skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One suggestion, use a differently colored outlet for the sockets served by the UPS. This to avoid anyone else mistakenly using them for something else.

Another alternative would be to use Lutron's Claro AC outlets designed for dimmable control. They've got a smaller prong for the hot leg.

I have some sockets for outdoor holiday lighting that I've colored to avoid mis-using them for anything else.
> How would you try to help an alcoholic?

That's a distinct question from "How would you try to reduce the prevalence of alcoholism in your country?".

When considering a particular individual, yes you need to get them medical and therapeutic help, some kind of life coaching/counseling program etc.

When considering the whole population, you do need to think about regulation of selling, advertising, public health campaigns for prevention etc.

Similar with sugary junk food. You can tax it at higher levels, ban advertising to children etc. Be strict on forbidding misleading claims. Perhaps pub highly visible "high sugar content" warnings on the product etc.

Yes, all this stuff is very un-American and too "socialist" I guess, which leaves you with the other option of being the most obese developed nation and having a substantial proportion of people be obese at a level of it becoming a legit disability. Which is fine for most people I guess, because it's not themselves, so who cares about other people anyway.
I once read that using ZFS was supposed to boil the oceans.
If history is any indication, I feel that what will happen instead is that someone else will start to sell "carbon offsets" for cheaper that secretly aren't quite following the spirit of carbon offset in some obscure overlooked sense. Then when the cat is out of the bag many years down the road, the big corps get to shrug and say "hey I did my part buying them" in some corporate speak that makes them sound good, and the rest of the public gets to feel smugly superior by tweeting at each other that Chinese carbon offset sellers or whoever aren't being ethical. Meanwhile the world continues to burn down, rinse and repeat until food/resource wars start.
In fairness, it is too early to have a thorough review. The press conference and paper are less than an hour old. Be wary of anyone making bold claims right now, author or armchair scientist.
'There are some places in the world where gas wins out because they burn coal to produce electricity but it's rare.'

This statement always throws me - did we just make a complete context-switch from talking about car emissions to talking about gas turbines? Or is "gas" being used to refer to petrol ("gasoline")? The subject of the previous post was clearly cars, but that sentence is talking about gas and coal, better re-read the entire statement several times to double-check the context!

I don't want to be rude and shit on peoples' language, but FFS I hate the shortening slang-version of "gasoline" so much. THAT WORD IS TAKEN, IT MEANS VAPOUR.
While it's nice to hear a good story, PayPal is not a bank and a PayPal account lacks the consumer protections that bank accounts in many countries (including the US) receive by law. PayPal takes advantage of this lack of consumer protection to freeze accounts and hold funds for up to 180 days on grounds that aren't necessarily reasonable or disclosed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851120

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6333203

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783493

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4455520

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6891306

Financial institutions do not have this kind of control over bank accounts. All bank accounts inherit a level of trustworthiness from consumer protection laws that only apply to bank accounts. PayPal does not.

When PayPal freezes/limits an account in a way that a bank account could not legally be subject to, the problem is not the account holder, but PayPal itself.
Airtable Apps
There is an alternative. Consumers (or government) in the UK could demand more ecologically produced goods to lower their emissions. Of course that would be more expensive but no involvement in policy of other nations is required for that.

To take moral responsibility for the effects of ones own consumption on the rest of the world seems just to me.

This is not to diminish the efforts the UK has undergone to transform their energy sector.
That's already the status quo for many specialty processors.

Either they're doing something unique enough in hardware that you pay for the development seats and special interfacing hardware, or you go with a generic part and get to use all the cheap/opensource tools.
I Am Not A Climate Scientist, but here's the EPA's page explaining the three scopes model of emissions.

https://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/greenhouse-gases-epa

(IMO the MS post does a better explanation but this is obviously a more reliable source)

I doubt anyone counts indirect use of a general purpose tool, but hey read the link and you tell us.
Yes, for covid.

For climate, we seem to be moving along faster than expected for many measures. Ice loss is trending with worst-case predictions to give the most recent example I can think of. https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-sheet-melting-is-perfectly-....

IPCC reports explicitly _do not_ consider self-sustaining positive feedback mechanisms, which seems concerning.
> you've accidentally deleted years of family photos

Oof, that hurts.

I'm going to add a check right now to PhotoStructure to assert that people's library is not stored within the container to prevent this from happening to my users.
Another example of the journalistic malpractice of not linking to the original articles or data.

https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...

One of the facts left unmentioned is that this was built and operated by Naval, the French state-owned submarine and shipbuilding corporation.
Is the book dynamically changing its content based on what it knows about your psychological profile in order to influence your beliefs and behaviours?
Indeed, there should also be better data and research literacy. On the hopeful side: looking at how the field of medicine evolved over the centuries from outright quackery to better data and ethical disclosures from those who do the research. It’s still not perfect but it’s getting better.
You're implying that resources afforded to people have no bearing on their ability to build wealth. That's nonsensical.

> Are you writing this from your 10th grade recess period?

These types of comments don't belong here.
I have a family member who is in a school IT department. They spent all summer preparing for remote learning.

Then they spent the last two weeks bulk flashing student laptops and ripping apart streaming servers to restore normal in-person learning because the governor put in a new order.

Anyone can predict that a failure will occur, predicting the specific mode of failure is almost impossible.
We do and use it!

SD zoo just made a horse!

https://www.cbs58.com/news/a-clone-of-the-endangered-przewal...
The winning bid was higher than what I paid :)
Random HN commenters vs a leading expert on infectious diseases?

Assuming everyone has the same expertise is also one way climate change deniers sow doubt about the science behind carbon emissions.
I wonder if CRISPR tech could mitigate some of the dangers of inbreeding.
Nothing exists in a vacuum. Of course comparing having a datacentre to not having a datacentre shows that having it has higher ecological impact.

But that wasn't really the option now, was it?
Are you me? In the exact same boat, 'stuck' in Thailand right now. Curious to see other people's replies but as for me I've been trying to work on some hobby projects to build up some confidence again. Also have a gut feeling with my personality I need to work for myself somehow, but that scares me.
Or don't use Facebook at all for anything. Facebook makes money off of selling real people's information to anyone who pays; if some of them are fake, or the purchaser is fake, it's still money to Facebook. If the Facebook data customer is getting ripped off, what incentive does Facebook have to police the situation as long as they still get their cut?
Floating Spaceports for Future Rockets
Utrecht restores historic canal made into motorway in 1970s
Fundamentally I agree that FC storage can be very cheap. Just a metal tank with some valves or whatever, right?

a) What stops the fundamentals of batteries from also continuing to get cheaper? Current batteries are using less of some expensive metals, is there some kind of law that is going to make us hit a wall at current battery pricing? I don't see this yet, nor have I seen research papers, but I may have just missed them?

b) The way I understand it, is the cost of creating the Hydrogen is the expensive part now. Is there proof that it will be cheaper with time, and that the end state of producing hydrogen is cheaper than the end state of producing batteries?
Do you think watching The Social Dilemma with family or friends could help spark a conversation about how they are being manipulated by "Big Tech"? I plan on doing this with someone who has been greatly affected by the algorithms, and although I do not expect an immediate change, I do expect it to spark some new thoughts and questions.

Another comment here mentioned this site as a good starting point for taking tangible action against being influenced by algorithms: https://www.humanetech.com/take-control
The AMX is an accelerator block... If you concluded otherwise, your reverse-engineering skills are not great...

Let me repeat this: part of the ARM architectural license says that you can't modify the ISA. You have to implement a whole subset (the manual says what's mandatory and what's optional), and only that. This is, as I've been saying, public knowledge. This is how it works. And there are very good reasons for this, like avoiding fragmentation and losing control of their own ISA.

And once again, stop spreading misinformation.
Thanks for mentioning this. I can see on the monthly holdings report that FDGRX has some SpaceX. But - how did you figure this out in the first place? For example, is there a way for me to search for all the Fidelity funds (or just funds in general) that hold SpaceX?
Ah yes, the "If you jump off a bridge I jump off a bridge" approach to teaching.
I didn't say I wasn't responsible. Just arguing what the consequences should be for what was pretty clearly an unintentional violation.

Also, see my friend's experience of a CD-ROM with a fake "Compact Disc" mark that resulted in a shipment of SBC's getting seized. Perhaps that one is more clear where the receiver wouldn't have any idea to even ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469959

I will also hazard a guess that many HN folks have ordered things like generic arduinos, led blinky stuff, etc, and gotten an adapter with a fake UL mark. Smaller scale, but the same thing nonetheless.
We have "nature abhors a vacuum" in English
The trick is that the CD/DVD acts as a first surface mirror.

I just tried it with a bit of regular mirror (second surface) taped to bits of an old lamp. It does not work well, as there are internal reflections and glare from the glass fronting. You get slight double images too.

First surface mirrors can be made by taking apart kaleidoscopes and using the mirrors in them. That or dissolving the protective backing to regular mirrors with acetone. You can buy them outright as well, but they tend to be more expensive (~$20 each).

A CD/DVD is much easier than the other options and I'd say that the hack is even easier than a regular mirror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_surface_mirror
I think the "hilarious" part is how disconnected from reality the CEO must be if they think their quote somehow makes the situation better.
Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification
This is what I think too. WebView doesn't show the domain of the page, and it is not possible to see if you are really in Facebook login page, or somewhere the attacker controls. Unless the attacker was using Yubikey or some sort of hardware token, the victim would have entered the TOTP code too, which the attacker can ask and pass to authenticate successfully.
Well, the model is not designed as a target for companies. It's designed as a way to categorize indirect emissions. It's 100% Microsoft's decision to take the broadest possible definition of their carbon footprint to target.
Your [0] reference is a fairy tale debunked with the link I gave here from the Bank of England:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

Please read the BoE explainer, then go back and ready my original post, then go back and read the BoE primer until you understand how this stuff works.

Merely refusing to understand and repeating the misconceptions that the BoE (and anyone who understands this stuff) repeatedly says are false -- is not a good look and does not further the debate. You need to reassess your understanding of how banks work, or just stop digging in this thread.

Also, knock off with the "basic economics" when declaring things that are obviously false.
That’s probably why they quoted OP at full price. They were just going to sell them a new set.
It's not anonymous; even if the intended user can't identify anyone, the people above them can (as they have access to the infrastructure). It would be a bit different if the survey was hosted on a neutral third-party's infrastructure. Furthermore the simple fact that the data exists means it can leak by accident later on down the line and this would apply to both in-house and third-party surveys.
Good points. First of all, it doesn't matter which instance you're on. You can still follow your friends, influencers, etc. on other instances.. unless your instance has the other instance in its blocklist (e.g. if it doesn't adhere to moderation rules that apply on your instance).

Natural re-centralization is an issue, with mastodon.technology and mastodon.social being by far the largest instances. This could devolve to a situation like you have with email / Gmail.

Another challenge is that Mastodon as early adopter of ActivityPub has made a number of required implementation choices to fill in the blanks of the spec. They support a bunch of custom properties in the message format, plus they use the Mastodon client API instead of ActivityPub client-to-server. Their dominance wrt running Mastodon instances means they have a big say in how Fediverse evolves.

Luckily the project team is open-minded, and mostly on the same page to others wrt fediverse innovation.
Seconded, my personal favourite. I remember when I first discovered it and even the idea and concept blew me away.

Create your own with the Brian Eno Bloom app too :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwrUGu1V1k
Do it again, or do it longer. Or just fall asleep at that point and get a good nights rest. :)
How to write something that doesn't f***ing suck
I was really hoping to see "Fantastic Meats and How To Smoke Them" in there.
The Hows and Whys of Regression Analysis
Social media is this generation's smoking issue. One of the predictions made in this movie was that humanity will not be able to survive if we continue to be blinded by our own willful ignorance due to these addicting sources.

I think they hit the nail on the head that ultimately the goals of the platforms are at odds with your own intrinsic goals and the goals at large for society. Something is going to have to change eventually.
Sorry, I don't think so. The fine article already answers your question and I concur with the approach, originally posted by kitd, key phrase restated here:

Territorial emissions accounting might not be perfect, Mabey says, but in terms of simplicity it is the more practical approach. Lord Deben, chair of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, told the BBC the UK only has direct control over its home-grown emissions, whereas manufacturing methods and energy choices in China are outside our control.

By consequent, I disagree with your more holistic approach of measuring carbon costs as it is based on a moral judgement, and not a quantity that we can measure in any reasonable way.
Thank you, Niek, for sharing that story. Such cases should be maximally open and transparent for people to learn the real risks.
Well, almost every food I cook starts with fry some garlic in oil. So it would feel home to me :)
This website enables you to create your personal website in just 3 easy steps: login with LinkedIn, install a browser extension, push a button to import data. Site creation made easy!
> "I believe that this ability to listen deeply to someone else’s experience without adding any of one’s own ideas or thoughts is among the rarest gifts in today’s world"

This resonated. As someone who loves to give advice and recommendations to be 'helpful' (and so validate my presence) it's incredibly hard to just be with someone else's experience.
I feel poudriere takes too much time and disk space building literally everything. I would like it to pick up dependencies from pkg and only build stuff from source when I have options changed.

Incidentally I wrote a shell script that does this.
> I suppose the real lesson to be learned is to

...never, ever buy or even take anything from anyone who approaches you without you being the original initiator of the communication. Simple rule that applies to both online and real world and makes your life simpler and safer.
But things like plotting a simple function, 3D or not, are vastly less performance-intensive than almost all other things that people do with their phones, like rendering just about any modern webpage. Never mind actually demanding things like playing 3D games (doing that on a cellphone was indeed rather amazing back in 2011, being accustomed to mobile games mostly being simple 2D affairs).
If founders did not need to raise money, you would be out of a job yah?
that must have been a long time ago. if its any consolidation i have to remind myself to reboot my windows machine every month or so just to do it
It's a very nice feature indeed! Only problem is that it redirects you back to the homepage, and it's been like this since the day I first found out about it. So I guess it's on purpose, to make some fewer people use that feature.
That's exciting news, thanks!
Wasn't PSD2[0] created for the purpose of preventing such scams?

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
TL;DR: guy clicked on a link promising him 3000 usd out of thin air if he gives access to his account linked to PayPal.
Malicious user used his account to buy digital items (ads).
This is exactly it. Songs were 99¢ with DRM. In 2009, Apple managed to convince enough labels to sell DRM-free copies, but at $1.29. You could, at the time, “upgrade” your DRM copy to be DRM-free for 30¢ a song.
>Like large employers can dangle some pretty substantive carrots but I don't think courts would let them get away with any sticks.

The courts already let them get away with it. There's nothing illegal about discriminating against people based on their commutes. The employer can do anything they want, up to and including termination (or refusal to hire someone in the first place).

Commute discrimination already happens, here's one article detailing research on the topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/inner-cit...

Here's another article about it: https://www.boston.com/news/jobs/2018/03/26/no-offer-because...
I believe it's part of the fine print when opening a credit account like a credit card, so I imagine you consented whether you were aware or not.
It takes about 80 watts to heat up a liter of water 1° celsius. Global data centers used about 4.16 x 10^14 watts last year [1]. Let's assume we still have a lot more data centers to build so bump that number up 10,000X. Assuming every watt of energy is actually converted to heat and we moved every data center on earth underwater it'd raise the temperate of the oceans (1.3x 10^21 liters) about 0.01°C.

This is a very rough calculation and there's obviously nuances but the point is oceans are HUGE and water has a high specific heat. It's much easier to indirectly heat them with greenhouses gases.

Edit: I clearly need to brush up on my physics. Regardless the effect is still miniscule.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/15/wh...
I believe it would be less impactful than many power plants that vent their heat into the ocean. There are many studies, mainly around marine life (phytoplankton, manatees, other endangered species). These systems probably produce similar heat output into the water.

https://assets.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/power-plant-cool...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00253...

https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/water/water-11-02577/artic...
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus (PDF paper)
No, they are generally not. It's just that there's so much unethical _shit_ to keep track of, that you have no chance to even know half of it.

And even if you do, what can you do about it? Switch to another company? [1]

The amount of effort that I need spend just to fight only _some_ of the unethical behavior in my area of expertise is already high.
Just imagine the issues in other fields which I don't know about.

[1]: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/618/221/47...
author here.

I personally don't use apps, but if there'll be enough interest from the community, I might consider making it fever-compatible in the future.