skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion air quality is another big factor in outdoors comfort. This makes L.A.'s solid green line pretty suspect to me, just in case anyone was planning on moving there based on this.
When Pharo says 'everything' they mean _everything_.
And if too small/cheap to have consulted a solicitor, are you really saying none is better than 'made up'?

Worst case is what, you miss something you should've included and it bites you? Something you thought covered you turned out not to be binding (because it's otherwise illegal or too narrowly defined or whatever)?

Seems to me many small side projects or whatever would do well (and zero harm) to 'make up' user agreements sooner.
> I had never heard of that and did not find any article supporting that from a quick search

It would be ironic if medieval doctors who "bled" patients to cure them had actually been on to something all this time.
The fit for Bitcoin trades isn’t perfect, but I’ve seen fits like that used to disprove fraud. So I’m not sure that one graph really proves much.

A while back I used benfords law on Chicago city salaries which are public… it wasn’t pretty. The salaries graph was basically inverted compared to benfords law. Lots of 5s a good amount of 9s and basically no 1s.

Now it is totally possible that salary data doesn’t work well with benfords law for any number of reasons, but I couldn’t find anything that said that. You might say the lack of 1s is due to the fact that most ppl make more than 10k and less than 100k… but there were a whole bunch of ppl in the 1k-10k range, I didn’t dig too deeply into it, but that alone raised my suspicions.
Twitter is not important to me personally, but has been instrumental in organizing public protests within oppressive and authoritarian countries for over a decade. I would say that has had a materially positive impact on humanity, and could continue to do so in the future, despite all the downsides of the platform.
Thanks, I'll be interested to hear what you think of the new version. And if you have further ideas/suggestions to continue improving/generalizing things for international use cases, just let me know!
Actually, giving out certificates for free is bad because it means that planning for a specific certificate price is impossible because the free handouts constantly mess with the prices.

A carbon tax has the advantage that you can plan ahead because the government releases a schedule for future CO2 tax increases.
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Show HN: Create a Bitmoji-like avatar through an API
Plus one on this book. Even if you are not an artist it's a great read.
Interview with Vojtěch Říha, founder of Superior Type type foundry
Show HN: Resimplifying Todo.txt
Gina Trapani had great idea to keep tasks in plain text files and organize them with small shell script (http://todotxt.org). But through the time that "simple script" became a monster: 1349 sloc. One thousand, three hundred fourty nine lines of code in the shell script.

I wrote really small script that can respect the simplicity of todo.txt, has colors and couple of new really little improvements that I found useful: pinned tasks and sorting by 'due:'. The script is 33 lines of code. 33 lines, Gina, not 1349. Simple stupid.

You can check it here: https://github.com/asakura42/todo.sh

What do you think? Can todo.txt still be good solution for some tasks?
You might get human support in ecommerce but most of the time they cant help you and keep sending you the same bullshit emails requiring you to send in a “plan of action”, which doesnt make any sense when you don’t really know why you got banned.
Have you considered they might be trading off on aspects that you don't care or don't know about?

As a sibling comment noted, a BOM might be $X compared to buying premade packages from Adafruit/Sparkfun at $X0. But paying $X0 means skipping over $X00 worth (or even $X,000) of schematic capture, board layout, design review, PCB fab, assembly, bringup, and fixing bugs.
We're erasing countless species to replace them with cows and soy.

I've tried often to convince people to care more about biodiversity. I don't focus on the chemical/pharma angle because I'm not grounded in those sciences, and because while I think they're important, they're not what's most important. Biodiversity is simply the best thing in the known universe. Nothing else holds a candle to the beauty, the wonder, the awe that the living world engenders.

I've met people who agree, and people who disagree, but I've never seen anyone change their minds.

On the bright side (if you can call it that), whereas the positive value of biodiversity doesn't seem to motivate much change, the negative value of potential catastrophic species collapse might ...
Microsoft’s New 3D Emoji
Love this idea. Congrats on launching!
What would it mean to "handle a prolonged conflict with a peer enemy"?

Isn't that, inevitably, going to be war-of-attrition or mutual destruction?

The only way to win is to only fight weaker enemies, or be such an expensive "target" that stronger enemies find it unproductive.
38% of Europe's electricity was generated by renewables in 2020 - not including nuclear. This proportion is growing rapidly. It's a win already particularly given the relatively poor efficiency of internal combustion engines.

And it will only get better as a virtuous cycle between the growth of renewables in generation and the growth of BEV ownership. Off-peak EV charging provides a valuable sink for cheap off-peak renewably generated electricity.
I honestly can’t wait for people to learn that living in space is just outright horrible
The whole "legal to retail it, illegal to produce/grow it" is the dumbest example of a policy I've seen, and it's shocking to me that such a progressive country has such a backwards policy. Amazingly, it makes the confusing "legal in many states/illegal at Federal level" morass of the USA look good.

Here in Colorado, every bit of legally sold cannabis (or it's refined products like edibles/concentrates) can be traced to the plant or collection of plants it was produced with.

Compared to other US states, the system is incredibly effective in its goal of maintaining a price floor and preventing oversupply like Oregon and California have. Oversupply is bad because growers become less profitable, and are more likely to sell on the black market as a result.

Most importantly, full traceability from the retail store to the producer prevents organized crime from supplying the retail locations.

The Netherlands should look at the Colorado model, and take it farther.
It isn’t luck, because the game has a 0% chance of winning until X number of loses. That is like saying that getting heads on a coin toss is a game of luck, except they are actually using a double tails coin for 700 tosses. A game of luck or chance requires some chance that you could actually win on a given play.
No they could be socialists, anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, communists.

Much of leftist political theory is coming at libertarianism from the view that liberalism provides necessary but not sufficient conditions for freedom. We have to go further than classical liberalism to get more freedom.

Capital L Libertarian is a very right-wing political faction in the USA, but libertarianism is not that.
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I've heard that monogamy is a big challenge for anyone who works in the butt-in-seats side of that industry.
Did more millennials also opt to live in city centers, which had hollowed out during the previous generation? You can still buy suburban and rural housing for $1xxK, or even five figures if you’re willing to compromise.

I just looked, and room+board at OSU costs $13,352 per year (http://undergrad.osu.edu/cost-and-aid/basic-costs). Adjusted for inflation, that’s cheaper than it cost 20 years ago. Of course, unsubsidized private or out-of-state schools will cost far more. Many fewer people went to college 40 years ago, too.

The health insurance premiums are higher now, but the coverage is far better. Everyone can have guaranteed health coverage via ACA, subsidized in cases of financial hardship.

Free childcare is still available for many of those who live close to family. Maternity and parental leave and FMLA laws have only improved. Free public schooling generally starts earlier. More wfh jobs are available today than ever before.

My point in all of this, of course, is that I suspect a lot of these differences boil down to optionality and different decision making. I don’t think it’s reasonable for our generation to pursue a more exciting, leisurely, and expensive lifestyle than our parents had (prestigious school, expensive city, travel, white collar job, moving away from a childhood home, delayed commitment), then resent that generation’s boat and lake house.

Can you have it all today? For most, the answer is still no, just like it always was. I suspect that more people than ever before can get pretty close, though, leaving those who can’t even more resentful about it than in the past.

BTW, with one month of SF rent, you can buy yourself a nice used boat. A couple years of that rent will buy you a simple lake house.
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Damn man, you do have trouble with basic concepts.

64% or 95% or whatever of the population are IMMUNE.

It's not 'prevent infection 64% of the timr' as you would in a videogame... It's 'get vaccinated and you have X% chance to develop antibodies, if you do, you are immune.'
No, it's still an unsolvable problem. But it seems a kludge has been added that makes the damage a tiny bit smaller, and also introduces a massive vulnerability, so I wouldn't exactly call that a win.
I sometimes ask young programmers or people interested in old computers if they know Smalltalk and what they think of it. Try it too, you might be surprised at the results.

I don't know of any such list of differences, and I don't think it's of much use either.There is ANSI Smalltalk, which is very limited and most implementations go well beyond its scope, so you have to compare each implementation separately anyway.
> buying less meat reduces supply (it's what economists call elastic)

Uhhhh, buying less meat will reduce price, not supply.
Now that I see there’s such a hunger for this kind of storytelling, I want to build on what I’ve done in part 1. To do so, I’m seeking to fully fund parts 2 and 3 of this series, so I can continue digging deeply and telling stories of great characters. What ideas do you have for individuals/entities that might be interested? The money would go through the publisher, which is a 501 c3 nonprofit.

Thank you all for such a great conversation here and asking such thought-provoking questions!
I couldn't actually find a source on this. The Bloomsburg article doesn't talk about any companies in panic.
Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator
there are whole other paradigms, eg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
I live in the Netherlands and in a good neighbourhood. One neighbouring house was blasted with heavy gun fire by a passing-by vehicle in an attempt to murder someone. So it’s not unheard of.

Also, in my previous apartment (Amsterdam), I’ve heard a gang execution (shots were fired) in the middle of the night.

I also know people who knows the DJ who was executed inside his car in the presence pf his family.

There’s a problem in the Netherlands.
> There's developers hammering out boring business logic as fast as possible and there's developers with a deep understanding of machine internals, protocols, and infrastructure.

Purely anecdotal of course, but I follow a number of the latter, and they're either sparsely employed or often employed in a capacity where it doesn't matter There was a comment in this thread where one person had such an idea, and it was rejected for what were essentially business reasons.
What? Google spends (idk how much) money promoting PWAs. Just look at https://web.dev

Sure, maybe the Android division has a strategic preference for Android apps, but.. what would you expect, really?
I'd given this a shot. Nice way to make some money, ha. (Got about a $1500 in Indian rupees which was neat.)
We refreshed our 1800 emoji to support the new landscape of work
This is such convoluted reasoning and you keep mentioning it. For example I could say: "I don't want to pay the road toll, I pay for it with the gas tax I pay" or "I don't want to pay for Disneyland, I pay for it with all the things I buy inside". Technically Disney could make entrance free and charge ridiculous rates for everything inside but I'm certain that makes theme parks significantly less viable as a business - maybe even straight up unprofitable.
Agreed.

I work for a company that sells a SaaS product, it's not unlike many others, but we win sales based on how flexible / well we integrate with our customer's wonky systems.

What our application does is roughly the same as anyone else's ... but for many customers ease of integration with their systems is the make or break point.
These rules are about selling brand new cars. Poor people only buy used cars anyway and AFAIK this ruling doesn't say anything about used cars.
Every place I’ve worked at lets me carve out side gigs/projects as being personal and not subject to w/e stupid non-compete clause they’re making me sign.
This response is intellectually dishonest.

This article from NASA makes it absolutely clear that it's not human tree planting which has caused the greening:

>> From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

The second point is just as dishonest. The number of different species of birds does not affect forestation. It's mostly about the number of specimens. The variety of species doesn't matter much since many different bird species exhibit the same behaviors. Many different species of birds eat fruits and seeds. Many birds carry twigs and sprouts long distances to use to build their nests. Birds are like forest planting drones which work 24/7 and can replicate themselves.
Here in the UK you can create and run a company with no lawyers and no accountants. I am originally from Spain where doing anything requires lawyers, notaries, and loads of cash. That results in a petrified business class. I was lucky to have business oriented parents that taught me concepts related to taxation, employment law etc. But I appreciate the LibDem's move years ago to cut paperwork and am happy for it
After trying to webscrape a website, I'm convinced that it's impossible to be anonymous.

They might not be able to figure out my address, but your device is not anonymous.
From an atmospheric CO2 standpoint, perhaps all trees (of a given carbon mass) are equivalent. But the monocultures that we plant are a pathetic, precarious substitute for natural habitat.
> ...then having atomic code changes is a foot gun.

Why is it a foot gun? I don't know what the negative consequences are here.

Atomic commits are just to make development easier. It means that you can refactor downstream dependencies in the same commit that you make a change to an upstream library. This way, you either build and deploy the new library + the refactored downstream dependency, or you build and deploy the old version, but never some mix. It reduces the number of possible configurations that can be built & deployed, since you can only pick from a point in one repo's history, and you can't mix and match various points in the history of different repos. With multi-repo, it is harder to discover down-stream dependencies.

> It is amazing how many times I've seen folks think that just because they can get build time tests happy with changes in two projects, that they can safely send out the two changes.

Build-time tests don't catch 100% of errors. Some errors will still make it into production. I don't see how this problem is related to the multi-repo vs mono-repo problem at all. At places where I've worked, if you change project X and project Y, and your commits pass the build test, you still have to submit the commits in some linear order. The pre-commit tests for X will include Y or vice versa. X or Y will be rebased or merged on top of the other one, and the result will have to go through pre-commit tests.

I am just trying to understand what problem multi-repo is supposed to be addressing here, and I don't have the slightest clue what you're getting at.
Can someone smarter than I explain what this means? More efficient solar panels?
> Williams was detained for thirty hours and was not given any food or water.

This treatment is inhumane and borderline torture. Especially for a SUSPECT. Even if it had been the right guy, this is far from an acceptable way to treat fellow humans.
The article spins it (towards the end) as though this is a bad thing.

Ridiculous.
Ouch.

Something tells me that in the future on our personal computers we will be running virtual windowing systems (KDE, GTK, etc), which will make this both better and worse.

That GTK (and firefox) take so much more memory to run still amazes me. If I had the time, I'd love to run an old version of Firefox on a current Linux set up just to see what would happen.

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EDIT - I have "GTK" above, because it covers not only Gnome, but also XFCE, etc.
Can I also add that one person doing something has a knock on effect on other people's behaviour. Similar to the drink-drive argument before which was 'everyone does it' whereas these days, where I live, it absolutely isn't. If I drive at 30mph through a residential road that most people speed through, I might actually influence other people's behaviour who may feel it isn't appropriate to speed if other people aren't.

I guess I'm trying to say individuals can help normalise things that previously wasn't normal.
The psychological burden must be immense.

My greatest fear would be damaging the backpack or the cables.
Cool, on the first point, that's fair. I've also been at startups where they ask us to just list all the interesting people we know and would like to work with and then they just take that info and prospect them independently; sounds like you're just productizing that process which is great.

On the last point, interesting, I guess you will have to take a lot of time at the beginning to do your own screening of all the referred people to make sure they meet your standards before you decide a scout is any good and needs less supervision than others.

2 other things:

1) It says only software engineers can apply. I sort of understand but wonder if you'd consider making exceptions - I was early on at Gigster (another YC co but doing software development as a service with a network of freelance engineers) and some similar co's and so although I'm not an engineer, I have a ton of great ones in my network.

2) It says you're not available in my geographic area. Where are you recruiting from?
How much do you think that liberal immigration and drugs laws are responsible for that? What are the proposed changes to revert this narco-state status?
> The side project myth is getting out of control. Most recruiters and hiring managers will never even open your GitHub profile.

I once interviewed someone who listed authorship of a paper on his résumé. I skimmed it and, curious, asked a question about it in the interview. He looked surprised and told me I was the only person who'd ever even mentioned it.
Google's tool repo kind of does what you thought this does
Seems like a pretty boilerplate privacy policy. When in doubt cover your own ass.

Privacy policies are just a waste of time anyways, bad actors are going to act bad regardless of any "policy" they have in place.

Not to mention the policy is not necessarily a contract.
He’s union, they can’t do anything to him. However, given the recent cases of the murderous disgruntled pilots (Germanwings and Malaysia Airlines) I wonder if they’ll be able to bench him with pay out of precaution. I know I sure wouldn’t want to fly on his flight.
The EBU made compelling reasons why 720p would be better than 1080i for HD

However 1080 is bigger than 720, so most sources are interlaced.

4K at least got ride of interlaced as an option, so 2160 is always progressive.
So I guess we need to burn the forests now?
This language is a strict superset of SQL (and compiles to SQL), with some features to improve composability and programmer experience.

The Github repository is https://github.com/lelandrichardson/BQL

Unfortunately, the project was abandoned shortly after this blog post (there's an umerged PR for fixing the build if someone wants to check out). But, I think the idea has a lot of potential to fix some of SQL warts.
Good, glad to hear this is happening. FB is much too entwined in the operating systems.
AMD Threadripper Pro Review: An Upgrade over Regular Threadripper?
There is no usual pattern of these things. Damore had been shopping his thing around for a long time. I first saw it on the libertarians mailing list, where the members of that group told him in no vague terms to fuck right off with that noise. Then he crashed the "women in engineering" conference to whine about its existence. Finally they got rid of him.
You're just claiming things based on theory you remember. I'm going by research:

> "If someone gives up 1 lb of chicken, total consumption falls by 0.76lb in expectation."

https://reducing-suffering.org/comments-on-compassion-by-the...
Dozens killed in flooding caused by rainfall 'not seen in 100 years' in Europe
Flatpak and the xdg-desktop-portal have some pretty interesting ideas.

It's a huge shame there's almost zero documentation, both in the code, and for users / developers. I've heard about this feature before, but I've no idea how to make it work.
Don't pay taxes, using Bitcoin.
Metaphysics is basically impossible to know for certain. I can't blame people for rejecting one metaphysics story and replacing it with another.

Heck you can invalidate all philosophy by being a metaphysics skeptic.

It's just not particularly useful.
Yeah, well said. I worked for a couple of years in the NL and didn't really feel as safe as I did in North London (which is saying something).
Brazil's Bolsonaro warns 2022 vote will be clean or canceled
The way it's worded, it does seem genuine and non-sarcastic. Tone tags (like /s) help clarify in these situations.
Oh boy... sorry man, don't have the time to continue this.

47 in link above is a study of the cruise ship, not what you think.

If you meant the actual link above, it clearly states vaccines give immunity but it might be waning, i.e: won't last, same as natural immunity

Best of luck, thought I might help with your logic, but I admit defeat there.
> I expect gasoline engines to stop being popular in the next 4-5 years.

That may be true in the US and other countries dominated by suburbs (Australia?). However, I can't see that happening that quickly in dense cities in Europe - the cities just won't install millions of chargers required along all streets where people park quickly enough.
How do you go about testing your mobile apps? An easy checklist to follow
Reactive SQL with JOOQ 3.15 and R2DBC
It reminds me of this documents[1] I saw a few years ago about how a Black Tie crane (claw) machine works, how the machine will automatically calculate when to win.

[1]: http://jeu-des-6-palets.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/black-...
When a business is big as Google, with their fingers in everything, then that might not be much help at all.

Just one more reason to break up the tech giants.
It's worth mentioning that carbon deposits are not made uniformly, and in fact certain geological periods are known for having large deposits of carbon while others have almost none.
Earlier discussion still on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27843049