skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I viscerally hate this title, because the top 5% of power plants probably also account for >50% of electrical generation, and the entire exercise is dominated by how small of a plant counts for the statistics. If all the portable generators sitting unused in people's garages counted, I bet that 0.1% of "power plants" would be responsible for 99% of emissions, which would make a great headline but still wouldn't tell you anything meaningful about the world.

I would love to know about how efficiency varies with plant size (are bigger plants more efficient?) but this study is _mostly_ just stating that bigger power plants produce more emissions in absolute terms, which should be obvious to pretty much anyone.
Australian Government open-source web design system to be decommissioned
It is, it’s a fairly standard warmup interview problem.

https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/489169/Googl...
The sievert is the SI replacement to the rem, (roentgen equivelent, man). These are units of radiation dose that are scaled according to the health effect of the type of radiation. What you may need is a conversion from a radiometric unit (energy equivalent dose) to sieverts, for the particular frequency of microwaves.

Every type of particle, and band of wavelengths, has its own damage mechanism in the body, making the choice of a unit of measure complicated.

I'm not a nuclear physicist, but remember just a bit from my radiation safety training to work in an accelerator lab for a brief time period. Today I work with optics, and there are formulas in the regulations for laser and UV safety. They are quite definitely scientifically based. For instance, the UV wavelength with the highest weighting factor for hazard determination is the absorbance peak of DNA.

Hope that doesn't answer your question (since I'm not an expert anyway), but sheds some light on the complexity of the problem.

Where I went to grad school, they had one of the earliest accelerator physics programs. I remember a story, that the old timers would adjust the beam by closing their eyes and letting the particles cause scintillation inside their eyeballs. That was when beams were vastly less energetic, and in any event, I don't think they did this for very long without realizing the danger. In addition to the beam itself, an accelerator can give off a lot of X rays due to secondary radiation processes. The entire accelerator lab was behind a labyrinth of brick walls, and had an interlock system to make sure nobody was in the tunnel when the machine got started up.
Expose all officials complicit in government abuses. Let them know that, when the country eventually finds its way back to democracy, the evidence against the, has already been collected.

Then, find a way to assure amnesty for the first 5,000 defectors.
General Motors did, with help from others in automobile, oil, and tyre industries:

The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies that were involved in monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and its subsidiaries, and to allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The suit created lingering suspicions that the defendants had in fact plotted to dismantle streetcar systems in many cities in the United States as an attempt to monopolize surface transportation.

Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines—with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—gained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities.[3] Systems included St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Oakland. NCL often converted streetcars to bus operations in that period, although electric traction was preserved or expanded in some locations. Other systems, such as San Diego's, were converted by outgrowths of the City Lines. Most of the companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the transit industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
I'm going go ahead and guess, based on the tone of your comment, that you are similarly distrusting of information from the medical community.

Tone? Your Hacker News clearly works in ways mine does not.

I socialize with a number of physicians, surgeons, and medical professionals. I seek medical help and advice when I'm sick. I seek medical help and advice when my kids are sick. I pursued a vaccine expressly because those same medical professionals were vaccinated themselves. But I also don't believe a physician has some magical ability to discern truth that other intelligent people cannot.

I also trust the science of the efficacy of masks people are wearing. I trust the science that examines how the way they wear their masks sabotages any utility they might provide. I trust the science that suggests there are negative psychological and sociological consequences to an entire society not able to see the faces of their peers.

I trust the science that suggests, despite breakthrough cases, the vaccines don't have unmanageable side effects and work as intended. I trust the data that has revealed of 100 "breakthrough" Covid deaths in Massachusetts, the median age of those who died is 82.5 and ~75% had underlying issues. I trust the data that has revealed of the ~9000 who have died of Covid here in Texas since February, only 43 were vaccinated.

I trust that masks and distancing have clearly had positive side effects to limit the spread of other illnesses, such as the flu. My children have all had RSV since society mostly opened back up but not before (talk to a pediatrician - it's particularly nasty this year and is spreading in the summer months unlike it has in memory).

But I also trust my eyes that have seen states and communities with draconian lockdowns faring no better (or worse!) than states and communities that are largely open. Here in my community some schools required everyone to mask. Others, not at all. And neither fared measurably better or worse than the other. And given all that (and more), I've come to the conclusion that it is unlikely that masks make much of a difference.

And above all else, I trust that you know better how to keep yourself and your family safe than I do. And vice-versa.

Because I'll be honest, I don't think what you've written here reflects your actual, deep-down feelings on the topic.

Careful everyone! We've got a mind reader, here!

Seriously though, I know it's tough to resist the arrogant urge to compartmentalize all the wrongthinkers into stereotypes. But resist anyway, because it makes you seem like a condescending, dishonest, disingenuous investigator who is just building a strawman.

Or are you just saying that because it seems like the right thing to say?

Right thing to say? I don't even know what that means. I said what I genuinely believe. I've even attached my name to it. I've changed my mind on many subjects when presented evidence to the contrary - it's a useful skill when you solve problems for a living.
40+ years of programming experience here. The next step is to realise that MVC is just an example of events driven programming. An application is a state that “instantly” changes to the next state when an event happens. Multiple separate states (logging/UI/DB/remote/…) coordinate by reacting to events. The business logic is generating “this is now true” events. That’s it. There is nothing else to it.
Detailed Avatar Recovery from Single Image
Having deterministic builds is a godsent boon in an ecosystem without proper semantic versioning enforcement. The fact that minor version number changes can be breaking means that every build can break (a bit tautological but a point worth emphasizing).

I also dont like that some packages are too big, or too small, or have too many transitive dependencies. It is a fact of life in npm land, though, making deterministic builds simultaneously minor and significant.
> I'm not sure they could foresee tanks and fighter jets, so it's hard to say where they would have drawn the line if we asked them.

An interesting thought exercise. I wonder how that would have played out, had it been anticipated: changing the nature of the defense contractor market, and maybe Ford would have ads for "SUV APC" or "Sport Model Tank".

On some level the mental demarcation between "civilian tech" and "military tech" is so visually clear for me, it's hard for me to imagine a world where those things are fluidly interchanged, that doesn't seem satirical or dystopian. Doesn't mean it would be tho...Strange utopian possibility is, post WWII with civilian market for military armaments exploding, maybe the "start more wars, sell more weapons" motive for war (if that's a real thing) would have disappeared, and US wouldn't have been in any war in 70 years, because the defense industry would be too busy reaping profits from the consumer sector.
Scientists baffled by orcas ramming sailing boats near Spain and Portugal
Prefaulting Memory Mapped Arrays in Julia
does doing leetcode on a daily basis help with help my long term memory to have a toolkit of problems solved?

or will I just forget what I learned from leetcode? if so what can I do to retain my leetcode knowledge. I just started this week not for an interview but to actually improve my long term memory of algorithms, data structure knowledge so I don't have to google everytime I wanna implement something. and hopefully to improve my reading speed when reading code
No offense, but this seems like a very weak, and virtually un-falsifiable, theory. Is there rigorous data that suggests culture is a major factor in driving population growth? Economic policy, housing and family-planning policy, education and labor policy, are the only true factors that undeniably and reliably drive population growth.
The is talking about coal, the largest power plants are hydroelectric dams. Add them, wind, solar and nuclear and your talking 37% of total electricity generation. Even gas turbines which generate 23.7% of power produce significantly less CO2 per GWh.
Where do you learn this, and can you please point me to some books or website. I really am excited about this kind of biotech
Requiring a phone number or a Google login to use this (or even view the page) is far from "freely accessible". This is asking for very personal information.
I think back to Calhoun's rat utopia experiments and wonder if humans could ever be happy in a post-work society.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-...

While the predictions made by the study regarding human behavior have since been called into question (and because a human version of these experiments would be horribly unethical), it does bear to think about what the world would look like if all work was performed by automated means free of human interaction.

On one hand, there are many jobs that would be seldom missed by most people. On the other, people can find fullfillment in just about anything.
I strongly recommend the Manta Sleep mask (no affiliation, just really like them). Adjustable non-contact eye cups, plus you can get different eye cup "mods" like cool (keep in freezer) or warm (microwave) cups that feel amazing. Amazon, or mantasleep.com.
It was a democracy which condemned Socrates to death.
Hi @NotSwift, thanks for the comment. Have you read the article? I believe it's mentioned there the technical reasons why we need to decouple the service into a separate one. I'm aware that I haven't mentioned the business needs explicitly, that's entirely on me.

And as for the maintenance, it's me who'll maintain the existing as well as the new service and I find it (so far) to be very easy to maintain as well as to develop. We've seen that we achieved the accomplishments we set at the start of this project. So, let me know if you still have something to discuss further and let's have a fruitful and constructive discussion, shall we?
Not exactly tiny, but life-changing: A treadmill desk. Get healthier while you're working or playing video games instead of getting fatter. You can get an under-table model for about $200 that works with a table you already have.
While this does cover quite a bit, I think there is a little more that the security team does in terms of coordination, encouraging or even making timely package updates.

It’s understandable that some would fall on either side of being ok with that gap or not.
According to the sidebar, the author is an astrologer and a druid. So, it's certainly a perspective.
I didn't see that logo before. Reminds me that Apple owns the device, I don't have the right to repair it, and it could get bricked.
The author raises interesting points, but none of them are novel. The general tone here seems to be along the lines of: there are just so many moving variables, no fair comparisons may be fairly made. But I judge such positions agains this heuristic: "But, is it actionable?" Pragmatism demands we at least take a glance at languages, frameworks, and platforms from the perfromance perspective.

Here is a practical example: There may be some issues with the Tech Empower web framework benchmarks, but -- across a battery of tests -- one may clearly discern that there are NO python or ruby frameworks in the top 75% performing web frameworks yet plenty of go, Java, and PHP frameworks there. c++, js, amd rust dominate the top 20% and the differences in requests-per-second among them, statistically less significant, literally engulf the total rps numbers for the python or ruby rps totals. If you (or your company) are paying cloud fees for hosting your services (including serverless), you are absolutely throwing money away, perhaps for a "good" reason ('we have a huge rails codebase'), if you ignore this information.
I also love minimal stuff in my pockets.

In addition to the phone wallet case, I installed electronic locks on my home, so I could stop carrying keys around.
> I'm sure the crypto part is well implemented.

If it is, that's bad for human rights. The crypto part protects Apple and their under-specified list sources from accountability.

Without the crypto the system would just send you the database of bad hashes and snitch on you based on it. Your privacy would be no worse, but at least researchers would have some chance of detecting when the system was being used off-label to enable genocide.
How is it vendor lock in?
Just read your article. It is really impressive that your post strategy on LinkedIn. Since I usually create posts on LinkedIn, I totally agree with your idea. I will give it a try on my next post!
The high yield corn isn’t edible. You have to do food science to it or feed it to livestock.
Is there a way to install another package / add one to package.json and update the lockfile while otherwise preserving the behavior of running npm ci?

If so, ignore this, but if not, wouldn't adding a new package have all sorts of weird side effects from miscellaneous updates to irrelevant existing dependencies?
Or run from tmpfs without swap.
Ask HN: Should I consider this as library or framework?
I made a small "I called" as library to output 2D primitives graphics to window easily using C++. Here is the project: https://github.com/krehwell/Memake

what is it categorized appropriately? is it considered as a library since I provide utilities to draw primitives output to graphical window?

or

is it considered as framework since I define on how they would enabling the drawing
Thats an excellent point. The subtext there is borderline positive. Or at least borderline actionable. Anyway Im reading the Ministry for the Future and its August so I need to either kill myself or join the Children of Kali or something... Whats the deal with brown coal?
Make Every feature Binary: A 135B parameter sparse neural network in production
DHL cancelling delivery drone project
Called Apple today, gave them a 2-week heads-up on leaving the ecosystem. Current plan, if corporate lets this blow over without any action on their part, is a pixel 5 instead of the SE, and my laptop instead of the ipad. Sad day.
And that's exactly why they're doing it, because there are more important things than yield, e.g. food sovereignty.

Italy did something similar to target the cheap (high yield) canadian grain imports, but using labelling instead of an outright ban on glyphosate.
Well, the approach of solving a corpus (advocated by GP) doesn't leave room for the possibility of asking a follow-up question so you can't train for it that way.
I hate waiting for, and the time taken in, the elevator. I would have to not like people or going outdoors to live in one of those.

Or... what I always thought would be a cool mode of transport: zipline tubes in the city connecting buildings. Then I only have to zip down part way across to a shop, and up a bit to get back.
This is why I just use the Twitter website on my phone.
One theory I've seen advanced why the claimed reports to the NCMEC are many orders of magnitude larger than the prosecutions is that the conjecture that the whole thing is a CIA operation to collect kompromat on massive numbers of people.

The alternative that the database is just stuffed full of non-illegal images seems more likely but I dunno if its that much more comforting.
My theory: if someone in academia claims X is impossible, X is now much more likely to occur sooner than expected.
An electric toothbrush, it's faster and cleans better. Just don't apply any pressure when using it.
US job openings soar to 10M for first time as companies struggle to hire
Link to the actual study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1/...
Vinegar works great on gym clothes! I just discovered that too.
> If it’s just stats why do I need Google?
I can write code to bubble up stats across text sources in any language.

I'm not sure I understand your framing here, but in it, aren't you just describing what Google _is_?
The Myceneans were likely ethnically Greek and seem to have spoken an early version of Greek. I have not seen anything to indicate if the Minoans (who were distinct from Myceneans) were ethnically Greek, but their language does not appear to be Indo-European. If it were, it would be easier to translate. If the Minoans were ethnically Greek, that suggests that there were a population of people on the mainland and on Minos that spoke a non-Indo-European language and that that language was larger displaced on the Greek mainland by Indonesia-European immigrants who transferred their language to the native people and that evolved into the various kinds of Greek language.
> Superlatively, humans have the capacity to instantly stop global warming by causing a nuclear winter. We already have the capability of kicking up enough dust that surface temperatures drop a dangerous amount.

Who's talking about global warming? This is about atmospheric CO2 concentration. It is related, yes, but reality isn't a single variable problem.

Stop global warming using a nuclear winter? Sure, that's a solution. And kill everything on the planet in the process. Brilliant.
Task Interruption in Software Development Projects
Wow, this is art

Wonder how many people did not skip to the end and then skim back
The Reddit android app seems to quickly balloon up to 500MB of storage and some more cache on top of that. I genuinely don't know how they do it.

I think there could be a real watershed moment in a few years as companies realize that rising to the technological challenge isn't actually that expensive or even difficult if you hire people with the right combination of arrogance and brains. Rage against the latrine.
Please read the article. Near the end they delve into details that may interest you.

Quote:
“If the top 5 percent of polluters lowered their emission intensity to the global average for fossil fuel plants, the world’s CO2 emissions could drop by 25 percent, the study found.”

So while these plants emit a lot due to their size, they are also much worse (28%-75% per the article) on a co2/kw generated basis as well. (At least according to this article)
You're absolutely right, and they probably are a significant proportion of generation. However, a key part of optimization is identifying low hanging fruit - replacing (or augmenting) these plants could help reach climate change goals in really short order. Fission is known for being slower to deploy than other green energy sources, but if we could eradicate this carbon source in 5-8 years, then... damn... that's really impressive.

Sadly, I doubt that will happen.
Please don't post Science worship materials that aren't ordained by the official USA Fact-Check algorithm.
I don't drink or take on call positions. Both give terrible hangovers the next morning.
That’s assuming CPU bound workloads. C++ spends just as long as Ruby waiting on a database query.
Creating Pull Request That Scales
How to make an effective and efficient Pull Request
Unfortunately all those visits accomplished nothing.
I like to reverse engineer, I googled “snf7 corn” which yielded this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883649/

Only you know how far this rabbit hole goes
In fact I see it as you splitting (or rather melding) the hairs, so if you're going to do that, you should be able to take it, too, right? :)

Your point was violence in response to violence, as if the two are interchangeable, but there is a huge difference, both legally, morally and practically I think. One the one side you have, the primary aggressor, the "attacker" and they presumably can have the element of surprise. On the other side you have self defense and (in some places) "stand your ground", where you are "a true victim, defending yourself against an attacker". So you seem to say there's no much difference, but there's a huge difference.

In the second case, where you accuse someone of splitting hairs, not only have you already done it (in a reversed way, by making a (as you admit) "pedantic" (but i'd say, incorrect) statement about two types of violence, where you conflate, rather that split, them), the point you are again conflating, "between violence actualized and violence only threatened" is also huge, and something I didn't know.

I was grateful to learn that, and it's fascinating. I think that's something about guns that is ignored often in, is that they can be an effective deterrent. The effect of which, actually makes it, possibly that violence is less likely to be effected, perhaps precisely because, major violence is so easily applied.

Anyway, aside from all these down in the details stuff (which are important in this topic, the semantics and nuance are key here), I'm sure you have good ideas and thinking for why you are anti-gun. It's not an easy topic for either side to argue, I think.
You misunderstand the purpose of the review. Per current case law if apple automatically handed the data over rather than reviewing it themselves the reading of the report would constitute an unlawful search.

A human at Apple needs to inspect it in order to quash your fourth amendment protection against a warrantless search.

Apple inspecting your images destroys your privacy, the extra step of review doesn't protect your privacy -- it's there to destroy the constitutional protection of your privacy.
What is the name of this foam spray and/or what should I search for?
Could you make s’mores with that ?
I’d say they’re more like P5 pentiums. In-order, pipelined, superscalar, with the full set of IA-32 instructions and most of the extensions.
How do they know there's fewer than 1000 if they barely noticed this one in front of them?
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
If you live in a place where black ice is a thing: Icebug shoes / boots.

They are very comfortable and supporting shoes with metal studs so that you don’t slip on that black ice patch ever again.

Not exactly cheap but totally worth the price.