skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, some kind of geoengineering will be required.

Given the existence of feedback loops, the sooner we deploy technology to directly reduce the temperature, the less of that technology we will have to deploy, but it seems inevitable that we will have to do something like this.
This type of sentiment generally makes me feel that literally nobody understands why business work or don't.

I remember pitching the idea of a fantasy financial league to a friend who is a teacher, as a way of teaching kids about the stock market and finance. His reply instantly gelled with me and let me know they actually understood much more than I about both teaching and finance: He said it will teach exactly the wrong lesson. Even if you do it for an entire school year, there can be really only one type of winner: the investor that stuck all their money into a stock that happened to blow up, the opposite of a solid investment strategy.

I bring up this example to point out that feedback can be a poisoned apple. Start-ups are basically this exact scenario. The only optimum strategy is to go "all in". Either in the short term by quitting your job and warming up your pitch deck, or in the long term by have some multi-year side project draining all available free time.

So that's the bar, the vast majority of start-up likely had founders that went all in, it's table stakes. So what's the secret sauce? It is the equivalent to the fantasy financial league of picking an overperforming stock, it's not going all in.
Honest question: is North Carolina really any different than Tennessee, especially looking out over the next 10 years? From my U.S. Midwest perspective they appear to have very similar values, sentiments and politics. I'd be afraid that I'd be uprooting my family just to jump from one frying pan to another.
Which word did they make? Was it "Mitochondria"? I bet it was mitochondria
decentralized networks have just as much propaganda and bullshit because of the types of people involved in that

also why are you on HNews, it's not decentralized and it def is a social network if your decentralized network is so great and popular
I’m surprised Tehran was passed over. Really well produced show.
pardon the dumb question - how do rockets from spacex, etc avoid crashing into a satellite on its way up? Is there a way to keep track of all the satellites and debris in space and time the launch so there is a clear path?
This is a fun site for tracking stuff in space:

http://stuffin.space/
Duolingo taught me this. I started doing ten minutes of Duolingo a day... 959 days ago. It showed me the enormous power of doing something small every day.

Since then I've tried setting myself other streak targets. My most successful has been publishing weeknotes (just published number 92) since that forces me to focus on what I've got done - and through that incentivizes me to get stuff done, so I can put it in my weeknotes.
Wild-fed ones might even be tasty. I've had some decent carp before.
Secretly subpoenaing journalists’ phone records is not an idle threat. Trump tried to change the results of a democratic election. Because of his lies armed protestors broke into the Capitol building while congress people were in it in order to disrupt ratifying Biden as president. Neither one of those were idle threats. They were direct attacks on our form of government. They happen to fail but those attacks were real.

I’m not saying social media censorship isn’t bad. Of course having a few tech companies control the information that most people see is problematic. What I’m saying is that allowing those platforms to act as a megaphone for misinformation is also a huge issue. Censorship and propaganda are both tools of abusive governments.
Based on my experience reading academic papers, I would suggest that you would often be better off skimming 3 papers in a week than reading one closely.

I would often do this in grad school:

* Go search for papers that broadly had to do with some structure or other mathematical gadget I was interested in at the time,

* Read the abstracts of those papers to find the ones that looked most interesting,

* Take the most interesting papers, and read the statements of the theorems,

* Finally, devote a little more attention to those papers that had interesting theorems that seemed to fall within the domain of what I was working on.

I did this with math papers, but there's no particular reason you can't generalize this to other fields. CS in particular can use almost the exact same methods. For less mathematical fields, you'd need to make some substitutions, such as "section headers and key topic sentences" for "statements of theorems," but you can make it work there, too.

Doing this, in a decade, you end up reading 1560 abstracts, which is probably more useful in terms of "Oh, wait, I've seen this before" type insights than reading 520 entire papers.
Reminds me of our attempts to get various contractors to come and do tasks. Sometimes they keep promising to come and don't show up repeatedly. Other times they show up, write down our requirements, plan the work, and then vanish. My builder friends who are actual general contractors also complain of this about their subs. Makes me think if I wasn't already doing well in software I would kill it in the trades just by showing up when I say I will!
And ten years later a 130 grand car (would that be the cheapest in the field back in 2010? Was the corvette or lotus the cheapest in that clip?) would eviscerate them by... two seconds?
Sodium ion doesn't really have major advantages over lithium ion and is heavier. I am confident aircraft will use a lithium-based batteries. I agree some sort of solid state chemistry is likely. NASA is also working on solid state lithium battery chemistries for aircraft.
Straightforward device naming in operating systems
This is denial of basic spreadsheet realities. Solar and wind power generation are already cheaper than nuclear and much easier to build and expand. Not only are nuclear plants more costly to build and operate, but the nuclear waste is piling up and will need to be dealt with in some way eventually which will cost a significant amount of money.

Nuclear is not the solution to getting off fossil fuels primarily because it is too expensive but also because confidence has been lost. The public were promised power too cheap to meter and ended up with a mess of unknown expenses and risks. If nuclear advocates had been more cautious and careful then public opinions would be more reasonable but that is not what happened and we have to be realistic and move forward now as quickly as possible with the tools we have.
I doubt the payment systems would run on a 3rd party cloud provider. But there are many other systems used by a bank, to calculate their risks, run their accounting, do their regulatory reporting, all the network drives that are used across the bank, emails, that could be killed in such a scenario. That alone is enough to threaten the stability of the banking system.
> "use SMTP" here is a short way of saying "send mail to a mail server that will store the requests indefinitely"

So the suggestion is to use email? That's not how others are interpreting it. [1] And it doesn't make sense to me either. Emails as they are "baked into the whole internet already" are unencrypted with tons of middlemen, and even their transport isn't guaranteed to be encrypted. Email is also munged and messed with in weird ways, with fun stuff like each middleman tacking on their own headers and filtering it out based on unknown rules. It also introduces a ton of latency and severely prioritizes "eventually reaching the destination" over timeliness. And more downsides I can't think of off the top of my head. That seems like a really poor choice for an event delivery mechanism.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27830705
Reverse-engineering the surprisingly advanced ALU of the 8008 (2017)
I’ve lately been playing through the “real book”, sketching out each song quickly and doing a run through, maybe 8 songs per day.

In just three months I’m on my third time through and have discovered probably 100 songs I just love to play that I’d never heard before (Ellington is a genius songwriter. “Cottontail” is one that I get excited to see when I flip to it, and I just have to play at least three times).

Not actually a big jazz fan. I like simple consonant sounds and cute melodies, so I skip the bop, Mingus etc. My absolute favorite is when the whole song is cute and tidy except for one accentuated bit of dissonance that comes smashing in when you’re not expecting it, then waltzes right back out, transitioning perfectly into the next section and leaving you shaking your head in awe. The Beatles were masters at this.

My sight chording/inverting and rhythm reading has gone through the roof. It’s like an endless jigsaw puzzle.
Title of the article is a bit misleading.

They are simply reducing their releases to once a year. It's still as a service model unless somehow that release cycle changes the meaning of that business model.

But it'll still be rolling Forward from win 10.

I know devs and companies are need the enterprise support from win, but since moving to Linux for my main desktop, it's been a breath of fresh air give it a try for those who haven't or haven't worked with it for a while.
Yeah, could be interesting. I guess it works for the JVM? I feel like people will still want to use their own runtimes but idk
Would you mind sharing what you used to learn cooking? My main struggle is recipe books that teach you the recipe rather than cooking. But I'd love to learn HOW to cook, not WHAT to cook.
Underwhelming. No more petrol and diesel cars in 20 years? That should have been the policy 20 years ago.
Seems like storage will be more viable and will increase as the economics become more favorable.

In terms of getting customers to shift their use, socal Edison’s tou plans are absolutely garbage. Their super off peak rates are barely below the tier 1 flat rates.

It makes zero sense to switch. It costs more unless one makes a huge effort to shift their use from natural times. Making huge disruptions just to break even is unrealistic.

Someone going into tier 2 could theoretically save money but realistically they would be unable to shift their usage patterns enough to make it practically viable, they’re always going to be penalized by the peak rates.

The power companies are going to need to rework their tou rates.
Reminds me of these equations:

1.01 ^ 365 = 37.78

0.99 ^ 365 = 0.03
I've hit the thread depth limit and cant reply to you @rjknight - but a technological miracle isn't something we should bet on. This is more of a social and economic problem, not a technical problem. We have the technology to be carbon negative if we all work together - but we don't want to give up our comforts.
We're starting to get some political alignment on anti-trust against Amazon at least. Though one party seems motivated by worker/consumer right, the other by retaliation for Bezos' ownership of WaPo.
It could be argued that HN, news, and Reddit are less hedonist because they provide education.

Although, my long term plan is to eliminate those in favor of non fiction books and personal projects.

The best "pro comic book" argument I've heard is that science fiction can help you consider potential futures of humanity. This can reduce being surprised by biotechnology and AI events. This could help humanity vote better and make more ethical software. (or so the argument goes)
> You can try to convince yourself that the activity you want to perform is a given, just like eating and showering...

I wish these activities were a given. It’s 5pm and I’ve not eaten since breakfast at 8am. I had to force myself to shower.

Note: showering wasn’t a problem pre-pandemic and perma-WFH hermit life. Eating, however, still was difficult to remember unless food was brought to me. And even then, sometimes, it just sat going cold on my desk
Counter-argument:

Government is (in theory) elected by people, counter balanced by court.

Facebook is accountable to nobody, it don't even have any competitor in social network business.
> It happens in Europe too.

Does it really? I am from Europe and I have lived and worked in 3 EU countries, many of my friends have experience from other countries and I have never heard anyone mention this is. Obviously, my personal experience is limited. In what country do you live if I might ask?
> Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year.

Always good to lump the Christians in with the alcoholics.
Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
We can’t have no moderation. There are a million reasons from spam to hostile government bots etc.

At least the US legally allows companies (ie prevents government censorship) to choose what they moderate, rather than almost any other country where governments can easily censor.

But I believe we can’t really have winner takes all markets any more, for political reasons. The current winners in these social network markets have basically aligned with one political side. This isn’t even a question any more.

So what will happen? The market will correct. At a minimum these markets will split in two with duopolies, one for each political side, but it could be more fragmented.

Just like in old media. We have fox and cnn, we will have Facebook Twitter and whatever the right will build.

It’s inevitable. Network effects won’t save the day when you are censoring mainstream right views. You can’t be seen to be against half your market. The customers will leave. It might take time, but they’ll leave.
Ask HN: I built a site to hire engineers x10 faster. Why is noone interested?
Hey Hackers,

A desperate call for feedback here.

I must be doing something utterly wrong.

After working for 5+ years in tech recruitment and having built a profitable company in the space generating $1M+ ARR - I finally admit that I know nothing about this market.

For the last 2 months I and my co-founder have been working on https://greenlight.jobs/employers/ - a marketplace that connects businesses with vetted overseas engineers looking for remote work opportunities. It is a 'reverse' job marketplace, where 'poachable' candidates list their anonymized profiles. As a result, employers see available candidates immediately - which shortens time-to-hire many times. It also gives businesses access to the new and huge 'hidden' pool of talent.

I had great faith in this idea for at least 3 reasons:
1) Post-COVID, hiring engineers became even tougher than before.
2) Remote becomes the new normal - and consequently international hiring is on the rise, with companies like Deel or Remote - that provide paperwork and payroll for foreign employees, surpassing billion-dollar valuations;
3) There are tens of thousands of brilliant engineers on local markets that speak decent English, and are happy to work for an American startup for $100K-120K + equity.

We have seen a lot of entusiasm from candidates - and quickly got a strong first batch of senior React+Node full-stack developers.

However after we launched the employers website - the interest turned to be surprisingly low. We got only 4 job postings so far, 1 from last weeks' Show HN (4 upvotes, 3 comments) and 3 from Bookface.
Today Greenlight launched on Product Hunt - and got only 29 upvotes so far.

I strongly believe in the vision of work knowing no borders on the future - so don't want to give up on this easily.
I would therefore be grateful for any piece of feedback that would help me understand what may we be missing.

Thanks!
If anybody wants to play some Deathmatch: https://silentspacemarine.com/dbee695faaa29aefe9a14d5798689e...
If you haven't read or listened to this book yet, I highly recommend it: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work[1]

It's a collection of daily routines of many famous and prolific artists. The surprising thing about so many of the artists is that they only work 2 or 3 hours per day, then spend the rest of the day walking around, socializing, etc. But they consistently show up and put in the work and it adds up to some amazing things over time.

This reminds me of another great book about beating procrastination: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play[2]

In that book, the author talks about his extensive work helping graduate students complete their dissertations. I can't cover all the great points here, but when working with these students he has them create an "unschedule" where they have to schedule guilt-free play activities as the top priority. Then he actually limits the amount of work they are allowed to do on their dissertation to only a couple of hours per day. The effect is quite amazing at turning students around from dreading and avoiding their dissertation to really trying to maximize the limited time they have to work on it. And having guilt-free play lets them really disconnect from the work and have true recovery so that they have the motivation and energy to hit the project again and again every day. Seems counter-intuitive at first, but as I've applied this to different projects, it's amazing how much more I'm able to accomplish.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799151-daily-rituals

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95708.The_Now_Habit
Show HN: The Storytelling Platform for the PR Industry
I would recommend "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking". It has a great focus on the fundamentals rather than specific recipes.
Thanks for sharing us
True, but when we started we bet on certain trends that are just getting mainstream now. Having said that, large markets tend to have a lot of niches. You can certainly carve your own. It might not be a billion dollar niche, but that was never the point :)
Well said. Something being 'the law' isn't an argument for or against anything in itself. In fact in extreme cases the official law can be extremely immoral and - after a regime change - itself criminal.

Regarding the US example, free speech laws were certainly not written with the intention of giving powerful companies the ability to censor public debates, since they moved from the town squares onto their digital platforms. Also corporations are not people!
I need this so much... I have to use Lucid Charts in Confluence...
This may be stated often, but it's still easy to get too caught up in the optimization game of FI. I appreciate every time someone reiterates the value in the journey, even when its expressed as a concern for FI.
4. Abuse.

Did you mean they aren't actually new?
ASCIIFlow is a less full featured web app with similar functionality to Monodraw, for all the windows/linux/chromebook users wishing for an electron version

https://asciiflow.com
But what to do later with that dozens of unfinished projects I dove headfirst into over the last two decades?
Here is a short interview with a Japanese lawyer on how the law screws over foreigners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZLGqL1FMo

After watching this, i could understand why Carlos Ghosn did what he did; it is an abhorrent "Hostage Justice" system.
>Why not, though?

Because all my tape measures are in inches ;(
Humans may be terrible at reading pie charts quickly, but I think we do fine with visualizations such as clocks, gauges and circular controls. I wouldn't even be surprised if a circular gauge can be read more quickly or with less attention than a linear one (size/area being equal).
Right, which Google[1], Amazon[2], and Microsoft[3] even offer to third parties on their cloud platforms. That ruling was mostly just a quibbling about the legal particulars, it didn’t change anything on the ground.

[1]: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en
[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-an...
[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offer...
I believe Ford automatically lowers the volume to barely hearable while in reverse — since otherwise I think passing over the UI to a more important component is a good decision.
Still not really buying the physical control of data argument. If you need to force a company like MC to comply, you can always solve that problem at the point of sale, or (like they're doing right now) stop banks, which are firmly under your jurisdiction, from issuing cards. A company will hand over data rather than be banned from operating in the country, just the same.

The amount of leverage you have with data being abroad is approximately the same - you can decree that your financial institutions or businesses are committing a crime when transacting with said company, and that is all.
Even as a non christian I find your lack of tact pretty uninteresting.
Amazon War: fight with dollaroni$$$
Google: LinkedIn Spam Was Actually Russian Hackers Spreading Zero-Days
See "Turning Pro" and "War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. Good books on this topic.
SMS is unencrypted and routes through the carrier's hardware. I can't see that much difficulty in, say, implementing a list of phrases or URLs which result in the message being dropped, given carrier cooperation. (The carrier cooperates or else they end up called into Congress over and over to testify about such-and-such)
This very article says the same, if read past the headline:

> Japan’s often-cited conviction rate of over 99 percent is a percentage of all prosecuted cases, not just contested cases. It is eye-catching, but misleading, since it counts as convictions those cases in which defendants pleaded guilty. If the U.S. conviction rate were calculated in a similar manner it would also exceed 99 percent since so few cases are contested at trial (in FY 2018 only 320 of the total number of 79,704 federal defendants were acquitted at trial).

I was curious why I kept seeing this article coming up as an attack on Japan when the text clearly doesn't come across that way & yep, this link is the first google result for "japan 99% conviction rate"
Buddy of mine from college flies with his US passport at all times, even for domestic flights, because he's of Arab decent and constantly gets hassled for it.

So one time we're flying domestic as a group to set up some equipment for a research project. He gets pulled aside by a couple of white TSA agents as part of a "random inspection", out of a line of about 20 people, mostly white or light complected.

He starts getting questioned about where he's flying, why, etc. Then they ask to see his ID and boarding pass. Hands them his passport, state DL, and boarding pass, and they start going off on him as to why he's got his passport for a domestic flight, how that looks suspicious and such.

He responds with "Well, I get stopped for looking Arab every time I fly, so this is a much easier way to prove I'm a US citizen." They stop for a moment and look around at everyone watching, tell him to have a good day and walk away. I'll never forget that encounter.
I feel like this notion is complete trash if you want to be anything but mediocre.

In IT, I constantly have to work OT and take on challenging projects to advance and improve. This has NOTHING in common with showing up and closing tickets, which I can easily do with existing knowledge.

Same with the gym - I constantly have to change up the routine, adjust to injuries, think about diet, etc.

That's not even talking about doing something significant like learning a language outside of work.

It's also the reason things like "atomic habits" are complete bs - you aren't going to get anything significant done in a minute OR an hour a day.

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"It feels like a superpower when you see it start compounding."

Lie / marketing gimmick. There is start up time and cooldown time that people who have never done anything completely neglect. There is also the fact that one big chunk of time is far more efficient than little chunk of times.

Aka you can shoot a bow for 10 mins a day or for an hour once a week and you will see zero improvement, let alone "compounding" improvement.
A fair comparison would probably be Ryzen 5300U vs M1 but I've never seen the 5300U in the wild. I expect M1X to do well against the 5900H when it comes out.