skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't want to admit it because it's not clear it's true. Except perhaps for cars, because we need to drastically reduce vehicle miles travelled as we can't swap out our fleet fast enough and transportation miles are the biggest, hardest to solve sector of US emissions. Personally, if regulations allowed more living without cars, I think we would all have massively higher quality of life. The suburban lifestyle of living on a tiny island that can only be left with a car has drastically reduced most people's health, left them isolated, and has effects like making it so kids no longer play in streets. Allowing more people to live in neighborhoods where their daily errands and school drop offs could be met by short walking or biking trips would drastically improve their quality of life, instead of piling the family into the SUV and spending hours in traffic everyday.

For the rest of the word, we are having that massive technological innovation right now that will increase quality of life globally. For electrifying the developing world, micro grids with renewables and storage will be immensely cheaper than building our massive transmission grids and large centralized production.

Industrial sectors have the least clear path to decarbonizations, as well as sea-freight and flight, but if we can solve electricity and transportation in the next decade we have a few years so solve these far smaller sources of emissions.

There is a lot of reason to be worried, but there's also a ton of reasons to be hopeful. GDP is already decoupling from emissions, and I think as we decouple it further, we will find a higher quality of life for the vast majority of people, both in developed or developing nations.
I wonder what setting they used for nightshift? Because the color temperature scale really varies. If you slide it to the left (less effect) it really looks not much different. If you slide it all the way to the right(maximum effect), it looks very very yellow.
New Laser to Help Clear the Sky of Space Debris
I disagree, I think the photography prices here are a good example of markets working as intended.

Prices reward people who do work that there is an unmet demand for in society. If society already has an oversaturation of professional photographers (so much so that clients feel they do not have to compete at all), the low price of $0 for professional photography work will hopefully encourage some of these glut of professional photographers (and others looking to enter the field) to pursue another profession where they can add more value.

If Netflix's contractor here has set the price too low, well then no one will apply, and they will have to set the price higher.
LiveLeak Bites the Digital Dust
> “Learn fashion” is hard to place on here. On the one hand, ensuring that you comb the crumbs out of your beard daily and wear clothes that fit better than a garbage bag is essential. On the other, becoming “into fashion” when it’s not a natural interest is often more of advice for advice’s sake unless you’re targeting a very fashion-conscious woman (or the fashion-forward portion of the gay dating pool).

Yeah I mean, I think most of the things on the list have a "basic" and "advanced" tier.

Lose weight/hit the gym: Basic is to not be obese. Advanced is to be fit.

Small talk: Basic is to be able to start and hold a conversation. Advanced is to be smooth and captivating.

Learn fashion: Basic is learning how clothes are supposed to fit. Advanced is... something like what you said. (I'm not advanced here! haha).
- The selection of companies appears to be somewhat random. Major players are missing while minor players are included.

- Companies with different levels of system integrations were chosen (e.g. for Radar: Chip manufacturer (Infineon) vs ECU suppliers (Bosch))

- Information is inacurate (Valeo is manufacturing scanning instead of flash Lidar)
The study might be oversimplified since large buildings have various strategies to improve wait times. Sometimes there are designated "express" and "local" cars. Sometimes idle cars get pre-positioned at various floors to keep them closer to new calls. Sometimes pre-positioning will be adjusted by time of day, ie assuming most people enter in the morning and leave in the evening. Etc etc.
Peloton keeps referencing a 'key' that should be preventing this. Is this like a lanyard on a jetski or other devices that you attach to yourself in case you fall which activates a kill switch? If so, does this mean that people are leaving them in during these incidents?

(I'm not going for a 'blame the victim' attempt, I'm just trying to figure out what it is that Peloton was first trying to use as their defense before caving)
Lucene among other things implements an inverted index - basically tracks frequency of a word across different documents. In my opinion, it is already in a columnar like format and highly optimized for the use case and won't see any benefit from changing on disk formats.
No Microvision (MVIS)?
>Companies who abuse unpaid internships are _violating_ their agreements with education institutions and are probably breaking labor law.

Do you think the abuse of unpaid interns doesn't happen because it's against the law? And for the educational institutions, they need the companies more than the companies need them, so why would they cause a fuss?
I almost agree, but in the HN tradition, I have to pick a nit:

> headache-inducing levels of information density

HN is one of the more information-dense sites of its kind - because the space that isn't wasted on "flashy features" and advertising is filled with content.

Information density is good and desirable. Bloated UIs full of ads and irrelevant distractions are dense with noise.
I was doing work for household names such as Sony and Pfizer when I got a call from some dude who wanted to implement some Facebook + Youtube grand idea for $1k and "I could put my name at the bottom". Admittedly, this merely falls in the realm of "annoying waste of time", but alas, reputation can haunt you in unexpected ways and the point is you want to cultivate networking prospects that actually provide real hard income, not low quality ones that think they can hustle you at every corner.

Our company actually got paid big bucks to work on these household name projects and they used the portfolio to full advantage to land new contracts. But here's the key thing: there was a business development team reaching out to prospective clients and putting blood and sweat into presentations and proposals. At one point, leadership decided that they were going to try the "let our brand/portfolio speak for itself" idea (which amounts to the same as expecting credits to do the work for you), and in the next town hall meeting, they were very clear that that was the worst idea they had ever tried in the history of the business.

So, sure, having a recognizable brand under your belt can serve as leverage, but as they say, a large number times zero is still zero. If a single high profile thing is the only crutch in your portfolio, or if the description of responsibilities looks inflated, people will notice that you're a one trick pony. You're still going to have to invest the time to build a proper network and reputation if you expect to be on fast-dial for household name projects.
I see this as very misguided. Companies do not exist for the pleasure of the founders, they exist to serve a need that is greater than the founders. If a founder (or any executive for that matter) is threatening the well-being of the company, having board oversight is a benefit. Thus, retaining 100% control of a board is not always in your company's best interests, and can be a big liability. You want more accountability, not less. To that degree, even if the company does not take venture capital, you as the CEO might still want people on your board that can be good advisors and hold you accountable. The board is the CEO's boss, and just like with any boss, behavior has consequences.
This seems to be a symptom of many acquisitions. Especially during the transition everything goes to hell. And of course meetings to discuss issues are way more important than resolving issues.
The quantity of easily extractable energy available from nuclear fuel dwarfs anything else known. A single nuclear fuel pellet contains the same amount of energy as a ton of coal. 20 tons if all of the energy is extracted.

How many tons of easily exploitable coal/ng/etc exist in the world? Nevermind easily exploitable: how much energy exists, period, in fossil deposits?

It's dwarfed by nuclear fuel. 1 cm3 to 20 tons.

Energy density also makes things easier. You can transport a year's worth of energy on one train. You can ship it to remote areas. To get a lot of energy out of the ground, you don't need a huge extraction process like fracking or strip mining.
> A really talented CEO might be good enough to overcome "quirkiness" on the "dress-the-part" side

A really talented CEO isn't overcoming this. They're not overcoming anything; they're using it.
If wind farms are so wonderful why isn’t there a huge one off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard?

People bristle at terms like “virtue signal” - here’s an opportunity for our “elites” to show some real leadership.

I won’t hold my breath.
wow.

any performance reviews of those adapters? like, I know how to read reviews but what is the collective opinion?
I'm staggered by how many Fortune 500 companies are still faxing (!yes, faxing!) purchase orders and invoices around.
Hi,

I’m Shoumik, a recent CS graduate with a Master's degree from Boston University. My main focus area is Computer Vision and Machine learning. I am currently working towards a submission for a top tier computer vision conference in a BU research group. I’m looking for my first job in industry and am seeking MLE/DS roles in a fast-paced environment.

Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Open to remote

Willing to relocate: Yes, within US.

Languages: Python, C, Java, R, Shell Script, SQL.

Technologies/Platforms : PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenCV, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-­learn, Flask, Git, Docker.

Résumé/CV: <https://shoumikmajumdar.github.io/data/Shoumik%20Majumdar.pd...>

Website: <https://shoumikmajumdar.github.io/>

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WHY TO HIRE ME:

- I have good hands-on experience and strong theoretical background in the fields of ML, DL, CV and RL. I have been working as a researcher at various AI labs at BU since 2019.

- Passionate about building solutions from the ground up and I have a strong desire to to grow and explore.

- I am a firm believer in first principles based approach. I look for the EASIEST way to solve the problem, NOT the fanciest way.

- I like teaching and have mentored rising undergrads at MIT and UIUC for AI research and would love to work in a similar collaborative environment.

WHY NOT TO HIRE ME:

- I am a recent grad and would need some initial mentorship.

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When they say REPL in this context is that a reference to replit.com?
Your "smart" photographer will find themselves hungry and behind on rent while they're busy pretending that they're definitely gonna strike it big once they've got all this exposure. You can't cash in on it, it's not guaranteed to do anything for you, but money will always pay for food.
:-)

I so wish I could lay claim to that phrase.

In any case, I wholeheartedly recommend giving "Screen Rant Pitch Meeting" a watch (on YT).
I completely get why they are highly contested and were I an American and politically inclined, I would take one. People wouldn’t take them if they did not see a benefit. But they exist nonetheless.

Mostly paycheck. I occasionally do freelance work and innovation prizes.
I do think this production company should just pay their vendors.

That said, and assuming that this company cares about the quality of the production and their relationship with Netflix, I doubt highly they're trying to hire the equivalent of a free intern here. They are almost certainly approaching established, professional photographers for whom it would not necessarily be out of the question to take a one-time 5-day hit on what is effectively a marketing and brand recognition expense for their business.

I'm not saying it makes sense for everyone and it would probably seem a lot less sleazy if this production company only wanted a discount instead of free work, but I don't think the fundamental idea of an established professional services business accepting a one-time loss in order to get access to opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have access to is a fundamentally wrong proposition.
python-box does a pretty good job on this I find.
>Even if the US government would try to “cancel” some country by severing it from all major exchange infra such as SWIFT, Visa, Mastercard, etc., the central bank of that country can decide to convert all US dollar accounts in the local banks into the local currency.

But even 1,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars is not the same as 1 US dollar. International trade requires USD. The US can basically wipe out an entire country's saved wealth by flipping a switch in a computer. That can't happen with the decentralized nature of Bitcoin. This entire article is undefendable sophistry.

>However, from the global system perspective, creating such unstoppable systems is dangerous because at the root of the complex system evolution and stability is that the agents (subsystems) in the environment can die and give way for newer, better things.

Bitcoin was intended as an alternative to USD. USD has proven to be a tool of wall street to impose US imperialism on the third world, and on its own citizens. Obviously cryptocurrencies have proven way more opportunities for "giving way for newer better things" than the US banking system has.

EDIT: Here is the US using the dollar to mess with countries it had a beef with.

https://www.rferl.org/a/explainer_how_does_swift_ban_hurt_ir...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/06/trump-freeze...
Actually gets() was deprecated in ISO C11.
Because the transaction is not just limited to the employee and employer. The cost of their under/un paid work is borne by society at large, and directly by the government.
Rinse and repeat!

Too many great products ruined in the pursuit of growth and greed.
I always (up)vote Cynic
You're actually sharing the memory between the processes? I'd love to know how that works.
3D amplified MRI (aMRI) for the quantification of intrinsic brain motion
My biggest issue with this is the way Netflix reached out directly to professional photographers and didn’t disclose up front that the work was unpaid. It is so disrespectful and unprofessional to make people write follow-up inquiries to get that information.
This is actually a really a useful breakdown.
After so and so much time in Russian POW camp, he got moved to some US prison (camp?). Only after that he was released.

They had to work a lot as prisoners, so I guess both sides wanted their share of work from war prisoners and so he first had to be in a Russian camp and then later in a US managed camp.

In documentaries you can also see, that some more qualified people got moved to "in the middle of nowhere" in Russia and Siberia as "experts" to help with building something up, where before German soldiers had destroyed. If you are willing, you can watch some kind of war documentary at least every second day in Germany. After you have seen your 20th documentary, you might get tired of it. However, many of the old people watch that stuff over and over. I guess it is because of the huge impact those events had on so many lives in their youth and to keep in mind how horrible things went. Perhaps also to try and get some kind of understanding of how a society could screw up so badly. And perhaps they want to know about all the evil things that happened, which they did not know about. The things that happened outside of the eyes of most people.

There is no lack of educational material at least. Just a day ago I saw an announcement on TV for another documentary for one of the almost infinite sides of that history: A documentary showing photographs and short clips taken by hobby photographers in 44 or 45 or so, showing a deceptive calm in some places in Germany, basically before things rolled all the way back, with only few indications of impending doom. You see, there is always something TV stations can send about it. Every little detail can be looked at and a documentary made about it.

When my grandfather had was called into the army, he was 15 years old. Send to the east, to fight a war. Many young people of that generation never finished school before entering the army. Basically children soldiers. They had to go back to school, as adults, when they returned from war and imprisonment. Re-education and further education. Imagine that contrast. I think it must have been hard for many of them, with post war trauma and all those memories.

He was either extremely fortunate, or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it. Came into a field hospital with a headshot wound, but somehow survived. The doctor told him, that he could drink and smoke as much as he wanted to, because he wouldn't make it much longer anyway. I think that must have been a German field hospital and then later he must have been captured, and of course, as part of the army, taken prisoner of war.

Well, he managed to stick around until a few years ago, reaching old age of over 90 years.
Greg Packer has been quoted in hundreds of articles as a “man on the street”
Your college analogy doesn't make sense. Students are the
"customers" of the college, not the workers. Or, to put it another way, they're paying for their professors' labor.
This rebuttal doesn't measure up.

You can't compare wind turbines from 70 years ago to today. (I noticed the convenient deemphasizing of solar farms. Look up issues with abandoned solar farms.)

The last point is moot. Land is abundant in America. I also question the hand-wavy "investors have done the math"
It's more D2C crap the world doesn't need being marketed under the guise of social/environmental responsibility.
McDonald's lobbied to pay minors, as new hires, less than minimum wage, which is still allowed. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/32-minimum-wage...

Perhaps a parallel to internships.
I’m a fan of Kipp! Not p2p, but has optional encryption

https://kipp.6f.io/
"I've been in so many meetings where an engineer, a PM, or a director would say, "oh, compared to the backend, the mobile part should be simple enough... it's just another frontend, right?"."

I've heard that before too. Even before getting in to the various engineering issues between different platforms, if you're talking about 'native apps' - things to go in to an app store - specifically apple... that "it's just another front end" line is beyond laughable.

The effort involved in simply packaging up a handful of mobile apps for distribution in app stores - between multiple icons, splash screens, basic device testing... is often a level beyond what people who've not worked in mobile have ever had to deal with it - especially internal 'line of business' app folks.

I say this as someone who's only done a small number of mobile apps (some angular/ionic years ago), and looking recently, it's only worse.
> If you're going to hire a wedding photographer, all things being equal, if one says they did the photos for a show that you are familiar with, or appeared in magazines you're familiar with - that is worth a great deal in marketing value.

Not really.

No one knows wedding photographers by name. The absolutely most famous wedding photographer in the world is .... who?

If you’ve gotten a customer far enough in your funnel that you’re able to boast about the Netflix show, the bulk of the marketing is done already. That might seal the deal sure, but regardless they’re gonna want to see examples of your work.

Finally, wedding photographers aren’t vanity purchases in the sense that there’s no designer label to show off. All there is are photographs. And if the photographs are great, no one cares who took them.
A bit too Ethereum centric for my taste...

Wonder what he means by

> Dogecoin technical parameters are so ridiculous that its blockchain barely works.

Is he only referring to the tail emission (which is not that ridiculous), or something else too?
In my experience moving the engineering-minded founder(s) to some other role like CTO and getting a more experienced "business school" type CEO is very common at some stage of a startup's life.

If he was refusing to make this change then it probably was just a bog-standard power struggle.
How does it stack up against something like Reveal.js?

I have a couple of presentations that I did with Reveal. If Slidev can make formatting and deployment slightly easier, I would definitely consider switching over.
Conflict Free Replicated Data Types in Oracle NoSQL DB
Liveleak rebrands and adopts content restrictions
How is end-to-end encryption achieved? By storing the password in the URL and not logging the URL when the file is fetched at the receiving end?
OSM Scout Server – Maps server providing tiles, geocoder, and router
Yes, a big company have whole divisions devoted to advertising. But for a business operated by one person it's not really equivalent to talk about doing a full week of work for free, especially one that doesn't prominently display you or your name. Beyond the issue you already mentioned that this is a mostly local business.
What a useless answer.
I wanted his personal experience and understanding of the term. Wikipedia can’t tell me what it means to him and the experiences that informed His understanding.
We have a 2011 Toyota without Bluetooth, for what it’s worth. Base trim models can skip features which are otherwise common.
Take something like a log file

Mangle it with sed, grep, awk, cut, sort, perl, wc, whatever

Get the result you want

Dump the instructions in a script

Optionally stick echo -e "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n" at the top of the script, chmod 755 and host

Beautiful, job done, problem solved, move on.
Oh, I forgot about that one. Yet another Mozilla project that worked well that was abandoned. (Remember Firefox OS? https://killedbymozilla.com/)
I know what you're thinking : They did not abandon Rust !
Well I just learned from a post that recently made it to the HN front page that management was considering dropping Rust. The only reason they did not was because of someone who fought hard for it.
> Every side was indeed awful, but Nazi Germany's and Imperial Japan's actions in particular were so unprecedentedly awful that far-future generations in those countries probably would've eventually had a reckoning and realized they were the worst actors in the war, like what eventually happened in the US when it comes to treatment of Native Americans, propping up brutal dictatorships in Latin America and elsewhere, and other things.

You honestly think Americans are aware of even the most common atrocities committed in the name of colonization? My read is a) they mostly don't and b) there is an ongoing effort to victim-blame Native Americans going back centuries.

The alternate reality where Nazi Deutschland won would likely similarly deal with the occupied USA/UK/etc like the US treated the natives.