skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It requires a political solution. The plan which has the widest bipartisan buy-in is the Climate Leadership Council's plan for a tax and dividend approach. Its got supporters from Exxon to World Wildlife Fund.

https://clcouncil.org/

A leak at a plant likely violates its operating permit, so I would guess that regulators are looking at it. Of course, regulations and enforcement are very weak, that is also a political problem.

Those are the big goals but the best thing a commoner can do is support or join a local environmental group. Groups like the Sierra Club have local chapters that could be interested in the air quality monitoring work you are doing. They also do things like testify at public hearings, sue polluters for local harm, advocate in policy discussions by officials and in local news and support candidates.
> worse than Antitem

Does that refer to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam? I can't even put together the comparison.
Obsolete metaphor. The new metaphor is: Government spending is a loan repaid thru taxes.
Do you have a link to an open issue tracking this problem?

Several Julia core devs are also libuv maintainers or contributors. The main reason for the divergence is that Julia’s libuv fork has a significantly more flexible event loop model that allows using libuv from multiple threads efficiently. The main libuv project has been reluctant to accept that change since it’s a quite advanced capability that Node doesn’t need.
How's it different from instapaper like services. There is also open source alternative of instapaper called wallabag.
As the sibling comment explains, it does make the other flat plate convex, but by a smaller amount. Their shapes sort of average out.

I'll add that this depends on the materials having similar properties, so when ground together, they are grinding each other. This means whatever residual shape you have in one of them, it won't be transferred completely to the other.

If the materials had very different hardnesses, one of them would dominate over the other when they're ground together.
He points out a bug:

julia> open(read, "/home/jakob/Documents") # yes, a directory
UInt8[]

I'm not sure if this is true in other languages but it is also true in Java when you attempt to read a directory as if it were a file. I ended up adding code to test if it was a directory to avoid the issue. Does this happen at a lower level?
That site says 14% of alerts result in a case report being filed and 10% result in a gun-related case report. But even a 10% alert -> case report rate is better than I would've expected for a big city. That still seems like it'd be extremely useful, even if it means some wasted man hours.

And that's case reports - not necessarily detection true positives. If someone fires a gun at the sky and picks up the shell casings and drives away, with no witnesses or cameras and an inconclusive/indiscernible audio recording, police likely won't be able to file a report.

Also, I'm guessing there are some confidence indicators for each alert: those case report rates probably don't capture the full story even when accounting for hypothetical inconclusive true positives. Police are likely (and should be) obligated to investigate every detection, including every detection rated as low-confidence.

Plus that's just for Chicago. I doubt they actually achieve their claimed 97% accuracy anywhere, but it could be higher in other areas. Especially areas where loud noises are less common.

The main issue seems to be when it's used as evidence. I think it shouldn't ever be admissible as evidence of anything. And to mitigate some of the other issues that site raises, it'd be nice if there were some kind of "no fishing expeditions" law, where police responding to a gunfire alert must exclusively look for evidence of a fired gun in that vicinity and not use it as an excuse to scavenge for low-hanging fruit by harassing / arresting people in the area for unrelated matters.
Sure they are. Individualistic meritocracy and intergenerational wealth are not compatible. But familial meritocracy and intergenerational wealth are self-requiring.
Most cases of child abuse and neglect take place out of the eyesight of others or they would be stopped. The problem is not that you didn't see it. The problem in all of these organizations from churches to Michael Jackson to Penn State is that there were people who knew it was going on and they didn't stop it. In every case I've ever heard of from the endemic abuse in British schools to the church's continual reshuffling of known abusers (without kicking out a single one) depended on people who did know and didn't say anything, and those people were always people in power in the organization.
As long as it’s advantageous to those who own these publications to accumulate their share of BTC, ETH, or what have you, and once they’re satisfied the narrative will change.
In recent years I have used only laptops with non-Optimus NVIDIA, and on these I had no problems in Linux with multiple monitors with different resolutions, even if I do not use Wayland.

The NVIDIA settings program allows you to configure the monitors at any resolutions and in any geometric arrangement.

Some 6-7 years ago, I had a laptop with Optimus NVIDIA and I lost a couple of days until making it work. After that I had no problems, but the external monitor had the same resolution with the laptop display, so I have never tried mixed DPI with Optimus.

In any case, after that I have avoided Optimus and there are enough alternatives.
There are a few hydrogen power stations up here in Vancouver, but still not enough to make a Mirai practical for many people. I've seen a few driving around but I suspect they're all demo cars...

Hydrogen fuel cells make way more sense for semi-trucks and I'd love to see the whole Trans-Canada Highway done up with regularly spaced stations, but whether it makes sense in the city is a harder sell. It's a matter of infrastructure being required before users - "if you build it, they will come". I'd drive a Mirai no problem, but not if I'm worried about running out of H.
Aren't they one of the most hybridized car companized out there, offering hybrids from compact car to minivan. Even Ford licenses Toyota's hybrid technology
Were you born yesterday? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#On...
This is some of the worst junk writing I've seen on the hill. Some pretty wrong things in here, like insinuating that the only value of crypto is to criminals, and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists, which is just silly. Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables. I would label that as a bad faith argument because there isn't really a standardized basis of measuring things by energy consumption (what's the energy consumption to mine for gold? Create plastics? Etc.). All of this coupled with support for a government cryptocurrency? By a person who says they don't understand crypto or its value prop in the first sentence. That probably means they should go learn more before having an opinion...

For people not in this world, cryptocurrency does NOT mean digital money. It needs to be rebranding. It's a wave of projects building (mostly) decentralized tools or things secured by a blockchain secured through some protocol, such as finance exchanges, art minting and exchanging for digital scarcity, video games, real world supply chain tracking, music creation + tracking (hard to determine who is in every song and what sampling they used to pay artists), general contract writing with built in logic to be able to have trust in an interaction without having to involve a third party. There are many more examples, but it's more apt to call it Web 3.0 than cryptocurrency at this point.
There is the bell-curve problem to take into account as well. For any sizable population, some percentage will have aptitudes and abilities which prevent them from becoming a member of some of the wealth accumulating professions.
All over the world countries are banning ICE. The US won't because of "muh freedom" but economically it's impossible to keep making them. When China and the EU switch to EV the world will follow.
The commute is also bad for your health!
That's not really true in most cases. Most people gain wealth from their innovations and their innovations generally create considerably more wealth for society than it does for themselves. They appear to have gained everything but you need to account for the extra wealth they created for the many millions of people.

Amazon for example - how much wealth has Amazon created for everyone else? A lot and many, many factors more than Bezos' net worth.

Granted not every wealthy person creates wealth this way - some influence politics to get unethical things done that put them there. But we shouldn't clobber the idea of wealthy people because some people cheat.
A similar tool – https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
> So you're telling me that Telegram or Element are able to prioritise urgent and critical security issues much better than Signal could?

No, I'd say it is about the same actually. Telegram has a lot of hacks but HN doesn't throw a fit. Lot more serious ones too. Signal never had an issue with leaking someone's physical location to any user (read: "not a rare set of circumstances needed to reproduce"). Besides, Telegram still isn't e2e by default, doesn't have e2e groups, and has no security audits. I'm not sure why this is in the same category as Signal. As for Matrix, well it only recently enabled e2e. But the project is very small. Just because you don't know of a bug doesn't mean one doesn't exist. There's an old saying: "There's two types of software. Those with bugs and those that nobody uses." (read: "all software has bugs")
You're arguing against the American system as it is. Proponents of meritocracy wouldn't say that America has achieved it.

I agree with the other comments that meritocracy and inheritance are not at odds, especially if the meritocracy component is referring to positions of power & responsibility.

But your point is valid wrt America as it is. Education is a lynchpin of meritocracy. So, America's solution may need to include some reshaping of inheritance as a means to reshape the mechanisms of meritocracy. But the facile leftist take of (more or less) "ban inheritance" would be an overstep and create far more problems than its simplicity solves.
Companies who want to retain talent would be wise to let people work from home full time. Some people do not enjoy culture-building activities. Frankly, to me they seem absurd.
At least in the US, this is NOT LEGAL and amounts to violations of law. HR in any companies does not get a pass on that.

It is, however, a clear sign that your engineering-based company is NOT long for this world. Time to find a new employer.
Yeah it's a bummer that a highwayhash is only cryptographically strong (but not cryptographically secure) as it can be significantly faster (3x).

But BLAKE3 does seem to offer the best compromise when a cryptographically secure hash is required.
> Sounds like the disagreement is just about what is required for "playing chess well".

I think so. I'm getting a lot of flak over it though :-<

> If we raise the bar to 2500+ maybe you will agree?

I can't say. I do have an acquaintance who is at ~2600 level who is also a well adapted guy. He's not a full time player anymore, though.

I have no opinion on whether chess performance at a GM level is bad for you. All I wanted to say was that you can get pretty far with chess (I think a level of 2000-2300 qualifies as pretty far for the general population) without it affecting your life negatively.
Anyone with sense knows what will happen. Parents will pay exorbitant amounts for their children to receive accolades, and use up the inheritance before they die. The accolades will serve as signals to other rich as to whom to hire, put in charge, shower with large salaries funded by the sale of said accolades, etc.
You say "suck" but Toyota vehicles are some of the best and longest-lasting vehicles out there. The resale value stays high for new models and old models just keep running. I've only had one non-Toyota

So, "suck" in terms of MPG, but in terms of long term value, they are great cars and trucks.
Another option is using a folder you've added to defenders exclude list: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion...
I don't think the parent comment is talking about Ward or any of the original signers of the Agile Manifest. I think it is talking about all the consultants that sell services that do not understand the original principles.
I am not excited about having a vote on how to spend anybody's money, particularly if they spend it researching vaccines for malaria, like Gates did. Our system of government strictly limits which decisions are subject to democractic choices, for good reasons
Even when you enjoy your job, office work on the whole isn't that glamorous. It's why you often hear non-office workers say things like "I'd hate to spend all day sitting in front of a computer!".

I would guess that many office workers choose these types of jobs in large part because these jobs typically offer good pay and stability.

Companies try to jazz up these jobs by offering workplace perks (free food, gyms, snacks, etc.), but now the biggest perk they can provide is the freedom to live where you want. Now that a lot of people have had a taste for it, it's not a surprise that many value this perk far more than generic office perks. Especially young people who don't already have roots where the office is.
They siphoned money from Tether to fund Bitfinex.

This was while they did have a banking relationship. What was the exscuse then?
> but I have never once seen a Tesla salesperson.

They only have one, you can find him on twitter.
It wasn't meant as snark. I honestly want to know why people disregard the effect that removing ICE pollution would have. We have seen direct evidence of this when the pandemic lockdown went into effect. People in LA could see the sky again. Similar stories from all over like this. Stop driving polluting cars, and the air gets cleaner. I was shocked at just how fast, but mother nature is impressive.

I think your snark meter could use some recalibrating. I read the parent comment you also claimed being snarky, yet I'm not reading any snark in it. Also, I've never met you, so I'd never call you an idiot or anyone I don't know.
a "language standard" is something i can use to hold implementation developers accountable. it doesn't matter if it's an actual international standard, or just a document on the internet. I want a dry, exhaustive and systematic description of the features and intended behaviors. Refer to the Vulkan spec (https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2/html/) to get an example of what i consider a good specification.

The rust docs don't currently meet that bar. They're quite WIP, and I imagine someone hitting a particular edge case will not necessarily be well equipped to understand whether the behavior they're observing is intended, a bug in the implementation or something else entirely.
Has the author tried pressing CMD+Y to view and search browser history?
>... a strong political interest to not use oil anymore (as Japan as to import almost all of their primary energy), to a desire to build out with less dependence on China based minerals and supply chains ...

Given the Toyota's scale and general scarcity of rare-earth minerals, betting fully on the li-ion tech would be indeed too risky without a viable plan B towards EV. Does the world economy need any more reasons to empower China? Can't see Japan's interest in that, given the recent developments in South China sea and environs.

I hope Toyota's engineering efforts will again provide an alternative which would progress beyond the current trend.
Investigational magnetic device shrinks glioblastoma tumor 30% in human test
It's failed to make the homepage a few times in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dogsheep - the one time it did make it was this one about Dogsheep Photos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271053
Not a lawyer, but in my experience they don't need to do any tests. They usually have a policy that requires them to make a "thorough" investigation. Nobody holds them to that. For example, a trooper knew there were third party witnesses to a crime and did not seek them out. Granted, that trooper also withheld actual exculpatory evidence. Either way, nothing happened, because who watches the watchers?
IANAL, but curious and searched.

> A number of techniques designed to detect gunshot residues (GSR) on the hands of a suspect or victim have been developed. These techniques range from the now-discredited paraffin test to the more modern techniques which use instrumental analysis or scanning electron microscopy. The limitations of all GSR techniques are that the residues can be removed by rubbing or washing the hands and usually must be collected soon after the firearm is fired, yet even valid GSR tests are not conclusive.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/forensic...
Having an 11% success rate seems pretty impressive to me. Much better than the rate of false panic alarms, for example. And I'm sure a lot of those ShotSpotter alerts were accurate, but the police didn't get there soon enough.
This phenomenon is probably why systems that protect the status quo produce less innovation. Even though it might behoove them, and they have the resources to, the industry leaders are less inclined (because of inertia?) to resist ground breaking paradigms.

I guess it kind of makes sense for them. It's high risk/high reward and it will take a scrappy new company to try it.
Supermicro Ultra SYS-120U-TNR Review: Testing Dual 10nm Ice Lake Xeon in 1U
It's more interesting to me to contemplate why inequality is a bad for a society. The greatest wealth is typically built by creating the largest businesses. If we look at the wealthiest people in the world, their wealth is derived from business, rather than sports and entertainment, state-owned operations, confiscation via war, illegal activities, etc. Creating business at the scale of these companies, and the economic activity that yields is the core of a capitalist system. It's better for everyone in it's purest form.

Problems start with the super-wealthy apply their wealth outside of business and industry and use it to influence political outcomes. In this manner, they are acting as un-elected politicians and undermine democratic policies and governance.

The question to contemplate is how to maintain the system that yields the most benefit in its pure form, and yet keep its vulnerability of concentrating influence in the hands of people who are not granted that influence democratically?
In a similar vein, in some countries they just went back to paper voting after trying electronic machines (e.g. Netherlands). It's not perfect, but it electronic solution also doesn't seem to be, and overall it seems to work well enough.

There's this perception that "digital = better", but that's not always how it works. Actually, in quite a few cases the analogue solution was quite a bit better (analogue buttons, for example, but also just having some things on paper was a lot easier IMHO, like bus tickets and whatnot).
In 70 years that 4.5 million won't be nearly as impressive. If you had $40,000 in 1951 that was a pretty serious chunk of change. For reference, that new car in 1951 was around $1,500.
Yards are great, but in well designed urban environments you have access to parks, a lot of the problem here is that people want to have their own private spaces for everything.

Groceries are actually far better if you’re not forced to buy in bulk, how many people end up throwing out spoiled produce because they bought too much at once and don’t use it all? The car based grocery shopping model really isn’t great for your health. Further, you end up with _far_ more diverse grocery options in a dense environment, because your neighborhood ends up supporting far more stores.
Ask HN: Building an internal developer platform for larger companies
We're in the process of validating a couple of ideas and I'd love some help from the HN community. For the last six months, we've been navigating the startup waters and building and improving.

We're thinking of building a platform that enables teams at mid/large sized companies to build, run, and scale applications in AWS (and soon other cloud providers) without forcing developers to become cloud experts.

Practically speaking, our product would be your internal developer platform where you (DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineers) can build boilerplates / templates for your teams that meet your business requirements. Then, the developers can quickly deploy/launch these templates/boilerplates in an "App Store" type of fashion with the "Heroku"-like experience. The end goal is avoid having developers install unnecessary CLI tools or managing kubernetes clusters.

Building this solution would help developers move at their own pace and give Platform/DevOps/Site Reliability engineers more time back.

Before we continue to pour more effort in to this, is it something that you think you'd personally setup and give to your developers?
Well, give it time. As combustion vehicles are outlawed [1] and billions of dollars are poured into charging stations [2], early adopters will pave the path to get to the future you want. I've driven over 50k miles cross country in the US on Superchargers [3], and it's a pleasant experience using them and works for us (most of the time the car is done charging before we're done with our pit stop or grocery shopping). Happy to help drive forward innovation as a consumer (being the squeaky wheel demanding charging infra from any business I interact with that'll listen). See you in the future!

(i am also advocating with policy makers to outlaw new petroleum filling station permits/infrastructure, but that is a topic for another thread. i am applying YC startup school lessons to public policy efforts. please excuse the dust while the electrification of transportation ramps)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

[3] https://supercharge.info/map
Wow! That's super cool. I will have to check this out at some point. Am I correct in understanding that the pocket tool actually imports the URLs contents? If not, how hard would it be to include the actual content of URLs? Specifically, I'll probably end up using something else (for me NextCloud bookmarks).
Which I'll accept is a problem of my last real attempt to use a Mac being well over a decade ago. I guess I just don't get why people keep harping on it, like correcting me on MacOS's 2-button mouse support is going to convert me or something.
Too late. It is already integrated into the financial system.
Leaving aside "sitting for an hour" (?), isn't it much safer to charge 99% of the time in your own garage and never have to regularly step out of your car alone at a dark gas station on the corner?

Even on a long drive you leave home with a "full tank" without having that first stop to gas up.
Most of the nuclear power plants that Germany built were single-reactor plants and would shut down for refueling. Multi-reactor plants will stagger shutdowns so that the plant continues to generate at reduced power. It is the same in the US. Only a few reactor designs like CANDU are capable of online refueling without interruption. Planned shutdowns for refueling are scheduled for low-demand times of the year.

Here's a nuclear industry blog post explaining the practice: http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-happens-dur...
"Everything I don't like is far-right"