skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lot harder than people anticipate. While we can "patch up" gaps in supporting wildlife with things like highway crossings (example: https://apnews.com/article/north-america-mountains-us-news-w...) we have bigger ecological problems that are harder to fight. For example, invasive species of plants and animals are very hard to manage and require concerted efforts to establish native species while removing non-native species. Whether Asian carp or Scotch Broom or whatever, the widespread footprint of invasive species has distorted our ecology so much that minor accommodations from how we build may amount to a blip on the radar. My point is not to say this isn't worth talking about, but to draw attention to a larger need for something like an "environment corps", funded to just put in the hard labor required to address these other widespread issues affecting health of wildlife and our environment.
The solutions mentioned:

-Phasing out and eliminating fossil fuels

-Implementing "a significant carbon price"

-Restoring ecosystems such as carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots

All policy issues. Given the amount of regulatory capture, it seems like a fourth obvious solution would require significant changes to the incentives for politicians or how lobbying is conducted by fossil fuel ecosystem companies.
Submitted here because I can't email from my work computer
In light of recent events, I think I am going to propose a motion, probably at our next upcoming meeting, about council communication expectations.

This thing where people say "Please don't speak to me again except through Renee" is hampering our ability to do business. As elected councilmembers, it is our responsibility to be available to communication from both residents, owners, and other councilmembers. If we're not, it becomes impossible to do our jobs.

Cooling off periods are necessary sometimes. Having a third party witness for a conversation that might get heated is also a good idea. Having emotionally loaded conversations via email or text is nearly always a bad idea. Acknowledging all these realities, I suggest the following, which is of course open to amendments.

First, the private emails chiding someone for their conduct in a meeting should not happen, ever. Such complaints should be added to the agenda and aired in front of everyone. The emails that I saw last night, reprimanding Alexa and Sarah, were inappropriate.

There was a strong implication that the author was speaking on behalf of council, or at least on behalf of Karin, when that was definitely not the case.

Second, the emails where someone publicly asks another councilmember not to speak to them again except through a third party are very confrontational. I understand the shock of finding an angry email in your inbox and the desire to prevent that from happening. But these "don't talk to me again" broadcast emails seem to be weaponized. I don't think we should do that anymore. We don't have a higher authority to appeal to. Renee is not our mom, she is our employee.

Instead, I suggest this phrasing.

"The current conversation is becoming too heated for email. Can we meet in person with another councilmember present?"

I suggest ending the email at the point, and resisting the temptation to add more personal attacks or digs.

If each party cannot, in good faith, meet face to face and have a genuine conversation to work through their problems, then I respectfully suggest that they are not temperamentally suited to this role, and should withdraw from council. I don't say this lightly - council is a lot of work and it's hard to get volunteers, and we all worry that no one else will step up if one of us steps down.

Even so, it's not worth it to anyone's mental health to stay in a relationship or role where they can't function and communicate with their team.
I suppose ethics don't mean anything to you or Google?
> how confident are you that it won't be an issue with the current vaccines, and for what reasons?

Pretty much confident, since a) researchers are well aware of ADE (more than some random person on the internet) b) they take ADE into account when designing and testing the vaccine
why does perceptual distortion occur?
Karin has mentioned that she doesn't want to see side chatter or factions forming. To an extent, I agree. I also know that it is very intimidating to present an idea that might be controversial without at least floating it past a couple of people to see whether it has any support - or better still, to get some help refining and improving the idea. I, for example, spoke to Melanie and Alexa before bringing bikes and elevators back onto the agenda. Alexa helped me see the other point of view (that bikes really do cause a lot of damage inside) and Melanie made a great suggestion about how bikers could take responsibility for that damage.

So I think that sidebar conversations will still happen. We might consider following these rules of conduct during those sidebars.

First, don't trash other people behind their back. Speak with the expectation that the person you're talking about will definitely hear about it.

Second, even as you expect that everything you say in private will be heard in public, maintain others' confidentiality. We don't have to repeat every bit of gossip we hear. Stating the obvious - if you breach someone's trust by repeating gossip to someone else, the person you told will not trust you anymore, and neither will the person who gave you the juice in the first place, once they hear about it.

The conflict we're having right now is embarrassing and I wish that it wasn't happening. It's distracting us from the legitimate business of council, and making the job way harder than it needs to be.

Even so, people have feelings, and those feelings are real and important. I think we have to address this just as we would address any other building malfunction, like a broken elevator or a messy recycling area. Please don't run away from this confrontation - lean into it and try to work together to find a peaceful resolution. Talk to the people who are getting on your nerves. Talk to each other, period. Be honest and vulnerable. Be real.

I'm not sure what the actual motion will be, but I'm ready to have some real conversations with folks and see what comes of it.
> Toyota should pull an Intel, and become the TSMC of automobiles. I've waggishly said I'd buy a Tesla made by Toyota. Surely there are other EV efforts that would benefit from Toyota's manufacturing prowess and capacity.

Arguably Tesla already bought that in spirit if not fact by acquiring the NUMMI plant from Toyota. (The NUMMI plant was the co-venture Toyota built in Fremont, CA in the 80s with General Motors that built Geo brand vehicles and taught 90s GM some of Toyota's agility in manufacturing. Tesla likely didn't get as much direct experience from Toyota in buying the several years shut-down plant at that point, but symbolically it feels related.)
How is beef from 1975 relevant for my 2021 California fried chickens ?
you misunderstand this law. the law is confusing but the terms are well understood.
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Yeah, they'll have to attribute the code to you - the MIT license will always apply - but they'll only need to attribute you - they can make as many modifications as they like.
This is technically true but presents a very misleading version of events. The FCC has 5 seats that are traditionally occupied by partisan representatives. Ajit Pai was appointed by Obama to fill a republican vacancy and Jessica Rocenworcel to occupy a democratic vacancy.[0] Apparently Pai was Mitch McConnell's recommendation.

Trump then promotes Ajit Pai to be the chairman of the commission.[1]

So yes, Pai was nominated to the FCC by Obama to respect a partisan tradition at the recommendation of Republican members. Trump then promotes Pai, who by that point is a clear Net Neutrality opponent, to the chairman position.

[0] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/190857-obama-nominates...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-promotes-neutral...
Of course you can, a minority is determined by population. There are other populations to move to where any given human would no longer be in the minority.

This is the same argument being presented here: the employees can just choose to work for another employer.
The author of this has some videos related to swimming (0). See for example the one called "1-10-1 Final" where he jumps into cold water that is about 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) and stays in for a number of minutes, showing what to do.

[0] https://vimeo.com/mariovittone
bump. how do you actually get someone to look at something on here?
Depending on your state of mind this could go either way. I think you'd need to have totally accepted death and not fear it in order to expire at peace, with or without LSD. But yeah, I imagine it would have been quite a profound final experience before going into the void.
No, I'm sure we are just a few peaceful protests away from changing their minds.
Washington state county is first in US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure
> I don't understand why so many people are obsessed how the company can find out whether you got the vaccine. I mean, as an employee you could lie or otherwise misrepresent your status and probably get away with it, at least for a short time, before they terminated your employment.

It's not about the vaccine - it's about the normalization of employers knowing your medical history. Personally I wouldn't care if I was asked as I've taken the vaccine and would say so.

However I can understand why people might be concerned about employers demanding proof.
Needing a dedicated home office room for various reasons is a big issue but it is not the issue I was responding to.

In "Either you paid for more space or you lost space at your home during the 8 hours", a dedicated office is the "paid for more space" side, and I was talking about the "lost space" alternative.
Shouldn't they do the same if they agree with you? What if they are wrong, or agreeing with you for purely strategic reasons rather than because they sincerely thing you're right? Any argument about downvoting is equally applicable in the opposite direction.

Conversely, it's highly inefficient for people to take time to write out their reasons if someone else has already done so and they are merely echoing that. Trolls exploit this because many of them derive amusement from stealing others' time and attention by deliberately posting drivel and then demanding it be taken seriously or that people educate the troll out their misconceptions (a wholly insincere request).

Nobody owes you agreement, and sometimes you will be rejected for unfair reasons. That's life. Expecting to only get positive reinforcement or always be fully supplied with context will only lead to disappointment.
you're pretty much letting other people run RNA code in your cells all the time. Thats why your skin is covered in RNAses.
My anxiety about global warming is more intense than ever lately. I feel like most people around me don't realize it. It's a lonely feeling. And I feel uncomfortable bringing it up and ruining others' mood. My fear is that it happens much faster than everyone think it is
> they are both a username and a password as a single entity

And should your username ever also be your password?
There is plenty of good data. 40 counties make up around 20 independent failures out of as many attempts at implementing communism.

> I seen a comment by a "intelligent dude" like you, in his intelligence he compared North and South Korea, ignored that sanctions for the North and the tons of money US dropped on south and he got the conclusion he wanted.

Don't even get me started on the story of the two Koreas. Everything you need to build an open and shut case against communism can be found in the recent and well recorded history of those two countries.

You can object to my "superiority complex" but at the end of the day I'm still right and your still wrong. This is not one of those things where reasonable people can have differing opinions.
Windows Hello sensors use infrared, not visible light spectrum. Printed photos reproduce a visible light representation that you can see, but it is not visible to the infrared sensor in the computer. See the left examples:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/ima...
22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
> Ecohealth Alliance with another "peer-reviewed" published paper attempting to quell the lab-leak hypothesis.

It would be interesting to look at who's funding these organizations and individuals. Is some of the funding tied to entities that are under the control of the CCP?
It's a new technology with new capabilities. That's why VCs are investing billions in RNA tech to treat disease.

I'd take the Chinese one because China open-sources their inactive virus vaccine and exports raw materials to other nations to manufacture them: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-01/12/c_139661608.htm

A plot to add some "secret sauce" to a vaccine wouldn't work in that scenario.

Bill Gates on the other hand has said it's impossible for others to manufacture these vaccines because "safety and security issues": https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bill-gates-b...

I think that's BS. If the vaccine is free - why isn't it open-source? If it's not open-source, why should I trust it?
Yeah it seems like the screen should at least be shrouded somehow. Most infotainment displays are at least a little bit sunken into the dash. Tesla sticking the LCD screen out exposed is pretty dumb honestly. Has no one in their engineering department gone on a road trip with their phone on the dash and had it overheat on them? Evidently not. Makes me wonder about all the other considerations these engineers at Tesla miss.
Seems like at some point we should be normalizing the harm of killing conscious creatures by accounting for the complexity of their neural system.

Since the threshold for consciousness is being pushed lower and lower, who is to say that it won’t be extended to plants later?

While insects do seem to be conscious by some standards, does it makes sense to consider insect murder to be morally equivalent to chicken murder?
As a digression, this is exactly the same issue that I have with autoformatters. For example, clang-format under default settings turns your example into:

const neighbors = get(x - 1, y - 1, w, h, prev) + get(x, y - 1, w, h, prev) +
get(x + 1, y - 1, w, h, prev) + get(x - 1, y, w, h, prev) +
get(x + 1, y, w, h, prev) + get(x - 1, y + 1, w, h, prev) +
get(x, y + 1, w, h, prev) + get(x + 1, y + 1, w, h, prev)

In the past, I've resorted to things like adding no-op `+ 0` for alignment and empty comments to force it to preserve line breaks while still allowing it to autoformat the rest:

const neighbors = get(x - 1, y - 1, w, h, prev) + //
get(x + 0, y - 1, w, h, prev) + //
get(x + 1, y - 1, w, h, prev) + //
get(x - 1, y + 0, w, h, prev) + //
get(x + 1, y + 0, w, h, prev) + //
get(x - 1, y + 1, w, h, prev) + //
get(x + 0, y + 1, w, h, prev) + //
get(x + 1, y + 1, w, h, prev)

I really wish that autoformatters had the smarts to understand that if more than X% of the non-whitespace columns within a block repeat the same character from top to bottom, then the lines are probably intentionally aligned that way and that it should try very hard to preserve that alignment. That would eliminate my one real objection to autoformatters. (Bonus points for detecting parallel structure in the code and exposing it through alignment in the first place, but that's a much harder generalization of the problem. I'd settle for just leaving that to me and then not destroying it.)
47 minute video, no subtitles (that I can find).

It might be good, but I'm not going to invest 30 minute (playing at 1.5x) to find out.
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
This could be interesting for agencies and freelancers more than the customers themselves.

I own a consultancy and I might find this interesting as I don't have an internal SaaS framework yet.

The two problems I see are:

1. Lack of options... There may be some parts of the stack that I don't like or don't fit requirements

2. Unknown code quality... Cannot tell what the coding standards are. This is related to #1 in that I don't know how hard the code will be to modify unless I read it.

Otherwise it's an interesting proposition. React/Nextjs are my jam, and I prefer serverful (Django) to serverless but that might be negotiable. But even if I wanted to drop in my own server, if the front-end is well coded I could easily save 2x-3x the 1.8k sticker price in dev costs on a single project.

If I were to build a SaaS myself, I might also find this interesting with all the caveats above, but I would 200% certain not pay a revenue share unless the platform really required minimal tweaking and was about 90% adjusted to my use case, and provided continued platform value after that launch (like, say, Shopify).
Software Engineering more of a craft. The only way to learn is by continuously practicing, collaborating with others and studying other people's code deeply.

Design Patterns are not a catalog of recipes that you can use to put together a functioning system. They are instead an attempt at creating a "common language" of sorts for some common concepts. They don't really teach you anything about good software: they only allow experienced people to communicate well. The authors themselves have stated: "design patterns are descriptive, not prescriptive".

What one has to learn, instead, is the foundational knowledge that was used for building those "patterns and guidelines", and even for other things like SOLID. And dare I say and even functional programming, OOP and procedural programming itself. For example:

• Why you don't want tight coupling (foundation of lots of patterns and architectures)
• How to make program state predictable and why it's important (foundation of both OOP and FP, including encapsulation and immutability. And also of some patterns like CQRS)
• How to design good interfaces/APIs on all levels (functions, classes, modules, libraries, services, programs, companies)
• How to understand the cost of hidden dependencies (not talking about libraries, more like "functions that call other functions" or "classes that depend on other classes". This is Joe Armstrong's banana-gorilla-jungle problem)
• How to make functions/classes/modules that you can change without requiring cascading code changes in the rest of the program (again this has to do with coupling)
• How to make programs predictable in general (the most important business wise)
Yes, this Joe Schmoe is the lawyer who successfully defended Wesley Snipes against the entire corrupt system of injustice and won a landmark case. He also successfully defended Ralph Nader to the supreme court.
https://www.barneslawllp.com/civil-rights-law
no, what I don't believe in is bad-faith questioning that is done primarily to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. From what I can tell, Rand Paul is not operating in good faith, he's specifically saying what he's saying to reduce believe in Fauci's statements.
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Can someone explain the advantages of using nextjs serverless?
Not addressing the harm it might do to vaccinated people - don't we have some responsibility to encourage unvaccinated people to get the vaccine for their own good? It's all very well saying "if they want to take the risk, then that's their decision" but in reality many of them have been manipulated by mis and disinformation. Maybe not the hacker news types that are being skeptical and looking at the data and thinking logically, but the vast majority just don't understand the science and look to others for direction.
That's a good example that breaks my argument, and to be honest, I don't have a great argument against it that would remain principled. But instinctively I somehow feel like a requirement around hygiene is more reasonable than a requirement around vaccination. Maybe it is because taking a shower is just using water, whereas vaccines are opaque, manufactured substances that emerge from organizations with their own (profit) motives? I am not sure but will need to think about it more.
I have self hosted personal mail for over a decade. There are occasional hiccups with deliverability to new gmail addresses, but that is it. In those cases, once a recipient marks me as not spam once, there aren’t any more problems.

I think maybe once in the last 3 years I ended up in someone’s spam box, total. In fact I just sent to a new gmail address and to a university I have never contacted before this week and both were delivered without issue.

Setting up DKIM/SPF/etc isn’t that hard and it’s fairly easy to verify with existing tools FYI.
how many of those 10k people really have the awareness required to put that kind of data invasion in context and perspective? I think the reaction to large issues like climate change, tells you exactly all you need about people's ability to downplay large issues into "someone else's problem"
Oh, my bad, I completely misunderstood the original question. The macOS comparison makes perfect sense.

As far as I am aware, there is no easy way to make it happen. Maybe my googling skills are poor, but I wasn't able to find anything relevant to this, no matter what kind of queries I was trying. All I've found was just a bunch of complaints about Windows Hello either not working at all or something related.
I think our difference is that you expected to be able to use 2D photos on this device at all. There is no third-dimensional information in a photo and to me it is amazing that there is a way to make them 3D. I never had the same thought you did because if something was not already 3D I would not have thought I could use it with this anyway. Perhaps this is why I am not bothered by them charging for the feature.
> programming wraps around the instruction-based model that processors use to execute programs

Nope. There is more to programing than the imperative paradigm.
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You're welcome to. However, I'm curious why your question is relevant. I can't articulate a scientific reason that thalidomide caused birth defects, for example.
There's an obvious solution to this: don't treat websites like programs, and never trust sites.

I learned this lesson over a decade ago. After being burned over and over because some shitty browser or site bug ate my post I now use One Weird Trick on every post I write:

1. Write it.

2. Select it and Ctrl+C it.

3. Post it.

If the post gets eaten, the text is safe in the clipboard, waiting for another go. This is for shorter posts. For longer ones, multi-paragraph stuff considered over hours or days, it lives in Notepad until it's ready to post. NEVER compose anything in a webpage form. They just can't be trusted.
A seriously significant price on carbon should impact the use of jet and bunker fuel; but that would need to be applied at participating ports, and not by the countries whose flags are flown on the ships or painted on the airliner.

Has there been much talk of ports applying carbon taxes in this way?
Petrochem companies did. They spent serious money in order to dissuade the public from taking it seriously. Not that the public needed much dissuading.