skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60% of US electricity still comes from Coal and Natural Gas [0], which are polluting. So, an EV is nothing more than an increase in mileage - it's not like it's suddenly Zero polluting, unless of course you're charging from at-home Solar.

Now of course I don't know the efficiency, or amount of pollutants (CO2 and other) released compare between gas engines and coal/natural gas power plants, so the actual increase in mileage and environmental benefit might be different, but it is certainly not 100%.

Has anyone come across any study that compares the two?

Public transport, remote working and so on have a much much larger impact IMHO.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
Per pound, methane is much worse for the climate. We produce way more CO2 though.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562540.
If you have an interesting project you can post it here anyway. Just ensure that it is minimally working, and add a comment explaining that you made it and some background info. (And be active in the thread to answer most of the questions.)
Yes and:

> intellectual overhead

aka transaction costs.

Licensing, credentials, certification are just the cost of doing business. Open markets are built on transparency, accountability, fair rules, impartial referees, etc.

Sure, it all sucks. The alternative is worse.
That's what I mean. The bar is pretty low, and yet someone chose to go even lower.
Lots of people saying that they like the new Safari, and lots saying that it sucks.

This is why we need customizable UI. Everyone's laptop is different and everyone's preference is different. Firefox suffers from a similar issue. Of course more customizable UI isn't an easy task, but it would probably be good in the long run to develop a more customizable general-purpose GUI framework.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, especially not on divisive topics.

We all know that anecdotes aren't statistical evidence. That doesn't make them offtopic. They're interesting, and they're the lifeblood of conversation. Generally on HN the approach is to trust readers to be able to make their own minds.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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. Note these ones: "Don't be snarky.", "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.", and "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Actually the EMA link says that current evidence for ivermectin is insufficient and it cannot currently be recommended outside of trials. This not the same as claiming that it does not work or that it is hazardous, although many journalists can seemingly not tell the difference. The FDA’s advisory is mostly about people overdosing on veterinary ivermectin. They emphasize that overdose and medication interactions are possible, veterinary ivermectin is not a good substitute for human ivermectin, and that ivermectin is not an approved treatment for COVID-19. Again, even within the paradigm of blindly listening to authoritative sources, this is not an assertion that normal doses of ivermectin for off-label use are dangerous and should be prohibited for prescription, let alone an order for tech companies to censor the mere mention of it.

When the FDA’s advisory came out, there were articles (eg [1]) referring to ivermectin-the-molecule as a “horse de-wormer” and drawing no distinction between animal and human use (and it has been proven safe and effective in humans, just not for COVID). The level of discourse around this feels like I am reading 90s drug war content.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/people-poisoning-themselves-...
The way I understand it (not that well, admittedly), per-process mitigations would be all about keeping that process from reading other memory areas, not about protecting that process from others. Which is better than the reverse if your intention is to allow some processes to run random js.
> we're closer to this than people realize

At least give a proper reference to what you're alluding to, please.

Also, closeness in AI has shown to be a misleading concept.
> Who pays for that?

A lot of people. Supply chain issues are a real problem, especially right now.

If you're a company that suddenly has orders for a very expensive product you designed 20 years ago and a handful of parts are holding up production, you'll spend a heckuva lot of money sourcing components to build inventory so you can ship orders.

No, this is not a hypothetical :-(
These skills are not that special. As far as I understand it, there are no exploits being used and editing the hosts file is not particularly hard. I expect that the executable is voluntary run by the user, since the user expects to run a real application/installer anyways.
Ok. It's a new tab extension for FF or Chrome. Put all my favourite (read: work sites) on huge buttons at the top - so two clicks to CorpSlack (and like a dozen other sites. And below is these Social widgets, little JS tools showing me neat things from Reddit, Twitter, etc and then I put a textarea in there too, so I can quickly Ctrl+N and write a note (in local storage) extensions are super easy, and easy to extend too (for a cider)
What does AV mean in this context? The word “AV” does not appear on the linked page. First I thought antivirus but when clicking through I thought maybe audio-video though I doubt it’s that either.

Edit: It’s probably meant to mean “audio/visual” as this is what it’s described as. Would be better for the title to say that too.
For those that haven't seen it before, "Awesome X" stands for "list of (mostly free) resources on X", usually on a Github repo like this one.

Some of these are pretty good!
My problem with the way the topic is being presented here is not just that the mental model is too simple, but that it is so much simplified that it becomes internally inconsistent.

Resistance is voltage over current, here's LED, it does not have resistance. Or maybe it has more than one resistance, depending on voltage.

Battery is a voltage source, wait, no it's not, it has internal resistance.
I don't agree that China won't be hurt by this. China has had some spectacular semiconductor bankruptcies. They've poured billions into companies, giving extravagant salaries to engineers from Taiwan etc., only for the whole thing to go belly up, while the engineers from Taiwan go home to retire on a fat stack of cash.

Sure, they've got SMIC, and they have some decent semiconductor processes, but they're pretty far behind the state of the art. With US ramping up competition, and continuing the pressure that prevents China from gaining access to cutting edge lithography machines, it's really hurting them.

If TSMC can finally start to build some fabs in the US, I don't think it will hurt Taiwan much. There's not much space for more than 3 cutting edge foundry companies, but there's definitely space for TSMC/Taiwan to have some of their fabs outside Taiwan, and doesn't hurt them more than it hurts Intel/US to have some outside the US.

Some Global Foundries foundries wouldn't hurt them much either, since Global Foundries is specialising on low power, and is a bit orthogonal to TSMC/Samsung.
But that's not what's happening either. Why don't we represent the reality with itself. She's expressing an idea publicly that she thinks is important for public safety. She is not hurting her patients by doing this. Idiots are dangerous, but the cure is worse than the disease, if the cure is to destroy people for non-violently expressing their concerns genuinely doing what they believe is in the best interest of the community.

I'm not going to pretend to have an answer for what we should do about people like her, but I do know that destroying their lives (squashing genuine, well meaning dissent) is not the answer.
> should you release an arena too early, you may have introduced a bug.

A memory safe programmming language will detect any such bugs and reject the program. This is not hard, it's a clean application of existing lifetime checks.
In my experience, the difficulty is very rarely the transition from set theory to type theory. I find this almost transparent in practice.

The issue is rather that you need to deal with edge cases that are usually swept under the rug, or that you need to spend a full page working out the details of a proof that everyone recognizes as obvious. It would be great if computers could give even more assistance with these tedious parts of formalization, and I'm very glad that people are working hard on realizing this.
The upstream from which this app is forked is at https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android, the fork itself is not publicly available, as far as I can tell.
That type of thinking is political suicide in the long term. Big meddling government that doesn't attack the fact that we have far more demand than supply problems is going to get thrown out.
The solution to regulatory capture is to abolish regulations?
Decode the New Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Record with JavaScript
"All else being equal" is an implied assumption here. Yes, two abusive parents are worse than one good parent. But two good parents are better than one good parent. It is probably also the case that one good parent and one abusive parent is better than one abusive parent alone.
Are there any recommended libraries for doing this, if I'd like to migrate my C codebase?
The better measure is whether it is 0.00001% of trips? This argument is similar to me (a European) deciding not to buy a sedan because I can’t drive it through the Sahara desert. If I want to do that I’ll rent a fit for purpose car because I sure am not doing it often (or even twice in a decade).
If you want some "content" you can listen to Chomsky on Zizek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBOtxCfan0

Or read John Gray on Zizek: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/07/12/violent-visions-...

It's not like these critiques are uncommon or hard to find.

What I find more "curious" is the backlash you get for criticizing Zizek. Somehow I don't think I'd get any backlash for forming a positive opinion after reading only "2.5% of his books" but apparently it's "anti-intellectual" to form a negative one.
Important thing to know about that study is they are testing time to recovery for people with mild covid.

I'm not anywhere near an expert, but two things stood out to me reading this study. First, time to recover in the ivermectin group was 10 days versus 12 in the placebo. The paper calls this "not significant" but it's not clear to me whether that's statistically not significant, and if so, why wouldn't it be, or if knocking two days off recovery isn't that meaningful. The other thing I noticed reading it was that only one person out of 400 died and that person was in the placebo group.

I think the Brett Weinstein response would be something like -

A. Ivermectin's best benefit is as a prophylactic not a treatment.

B. Ivermectin should be administered as early after onset as possible to treat, whereas here there was some delay to get people organized, enrolled in trial, etc.

C. It's hard to measure effect when the disease is mild.
> You're basically saying "let's consider reinventing the internet", which I think is not reasonable or a good idea.

It's absolutely reasonable to require the user to give a web page permission to start executing powerful, potentially dangerous code on their computer. Also JavaScript is not "the internet", nor is it even really "the web", which for most of its history was relatively benign HTML documents that you read, and things have frankly been on a downward trajectory in terms of safety and usability since we started changing it.

Powerful JS is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the web, and largely under the theory that we can do it safely with correct design. As someone that has to moderate code on un-trustable web sites as part of my work, I can just say it's not working out very well, even leaving out stuff like spectre/meltdown.
> It’s basically career suicide to spend any time at all trying to disprove anything in climate science.

Totally, but in a beautiful way, this actually strikes me as an element of anti-fragility in the bio-cultural system you and I both participate in. It's kinda nice :) Because shit is bad.
> 90% of this is eliminated in electric cars because the motors are at the wheels.

It's not common to put the motors in the wheels.
> It's also regressive to cut taxes on some new privately owned businesses.

What does this refer to? Did someone suggest that?

> The right way to do this stuff is raze wages in Taiwan and Korea.

Is it a wage issue? Also, if we education and train American workers, maybe they can have higher paying (and physically and mentally better) jobs than manufacturing.
I’m not seeing the connection between Sony and racial slurs. In fact, especially without knowing what racial slur this is, it tells me very little about the creators intent.
> What is your basis that the pharma companies are making tons of money on these vaccines?

I am not sure, but doesn't companies make a lot of money if their product sells a lot? I thought it was basic economics.

Do you really need to look at the stocks to understand it?
Sure. Without open-source projects, I would not have been able to build Radar. So, I wanted to give something back for the incredible work open-source maintainers are doing out there. Hence, the statement.

You will find it on the pricing page when Radar comes out of beta. The only thing I'm confused about is what kind of criteria I have to set before giving a free license to the person who wants to claim the offer? I'd appreciate it much if any of you guys can help set the criteria.
Here the practice of engineering is specifically set out in statute, regulation, and legal precedent. As are the duties of the board, its process, penalties for violations, and appeals processes.

The board is investigating a case based on its authority. The authority exists via democratic process originating with the legislative process and state constitution.

The regulation of engineering is within the scope of the states per the US Constitution and established legal precedent.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying for a different sort of internet here, if possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right, as I said in my first comment I don't consider myself able to judge where the line should be drawn regarding this real person, so I created a hypothetical person to see if you still believed it would be ridiculous to fire any nurse for anything they say outside work hours.
I don’t think that my installing Grub and Windows for my own use would be a GPL violation under that line of reasoning. I can freely co-install non-GPL and GPL software, so long as I do not propagate (or convey) the result. One excerpt: “This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program.”
To Solution = Discuss options, tradeoffs, identify next steps, working towards a possible solution.

It's a transient state that leads to a solution eventually but not necessarily by the end of the first discussion

To Solve: To identify a definitive solution immediately.

Sure, you're not wrong, it's corporate-speak. But it does have some nuance.
No. (Although some who are really into driving in remote areas do.) At least today, gas range is still longer. For my SUV, it's about 450 miles. And gas stations are certainly more common than fast charging EV stations.
Ivermectin has to be one, presumptuously, of the most ridiculous foreign PSYOP interventions in recent memory. I believe that somewhere there's a bet going on for how many Westerners they can get taking dog medication thinking it makes them immune to COVID19.

We already have a cure! In most countries, it's even _free_! And yet I read paranoid blogs online from conspiracy theorists who refuse a vaccine but guzzle down veterinary medication user to treat heartworm and digestive parasites.

Pound me with downvotes, I'll hold my breath until I see a large scale randomized double-blind trial.
I get vaccinated for flu every year. And yet there is Tamiflu, an effective palliative.
What science are you referring to specifically and why would it mean that?
Users flagged it. That's basically always the reason when you see [flagged] on a submission. (With comments it's a little more ambiguous - moderators will also sometimes put [flagged] on a comment, though still in a tiny minority of cases.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag

We sometimes turn off flags, especially when an article seems to contain enough significant new information to support a substantive discussion. I've done that in this case.
Huh? Yes federal debt doesn't matter but that's why they are similar—they are both shifting power to capital away from labor.

The fact that governments try to do Keynesian by making manufacturing jobs in 2021 kills me. We're decades past the point where those sectors were sufficiently unproductive to benefit the workers as they did in the glory days. Boost demand directly (UBI), keep an ey on imports, and let private capital fend for itself.
In my state of California, 28% of the GHGs are from light passenger vehicles, 7.7% from agriculture (virtually all of that for animal production), 6.1% for direct residential emissions (natural gas cooking and heating) and 15% for electric generation, of which a third goes to residential loads. That means the majority of the GHG emissions in California are under the direct control of individuals, not commerce and industry.
Implementing Jobs to be Done without the fuss
mathlib != Lean. I'm talking about the basic logic. People will try to sell you Lean by describing its system as constructive, but if so the quotients stuff is pure breakage as the Coq folks point out.

And if Lean could support classical logic without arbitrarily breaking interop for folks who want to also prove constructive statements, we might see some additions to mathlib with a closer focus on constructive math.
That's a lot of money. Perhaps it's good policy, but the idea of transferring large amounts of money from taxpayers to private industry seems a little sketchy if the government isn't requiring anything in return.

What could the government ask for in return? Perhaps an assurance that the fab will give priority of at least 10% of its output, including its most modern process, to foundry service with reasonable and non-discriminatory pricing for at least twenty years.

Perhaps there are other ways the government could ensure these fabs will be used in ways that are beneficial to all local electronics manufacturers and not just the one company that owns the fab?

(It's possible these details might be in the actual bill already; the article doesn't say.)
Thank you! And welcome! Make yourself at home.
Companies exist to maximize profits. If the owners don't think that's being done management will be replaced. In that way I think t's fair to say companies need to make money.
And only works if you don't rely on any third-party libraries that take normal C strings.

Which is to say, is unrealistic for many programs.
If you are on Mac and want to try a new WebKit based browser, Orion comes with native vertical tabs.

https://browser.kagi.com
Try everything. Why not? Just like science, progress requires a lot of failures.

Throwing good money after bad makes me grumpy. So we need feedback loops, post mortems, etc.

Currently, every bit of legislation requires a fiscal note. Expected costs, projected impact, ROI, etc.

We'd all benefit if society worked harder to do the obvious followup steps.
>These skills are not that special.

If you can do this, you can learn more advanced stuff. Society has bigger problems than getting some free software, and it's not just a lesser problem - it's scraping the bottom of the barrel of justice.

If someone needed to write this to pay bills, I get it, but they should immediately take this and use it to get a better job.
Why does hackable hardware even offer a warranty in the first place? Is there some kind of legal requirement that you must offer a warranty?
The irony is that by adding these 82 pirate sites to the hosts file and having this action publicized, the malware writers are inadvertently promoting a list of 82 sites where users can download pirated software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
> Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese has been outlawed, and offenders face heavy fines.[12] However, some Sardinians organized themselves in order to make casu martzu available on the black market, where it may be sold for double the price of an ordinary block of pecorino cheese.[10][8] As of 2019, the illegal production of this cheese was estimated as 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) per year, worth 2-3 m€.[15]
An idea is not “anti-science” merely because it makes you or anyone else feel uncomfortable.
>> Eat less meat, Adjust your thermostat, Change your tires, Buy an electric car, Buy better bulbs, Plant trees with friends

I'm not going to be doing any of those things.
Really the US should pay for UBI in Germany, south Korea, etc. to boost export prices there so it's a race to the top.
That's an illusion; it only seems that way when you judge by specific prominent cases that you care about.

Turning off flagging on HN would have the same effect as turning off the immune system in a human body, only faster.
If it's really really rare, it's one thing. If it's renting a car that won't be set up the way I like it and that I'm often not even supposed to drive on non-paved roads even once or twice a year, it's something else.
Well, hello then. Here I am, complaining. Operating costs for a business to simply exist should be nothing. Free. Nada. It should cost 0 for some database entry to exist in a corporation directory. Oh, and if you're interested in that, welcome to Arizona.

You're already paying taxes. You're already paying insurance. You're already taking on risk. There should be absolutely no friction to take on risk and start an enterprise. Leave that friction to all the other places that make sense like taking out a loan, building your brand, establishing a network.

And yet, if you wanted to expand to other countries, you have to pay sometimes thousands of dollars annually just to exist as a foreign corporate entity. It's nonsense. It's just a money grab for certain regions. As if you paying those contractors or employees isn't directly injecting capital into those economies.
That economists and libertarians hate that cosmetologists have to be licensed is what convinced me they aren't serious thinkers.

Because hepatitis is real.

Same deal with an acupuncturist.
Python dynamic type system is the reason it's easy to prototype ideas. Dont need to compile or remember if unsigned int or float required. It's the people's language.
The next easiest would be JavaScript.
Python does support type hinting and vscode parses it.
I see there is even a Jit compiler numba out there for performance
All of them are honeypots nowadays though
Nigeria is committed to economic diversification, support MSME ~Minister
If you're using Firefox on the desktop you can try out an extension that I wrote that allows you to change the version of reddit instead of changing the subdomain manually. I used it extensively on mobile but a couple of updates ago they only allow reviewed extensions to be installed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddirect-new...
Comparing a $100K+ luxury car to a econobox is really not a good point of reference. Compare similarly priced cars.
Dates are natural keys.

You seem to be conflating format and value. 1,234,567 and 1234567 are the same number. 19-Jun-21 and 2021-06-19 are the same date. Databases already handle this.