skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same as UMTS before LTE. I still remember my first UMTS phone would go through battery like water through a sieve.
No one will care if a guy calls some investors an asshole on Twitter...
At least some of this is mentioned in the US court judgement linked to in the article: https://casetext.com/case/chevron-corp-v-donziger-28 (under the heading "Donziger Causes a Change to Less Probative Tests When the LAPs' Experts Find Pollution that Likely Was Not Caused by Texaco" and in subsequent and preceding sections). I think there may have been news coverage that went into further details, can't remember where though.
Use Tumbleweed (2016)
There isn't enough information in your comment for me to understand, but it sounds like some sort of gotcha? If so, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. HN moderation practice has been thoroughly covered by the tens of thousands of posts we've made about it. There aren't any surprise revelations or factors that haven't been explained a zillion times.
There's also this view which has been online for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c

So nice to have a live view of a volcano on my second screen while working and watch it change from day to day.
Eating less can change your metabolism.

What you eat can change your metabolism.

This CICO bullshit is honestly no better than middle age alchemy beliefs from people who don't realize humans are far more complex machines than a high school science fair battery but feel smart calling out newton's third law.

Your gut flora, your metabolism, your stress levels, what times you eat, your heart rate, your existing muscle mass, your sleep, vitamin levels, all those affect how much you burn actively and passively, how much you absorb from your food, what sources of energy your body decides to burn, and your energy levels as a whole.

Weight loss is fucking hard for a reason. "Just eat less to lose weight" is akin to telling someone "just use a linter to fix your code". Good idea? Maybe. It usually helps. Silver bullet? fuck no, i don't need to tell you it's way more nuanced and complicated than that.
The credible solution already existed, before we prohibited private entities from providing restrooms. Banning pay toilets effectively meant banning public toilets, since municipalities self-evidently don't have the will or competence to maintain them. This is one of those big problems that isn't actually that hard.
I went to work at a place that made a code obfuscator, thinking I’d get to work on it. By the time I arrived they were essentially EOLing it (providing support, spending nothing on sales and no new development), so they assigned me to something completely different. JetBrains and Atlassian really are the exceptions.
Sounds like I won't be able to produce any evidence that will satisfy your criteria. I personally consider "tricking people into thinking they'll make lots of money if they spend hundreds of dollars minting NFTs" to be a harmful activity.
> I'm quite doubtful that you could give everyone in the world "drug glands" that give them a hit of as much of any drug as they want anytime they want and not have a large chunk of the population die or become catatonic from opioid overuse

An important part of any utopia, presumably, is freedom. While probably no-one’s dying of an overdose (they can treat that!) it’s made fairly clear that a lot of people don’t make optimal choices with that freedom.
Those people would not have died if Trump did not incite the riots.

Do you dispute the above?
To me, a real human is someone who will provide me an economic good or service without requiring that I show them a government/medical document that alleges I've received a coronavirus vaccine.

Vaccines are only effective for a period of time due to the changing nature of viruses. For example, the Japanese encephilitis vaccine only lasts 1-2 years and you are recommended to pay for expensive new shots if you travel in the region and are concerned about the virus.

If you allow the government and large institutions to say you can't receive a service if you don't take a laundry list of vaccines which have side effects, then you will seemingly allow them to require you do many other potentially dangerous things that are unrelated to stepping foot on a cruise ship.
s/whole/hole/g

Its an overflow/drain/spillway in a dam lake
There is zero blockage to paying for OSS right now. Just Do It. I've been a member of the FSF for years.

What hasn't happened is a culture of offering financial feedback to favored projects.

Patreon and Kickstarters seem a start.

Suggestions are welcome.
>My primary voting issues in 2020+ are: winding down and stopping our endless wars in the Middle East, restoring domestic manufacturing, protecting constitutional rights, in particular free speech, and curtailing the US intelligence apparatus, which I view as abusive and political.

You got a bit of the first, and none of the rest. If Trump runs again in 2024, you should pick someone else.
The article deems neither Bitcoin's energy consumption nor the traditional banking system's as "acceptable" or "unacceptable". (e.g. check out the footnotes.) Bitcoin's energy consumption can be "justified" in many ways (if it even needs justification at all!). But "Bitcoin is a Battery" is not a good justification, since it is demonstrable false.
So I admit that this is totally based on outside optics only, but everything I've seen signals "big corporate group thing" similar to many standard groups and other committees, which is fun and games if participating is your job: you get an opportunity to talk about about what you are doing on company time, with peers that are also there on company time and thus don't mind spending hours on participating in meetings (during work time, because it's work for everyone else), reading mailing-lists, ... But if you aren't paid for it, you either need to have effectively unlimited free time or be someone highly respected already to be able to participate on a meaningful level.

If that's not the goal, you need to invest into a) ensuring that you actually do provide a useful environment for outside participants and b) communicating this, i.e. by having a public presence that clearly explains this and doesn't look like it's targeted at impressing middle management. Transparency into what is going on right now is key to this.

"Linux Foundation" doesn't scream "community". See also other comments here specifically about Google's input, which reads a lot like "we've thought up some things we're now going to impose on everyone, just open-washed a bit". (Again, this is totally outside image, and not intended as an attack on any individual involved as having done anthing wrong, just trying to communicate what outside impression you are likely dealing with)
Even if it forked, that would be working as intended. Anyone can fork Ethereum, but there's currently billions locked in staking on the Beacon Chain, so there's at least a large segment of the community that will support PoS, so there will be a PoS chain, even if there's also a forked PoW chain. I just doubt the PoW chain will remain useful, as the PoS chain will have obvious benefits and would likely remain the dominant Ethereum.
OK, who are some modern American conservative leaders who show humility, or any of the other major tenets of the teachings of Jesus?

Who shows that they love their neighbors? Does building the wall show that?

Which of them love their enemies? Which doesn't judge others? Who has repented for their sins?

Where do I "only have to look" to find these people? What non "celebrity pop culture news networks" should I be watching?
One useful heuristic (at least, the one I usually go to first if I'm not sure what key a song is in) is that root of the final chord of the song is often the same as the root of the key. I suppose that probably works better for some music traditions than others. Also I believe some songs in a minor key sometimes end by converting the root chord to major.
> I'm not a woman but I'm a minority in other dimensions.
I've always felt labels such as "female-led", "female-owned", "<insert minority-led>"

We didn't do those things for one venture and a lot of people that would have liked to support or be inspired by us had no idea we existed, never being included on lists

When we did do those things, we got the highest engagement on the articles because half the people would be supportive and mostly members of the same group, and the other half which typically were not of a minority group would argue about why it was mentioned at all

and I have no opinion on that, the outcome reminds me of gullibility? something about how easy it is to play the population like a fiddle, its kind of like setting a glass bottle on the edge of a table and watching what happens

my actual opinion is always remember who is shaking the bottle
I mostly agree with the article, I have been in a position of giving business/career advices a few times in my life, and I also remain silent (or plainly refuse to interact with women/poc) for this exact reason.

Whenever I am asked for advices or feedback I am often in a position where I have nothing to win, I would gladly help and genuinely share my knowledge so that other people don't make the same mistakes or gain a different perspective, but there is a small probability I will lose something (reputation, being labeled a sexist or whatever)

Therefore, pure logical reasoning push me toward "not helping".

I am more lenient with people I have known for some time (even if they are just acquaintances). But for strangers/employees who seek advice, I stay far away from women and only interact with them if another person is in a room, or I am being recorded.
How do faithless people like me make sense of this past year of Covid?
Please add enough documentation to use FicusJS without prior knowledge of Web Components! It's very important for adoption as a framework in its own right with web components as one component.
Doesn’t sound hilarious. Sounds ageist. She shouldn’t have be involved in anything related to hiring.
NFTs on PoS chains exist today. Some artists explicitly chose those because of that. Everyone else needs a good answer why they didn't, and if "I can't get as rich with those" is a good enough answer. Especially given the push for legitimacy connected to NFTs.
Yup, it's historical--like almost everything in languages ;-)
The Basics of Plastic
Thank you! When I wrote the blog post, I felt it's not clearly written, and that the point might get lost. I'm heartened to see that at least one person understood what I was trying to convey. I'm doing some edits of the post for clarity, if you don't mind I'll steal some of your emphasis back into the text.
Java was in the right place at the right time have a Hype Cycle that aligned with availability of the internet and search engines.

If you were graduating and thinking MFC or Java you just had to look at the price of the bookshelf of books required to get anywhere with the former and have some second thoughts.
We're not going to agree on the "choices" that led to expansion, so I won't try to change your mind.

Imagine another country in the Americas willingly became a defensive ally of Russia, allowing them to place arms and troops there. Do you think the US would consider that a provocation and be willing to invade that country?

We've done that before, and we've even overthrown governments we thought might make that decision. So when the US does the exact same thing, it's still a provocation. Any "Russia is more of a threat" or "spreading democracy" justifications are simple American exceptionalism.

>Blame belongs on the ones who actually invaded.

I did blame Russia, that doesn't mean NATO isn't also to blame.
> As long as you’re in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight

And depending on a million different factors, you may lose a lot of energy, burn less, as you hinted to you may lose muscle mass, do damage to your gut flora, all things which after you're done losing a couple kgs will have you wondering "why the fuck am i feeling so weak all the time, and why have I stopped losing weight?"

YMMV. "Make healthier meal choices" is better advice than "eat less, CICO".
What’s the thinking behind the term “bio break” instead of “I’m going to run to the bathroom”? Sounds like something out of Futurama to me.
Also, in the spirit of guilt by association, kids may become collateral damage too.
I was discussing programming puzzles with a new group of colleagues. The way these discussions typically go is that after most of us solve it, they will start giving hints/spoilers to others to keep the conversation flowing.

So I did this as usual and offered a hint to the last person (who was a woman) to not see the trick this time. It surprised me when she looked visibly upset and asked me why I was explaining it to her. I'm guessing this is because of her own insecurities that she was worried that I thought she was too dumb to solve it on her own otherwise. Up until this point her gender was irrelevant to me. I only explain stuff because the value of discussing interview problems is to get practice solving and explaining stuff to each other. But now I have to question whether I was "mansplaining" or not.

This minor event bothered me so much I never talked to her about programming puzzles ever again.
MSNBC and CNN do not keep each other in check, it's a race to the bottom of pure garbage "journalism", which is most often either exaggerated clickbait or totally fabricated yellow journalism.

They also all participate in laundering of fake news. One of them throws up a totally false story and all of the others repeat it.

As a recent high-profile example, Washington Post falsely claimed that Trump told a Georgia election official to "find the votes", which a later leaked recording proved to be absolutely fabricated (they retracted it). CNN, MSNBC, BBC and other ethically bankrupt organisations printed the lie verbatim.
I'm not sure what your point is. Sure, it'll be interesting to watch, but the bar for a new organization to a crew to gather live footage is far higher than "some people would find it vaguely interesting".
And that appears to be another non sequitur. It was Elon's personal assets which caused those paychecks to exist in the first place. Elon has risked over 100% of his personal wealth on multiple occasions and there are moments in Tesla's history where if the company had failed, Elon would have fallen back into deep debt.
Apple explains why the App Store is not a monopoly
Make Money Online with Fiverr
Could deserve a try. How is the recipe?
Is there a good demo anywhere?
this exactly.

I'm fine to pay for tools (and I do). But I hate the idea of becoming dependent on proprietary tools. Imagine leaving your job and going to the next and because they don't pay for a tool you've become critically dependent on half your skills are useless.

And its not just for myself but I think its harmful that it creates barriers within teams and organisations. All the investment in infrastructure and knowledge connected to the tooling can only be shared with the people licensed to use it. If your team processes depend on it then nobody outside the team can even properly work on the software.

So we end up in a catch 22 where I will say, we can pay for software as long it is still perfectly practical to develop our code without it. But if you extrapolate from that, it means nothing we ever pay for can have a very high value proposition, and ergo we can't justify paying for it.
Yeah that definitely doesn't show algorithms are worse than humans.
PHPStorm gives you so much, it feels like too much because it takes forever to load.

Developing with php should feel fast. I feel like phpstorm slows me down. I like sublime, it opens the last project in .5 seconds. For me ctrl-p start typing is usually quicker than scrolling down a tree structure.

I want to use phpStorm daily again but it gives me zend eclipse flashbacks. I wish they offered a light verson.
I have a similar regret, I.e. being naive and giving well over 100% to my job.
The US consumer safety regulator is investigating Tesla solar panel fires
I feel the generally remote or solo work of open source developers makes it even harder. I talked to the customer support people at work and it's the shared team bonds that keep them from burning out. They can commiserate and provide mutual emotional support if a bad customer berates one of them. They can share and reinforce positive comments amongst each other to lift morale. That is all much harder for most open source projects.
The article calling it FTL isn't entirely correct. You aren't travelling faster than light. Spacetime can, and routinely does, exceed c.

One possible solution to the problem is time expansion in the bubble: taking a 200ly trip would age the universe by 200 years outside the bubble (from the frame of reference of those inside).
Dragon’s Lair on the TI 99/4A
I would guess the nda part. Many people hate the very idea of an nda. But really (down)votes are for saying you agree or disagree without cluttering up the thread with useless comments. So they just didn't agree, they weren't necessarily offended.

Fwiw I upvoted your first comment and down voted the ones talking about votes.
There are at least a few classes of fruit in terms of ripening.

* Non-climacteric fruits will only ripen on the plant. Strawberries are like this. They can turn more red after picking, but it's deceptive. They don't actually get sweeter.

* Most climacteric fruits will ripen either on or off the plant. I think bananas and apples are like this.

* Some climacteric fruits will only ripen after picking. Avocados are like this for sure. You have to wait until it's large enough to pick it (or it will never ripen) and wait a week or two after picking to eat it. Leaving it on the fruit for an extra week or two is no substitute for waiting after picking. There are probably other such fruits.
back when i was drinking coffee (gut has changed with age... i can't drink it anymore), It never stopped me from sleeping, it just made me not want to go to sleep.

If I knew i really needed to sleep i could at any time.
Here is my rebuttal to this blogpost, where I claim that Bitcoin is not a battery, but rather a bottomless sink for marginal-cost electricity:
https://medium.com/lunar-ventures/bitcoin-is-not-a-battery-i...

And the HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611342
You guys could implement a RTS-CTS protocol
There's no irony here. If your plan to make society better is to infantilise group X because you view them as too weak to handle corrective feedback (or compete against group Y) they (as a group) will soon start to lose the benefits of success-selection that come with competition and correcting your course when you get feedback.
This blockchain hype is getting ridiculous. As an enduser I don’t care about the underlying technology it’s not my problem.
I am no musician. I heard quite a few musicians, with or without innate perfect pitch, can tell the keys in a chord, though maybe not to the 100% accuracy. For example, something like what the kid is doing in this video [1]. I am a bit surprised that this can't be done programmatically.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXivZlPu0ms&t=175s
"Kids in their bedrooms" had cracked versions of MSVC.

Even at my school, I don't remember a single student paying for any software. Teachers were obviously aware of that and while they didn't encourage piracy openly, when they showed something on a high priced software, "go ahead and get the cracked version if you don't already have it" was almost implied.

We also worked with Linux and free software a lot, that's just to say that price never was an issue, because we didn't pay.

It is debatable but I think publisher were happy with that situation, students wouldn't pay in any way, they might as well learn on tools that their future employers will have to pay for.

Things have changed. Most notably, the primary way of monetization is online services now. Software is often given away for free and piracy is either pointless (because free software) or much harder (because a large part of it is online).

As for charging for dev tooling, yes, it is hard, because charging for software is hard. That is, unless you have an online service component. That's a reason why "collaborative" tools are so popular now.
I had the misfortune of working with a person who decided that everything was an affront to her existence. And being that she was a woman, firing her was out of the question because of the potential discrimination lawsuit.

God help you if you ever made the mistake of greeting a room full of people with "hey you guys" in her presence.

The ridiculousness of the complaints escalated until any Slack messages not strictly business related were relegated to direct messages with only trusted people. There were no more work outings, because people didn't feel comfortable. People avoided engaging her at work as much as possible for fear of an HR report.

It made work absolutely miserable.
https://hub.docker.com/r/collabora/code/
> Can't buy ephedrine anymore

Sure you can. It's called "Bronkaid" and any ol' drug store sells it here in the US. Usually you need to show ID and sign a waiver (you can only buy so much of it per month, since it's an ingredient for making meth IIRC), but other than that it's OTC, no questions asked.

If popping pills ain't your thing you could also grow ephedra yourself and brew your own "Mormon tea".
Where my parents live in France, there's a waste category 'encombrants', means cumbersome, that's like broken/unwanted furniture, metal waste that's collected Sunday evening/Monday morning. And so every Sunday afternoon we see people going through what's been left on the sidewalk, I guess to reuse or sell.
I use https://muzei.co/ on my phone and I wrote a script to fetch the today picture on my desktop
It’s so weird watching tech people drool over 3D printing hardware, raspberry Pi stuff or woodworking tools.

I suspect there’s overlap between “but your own software tools” and this group but I’m fairly sure there are at least some experiencing a degree of cognitive dissonance.
Why not ask him? Maybe give him a call? You have already spent lots of time “together”. You are de facto some kind of companions. I’d definitely be delighted. Mostly it’s me reaching out to users.
I disagree.

Effective communication requires effort, but many people speak impulsively and fail to convey what they actually mean. If someone is unable to clearly express themselves without being misunderstood then either their thoughts need to be distilled further or the statement needs to be carefully worded.

If I am not responsible for how people interpret my words, who is?
The theory sounds simple, but my (barely) educated guess is that an "evenly lit grey card" is an understimated endeavor.

There is a reason why 3D rendering is difficult; light bounces an awful lot. Objects slightly tint the whole room even if unperceptibly. Lamps vary in intensity, and their shape affect the outcome. So how do you even set the scene up? With a small card the phone being so close can affect lighting. A distant large surface requires more distant lights for uniformity, o simply more lights. Getting the camera out of focus might be useful, but can't correct large scale phenomena properly. Getting the watermark is the difficult part imo.

After all that, once you substract it from every picture you take, every subtle mistake you made in the watermark generation phase will become your new watermark. You bet your privacy on your error being very close to the zero function across the whole grey card. As mentioned in every other comment, astronomers do these calibrations often... for a living. I'm simply not that invested beyond removing EXIF data.
Yes, but the amount of capital that gets stored has nothing to do with the amount of electricity that goes into the system. Bitcoin is a "battery for value" (AKA a currency). But it's not a "battery for electricity" (AKA a battery :) ).
That makes your previous comment nonsensical. Are you just here to troll?
Rationality and emotions are not apposed.