skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If you have access to limitless, relatively cheap debt, then yeah, there’s absolutely no reason to build fossil fuel plants anymore.

Thats kind of the point. The cost of capital is rightly higher in developing nations. Capital intensive carbon neutral projects just don't make sense for much of the world.
Ecco the Dolphin's creator wants movie for the alien-fighting nature-loving hero
Typed cells is a step backwards.
ObservableHQs extensive use of JS template literals makes for a much clearer UI and flexible system with a better user experience.

I hope that the folks at observable realize at some point that they should be a GitHub like service in a Notebook ecosystem instead of a monolythic platform.
Tesla defeated.
Oh, and all that stuff you just set up requires arcane knowledge of how to reproduce it locally. Worthless arcane knowledge, your aws certification.

Terraform is a magical amount of arcane.
Yes, but you need to face reality. US, Germany can afford spending huge amounts of money for renewable energy, but many countries just can't.

Worst, India at least recognized that they can't afford that, but for instance Poland signed European version of a "green deal", which costs are estimated to be 0.4 trillion US dollars (according to Polish gov estimates) up to 1 trillion according to McKinsey Consulting. This is roughly 2-4 times Polish GDP. EU funds will cover about 20% of that sum.

Poland will not be able to afford to spend that much money without rising energy prices to the exorbitant level (and because of CO2 certificates they are already the highest in Europe), which means less competitive economy, which means less money in people pocket, which means huge group of electorate angry at democracy and EU. This cannot end well.
I think the policy swings from state to state. There are some states that are going big on renewables.
In India , Thermal power is provided by NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) , when state power supplies dwindle , power is procured from NTPC. The per unit price of this is way higher than the one from local grids.
Some power supply companies and the central government now provide subsidies for roof top solar and buy the power into the grid at a fixed price slab (consumer gets it at variable slabs). This is quite good in few states e.g (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kseb-plans-to-...) , Gujarat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Gujarat , https://theprint.in/india/how-gujarat-is-building-worlds-lar...). Consumer demand is also on the rise , eventually this will balance out with Renewables and Nuclear power (India is one of the largest renewable energy adopters , and there is a good subsidy for this)
The news media and the Democrat establishment frequently lump in the millions of Trump voters with Nazis, and then tell us it's okay to assault Nazis.

If group accountability is a thing, why only for one side?
I have to say, it's a nice article, but I am a bit skeptical of this analysis' casual endorsement of treating Likert scales as continuous data.
The Zugzwang Hypothesis: Why Human Lifespan Cannot Be Increased
OAuth sometimes is done using an iframe and a pop-up window instead of by navigating to the federated auth provider and back. That version often needs third party cookies.
Yeah, he made it cool, but racist, trigger-happy cops were a problem before he was one.
This reminds me of a time I sat outside a cabin in Big Bear looking at the snowy mountain range. It was crazy how vast and white it was. Maybe I just need to go outside.
Recycling some replies. More context on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182988:
Pick and choose:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 (understanding codebases, etc.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067 (testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 (making the most out of meetings, leveraging your presence)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 (product development)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 (giving a damn)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 (If I disappear, what will happen)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 (about consulting and clients, but you can abstract that as "stakeholders", and understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 (on taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 (product, architecture, and impact on the team)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 (onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 (being efficient learning from video, hacks. Subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 (communication with the team, and subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 (template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team. Notes are in GitHub/GitLab so the team can access them, especially if they haven't attended).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 (communication, alignment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 (useful things for the team and product that add leverage)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 (more meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 (management involvement as a spectrum)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 (researching topics)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 (keeping up with a firehose of information)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 (fractal communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 (remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align)
Just a note that you can press Super, and drag a window from anywhere.
The antidote to relativism is to look at cases that we can objectively judge in isolation. For this topic it's quite easy - there have been many murderers who have escaped justice due to being employed as police officers. For example, Breonna Taylor's murder is a clear cut example - she was gunned down in her own home during a deadly home invasion, yet the public prosecutor refuses to do their job because the assailants are police officers. This case should make every American's blood boil, and most especially those that believe in the 2nd amendment. If someone is able to do mental gymnastics to end up thinking the actual problem there is the media blowing things out of proportion, they are truly lost - and most likely suffering from media psychosis in our postmodern environment.
Debian’s Election Results
I really think the RPi has the potential to become the de-facto ARM desktop, very much like the IBM PC became the de-facto x86 machine.
I really wish the boot procedure and all that wasn't so proprietary.

It's unfortunate that the RPi foundation doesn't acknowledge this potential more.

It feels like the RPi is stuck in the middle between being a low-cost board for GPIO tinkering and being a low-cost general-purpose computer, being not really that good at either task.
Maybe they should create a coreboot-enabled board that is a little more pricey, starting at 60 or 80$ or something, for the "ARM-PC" (the RasPC!) market and separate that from the board for the tinkerers.
How to Pivot Agency to SaaS
Historically, that seems pretty common
How to Pull Request
What a fantastic write up. Thank you for taking the time to put that together. Comments like this are why I come to HN.
Not directly related to patents, but on the subject of judicial corruption IIRC there have been cases of judges directly colluding with youth correctional facilities to send as many kids as possible, or with estate lawyers to get elderly declared incompetent so their assets could be taken.
I don’t think it’s colonialist? Hot take, but countries like India and China can take care of themselves. The US and Europe should penalize corporations here too who pollute.
As long you only use k8s and no (other) managed services in the mix.
You can in fact check someone’s credentials without detaining them.
It’s just not a realistic way to debug and test. Data is very different across environments and use cases. Unless it’s a bumble fuck add(x, y) lambda, you are effectively suggesting an unrealistic solution. I NEED to reproduce the system locally.

And, why is this such a wild expectation in 2021? Is it that so much to ask?
We do not grant people permission to cause harm on a national level just because there is a lack of social economic factors like education, health, economy, freedom, and mobility. It is acknowledge that those factors play a part in why people do harm, and providing social support reduces the overall rate of harm, but we still have laws that forbid harm.

I don't see any good argument why we should give explicit permission to do harm on a global level. We can and should acknowledge that a lack of education, healthcare, stable economies, freedom, and economic mobility are contributing factors for pollution.
No, the issue is housing supply is arbitrarily and artificially constrained in these areas. It's vastly more efficient to simply concentrate housing and development in a small area rather than sprawling into undesirable areas.
> This is a colonialist policy

nations can’t even do some kind of sanction to promote clean tech without some social justice moralisms? It’s so tiresome.

The plane is going down. First class goes down with coach.
Exactly, it wasn't necessary for law enforcement functions. It served another purpose entirely.
Apple is doing just fine on greatly reducing tracking, and we don’t think FLoC or anything much like it is necessary. Safari already blocks 3P cookies by default and has done so for a year.
Labelling it "suffocation" is begging the question since the original autopsy didn't include suffocation or asphyxiation as a cause of death (although the autopsy commissioned by the family did, and the prosecution is arguing this).
>If a law is proposed that you can see as morally, ethically flawed and outright dangerous to society, the response definitely shouldn't be to laugh it off and pretend it doesn't concern you.

Especially when we are the experts who are best equipped to argue against it.
As a young person, who will have their health care and conditions negatively impacted by the economic and humanitarian disaster of climate change, I can blame them.

They are prioritising older voters over younger ones.

This tactic ends with a gerontocracy and ultimately no more humans.
The author does sort of realize they beat the odds, but does not quite realize by how much, and how little of it is actually "mindset". Just getting into Stanford and not flaking out means big potential network of rich contacts, and if you actually did anything, skill backed by credentials. This alone is less than 1% shot. How many we have not heard about, had these or better qualities and failed to get anywhere?

Anywhere lesser, the story would be one of no startup service industry dead end job, or at best a corporate one getting nowhere. One that is written too rarely.
It's not the media "stirring the pot", it's often white nationalists and their ilk: https://www.startribune.com/police-umbrella-man-was-a-white-...

That's the real problem, not the headlines.
Do you have any historical examples of this? As I believe in opposite.
That’s quite an attitude when talking about free software.
Also, as have been said plenty of times, Gnome is opinionated very much. And it is not the usual stacked wm, after using it for a time, I’ve never ever wanted to minimize something.

Of course it won’t be everyone’s thing, feel free to use the thousand other wm’s out there, that can minimize for you...
The reason Bulverism is a formal fallacy.
erm...how many colonies did Norway have?
I recently paid Rs. 60000 (almost $1000) for two UPS to backup my two PCs, a TV/game console, WiFi router. The housing complex where I live already has a backup generator, but the generator takes about a minute to kick in.

People living in the Western world will never understand the frustration of having your computer reboot 15 times a day, or getting your game console reset in the middle of a game.
Intimidation is the point. None of this is required to check a journalist’s status.
AGX (and SGX) aren't the only TBDR architecture. ARM Mali GPUs are also TBDR, are in plenty of phones, and run Vulkan just fine.
Indeed - thats why I used the word "everything".
I did not see that, just skimmed through both sites. There are a lot of features done.
Wouldn’t desal be cheaper co2 & energy wise than lighting and temperature control?
For lowering Cortisol.
I literally just spun up a copy but it looks like it has Sonic full-text integration, however I'm not 100% sure if it's working via the UI as there isn't much feed back letting you know why a site has displayed in the results.
I was trying to do something similar with walls bag, but no epub file to send :(
Desal discharges salt waste back into the surrounding water, which accumulates on the sea floor. This salty desert kills marine life. Also, the energy needs are very high—-probably too high for our infrastructure to cope. I don’t have sources handy at the moment but a lot of research is done on this in the Middle East / Israel:
You might want that, but you can’t change the fact that they were.
Last time I saw this you could only view the archive via the UI. It's really come a long way.

Could be very useful now.
I doubt the numbers are anywhere close, but if a coal plant and a wind plant cost the same to build, produce the same power output, and use the same footprint, there's almost no reason someone would build a coal plant unless there was coal someone was paying to get rid of. Assuming you've got some wind to harvest anyway.

I'm not sure what kind of sources you're looking for, with such an unbounded hypothetical.
Urbanites can recycle water. Israel recycles nearly 90% of its water.

LA recycles about 2%.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-recycling-lo...

https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recy...
If they don’t want to do it themselves then some of our billionaires will be happy to invest and own huge portions of the upside.
It's objectively the police that is the problem in the US. The killing rate per 10 million inhabitants of the US is about the same as in Columbia and Iran, and about 2000% (not at typo) of the rate of most European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
That's very exciting!

A nit:

> For example, I have not encountered hardware for reading vertex attributes or uniform buffer objects. The OpenGL and Vulkan specifications assume dedicated hardware for each, so what’s the catch?

That is not my understanding of those specs (as someone that's written graphics drivers). Uniform Buffer Objects are not a "hardware" thing. They're just a way to communicate uniforms faster than one uniform per API call. What happens on the backend is undefined by those specs and is not remotely tied to some hardware implementation. Vertex Attributes might have been a hardware thing long ago but. I'm pretty sure there are older references but this 9yr old 2012 book already talks about GPUs that don't have hardware based vertex attributes.

https://xeolabs.com/pdfs/OpenGLInsights.pdf chapter 21
Wasn't this an early spam technique?
I am not saying Habitat for Humanity (or any charity) is bad, nor am I trying to discourage anyone from giving to charity. I'm pointing out that what works in a small scale charity does not work for addressing social problems at scale, and in fact is often (more often than not) harmful when done at scale. This is because the specific things that charities are good at: giving stuff to small groups of people, is not really a path forward for problems faced by society as a whole, with the exception of the problem of poor people not having enough stuff. But when you try to use this approach for, say, housing policy, then you get bad outcomes.

We have had in this country a long term, bipartisan consensus that home ownership should be subsidized. The end result is transfers from renters to home-owners, record high homeownership rates, and many people buying homes because it's a way to make leveraged bets on asset prices at taxpayer expense. There are many people who have no business owning a home but who feel they must do so in order to not be left behind in this game of leveraged bets. The result is a toxic tangle of cross-subsidies between the real-estate and financial sectors and a whole army of various parasitical industries that has sprung up to feed on these subsidies -- everything from real estate brokers, title insurers, inspectors, appraisers, a virtual caravan of people lined up at the trough of our housing subsidies, all in the name of "helping the middle class" afford homes.

When you have such a terrible problem of mispricing and people chasing after windfall gains, the idea that the industry should be approached as a type of charity is really the last thing you want to do. If you want to give money to a poor person, then by all means do so, but that's not a path forward for national housing policy.
An aging travel netbook that I have with XFCE is going to be the last one with GNU/Linux natively installed, when it dies it is going to be only macOS/Windows devices around here.

Now even manually editing XML ui files by hand is considered a best practice in GNOME, with Glade being considered not welcomed. Great ideas we have there.
Just anecdotally, the most attractive women that I've met had no idea about cryptocurrency.

Only anecdotal of course, maybe I was at the wrong bars. But probably not.
What is the judge's motivation here? Why try to attract patent issues to your own court? What do you gain?
PostScript is not flexible enough for the web.

PostScript is like PDF, it assumes a canvas of fixed dimensions. This is fine if everyone has screens of the same dimensions or only prints to read on paper (and nobody have bad eyesight). But on the web there is a wide variety of viewport dimensions, so a PDF-like layout would either make text to small or require incessant scrolling back and forth and up and down.

CSS is more complex than PostScript because it tackles a much harder problem.

OK, since PS has an embedded programming language I guess you could program the layout to adapt to different viewport dimensions. This would force you to embed the complexity of CSS/browser layout engine in each page.
The thing that enrages me is that these "developed" countries just accuse developing nations of polluting while NOT acknowledging that they did 10x worse before. Those developed nations are not saint and won't ever be yet they act as if they care so much about other nations and environment when they do not.

Also, this argument of "get ride of modern equipment and have the same journey" is weak at best. Although I agree that climate change didn't pick up until a decade or so ago, there were already studies conducted in late 1800s and early 1900s.

edit: I'm not saying that what India is doing is right. It's just that the comments like the parent comment are laughable in my opinion.
Me too! I was just reading this article from this week’s issue of The Nation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/b-traven-sierra-ma...
I think if "everyone" is press, they'll just ruin it for actual press (kinda like emotional support dogs). Don't want to do a mandatory evacuation when there's a wildfire near your house? Just say you're press and exempt from the evacuation order.
> Should I just play through the pain?

If your body gives you signals it is at or over capacity it is generally a good idea to listen.

I was in a similar situation in April 2020, I first thought I could get by by reducing client projects to just one so I could "power through" the summer. Using weed after hard days to stop my head from spinning so I could sleep. The result was that by September I was in a way worse situation than April. I took a break for 6 months, just started working part-time again a few weeks ago and I'm still struggling to adapt.

Playing through the pain is fine for short bursts. But a human body and mind has limits and can only be pushed so far. I'm always happy to talk for 30-60 minutes in a video call about these kinds of issues if you want to. (I know being able to talk to others with similar issues was really helpful to me)
So you're saying that if someone has an incentive to do that evil thing, we can act as if they're guilty of already doing it?

So basically we assume everyone is evil and guilty until proven innocent?

That's insane and not worth taking remotely seriously.
Everyone these days: OMG who uses voice to communicate on the phone anymore? Keep up, Grandad.

Those same people: OMG Social Audio is where it's at!
There are already Jupyter kernels, IElixir and ierl (which I wrote). The latter supports Erlang, Elixir and LFE right now and supports connecting to another node as well.

https://github.com/filmor/ierl
Tracking is used pervasively by the ad ecosystem today, but that doesn’t mean tracking is needed for ads to exist. Contextual ads are a thing. FLoC isn’t even replacing the most important use of tracking, which is measurement, not targeting.