver.
> Do IBANs allow debit without reliable authorization?

I would say yes. However, unauthorized debit will be returned for max. 13 months. So the risks for the victim account are small.

The risk for the bank could be higher. However, that is mitigated by the fact that it is no longer easy to open bank accounts. Clear documentation is needed (a big problem even for completely legal immigrants, because when you are new in a country you don't have a lot of documentation). Additionally initiating direct debit bookings is not a standard service. I'd guess only accounts with a good track record will get it. Typical risk management for a bank. It's the same as they don't lend money to everyone who might ask.
Agreed, replace IQ by "talent of some sort".
Do we know what the cost is for increasing the window size? I'd imagine that each additional token of range requires ever more power to properly integrate, but that is only a hunch.
it's for market segmentation for advertisers. This way they can sell aggregate data and ad impressions that's targeted to a very specific and profitable segment.

Like google's 'flocks' concept, but maybe less moving pieces.
One interesting thing I picked up from (I believe) the Third Reich Trilogy by Richard Evans was that while the repayments were harsh, enough international loans were made to Germany and unpaid once war broke out that the balance of cash flow was actually in Germany's favor.

Reading that, it really struck me that perhaps we were still internalizing Nazi propaganda. Or at least that we seek simple narratives to explain everything even if they do a fairly poor job of covering the details.
Apparently Venn diagrams can grow arbitrarily large. For each prime number, there is a (rotationally) symmetric Venn Diagram, according to [1], but apparently not a construction proof. See also [2].

[1]: https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/vie...

[2]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-number-of-sets-tha...
Anti-commingle doesn't help if you buy from a third party seller.
DuckDuckGo "most commonly" uses Bing for link search results, so it would mostly be redirecting queries to Microsoft: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Sorry to make it seem like it, but I thought it was a perfect example of the trend being examined in the story. There are more important things in life than reading every statistical analysis of social media trends, and some people find things more meaningful than looking deeply into political news.

Active involvement is more important than reading a lot of punditry. It’s healthy that not everyone is interested in reading everything they come across. Sometimes, this can lead to wrong conclusions or being uninformed on trivia, but nobody has time for perfect knowledge.
So, I have probably generated around 20 different texts from your prompt, and as much as I would love to be a believer I am unconvinced. The first person almost musings that you posted are nothing like what I have seen. While GPT is impressive, I don’t see it generating anything like what you posted.