skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it was a rant, not going to read it again. I am curious if you would agree with this argument:

1. Climate change is very bad and should be avoided at all costs.

2. Atmospheric CO2 causes Climate change.

3. Most electricity that is generated, releases CO2 into the atmosphere.

4. Crypto currencies in their current proof of work form, use an excessive amount of electricity.

5. Therefore crypto currencies cause Climate change and should be avoided at all costs.
Another conclusion is that we’re badly stunting our best and brightest.

Raising plants you get the same effect if you transplant as a batch rather than as each plant matures — because the fast growers end up damaging their roots by over growing by the time you replant the bulk because that’s the average rate. Slow to average growers never encounter that problem.

It may not be that we’re seeing something fundamental so much as our own malpractice.

If you examine the negative outcomes of precocious students, most involve some form of self-harm rooted in boredom. Like a dog chewing itself because you keep it too idle.

That’s a sign we’re not seeing a fundamental fact of growth patterns.
The trick isn't memorizing them. The trick is discovering them. I've been emitting various versions of Wingardium Leviosa at Spring Boot for days now, with no effect. Once I've learned the incantation I'll have it and can repeat it in ten seconds, but until I have it I'm producing no actual work.

Arguably, I'm more valuable because I have the capacity to eventually figure this out, rather than having already memorized it. But if this were a crisis rather than a minor bug, it would be much, much better to have somebody who'd already spent that decade learning all of the many, many, many incantations that Spring Boot requires.

(I'd also argue that Spring Boot in particular is much, much, much too dependent on incantations, and the main lessons I've learned could be put on my resume as "Expert in Spring, and you can be too in one lesson: Don't.")

That really applies to all ecosystems. Hiring somebody smart is better. But there really is something to be said for having somebody with X years experience, who can therefore do some things in 10 minutes because they've already done the painful part on somebody else's dime.
It has become out of reach. In the 90s a seasons pass was expensive but reasonable. I had a "dual mountain" pass from back when it was two different mountains, back when harmony bowl was considered backcountry/out-of-bounds skiing. We were not wealthy and the mountain was a mix of different people. Now it is all uber-wealthy clients. The mountains seem to have more staff than customers. People who just want to ski on their own are being pushes aside for "mountain experience" clients who want guides and expensive food services. We used to bring a bagged lunch, sometimes eating out on the slopes in one of the secret spots. Good lunch doing that these days. There are no secret spots anymore.
Global Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity
Drones vs. hungry moths: Dutch use hi-tech to protect crops
A response to this article, I Don't Want to Teach my Garbage DSL, either, was discussed here on HN almost two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059029

In that discussion, I made this comment¹, which I still stand by:

If you’re developing a DSL which is just a query language, you are reinventing the wheel, and you should ask yourself if any benefit of your language over SQL is worth the effort of all your users to learn your new query language. It may be worth it of your data can not be usefully be modeled by tables; e.g. document query languages like XQuery and even simple XPath are useful and can not be easily replaced with SQL.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059337
A million is quite a bit higher than you need for that: https://money.com/ideal-income-study/
if your an exchange admin there might be a way. if your just a pleb trying to capture project logs, or records of your coworkers bad mouting you, tough luck.
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> I haven’t seen the frontpage you’re talking about in years and I doubt many users do.

It's the default page for anyone who isn't logged in (most likely a majority of users, or at least a large fraction). And I'd be willing to bet at least half of logged in users only have the default subs.
Agreed, and I'd say it is exactly the same phenomenon as when people prefer print books over e-readers.
That's what got me onto MacOS X for many years.
There is a SDR device for hacking that is self-contained. It's the HackRF+Portapack, (https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/hackrf-one-kit/) - which costs significantly more. It uses a FPGA to decode raw signals at up to 6GHZ. The Flipper uses dedicated chips to decode the specific protocols, with each chip having a specific protocol (NFC, LF RDID, 433/900Mhz), which allows a general purpose CPU to interface with other devices.
You should be able to block those elements with uBlockOrigin or similar browser extensions. I blocked a bunch of the "trending" stuff since it never really contributed positively to my site experience.
That usually results in a drop in quality if they burn the pdf, and at least so far I haven't had that trick used on me. I suppose you could add some watermarks to discourage it.
They also don't transmit.
Pointing out that there have been zero sustainable and non-authoritarian socialist entities EVER is a very strong factual argument, FWIW.
Economic benefits of protecting nature now outweigh those of exploiting it
The device does not affect the aerodynamics of the truck or the power of the truck. It creates essentially no back pressure on the engine. In our beta testing, our device currently increases back pressure < 0.5 psi, which is nearly negligible. We’re confident that we’ll get this down to essentially 0 psi as we continue to test and improve the technology ahead of our initial pilots.

Our solution is complimentary with solutions like urea injection and diesel exhaust fluid!
>Before, the function we passed to do_work_and_then was pure: it didn’t have any associated data, so you could just pass it around as a function pointer (fn(i32)) and all was grand. However, this new function in that last example is a closure

Those are different things! Anything pure (i.e. returns same output) could still require a closure if it captures heap-allocated data - which in Rust would entail free-ing and transferring ownership and all that.
May be Nabakov as well, "If on a winters.." reminded me of Pale Fire (though I thought Pale Fire was better.)
For Mac users, this was a new capability. Before that, I was always using remote X sessions to get onto shared Unix systems.
R/The_Donald got a ton of press coverage and discussion to the point where it was shut down, whereas the left leaning ragebait subs do not. Why is this do you think? Why do you think facebook gets so much press attention?
Relative to going to med school, law school, or a top 10 business school, I can’t see how it’s not true even for those with families or commitments.
Agreed, but it seems that some of the marketplaces have things like verified accounts and pay-to-play with significant entry fees.

A reputation system for artists is interesting. One hopes fraud and unoriginal Derivatives/copying are not in the collectors culture
I travelled the world a bit, but I am posting now to just recommend a book about travel that I really enjoyed: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. I think that if you are on the edge... reading this book might just be what it takes for you to pack your bags.
Huh. I have a 2021 Outback with Eyesight. I don't think it does any facial monitoring. The lane-keeping is more aggressive than the 2017 model I had previously, but beeps at me for not being hands-on enough. As far as I can tell, this definition of "hands-on" means slightly fighting with the steering wheel at regular intervals.
The site says you're funded, in part, by LowerCarbon Capital [1]

This is right in my interests -- investing directly in companies trying to combat climate change. Does anyone know much about them? I'm considering dropping them a line and seeing if I can invest in the fund as well.

1. https://lowercarboncapital.com/
It’s possible that the received signal would be “I test well, but I struggle to complete a structured, long-term course of action”, which probably isn’t that beneficial.
It was worth it for the internet points
Reminds me of the hotel scene in the book "Altered Carbon". The Netflix series did a good job visually with this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6VaUPmaCcI
> Sure - then Apple should be forced to provide those parts at reasonable prices.

Is there any product you wouldn’t want to apply price controls to, or force people to make? How are you singling out one company?

> You want me to only use an "official" battery? Then you can sell me an Apple one for the same price as a knock-off.

This makes no sense.

Knocks offs are cheaper because they didn’t invest in R&D, don’t have to be in compliance with global regulations, can make use of lower standard parts, and don’t have Apple’s warranty. Their suppliers also have zero interest in protecting you from supply chain attacks.
Expanding Waymo Open Dataset with Interactive Scenario Data and New Challenges
> I wouldn’t advise CSPs over holding stock. Hold stock and sell covered calls.

I have heard CSP and CC have theoretically the same returns? Except for something called "skew". Although often I am too busy to trade for some several months, and then it would probably better to hav estocks.

Do you do it on individual stocks or ETFs?

Unfortunately I do not have a margin account. I could apply for one
I wonder if we’re really getting into mechanical differences between turntables? It’s hard to talk in terms of sound but you sound like a lot of fun. If you’re ever in or around Regina, Canada let me know. I have two Technics 1200s that I’ve modified heavily. If you’d like, I can show you some cool stuff with three tonearms (the stock 1200 tonearm, a straight tonearm that will tell you precisely when I went to raves and a tonearm that is engineered for better sound. You’ll hear the difference right away. Then I can show you some differences between cartridges, proper cartridge alignment (a fraction of a degree makes a huge difference) and even styluses.

One downside of the proliferation of turntables is that most don’t work with shit. It’s been happening since everyone was a DJ and is still happening now!!! :)
Traveling is not about finding a new, better place. It's about appreciating where you are now.
We Have to Grieve Our Last Good Days
NFTs are creating a rift and battle among artists (and thieves)
I fear, as I get older, that younger people aren’t going to know how to drive anymore. People will have a lower attention span and not pay careful attention thereby increasing the risk to everyone only to blame car when they cause an accident.
The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others have noted.

Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp, though.
Yes, an increase in testing results in both an increase of false positives and an increase in treatment for non detrimental cases. I don't see what that has to do with anything else you've mentioned.

edit ohh, I think you're trying to say that missing those people would somehow contaminate the sample? They would not be in the sample group even if records were more diligently kept. The studies I'm discussing are testing something else.
You made an account (or a throwaway) just to reply to my comment. I think that's interesting... I've gotten a few other replies, which means that this thread is something people care about.

I knocked myself out, nearly drowned, and don't remember 2 weeks. Phased back in over the course of about 6 months. I thought that was basically like being dead, but I've since reconsidered.

Modern Americans don't deal well with death, maybe because we're led to think it's avoidable. I've been watching some movies of the civil war period recently. There were lots of casualties, much more so than previous wars. WWI and WWII and Vietnam were bloodbaths too (more for the Vietnamese civilians than the US soldiers).

The japanese gave their kamakazi pilots meth to help them feel immortal -- soldiers might have survived the skirmish, but being a kamikazi was a death sentence. The japanese were more ... cavalier about dying, which I think helped them to be more efficient fighters.

Pre-modern Americans must have been more realistic about dying. I think it'd be easier to make smart political decisions with the assumption that we're all going to die eventually, than with the assumption that death is optional.
You forget that the US is incredibly heterogenous and the distribution of moral flavors varies widely. I have found Europeans to be prudish in certain domains when compared to mass US opinions (e.g. relatively conservative attitudes toward casual drug use in Scandinavia)
It certainly does. The O2 comes from the air and is heavier than carbon. The carbon comes from the fuel, which is its main content by weight.

1 kg of carbon from fuel + 1.75 kg of O2 from aith = 2.75 kg of CO2.
The challenges in of hydrogen make it less practical than batteries. Storage at 10,000psi, incredible upper and lower explosive limits, hydrogen embrittlement etc.

Have you ever met a truck mechanic who didn't perpetually smell of diesel? Do you want them working with explosive gasses instead?
To be fair, the tax policies that triggered this discussion wouldn't apply in that case.
> The article brings up the legitimate awkwardness of passing functions/closures around in Rust.

That's a hard problem when you have linear/affine types! Closures don't work so neatly as in Haskell; currying has to be different.
“Mentally ill tr*ny demon hackers”, please. The details are important.
The point is that death is inevitable. You can either accept the inevitable or fight it, you get to the same place regardless.

One of the recurring characters on Star Trek were the omniscient immortal Q. One of the recurring subplots was of the Q getting bored of being immortal. "For us, the disease is immortality." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqvxufh6ZDo

It's one thing to have purpose, or meaningful things to do. Sometimes people get to the place where they're just taking up space. My mom's 97 year old friend (stroked at 89, can't communicate) spends 7 days a week in her little room at the care home. We try to visit semi-regularly, but that turns out to be about two hours a week, or every-other-week. I've heard lately she's getting herself out of bed and falls. She is kept alive, but she doesn't really care to live. I think she was able to express this to her helper, when she was living at home...
If you're interested in continuing with Rust, I'd suggest that you think about making code that produces the right result first and make it fast later: use `clone` everywhere you run into borrowing problems, use `Rc` or `Arc` instead of references everywhere you run into ownership problems, make the single threaded version work before adding concurrency, etc.
In that example, the statement is both useless and also possibly still dishonest.

While I might be free in that context of worrying about future employers, I might also feel heavily constrained by the presence of my family and friends. How many people would feel free enough to say the following? "If I had spent more time with my family, they would have driven me absolutely crazy. I got so much more respect and fulfillment as a person at work than I ever did with friends and family. My only real regret is that I left that one job early to spend more time with my kids when they were teens, and they didn't even want to spend any time with me, and I missed that job."

Surely there are people who feel that way, but that kind of honesty in that context is not met kindly, so instead everybody says they wish they had spent time with family.

Maybe it's true. Then again, most people who choose to quit their jobs and stay home end up facing money troubles, which doesn't lead to happy times with family, so inasmuch as it's true, it's empty.

I mean, let's say someone suddenly and unexpectedly recovers. Are they going to then, in fact, quit their job and spend all of their time with their family and friends? Is that feasible? Is that actually what they want? Is that actually what their family and friends want?

I think there is generally just as much motivation to lie as there is for any person's entire life, just about different things, or in a different way. For the same reason, too! Most people still care what others think of them, even up to the moment of death.
I’m curious, could you expand a little bit on why you think resource forks suck?
It would be a shame if someone else created a throwaway account to express similar sentiment about a similar firm and named them.
Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe
I have always thought Pascal solved that in practise with automated reference counting on arrays

A good optimizer could then have removed the counting on non-escaping local variables
I've heard the unofficial apps don't have any limitations and are available in app stores just fine.
The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
Looking forward to the deb package! I like every part of what you guys are doing.
Exactly. The challenge with hydrogen that we've seen is that it's extremely flammable (even when mixed with a small amount of air) so it requires thousands of pounds of reinforcement to make it safe to carry on a truck, which dramatically cuts payload capacity. (Carbon dioxide, by contrast, is thankfully not at all flammable.) Then, of course, there are the challenges with producing carbon neutral green hydrogen, since currently 99% of the world's hydrogen is produced using natural gas or coal. Plus building out a hydrogen distribution and fueling infrastructure all over the world.
One of my favorite derivations in stat mech is for the Chandrasekhar limit where you start by assuming pi=1 because you say stars are cubes.
"If an intelligence agency that's been wreaking havoc in a region for decades wants to surreptitiously gather everyone's DNA there, they should be fine with that and not fear any harm could come from it whatsoever."
I enjoyed the interview, far ranging topics and enough technical details on the upcoming ethereum roadmap to keep it timely.
America Without God: How Politics Replaced Religion
SaaS are the easiest solution to achieve payments from FOSS consumers.
Aren't they a bargain-basement provider? You get what you pay for I guess?
> "If I had a wish to materialize an ideal VC firm, it would be a place with both business types and highly skilled engineers who are on top of their skills and continue to build things."

idealab is somewhat like this. they cycle in engineers to work on an itch for a limited time on salary, then go through an internal round of fundraising (pitch idealab itself for seed money), then seek external rounds if there is traction.

branch[0] is a company that successfully launched from idealab this way. they started as a shift-swapping chat app for hourly workers and have branched (haha) into payments now.

[0]: https://www.branchapp.com/
They can, but I always thought that had more to do with the “warlords” chasing away everyone with a different point of view.

I think the test case is probably r/libertarian where the mods are extremely hands-off, you’ll still get the downvote hammer and it’s sometimes infuriating but it’s nothing like saying something unpopular in r/politics, which isn’t even one of the worst ones.
Hi,

Does anyone recommend a mail provider that implements IMAP failover and replication across different sites ?

My mail account is hosted by OVH, it has been down for hours and from what I read I may have to wait for another 1 or 2 days.

Thanks !
Interesting article. Unlike many others here, I was convinced:

* When I think "I should have worked less" I imagine myself as having worked less and achieved the same. I fail to model the counterfactual reality accurately. I'm imagining a world where my bank balance is the same but I had 20% more time. That means for me, the "I wish I hadn't worked as hard" would be a poor statement. I would fail to have my standard of living. It's possible others are just as bad at the modeling and seeing what I've seen of others, I'm a slightly above average modeler in general.

* I am comfortable with most of my correspondence being public after I die (and for that which reveals details about other participants, when they die as well). But I know that many HN commenters hate this. They have articulated this strongly in the past so I know that control of how you are perceived post-death is important to many others. Unable to categorize who goes into perception management and who goes into Diogenes, I should reasonably not infer that people will tell the truth since they could just be perception managing.

Overall, interesting article. Made me think about a thing I did not even realize I assumed without basis: that deathbed perspectives are valuable because of lack of incentives.

I suppose there is the added truth that people on their deathbed are rarely as mentally able as those for whom death is far.

Yes, I think downgrading my view of the deathbed perspective is correct.
Got it, that's really helpful. Thank you for clarifying and all your hard work on Modin!
What I found amusing at the time was, after years of touting the Mac point-and-click interface as a great improvement over the old-fashioned hard-to-learn obscure command line, they switched to touting the unprecedented power and versatility of ... the command line!
Careful; shrooms are fun and rewarding just as a hobby, and may be a gateway drug leading to pressure canning your own foods, and / or having a pet slime mold.
I used to use Markdown for all my personal notes. Now I use org-mode. Part of what made this possible was finding Working Copy on iOS so I could view and edit my org-mode documents.

It makes me very happy that GitHub supports formatting your README in org-mode.
Possibly because reddit's owned by Advance Publications...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

A company that owns a fair amount of media outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Advance_subsidiaries

Why would they report anything bad about themselves?
It depends. You can ask permission to pitch up overnight on someone's land, or you can discreetly find a hidden spot.

Most people are friendly and unafraid of strangers.
There are 230 million tons of demand for CO2 worldwide every year, and all the semi trucks in the US produce 340 million tons of CO2. Medium term, though, we're actually planning to start sequestering the CO2 deep underground in depleted oil wells in exchange for government tax credits, because we know the market for CO2 utilization is finite. Long term, we'd love to turn the CO2 back into synthetic fuel right at the truck stop where it's offloaded.
I'd argue in that case, the cache is more of a local read-only DB replica :)

It's a subtle word change, but can communicate the slightly difference architecture and break the reader away from an assumption.
I was part of the team that worked on this. Here's a link to the live (React) demo if you want to try it out: https://partyline.daily.co/
> Why should my right of ownership be violated to help apple deal with 'stolen' parts?

It isn’t.

Apple’s products are designed to help consumers avoid the problems associated with stolen parts, including the very real threat of supply chain attacks.

You always have the right not to choose that design.

You seem to want to prevent other people from choosing it, which seems odd to me.