skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Things like vegetarian meat substitute (like beyond meat), are worse to the environment than grass fed/pasture raised animals from small farms.

This is entirely false. Pasture raised animals are generally worse for the environment than feedlot-fed animals, which are already much bad to begin with compared to plant-based foods. You can try to justify it to yourself as “the animals are happier because this is more humane” (which I’m not disregarding, mind you, although I dryly note that not eating animals at all is even better), but from an environmental standpoint raising animals this way is energy intensive and “inefficient”.
Kids = baby goats.
Slave trade existed long before the printing press. My argument is that advances in naval technology enabled the transport of larges amounts of slaves very long distances, which was otherwise not previously feasible.

How many commercial and trade documents were printed with a press? Contracts, ledgers, etc. were still mostly handwritten.
I wish it weren't referred to as 'operator overloading'. I don't want to think of them as 'operators' and I don't want to 'overload' anything.

Is putting a method on a class called 'method overloading'?

I want to be able to define `plus` on my datatypes and I want to be able to define `+` on my datatypes.

`+` on my datatype overloads `+` on `Integer` no more than `get()` on my datatype overloads `get()` on someone else's datatype.

I am not taking an existing Integer type and giving it a new definition of `+`, which is what 'operator overloading' would be.
Please elaborate. If security is not a measurement to uphold and defend the right to privacy, then what is it?
One thing that could help a lot is trying to get the receipt data from some loyalty card some shops have.

In Romania, almost all big stores have mobile apps which allow you to export your purchase lists. Granted, some of them have dumb outputs (Lidl give you an image of your receipt, so you still have to do OCR on it, Carrefour gives you a PDF), but it does make the problem much easier. Of course, this won't work for your random corner shop.
even communicating that to developers and making sure they internalize this requirement can be a big helper.

what I think happens is that companies try to hire the best talent they can find for their money and tell fairy tales how they are modern and foward-looking company with the vision that is going to change the world - and of course devs will internalize that and will try to apply craftsmanship to their daily work, and then you will have problem of shipping on time and on budget.

if managers told exactly and upfront that the products must be hacked together and asap and the quality is NOT the goal, that the goal is to ship shiny new thing quickly to impress VC suits in next N months, and get their funding check and continue this loop until the company finds its exit in form of IPO/acquisition/etc - everything would be honest, upfront, efficient, and conflict free.
Yup. My experience, as well.

That's exactly why I work like I do, now.

Unfortunately, I can't do it when I'm working for anyone else. They never let me do it the way that I do it. I have to be doing it on my own.

It works. It really works, if I write top-quality code, the whole time; even if I have to throw away or drastically refactor/write production-quality code.

My experience is that the final product:

1) Is of almost jaw-dropping quality (it was tested thoroughly, the entire time),

2) Is tailored exactly to the needs of the end-user (which deviated substantially from their original requirements), and

3) Arrives very, very quickly (this always surprises people).
There was a very serious situation involving children and gambling and popular streamers on counter-strike global offensive. It was a scandal, but it could have been way bigger.
Interesting. What makes you say that?
It's not really a counterargument to say that bad things might happen if we call taxation theft. Taxation either is or is not theft on it's own merits, potential consequences of that determination don't change it.

It's also not correct to say that our choices are either to call taxation not-theft or descend into anarchy or socialism. I think taxation is theft because it's people with guns forcing me to pay money or else they'll send me to prison. I wouldn't pay that money if they didn't threaten me, so, seems pretty theft-like to me.

That said, I also realize there is a necessity for the government to be funded somehow. That means we need to balance the immorality of taking money that people don't want to give with the necessity of funding the government.

Thinking about things this way inclines you to certain perspectives about what the government should and shouldn't be doing. Anything that the government does should be worth stealing money from citizens to fund doing.
Tangential: Guzey's "Best of Twitter" (https://guzey.com/best-of-twitter/) is the best Twitter curation list, bar none.

He explores a lot of of interesting contrarian ideas and runs a lot of interesting self-experiments in productivity.
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What is more insane is that only through Class Action can this suit succeed. Why? Because as the current trick by government agencies is that if they think the court case will go against them they return the money before the ruling. This voids the case in the eyes of the court by worse puts the victim on the hook for attorney fees[0]

[0]https://reason.com/2019/11/21/with-this-forfeiture-trick-inn...
The walrus operator was definitely a mistake. But type annotations, pattern matching, attrs/dataclasses, and f-strings are significant improvements.
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Can you link me to where you found the data?
Click the time on the comment (e.g. "2 hours ago") to go to the comment view. There is a "flag" link above the comment now.
Civil forfeiture is a cancer driven by greed of elected officials and the bureaucracy. That money pays their salaries and buys their toys so the politicians can pay them less.
Annkuncem?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_contro...

"271 fatalities and over eight hundred injuries in the United States with more injuries and fatalities occurring internationally" and would have been detected by a TPMS which costs a few dollars.
I completely agree that the burden of proof is on the one making the claim. The claim in question is that a significant percentage of those who get Covid will have permanent (or at least long-term) damage.

> which we don't have data for one way or another, and won't for some time still.

Exactly. There is no evidence for "long Covid" as a frequent phenomenon. The pandemic has been going on for 15 months. Yet those who believe in long Covid still only provide evidence that people aren't always fully recovered after timespans like 3 months.

If Covid frequently caused permanent damage, there would be a lot of people who were infected, say, a year ago, who haven't recovered and show no sign of doing so (their condition has plateaued). There would be studies showing that, there isn't exactly a shortage of scientists researching the topic. And, obviously, people would provide that evidence as it would support their point better. Yet they don't.
Amazon admits its drivers sometimes have to pee in bottles
>" $140 per kilowatt hour"

I wish I could buy at this price. Maybe for some large manufacturers. If one is shopping for eBike batteries privately for example the price is sky high comparatively.
Yes, the real lesson here is, I learned not to trust random vendors and turned off upnp.
- Distrust of financial institutions

- Distrust of government herein obviously justified

- Large debts including but not limited to medical debt that would result in the funds enriching creditors instead of serving the individuals needs

- Need to do business with individuals with any of the above considerations the best example is probably a car from a private seller.

- A transaction related to the marijuana industry that is legal for the majority of Americans and still illegal federally and therefore untouchable by a bank.

If you don't carry it in a bag with a large dollar sign or lurk in a bad part of town after dark your chances of getting robbed are statistically small.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682774
Here is a Zoom talk by Leo Brodie where he explains how he came to write his books:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IJEl6HV2k
I use HN regularly. I use Twitter to learn new things. I have a Facebook which is just a point of presence for people who don't have my number trying to reach me. I have a LinkedIn account but almost never use it because it is just creepy and cringy as fuck. It's hard to use something that makes me want to take multiple showers. It's the most repulsive I know. I have an Instagram account where I have posted a few pictures.

These networks, in my experience, are useful for "discovery and introduction" (leads, mates/partners, etc), i.e for new relations, not really leveraging existing ones or taking action. I transition as soon as possible to physical/real life.

I have none of these applications installed on my phone, neither do I receive notifications. I use a browser to get in, check something, get out.

I'm focused on doing things and maintaining existing relationships. My life right now does not depend on a social media metric going up, so I don't bother. If it did, I probably would.
You can make a donation to the US Treasury at pay.gov. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...
The battery had literally zero temperature management, no heating or cooling. They literally could've added a 12 volt chassis fan to make it not suck so bad.

Rapidgate was a thing, the battery heated up when driving, you stop to recharge -> battery heats up even more -> overheat -> limiters engage and you're charging at hand crank levels of power.
Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sets Record at Auction
They tried, its better than buy this domain.
How to Export Firefox Passwords in GPG with C++
A new treatment may halt cluster headaches
It's not frivolous thinking. I agree with your statement that "you have a value of 1". That's our collective defense mechanism. But as a consequence, we all live with the knowledge that _if we step out of line_, then great powers can be used against us.

Some of those behaviors are generally for the good of society (e.g. 'murder is bad'). But others, like civil forfeiture, are much much more questionable.
https://archive.ph/OADZB
Interestingly, as a predominantly Linux user, I have no such folder. Notably, while the utility software has consistently improved, the UX software has definitely had ups and downs.

And I can't substitute my GUI shell that easily so I keep the default and suck it up.
It's the same in most countries isn't it? My presence in Germany still depends on my ability to pay taxes.
> So, this is about to stop. Very soon. Quantum tunneling, yield rates, etc are all starting to be cost prohibitive.

People have been saying that for over 10 years though. "Very soon" keeps being punted off by another 5 years every 5 years.
Parent didn't say it was harder to use from JS. Parent said "It had to be replaced with JSON by the web developers though, so they could just “eval() it” to get their data."

First of all, I was there 20 years ago. I had to deal with XML, XSLT, one kind of Java XML parsers that didn't fully do what I needed, another kind of Java XML parsers that didn't fully do what I needed. And oh boy was it a pain. I just wanted to get a few properties of a bunch of entities in a bigger XML document, that's all. Big fail.

Second, JSON always had a parser in JS, so I don't know where that eval nonsense is coming from.

Third, JS actually had the best dev UX for XML of all languages 20 years ago. Maybe you know JavaScript from Node.js, but 20 years ago it used to run excusively in web browsers, which even then were pretty good at parsing XML documents. The browser of course had a JS DOM traversal API known to every single JS developer, and very soon (Although TBH I can't remember if before or after JSON) it also had xpath querying functions, all built in.

XML was so bad, that its replacement came from the language where it was actually easiest to use. think about that for a second.

So the answer to the question "Why was XML replaced?" is not "Because webdevs lol".

I suspect it was because it has both content and attributes, which all but guarantees it's impossible to create a bunch of simple, common data structures from it (like JSON does).
House size is basically proportional to the increased energy. The average US home is 2-2.5 larger than European homes [0]. This doesn't just mean more space to heat and cool but also more space for additional appliances.

[0] https://i0.wp.com/shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads...
There is no easy shortcut. There are some people who have kept up with academic research, commercial developments, and trend lines over enough time to filter out short term noise. Some of them blog or write long comments on HN. But unless you are one of those people yourself, you won't be able to tell which writers are trustworthy.

You can rapidly filter a lot of noise out of energy news with knowledge of physics and chemistry from 100-level university courses (or equivalent) [1]. But most people never acquired this knowledge and a lot of those who have only retained it long enough to pass tests in school. 10 years later they don't remember the difference between power and energy or why some chemical reactions are exothermic and others endothermic.

[1] This knowledge is actually helpful to filter news in general when it makes assertions about the physical world.
Building a Personalized Pinboard Newsletter with Bash and a Raspberry Pi
Boxology Cloud Architecture Diagram Quiz for AWS
IMHO, we need more than one language in the shell: one to orchestrate launching of applications, plumbing, and processing of their inputs and outputs, another one for computations with integers, floats, complex values, arrays, matrices, another one for text processing and parsing, another one for argument parsing and default values, another one for error handling and recovery, another one for pattern matching and state machines, another one for object-oriented programming, another one for network programming, another one for record-oriented programming, another one for security and debugging, another one for container management, another one for system manipulation, upgrading, recovering, another one for documentation, and so on, with advanced way to share variables and data between these languages (environment variables on steroids).

It's not possible to implement such monstrosity as one simple, portable, small, fast, and secure binary.
In general, it seems to be appreciated. We initially set it up this way to help take some of the stress out of negotiation (as that favors certain people over others). A few learnings off the top of my mind:

1. Regardless of the structure, the offer needs to be competitive. This wouldn't really help with lowballing offers.

2. Across the ~30 offers I've given out, I don't think that either of the 3 variants is more common. I suppose that indicates that different candidates are indeed optimizing for different situations.

3. Our hiring has intentionally skewed more senior and I think the variants of offers has helped create more family friendly offers.

Regarding options, I tend to make sure to offer to spend a good bit of time laying out the details of how they work (strike price, preferred value, vesting, cliffs, early exercise, etc.). They are indeed confusing and I find that people typically either overvalue the value of the options today, or undervalue the potential upside.
People should not have to have a reason for doing legal things, but reasons might include traveling to a casino to play high-stakes poker, moving to a new city, planning to buy something large in cash, or making the treasury drop for a business.

Back in 19(mumble), I drove from VA to IL with all of my possessions in my Civic Hatchback, including my life savings wrapped in a towel, inside a casserole, inside my microwave. Now, my life savings at the time was around $2500... I was moving, so I closed out my old bank account and planned to open a new one when I got where I was going.

When I was a kid, my mom was the bookkeeper for a local drug store. She had to make the treasury drop at the bank (deposit the cash from the registers). She would drive her car, and an assistant manager would literally ride shotgun - ok, not literally, he was wearing a pistol.
> 3. I used to work for Boeing on flight critical systems, so I speak about how these things are really designed. Critical systems always have a backup. An assert fail means the system is in an unknown, unanticipated state, and cannot be relied on. It is shut down and the backup is engaged.

I ask you to reconsider your assumptions. How did this play out in the 737 MAX crashes? Was there a backup AoA sensor? Did MCAS properly shut down and backup engaged? Was manual overriding the system not vital knowledge to the crew?

You don’t have to answer. I probably wouldn’t get it anyway.

But rest assured that I won’t try to program flight control and I strongly appreciate your strive for better software.
More specificly im saying, the web is designed around making network requests. If your threat model is not to make network requests, you shouldn't try and sanitize html vis blacklists because you'll be in for a bad tine (responding to the grandparent's list of html leaks not the article. I agree that its unreasonable that the txt file does anything. The mistake is in the apple devs trying to sanitize html which is doomed to failure)
Yes the DMCA is a terrible law that isn't based on justice, but rather was one of the first laws bought by copyright holders so they could attack the nascent Internet. This was apparent at the time, and the community tried to fight it. But as with most ratcheting authoritarianism, we lost and it's just how things are now. I feel like this has been forgotten, based on how people talk about the claim-counterclaim process expecting it to be equitable.
My biggest complaint about the book: it's simply terrifying.

If you suffer from insomnia, don't pick up this book. It will have the opposite of the desired effect. It doesn't have a lot of practical guidance. And now, according to this article, much of the terror might be unfounded.

Better books I'd recommend if you have insomnia are "The Sleep Solution" and "The Circadian Code"
Embarrassingly, instead of fixing the code, I fix the data for bash. I just make sure my input is well-formed haha. I don't think I have any files or folders with spaces in them on my computer.

It may not be the way but it is a way.
This option was and is disabled - I should have mentioned this in the blog post
Ask HN: Are NFTs as bad for the environment as people make them out to be?
I’ve heard mixed messages on just how bad NFTs are, regarding their carbon impact. I get that proof-of-work blockchains use a ton of energy. But, as someone who’s still learning about crypto — is minting an NFT on, say, the Ethereum network, really equivalent to a household’s annual carbon emissions? (Or whatever the apt comparison is.)

Please no rabbit holes on “NFTs are a scam”, etc - plenty of those conversations here already. Really just want to get clarity on the emissions question.
I believe it lacks the Host: header, which means sites with virtual hosting (the vast majority of them) instead of a specific IP won't work.
They already do. A battery swap/refresh/replacement for a Leaf is 5-10k€ over here, depending on how bad shape the original is and whether you want a larger battery in there.

It's kinda sorta doable by yourself, but it's a HVDC circuit so you _really_ need to know what you're doing.

Actual brand-name shops are slowly able to replace individual failed cell packs instead of just swapping the whole battery.

The big problem is that batteries aren't really failing and because of that the manufacturers don't really have a process in place for replacements, each operation is a custom job.
I usually Pooh-Pooh claims of totalitarianism as being alarmist, but in this case, it is totally deserved.
Random thought, consider installing a small RV bathroom in those trucks.
People are angry at both.
US: One Wants to Protect People, the Other Wants to Preserve Freedom
I mean, unless you're host is extremely locked down you'll probably also have telnet,netcat, etc installed, so no great difference.
Investments come out before profits, and only profits are taxed.
> I was trying to make the Mac to Linux switch just like the author

I've tried a couple of times, but finally decided what's the point. Linux is amazing on all the servers I run and manage. It's lightweight, supported well, and does a great job. I also rarely have to tinker with it. For servers, it really does just work.

On the PC side not so much. I used to run linux in various flavors on the desktop side for years. It provided more power than windows IMO. Then OS X came out with actual unix underpinnings, a functional media system (UI, audio, video), and fully supported creative apps like Ps, MS Office, and later LR.

Against my better judgement I tried a final time move to desktop linux a couple of years ago, but multi-monitor mixes of hi and low dpi were just unworkable. I actually posted a question (it may have been here on HN - can't remember), and one of the responses was 'no one needs HiDPI screens'. Got it.
I recently started using paperless-ng, check it out, perhaps you can build on that. Includes tessarect for ocr for example.
You can live ok, and have disposable income with 120k in Kansas city, while in NYC or SF you probably have to have roommates, or live in a small cramped studio, to have the same disposable income at the end.

If a company is going to pay for you to have a good/happy living conditions, and disposable income, then adjusting some of the pay by location makes sense.

The best scenario is when they split the difference and it becomes a win win scenario.

At the end of the day a company will pay as much as the market bears for their long term retention strategy (e.g. 94% voluntary retention).
Sounds like a ranking as meaningful as pandemic preparedness. https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-a...
It's a service so it requires sending your data over the network, but the rest is just ignorable implementation details.
Why Uruguay's Schoolchildren Are Doing So Well in the Pandemic
Five rules for fact-checking shakey statistics in the news
The difference between malware and "legitimate" software is whether there's a "legitimate" company behind it and whether that company has a "legitimate" interest in the information. Sad but that's how it is. Just like how governments give themselves the right to crack computer security and surveil everyone but throw citizens in jail if they do the same thing.
There are satellite networks that can pick up AIS broadcasts from almost anywhere on the planet. So you can track a ship in the middle of the ocean with a few minutes delay. Pretty amazing to imagine how many signals these satellites have to process at once and how weak they must be after making it all the way into space.
The scary thing is how much ones phone number (a somewhat ephemeral thing) is actually bound to your IDENTITY.

Considering your phone number is more and more being used in 2FA ... if you were to ever change your number and someone else got it, this would pose a serious security risk if you failed to change over ALL of your internet accounts 2FA to the new number.