skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany doesn't seem appreciably better than France, looking at the map.

Peak levels are the same for Berlin as for Paris. The width of Paris's light pollution is wider, but it's also double the population of the metropolitan area.

And actually, rural areas of Germany seem consistently and significantly brighter (worse) than rural areas in France, across both countries.

Is there really a lot that can be done about light pollution? Isn't it mostly due to streetlights, which you want on for safety?

I mean, sure there are some metropolitan downtown areas with bright lighting of advertising, but that's very localized.

Is there really low-hanging fruit that cut could overall light pollution by, say, 50%, without impacting safety?
Tesla's vertical integration means navigation + charging planning, plus the actual charging, is seamless. I doubt you'd see the same with an iOS or Android app. Every time I read about charging for other platforms, it sounds terrible.
Unfortunately, this is when the gravity of the situation became apparent to us. We thought verifying our Google Pay account would be quick and not adversely affect anything outside of Google Pay.
UUIDs Are Popular, but Bad for Performance
This article had a great run-up but absolutely bonked on the landing.

Paraphrasing:

> [expensive] office chairs are a waste of money because their value proposition, ergonomics, is essentially snake oil.

Okay, good job, but then the wheels come off and he wanders around for a couple paragraphs.

Instead he should have just sprinted it in with:

> In reality a fit and healthy body is the only thing one can do to achieve "comfort" -or rather, being strong enough to not be discomforted- in any office chair for any length of time. Big Chair can't make money off that, so they say it's in their secret (and expensive) ergonomic sauce, not in you who are made in Gods image.
I don't particularly find this article compelling, and all of the "meat-sack" this and "bugman" that doesn't do anything to help the author's cause.

However I did recently buy a new office chair. I went with the Autonomous Ergochair 2 because it was really highly rated from all the reviews I read about chairs, and honestly it hasn't been very comfortable. I'm working a remote job now so I really wanted a nice chair, now I'm wondering if I have to go buy a different one.
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Literally every other person responding figured out that they were talking about weather, so I don’t think they had issues with clarity.
The pseudo-fastback sedan actually wasn't nearly as popular until around the time the model S came out. Then I started seeing it in a lot more cars, especially luxury, where the rear window comes down almost to the edge of the trunk. I'd always credited the S with kicking off the trend.
FYI Chrome performance is not generally guided by microbenchmarks, for the exact reasons you mention. It is guided by full-scale benchmarks (e.g. render the top 10000 sites) and by ChromeOS-wide profiles gathered in the wild. If a performance change doesn't work in the wild as indicated by profiles then it generally will be backed out and reconsidered. This is consistent with Google's backend performance culture where microbenchmarks are fine and good but changes need to be vetted on a full-scale production loadtest fixture.
> Nobody who isn’t a 60s era fighter plane or space capsule designer, has any idea how to make a chair that is “ergonomic” -nobody really has any idea what “ergonomic” means in terms of office chairs. It’s just a sort of virtue word with vaguely medical connotations. Cargo cult science at its best, designed to ward off bad juju like lawsuits. This is where it started to go bad really quickly.

Sad to say he's right. I once tried to look up academic work on these issues and found essentially none. Almost all you can find is loosely disguised white papers from the manufacturers of "ergonomic" tat.

I never used or wanted an "ergonomic" keyboard but have used all sorts of keyboards over the last four+ decades, from high force mechanical to apple "butterfly" and apart from membrane keyboards they all work the same for me. I credit my late piano teacher for that.

As for chairs: the Aeron is more work than it's worth to me and I used one only because my wife bought it for me. But there's a secret that doesn't apply to everyone: in body size/shape/configuration I'm right in the middle of the bell curve (5'11", BMI of 22, etc). So stuff "out of the box" (car seats, airplane seats, computer desks, etc etc) is designed for me. This was famously a problem for military aircraft in the 40s (cockpits designed for the norm); learning from that inversely affected the choice of early astronauts (nobody too tall or too short or with arms too far out of norm simplified the UX). Also I apparently can stretch and even go get more tea without losing 'flow'.

So yes, chairs work for me but there's a lot of variation. Too bad these expensive chairs don't help.

> Herman Miller who invented the office cubicle: the second most dystopian form of office,...

The irony was that the cubicle was designed as a tool of liberation: until then all work areas, in factories and white collar work were open plan like today (just look at a 1950s movie like "The Apartment"). Finally the cubicle could give workers some modicum of privacy at a cost lower (and flexibility higher) than building lots of private offices. Sad it because a soulless dystopia and was replaced by...open plan offices.
Did they cover different running/approach strategies as well? (I didn’t see it, but I thought that would be interesting as well)
Property. When you buy something it’s yours and you can give it to who you want. Want to gift a movie ten years from now to a friend or heir? Good luck.
Based on [1] it sounds like even if you "link" to AGPL licensed code over a network, unmodified or not, it would require you to also license your own code as AGPL? That sounds pretty far reaching, if I'm reading it correctly.

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/107931/28221
> Why do you need constants? How can you argue that types are necessary but simultaneously permit magic numbers?

Magic numbers like Pi?
This car is already out; they started shipping them last year.
As is this clearly doesn't satisfy clause 4 of the Apache License for external contributions in the absence of a copyright transferring CLA.
Thank you. I saw it only once, from the front seat of an 18-wheeler in 1979 while hitchhiking to Austin. It was impressive.
What's the difference between the languages got to do with the license?
God the downvotes on this site piss me off so much. They are SO mindless.

This is what the UK is doing with AstraZeneca, for the exact same problem! Only suggesting it to people over 30! Stop downvoting the suggestion which is literally expert advice!
Right, but are you seeing how allowing vaccine records in lieu of other documentation is not the same as requiring vaccination?
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Pausing like that causes, not prevents, vaccine skepticism. In an era of declining public trust of institutions (across both political aisles, even if unequally), I argue this pause was poor politics. Science doesn't enter much into it, unfortunately.
TLDR: Get strong and it won't matter much what chair you use.
Private prosecutions are not unusual in England, although the tide may be turning against them. For instance, the RSPCA recently announced that it would stop bringing private prosecutions for animal cruelty [0], which it has done since before there were police. There was apparently pressure from MPs for them to do so, after some fairly high-profile cases where they were seen as being too eager to prosecute.

Of course, the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) has always had the right to take over and discontinue a private prosecution.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/28/rspca-plans-to...
DDT resistance arose during a time when it was extremely intensively used to try to wipe out malaria-carrying mosquito populations. It's certainly sustained by the more moderate uses of it, but at this point, that ship has sort of sailed.

It's been reintroduced in some countries as well - it's effective, and it's an important tool, but it's not nearly enough. And indoor residual spraying with DDT for malaria control remains fairly controversial - I fall in the camp of "It's probably worth it, but anything we can do to minimize it is a thing worth pursuing."
I think there are quite a lot more developers contributing to the project than those employed by the Foundation or supported by developer grants [0]. However, the complex changes on the roadmap of Blender's development are planned and implemented by the core team.

[0]: https://www.blender.org/about/credits/
Neat! If you park a satellite at moon geosychronous orbit how unstable is it? Would it be lost in the order of months or decades?

Does that also effect the Lagrange points for the moon? Do human currently have anything parked at earth moon lagrange points?
I don't know why your comment was downvoted (I tried to rescue it) as you were responding to confusion due to my poorly written comment.

I explained down thread what I had meant to say.
It's true that you can't choose, but lots of places are listing what vaccines they're doing on specific days. You can "choose" by booking an appointment at a location that has the one you want, or by avoiding locations that have ones you don't want.

As an example, I booked my appointment specifically at a location that only carried Pfizer.
Speaking for myself (team J&J), single dose is definitely more convenient. Anecdotally, reactions seem to be less severe than for the mRNA vaccines. And, while it's only a minor speed bump to our gold-plated healthcare delivery system, the fact that it doesn't need an extreme cold chain means it's logistically much easier to handle.
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IANAL. The lack of forking isn't the issue here. When someone writes code they (or their company) owns the copyright to it. They then contribute the code to the project using the terms of the project's license. Eg, for GPL, it allows others to modify, build, and run the code. However those modifications must be released to the public under the same license. (skipping over some minor technical details)

Unless you get everyone who has contributed code to also release their code under the new license, the old license is the only one which all of the code has.

It is possible to start contributing code to a project under a new license (effectively re-licensing the project in the eyes of the community), provided that the new license does not violate the old one. Specifically the Apache license REQUIRES that the code be distributed with a copy of the Apache license. Just removing or changing that license without the copyright holder's permission is in violation of that copyright.

A lot of projects avoid potential future issues by having a contributors agreement in addition to the project's distribution license. Essentially, you give an extremely permissive (possibly up full ownership) of the code you write to the project. That is, some legal entity such as a person (the head maintainer) or a foundation. This legal entity then distributes the project to the community using the license of their choice.
You can replace disks once a month or less. That's not an on-call thing, even if you do make your $200k admin do that grunt work.

Also for one or two thousand disks I would expect less than one failure per week.
To an extent. Presently, you won't be thrown in jail if you don't get it. But you can't go to NYU. You can't go to a wedding. You can't go to a concert, or a football game, you can't fly Qantas...
I never received any emails about strikes no even though I would get notification emails about comments etc to gabnworba@gmail.com through those randomly generated page emails? I'm not sure how youtube works when you don't make the channels with an email.

I would just like to put on record it was never my intention to steal from other content creators. The initial idea came as a service I could provide to streamers. I pivoted as one of my streamer friends became popular through a popular clip channel. I figured Instead of trying to charge my friends for a service if I could get one clip channel big enough I could just reproduce that success for all our own clips...

I mean like the first rule of tech is don't be a dick right???

I just feel like it's very unfair of you to assume I'd eventually go down a specific route before it played out.

Also losing my entire livelihood for a programming project hurts enough even without your words.
Am I Doctor Stallman?
10-15 years ago, Cook's level of competency wouldn't have been anything special, but that of competent operations lead.

The industry in the West not only shipped everything to outsourcers, but even forgot how to manage outsourcers as well, being fully reliant on turnkey services.
You mean you'll have to fulfil certain legal requirements in order to be permitted entry to a foreign country? Surely that's unprecedented!
Good point, though that would only be a problem if you let it. If you click-hold the back button in the browser 'chrome' you typically get a list from history. (I'm not actually sure if this behaviour is also present in actual history.) You could skip past ongoing temporary redirects using that feature; it is already necessary when that behaviour is implemented in JavaScript instead of standard HTTP status codes.

Also this is about temporary (302 Found) redirects, not permanent.
> This could be addressed

You’d think they would have thought of this first. The fact that we’re having this conversation isn’t a good sign.
> Hopefully if anything the pause has shown anti-vax folks that the safety of these vaccines is being taken seriously.

The anti vaxx community is uninterested in science. This won't change anything.
With Android Auto I just announce "OK Google, find charging stations along my route" and it works as you'd expect. It is in fact completely seamless, and unlike with Tesla I get state-of-the-art voice recognition and navigation that works offline.
The day after the shooting, a banner was hung in the West Point cafeteria stating, "Us: 4, Them: 0".

America has a non-negligible percent of population who I can only describe as "bloodthirsty for no good reason". They've been here a long time, and remain here today. When we try to discuss the problem, the noise from political side-taking usually overtakes the conversation.
My pet peeve is those ergonomics pamphlets with, not pictures of actual humans, but cartoony illustrations of supposedly ideal posture. Sometimes not even with realistic proportions. Never a citation of any actual research, just platitudes that whoever wrote the pamphlet heard from their parents once or just came up with on the spot. Probably given out just to satisfy some lawyer or insurance company to reduce worker's comp liability issues, so who cares if it's science-based or beneficial in the slightest.
Correct - you would need to open source your entire app (or at least a strong arguement can be made that you must do so).

"The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality of the AGPL license. "

Almost all larger places have very strict bans on evening touching AGPL -

https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

The contributors can of course license commercially, so this has made it a popular sort of "shared source" type license - you can look at the code, but can't use it in your own projects unless they are open source too or pay for the commercial license.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've done it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account, as we are trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
We’ve been thinking about it wrong: The norm has been Insecurity by obscurity
Every time they tweak the address bar, I end up confused what problem they think they're solving.
I did the exact same thing, 100% to charity every time. It makes me wonder if there were a lot of people also doing that. It would certainly explain the new 15% cap.
...just 500 times more expensive.

Propane capacity isn't going to go down as the tanks age; losing 10% when swapping in an older battery could really suck.
I think if there's money to be made, there's a business that will pop up to fill that niche.
The rapidity of vaccine development is one of those things that makes me look at the lab-leak hypothesis and raise an eyebrow exaggeratedly.
That link must include new registrations for used cars, and exclude trucks. After all, the Focus was discontinued in 2019.

All the manufacturers report new US car sales, and except for the RAV4, in 2019 the cars on the list were outsold within their their own brand by cars not on the list.

For instance, the Nissan sold 209k Altimas in 2019 to 350k Rogues, or Honda sold 267k Accords and 325k Civics to 384k CR-Vs, or Chevy sold 132k Malibus and 45k Impalas to 575k Silverados, or Ford sold a mere 12k Focuses to 898k F-series (don't see a further breakdown...)
Interesting take from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Warhol could have drawn that from memory. He used an impression he had of existing source material (the photo) and changed it. He didn't copy it and then add on to it. It's an original work of art that didn't exist before.

Copying code. That's seems more duplication for strictly the original intended purpose.
I probably was a bit hysterical there, but I think the underlying point that an uneducated populace just can't cope in the modern world centered around information on the internet.

I know someone I consider intelligent who started with one Joe Rogan video and a year later was a raving pro-Russia, pro-China, holocaust denying anti-vaxxer. Youtube took him from fun, reasonable guy who you'd love to have at a party to the bore who found a conspiracy in everything and who just oozed bile and anger at this new world that millennials had destroyed.

If he couldn't fight the propaganda, your average person on the street can't. It's a recipe for disaster, and to my mind the only short term solution is to censor the propaganda.

Of course over the long term, the only real solution is to create a smarter population who aren't just trained in arithmetic, but in logic and philosophy.
I'm the opposite. I was sort of resigned to getting the J&J but was hoping for the Pfizer. My wife got an appointment before I did and did get the J&J.

Then this clotting news happened, and I subsequently got my appointment - Pfizer. So I guess I got what I wanted.

My wife is perfectly fine though, no side effects. If given the J&J vaccine, I would have taken it too.
Consumer Reports tricks Tesla to drive with no one at wheel
It isn't inherently racism (though there is racism involved). It's more a NIMBY type effect, but in reverse, I think – “it doesn't affect me, so I don't have to think about it” type thing.
Try to solve the problem described by the book or research using your Google skills and once you fail you'll appreciate the resource that gives more insight more. Giving yourself more context to the subject makes things interesting.

If you succeed, what's the point of reading the entire thing then? If it still has something distinct from what you already achieved go the the specific page and read that.
I'd also recommend having a look at https://openmaptiles.org/. They have workflows and editors for working with MVT and Maplibre. You can combine a base map from maplibre with other sources using Openlayers [0]

[0]: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-layer.html
yeah, when I went (and got Moderna), I saw many people (who booked the appointment) asking staff "Is it Pfizer" and leaving when the answer was No.
Although I turned off the flags on your comment, I don't agree that it wasn't flamebait. It was off-topic, generic, and provocative. It was even name-calling too ("ghastly"). That's a flamebait cocktail.

Creating accounts for every few comments you post is a problem for the reason I just explained. Doing it for a decade doesn't make it ok. It makes it worse!

In a way, this is a freeloader problem. The richness of the community here comes from people interacting and relating with each other over time. On HN people are welcome to do that anonymously (pseudonymously, for those who speak pedantic), but still need some identity for others to relate to. If you don't contribute that, you're freeloading in the sense that you're benefiting from what other people are giving, without giving anything comparable of yourself. That undermines the community. If everyone did it, we would have no community.

Throwaway accounts are ok on occasion when there's some sensitive relevant information that shouldn't be linked to the main identity—but note that I said on occasion. Using them as a matter of course is abusive. That's also in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I am 100% certain that ($12/kWh) is a typo.

Even in CA, with some of the most expensive electricity, it's about $0.20 - $0.25 / kWh...
I am not sure why you got downvoted. The website makes the point well.
You can't just change the license of code contributed by someone else without approval. But you can relicense your own contributions, which - unless that code can be trivially ripped out - would basically have the same effect as placing the whole thing under the AGPL.
The linked article is a perfect example. Created to fit one specific location where it just might work and produce a pittance of energy twice every day. I'm curious if it will survive the first real test: a good storm. Never mind the power that it generates. But for sure a lot of money got blown on this.
It's complicated.

On the one hand, there are extremely valid aspects to ergonomics, with regards to seat height, table height, monitor height, wrist angle, etc. That can make all the difference for things like carpal tunnel, shoulder tension, headaches, etc.

On the other hand, the amount of nonsense peddled around ideas such as lumbar support, supposedly ergonomic keyboards, and the like is astronomical. And many supposedly "ergonomic" chairs are actually precisely the opposite, and terrible for your body. In fact, chairs are almost certainly the #1 worst offenders.

So the reality is that ergonomics around measurements and angles of your body, and the tasks you perform, is real and valuable.

On the other hand, ergonomics as marketing and product attributes is almost entirely hogwash.

I do sympathize with people who have come to the conclusion that ergonomics is useless -- or worse than useless -- because all they've ever encountered is the useless marketing side. I mean, so few people have ever actually had a real ergonomics expert analyze their workstation and correct their setup, that it's pretty understandable to think they don't exist. (Also, many corporate so-called ergonomic "experts" aren't at all, and just pretend to validate the ergonomic "products" -- so even if you want a true ergonomic consultation, it's going to be a true challenge to even find someone who's actually qualified.)