skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burying a mile of cable takes several big machines running diesel fuel (very bad for the environment). Call it approximately 300 gallons of diesel per mile.

This plan will burn 300 * 10,000 = 3,000,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

This plan is far worse for the environment then simply doing more controlled burns to reduce fire risk.
Butter and brie are now health foods. I'm onboard.
This just turns more people and myself anti-LGBT. They obviously have no qualms erasing history so hopefully they will be erased as well.
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533528
> I want to let competition and the market sort it out, but when there's no variation in the options there's no real competition.

The market will always conclude it can extract more money out of us if it shows us ads. It doesn't matter what we do. Paying for stuff just makes us even more valuable to advertisers.

Wish we could just ban this stuff straight up.
I usually ignore those and bundle a bunch in a single PR.

The worst I found was another team which merges in depandabot PR's one by one. Their git history isn't pleasant to look through :(
> Or accept that people have flaws and celebrate them in spite of that

You don't even have to celebrate them. Just acknowledge the contributions they made.
I truly don't know how anyone can believe a word Elon Musk says at this point. I'm not saying I trust Bezos either, but Elon has burned any shred of credibility he ever had.
Or, we could reject insanity and recognize that all people are imperfect, and that societies' values change over time.
This is called superoptimization.
I don't think that's an apt comparison. The difference in degree becomes a difference in kind IMO. HN doesn't send you alerts or notifications that are optimally spaced based on A/B testing. HN isn't personalized per user to maximize each individuals HN time. The HN top doesn't refresh on command and provide a fully new page on each refresh (new topics come up but if you refresh the page every 12 seconds you will see very little change vs any engagement app that always tries to give you something new).

HN can be a time draw, but it's based on a somewhat transparent vote/flag system. Features of other social media sites/apps like A/B testing, personalization, variably spaced notifications, daily digests to draw you in are features that are extraordinarily well designed for our dopamine-reward system.
Can you clarify what you mean here? I would argue that any decent programmer could hack out a sorting routine, without having the code memorized.

If you cannot write a binary search routine from scratch, how can you be expected to solve much bigger problems?
Looks great but how much? No prices anywhere.
Yeah who cares if they change it?

It’s a mental name tag to be sure one is not referring to a different space telescope.

It means nothing to the stable structure of reality. This stuff only means something to the snowflakes on the “manly” side of the political aisle.
It's a YeeLight bulb and I wrote a library to talk to it directly over the LAN.
I recently had to work out why some nodejs monstrosity wasn't working. Somewhere in the 68,746 files that made up the program there was a problem.

I rewrote it in a couple of hours in 393 lines of perl and 6 OS installed (so stable for the life of the OS) libraries.
To be clear, the large sphere in the diagram is not the remnant of the impactor - the distortions from being a perfect sphere are.
Anyone know if there is a link to the presentation/documentation he shared with North Korea?
Exactly. Click = upvote. Returning to SERP after a short dwell time = downvote. It's noisy but because you can mine such things implicitly by just logging user's behavior, the volume of data is way bigger than what an explicit feedback system can provide.
It makes you wonder what kind of clarity the images of the James Web telescope will provide when it eventually gets launched - presumably by the time we will have starships that can just go there in person.

All kidding aside though, it does seem like it actually will get launched soon for real. We definitely live in exciting times for astronomy as well as potential space colonisation.
Coming from someone who believes that the AWS egress fees are highway robbery, I'd throw this out there. In order to maintain settlement free peering, you need to keep egress and ingress somewhat even with your peers.

Amazon proper probably has 3x egress vs ingress between prime and twitch. AWS is an easy avenue to balance it out.

All that being said: I would guess there's almost 0 chance that's what's happening here. Amazon is just using it as a form of lock-in IMO.
the issue is that every has skeletons in their closet. if you go by that mentality, you can never name anything after anyone. you can never celebrate people's accomplishments ever, because that person will have ALWAYS also had something bad in their life.
I read it. It’s clearly decades out of date. The specter of species-ending nuclear war was not ended by utopian visions of cooperation… it was the triumph of capitalism, not the ending of capitalism, that arguably coincided with the massive reduction in risk of nuclear war. We aren’t nearing depletion of fossil fuels (unfortunately!) but have much larger reserves than when that was written. Overpopulation is no longer a threat in most of the world and indeed under population and an aging population is rapidly becoming a much larger threat in much of the West and Far East.

Overpopulation wasn’t solved by intelligently overcoming evolutionary sexual urges but by invention and distribution of contraceptives combined with personal entertainment technology (“electricity is the most powerful contraception”), etc.

I find documents like that still highly influential but in many ways orthogonal to how we need to solve our current problems. Some lessons still apply but other points proved painfully wrong and sometimes backwards or at least irrelevant.

People need to update their thinking from 70s era ideas like those of Limits to Growth. Degrowther mindset in many ways is a rebirth of those 70s era ideas, and I think Degrowth as a movement is largely counterproductive for addressing climate change (although the sense of urgency is important!).
I came across Memory of Whiteness while taking my college music theory classes. It's very fantastical but I loved how he connected various compositional techniques with physical processes. It's a very underrated book.
And is the penalty low? China is not known for low penalties.

This article from 2018 said they were upping checks and penalties for academic fraud: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-science-idUSKCN1IW0...

This article says that a researcher was punished. The investigation found no plagiarism but did find ethics violations, so even ethic boards are a thing in Chinese academia nowadays. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006745/top-chinese-scientist...
Get started with WebAssembly using TypeScript Pt 2
hacker News is definitely part of the problem. I've started to use three rules to evaluate habits similar to hacker news.
eliminate things that:

1) are unproductive
2) I do not enjoy
3) are pathological (This includes things that float around in your head and create negative thoughts after you do it. coming back to a very negative political argument as an example of this)

I'm not perfect at applying them but it has dramatically improved my life because it has given me a tool to evaluate social media use And I have successfully ramped down use of social media that made my life worse.
Foreign aid is tiny, like less than one percent of the budget. Foreign wars are definitely huge, however.
Reads like CF has a bone to pick with AWS. Are they mad about AWS not in the peering group? Is the AWS price really out of line - the comparison to wholesale cost only seems to miss a lot of infrastructure that gets baked into the final retail prices - it's not simply (Retail-Wholesale=7000% margin).

Feels like a weak "hit piece" to me.
He can keep spending, that by itself won't make it a successful business.
He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death So he brought her back as an AI chatbot
I am so using this now!
Arm’s cheap, flexible plastic microchip could create an 'internet of everything'
I'm not sure why you're downvoted. MLK was a rampant cheater and emotionally abused his spouse, and yet I've never seen anyone dare to say the many things named after him should be renamed despite the glorification of infidelity this clearly promotes. I wonder why?
As it's error prone, and only saves 1 character, it's not a great shorthand.
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> For reasons I don't fully understand, barewords preceded by '-' are still allowed, even with "use strict".

I believe the primary motivation for this is so you can pass argument lists to subs in a key => value format without having to quote the key. For example:

someSub( -opt1 => $opt1val, -opt2 => $opt2val );

[edited for formatting, which I never seem to get right the first time]
Between this and the Steam Deck, there sure is a lot of new techcoming out that I wish I had a good excuse to buy.
Semi-related, there's a a useful trick for using Javascript labels as URLs.

Way back in the day, I used to write labels like `<a href="javascript:open_save_dialog:;">` instead of `<a href="javascript:void(0)">`. The idea is that both yield undefined to prevent the default URL following semantics of the link, to instead do whatever JS logic is attached to the onclick event, but when the user hovers over the link, the label makes the corner tooltip of the browser show descriptive information to the user about what clicking will do, whereas `void(0)` tells you nothing.
Payne-Gaposchkin is actually a good choice considering what a raw deal she got.
Time to get a degree in civil engineering.
'Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.' - George Orwell

We need to have a serious think about the value of erasing historical figures based on their actions in a very different past.

I know people who were bigots in the past but have substantially changed their perspective, and I also know people who have become more rigid and bigoted in their views over time. One of those people is gay fwiw.

Why is it that perceived character flaws based on current social mores result in historical people being cancelled in our current climate? Rinsing out perceived offensive behaviors from history will surely lead to a future featuring a bland lack of knowledge and no real world behavioral social frameworks
Ask HN: Is there any way to validate a companies privacy policy?
If an app says it only sends anonymized data for analytics, or something of the like, is there any way to verify if this is actually true in app? Is there any kind of "privacy policy certificate"?
How realistic is it to have a linked list in contiguous memory that stays nicely ordered? In my experience, lists are normally cobbled together with nodes that are allocated widely separated in time and hence I have no knowledge that I can use to predict the address of the next pointer.

If you're in a scenario where this optimization works, it seems like it would be better to just use an array.
> It means nothing to the stable structure of reality.

This is a pointless argument to make. Your entire existence means nothing to the stable structure of reality, but I bet there'd be people who'd be affected by your absence.
Yea agreed, he held a belief that most people in society held at the time. We probably hold beliefs that will be shameful to those in the future. I constantly look back at my past self and think he was an idiot. People are fallible and make mistakes as well.
Something like an agency to protect consumers?
> it’s not going to automatically mean more coal will be used. Natural gas, wind, and solar have all increased in absolute terms in the last two decades in the US while coal burning has halved in absolute terms, reducing overall absolute grid emissions in the US.

In a tightly interconnected global economy it is disingenuous to disconnect the energy usage of one country or region from another.

US coal usage goes down because the things we used to build with that energy are now built in China. Solar panels in the US are cheaper than ever because manufacturing has switched to being 80% Chinese production, and guess where the energy to build those solar panels comes from? Coal.

The only way to understand energy is at a global scale as you can see here: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

As you can clearly see no source of energy has decreased overtime globally.

Looking at local energy production is just an accounting trick, but the planet doesn't really care. You can't combat global warming by saying "look, technically we didn't produce that energy on our shores!"

If you forced China to decrease its use of fossil fuels you would immediately feel the impact on the global economy. Just because the power plants aren't within our borders doesn't mean that's not energy being consumed for our benefit.
> Maybe. They are also possibly just ginning up more reasons to block normalizing relations with Cuba.

Except, IIRC:

1. they didn't take the reports seriously at first,

2. they ruled out the Cubans fairly quickly, and

3. that may have been a goal of Trump, but he's not president anymore.
He introduced me to the idea of worker cooperatives (businesses/organizations owned and run by the workers themselves) and I wish I could like in a world where they were more normal.
Yes, but you were sorry that they were being downvoted. i thought you saw the score on their post somewhere.
AnandTech write up that's a lot more detailed, but hasn't gotten much traction on several submittals:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16837/plasticarm-get-your-nex...
Not a single person of note who has died above age 30 has had opinions entirely in line with the cutting edge of American progressive thought.
> Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe named the JWST after Webb in 2002, when the telescope was in the early stages of development. It was a unilateral decision that took many by surprise, because NASA’s telescopes are typically named after scientists. Webb, who died in 1992, was a bureaucrat who held several administrative roles in the US government.

I actually had no idea who Webb was, I always assumed he was an astronomer or something. Maybe it’s not a bad idea to change it and honor an actual scientist regardless?
> I should also say that nuclear weapons in dictatorships (more so than oligarchies like Soviet Union) is dangerous.

I'd argue that nuclear weapons are no less safe in representative democracies. The only country to use nuclear weapons against another nation was a representative democracy. The only country to use nuclear weapons against another nation multiple times was a representative democracy. The only country to use nuclear weapons against civilian targets was a representative democracy.
What's the process for resolving conflicts?
The first images JWST takes will have human colonists waving back.
I think there is not just one problem, people have different needs and holes to fill.

The social media platforms attract different demographics, because they fit in different niches.

The reason why people are drawn to Facebook, differs from 4chan.

On Instagram people want to be discovered and seen, creating and sharing art and take the credit for it.

While people go to 4chan to be anonymous, which generates questionable content.

I personally go on HN because the community is close to home, but why is that?
Thank god for the US constitution and the 1st and 2nd amendments.

Power hungry ideologues and fanatic mobs(woke or otherwise) would turn it into an authoritarian shit-hole without them.
A better example would probably be the Lenovo T-series. Recent models eg. T490s have soldered RAM, but if you go back to eg. T460s there were DIMM sockets for upgrading, and the laptop was quite thin. But, that was 5 years ago already.
The notion that we can only recognize perfect people in history seems misguided since there are precious few perfect people.

Audubon owned slaves. Muir was racist. Webb was discriminatory. These are all teachable moments: the evils in our past were not solely the fault of the worst people in society; even the best people were responsible.
Many cars now can start the wipers, in addition to adjust the wiper speed, when rain is sensed on the windshield

https://www.consumerreports.org/automotive-technology/rain-s...

This tells the system to *activate the wipers*, as well as adjust wiper speed and frequency based on the intensity of the precipitation combined with the vehicle’s speed.
I created an account and it then presented the prices: "Upgrade to Pro Becoming a Python expert is just a click away! Get full access to all Python lessons with a one-time payment of just $49"

But there appears to be a free tier of exercises.
> Modularity is not a free lunch

Hold on. This is true for excessive modularity.

Yet, most of the time, lack of modularity (e.g. bundling) creates lock-in reducing customer's choice and ultimately increasing prices.

When PCs became standardized ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible ) prices dropped incredibly.
The core question? Why would the Federal Reserve, or any other central bank, need to create a "digital" currency when it manages the real currency via it's own clearing accounts?

Most money in developed economies is not actually physically existent currency - it is already digital, the question is whether you can access the banking services as a participant.

In the case of Central Banks, the issue is that it is not possible to bank through them as a regular consumer. This is, very much, an issue which should be solved: basic banking services access is a big problem for low income people.

But it's not remotely clear why the concept of "digital currency" starts to get involved at all: this is an identical situation to regular banking and online payments, nothing is fundamentally different - the entity involved is already literally the arbitrator and source of truth of how much currency exists.
Because constantly renaming mental name tags is a huge pain in the ass. We might as well just give everything in the world a UUID - at least that’s immutable.
This is the perfect bike shed to delay the JWST for another year. Great job social justice!
I'll preface this by saying that I obviously don't support anti-LGBT+ rhethoric, no matter when it happened.

But without digging into the claims themselves, I'd invite people to look at this article critically, and pay careful attention to the weasel words. Specifically:

- "Some astronomers argue…"

- "NASA is investigating…"

- "Many people have…"

- "Many are keen…"

I'm not familiar with the field of astronomy, but to me this article is just full of red flags that it's trying to make a big explosive story out of what amounts to a few people annoyed about Webb's past, four of which think he shouldn't have a telescope named after him and circulating a petition; and NASA doing its due-diligence and launching an investigation rather than ignoring the petition outright.

Or, to put it another way, clickbait. A non-story until something concrete actually comes up. Something to keep people busy, and yelling out "just don't name anything after anyone because chances are they are not flawless".
This works because we've arranged for the nodes to be sequential in memory, if we have the luxury of doing that then we could use an array instead of a linked list. Is there a scenario where this value speculation trick would work, where we /don't/ have this luxury?
I recall underclocking the RAM on my video card a few years ago when in desktop mode. Reduced the heat in the PC case by several degrees.
>Yeah who cares if they change it?

It has no bearing on my life either way. I feel sorry for those that are perturbed about this news.
Well said. If you look into some of the research and theories on leadership, you find a very different picture. You could someone a leader any time they have influence over people toward a goal. With this in mind, you can see that an "individual contributor" can definitely be a leader.

However, in business, leadership is often conflated with "legitimate power" (as opposed to expert or referent power), meaning that the person holds a title and is assigned direct reports. Titles and employees are not necessary for leadership.

I wish that engineering departments were better at highlighting this. A person with practice and experience can be a leader by simply working hard, setting a good example, giving input in team meetings, etc.
The Galaxy S5 is waterproof, has a rubber gasket over the charging port and a removable battery but not "significantly bulkier" compared to all of the current crop of mid-range/flagship phones - it's actually lighter than the glass-backed ones
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Yet another delay to the deployment of this telescope. Hard for me to shake the cynical idea that this is just a smoke screen to mask the latest round of delays and overruns.[1] Or at least allow everyone involved to put a new less tainted project name on their resume. In my perception I associate ‘James Webb’ with colossal engineering mismanagement more than I do with a dead astronomer.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-james-webb-...
I agree with this - if you're a student or just starting in the workforce. However, a lot of companies in the industry have IP agreements that prevent you from sharing code in public - and there have been cases where companies have told employees to stop work on their personal projects/stop contributing to open source because of this. Some even restrict public comments to social media or participation in online discussions.

Now a lot of people, including me, have a Github and contribute to open-source using a anonymous screen name. However that also means that prospective employers can't use this to find me, and that I can't really mention these projects in a job interview.

I'm just surprised that no one has mentioned this here, as I've seen quite fruitful discussion on HN before on such agreements and am surprised this hasn't came up. I know some employers that would definitely tell you to cease work on your (publicly visible) Github projects once you are hired if you mentioned them in your interview.
It was definatelly not "barely". The word processor became my workhorse for all my school assignments for a while...

Also, when writing, it's probably better not to have a multitasking OS - no distractions ;-)
You need the power cable anyway. So it must be anchored.
If i'm not mistaking the linked dataset is more useful to run it offline: https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Lite

Since it contains a tensorflow model and tensorflow can be used with ml.net.

It would analyze recordings every 3 seconds. Since that is what the model expects. No?
Yup, my PR review requested page is near useless because of all of the dependabot PRs.
This. I'd like to sync my ~/development directory, including all the git directories, so I don't need to push and pull branches between machines. Is this at all feasible?
I really hate this modern idea that we need to cancel every historical figure because they don't live up to our modern standards.

When you cancel someone you basically are saying they're evil. Do we really want to treat the entirety of human history as evil? Because, spoiler alert every human in history has done something we consider wrong today.
How about just physics? "Newtonian physics" is a fake and outdated attribution anyway.
tbh, I'm still sad that Python won against Perl during the heyday. Perl was and is still a fun language.