skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be all about Geothermal HEATING, which seems pretty tough in most places. I thought Geothermal Cooling is easier/cheaper in many areas? Heat from Geothermal seems really difficult because you have to drill so deep almost everywhere, but that's not the case for cooling, is it?

Iceland seems to have some decent heat there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_Iceland

Five major geothermal power plants exist in Iceland, which produce approximately 26.2% (2010) of the nation's electricity.
>Can you clarify this? As far as I'm aware, the US govt can dispute anyone's citizenship without recourse, even if you're holding e.g., a valid passport.

Your cite does not support your claim. If Palma had ever had a US passport (expired or not), his situation would never have occurred in the first place.
> not copying and pasting code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
but those aren't only mathematics. There's the choice of variable names, the order in which things are called (maybe to optimize the performance on some CPU, we don't know), etc
Many things were ported to power over the last ~3 decades, and that code is still valuable today.
I'm not arguing with you. I'm referring to long-term rentals. Your initial post doesn't make such a distinction.
Clojure: A Trick of the Tool
> The Greatest Regex Trick Ever

was to convince programmers it didn't exist?
Sure, it is not surprising that so many people don’t go to nightclubs, but it would be surprising that so many people without any empathy are ready to ban anything that doesn’t affect them.
Publicly visible, yes. Publicly available, yes. Public code, no.
Why sales staff in particular?
GP is right. The real point of carbon-tax (and the heavy promotion of global warming) is not to address the underlying issue but to extract wealth from the 99.9% and redirect it to the riches. Any other occasions will be used as such: for example recently the covid was used to kill small businesses and fed the big corporations, which stock rised hugely.
Thanks, I wonder how much of that is just the way things were going for those companies, vs accelerated by the shift to remote-only.
Startup ideas can be validated only by those who need what we build
That’ll all fix itself pretty quickly once the federal unemployment benefits stop, other than prices being somewhat higher due to fuel costs.
The greatest regex trick ever is knowing when not to use one.
Don't worry, we peasants can recycle bottles for a few months to offset that.

Honestly, I hope some private jets get blown the hell up in the future.
This, though? https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-forecast-ams-idUSL8N1Z...

AMS provides Apple with optical sensors for 3D facial recognition features on its newest smartphones

“We see a risk that Apple moves to dual sourcing for the face ID – which currently is single sourced from AMS - in order not to rely on deliveries from just one supplier and also in order to have a favorable pricing power,” said Hauck & Aufhaeuser analysts in a note to clients.
Not sure whether there is any standardized way to measure words in programming languages. The natural unit would be tokens, but these are even more language dependend than words of a natural language. Chars/minute makes more sense.
This is a great trick. It says something about RegEx syntax that matching a simple rule with a relatively clear expression is a major accomplishment.
> On average, in certain locations. In others, not so much. And let's not forget surge pricing. Or people living, or wanting to get to a place, along low-profit routes. Or people with disabilities.

You can always take a regular cab. Low profit routes were pretty much impossible to get pre-Uber. I am almost certain that Uber is more likely to obey disability laws than "Joe's taxi" with a few cars.

> Depends. Regular taxis tended to cost a bit more, but had much lower variance.

My experience with cabs is calling a dispatcher while in route and getting a price. I was charged $30 for a two mile trip to the train station before. No reasoning. Also they were much less likely to pick up minority passengers, or people in poorer neighborhoods. Also "credit card machine was broken" very often. Also you don't know the route the driver will take. I guess my experience with cabs pre-Uber was different from yours, but it was incredibly high variance.

> That seems implausible at best.

Many places you had a gatekeeper. You can't just ride a taxi, and would have to purchase a medallion or sign on to an existing vendor where there's much less competition. They would also be much less flexible with hours
Hi HN!

We are a team of engineers who previously worked on self-driving cars and robotics tooling at Cruise and other companies. We recently launched Foxglove Studio as a better way for roboticists to inspect, visualize and debug robotics data.

Foxglove Studio began about 6 months ago as a fork of Webviz - software that our team worked on and open sourced at Cruise. Studio expands on Webviz with a port to Typescript, many new panels, extension support, and an Electron-based desktop option (see our github [0] and release notes [1] for more details on what has changed).

Happy to answer any questions!

[0] https://github.com/foxglove/studio

[1] https://github.com/foxglove/studio/releases
Do you think taxi drivers are making more money than uber drivers considering they:

- Taxi drivers (outside of NYC) in the US are going to get less rides per hour than uber drivers

- Taxi drivers traditionally have to give a larger share to the taxi company than uber drives give to Uber. If they are independent then they have identical car expenses as an uber driver.

I 100% believe that a lot of Uber drivers barely break even. I guess I'm fine with that - I bet if you try to do that 9-5 and can't do your own car maintenance you are going to be inefficient at it. I had a friend in Los Angeles who would only work nights, was fine working 2am, and could do basic tire/oil/car repair. He made 2x what he had been making as a busboy at a restaurant. I don't see why this is considered a bad option for people, especially since he enjoyed the flexibility.
Write good examples by starting with real code
Do you have an answer for my political-platform question? I feel like that'd help me understand where you're drawing the line here.

As far as phone companies, my current understanding is that in the U.S., the government is involved in building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure. Therefore it falls under the First Amendment.

If you run your own wires between a lot of houses to let people talk to each other, and then listen into every conversation and cut off ones you don't like, that doesn't seem illegal.

Things like Discord or Slack, for instance, should legally be able to moderate anything you send through them. Though it would be financial suicide to actually do so.

[Disclaimer here that I only have a vague understanding of telecommunications infrastructure]
Wait but rockets don’t use fossil fuels, do they?
Why are they exempt? It's just blatant power flaunting by the wealthy at this point.
Thank You. This makes a lot more sense. But I assume owner of recreational planes could be exempt and Private Jet, mostly for billionaires and business could still be taxed?

Or am I missing something?
If you ever come across someone who claims to be "rational", ask them about their butt-cleaning routine.

For the enlightenment of fellow HN people I'd like to share my personal butt-cleaning process, one that I've followed 9159 times with no hygiene-related issues.

Step 0: Wake up in the morning, immediately feel like vacating bowels.

Step 1: Enter Indian-style toilet.

Step 2: Take dump.

Step 3: Once finished, keep my phone a safe distance away so that it doesn't fall into the pot.

Step 4: Take a mug of water, and do a thorough cleaning of my /dev/random with the dominant hand.

Step 5: Gently wipe the area with some toilet paper, keeping a close eye on the shades of brown that appear on it.

Step 6: If toilet paper appears clean then continue to next step, else go back to step 3.

Step 7: Wash hands with soap.

Step 8: Be grateful for the invention of the sewage system.

I feel like butt cleaning is one of those things that will look very different 100 years from now. Future generations will look back with confusion and disgust at our use of toilet paper as the mechanism for cleaning the butt post dump.
I like the contrast of your reply to the original post because it really highlights the two general types of developers - product focused developers who use technology as a tool to focus on the customer and technology focused developers who treat programming as an art ahead of focusing on customers.

I would say it can be tempting if you fall into one of the two broad buckets to think the other side is doing something wrong and that there is a tendency to want to compel them to “see the light” so to speak but in my experience those efforts tend to go to waste (if not appearing outright condescending).

Ultimately people have different interests and priorities both in life and their careers and people derive fulfillment from different sources. There are no right answers here.
I've lost any and all faith I had in the EU after how it handled coronavirus. Nothing will surprise me now.
You don't have to be a copyright maximalist to worry about a company taking snippets of code that used to be under an open license and using them in a closed-source app.
If the argument is that facebook is too big to be regulated by anyone, even facebook, then it's time to break it down into smaller and more manageable parts.
> - It is now cheaper for the average person to get a ride to an airport/bar than it was before. It is safer, more predictable with timing, and more predictable with pricing.

This is no longer true. In my town, now that the firehose of VC subsidies has dried up, Uber costs more than taking a cab, even without surge pricing.
The governor of California was photographed holding a fundraising dinner during a phase of lockdown he put in effect.

It'd be hard to come up with a more obvious scenario.
I find long distance reception of longwave radio signals (LW DX) fascinating, there are still a few interesting high-power stations that can be heard internationally. The radio is also easy to build - low-noise audio frequency amplifiers and 24-bit ADCs should do. Unfortunately it's extremely impractical for us city dwellers due to the huge antenna required for DXing and the deafening noise from switched-mode or digital devices. It only takes a single bad PSU to trash the LW spectrum.
It's not that I don't want to believe it. It's that I don't care. The cell phone is here to stay (relatively, pending whatever changes future technology brings). It's part of what makes modern life so exciting and worthwhile. Just like I risk riding in cars, eat charbroiled meat, and jump out of airplanes. Statistically I'm going to live to somewhere between 80-100. That's fine. I want to enjoy living up until them.
> Private jets are completely irrelevant to global warming because there are not enough of them.

They probably are irrelevant, so why exempt them?

> actually curbing global warming will require huge changes in the lifestyle of the global middle class. Not just the super-rich.

I'm of the impression that "middle class lifestyle" itself isn't a big contributor to global warming but rather the manufacture and supply chains. If we electrify industry and transport, the bulk of the problem goes away (as I understand it) and the effects on the middle class are pretty transparent apart from choices to fund the transition to clean energy (e.g., to what extent does the middle class pay for the transition rather than the super rich). In other words, the average middle class lifestyle isn't significantly impacted by whether their goods are manufactured, refined, transported, etc with clean energy or dirty energy.

I get the distinct impression that the "middle class lifestyles will change dramatically" is frequently a euphemism for "we must go full-vegan" by people who are anti-meat. But meat production in the US accounts for only 8% of (co2-equivalent) emissions and those emissions are largely methane and nitrous oxide which dissipate quickly relative to co2 (12 years for methane vs 300-1000 years for co2).
OnePlus admits to throttling popular apps to save battery life
By that exact same logic, the next generation of people in every country should be allowed to use as much polluting energy as the last one, because the established generation did so and they are the developing generation.
The graphic in that article is what I wanted.

My point was that, due to the highly non-linear time cost, it takes much less time to travel from Earth to X if you accelerate the whole way, rather than accelerate half the way and decelerate the other half. I wanted to know which way gorgoiler used to compute the subjective time.

And, thanks to your link, now I know.
https://github.com/PubDom/Windows-Server-2003 Second result on DDG.
Pharma Biogen,FDA walk back controversial Aduhelm label after fierce criticism
The more general tip is that a single regex isn't the only tool you have. You don't have to get your final product one one step. Almost every "disaster" regex comes from someone trying to do too much at once.

One other solution would have been to run the regex twice, once to pick up all instances of Tarzan, and a second on the results of the first to filter out all instances of "Tarzan".
Cryo-EM Research Using Relion
My Conversation with Mark Cuban
Lots of discussion on advertising. None on the blacklisting & censorship by YouTube of millions of American opinions. Of course HN is a liberal website, so this is welcomed.
The actual reason for the exemption is that they cannot impose the tax on non-EU operators, giving the non-EU operators a competitive advantage.
There was no hospital overflow. I live in Ukraine and even with a totally rudimentary health system and routinely ignored lockdowns, the health system functioned like any other flu outbreak. The temporary hospitals setup in the USA and UK were never used.

If anything I am quite sure that the few lockdowns we did have worsened the spread of COVID, or at least concentrated it over a shorter timeframe, since people were now packed into shopping centres at reduced hours, were forced to socialise in smaller 'speakeasy' venues, and had a greater interaction with grandparents given the closure of schools. Without lockdowns, the virus would have spread slowly and steadily, and been concentrated in younger groups who have more social interaction with eachother, like influenza each season.

Even under a 'best case' scenario for Lockdown, and using Sweden as an example, we have spent about 50 months in Lockdown in order to save 1 month of life - statiscally for someone of advanced age and with serious existing health problems:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...

Is there a health problem in the West? Yes, and its from obesity, which is heavily correlated to negative COVID outcomes:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

Sweden and Ukraine far below lockdown countries for deaths per capita: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Annual deaths in Sweden 2020 only 6% higher than 2018, and even then only after a weak 2019 flu/death season:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

The COVID death spike in Sweden basically aligns with a once-a-decade flu variant:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

So is this conspiratorial? I am using all of the available data to create this attitude.
I know that, but being one of the best run countries in Africa is very far from being Norway, as I was getting at with the Gini index.
Show HN: Launching the MVP for Little Webby Press
> so it's obvious from who's pocket the fee will come from.

Yes. The problem is that the one whose pocket the money comes from is not the one who selects the broker. Thus the person with the financial incentive to make that choice wisely is not the one making the choice. This is why it's a principle-agent problem.
As crazy as early Uber was I still have trouble believing that taxi companies are more deserving or were better to their employees or less corrupt. There's no evidence.

I guess if you prefer being able to ballpark a taxi cost then that's cool! You can still use taxis. But most people prefer to see the price before they get in. Certainly the choice existing is better for the consumer and has helped keep taxi fares lower - even if you choose not to use an uber.
As the examples in the article use xml, I just wanted to point out that applying regex to xml has a lot of limitations and should be avoided.
See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Ask HN: Would you exchange customer data for free cloud hosting?
If there was a cloud hosting service that was totally free to host your web, app, database, etc and the only caveat was that you would allow the cloud host to be able to aggregate & mine all of your user/customer data for monetization, would you be willing to use such a service?
So GitHub Actions is essentially a free server to run any background cron jobs I want?
This is interesting. Thx. The problem we've always had with smart locks at scale is connectivity headaches, which require a technical person as advanced or more than a locksmith.
Propulsion aside, I really wonder what the human species turns out to be like in say a couple of hundred years.

Hopefully our solar system isn't the only place where human DNA is found; that said, I'm curious what'll be left of humans as we know today.

With tools like CRISPR accelerating adoption to new environments and increased resilience towards hostile situations (zero-g, radiation etc)
Getting there is "easy". But if the wafer is speeding at c/4 past the exoplanet, it will not be able to take any measurements.

4.2 Braking to Enter Orbit on Arrival - A very difficult challenge is to slow the spacecraft to typical planetary orbital speeds to enable orbital capture once arriving. This task is difficult as the initial entry speeds are so high (~ c) and the orbital speeds are so low (~ 10-4 c). Dissipating this much energy is challenging. We have considered using the stars photon pressure, the stellar wind (assuming it is like our own solar system), using the magnetic coupling to the exo solar system plasma. None of these techniques appears to be obviously able to accomplish this task and much more work and simulation is needed. A simple fly-by mission is clearly the first type of mission to explore in any case to assess the environment in a given system to design (if possible) an optimized braking strategy.
The New JavaScript API to Access a User's Local Files
Yeah, tell people to eat bugs and less meat but step out of the way of fast food industry, or those farms treating cows like bags of potato. Tell people to fly less or use the train and exempt private jets.

But honestly, we deserve worse, it's our fault. We let those fucks FLY ON PRIVATE JETS to davos CLIMATE summit, and accept an increased tax on plastic bags (which incidentally was show to make people use more plastic). Anyway, yeah we deserve worse. It's not their fault. It's ours. We are the ones letting them tell us what to do while they fuck around on private jets.
Guess it depends how well this fork does.
They'd have to block by domain name, right, and block all HTTPS traffic to those domains? I somehow suspect that browers can win that particular cat and mouse game just by making the domains too important to block (share the domain with something users care about). Maybe I'm missing something there though, it probably is more complicated than just that.
I'm dubious about that line. It always read like Ticketmaster trying to deflect blame to me.

But I do note that "the artist" isn't even mentioned in that list.
I think brokers are still in the property game because landlords typically aren't sufficiently informed to know that they can avoid paying a broker, or can shop around for a cheaper one.

Brokers have done a good job of telling landlords that if they don't use a broker, or use a cheap one, that they'll get bad tenants and that'll cost them a lot in the long term. Good broker = good tenants = worth getting 8.4% less, because you'll lose more than 8.4% when a bad tenant burns the place down....

I'm unconvinced that the above is true, but it's certainly the message brokers (fairly successfully) give landlords.
Come on EU, can't you do proper accounting?

Tax the fuel, and give certain groups a subsidy when you think it is necessary. That way, accounting is fully transparent, and we don't end up in weird discussions about why some groups of people pay tax and others don't.
Assuming perfect conversion of mass to energy you will still need a staggering amount of fuel for each kg of payload. Goggle the relativistic rocket equation and you should find a page with some figures for example scenarios.
For SW type people ...

GCC's impact was possible because it was (with GAS - the assembler) 100% feasible to have an open source toolchain. Yes more software was necessary for a complete system (linker, libc, etc), but GCC made it possible to build from the ground floor up.

Also, yes, the initial GCC was worse than any proprietary decent tool chain at the time, but it got better and better because each improvement built on all the earlier open sourced efforts.

Think about how hard Linux kernel development would have been if it had to rely on different proprietary tool chains for every target architecture (and possibly chip version).

Hardware definition languages (Verilog/VHDL, etc) enable high level chip design like high level programming languages, but making the physical chip requires a PDK (process design kit) that encodes how each critical silicon feature is built.

So a chip built for TSMC 28nm contains TSMC proprietary material and is essentially unportable. It can take several years to move a major chip from one foundry to another (or even a shrink at the same foundry), and the proprietary tool chains preclude a development process that can incrementally improve portability.

This announcement is a a major step toward a similar foundation being available for silicon design. It is very important that it is a large complex chip, rather than just a research development vehicle.

[disclaimer - past life as OpenPOWER participant]
That again is not a UX issue, that is a lack of shape tools for that particular workflow. Like, this is not something you can fix just by moving some buttons around or by changing the name of the ellipse tool to circle draw tool and having it fill automatically (i.e. bugfix-type things that a UX person would do), somebody has to implement an entirely new feature for that to work the way you are expecting, and then it would need to be redesigned as well. And GIMP historically has not been focused on shape drawing. If you want an open source program that focuses on shapes and vector drawing, you may want to use Krita or Inkscape. Or you can try developing what you're looking for as a GIMP plugin, and the going from there and trying to get it merged upstream if it's popular enough.
What I find most fascinating is that this is an .eth link. Starting to see them everywhere.

Does anyone know why there’s a “.link” after “.eth”?
Lazard's analysis is bad at best, but that is a separate discussion.

The main issue is that renewables have huge upfront capital costs combined with 0 storage &transportation capabilities (cannot put your wind energy in a tank). Of course these are not issues for the West, but I don't know how you can go to an isolated Indian village and tell them that they need to spit 20k per household to install solar panels.

Combustible fuels are pay as you go. Want heat tonight? Use some wood just for tonight. Want to move your motorcycle? You need only a jug of gasoline.
Clicking on a http:// link these days feels like I have been tricked into clicking on a phishing link in an email.

Good trick though.
How do you dare to call these operating systems and computers “disused”?!