skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rural America Is Gearing Up for a Generation of Change
They squat because houses are nicer and more spacious to live in, not for lack of any place to stay. On top of extortion.
> there exists a collective responsibility to make individual adaptations to combat climate change.

Individual adaptations do not matter unless they are undertaken collectively. My personal lifestyle changes don’t impact the state of CO2 emissions in any significant way.
Leading by example AND talking about it has more impact, but still negligible unless/until enough people do it.

Changing incentives, by making production account for the climate change externality, will shift more people into changing their lifestyle based on price alone. It’s the same reasoning behind targeting drug dealers and cartels more heavily than end-users.
Storing Stripe payment data in the database
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1430864664313794560

> Of note, far preferable to get vax rather than natural infection as shown by this adverse event study of infection vs vax but if infected in past, higher rates of adverse events with vax. Recommend 1 dose after infection
Get some help. You'll be heard and possibly understood. You'll realize you're not alone which helps to feel a bit less bad about it. You'll learn to live with the situation (because, in my case, that's the only way out). You'll sure change a little bit too, just like I am changing. You'll make bad choices again too, it happens.

Adaptation is our better weapon, but it takes an awful lot of time... But get some help 'cos, well, it helps. And hopefully, we'll recover at some point, in a not too distant future...
I keep waiting to see the massive exodus that keeps being announced since Windows XP.

Instead Apple and Microsoft keep getting users that the only thing they care about is some kind of POSIX support, and don't care one second about supporting Linux OEMs.

In 10 years the Linux kernel might be everywhere, the userspace will be mostly gone, fully replaced by BSD licensed alternatives or commercial products.
Planting new trees where the old ones were intentionally burned, both for real estate projects and/or the new batch of fresh pines grown for fast manufacturing.

Animals are the center of the article, but there's a reason why Chile is loosing every year more and more its resources.
I'm having the same experience as GP. I haven't changed my search style since the early 2000s, and Google search seems basically unusable for me at this point.
Off the top of my head, I could see it as reasonable to pay a 5-10% cost in energy efficiency comparing with traditional transaction systems to enable a truly decentralized model. Bitcoin is nowhere near that in terms of cost/transaction.
If I benefited just as much as the CEOs where's my 5th empty mansion on the beach?
Quick summary: The drive is 1TB with a 12 GB SLC cache that's capable of 2160 MBps write speeds. When you write more than 12GB in a short time to the drive you can run out of this cache and speeds drop to 390 MBps. The dive was previously tested as capable of 610 MBps in this scenario. (Read speeds are fast in every scenario.)
From the article

"John Binns, a 21-year-old American who moved to Turkey a few years ago"

I'm assuming it is the Turkey thing, probably counting on that to be a significant barrier. Yes they have extradition but I've also heard that Turkish authorities are quite amenable to bribes as well.
In the Cloud pricing based on On-Demand rates table, the AWS and Azure memory-optimized machines have 32 GB of RAM, but the Google Cloud machine has 961(!) GB of RAM, with a giant price tag to match.

I'm only partway through reading the blog, but this and other errors I've spotted so far make me suspect the accuracy of the blog's analysis.
These disinformation campaigns are a major obstacle to introducing the kind of reforms required to decarbonize our economy. Overcoming these obstacles largely requires shining a light on their bad behavior so the oil companies (and other industry groups) lose credibility and thus undermine their disinformation campaigns.

Perhaps to your point, there's no way out of this mess without carbon pricing, and even Democrats (who profess to believe that climate change is an existential threat) won't rally behind it even though it would free up massive amounts of money to fund their redistributive programs--choosing instead to spend large amounts of money on symbolic efforts such as a "citizens climate corps". I suspect this speaks in large part to the extent to which corporations have politicians in their pockets (certainly Joe Manchin is in the pocket of the coal industry and doesn't even pretend otherwise). Note that this isn't to say Republicans are better--by and large Republicans haven't even signed onto the idea that climate change poses an existential threat.

EDIT: everyone should write their congresspeople and urge them to support carbon pricing initiatives. Here's a dead-simple link that takes your email and your address, identifies your representatives, and gives you a form pre-populated with a canned message that will be emailed when you click "submit": https://citizensclimatelobby.org/house/
"Dorms" LMFAO

obviously never visited a barracks.
Gosh I could have sworn I remember it being amber text on a black background.
Ah, thanks for the pointer. The blog post referenced the Alpine package I maintain but was obviously implicitly referencing those Docker images.
I doubt they would want to buy a search engine that heavily relies on Bing.
So guess we're left with librem then? Ubuntu touch, plasma, mobian, etc are not useable. For my part I'll keep working on opening it up. Like my local school system, city hall, etc. All of which have lock in with private companies that hold the ip close to the chest. It's a lot if wirk, it is.
Quite a lot. Also, confirm() prompts for input from the user and returns it; can't really do that without blocking execution.
IIRC 20-30% is for the picturesque classic bullseye. A small amount of cases have no skin indication at all. And the rest get various other rashes. Maybe circley without gradient, maybe bullseye-ish square, maybe just a random redness. Itchiness may or may not be there too.

Personally I had Lyme twice. Neither was 100% bullseye. The first that I let stay for a while before realising what is going on had little bullseye-ish gradient and was a perfect circle. It took some time to develop the gradient. Next time I realised what is going on very early and all I had was a red patch. I don't know if it would have developed the pattern if I didn't take antibiotics literally the next day after little redness appeared at the tick bite location.
> I really wonder what happens to Bitcoin (or any PoW coin) when it no longer becomes economical to mine new coins. Does all the computing power just move on to the next coin?

We will find out exactly this relatively soon when Ethereum moves to Eth2 and Proof of Stake.
There are countless reddit comments that mention gleaning information from purple links, because it's useful.
Huh! It’s not every day you see your work called out in The Guardian as “insidious propaganda”!

I worked for Ogilvy and Mather in the 00s and made the Carbon footprint stuff they mention, at least one version of it. Didn’t come up with the concept or wording, but was responsible for the web implementation in the US.

AMA, I guess
> > > People act like oil companies are the ones burning oil. They’re just responding to demand.

> > No, they’re not.

> That would be more convincing if you gave a reason why you say "no, they're not". Even better would be evidence.

He did give his reasoning, you just chose not to quote it:

> > Like tobacco companies, oil companies have actively lied and lobbied to maintain demand and obstruct coordinated effort of exactly the kind you describe as necessary. They are not passive actors simply responding to demand as they find it.

And his reasoning was based on propaganda, if oil companies are just passive actors responding to demand, what's the need for such vicious amounts of lobbying and propaganda? My guess is that they're creating the need, and making sure that information and products that go against that propaganda don't become widespread.
[1] says $204B around April time, yep.

[1] https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-every...
It looks like Palantir is blaming FBI's mismanagement of ACLs as the root cause of what happened here.
>Wow, I'm more average than I suspected.

Story of my life.
I can see several of the compact models here: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris#Sony

But e.g. not XZ1c
Ahhh! Good catchup. I thought those "minimize" and "maximize" icons looked odd. Updated
Allowing for denser housing frees up homes. The pod thing is scary because of a lack of choice which is what this article argues against.
My point is, the political leadership in most of these locations wring their hands and say "oh no, it's terrible, our janitors and nurses and families with little kids can't afford to live here, it's horrible" and then implement some sort of half-assed kludge that's only effective at giving naïve folks the impression that they care.

Rent control would be one such measure. Other examples are loans with better-than-market terms for certain privileged buyers, publicly-built houses sold at lower than market rates and so on. The market reaching equilibrium for everyone and the local government saying "sorry, but screw you" to buyers is at least honest, if a little heartless from the voters who live there.

I suppose it's fair enough as long as other markets with decent job options are available elsewhere. If not, I would classify it as a failure of democracy if a significant portion of society has no better option than to pay most of their productive output towards rent. This probably varies a lot by location; San Francisco wouldn't be the first example I'd use. Maybe Oslo.
Bidenflation
>It's incredible what drive manufacturers are getting away with.

I think it's more incredible that we continue to elect governments that let them get away with it.
Agreed. All my Go apps were written this way, it was nice to use Pydantic in a similar way. Especially in K8s, where most of my config is env vars.
FBI throwing its vendor under the bus due their own incompetence.
> many links, specifically hyperlinks, are blue

What does this superset/subset relationship refer to? I thought link was just a shortened word meaning the same as hyperlink.
I don't boycott, I try to check out whenever I can. I've been running a libre stack on my desktop computer for over a decade.
Interesting topic, for sure, but the info on what colors were used by "Gopher Protocol" and "Linux Kernel" are pretty silly. Those colors would vary by what real or emulated terminal somebody was using.
That's really speculation but there are certainly reasons against it. Mostly that red-green blindness is the most common color blindness and that blue is considered a more serious color. For instance banks often choose blue as predominant color. Maybe that's also something worth considering for an experimental technology.
https://archive.ph/7bGOO article link
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data in Finance [pdf]
Spotfy.one – Privacy-aware and login-free Spotify clone
https://archive.is/k5rfX
‘No code’ process automation platform, Leapwork, fires up with $62M Series B
This facility, which is small and really still basically a prototype, scrubs 4K tons. However future facilities that are currently in the works will scrub 1M tons. That brings you to the 30,000 facilities to meet existing demand. Google tells me that there are 62,500 power plants in existence currently, so it would seem that 30,000 capture plants is entirely feasible.
When it’s really not clear if other options are any more secure then one might as well optimize for the visible features of convenience.
Asana and Twilio Listed on LTSE
I enjoy the overall user experience. They did a fantastic job with making navigation smooth.

I am a linux desktop user so allowing me to ssh to my phone is amazing. Easy to terminal into it, gives me sudo, easy to navigate.

For the Apps, this one is a little tricky, however I have managed to live with a few things such as open street maps over google maps. However, I can still use google maps just in browser. It is not ideal but it is not that bad. I am certain someone will come out with something in the future so it is a matter of waiting.

There are absolutely things that can be improved no doubt. My personal experience is that I like to look at things in a more positive light of, what can I do rather than what can it not do. I got to the point of how I do not like Apple's and Google's practices, that you are basically locked into their environments and malicious practices.

I own the phone and what is on it. That means a lot to me. Sailfish helps a lot with that. There are always naysayers, but they also are the same people that are too critical of things.

Finding an old oneplus one or any community supported phone for cheap is not too bad. I ended up getting an XA2 and that worked out the best for me. I find that my phone performs quite well even though it is "older" compared to the latest flagships. I am not too caring about a 64 megapixel photo or image blending etc. I can do that on my normal box.
Canva. It makes me feel like a designer and I finish nice stuff with it. Compare this with Adobe products which are slow, bloated and do very little to help me get something designed.
Does anyone know if this is more appropriate than the PlutoSDR for hobbyists? Seems like they have similar specs and are around the same price.
If one of the biggest upsides to crypto is that it can be used as an end-run around authoritarian regimes, then a policy proposal that doesn't hurt this while curtailing some of the bigger downsides gets some points in its favor.
Even worse that Kelly wrote it. Have you even read the statistics that majority of AI experts believe it is possible? Are you an AI expert? Shouldn't we listen to the scientists on the subject instead of doing our own research like in Covid? The question was rhetorical. Yes we should listen to the scientists and not dismiss what they say is a probable scenario that could lead to annihilation. I also suggest to you and anyone that hasn't read the book "Superintelligence" to read it because the arguments there are solid.
It's not unlike a Rubiks Cube!
Postgres Extensions in Rust
Google has killed Discord's best music bot
Doublethink [1] also facilitates control. I expect this comment to be controversial, but I will express it nonetheless.

Unsurprisingly, doublethink is very prevalent in online discussion boards, I have observed it in both progressive and conservative spaces.

> Doublethink is a process of indoctrination whereby the subject is expected to simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in contravention to one's own memories or sense of reality.[1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy.

An example of this within conservative spaces is demanding freedom, but supporting fascism, such as the instance where the datascientist that reported covid cases from Florida was swatted by the police and had her computers and hardware confiscated.

An example of this within progressive spaces is demanding equality across genders, but at the same time screeching about saving women and children from Afghanistan and sending men to die like pigs to the slaughterhouse. Or, supporting women's education and equality while supporting anachronistic systems found within religions that facilitate subjugation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
>Is this what Mozilla employees are being paid to do these days?

That would explain whatever happened to Firefox.

Shameless plug: If anyone is looking to get rid of Chrome but don't like Firefox for any reason, try Brave, it is a great browser, really.
Just pointing out that you don't need to use Kubernetes to avail of spot/preemptible savings. Our regions are configured to have a Load Balancer serve several Instance Groups, one of which is preemptibles
I tried out TikTok for a few nights. It very, very quickly got repetitive. I think the short-form content sphere can only fit so much of an arc in what little time it has. And getting people to sit through it requires being a bit click-baity. And everything was obviously staged, and a lot of times it seemed like...

Okay, so when I was a kid, we made stupid videos too. But we never expected anyone to watch them. And they were often 5-10 minutes long in the end.

On TikTok you can tell that the priority of being filmed is to be seen. They aren't just having fun. It's like TV, and weirds me out.
I really looked into that quite deeply. Biontech got so much money for funding the trials that they apparently had too much and put it in reserve for 2022. The public invested billions into building production capacity.

I'd be glad to see what Pfizer actually invested that wasn't backed by prepurchases.
Or just use the dynamic instance size. there is no need to pay for preconfigured instance in GCP.

and this is from the so-called cloud experts
Why San Francisco's city government is so dysfunctional
But you don't have push to talk, which is the killer feature for gamers. Proper push to talk will capture key presses even when the app doesn't have focus, the key difference with most other implementations.

And having that feature exposed to the web is a security nightmare. Unless you have a native app for your service, it's unlikely to ever have that functionality.
Asana and Twilio Launch on the Long-Term Stock Exchange
Not "G-Philez"?
Google tells me that the world has 62,500 power plants, so 30,000 capture plants seems entirely feasible.
"Hey, Google, what can I use to replace white bean paste?"
"Hoisin sauce is a great replacement for white bean sauce!"

"Hey, Google, things have gone weird in macOS 12, how fix?"
"MACOS 4 was RELEASEd in 1912 AWKWARDLy with A spanner"

I get that search is a hard problem but they are spectacularly bad at it for being the best.
Ah yes! My understanding is older Macs are easier. The newer T2-enabled Macs make it hard. For example wi-fi, keyboards, and trackpad don't work out of the box, lots of configuration is needed, and some things (ie microphone) simply don't work at all.
BNPL Is Here to Stay
There is also the lingering effects of the eternal September, with fresh and impressionable new blood being constantly poured into the online communities. It's much easier to radicalize a 13 year old than a 30 year old.

Not that it's impossible to radicalize a 30 year old, just that the less experience you've had in life the more mentally malleable you are.
>Let's imagine an alternate history where oil companies hadn't fought against climate change science. What does that alternate universe look like?

It has a carbon tax. As to what else happens, the whole point of using a carbon tax rather than some kind of targeted reforms (bike lanes, vegetarianism, solar panels) is because allowing different solutions to compete in the market has been shown throughout history to be more effective in the majority of cases than top-down economic planning. The reason a carbon tax is the best solution is because we don't know exactly what it does. It leaves our options open.

Now, granted, there are a bunch of possible problems with the implementation of a carbon tax. But we rarely get to the point of in-depth discussions about how to implement a carbon tax. Instead, we're held up at the starting gate by pseudoscience, fearmongering, and the fantasy of individual action.
Rollups on Streaming Data: Rockset vs. Apache Druid
Big Circus Model
I could've listed barracks too, but there are also dorms. Maybe that's mostly USAF and officers in the other services though?
> Is this what Mozilla employees are being paid to do these days?

Mozilla amazes me with their org-bloat-to-products-they-sell-for-money ratio. They have programming language teams, research bloggers, occasional splashy products, an in-house bug tracker, and oh yeah, they make a web browser.

I don't know how they do it, but it seems to be working out for them. If I was the CEO of a company that only had one customer, I would probably not be hiring software engineers to write a programming language that's not even used for the core product. But, I guess that's why nobody ever asks me to be the CEO of a company!
Have you, or someone you know, ever alternated between having a high-compensation low-free-time (eg high paid tech job), and low/no-compensation high-free-time (ie funemployment) ? They're two completely different operating modes. In the first mode, every minute of time is valuable so you pay more for convenience (eg restaurant food, same-day shipping), and when you're not working you're willing to spend a lot of money to "relax harder". You also tend to buy new gadgets for the dopamine release and hope of doing something with them, and then never quite get around to actually using them. In the second mode, you're willing to spend more time to get routine things done, engage in hobbies that take patience, cook your own meals, and generally try to keep your burn rate lower. The financial treadmill pushes people towards the first mode, as one's burn rate always includes housing rent that demands a significant base level of income.
That's correct, though getting those is possible, and something of a fun project. I've found the stuff 60dbmco ( https://www.ebay.com/sch/60dbmco/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=... ) makes to be useful for this .

You're probably not saving any money this way, but you do learn a lot.
I use marshmallow-dataclass in an API client lib I've been continuously working on for a while for work.

It's great stuff, but I'm always looking for alternatives.
I work on an upcoming free to play game, we will have microtransactions on cosmetics and possibly new character archetypes.

Microtransactions are not in the early builds of the game because we literally hadn't made the content for it yet, we were focusing on the game mechanics.

The store is a lot of work in a game, and the cosmetics themselves are mostly content work which is not hyper critical to have in place (unlike, say, matchmaking or gun mechanics).

I'm not saying it hasn't been done nefariously; just that: The game I'm making doesn't have microtransactions yet because we worked on other stuff.

But we're not lying about them being there, they have to be there otherwise we'll go bankrupt paying the server costs and failing to recoup R&D costs.
Not my proudest work, but this was pre-Deepwater and BP was honestly putting a lot of new money towards green and renewable projects. At the time, it felt like a step in the right direction.
Thanks for the compliment!

Yes! You can copy & paste values in bulk and then sync back to Jira. So you could copy the "Blocked" status from one cell and drag it down to the others.

In the interest of trust and transparency, those changes don't get synced out to Jira right away. There's a Sync button you can press to apply those changes all at once.

Cells with pending changes have a little indicator on them. And you can always go back and revert your local (uncommitted) changes.