skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is very short and the study it references is behind a paywall. Anyone know what the carbon sources are? I understand that fewer trees means less carbon absorbed, but is carbon being emitted by deforestation activities (like fires) or something else?
>Well... did it affect anything with the pipeline?

Yes. The US has been threatening sanctions on Russian businesses to stop the pipeline since 2019. The US finally issued the sanctions on ships involved in the construction, using the poisoning explicitly as a justification.[1]

A great deal of pressure was placed on Germany by the US to cancel it completely due to the poisoning, despite the several billion euros of investment already made by the country. The German government did not give in to the pressure.[2]

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/19/russias-gazprom-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics-laschet-...

Edit: The US did not explicitly sanction entities involved in the construction of the pipeline because of Navalny, I got that mixed up with a European parliament push to do so. [3]

[3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210119IP...
1. Try using the web browser in "private" mode for all your browsing, so there's no autocomplete. Get rid of any bookmarks and don't install any apps. Instead, go to mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack or whatever manually. This slows you down and makes it easy to forget to check Twitter for days and weeks at at time.

2. On the migraines and eye strain issues, this may be solvable by getting glasses or an updated prescription.
I would also describe much of the tech industry i have been part of as "vulture-like" and a pretty dirty game, that's just how it is.

Maybe i just have more cynical view of the state of capitalism in our current age, but i don't this view is controversial, or taboo to say out loud.

I also know a couple of fantastic film makers, though i think Hollywood, and the movie industry is pretty rotten, and my friends are just like "yeah it's a rotten industry" then they laugh when talking about industry stuff.

Why do you have to see it as a personal part of your identity and take it personally?

We live in a world of dirty games, the monetary hierarchy is not fair, nepotism and family rule is widespread, lobbyism is out of control, etc. none of this i controversial.
Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the US
Are 3 million dead not a good enough reason to call this kind of research irresponsible ?!?
It's greyed because Jordan Peterson is a horrific source, regardless of how right or wrong he is on any individual subject.
Sadly I can't find it, but there was an Android launcher that would restrict the number of apps you can have to five or seven.

Sadly there is no such solution on the iPhone.
Having a monorepo is the default, especially for centralized VCS. You start with one repo, and never stop adding to it. Different projects live in different directories of the monorepo, and they each maintain their own branches etc.

This ensures you have a common place to look for code, and more importantly, it ensures you have a unique history for all of your code - what often happens is that ProjectA has some internal library LibA; after a while, ProjectB needs functionality similar to LibA, so now you move LibA from /ProjectA to /Libs/LibA, and can easily re-use it across ProjectA and ProjectB. But in older branches of ProjectA (e.g. a hotfix branch for an already released version) it is still a sub-folder, and you can keep moving bug fixes from here to there. If you split all of this into different repos, you can't really carry over history, at least not with ease, and definitely not while both versions live together.

However, code artifacts should be versioned separately from all of this - you create builds all the time, and they, by default, use fixed versions of both external and internal libraries, as there is no reason to spend time updating a library that already does all you need - especially not while it is work-in-progress. So you have a build system that creates and consumes artifacts, and that tracks dependencies between artifacts.
Might be a lot better if Jeffrey Epstein were still around.

Just ask Harvard and MIT !!!

Hundreds of millions of dollars were accepted by these organizations either from Epstein directly or through a form of money laundering from other members of Epstein's billionaire pedophile child sex-trafficking ring ... who as a result in some cases could have also been potential blackmail targets.

The question still remains of whether or not Richard Stallman was just defending an "old friend" at MIT by the name of Marvin Minsky who had been accused of sexually molesting an underage girl on "Pedophile Isle" when he made his remarks in support of pedophilia, or if he was signaling to Jeffrey Epstein that his support for the convicted child rapist's despicable behavior was available for purchase at the right price, just like Epstein had been able to secure from now-disgraced president Rafael Reif at MIT and the pedophile-lionizing mathematician Martin Nowak at Harvard.
Depending on the type of grasslands, that may actually be a superior carbon sink: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-grasslands-reliable-carbon-tre...
To abuse this analogy further - if they also put signs for their owns stores in front of the other stores signage, or redesign the mall to direct people away from the competitors - that seems less fine.
One thing I do remember about Google Finance was that it required Flash for the longest time. That made me never use it.
> why isn't someone rolling those tables into something a bit easier with some backend process.

You'd identified why we're all going to have jobs in 100 years.

Automation sounds great. It's exponentially augmenting to some users in a defined user space.

Until you get to someone like me, who looks at the production structure and goes: "this is wholly insufficient for what I need to build, but it has good bones, so I'm going to strip it out and rebuild it for my use case, and only my use case, because to wait for a team to prioritize it according to an arcane schedule will push my team deadlines exceedingly far."

This is why you don't roll everything into backend processes. Companies set up for production (high automation value ROI) and analytics (high labor value ROI) and has a hard time serving the mid tail. EVERYTHING on either direction works against the mid-tail -- security policies, data access policies, software approvals, you name it.

People, policy, and technology. These are the three pillars. If your org isn't performing the way it should, then by golly work at one of these and remember that technology is only one of three.
Yes, Safari is a pain. There are other and much bigger pains in the browser ecosystem in general, let me give some examples:

- The DOM is very slow/ inefficient and has a terrible API, basically owing to the mutable, object oriented way of thinking about stuff

- Splitting up work into a WebWorker is a hassle and so it is much less useful than it could be

- There are no spring/ physical animations in CSS, so if you want pretty animations, you have to hack it together using JavaScript, CSS transform or SVG animate etc. There is basically no simple framework or library that does this in a simple and efficient way, so most of the web has the basic "curve" animations and not the accelerate/ decelerate animations modelled after a physical (dampened) spring...

- It is very hard to query the progress of CSS animations and mostly you have to just guess

- many things in the browser have a terrible API that obscures the problem and feels almost like a very special language most of the time e.g. the "History" API that actually manipulates the present and maybe creates new history as a side effect of that but has nothing to do with the history of navigation on the website/ you cannot e.g. just list the entries (not even just limited to the same origin or something like that for privacy).

- spell check is totally broken, if you want to prevent blinking, if you want to somehow manage the suggestions in the app and much, much more. E.g. it is very hard to write a Rich Text editor and basically this leads to duplication of effort everywhere, where you want to provide a good user experience without graphical glitches

- there is no int64 in JavaScript leading to all sorts of hacks a correctness problems because of these hacks, there are other similarly bad language features leading to all sorts of problems (e.g. == and === comparisons and much more)

- E.g. in Chromium, it is not clear, how search is detected on a website (without going through the massive codebase obviously). There are known bugs sitting in the bug tracker for like 7 years without progress and that is just stuff I have seen.

In general, the web seems to be missing quite a bit of rigor and feels like a hodgepodge of technologies mostly lacking in any kind of overall design and discussion about usefulness. It definitely is rather a very busy and dirty bazaar after a fire instead of even the building site of a cathedral.

There are thousands of other things that are a problem with the way web "standards" are written and implemented by browsers. Safari is a problem, but the whole discussion should a lot more focused on the origins of the problems and solving the issues methodically instead of focusing on just a broad and problematic, but single manifestation of it.
This comment breaks the site guidelines "Eschew flamebait" and "Avoid generic tangents." Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We'd appreciate it.
Does subdividing a hundred dollar bill into 10,000 cents somehow increase the supply of dollars?
Any technical advice about how to block yourself is beating around the bush IMO. Not only is it easy to bypass most of that stuff, but you'll be way better off learning how to deal with this psychological issue directly instead of trying to avoid triggering it.

Edit: They are not mutually exclusive by any means, I just mean that you will benefit in the long-run by addressing the psychological problem that leads to this behavior and manifests in this way. It probably manifests in other ways too, outside of phone addiction.
As long as a lock is harder than other easy methods of entry (i.e. smashing a rock through your window) it is 'good enough'.
Of all the things awk can do, I will never understand the popularity of echoing an argument.

The same thing in bash would be:

$ arg1 () { echo $1; }
$ arg1 one two three
one

Splitting fields is easy with cut:

$ echo one two three | cut -f 1 -d " "
one

Normally you just want to stuff it into a variable in which case read is much easier:

$ read arg1 arg2 arg3 < <(echo one two three)
$ echo arg1
one

Symbolic names are normally much easier to read than numeric positions.

That last example looks a bit weird with <() instead of a pipe, but that's just because the right hand side of a pipe is a separate shell so setting variables in it is a bit useless. It's nothing specific to read.
> I actually think their real opportunity is reviving Yahoo Messenger / AIM over the top of web sites.

YM! at least has been killed. They've migrated the service and one day I received a notification that all my contacts and the message archive would be deleted.
Sounds an awful lot like they're trying to inject themselves as a rent-seeking middle-man.
If nothing else, I think this settles the 'will there ever be an SF<->SD burrito tunnel' question.
> It also helps to remember that "they grow up so fast" is cliche, but it's true.

Here's another one for you - "The days are long, the years are short."

There's a song that I also often play in my head during frustrating times "You're going to miss this." To me these are both good daily reminders.

Very important side note for your health! NEVER EVER say any of the above three things to your spouse when they're stressed or had a bad day. They don't want to hear that. Just listen & comfort them. Remind them on a good day only.
mmWave doesn’t penetrate glass or brick making it pretty useless as a wireline replacement. Unless you want to go through the trouble of mounting an antenna outside, assuming of course that you access to wall with direct line of sight to a 5G tower.
It's not crap for parents, either. I read my kids stories every night before bedtime. It was one of the highlights of my day for almost two decades. We finally stalled out 100 pages from the end of Diary of Anne Frank when the last one was 13. It's not just Cat in the Hat. ;)
Yes. Locks in meat-space have always been and will always be deterrents. While you can't always brute-force your way through a math problem, you can brute-force basically any physical material.
> Tesla's little driver assist would not be called 'autopilot' and ending in 4 hour long lithium fueled human barbecues

The fire did NOT last "four hours". It was put out in 2-3 minutes.

“With respect to the fire fight, unfortunately, those rumors grew out way of control. It did not take us four hours to put out the blaze. Our guys got there and put down the fire within two to three minutes, enough to see the vehicle had occupants,”

Source (from the Fire Chief): https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/woodlands/arti...
A store is bound to a physical location, whereas online platforms seem to tend toward monopoly
He also worked on Yarn. Yehuda Katz has probably the most experience of anyone on dependency management
TFA: "compared to small turbojets"

Yeah, turbojets are VERY inefficient on fuel, so that is a low bar.
One of the biggest issue with all this is "We lost the community in the pursuit of individuality". It takes a village to raise a child. I grew up in kind a commune. Most of the days kids would be on the streets playing, eat / sleep in their neighbours house. Moms were able to manage house as stay at home moms (hardest yet under-appreciated job) relatively better because of this community care provided for children.

Easy to ask, Free to use community driven child care. People who are less-fortunate are better in forming communities than wealthier ones. Cities dwellers lose out on such things.

As a whole, we need to do better to support parents and extra more for moms. I would not hesitate to offer to keep my friends / neighbours / colleagues children under my care for few days / hours if they need it. No fuss / No fee - just classic pure help to my fellows.

Investing in children / women lot more than we do now is vital for all our success, sooner we realize it is better.
I know a team that would read in multi-GB CSVs from an FTP site into an orchestrator server using Pandas, write to locsl CSV in the orchestator, validate data after write, reload into pandas, painfully and manually check every data type, then use a pandas connector to a database.

Every step along the way here is wrong. The database came with SFTP connectors. The orchestrator should have simply told the database server to pull from the SFTP site into a landing table. Even if not, Pandas has datatypes you can specify on ingestion, which is heaven if your CSV or other files don't record filetypes yet are consistent in structure. Further, if you have custom validation you're applying (not a bad thing!) you likely rarely even need pandas; the native CSV library or (XLRD/openpyxl) for Excel are fine.

Ultimately, it is a training issue. The toolspace is too complex, with too many buzzwords to describe simple things, that people get lost in the whirlwind.
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Along the way we have to solve some hard problems:

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Setting Inplace=True is not recommended and should be used with caution

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/16529
+1 Insightful.

Also relevant: beyond IQ and EQ is the concept of "CQ" or Cultural intelligence, which is even closer to the skillset you describe.
socioeconomically, children should theoretically incur debt during childhood (paid mainly to women as principal caretakers). as children grow up, they'd work to pay back that debt. while this framing may seem distasteful, it does roughly model, from an economic perspective, the natural, informal system of value exchange between generations that's kept our species going for millenia.

but more importantly, it illustrates a genuine hole in economics that naturally disadvantages women, because the value generated from the work of domestic caretakers isn't being accounted for in our overall understanding of economic productivity. if domestic work were paid, we'd certainly reconfigure our societies to take that into account, and having children in workplaces wouldn't be so disfavored.

incidentally, denser mixed-use urban environments allows for kids (and pets!) to be close by, filtering in and out of the workplace as needed, but not necessarily underfoot all the time, which to me, is the best compromise.
What came out of it was Germany cancelling their gas pipeline to Russia. Almost killing the Skripals is a fair trade to some to give cover for that.

I'm not saying that happened, but there's tons of motives you can find for those other actors.
Definitely NOT video games. If OP wants to replace staring at phone it needs to be something that will not constantly reward him.

Games, phones, social media are extremely addictive as they give us constant rewards. Reading an actual book becomes boring. I suffered from the same problem with games. I had to uninstall games and completely stop playing for a week or two before I had an itch to do something else like reading a book or studying. It is insanely scary, and for me it was bad. Even to a point that I would say that it is an addiction.
I explained why, commercial goods and services would have a safe sponsored forum to sell their wares without worrying about a profit hungry giant measuring their success, cloning their business and driving them to bankruptcy.
If you see someone write "reed" instead of "read" or "rite" instead of "write", that's likely a native speaker.
Search revenue was $31,879 billion in Q1 and YT revenue was $6,005 billion. It doesn't seem like you're paying attention.
You can run a validator on a Raspberry Pi, or as most people do, on an Intel NUC or an AMD-based equivalent micro-PC. A modest power consumption would be a continuous draw of 10 watts.

Now, assuming every single one of the 110,000+ validators runs on a dedicated machine (which is not the case) and consumes 10 W * 24 h = 0.24 kWh of energy daily, we get an annual energy consumption of roughly 87.6 kWh per validator.

Extending this assumption to the 110,000 validators currently validating on the mainnet, the annual energy consumption of the network would be 9,636 MWh, or roughly 10 GWh annually. In reality, this value is close to a worst-case scenario, as running multiple validators on one machine doesn't affect the load of the machine in any meaningful way. One could run 1000 validators on one Intel-based NUC.

For reference, the current PoW Eth chain consumes roughly 40 TWh of energy annually.[1] Assuming the annual energy consumption of 10 GWh for the PoS chain, the energy usage would drop by 99.975% (three orders of magnitude; E12 -> E9).

Assuming an error of an order of magnitude in the calculations for the PoS chain's energy usage (which would mean running every validator on a dedicated PC pulling a continuous 100 watts, or alternatively 1,100,000 validators), we'd still drop the energy usage by 99.75%.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
Nomad Team Lead here -> You're definitely not alone, and we know it. Once you add Consul, Vault, namespaces, ACLs, mTLS, etc you have quite the infrastructure to maintain. HashiCorp is making a big push to cloud to help alleviate this operational burden, but there's a lot we intend to do to make it easier to self-host as well.

We're continually refining Terraform modules[1] to ease setup, although Nomad's own terraform directory is in dire need of updating.

Running Consul and/or Vault with Nomad is definitely possible, but we need to do the hard work of testing and publishing best practices.

Once you have Nomad up and running, staring at an empty job file is daunting as well! We're approaching that problem from 2 angles: better tools for guided job creation, and more modular job files. Templating tools already provide some job file modularization, but nothing as unified as the Helm/Charts experience. Nomad lacks any sort of central job repository as well.

You can expect us to chip away at these problems like we've approached everything else: incremental improvements while maintaining backward compatibility.

And for those willing (or eager!) to let someone else handle the operational burden for you: stay tuned for exciting things coming from HashiCorp Cloud Platform!

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/modules/hashicorp/nomad/aws/la...
> Even Fauci and the CDC to be promoting the idea that the vaccine isn't that effective. Get the vaccine! You still have to wear masks, social distance, and effectively stay locked down!

This isn't because they don't trust the vaccines, it's because we haven't had enough time yet to figure out if vaccinated people can still actually spread the virus. So far, the data suggests no, but the CDC wants to play it safe.
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