skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ok to call me stupid but I can't stop thinking about this: it makes sense regardless of what kind of alien intelligent life we are talking about that they will discover fire before solar panels. and we did almost destroyed the global climate with coal. so it always made sense to me that climate change is the first global obstacle that either entire species has to deal with or perish so climate or extreme environmental change is great filter or probably one of great filters.

There are two types of naive thinking one is we are children of god and god would never kill all of us and we are deeply rational beings when things get critical we will snap out of it and get things done. I believe in gospel of doubt and that there will be no miracles here. Environmentalists are already abandoning their field and reskilling not only because of lack of funding but lack of public attention and change.
Agism is illegal already, and yet we still deal with it.

As a young developer I watched great old developers, fantastic at their job and with super deep experience let go first.

My advice is make sure you save a lot. And be prepared to either retire early, switch careers, or start your own business/consult once you have over 10 years of experience. Connect with people, keep in touch, and make sure you stay current with new technologies.
> social skills, training in etiquette and behaviour or manners,

How do schools give these?!
And why we have adblockers - because it's an as-if-unmoderated stream of invasive and untrustworthy links.
Wow I saw that same ad for the tiktok ads a couple of days ago, I almost clicked it but something seemed off with the colors
the resolution of people fighting for their rights is that they want to be treated equally.

That is not entirely true...people may want to be treated fairly, even if it is not exactly equal. For example I am 6 feet tall so I have no problem reaching the top shelf in a grocery store. My wife is only 5'2" and constantly has to ask someone to reach it for her. If the cheapest items are on the top shelf, that treats us equally but it is not fair. Having stepstools available for shorter people is one way to make it fair, but you would argue that offering stepstools discriminates against tall people.
> This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/us/uc-suspends-sat-act-for-ad...

It's not at all obvious that was done, and there are a ton of caveats in the new rules. They basically want a shot at developing a different test. They didn't eliminate testing.

"We are removing the ACT/SAT requirement for California students and developing a new test that more closely aligns with what we expect incoming students to know to demonstrate their preparedness for UC," Napolitano said.

"If a new test does not meet the specified criteria in time for admissions for fall of 2025, UC will eliminate the standardized testing requirement for California students, according to the news release. UC will work on a separate approach for out-of-state and international students."
Is it though? It surely is authenticated but is it authorized? By whom? Certainly not by the user.
Or allowing work from home.
* Please upload an up-to-date resume detailing your education and job history.

* Please fill out this series of forms on our website detailing your education and job history.

* Congrats, you have been selected for phone screening! Please be prepared to discuss your education and job history with the recruiter.

:'(
I think the dynamics is a solved problem in terms of technology: at the extreme, you only need to sample every note for every expression level, it's just that it's not feasible in terms of hardware cost. Then you have damper resonance but todays high end models have some implementation and given that it's software one can expect great advances there in terms of modelling (soundboard resonance will be there).

Regarding keybed, the Kawai MP11 is supposedly the best with wooden keys and long pivot points, but again it's a matter of expectations and obviously a professional player will be able to tell the difference.
Because a state is not a country. It doesn't have a military, border patrol, national guard, etc. That is to say, it doesn't have the manpower. And it could - practically speaking - never raise the money to do so (states have enough trouble paying their teachers, sanitation workers, paving roads, etc).
Actually, loud fans are a regular occurrence when using external displays with current high-end 15" MacBook Pros. It gets hot fast, especially when driving a 4K display and charging at the same time. The 13" MacBook Pro on the other hand is basically silent in most circumstances.
1890, a century after Blake's complaint of the dark satanic mills? Is there a significance to that date or is someone using a murky and turgid understanding of history to score some political points?
I'm actually worried about the similar issues with Google search results at the moment.

2 examples.

1) The new suggested answers on search results. As an example search for "is salt bad for you". The top results might be correct though I've seen other searched that I believe aren't (different searches). Under that is this new "People Also Ask" section listing all kinds of questions, each with a single answer. AFAIK the answers are just whatever Google's algorithms decided are the most popular. Given there is one answer for each question (and the one answer to the original search at the top), it all comes across as authoritative answers. I think if you try various search terms you'll quickly find lots of examples you vehemently disagree with the answers google is presenting.

I don't know why the previous style of results felt better but something about the previous style (the style below the "People Also Ask" section came across as "here's semi random answers from unknown sources so be aware" where as to me at least, the new top answers above that all come across as authoritative and that scares the crap out of me.

2) Basically the same issue but if you search for "<some phrase> in <some language>" google will give you one answer and in this case they will often claim "Community Verified" yet they are often flat wrong. Often the phrase is ambiguous so there can be no "one true answer" without more context and yet google presents the results as "this is the one true answer because it's community verified". This basically proves my point for #1 above. That fact that google shows these questions with just one answer seems like pure thought manipulation.
I also posted a discussion[1] about an article by Electrek that actually looks into the claims of the press release.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470043
Pro-democracy votes also go a long way, for your distantly involved citizen.
The same interpretation hassles crop up when trying to extract text from PCL documents. This happened to me when implementing a SaaS feature allowing customers to use a printer driver to insert documents into a document repository.

The weirdest one? an application where the PCL code points used the EBCDIC character set. For once, being an old-timer helped.
In what world would paypal be right? Facebook allowed a scammer to advertise on their platform, and then allowed the same scammer to steal 4k. Facebook is as much complicit in this crime as the criminal himself. Paypal was charged by Facebook. Facebook should not be entitled to the 4k and PayPal should take it back.
@swiftyBug do you really think that WordPress is modern? It has a great community & is very well maintained but its compared to Sentry or Strapi ( which is a $1000 per year for the substantial plan) its not modern at all.
I'm exactly like you, but I think your comment won't find an echo here where most people "need" ads to promote their businesses.
Tesla apparently uses Haskell in production for some critical tasks
Mods: this is removed, "Content Unavailable"
There is a huge percent of people that simply hate their life at home. The office is an excuse that they "must" be away from their home.

Depending on where these people fall in the power/management structure is what determines how the return plays out.

I read somewhere that we didn't have people barricading themselves in the office refusing to leave. Where I'm at we literally did and those people successfully managed to stay at work when 95% of the staff was not.
Allegedly, with time, money, and tutors you can "study to the test" pretty effectively.
Check out jql [https://github.com/cube2222/jql] and oj [https://github.com/ohler55/ojg]
Well it is missing a ton of jq functionality, it's possible that in that list is something causing the performance degradation.
Mere facts would interfere with political positioning.
Agreed, but if your time has value, (if you can) structure your financial transactions in a way and with service providers that derisks you having to spend hours chasing down your own money when you shouldn't have to (or going through the motions and being told you're SOL). And never use Paypal!
How would you try to help an alcoholic? Would you tell him that it's alcohol producers' who is at fault? Or would you tell him to try and get help? Why would an advice be different for over-consumption of social media, coke, big macs, tv shows, casinos etc.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/Grand_Order
Idle CPU still uses a ton of energy.

Even a laptop in sleep mode uses ~2W, and a desktop - 6-10W. Average wifi router uses constant 6W if I'm not mistaken.
Hmm, I'm not so sure. Once the gravity shield is invented, any reasonably strong human should be able to just throw the satellite into orbit. Why spend money installing an emdrive?
It's actually even nastier than that. If you fail their automated checks for fake accounts, they'll lock your account and require you to submit a photo of your face and ID card.
Is it the default mode of the 21st century, or is the 21st century just the first century we've done extensive research into stress psychology (or at least, extensive research not for the sake of confirming a narrative/bias)?
Trust your bank more. Find a good trust worthy local bank or credit union.
To be clear, this isn't an indictment against carbon offsets, it's an indictment against fraud, because your hypothetical carbon certifier is committing fraud. Carbon offsets are supposed to represent a decrease in emissions or sequestration that would not otherwise happen without that funding. A proper example would be funding someone to go around $somePoorCountry (where wood fuel is common, highly polluting, and bad for respiratory health) and replacing their wood-burning stoves with electric stoves, and then revisiting that country every few years to make sure those new electric stoves are still in use.
In the car? Or somewhere else?
There are also some decent interviews with him on Joe Rogan, Rhonda Patrick and a talk at Google. They are all on Youtube.
No such vehicle exists. All vehicles require carbon-intensive processes in their manufacturing.
Why does antifaleadership.com redirect to donaldjtrump.com?
curious what you think of other social systems theory folks like talcott parsons and luhmann
> Don't tell me that Mastodon and Mastodon clones can be replacements for Twitter, Facebook, Facebook groups, Facebook events, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.

It has been for me. But I am very aware that the fediverse is far from ready to capture the large masses currently using all the regular social networks. And that's fine, if the fediverse were growing at the same rate as VC-funded, growth-hacked social media platforms, that would worry me greatly. It takes time to build tools and communities that is made by and for the users of said tools.

I find Mastodon to be a much better experience to use both on the web and on the apps available for my Android phone, than Twitter. I have tried to use Twitter again a few times the last years, but it's not the same anymore. I used to be an active Twitter user. I prefer being a part of my Norwegian mastodon instance, in addition to one of the larger English-speaking instances.

> Where are the nice(r) mobile apps (not just some website designed for desktops) for any replacements?

I use Tusky (https://tusky.app/), but there are several other really nice apps to choose from. On my laptop I use Tootle (https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle).
They wouldn't "part it out", they would let me do it. This was an air shipment and the goods were in the same city I'm in.

While I'm not happy with the supplier, I don't think this was intentional on their part either. They just source AC adapters from someone else in Shenzhen. You can imagine they aren't real familiar with the consequences of trademark infringement. Which is what this was.

Edit: Note that it was all auctioned off later without the adapters. So the concept is known to them.
CBP has no idea what your intention is.

Would you agree that a reasonable assumption that if an electronic is shipped with an AC adaptor, then that electronic will be used with it?

And CBP does not have a crystal ball:

- Are you using it as is?

- If the UL marking is fake, who is to know about the entire thing?

- Are you going to resell this? If so, is the AC adaptor going with it?

- How do they know that this was an honest mistake? Do they take the your word at face value?

I could go on and on with scenarios. I get it, that is not fun. But I will ask you, what should they have done?
Usually it's gotten around because astronomical images are stacks of many integrations, and then you dither around. If you take 10 5-minute exposures, for example, and you dither around correctly, you might have a bunch of pixels with 9/10 or 8/10 data values... then you stack the images and weight those pixels accordingly.
Targeting platform specifics both for features and performance is in large part the point of writing C. Backwards compatibility is also a big C feature, and it’s hard to see how forcing the language into a runtime like this wouldn’t be breaking. If this behavior is what you want, why not just write Java?
Parts and Labour?
Slightly out of context here, I find the entire stack of bsb, bsb-native, ocaml and esy pretty cool. However, I just dont find enough resources, good tutorials etc on Google search. Is there a good set of beginner tutorials anyone can point to ? Thanks in advance.
I actually help run a solar farm part time. Most of my work is to use a petrol powered snipper to cut all the weeds that are growing around it, and I wonder if cutting down trees to make way for solar lots is really the future? It's quite a big block of land that could be a forest or a park.

Also, the thing is that panels expire after 20 years, so new ones will need to be manufactured and the process to make them and mine the materials to make them is not exactly clean I guess..
I’m still sad that it happened to be the NYT to win out in this internet age of ‘winner take all’

It’s funny that a group so out of touch with America is supposed to be the arbiter of truth.
> This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university. All those tests measure, given the youth and maturity of traditional high school students, is extreme preparation and not performance or potential

Why speculate when people have already done research on this.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-the-sat-and-act...

> Myths abound about standardized tests, but the research is clear: They provide an invaluable measure of how students are likely to perform in college and beyond
@paranorman if I paid $312 bucks every time I wanted to test out an idea I'd be broke in very little time.
Thanks though for helping my point. No argument that counters my post but an ad hominem attack [1]. The state of our industry in 2020.

If you disagree with my point of

"Haskell didn't solve a real problem."

you could have a counter argument. Like "From my experience many companies struggle with X, which is essential to their development effort. Haskell does solve X nicely, a magnitude better than competing efforts like A, B and C from working with Haskell in a larger company and B in a startup. My opinion that companies do not use Haskell though is not that it doesn't solve a real problem - as shown above - but because of S and T".

Or you could downvote

"Haskell didn't solve a real problem."

[1] I like to be labeled "such commenters" - though I would prefer "such people", it's meaner and has more punch. So if you go ad hominem, go right for it.
Are you being willfully obtuse or do you seriously believe the only way (or even the most effective way) to lower carbon emissions is by planting trees?
If it wasn’t apps, it was going to be the casinos, right?
Lots of reasons?

A) We’ve globally lowered poverty to its lowest levels in history through trade. Pretty much every government And populace on earth would be against this policy except the absolute richest blocs (eg. The EU, elements of the USA).

B) Globalism has already been pretty curtailed by populism the past 20 years. But this includes the good parts of globalism, like coordinated carbon reductions.

C) Carbon reduction is necessarily a global coordinated solution - going local does not necessarily reduce carbon emissions, ie. oil rich nations can just locally use and trade their energy and the world isn’t any better off unless there are global treaties for trade and carbon.

D) arguably curtailing globalism would condemn a whole lot of the world into poverty or mass migration due to lack of local resource, which is almost as bad a remedy as the mass migrations that will be required later this century due to carbon emissions.
If anyone hasn't seen Cosmos (1980) it's explained and the result of the experiment is shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xly_5Ei3U
There is a difference. Nobody in the first world really cares about Uighurs or Hong Kong. However, there are quite a handful of parties who do care about patents (and resulting profits).
It's similar in the US, where we have the SAT IQ test and the GRE (SAT repeat plus basic knowledge test in a subject area).

Neither has the sort of deep knowledge you'd see in a US Graduate Degree "qualifying exam" which tests depth of understanding of undergraduate material (for which many students use remedial graduate school classes to prepare)
I had an Apple Arcade trial, whose trial period matches the non-trial payment cycle, and the same thing happened.

There is one rule for Apple, and one rule for everyone else.

Tim Cook's Apple is more than happy to use the abusive customer-hostile patterns they deny others.
>Sure, the developer name "Develop App" sounds strange and should I have looked better, the developgameonline@gmail.com developer email and com.acazira.tforbusiness package name would have definitely raised some concerns.

Come on, dude.

I will say that even the most experienced techies among us sometimes become complacent and let our guard down. It's exhausting having to constantly second-guess every application you want to run.

(Not interested in starting another platform flame war, but this is the main reason I don't use Android. I deal with enough paranoia running Windows daily. Maybe I'm misinformed, but I'm also probably not unique in this respect)

I'm curious if this fake TikTok app would probably have been blocked at the outset in the Apple App Store review process because it's trying to masquerade as another business ?
The provided feedback email seems to suggest it's vehicle-software-related.
Ask HN: Is a survey anonymous if an entity can easily identify the person?
I'm currently working at an IT school department. We have a intranet where all students and teachers are registered and manage the school bureaucracies.

By law, at the end of the year, we have to ask everyone for feedback, so we can improve things. This survey is advertised as anonymous.

To make sure everyone has answered, the system creates a simple relationship in a database, between the person (identified with the school number) and their answers.

After that, our team exports this data and hands over to a person to interpret it.

I don't think this is anonymous, but this person says it is, because "I won't identify" and "no one else in the public can identify it".

Is that so?
Ah, I was just about to edit my comment to add that article link. Probably best if you add the Nikola PR link to your piece, and I'll make a plea to mods to delete mine.
Could also have been brought to the upper atmosphere by a piece of earth blown off earlier. Would be epic to find it might even be shared earth DNA-based life.

But it's most likely just unusual high temperature processes in the Venusian atmosphere.
>have to follow a US sanctions regime.

Again look at the Premier members:

https://riscv.org/
The problem is that everything is just awful. Pick your poison.

Apple is the most expensive but also the least... bad.

Android is fine I guess. I still prefer iPhones. They have a much nicer app experience. Android feels subpar and inconsistent.

Windows... is just awful. I deal with Windows every day on machines much faster than my macbook and it’s just slow. Opening Explorer randomly slow. Settings that are randomly forgotten. Sound and network settings spread out over 5 config screens. One laggy app can easily make the whole system feel unresponsive. Oh, and “this file cannot be opened because it is in use by another program”. Thanks. What program? I dunno.
I wish we would subside biochar in agriculture the same way we did ethanol. Or include it in carbon trading. Or both. And fertilise the open ocean deserts with iron while we're at it.

I kinda feel like it's try anything time.
"what should they have done?"

Seized the adapters. That would have been enough for me to be more careful about adapters in the future. Seizing the whole shipment hurts me, but not the supplier.

See my other example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469959

There's any number of things you might not expect, and the receiver is the only one hurt when they are a smaller player.
This is important for way more than just Presidential elections. It helps solve the money in politics problem as well by diluting power and making representatives more accountable.
Afterwards as well:

https://www.handelsblatt.com/english/companies/carl-zeiss-an...
I agree. It's what really concerns me about slogan's like "language is violence". How many steps removed are we from someone then rationalizing that it's acceptable to respond to "violent language" with actual, physical violence? "Silence is violence" takes it even further and could justify rounding up, "reeducating", and ultimately killing people who didn't say anything in support of a moral cause.

Discourses do matter and the way we talk about things matters. If you want to make serious change, like with the climate, then using discourses that divide people will never work. We must find the universal humanism in causes and allow people to look inside to find the truth. We can't just coerce people into compliance, especially with how connected people are today and the ability for opposition ideas to take hold much more easily today than historically using hysterics and tribalism to delegitimize each other.
As a long time follower of Grant Sanderson[0], I concur.
His works are awesome.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Edit : Added link
I must say that all the Apple products my wife and I have used so far, have been very reliable. They're expensive but when you consider the quality and durability they usually have better value. But their repair service can be utterly rubbish sometimes. A few years ago my wife spilled some beer on her MacBook Air and the keyboard stopped working. She took it to the Apple Service centre and told her that it was a faulty motherboard. They asked for nearly 60% of the price of the laptop. She then took it to an independent repair shop and they did it for a fraction of the cost.