skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My "best argument" is that driving less, maybe combined with switching to a more efficient / smaller ICE car, could do as much good as buying an EV. It also avoids all of the new environmental issues caused by the materials required to manufacture an EV, as well as the financial cost.

>Greening up the energy sources for vehicle production should just be next on the agenda!

That would be great, but the article we are discussing has already strongly stated that we need to focus on what we are doing, not on other countries. This is despite the fact that we are effectively mandating the offloading of CO2 emissions to whichever country is manufacturing the major components of our EVs. The battery pack dominates those, in terms of manufacturing energy and resources, however all the fancy electronic toys and touchscreens that all EVs have also have a non-trivial manufacturing cost. My go-to example is that a laptop, comprised of an LCD, a few PCBs and modern microchips, and battery, takes about 1,700 kWh to manufacture. That's enough to drive an EV over 5000 miles. Start adding up all of those screens, CPUs, memory, and other semiconductors present in an EV, and that manufacturing cost starts to look pretty big, too.

Personally, it's clear to me that one of our biggest issues is the embodied energy, and attendant CO2 emissions, of all the consumer electronic goods we are importing at an incredible rate. It's a ludicrous situation when manufacture in Western countries has been tied down by emissions regulations, but there is no control at all on the products we then import.
No, if you have an ever increasing number of high and low records, increasing number of drought and flood, &c. People should stop playing on words when discussing climate, what does it matter if your specific region is warming or not, if the highs and lows make life less and less sustainable? Your day to day quality of life doesn't depend on the yearly average temperature

Some people act as if it was a semantic game they have to win. "Aha see it's not warming its - 60c in winter and 60c in summer we're perfectly fine"
Well, I guess if he says they are anti-democratic, the question is solved and settled, and the solution is just easy-peasy!

Have you considered that this president could have been himself the target of misdirection?

The problem of day-to-day journalism is certainly not epistemology, the problem is that they rely on eyeballs, advertisers, and tribes, and thus tend to tailor their reporting, that might be the reason why everything that happened around that last president seemed like a circus.
Has government surveillance not been an open secret for decades for example you can dig up EU reports on Echelon from the early 00's which talks about a 1997 study that said that ECHELON routinely intercepts all e-mail, telephone and Fax.
The issue is more that most did not believe in it until hard evidence was presented by whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
>I'm possibly even retired from paid work altogether

Well now that's just cheating.
Yea, I was startled by the issue at first, but once I checked it in more detail it took me like 5min to figure out what was going on.

I'll grant the particular example or edge case is not available in the public docs, but it's extremely easy to intuit what is happening and relate it to the requirement of list components needing keys.

Like I replied to OP, you would be in all likelihood using arrays anyway, instead of this contrived pattern.
> freely move content as you take it, and also after

workflowy is great but dynalist has a leg up here with its 'move' feature. it allows you to write a note anywhere and then search for another note to move it to. its useful when I'm in a completely different context, like if I'm in my todo list section and i want to write down a idea in my programming section, i don't have to go to that location and then back
There's a video from Boxabl pitching their stuff to Elon https://twitter.com/i/status/1367548452633206789

The pitch kind of makes sense - he's trying to have a lot of people work at Starbase but there isn't much housing there so they could sort it by installing a lot of Boxabl units. Also the things are high tech made in a factory which fits a bit with the Tesla model.

I imagine he's trying one out for a bit before maybe ordering a bunch for the other workers. See also Teslarati https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-50k-house-texas-pictures...
On the other hand it is different for collecting interesting and influential papers and essays. You read them in an afternoon and ponder over them for quite a while! Then you revisit them way, maybe years, later again.

But yes, you don‘t need more than one good introductory book on architecture, most of the books listed don’t have anything to do with architecture anyways, but rather software culture.

Maybe you don’t need to read one at all, but rather a paper from someone who analyzed or created a piece of software with interesting and useful architecture.
So arithmetization-oriented ciphers are used e.g. used in ZK-SNARKs? How long have these ciphers existed?
And at only $600 (+ $250 a year) RenderMan is comfortably within the budget of serious hobbyists and budding freelancers.
Sigh -- the price of maintaining a very antique, hand-coded website. (blush)
Yes. I was annoyed when Bank of America discontinued the feature that allowed me to create a single-used credit card number and fund it with a limited amount of money. That was a good solution to the bogus charges problem. But it was so hidden on the BofA site that few used it.

I'd like to have that service back.
> I even find with Steam's proton implementation I can install and run most Windows games without a second thought.

Which begs the question why bother with Linux then.
I definitely agree on small German villages having more of a tall poppy syndrome, but I wonder if it's fair to leave out Berlin (and I guess München, Hamburg and perhaps Köln) in the comparison. To make that comparison fair, you'd also have to leave out Boston, NYC, and Bay Area, which will also leave you with a quite different academic/entrepreneurial culture in the US.
It would have been useful for the article to summarise the situation on this between the EU and the US and between the UK and the EU, as this looks like a global issue.

I have a tendency for cynicism so I have noticed that the article mentions their failure to obtain charity status, which suggests that they may be looking at lowering their tax bill...
> Sure, oxbridge ranks higher for students, but for research, which I think is what he is interested in, French and German institutions rank higher

He’s not talking about institutions though. He’s talking about universities.

It’s not like it’s any great mystery why German and French universities don’t rank highly either. For France it’s because all universities bar the grandes écoles have always been of more or less similar selectivity, and given that all professors are civil servants on the same pay scale there’s no way to change that either. You might accidentally get a great department but you’re not going to get a great university that way.

Germany had great universities, universities with world spanning reputations, like Göttingen and Heidelberg. Then after 1968 there was a deliberate policy of leveling, so that every university is more or less of similar quality. It worked. All US Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale. So little prestige attaches to which university you attended in Germany that for several of their Supreme Court justices the specific university they attended isn’t even mentioned on the Supreme Court website.
No no, the companies executing the contracts are the experts, they know what’s best to put in them. It comes as free consult.

Edit: if only this was a joke.
NYC Board of Elections sends mayoral primary into chaos by counting test ballots
I just want to say: your crawlspace-forklift is beyond awesome.

https://hackaday.com/2015/06/24/crawlspace-warehouse-include...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
I think he specifically means that in Germany (if it's anything like another European country where I've studied in) you study one subject with a rigid set of classes organized by your department only. If there are some additional courses, like Philosophy for example, they are very general, dumbed down for what they think is suitable for typical student of your department, and most often not taught by the top person the university could offer.

Contrast this with a system where you aren't tied to your department and can go to classes wherever. In practice there are ways around that in Europe, but it's either niche "elite" programs or pushing "special cases" through university bureaucracy. Also, the whole spirit of the system probably increases mental siloization of the departments.
How would you build real time geospatial service?
I'm currently using Firebase + geofire to do very basic real time geospatial querying. Due to limitations, I cannot do additional filters, etc. I'd like to take it a step further but don't know much about putting together something real time and geospatial.

The use case is simple, basically people can add animal sighting posts and other people can then comment on them or mark that they also saw such an animal (like bears or coyote). Just for fun, I want to have it be real time so I can see what's in my area and also if the # of coyote seems to be going up, etc. Since its a mobile app, a bunch of mobile clients will be listening for updates on posts in their area.

What database technology can I use to put this together?
I really hope Musk hasn't accidentally projected a US pricing model out to the whole world.

Supply and demand, and elasticity in each, for broadband services vary dramatically around the world, in regions as small as a few miles.

He'd be crazy to stick to the flat pricing model he is proposing - it would be leaving so much value on the table.
There were also violent protests in India.

It does seem like opposing nonviolent and violent factions who reject each other works better than just one.

Northern Ireland, Malcolm X/MLK, etc.
To respond to your last question: I think the issue is that it puts a lot of power in the hands of whomever is controlling then surveillance system.

This can be bad because of rogue operators (creep spying on women, blackmail, spionage to get info for insider trading, data leaks, etc etc)

But even if you have some 'perfect system to prevent unauthorized use', and a 'perfect system to determine authorisation' (both of which are highly theoretical) the issue remains.

For you may agree with whomever controls the surveillance system currently ('the state'), but that may change.

If Donald Trump had won a second term, or successfuly stolen it, and the US was more and more transformed.. would you still be OK with the state having that capability? Same argument but in reverse with Sanders if you're a republican.

To give a concrete historical example: during the 1930's there was a census in the Netherlands. All the law abiding citizens gently filled in a form, stating the religion of their family. After all, no harm for the government to know all that, right?

Unfortunately 10 years later that government was controlled by Nazi Germany. And they knew exactly where to find the jews.

Result: 95% of Dutch Jewish citizens died during WW II. For reference, in France, where even today the state has a less detailed and precise administration, this number is 25%.
“ Who's the target customer for this?”

People who otherwise could not afford to buy a house, I assume.
ETH Zürich doesn’t being on that list. It’s by a long distance the most research productive university in the German speaking world.
I use Roam a lot like this. Everything goes on the Daily Notes page. I refer back to older notes with block references. I don’t write anything on other pages, I just refer to ideas and names with the [[Link Syntax]] and then the pages are just like queries for finding those links within Daily Notes. I think this is right in line with the Roam paradigm and I expect the temporal aspect to be a focus of their product development.
I wouldn't put Deloitte or PwC with the other ones. But yeah, you can add Atos techmindra etc for body shops. Accenture pretends to be like a big4 (like most consultancy) but they are much closer to an Atos/Infosys than PwC.
Everyone has the rights to behave as an idiot, including Musk. To his partial defense, he minimized the risks, got Covid, then it seems he changed his stance on the matter. A bit late, but better than never.

"To be clear, I do support vaccines in general & covid vaccines specifically. The science is unequivocal. In very rare cases, there is an allergic reaction, but this is easily addressed with an EpiPen." — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2021
Apple's DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects
I never understand that logic. Even if it’s not caused by humans we stil would want to do something about it, if we can, like we did something against smallpox, measles, lightning impacts burning doen houses, etc.
> think you’d also be hard pressed to find someone who would call Arc great.

I would call Arc great! It's one of my favorite things about my job that I get to work in it every day...though not nearly enough every day.

As for Viaweb, are you sure you're not looking at this through hindsight? Those guys were among the first to invent what we now call web apps, years before AJAX. In an era of internet startups coasting on hype, they built a real business - basically what is now called Shopify today. They also did it with a shockingly small team. All that seems pretty great to me.
How is that different from everybody here calling Mr. Thorwalds by his given name?
Really appreciating the work incident.io have been doing- we've started using the tool at GoCardless and seen some really marked behavioural changes that I've really enjoyed.

Having spent a while training the SREs at the company in incident management, it was always a struggle to keep up the quality and consistency of incident response across a fast growing engineering org beyond a small group of SRE on-calls.

After an initial push-back to using incident.io, primarily due to how it gels with a terribly complex existing incident response procedure, we started to see something weird:

- The number of incidents began to increase

- We were writing noticeably more post-mortems

- Our incident response managers (rotating position across departments) we're starting to push people into the tool to benefit from the visibility on organisation incidents

- Teams were naturally achieving a great first five minutes of an incident, setting up video links, assigning roles, notifying stakeholders

It's been really great to have people discover these changes themselves and work back to find it was the incident.io tool that is the source of it. By making it really easy to do the right thing, people are starting to do those things more.

I know Monzo had a similar tool that ops relied on heavily. I'm hoping the success of incident.io at GC can extend to the ops teams over time, so we can see some of the single platform benefits this article mentions.
That's wrong, I certainly managed to calm myself down when going through panic attacks. When they first started happening I was very scared, they were like you were about to die. As soon as I knew what they were, just saying to yourself 'this is a panic attack, its ok, it'll pass' over and over stopped it getting out of control.

The trouble with panic attack advice is that most of the advice online is from chronic sufferers who often don't seem to want to be cured.

It is mind over matter for panic attacks. You can say 'this is just a panic attack' and the symptoms go away. Exercise actually works. Eating right works. Cutting out alcohol/caffeine works. Meditation works.

Mine are gone. I occasionally have mild anxiety attacks when stressed, but recognise them for what they are now. But the things that I thought were heart attacks, the massive overwhelming, dread-inducing panic attacks? Gone.
Not that I think internal efforts are always success stories, but outsourcing your identity and access management to the lowest bidder sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Who thought this would be a good idea? And why was any of this on internet connected servers anyway?
do individual artists not want to sell their work? It's more like hobbyists with no intention of making money.
> wouldn't put Deloitte or PwC with the other ones.

I'm not convinced. I attended one of their recruitment events at university - lots of synergy going around. In fact I forgot about EY and a bunch of others too.
HK is wealthy because of where it is. Good luck trying to replicate that in the Falklands or on some rock in the Caribbeans.
I feel exactly the same! This is why I stopped teaching.

I was always worrying myself sick even before classes with simple content that perfectly fit the time frame.
To some part, it must be. I don't believe that even in communists China there must be somebody who don't realise how bonkers it is.

But economic gain is there too. The surreal real estate bubble makes knocking down even 10 year old buildings profitable.
is it possible to get something better for 50k?

If you are willing to do a lot of work yourself and value your time a $0 and aren't in a hurry, probably. Otherwise, this looks pretty good.
Microsoft will never achieve that thanks to WinDev political agenda against anything .NET, that is was already the original design of .NET when it was called Ext-VOS, that is why Managed C++ was part of the package since the early days.

Ext-VOS was supposed to be the runtime that would unify VB, C++, COM and everything else that was going to come.

Their sabotage of projects like Longhorn, Managed DirectX, XNA, Singularity, Midori, C++/CLI stagnation, C++ only APIs on WinRT, are a clear indication that it will never happen.

I would be gladly be proven wrong, but I have watching this movie since Visual Studio.NET was released.
In Elon's case so you can have a few hundred on the not very expensive land at Starbase Texas.
German identity verifier IDnow acquires France’s ARIADNEXT for $59M
Renderman was alone in its category. REYES approach brings things other renderers couldn't render; fast motion blur, per pixel displacement, aka microsurface, etc. No other renderer provide such fast implementation of this.

Renderman was hard to learn but the promise was here: It was fast. With time the REYES approach starts to show its age (need a lot of preparation work) bad raytrace performances due to “combining” REYES and ray tracing in the same engine, etc. forcing it to fall back in the same competition line (and price) than it's competitors. Full feature animation movie is not the only market.

For example Vray for Maya (used on Tron Legacy) was a good combination between ease of use inside Maya and the technical director features (features that need some dedication and knowledge, like python pre execution directly on render scene) make it a joy to use.
Maybe, until you need to send those docs somewhere.
Right, which is exactly why this technology does nothing to solve the problem. The housing shortage in SF isn't because they can't build like Manhattan or Hong Kong there, it's because they choose not to.
Not so. Most of "knockdown 10 year old building, and rebuild" are done for very expensive, luxury developments with much lower density.

Think of 2-4 mansion apartments per floor. Nothing else would've made economic sense.

In comparison, the densest tower I seen in China had whooping 24 apartments per floor.
I'm convinced this entire UBI idea is a fucking scam. It completely contradicts the survival of the fittest notion (here in the context of work). I'm a person who always embraces new ideas but this one that combines the cryptocurrency hype with UBI is really more a marketing gig rather a value-adding product/service. This idea won't fix any problems out there.
It's because it practically boils down to: "We want all of the functionalities we are currently using in a variety of different systems in one system, but we're unwilling to make any compromises on the feature list. Everything has to be implemented exactly as it is in it's current system."

And then, obviously, the project fails spectacularly. The only projects like this I've seen succeed were ones where the top dog (CEO/president, whatever) basically forced everyone to compromise personally.
That's a contrived example. I assume someone rich would hire a construction firm to make a fancy treehouse.

The target audience for these are squeezed between owners of trailer parks and cheap shacks.
Definitely or worse. I use Amazon as a last resort. eBay is first choice for cheap stuff. For expensive stuff I tend to go for bricks and mortar stores.
Amazon is unfortunately a very convenient plague on our beautiful ppanet, and Bezos seems like a borderline (if not outright) psychopath. it's late and i need to sleep, but just search the internet for "Jeff Bezos is a scumbag" and you'll see that people don't "just" hate him because he's filthy rich (nothing wrong with being filthy rich, lots of great people are!).

https://trofire.com/2019/01/28/scumbag-jeff-bezos-to-lose-bi...

https://www.grunge.com/143621/the-dark-truth-about-amazon-fo...

there is a lot more but I am tired. we should all boycott/avoid using Amazon.
> it's a continuous process

But that's the thing. You have to realise many people can't reason about events that take a 100 years to unfold. It's like when you hear on the news "the sea levels will rise by the end of the century". For an average person it's as far in the future as the thermal death of the universe. People won't wear a mask in the middle of the pandemic, and somehow we expect everyone to forever change their habits for the better future past their lifetime.
Yeah, freelancing mostly. Lots of developers wanting to work with it, so finding engaged devs has been easy for me when I've wanted reinforcement.

Haven't had a gap in clients for a year and a half of straight Elixir work. Have more opportunities than I can feasibly execute on.

Finding the right companies and connections is a bit of luck and a bit of networking of course. But most of the companies I've worked with are not well known in the community. There's plenty of usage in the wild.
This is one of the few non-self-focused views I have seen posted on this thread.

So many other people are jumping to discuss the topic in terms of other people like themselves or better off.

The "machine" is very much way more than superficial stuff.

Some gears in the machine are being set aside as non-functional, but the machine is so large that it still keeps "working" without those gears, and ignores the potential net-win if we cared enough to get them back in play.

It is like paying down technical debt. Sure, you can run your system as-is and pay the bills, but ideally you'd optimize for memory and CPU and pay less in the long-run. It is a hard problem to take on as we all know given other priorities and the perceived low cost of doing nothing about it right now.

Those gears are not RAM or CPU though, they are your fellow humans, and we need to act as such. I am sickened by by some of the comments here boiling this all down to an out-of-touch algorithmic and/or privileged viewpoint.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001119315539.html

I sure wonder for how much longer supplies are going to last. Those screens are from/were meant for the second generation Kindle (DX) that is over a decade old now.

Unfortunately there's no such offer on larger or color screens yet ... maybe one day.
I don't think it compares that well to a static caravan. The price here likely includes VAT (20%)

https://www.abiuk.co.uk/our-collection/the-roecliffe/