skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you've read the latest IPCC report that just came out. But the state of the planet is approaching apocalyptic. Even with the most extreme measures, like cutting our net carbon output to 0 in just a handful of years we will have natural disasters that used to happen every 50 years, every 3-4 years now. And that's the optimistic scenario.

It should be illegal to waste resources this way. All in the name of destabilizing the financial system.
You do realize you are paying upwards of 42% (1/.7) more on every single thing you buy via Apple for that "benefit", right? Like, I see a lot of people say stuff like this, but I just can't imagine that every single time they spend $5 they are mentally picturing handing at least $1 of that to Apple while thanking them for preventing people from telling anyone about alternative ways to pay (or even breaking down that $1 fee so people can viscerally understand what is going on).
This is indeed a bad title, and yet those professors you're talking about sound like assholes.

I remember being mocked by my professors at school as well when making a mistake. All it did was make me resent them for being assholes to me, it didn't teach me to use units more correctly.

If instead they simply had said "Celcius or Farenheit? You have to be explicit, because ...", I would have learned something and it would have stuck with me.

Professors being nice to students makes the students want to be nice in return, and want to learn as a result.

I still resent every single one of my high school professor that did this sort of shit. All they achieved was getting me to drop out. Joke's on them, I pursued the career they mocked and did better at it than they did at theirs.

And when I see other professors, coaches, teachers and mentors do this kind of shit to students today, I honestly want to slap them silly. This is why I'll continue mentoring whoever I can. Education is the single most important factor in our survival as a species, especially now.
The IPCC is due to release a more comprehensive look at solar geoengineering in 2022. I say we start planning for it now, and be ready to roll it out if and when the climate models predict that it's safe enough to do so.
Ah yes the advanced unreliable AI of .. a database of hashes?
I wouldn't call it a minor annoyance when it's a way of working you're practicing for 6-8 hours a day.

I am best placed to determine what tools I work with best to get work done. You wouldn't get an electrician in to do some work and then decide you can suddenly prescribe the tools they use.

I just don't have the patience for this sort of nonsense, there are a dozen clients who won't micromanage the operating system, editor and way of working that I'll be using to get the job done. With that said, obviously it's a two-way street and some willingness to be flexible needs to be shown on both sides. If $client wants me to sync my work with their $uniqueVersionControlSystem then fine, I'm willing to put in the extra effort to try and meet their specific needs within reason. But that doesn't extend to working inside a client-provided VM, using a client-prescribed OS image, using a client-specified IDE or making other such major changes to my established ways of doing business.

And in fact any client trying to micromanage this sort of stuff is a massive IR35 working practices red flag over here in the UK. You're better off terminating the agreement and signing something else as a SoftEng contractor.
It also depends on the altitude. At a high enough altitude it would be boiling.
this was posted why? considering comments here saying it's not reliable information and the number of comments on the gist itself from when it was initially posted months ago saying it needed forks to fix problems and clarify......
The Importance of Soft Bodied Organisms in Ancient Food Webs
Some of those are... amusing.

> Silicon Valley of the North

Pretty much dead after the bankruptcy of Nortel and whatever remains of BlackBerry.

> Silicon Forest: Portland, Oregon

Not false; Intel is there. They are making Silicon...

> Silicon Spuds: Idaho Falls, Idaho

Micron is in Idaho, so again, not wrong.
I like how the article goes into detail about how the social safety net and investment in putting computers in every home provided by Sweden may have fostered a situation where both people are likely to create startups and those startups are pretty likely to survive at least three years and decently likely to reach $1B evaluation.

It's strange to me that this is followed up by a section where claims that this situation is somehow made precarious by higher tax rates are basically quoted without any supporting evidence or examination. Sure, the prior bit didn't go cite any studies or anything, but they at least speculate about the causal link and list some outcomes that the writer seems to believe are associated with those causal factors. No such thing is even explained for the effect of a high tax rate, and I would have liked to see a little more detail about that claim

I've heard both social safety nets and low taxes, which would seem to be at odds, cited by armchair economists as things that are "good for business", so it's odd to see one examined and the other merely mentioned
If we assume the code has been audited and that the "1,000 identical probes" idea mentioned above is implemented, then securely generating a random number is as easy as XORing the random numbers of a large enough group of mutually adversarial entities to guarantee that there isn't collusion between all of them.
Capital is created by those who borrow when they issue IOUs, as those liabilities (from the point of view of the firm) are by definition the assets backing the company (from the point of view of those who have purchased those liabilities from the market and hold them as assets). E.g. the stock of a company is the liability of the company but an asset for the shareholders that are funding the company.

But not just any IOU can become an asset. Only "marketable" IOUs have this property as the IOUs should be priced as they circulate in a market, at least conceptually. It is the ability to circulate that gives the IOUs market value, and this market value can be exchanged for the necessary inputs to fund the venture. People accept these IOUs as a form of payment because they can in turn sell them to someone else for whatever they themselves need, again because the IOUs are marketable.

Thus there are two critical pieces: the issuing of the IOU by an entrepreneur and then the pricing of the same in a capital market.

Supposedly you are asking what market institutions exist to price newly issued claims, which is a question of having accountancy, venture capital, and other skills that would allow one to help estimate cash flows in a credible manner. Creating such institutions is not simple, but once they are created they are invaluable as they allow for the creation of unlimited capital[1] to fund entrepreneurs, provided that the credibility of the market instruments remains intact.

[1] Of course while the ability to issue promises of future profits is unlimited, the actual availability of profits is certainly limited by things like GDP, the rate of innovation, the availability of inputs, etc. Thus only some promises of future profits are actually realized in a market, and it is the job of those who price claims to, on average, apply appropriate discounts to these promises in order to, on average, accurately price the claims.
Celsius is as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. Really, it's the one unit where it does not matter. Meters, kilogram, seconds, volt, ampere... they all stand in relation to each other. Celsius doesn't, you'd have to go to Kelvin for that (which is derived from Celsius, but Celsius is still useless by itself).

I'm European, grew up with Celsius and am therefore more comfortable with it, so hardly any bias there.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox disagrees however. Your link is about the source package.
Codespaces seems like magic. I've been using it for personal projects, and it is fantastic to do simple edits in a browser on the go.

That's not the intended use case, though. The actual value is where you get to scale up and automate what used to be only on local workstations.

The nightly builds with up-to-date dependencies and pre-pulled code get to going faster. Having a shared image encourages people to share all those local scripts that make things work where they may have just left them in a local `bin/` before.

Onboarding scripts diverge and fragment workstations because employees that have been there longer ran old versions and never got the new updates. This lets everyone use the same update to date tools together.

I'm excited to see where Github takes this. Tons of possibilities in now using Codespaces to create "local" environments composed of multiple machines.
I just read the material for context and convert if I need to. This publication is a US publication written for a US audience. In that context their choice makes sense. I can easily convert it to C.
I guess one might be able to make something that works somewhat better than a compressor, those don't use ideal Carnot cycles. Better than a Carnot machine isn't possible, you will always release heat when turning water vapor into liquid, so doing the evaporation afterwards and ending up with a cooler room is completely bollocks. You can't cool a room without discharging heat to the environment, the heat has to go somewhere.
The fact these numbers are not adjusted for income is asinine . $100k per year is basically poverty in the bay area, if you have even a single dependent...
Pre-revenue, $4.5bn valuation - I'm in the wrong industry.

(Although I think this is down from $6.6bn when the deal was announced in February)...
Deplatforming isn't really my wheelhouse so I'll stay out of that one, there are plenty of intelligent people on both sides of the coin who do understand the issue to the point where there isn't much value in my chipping in.

As for data privacy, you make a fair point. As I said in an earlier comment, despite my misgivings about their "take everything that isnt bolted down" approach, I continued to use Facebook even after the big hoo-ha because, like TikTok does for you, it brought me value. The only thing I would take issue with is if someone who did get value from one of those platforms and wanted to keep their privacy high ground by denying any issues, but as you've made clear, your not that person, so we can safely dismiss that now.

> And that's the thing. If you care about the downsides of TikTok, you better understand why the users go there

To be fair, this is an excellent point, and not just in the context of social media. Too often in politics for example you see peoples explanation for why the people they disagree with do and say the things they do and say is "that group are idiots/ignorant/evil, my group is intelligent/enlightened/kind". So you'll get no argument from me there.

Overall, I think this was just a bit of a miscommunication and we're actually coming from roughly the same place. I can't say I'm a big fan of TikTok, but you would probably think the same thing about Facebook or Google (I don't use facebook anymore but google still have their claws around me), so it'd be hypocritical for either of us to try to take the highground.
the textbook already exists, and has for a couple thousand years. Just study, master and apply Aristotle
The $0 competition for normal people is KeePassX stored in Dropbox, OneDrive, GDrive.

The $0 competition for hackers is https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
I’d rather retire early than bust my ass until I’m 70 to (try to) make $100 million.
In other news, the fox has declared the hen house to be a very safe place indeed.
I use the Window Titler extension to give my windows names and the Tab Mover extension to move tabs between windows.

This way I name windows after a project and as needed I'll move a tab there if I happen to open it in the wrong window.

As a tab hoarder this has really enhanced my organization and ability to find things again.
It does include a mouse.
Like picking a od temperatures in the alps, near a lake, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Cold air sinks down, and gets stored down there. Good for records, bad for general temp monitoring.

Doesn't change the fact that these high temps are really bad.
Planning on moving to Apple Keychain once the releases in the fall are out, as it’ll have 2FA support.

Only Electron app that’s been half decent is VS Code, but that’s a full blown editor. Wasting RAM on a password manager due to Electron is a no go for me.
Total derail but:

> I'm a Principal Engineer at a FAAMNG company.

Does anyone other than a MS employee put an M in FAANG?
Agreeing with each other to within 100ns, should be possible when they're physically close to each other and share a PPS signal. Being accurate to within 100ns would be considerably more challenging I'd think.
> your internet bank

A proprietary scheme specific to that one bank.

> to your government services

Often: Using a signature. As in, pen on paper, stuck into an envelope or a fax machine (not a scanner and e-mail, oh no, has to be fax).

Government online services that do exist often have their own authentication scheme (each authority has a separate one), typically "we'll mail you an activation code" (snail mail of course) paired with SMS 2FA after the initial registration.
Intel went "backwards" from FBD to DDR so it's not obvious that serial is the future.
I am not aware of any distribution that does not disable the in-firefox updates.
UK fintech investment hits new record after £18bn buying spree
Ive never had imposter syndrome and now I’m wondering if this is why, eeeek
Depends where you live. Germany has done an idiotic 180 away from nuclear, but France is heavily into it.
https://www.electricitymap.org/
Fear of a Secular Nation
I was a lass pass user forever then dashlane user for about a year. I ditched them all for bitwarden and think it's easily the best I've tried.
I make ~100,000 euro yearly in eastern europe and invest maybe 90%. I can already retire, but think I'll do this for a few more years (job good, coworkers good)

Suppose that wasn't the experience you were looking for?:)
Why It's Time to Move on from WordPress
Don't make simple things complicated. Simplify complex things. backend developers generally like to build complex crap.
You... just saved me many hours. My 2021 goal is to migrate from 1Password to Bitwarden. I’ve been putting it off as I still have half a year of my subscription. But that does make it easier.

Thank you!
Its called a tradeoff.

There is this obsession with speed and efficiency in computing. The tradeoff for a secure decentralized system anyone can use and audit is that its slow and inefficient. There are real benefits to adopting systems like this for some tasks and problems we face - like transparency in political and economic systems.
Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation (1987) [pdf]
20 years ago we should have started moving to nuclear. 20 years from now we'll be saying the same thing.
I think stones for weight is dying out here.

Miles per hour, no, that's not going anywhere, nor pints of beer, but it's hard to think of other imperial measurements in day to day use.

(and those are real pints, 26% larger than US 'pints'! So it just goes to show the imperial system isn't even consistent across countries. Yet another reason that the ISU/SI is superior...)
The world also uses completely different languages. The 50 states are the exception with English.

Just use a fking converter.
This article glosses over the biggest deal in the bill.

Section 3 subsection d - INTEROPERABILITY

A Covered Company that controls the operating system or operating system configuration on which its App Store operates shall allow and provide the readily accessible means for users of that operating system to—

(1) choose third-party Apps or App Stores as defaults for categories appropriate to the App or App Store;

(2) install third-party Apps or App Stores through means other than its App Store; and

(3) hide or delete Apps or App Stores provided or preinstalled by the App Store owner or any of its business partners

Let's see how far this goes before it gets mangled all to hell.
It's not about being smug, put fucking European units in an article about European temperatures in a European location. Not everybody knows who or what Axios is, but we know what Europe and Sicily are.
Authy has a desktop app :)
I think probes can have firmware modified by upload, even the very far away ones.
> 322 Kelvin

You know, I think this makes good sense. A degree can be celsius, or fahrenheit, but only a Kelvin is a Kelvin. So this could be unambiguously simplified in the future if we standardized on K.
Yep, for any sort of eSport you can’t have outside help/information outside of designated times if the format allows it, but also this isn’t targeted at eSports.
Both are for marking anime. One for MAL[0], one for Kitsu[1].

[0] https://github.com/Drutol/MALClient

[1] https://github.com/hummingbird-me/kitsu-mobile
I guess they could save it to tape and hope other people drop out eventually?

Sort of like hanging onto baseball cards. Or Dogecoin.
Yup. Even if the scientist wants to give it back their employer has a high likelihood of getting involved and behaving how faceless bureaucratic entities behave.
So the worst thing that could happen is that people who will be ordered to do the dirty work already have guns rather than whoever controls them has to arm them first.
Seems to be a minor detail not something that has any effect on larger outcome of conflicts.
Fun fact, British gallons are larger than American gallons (160 fl oz vs 128). This makes fuel efficiency comparisons quite confusing. I can't find the article, but one American went as far as suing Volkswagen because he imported a car under the assumption that it would get 80 MPG.
Work is similar I imagine but less $
> Open source needs to pull its head out of its collective ass and not hand over its entire workflow to private companies.

Well, for starters, there is GitLab which attempts to do a lot of what GitHub does, while allowing you to self host it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

In some respects, i'd say that it does things better, for example, GitLab CI seems way easier to use in comparison to GitHub Actions: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

As far as alternative source code management platforms go, with some code review and issue management functionality added on top, there is also Gogs, which is a far more lightweight solution and better fits smaller deployments: https://github.com/gogs/gogs

It was also forked by the Gitea project, which is largely compatible with it but is also in active development: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

Oh and there's also GitBucket which also attempts something similar to these: https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket

Now, you can probably hook those up with Jenkins or most other CI solutions, but personally i rather enjoyed how Gogs/Gitea integrated with Drone, which allowed for container based builds (no more plugin hell like in Jenkins): https://github.com/drone/drone

Then, you can throw in some additional tools, for example, for code analysis you could use SonarQube ( https://github.com/SonarSource ) and for security scanning of infrastructure you could look at OpenVAS ( https://github.com/greenbone ).

Oh, and on the organizational side something like Rocket.Chat ( https://github.com/RocketChat ) or Mattermost ( https://github.com/mattermost ) for communication and perhaps OpenProject ( https://github.com/opf/openproject ) for project management.

And there you have it! An open source based workflow that allows you to do most of the stuff that GitHub would let you! Of course, concessions might need to be made depending on what your definition of "open" is and whether you're okay with certain features being restricted to paid tiers in some software; if you do have a problem with that, there's also the possibility of looking at some libre alternatives, though that might lead to the occasional half-dead piece of software that doesn't really have financial incentives for maintenance anymore on anyone's part.

That said, i believe that few choose this approach, because it's somewhat complicated to run all of that and all of the sudden you become responsible for your own SLAs, which many don't want. It's often the same reason why people just provision VPSes from AWS, instead of running their own servers in a server room. I think the amount of links to GitHub for open source above speaks volumes about the state of the industry.

I don't think that there's an easy answer to the implications of this, maybe people should just familiarize themselves with the concept of "Service as a Software Substitute", so that they're at least aware of the trade-offs that their choices have: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
There are marker posts in meters along the side of our motorways too!
There are really simple ways to play dirty with APIs like making sure that they are incomplete in subtle and inconvenient ways like leaving out some of the metadata. Hypothetical example: make it impossible to query tags on issues. You'd still be able to do most things through the API, but if you have a workflow that's heavily dependent on tags, the data is effectively siloed.
I've successfully used everything from apple pay (note 2FA required) to different credit cards to debit cards to even paypal and weird things like gift cards and add funds. What payment method does apple not support when buying things? Maybe ACH / Wire? Is that realistic for apps?
Finally, the boss has arrived and told us what everyone should do.
> UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.

The US at least tried to use the metric system.
The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago – OS/2 Museum
Why complain? I don't see a lot of comments on HN when the article is from Europe or someone else with the metric system. If you're reading something based in the US expect they will use Imperial measurements.
It seems no one read the article:

> The intrigue: There are some questions about the validity of the temperature reading, however. Randy Cerveny, the World Meteorological Organization's rapporteur for weather records, told the Associated Press the reading is “suspicious, so we’re not going to make any immediate determination.”

> “It doesn’t sound terribly plausible,” Cerveny said. “But we’re not going to dismiss it.”
You bought your first house at the absolute bottom of the real estate market following a global crash, sold it at a profit, and bought another house during what continues to be a rapidly appreciating market.

Would a 24 year old today in the same financial position you were in at 24 be able to afford that same first house?

You applying this personal anecdote as some kind of geometric proof that living outside a major city is a pathway to simple financial independence is to me a bold-print example of how the very same people who had to fight their way up the ladder of success will promptly become oblivious to the fact that the rungs are becoming further and further apart every year, advising those behind them that "climbing it isn't that difficult, just try as hard as I did."
> Yes, OK, everyone, Fahrenheit, we get it, metric system, cut the smugness, Axios is a US-centric publication, discuss the issues.

The Celcius reading is in the first sentence. Any gripes about this are on the headline alone.
I interpreted the remainder of the sentence that you quoted from as acknowledging that the restriction applies to the App Store, and contrasting this with other possible distribution methods (presumably web sites or web apps with their own online payment forms).