skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but this is such a 'goalpost' movement here that simply takes away a lot of context. The whole point of doing a dc underground is to reduce the hvac energy consumption which has a much larger ecological impact in terms of heat generated, power usage, potential greenhouse gas usage.

The name of the game here is energy efficiency and conservation. Use less power by reducing power distribution loss at scale. Want an even greener solution? Make em nuclear powered like a giant submarine- that way the power generation isn't creating a heavg ecological impact.

I think your posing of these questions genuinely fail to appreciate this for what it is, a successful proof of concept that will permit a step toward a greener future.
Apple teams have never been praised for the quality of their software engineering.

Most people tend to confuse good design and good software, unfortunately.
Wishful thinking, but I hope ByteDance could somehow make Lary Ellison miserable out of this. Now that would be Justice.
You could have a solar powered HVAC system that captures the condensed water, and then submerge the thing you’re trying to cool in that water!

P.S. am not HVAC wizard.
'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions': New Mexico sees bird deaths
I have a iPhone 5s that I only replaced because of battery issues. It's been sitting in my drawer for a couple of years and thought it would be good to hand off to one of the kids as a mp3 player or something. When Apple was running a deal on battery replacements I sent it in for that. I got a call saying that it has water damage and the main board was inoperable. I could have it repaired for $600 or they could recycle it for me for $25. Sending it back to me was not an option. It took 2 escalations to get someone who could authorize returning it as I was unwilling to pay for either of those options. It's now back in my desk.
Both parts matter, but you are right it wouldn't be significantly cheaper to do the transnational and regulatory stuff publicly or by non-profits.

What probably would change is the choices on which conditions and drugs to target, and to what degree. Conceivably could shift from an ability-to-pay focus to an impact focus.

Exercise left to the reader to decide if that would be desirable and/or likely to be more successful overall.
An expert is someone who knows everything about a subject and can look at it from beyond the borders of its context. Knowing everything can be read as: made every possible mistake, or perhaps: re-created the entire concept. Or maybe even: did an exhaustive search of all the possible avenues of thinking/applying/using the subject at hand.

It also depends on who you ask. Some people have a different mental model of the meaning of words or the values attached to them. It can be as simple as: "the person that I ask stuff from and always has the answer" or as complex as "this person doesn't just read, repeat or know the theory or know the abstract theory but is even beyond that".

How do _you_ become an expert? It depends. What do you think an expert should be? Find that, then find where you are and the gap between that and where you need to be and start working on it. An expert at walking your own dog has a different route than say, an expert at silicon substrate doping.

Since we are on Hacker News, we could take being an expert at Linux Device Drivers as a subject. You'd be able to read and test and expand as much as you'd like until you become the expert you desire to be. Examples, documents and sources are all available. It does require base knowledge to build on; i.e. building software, writing and reading C, the specifics of the kernel, the specifics of the kernel build system. At some point if you know how to create and build a module that is a driver, you'd be a beginner and you can start becoming advanced by perhaps expanding on your knowledge by nibbling at the borders of the subject; the build system itself, the configuration system, the hardware underpinnings for drivers. Next you might become interested in memory maps and CPU architectures. At some point you can understand end-to-end how a click of a button translates into an event. You'd be advanced. Now take all of those concepts and things you're reading and the parts you've designed. That is a single subjects within borders. When you go beyond that, i.e. design the theories that define it you're an expert. Not only can you build and work with it, understand its context and modify it at will, but you can re-define and create it based on your own expert knowledge and abstract theory behind the concepts and implementations.

You can also make it much smaller than that. I.e. become an expert at folding t-shirts. Still means you need to know about folding, fabrics, speed vs. quality, quantity vs. quality (are you folding t-shirts for yourself or for a warehouse? is it manual or automated?). Once you know how to define what folding means and how it is affected and how it affects its context (i.e. what happens to the fibers? and what if it's dirty, or new? or when it has been washed 10 times? what about 100?) you could pretty much call yourself a t-shirt folding expert. This is still big, but a lot smaller than a software example.
Yes, that's called "overtraining". :)
This experiment has been repeated though, hasn't it? So an error of that kind is more likely to be systemic, at least.
First ever preserved adult cave bear unearthed on the Arctic island
Our 2D intuition leads back on track though, since 2D (or really 1D, or whatever fractal dumention represents thecoastliine) is almost certainly where data centers will get built, not on the middle of the pacific.
Older workers have expectations of employers. Expectations are even more expensive than experience!
I second this. While I foolishly didn't export the list of people I was following when I've decided to shut down my own instance and just use an already established one, I've seen other people switching between instances without really losing much in terms of interactions.
Camels, Not Unicorns – DTC Founders Who Are Thriving
Per a recent Harvard Business School case study, Dollar Shave Club continued to be unprofitable for 3+ after its acquisition by P&G. Read more juicy stuff in this article and discover 3 badass founders who built profitable brands without venture capital.
Innovation happens mostly in a bottom-up fashion, either on a big scale, the way it's done in Silicon Valley, or in smaller scale, by for example just having thousands of independent grocery stores in a given city, each free to experiment with the way they conduct business.

In contrast, in soviet states, everything was centrally organized and ran, which meant zero freedom to innovate at the ground level. This resulted in incredible inefficiency, as better ways of doing thing couldn't possibly be invented (unless the bureaucrat in Moscowwho controlled a given sector of the economy had a genuinely good idea, but that was rare).

Research, on the other hand, is much more prone to centralization, so it was doing quite well in the Soviets. Hence they ended up with a lot of research, but not that much innovation.
https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/27/alibaba_risc_v_chip/
Every time I've tripped on LSD, I end up admiring the trees and nature. Shortly thereafter I am saddened by the society we live in which is so harmful to the very thing I admire.
There are a lot of browser extensions out there that make HN's browsing experience a little better. Maybe it's worth making one to convert it to dark mode.
Note that NeoCities only offers custom domains for "supporters"; the free tier requires you use a .neocities.org domain.
Linux terminal trick: Hack the CD command to remember where you've been
Welcome to vulture capitalism it's been gutting American industry for about 10 20 years

More like 30-40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_in_the_1980s
When a sufficiently large asteroid[0] slams into Earth, the impact plume[1] can hoist matter off the surface. The velocity of said matter may be sufficiently high to escape Earth's orbit, potentially seeding the solar system with life[2].

[0]: https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=21

[1]: https://youtu.be/bU1QPtOZQZU?t=70

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Lithopanspermia
It does SOMETHING.

It paves the way to normalizing corruption from the highest level in America. This means businesses with US operations (US businesses as well as foreign businesses) will forever be aware of this corruption and try to curry favor with the highest levels. If they don't curry favor, they will find other ways or simply avoid the American market. This means America is now more like third world democracies than a real pioneer of freedom.

Thus, the deal accomplished something that forever scars business in the US.
Walt Whitman, Poet of a Contradictory America
I was not talking about this, but about aliasing a variable on the same translation unit.

int x = 7;
void f() { /* do things using x */ }
void insidious_function(int *p) { *p = 3; }

now, inside f you cannot be sure that x equals 7, even if you never write into it. You may call some functions, that in turn call the insidious function that receives the address of x as a parameter. There's no way to be sure that the value of x is not changed, just by looking at your code.
Is there anyone that comes out worse from the U.S. + China TikTok saga than Kevin Mayer?

He left leading Disney's streaming division after being passed over for CEO to become Bytedance's COO and CEO of TikTok, only to leave three months later during the company's toughest time.

Now we learn Bytedance isn't actually selling its operations to Oracle and the the most valuable startup in the world marches on to market dominance without him. Huge reputation hit.
Roger Stone Calls for Trump to 'Declare Martial Law' to Seize Power If He Loses
Cool, sorry if I seemed a bit curt originally :) What you've highlighted is a big challenge facing all organizations today. Behind the glitz of the latest SaaS offerings and trainings, business operations are just stuck in the mud in terms of employees really caring about the outcome of a business process.

For some people, uploading 100 resumes from their local computer to a shared drive is easy and consistently repeatable with no human error. For others, it feels like a gigantic waste of time and can be inefficient. When you multiply this by hundreds of employees over many months of work, the SaaS solution (if it actually works) ends up being the more efficient and cost effective route.

For me though, the choice is clear. I'd much rather the drive and a simple spreadsheet. It's like the simplicity and ubiquity of Whatsapp compared to the horrific mess that is Webex :)
I guess it’s just going to keep going until it’s our turn ?
It should be called something else besides ‘the social dilemma’ because Netflix also does this to make sure people watch nonsense as much as possible as well...

every company hiring the best algorithm developers want people to spend as much time as possible on their ‘thing’

not sure what to call this though...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/roger-stone-...

Alternative source.

One of the madder things I've seen this year
This is interesting! What sort of shows are you watching, and why is it important to you that you get through them quickly?
Home racing simulator to be designed by Aston Martin
Spiders are actually a really good example of this principle.

What's really interesting here is the problem of just a "naive threat estimation", which usually is always just estimating the purely mechanical danger the body of a foe could pose. We have a healthy respect for large animals like horses and cattle that could crush us. We've got an open fear of predators with obvious sharp teeth and such (wolves, big cats, crocodilians). But bugs? Bugs are really weird because they're not mechanically dangerous, and as, say, a child, sizing them up, there's no sensible reason to be scared.

I find it really interesting how - even without necessarily understanding that they've got poison, we as a species do a really good job of being scared of "things that aren't visually obvious threats" like this - especially in kids, who really struggle to "get it" when it comes to what's actually dangerous about, say, a spider or a jellyfish.

I think you really hit on something there - I think a little bit of it is actually a built-in instinctual fear, but there's also a huge part that's an imitative fear kids pick up from anything that the body language of a parent conveys as dangerous.
Did you make that comment to the list?
Doubt that one could seriously argue banning tiktok is jumping off a bridge.
Craft stores such as Joann have small mirrors. I'd not be surprised if Walmart has them, too, in their craft section.
What's New in the Linux Kernel
Really nice guideline for work. Should spread it around.
For every 3.5 BTU moved, it consumes 1 BTU. That BTU goes somewhere. Heat in the inductor coils soaks into the environment, etc.
> A lot of times writing, to me, feels like sitting alone and talking to myself. I write stuff, I publish them, and nothing really happens. The lack of feedback – good or bad – makes me doubt the work I do.

This is one place where having a co-founder/collaborator/co-worker is valuable: built-in feedback mechanism.
I appreciate the author putting this post together. I am, however, having trouble squaring the overall positive tone of the piece with what seem like multiple show stopping problems. The bottom line I am taking away from this is you might not be able to ship your app at all if you use SwiftUI. Am I being too harsh? Or does that seem accurate?
> Reality is, most people are more afraid of being thought of as an outsider than any conceivable consequence that befalls their perceived in-group

I think that very nicely sums up the problem. Very few people are willing to socially isolate themselves this way. I've been working on an open-source self-hosted private blogging platform[1] that I have visions of being a facebook replacement, but the truth is very few people want to tell their friends: "follow me on this website I built with these separate login credentials". Reminds me of stories I read on here about middle school kids being ostracized for sending text messages without iMessage and showing up as a "green bubble"

[1] https://simpleblogs.org
It rewards originality over the long term rather than the fastest copy and paster.

Sort of like how we try link to the original YouTube video.
.angelfire.com - Those were the days.

Surprised to see Lycos still around.
Google Sustainability Commitment
Can someone tell me more about the ideological (theological?) assumptions underpinning these questions? They seem to come from a very peculiar understanding of "social impact".
It would simplify development quite a bit if this solution ends up being sufficient for battery life. No need to think about onCreate, onResume, onPause, onStop, onRestart , etc. like on Android.

But RAM might also be a problem if the phone keeps everything in background & isn't allowed to kill any app when it needs to
The purpose of the very public political debates is not to discuss issues and learn from one another. It's an opportunity for two political opponents to convince other people why they should be elected and not the other person.

There may be a place for actual political discussion between the two sides, but expecting two warring politicians to do so publicly just before an election is not going to happen.
The issue is the HVAC system itself creates a lot of heat. It normally doesn't matter in a traditional system as the heat is generated out side the areas being cooled.
> more churn than Windows -- which never subscribed to a tradition.

My understanding is that Windows has always had a very strong tradition of backwards compatibility. Even to the point of making prior bugs that vendors rely on still function the same way for them (i.e. detect if it's e.g. Photoshop requesting buggy API, serve them the buggy code path and everyone else the fixed one).

That's just as much a tradition as "we should implement this with file semantics because that's traditionally how our OS has exposed functionality".
Who knew it's outrageous to expect work life balance and reasonable compensation for experience.
FWIW I don't want them to build my source. If your job is to serve my files just serve them.

All of these CI+CDN startups have some build environment that is hopefully good enough but is eventually going to be lacking an important program or library. I much prefer using a dedicated CI solution for CI and a dedicated CDN solution for the CDN.

It's not like the integration is hard. Just tar up some files or rsync and send them to the CDN.
This type of interview is the equivalent of the SAT. They don't measure
absolute talent. It doesn't mean you are a bad programmer or even a bad systems design person. It doesn't mean you might not be a good manage, executive or anything else either. What they measure are skills in a finite domain.

Fortunately, these interviews are coach-able so it might be worth paying for a coach. It will be one part learning things (likely again) and learning how to demonstrate "you know what they want you to know" and if you don't that they know you would know how to figure it out and are motivated to.

These types of interviews are kind of an "abberation" too. The traditional way to get a job is to ask questions of your interviewer and be genuinely interested. Look up the social and psychological aspects of interviewing.
Like Joker said; "it's about sending a message."
We changed to that from https://web.archive.org/web/20200914113323/https://luketully.... Thanks.
$2.585 billion for a spread sheet company? yikes
Starting with voting machines!
That's a key part of the security landscape that many techie users just don't seem to get.

I get it. And I don't think the threat justifies handing complete control of our computing environments to a single corporation.

But there are a ton of bad actors out there who will also use those abilities to scam and steal.

Bad actors often set up fake websites. Should computers and phones have mandatory browser filters so you can only go to approved sites?
Provide a rooted phone by default.

Going back to carrying boatload of cards again is not an option.

Google Pay doesn't (officially) work on rooted phones.

There are lots of other things like that, which is why it makes a lot of sense to ship phones not rooted, while still making it easy to do so.
I guess I'm asking what part of Android is not Google? I get trying to detach apps like GMail, Maps, PlayStore, etc. But if Google created Android, why is it assumed to be okay of doing Googly things?
https://github.com/hylang/hy
Those arm dealers :)
.NET 5.0 RC 1
Yeah. This kind of interface problem is absolutely mind blowing to me. iOS especially always feels almost dumb enough to be unusable to me in comparison with my computer. For example, the other day I just wanted to download an Mp3 to my phone so I'd be able to play it at night with the cellular network turned off.

It ended up taking almost an hour to figure out. Downloading a file to the filesystem is nigh impossible on iOS, and there are no native apps which helped with the problem. I had to jump from questionable app to questionable app until one would let me "paste a youtube link in" which eventually worked; albeit, it still won't let me play my new song in the native music app! It feels like user hostility and it surprises me that this behavior doesn't drive more people wild.
Improving Situational Awareness in Systems of Services
The Emacs news the past few days has been disheartening.

I was genuinely considering learning org-mode and giving another go at using Emacs as my primary editor. Now I'm worried if it still makes sense to do that.

Clearly a lot of people still find Emacs useful but the ecosystem seems too hard to break into. I'm still curious why Emacs hasn't obtained the same level of excitement as other editors like Vim and VS Code.
Did space weather affect compasses and radios during the Titanic disaster?
2 pennies would be cheaper. Here are US coin weights, in grams:

5.670 quarter
2.268 dime
5.000 nickel
2.500 penny
Non-Fungible Tokens: Why You Should Follow Their Progress
Basic research is a public good, and corporations will not provide enough of it.
Loyalty Oaths Compared: An Orwellian Exercise
> He's a terrible public speaker

Yes, this is the problem, it's always been the problem. Biden is a human gaffe machine, and this derailed his previous Presidential runs. Not sure why Democrats thought he was the "safe" choice. In the past, Biden would have been considered a loose cannon, but of course he seems rather tame compared to Trump. As does anyone compared to Trump.
I really like the minimalist UI! I'm excited to try this out. I'm the author of the gofeed[0] dependency and it is cool to see people using it.

[0] https://github.com/mmcdole/gofeed
Assuming the study has no fatal flaws there really are no uninteresting explanations for the phenomenon. If we eventually discover there are abiotic pathways we didn't know about, that's really interesting. If we discover life and it's traced back to the earth somehow, that's riveting. If we discover life and it's alien, that's obviously extraordinary.
> 1. Registration not needed - without nagging. First thing Microsoft would have done is to require signup to use.

The account-less app alone tracks way more than what microsoft could ever track with all their account systems.
I was looking for an android app to make my phone contacts on Outlook available on my phone.

The official app screws up with my share menu. I'd see one set of share targets and just before I hit my choice, outlook will place two contacts at the top. And this causes the remaining to rearrange.

Got pissed and uninstalled it. And I don't want to copy my contacts over to gmail.

I tried two contact apps and they both open a login screen - typing my password both times raised alarms in my head. Neither app worked. And couldn't risk trying more apps. Gave up and reinstalled the official outlook.
Just want to throw out there I switched to emacs about 3 months ago after being a long time vimmer, one of the first things I was told was to check out org-mode as it was one of the greatest features of emacs.

I heartily agree, after about a month I now do all my document authoring, PDF, LaTex, HTML, personal wiki notes, all of it goes in .org files. It was low barrier to productivity, and not much more effort to turn org mode into a powerful idea and through organizer as well as documentation.

Beyond that I can author in org mode and then export to tex, to pdf, to html, to markdown to whatever I want using org mode.

If you are a long time vimmer do yourself a favor make the next tech you learn be org-mode in doom-emacs. It is insanely powerful and I will never go back.
Can you elaborate a bit more on how this would simplif the contribution process?

Perhaps it would make it more familiar, but I don't think it would really simplify it.

First because I think issue handling on GitLab/GitHub kinda worsen the problem of the lack of maintainance resources, instead of fixing it

Second because we are quite strict on how to format changelog entries, and I believe email interactions help educating contributors in a nice way, while MR/PR interactions might generate more fatigue -- not so sure about this one, though.
It's also constraining.

Console makers dictated that RDNA must use a forward-compatible version of the GCN ISA. While AMD might have wanted to make some changes of some ideas that turned out to be less-than-optimal, they cannot because they are stopped by the console makers paying the bills.
> people who lack empathy

What is your measure?
Firefox's PDF reader does the same. A few years back, I wrote wrote a pdf to csv converter with selenium -- it worked surprisingly well!
Though, after I finished I found tabula and the code became immediately useless, hah.
ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?