skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, I know, this is more art than a serious social medium (if social media can be serious): but I don't think the concept is as clever as it tries to seem. A project like this, even as an objet d'art, ought to inspire someone to interact with it, to poke at it and see what happens — but would anyone really bother? The limitations would make you think carefully about what you share with the community, but that caution works against building any sort of community, even an ephemeral one. It's just not attractive or engaging, like a painting you'd see in a gallery and walk past after a glance.
“For every tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, the global economy would be $3,000 worse off by the end of the century, they estimated.”

Going after aviation again. Do these types of articles market well?

Hopefully, someday someone will start looking at the climate change problem intelligently.

the world still generates 80% of its electricity with fossil fuels.

The thousands of coal power plants in particular are extremely bad.

Doing this for decades is the real problem.
For a slightly more technical and less marketing-heavy description of polkadot:

https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-launch
But, how are you qualified to make that determination (as in whether a person is decent enough to work with)? Isn't it likely that you either get a skewed impression of this from an interview or that you are biased yourself? The person you reject for lacking decency could be your interviewer in another situation, and reject you for the same reason.

* not trying to imply that there is no objective way to define/measure decency
The gross non storage solution is to just run the existing natural gas fired peaking plants we have already.
That quote implies that the subject is providing some value to users that makes it worth staying on the network. Do you believe Ethereum, Bitcoin, or other networks are providing value to people?

If you believe there is value, you must simply disagree with the implementation, degree of centralization, principles, etc. I'm curious which project you think has the best qualities.

If not, you should have no qualms with leaving the network.
What's the punishment for this kind of sales fraud? Is it even possible to detect that the SMART counters have been reset?
Does all the energy to run a wind turbine come from the energy produced by that turbine's blades?

I'd expect several components of a wind turbine to require power. Its electronic components may need power for cooling or heating depending on the season. The motors that change the blade pitch need power.

Some of these things need to work when the blades are stopped. One way to do that would be to power them from the grid instead of from the turbine.

If those things are grid powered, then a wind turbine might actually very very very slightly raise local atmospheric temperature.

Anyone here happen to know if they actually do power anything in the turbine from the grid, or if they do something else like power such things from batteries that get recharged by the turbine when it is generating power?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28433601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28433131
90% of people on earth also aren't programmers of any kind
In the present case, ProtonMail was compelled to backdoor its system to log an IP it did not log previously, so it's arguably closer to the former situation you presented.
That does not work for me. The owner can just pay himself a $1.5 million salary that erases any profits, just like the movie industry is so adept at doing. They can also start other companies, and buy stuff from the other corporations in order to suck out any profits. Or maybe suck out enough so that have the smallest profit to share, and then take the money out from the other paper corporation and give themselves that money through that corporation instead. This is pretty basic business stuff. Apple Corporation, for instance, takes all of their profits and puts it into Braeburn Capital in Reno, Nevada, in order to avoid California franchise taxes, and other states as well, which has over the years, been billions and billions that would have gone to those states. California has 8 or 10% business taxes for example. Nevada has no business taxes. I think Braeburn has $150+ billion in it, or something like that. Then, of course, it can take that money and shove it out to countries with no taxes at all, so they pay no federal taxes at all, though techniques like the "double-Irish with the Dutch sandwich", which is an actual name of a scheme that corporations use. IP tax avoidance is another example - you sell all you IP (intellectual property) rights to a coporation set up in the Cayman Islands. The corporation in the USA or other countries then have to pay for the IP rights to sell those products, so they pay out to a legitimate company in the Caymans all their profits.

This is why there is a push for a global tax.

Anyways, the point is that there are a ton of ways to reduce or eliminate profits. If I was a business owner making $4 million profits, I'd reduce the profits so that each employee made an extra $1,000 to 50 employees for $50,000, they won't be squawking and bitching and are happy, or a little bit better, about the piddling amount.
Agile, or at least in the organisations I’ve worked at, seems to be detached form any sense of reality and practiced as a sort of religious dogma - according to the Agile coaches, all our problems are caused by the fact we’re just not Agiling hard enough. We just need to expunge our minds of all impure waterfall thinking and reach the next level of Agile holiness and all our troubles will disappear.

There’s also a big push for Lean UX - basically the UX design process squeezed into the dev team’s schedule. Sounds great, but never works well. It’s like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle a piece at a time without being able to see the picture on the box.
perhaps some people cannot learn algebra / calculus the way it is traditionally taught in the classroom. perhaps the students who are failing just need a different environment, more time, more patience, different resources?
Wouldn’t be not parsing incoming media unless it’s for someone from contact is a first step that can reduce largely the thread ?

So it will stay the same for people in your contact list but a new touch to load for message from unknown person
"I made a tool to remove a library"

"Would you like to integrate that tool into my library?"
Thanks for replying, skohan! Since this item has moved far off the front page, I'm guessing that just about nobody else will be seeing whatever else we write here. If you wish, you can email me at gwkangas@ku.edu .

Descartes described the clearest identifying property of SE: it's absolutely certain to exist. Since absolute certainty lies outside the scope of science: science can't define what SE is, it can only describe what SE does.

Science doesn't rule out the philosophical hypothesis known as "illusionism" (advocated by Keith Frankish), that SE is a delusion.

If you, skohan, have SE and have correctly identified it: its nonexistence will be inconceivable to you. Are you there yet?
This seems backwards to me. You can still run modern Android versions on old phones like the OnePlus One thanks to LineageOS. There is no custom ROM scene for iOS devices.
Hasnt the popularity of Signal been the result of their system literally not able to record IPs?
> Just signalling," seriously?

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_(telecommunications)

> Apple and the carrier are also "other people."

Don’t be silly.

> Whose phone is it anyway?

Whoever bought the phone.

> Any action taken by a device one controls should be made transparent and auditable by the device's owner.

Ok, this is a moral and ideological position in favor of all designs of all silicon, all circuitry, and and all software being entirely open source.

It’s valid to argue that we should live in such a world, but it’s not an argument that Apple using SMS for signaling is equivalent to malware. Sorry.

> They are meant to be tools,

They are tools.

> not undomesticated semi-wild animals with a will and mind of their own.

Weird analogy to use to describe signaling traffic.
I also think it's broken in the way you describe, but also find it amazing that it can remain broken for so long given the costs associated with it.
"yet to meet anyone that can talk at a high technical level for 45 minutes about any subject, without actually knowing something about that subject."

You're not getting the point.

There are plenty of people with years of developer experience who can talk about things for 45 minutes, quite thoughtfully - and are still terrible developers.

Talking about music is not making music.

Nobody has the ability to judge the quality of a developer after only 10 minutes of talking to them about Typescript.

Knowing some arcane things about Typescript is not a measure of problem solving or coding ability.

"I'm not sure what else the practical code test tells me, "

It tells you something more important than how much they've read up about Typescript.

Typescript is simple / accessible enough, that I wouldn't even care if someone was familiar with it. I wouldn't even make it a requirement for the job even it was a TS focused job.

I would take a 'great all around dev.' any day over someone I knew to be very knowledgeable about TS but otherwise big question marks about their development ability.

Of course, the same holds true for memorizing algorithms - it's a nice signal that someone can do some fancy B-Tree stuff off the top of their head, but not really what you are looking for so interviews shouldn't be focused on that.

Typescript and most of it's best practices (most of the odd corners of TS are not important), can be taught very quickly to any decent dev.
This article is very vague. I get the feeling it doesn’t link to the underlying source research on purpose. This $3000 is the predicted cost over the remainder of the century, which means the present day value of the claimed impact is a lot lower. I also wonder if they accounted for the economic and social benefits of the flight to keep things balanced. And do they compound the benefits into the future as well, to perform an even accounting of 2100 costs versus benefits? I’m guessing not.
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If you want everyone to pass, lower the standards. The end result will be that certificates from schools without high standards will be worth less in the eyes of employers (while still costing the same to the student). As they progress through such a system, some students will be placed in advance of their abilities and fail out at a higher rate than they might otherwise when they reach an institution with non-negotiable standards, like the hard sciences, demoralizing those who might otherwise have found their place of achievement, self-respect, and independence. Or, even those institutions will cave to such pressures and simply "mark 'em up, ship 'em on", as you have described. Caveat emptor.
Rust or Swift. I am not a security expert, but I'd bet that re-writing in either would reduce the amount of such embarrassing exploits at least 10x.

From what I can tell, the combination of unsafe-by-default languages like C/C++/Obj-C and the way the human brain works is Not-A-Good-Combination© . Too many opportunities for error.
You're confusing multiple phenomena.

The way you traditionally turn an airplane is aerodynamically efficient, because there is no sideslip and the wing does all the heavy work of additional lift. If you just used your rudder to turn, while keeping the wings level, it would lead to a few issues. But yes, you can do this in an aerobatic plane. Usually you also have to use the ailerons to keep the wings level. Like said, this is sideslipping and is used to reduce speed in light planes.

However that doesn't solve the cloud problem. Since the plane that can sideslip plane can also do coordinated turns where the force vector points to the floor, if you're in a cloud and the plane starts making a coordinated turn, you have no way of knowing. That the plane is able to make sideslips (with a lot of active steering) like in your video, doesn't help you.

Here's a nice video showing a barrel roll in a multi engine plane with the a glass of iced tea on the dashboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2-9BL7sllk

The pendulum mentioned works like a gyro - it is a dynamic system. This was explained in the article. It's the case precisely where a level does not work. Your inner ear doesn't work either. And this was discovered after a lot of people died and some survived near death. This is counterintuitive and was the whole point of the article.
s/arm's/arms/. Autocorrect
Correct. I am one of the seemingly handful of people who actually tries to use cryptocurrencies as currencies (and have been doing so since getting involved as an early adopter).

I can assure you that that has become more and more difficult and risky over the years thanks to speculative vultures and the dynamics described in the gist. If anything, this should tell you that I'm not some armchair complainer who doesn't understand how it works.

I'm also not sure why you seem to be implying some sort of conflict of interest here, since I am arguing against it.
It is productive in the following ways:
- you don't need anyone's premission to use it (yes, there are downsides)
- you cand lend it out or take a loan much like a bank, but without borders
- you can program it and also not fear your program being meddled with. Most banks don't even have an API to use it for a private person.
- it can be deterministically scarce, so you wont be losing it if you hold it (or you can, if others lose faith. With national currencies they can simply take your money without you having a say by printing more)
Can you access your e-mail if you lose your phone, forget your password, get a new SIM card, and successfully go through account recovery?

There is your answer.
On prem is gone and with this so is my faith in their slow cloud solution.
Given how zoning and urban design tend to have been done in US cities -- that is, very badly -- I'm not opposed to this. It even sounds intriguing, but I have a hard time personally finding a city in a desert to be attractive, even if the urban design is great.
Do you really need to know Algebra II to understand exponential growth? Couldn't you just get by with multiplication and seeing a pattern and learning the FV function in excel?
Any historical cases of poor sport lawsuits in these situations?
haha thanks for explaining. I'm personally not in favor of drug criminalization, i was referring to the fact that by law that is considered a criminal conspiracy.

but also i'm not exactly super fan of defending Silk Road, since there was some "hitman hiring" scheme involved at some point in the operation
In 2031, fully self driving cars will be just as imminent as they are now :-)
> He obviously did not understand what his job as a manager is about.

> Why on earth would a manager be allowed to set tolerances like how you describe, tool or no tool?

He's not the expert in the field, I am. Normally, I would have vetted the work orders and fixed it before hand. This is similar to managers in the software world, where the team lead or senior engineer would say," No, we won't do that, it's a bad idea". He never should have been exposed to an option that could screw everything up so badly, but I mistakenly left it on the form. He was just trying to fix what he perceived as a potential problem. He was used to making small changes to work orders to save money or get a more refined product.

The biggest problem with our company's structure is that the operators, for whatever BS org reason, don't have the "pay grade" to tell him to pound sand. Managers need to sit below engineers, in my opinion.

> you must be measured like crazy - set goals based on metrics that will push things in a direction you see effective.

In my sector of manufacturing, margins are king (regardless of locale). If you can cut 10 seconds from an operation, or find a tool that lasts 20% longer, you can save tens of thousands of dollars a year, so we track everything.
There was a social network "this" some years back, the idea being that you could make just one post a day. I enjoyed it a bit, and IIRC it didn't do too terribly.

Predictably, it's now gone.
Unless you're going to be a Professional Engineer or some other licensed individual, or you're getting a free ride, college isn't worth it any more.

Going deep into debt for a credential that doesn't have a reasonably large future value is a huge mistake many are pushed into making.
“The more beautiful the brochure, the more careful you should be.”

Common saying amongst Dutch investors.
We use Hetzner for compute intense services. I think last time we checked a similar configuration was 10x more expensive on AWS (which we still use for other services)
Right, that's a good thing. Otherwise you get the chimera monster Binance who actively trades against its customers via its insurance fund. There is no world in which they're not trading against their customers to liquidate their positions. You also have flashbots on DeFi platforms - is that still a thing?
Well, I just checked and I got the badge! Go me! I wonder which of the tens of open source libraries I've written was actually used by NASA!

Oh, the badge tells, you... Hmm, let's see, it says "attrs". That's not mine, I must have submitted a PR at some point, let me find it.

Ah, right. I changed "serious business aliases" to "serious-business aliases" in the README.

You guys are all welcome.
Following Biden's inauguration, we've seen a sudden outpouring of mainstream coverage sympathetically highlighting alternatives to woke ideology. Seems to be a lot easier for them to publish it when a Republican isn't President.

(I'm definitely not a Republican and I consider the development very positive, but it's been hard not to notice the timing.)
Oxford human trial for combo cancer vaccine and immunotherapy
I wonder how much of the difficulty is due to large class size. If the student to teacher ratio were smaller, would teachers be better able to tailor instruction to struggling students?
> Even on 100% carbon-free electricity, when you run a 500-watt mining unit, it's still kicking out 499.99 watts worth of heat into the air.

To use a simplistic thought experiment, imagine that all the world's electricity production today came from photovoltaic solar. Would the world be hotter or cooler due to the electricity production?

Obviously the electricity usage doesn't cause more solar energy to reach the Earth from the Sun (unless we start using energy-beaming satellites), and any processes on Earth can't turn a Joule of solar energy into more than a Joule of heat, so the heat balance stays the same.

Except, of course, that by not burning fossil fuels (which are stored reserves of solar energy), we would actually reduce the amount of heat released on Earth, causing a slight cooling effect.
(Extremely) long distance transmission lines are theoretically useful because nighttime for you is daytime 12 timezones away; and even in the same time zone, winter for you is summer on the other side of the equator.

I don’t know what the cost of the stuff is, nor the geopolitics, but the losses are low enough (3.5%/1000km [0]) to at least be worth asking that sort of question — if the answer is “that’s fine”, you only need to store energy for non-static use, like phones and cars.

Batteries may or may not be a viable solution. On the “it’s fine” side, if you can electrify every car, then you are close to the production level needed to get enough batteries even for a no-intercontinental-transmission-winter scenario (83 kWh is a large Model 3, that per American household is fine for summer but marginal for winter). On the “perhaps not” side, there is no guarantee that the impressive current growth of batteries will last long enough to get us there.

Synthetic gas and smarter energy consumption: I know far too little to comment.

[0] https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J... page 11
Don't get me wrong there's a lot of room for speed in programs we use regularly, but I make two observations:

1. Speed is usually found by by people have worked on
existing tools in the space, and they don't often make
that much of a song and dance about it beyond that
theirs is faster.

2. Speed is found in the minds of people not in their
tools. When you get past a certain amount of native-
ness, you get optimizations by knowing more or having
a brilliant insight into the problem rather than using
a new meme-language. It might be necessary for certain
types of programming but it's not sufficient.

Basically I don't like weird meme based marketing of tech. I'm a grumpy old man already and I'm the ripe old age of 20
I bought an SSD on eBay recently that massively underperformed my expectations.

But I have no real proof to send it back for a refund. Instead I'll just have to suffer with super slow writes.
Right?! I’m as surprised as you are.
Surveillance Fiction
Programming with Effect Handlers and FBIP in Koka
I like to feel the same way as your colleagues about "everyone can learn to code".

I can definitely say that there are many people for whom it is a struggle - even those on college courses.

But a hundred years ago we could easily have the same conversation about simply reading and writing - they (the poor, women, or "lower class" ) luke not be taught to read. But it turns out that if you start young enough, and put enough effort in, 99% of everyone can learn

So, perhaps society is not putting enough effort in, or asking enough effort from, our kids for them all to learn calculus.

As the Agile Manifesto says, the work delivered represents the effort input so far. If society wants all children to learn calculus, we need to pay that price.

Edit: I think that we do need a new conversation about education. We have My father left full time education at 14, at 18 most of my peers left school and only 25% of us went to college. Today it's 50% it the total spend has not gone up in line.

I honestly don't know what kind of world the "universal education" advocates of the 1870s were imagining - but I am damn sure it was not people doing college courses on their iPhones, but it is the world they ushered in.

We need to double down on what worked for the 20th Century (and avoid the, y'know wars and genocide and stuff).

Education will lay at the heart of that.
Could you link to an article about this? I couldn’t find anything substantial.

Context: Recently there was some controversy about Oregon graduation requirements [0] and social media represented the issue much differently than primary/secondary sources.

0: https://apnews.com/article/health-oregon-education-coronavir...
> But the arbitrary, "nice, round number" limit just feels existentially dreadful at best, and like a headline-generating schtick at worst.

From TFA:

> Minus was created by Ben Grosser and commissioned by arebyte Gallery (London, UK) as part of the solo exhibition Software for Less [https://www.arebyte.com/software-for-less].

It's an art project. Headline-generating schticks and existential dread are to be expected.
"I am a millionaire - 5%

I am an educated in the field of Computer Science, the field known for startups. The only disadvantage I have here is laziness."

I have reason to believe that my IQ is greater than 140, and my area of expertise is software development. I am also a World Class procrastinator. My net worth now (after retiring) is about $million, but at least 2/3 of that is due to my wife, who is exceptionally disciplined.

I think laziness reduces your chance of becoming a millionaire in 10 years significantly.
Or more likely that people are different and not everything is environment.
One would wish there was some burnable fuses there that would note this or general wear level...