skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a purely thermodynamic standpoint, you actually _can_ be net-energy-positive.

You're gaining a lot of energy going from CH4/etc + O2 to H2O + CO2.

You're then directly sequestering CO2 (usually in solution in a deep brine), rather than C. You need to expend energy to concentrate the CO2, but it's less than you gain from combustion.

In practice, it's more difficult to come out energy positive overall if we're capturing CO2 at atmospheric concentrations rather than from flue gases/etc at the time of combustion. Regardless, though, "driving roads in reverse" is not a good analogy. We don't need to expend anywhere remotely as much energy as was generated from the original combustion.
I will concede Google Drive is garbage. But even in that garbage product there aren't as many glaring bugs that have been around forever.

The worst example: you can't use the browser's back button in the MS 365 mail client! Instead of using the back button like any other web app, you have to hit ESC to drop from message detail back to the inbox or folder. The back button instead goes to the next message in the queue.

MS 365 is full of mind-boggling UX decisions on top of annoying bugs that have been around for years.
#MeToo concerns sexual abuse in the workplace. I'm not sure why you thought it was necessary to cite that as your milestone marker, and then back out to talking about abuse in general.
Interact with multiple Android apps from your PC
Deno[0] supports running TypeScript without needing to compile it to JS.

[0] -- https://deno.land/
>STEM is a genetic lottery that our current economic and social system rewards with a better life and more resources.

I wonder to what degree that statement is flavored by tech tub developer salaries. A lot of scientists aren't especially well compensated compared to say stock traders. STEM does tend to lead to at least somewhat highish prestige occupations but it's not really a money/resources thing.
Op is correct if you have dns records set
Several practical steps:

1. Take a thinking styles test, like the HBDI (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Ins...)

People in executive roles frequently tend "Yellow / Blue" in their thinking HBDI thinking style.

HBDI certainly isn't gospel, but it can help frame the people around you and make sure your communication includes thinking style elements they connect with.

2. One time each week, make a short, bulleted summary of what is happening in words that can be understood by anyone. I first saw this technique in a lab mate. He made them in powerpoint, kept them in a binder, and was ALWAYS ready to make an account.

3. Make peace that detailed documentation should be for your benefit, and occasional CYA. Even most technical people you report to will want a summary.

4. Many decisions in business are made by people that are able to operate on gut feel. Sometimes this is works well, sometimes it doesn't. However, the outcome is largely immaterial. This is because people who only direct when information is complete don't end up leading, either formally or informally.

Appealing to the "gut" sensitivities of the de facto leaders of your organization will almost always increase your visibility.

Hopefully this helps!
Gun activists have been waiting for a Supreme Court majority that actually does its job. I would expect people’s 2nd amendment rights to be restored in CA soon.
So what's up with the pitch forks for every single word you come across internet?
So was it supposed to say Humans discovered? Why must everything you say on internet has to satisfy every woke?
I installed an app called cliclick https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/cliclick/

Then I wrote a script to move the mouse randomly across the screen.

I'd post the script but I did a clean install. It wasn't very in-depth, though.

1. Write an endless loop

2. Generate 2 random numbers

3. call cliclick to move the mouse to those coordinates
Reasonable people can disagree about guns and CCW, but you’re crossing the line to just insulting everyone who disagrees with you.
I don't know - to me this looks more pointless than evil. Yeah, I don't use @mentions in my emails, so what? Are they going to fire me?

If you really stretch it you could even imagine this being useful: "Hey Anastasia, I've noticed you don't post to Yammer and we think it's useful. Go yammer about something there, it will make us all more productive" or something.
In practice I don't think there are, but it's not inconceivable that there could be performance considerations specific to how TypeScript generates JavaScript.
You changed a COBOL argument to a stock performance argument. I'm up over 200% in Tesla and over 100% in oh god so-much-COBOL Mastercard.

Cars are not COBOL and massive interconnected financial networks. How many Tesla crashes have been attributed to failures in self-driving. Way more than failed wire transfers, pension payments, bond issuances, dividend payments, cleared stock transactions, etc.

Square is not a money center bank nor a major broker-dealer and they never will be. Their business is point-of-sale not international FX, issuing securities, managing trillions in pensions, etc.

How much of the global financial flow does Square have? A rounding error.

The argument is now about the merits of Square vs Citibank, saying Square is bad, or that they won't grow (I own it too). The author's point in the article is the this bullet proof code, while very out of fashion, is durable and has been proven over time so it is likely to be around for a long time still. (Lindy Effect [1])

EDIT: Who is you broker? One of the fancy new mobile apps like Robinhood (I use 'em too). Guess what? They've cleared trades through APEX, an old-school firm likely with COBOL inside, until recently. Turns out brokerage ops are challenging as Robinhood found out at exactly the wrong time [2].

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

[2] https://www.fa-mag.com/news/the-robinhood-outage-is-a-cautio...
Hi, I'm a developer on VS Code and wanted to clarify that there was actually a logical memory leak in there.

The problem is that I tried to reproduce it back in October while running from sources, and I could not reproduce any leak. I believed the issue is about the memory usage reported by the OS vs the memory usage reported by the logical JS Heap Snapshot, which is a common topic for garbage collected runtimes, such as JS / v8. That is why we believed the issue is about the v8 VM not freeing memory back to the OS when we freed memory logically.

But it turns out I tried the steps again just now, and there is a real memory leak in there! It only reproduces when running a built version of VS Code, such as VS Code Insiders or VS Code Stable. The built versions of VS Code offer file type extension recommendations, for example you open a `.php` file and a recommendation comes in to point you to the PHP extension. When running out of sources, those recommendations do not show up and the entire code responsible for those does not execute.

Thank you for bringing this up to my attention and I'm sorry for misunderstanding the initial issue.
FF Containers are a much better way to handle this issue then attempting gmail style account switching
If you have asthma or similar lung issues, it can get much more severe if you breathe cold air.

I've got a mild case and normally don't even think about it except for the two puffs of medicine a day, but if it's -15C or below I really notice my asthma and have to adjust my breathing technique, like breathing through the mouth with my tongue raised to heat the air before it hits the throat.

If you got a severe case you can get special masks[1] which contains a heat magazine/exchange element, however it restricts airflow so if you already struggle with shortness of breath this might not work for you.

[1]: https://lunginstitute.com/blog/ct-masks-for-copd/
While simplicity of design can engender trust, in this case it's the stuff around it that still needs complexity.

Besides, people have already demonstrated single-gate backdoors that don't show up in most IC die photos.
I am dismissive because distribution is not big-H Hard. It consists of known unknowns and can "simply" be solved by application of money. Yes, actually it's a systems problem: there is not infinite money, there are political interests. But compared to the science the problems are well understood.

On the other hand we still have no idea how well these vaccines will work. First, we have (as I discussed) two different approaches in the three current candidates, one of which is fairly new and one which is completely novel. We have had only limited time to see how well they work and have only limited experience in broad efficacy, duration of effect, and, crucially, how long they last (it takes a long time to learn if you'll need a 10 year booster!). We don't know how fast the virus mutates away from the vaccine's target (though we do currently think we have a good idea). And we simply haven't tried enough people to get a good handle on side effects.

One of the difficulties in solving these is that new approaches contain unknown unknown. Look at CRISPR-CAS: got a (deserved) Nobel this year yet may already have been discovered to be ineffective or worse in the real world. That takes time to learn.

Now it's not that the people doing the work are idiots -- they know all these problems better than I do. But I am appalled that this is treated by the press as a distinction between, say, a pair of beta implementations of something, one in Python and one in Ruby.

Going back to systems issues: when we don't know these factors we take a calculated risk (really an estimated risk). The social aspects of vaccination (close to ubiquitous use, the risk of any side effects increasing the anti-vaxx rate for other immunizations, which itself could become a public health disaster etc) mean these factors are upmost in public health officials, not whether they have adequate refrigeration.

Vaccines are particularly difficult for reasons like these above -- there's a reason why they have their own special laws and government-assumed liability insurance. I haven't worked on vaccines, so take this as you will, but I have worked in anti-invectives, have designed preclinical and clinical protocols (including first-in-human) which were submitted and approved by the FDA, run clinical trials, have presented to the FDA and defended protocol design, so I have some idea what's involved and how to read the presented endpoints and findings.
Deno still compiles it to JS. It just does it for you.
I used one 12 years ago. I found it in a storage box last year, and it was still working!
Has anyone else been prompted by Office 365 to link your profile to your LinkedIn account? I almost went through with it because our internal employee directory is so completely useless and I'm always using LinkedIn to look people up. When I saw that information sharing could go both ways between my personal account and corporate [0], I bailed.

Even without the data sharing, just creating the connection between profiles gives Microsoft information. If they're doing individual-level performance analytics, they could track it from one organization to the next, no?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/84077/linkedin...
Which solves the problem of needing armed guards.
It sounds like you weren't a member of that community prior to trying to advertise your services for financial gain. Cynicism is probably the best outcome from something like that, honestly.
Would the increase in investment have a better chance to facilitate research and development? As with more research comes the possibility of a better capture rate down the road
I think HN crashed Adam's site. Here's a backup link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201124131007/https://adamfard....
Surveillance makes it sound like only the managers can see it. Is it just public like the github flamegraphs?

Personally I'd love something like this that only I can see, I've found these sorts of things to be very motivating in the past.
The permafrost tipping point theory is not accepted science: https://earther.gizmodo.com/climate-scientists-debunk-point-...

Also, oxygen levels would not drop rapidly. It would take millions of years: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/destructive-amazo...
I know employee surveillance is useless, that's obvious, but that hardly really matters to the person being watched.
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Appropriate handle. Some people live in the woods. Some people are head of security for large corporations that run into all manner of physical threats, potential kidnappings or literal geopolitical adversaries (head of security at apple; probably needs to carry a pistol more than the average cop). Some people are former police or some other kind of sheepdog. Some people have crazy exes who might kill them.
I think it's just historical inertia. There's no real advantage to combining them since they mostly serve their local borough population. Each has their own central branch which is a magnet for research on various topics. The NYPL is just so much larger in terms of collections so it outshines the others, but Queens and Brooklyn are really solid library systems on their own.
I'm confused what the point of your comment is. Yes, in America, the employer pays for healthcare.
Tesla's market cap is now equal to that of Nvidia ($320bn), AMD ($100bn) and VW ($95bn) combined.

And Nvidia's (which now includes ARM) and AMD's valuations themselves were already sky-high.
I imagine that algorithm isn't really trying to rank people you know vs. other people you know, but rather trying to list people you know ahead of acquaintances and friends-of-friends that you've happened to "interact" with once (in the sense that you just happened to be in the same comment thread at the same time, even if you weren't speaking to one-another.)
Interesting projects and control over the work. Give them choice in technology, layout, stack, etc. Let them make it their project.
People who are not able to ride a mobility scooter may be able to ride as passengers in a car.
Yes, but do the patent holders or companies making that better technology see their side of the task: they need to give the developing countries that technology. The problem is that would mean giving a country that can manufacture more cheaply than they can the only thing left as a differentiator.

It's not up for them to try and learn from us, it's up to us to teach them.
One of the wrinkles is that bitcoin mining is an adaptive system. If mining becomes entirely unprofitable, then miners will drop out, and mining will become easier. This process will continue until equilibrium is achieved where participating miners are making only a very small amount of money based on their energy costs.

Of course, what you say about transaction fees is true too - if miners are receiving less in 'mined' bitcoins, then they are likely to demand more in fees. You can already see this happening - when I first used bitcoin, nobody charged any fees at all, relying only on the mining rewards for covering their mining costs.
Nothing wrong with being a noob: we all are, really. Im' a vaccine noob as my pharma work is all small molecule work in a different area.

I answer your question in a parallel comment; click "parent" on your comment and look at my response to jeromegv
With respect, I don't think you've ever lived under a remotely totalitarian government.

Complaints are typically viewed by default as unpatriotic, obstructionist borderline sabotage, and only a fool would make one.
I advertised an app I wrote on Reddit, not by posting, but by using Reddit ads. Say what you want about Reddit; their ads work very well. I was able to target relevant subreddits, people made posts about it(opening the door for me to interact with potential users), and I got a few hundred people to sign up through the Play store.

I didn't continue because I realized that there just wasn't a way to make the app profitable. I had assumed, based on my experiences from 10 years ago, that I could make money on ads, but ads today are pretty worthless unless you reach a critical mass of users.
I've been curious about some of the work done by my team related to this and data collection. We do mass event log collection and aggregate it all into Splunk. Some of the sources are sysmon event logs, AD data, and firewall logs. This is in Europe. The purpose is security.

This data is all made available through the Splunk interface, and any team member can search through the essentially raw data. On a scout's honor system we don't search up individuals unless given consent by the user. It really doesn't sit well with me, thought, and it hasn't for some time.

One of the problems I see is that the employee laptops - vast majority being non-technical users - are allowed for personal usage. Thus we, by virtue of our selective VPN, send not just work-related data.

Anyone with knowledge of the space that can add some light to this and my worries?
After my performance review, I talked to my boss and my boss's boss, and asked them if that's really what they wanted me to do, ie. fulfill these arbitrary metrics or if they wanted me to work on whatever made the team better. They said no, of course not, but a good engineer should be able to fulfill those metrics and make the company better. I explained the situation, that the ops person left and they haven't hired anyone to take over, so I'm left holding the bag and they refused to acknowledge it, so I quit.
Your boss is not your mommy
Its general purpose hardware, which without a good model doesn't do much.

The keyboard is "good enough" and Apple is going to capture the market or retain users with a better ecosystem of apps. So they're investing in making it easy for other developers to build things using ML on the iPhone.
Here is yet another post from 2006 where John Nagle talks about the bad interaction between Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACK:

https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174457&cid=1...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12701847
A combination of people upvoting the title without reading the (pretty useless) article and the article's author using "IndieHacker" in the title which is probably trying to game people into thinking it has any relation to IndieHackers.
It's a single emoji: "Family: Man, Man, Girl, Girl". Sequence is "Man, Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ), Man, ZWJ, Girl, ZWJ, Girl". Picked because I looked up "Man" and "Girl" first, and just repeating the two is easy. https://emojipedia.org/family-man-man-girl-girl/
> think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei

The UK is not hell-bent on banning Huawei. It had initially approved Huawei hardware, and after banning them, admitted that this was due to geopolitical pressure,[1] which included US threats to reduce intelligence co-operation with the UK.[2] The US president even said that he was responsible for the UK's action.[3]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/18/pressure-...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/trump-to-threaten-to-curb-in...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2020/jul/15/tru...
They display temperature and humidity on the LCD display, but also transmit the temp + humidity every 10 minutes or so via Bluetooth Low Energy.

Battery lasts around a year (on paper) so they make for cheap alternatives to the Zigbee temperature + humidity sensor in the OP article (although that one is pretty cheap as well!)

No internet needed if you set up a Raspberry Pi or ESP32 and run some software which can e.g decode the BLE messages and publish them to MQTT. ESPHome has a component for this which can get you up and running in a few minutes if you have an ESP32 lying around (needs to be ESP32 as ESP8266 doesn't have Bluetooth).
> Ideally it reacts with there and precipitates into other minerals, but it doesn't have to.

Citations needed.
This is a good place i believe. Also product hunt.
Reddit is just an enormous public forum of forums; there's nothing special about it. The problem with reddit isnt reddit but users who think a forum is a social life.
I assume it was a combination of incremental laws and public safety campaigns. It's also true that, in the US and I assume many other countries, there's been a general and incremental shift towards safer behaviors and products of which airbags and seatbelts are just two examples. Increasing automobile safety even at increased cost, etc. wasn't exactly swimming against the tide.
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> When I saw that information sharing could go both ways between my personal account and corporate, I bailed.

how can employers possibly be okay with this?
Elon Musk is basically Jobs 2.0 and he’s doing fine.
Show HN: Don't Work With Startups (Or FAANGs)
Safari would work with my own site, and probably with Google Search.
I suppose you could hand-craft some of the script-generated responses if you want.

Why not use GPT-3 or some other GAN and train it on stuff you have actually written?

Then you can have high-quality, automated data to feed the metrics machine.
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This sounds great in theory, and would work well until your 8 year old jabs a pen in there while you're going 70 on the freeway. There are two completely different scenarios you have to optimize for, and their optimizations really compete with eachother; ease of access is a benefit in one, and a danger in the other.
The First Woman to Win an Olympic Event Was from Sparta
Did you create Dropbox? :)
Geiger is buying them out.

> buying at least 51 percent of the equity in those businesses

A consolidation is the worst possible outcome. The less diversity in ownership, the narrower the conception of what sort of acts get booked and the less artistic adventurism. We don't need SaveLive to reproduce the "success" of TicketMaster in keeping out those who won't play by their rules.

I would rather see all these venues die, and then have new independent ventures sprout up to fill the void.
Seeing the invisible: radio interference on the 868 / 915 MHz frequency bands
My colleague posted a socially awkward penguin meme ridiculing his failure as a mobile game developer.

The post itself was funny and relatable, but didn't have any self-promotion. People asked about the game in the comments and he got his biggest download day as a result.
Hearing Philips in this context made me think of the Philips Hue worm that theoretically could spread from lightbulb to lightbulb to attack an entire city: https://eyalro.net/project/iotworm.html
There are sites that use the GitHub API to collect stats on contributions and projects. The idea of using the available data to gather metrics on orgs and people isn't new.

What might be the most interesting is the idea of productivity scores. It makes so many assumptions that are generalized. I bet many of them aren't documented.

I also would suspect that this will lead to behavior change to improve on "productivity" that may have nothing to do with improving customer businesses but help scores go up.
> I'm really interested in how you can categorize abortion of unwanted babies as genocide.

Sanger, 1924: "How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds."

Sanger, 1939: "The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Sounds like eugenics and genocide to me.

> Would you say the same about preventing all babies from being born with fetal alcohol syndrome by having the mothers abort?

Yes.
Reddit doesn't have the minaway and maxvisit features HN implemented. Self control can be difficult, and many subreddits have an undercurrent of anxiety. I feel like that should be kept in mind.