skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest emission reduction would be if every person committed suicide today, so you can always reduce emissions more with more radical plans until you get to that point.

Using nuclear power and wind with electric vehicles gets you pretty low environmental pollution for society's personal transportation needs. I think it would be easier to green the electric grid than to make everyone in America use mass transit and rebuild our cities.

Model 3 bodies are designed for a million mile lifespan and the batteries for around 300-500 thousand miles. 125,000km (~80,000 miles) is no where near its expected lifespan. The batteries are warranted to 120,000 miles. We'll see how they actually wear out, but I believe Elon Musk actually wants to help humans impact the environment less while still improving the human condition. Building cars to last instead of planned obsolescence would be in alignment with that goal.

People should really move to where they don't need heating if they want to reduce their carbon footprint. That would do more than any mass transit scheme.
Those plans would not have worked, though. They were for programs that assumed tokamaks worked better than they actually do. And by the 1980s it was realized (Lidsky; Pfirsch and Schmitter) that heat transfer limits would make any tokamak power plant unattractive.
A 1" door undercut is only about equivalent to a 6" duct in cross section and that size should max out at 120 ft^3/min with well installed duct. If you have more supply then there will be airflow issues in that room/house.
Reddit might be the easiest short once they go public.
Rent is a valid part of inflation but house prices are not. Real estate is an investment, not an expense. It doesn't factor into inflation for the same reason that stocks aren't a factor. Instead for homeowners the BLS calculates owner's equivalent rent.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEHC
Like you, and for the same reasons, I recently bought an Awair. At the risk of a derail, one thing I have been thinking about ever since: when I played D&D as a kid, they said the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom was, "Intelligence is knowing that it's raining, Wisdom is knowing to go inside." How much of these things are adding to our intelligence without adding to our wisdom? I am now constantly aware of particulates and everything else it cares to send me alerts about (which I will soon shut off) but how much better off am I once I established my air quality is basically Very Good.

The problem with all this "intelligence" is the Internet is very good at showing you search results for what you want to see, so Googling "Should I be worried about fine particulates" is a search destined to turn your anxiety into a full-blown panic attack.

No idea what the answer is, and I am impressed with the level of effort that went into the Awair app, but it would be nice to have more reasonable context in all IoT devices. Yeah, I know.
Adding to the other commenters, I find hacker news similar in form to Reddit. Anonymous-ish aggregators without personal relationships. But it can still be toxic like social media. I didn’t quit social media because I was seeing my friends do cool things. I quit it because it was addictive and because it is stressful to read too many comments and opinions about politics. Those toxic aspects are also present in Reddit and HN, even if they aren’t social media sites per se. HN is a bit better because it’s not deliberately addictive like others, but it’s still extremely easy for HN to be one of the feeds you scroll through addictively in your free time.
We replaced Docker hub with ghcr + buildah action and we won't ever look back! We are just waiting for more compose support which seems that will happen shortly anyway.

Thanks redhat!
That might be true. But the comparison is not with another programmer. Rather, it's with the essentially instantaneous understanding that a compiler/interpreter has when you feed in a programming language.
Can you save them up and really have a go on the weekend or is it “use it or lose it”? I feel like six is pretty reasonable, especially for the sheilas. Especially the bigger fosters cans.
Same understanding. Is there any credible report about this? It seems like a nation-level scanadal. Singlehandedly may have created a trillion dollar market cap for Tesla.
We’ve archived a few repos in the last couple months because of this. A we’ll also look at the contributor changes you suggested.
Datasette Desktop–a macOS desktop application for Datasette
No need for that, just shit on the sidewalk like the rest.
I'm certainly eager to see official SQLite support as well. In the mean time, the overlap between postgres and SQLite syntax is enough that a lot of my "postgres" definitions in sqlc work just fine in SQLite. The recent addition of "RETURNING" (https://www.sqlite.org/lang_returning.html) to SQLite was a big help since that was a standard part of sql used for postgres with sqlc if you wanted the last insert ID.
> In a working system you stop because someone needs something who provides a valuable service to society. And, we are all part of what makes that system work. That said, the USA does not seem to be there yet.

Personally speaking, I don't think the American ideology will ever lend itself to this idea. Our country was born out of revolution and inherent distrust for government. What you're describing seems to align itself more to a world where citizens have a cooperative relationship with government. Both attitudes have ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, and potential vulnerabilities in my mind.
Thanks. Looking into it [0], the QR code I'm testing uses the "up to 7% damage" error correction level L, which makes sense since there's already a lot of data being packed in the (vax proof) code.

... I still want to find a debugging/verbose QR decoder :-)

[0] https://blog.qrstuff.com/2011/12/14/qr-code-error-correction
I wonder how this all works out long term for Tesla. From a first principles standpoint, they don't really have much. The Nissan Leaf is a workhorse. But Tesla is killing it these days.
Yeah, it's an unfortunate, "This is why we can't have nice things," situation. I would really love the idea of having public restrooms both for convenience for anyone who is out and about, and to allow homeless people to have some amount of dignity about being able to relieve themselves.

But you're right, it invariably gets taken over and becomes disgusting. And all the solutions I can think of are quite dystopian, like having a video camera that watches you in the bathroom so it can detect any kind of foul play.
If I were given a 15% chance of survival (at best) where the most I could hope for was having a poor quality of life, I wouldn't be interested either. Even it at 2:1 it'd be a tough decision for me.
1. Die on a stupid hill.

2. Complain about it publicly

…

3. Get clicks
Last time I job hunted right before covid, this was a thing back then too. All the usual suspects (faangs & hot pre-ipos) said no and could only offer me Canada/UK and a transfer on L1 after a year (meaning I get stuck and underpaid with the companies for years). Today's H1B process is too much for most companies: 1-1.5 year wait time with <30% chance you'd get picked up in the lottery. So for now most are only open to sponsoring people already in the US and able to work somehow. Things might change when/if wage levels rules get implemented for H1B.

A couple firms hinted they could pull me through O1/EB2/3 but it seems like i didn't clear the interviews and in the meantime landed a US-sized offer in UK - London's finance can pay competitively if they want you.

For Google specifically you may want to consider their Zurich office - they pay on par with US and no visa needed for EU citizens. In a year you can transfer to US.
As a doctor, he'd understand more than most what a "poor quality of life" means.
Allow me clarify, I think people in general consume more calories than they did in the past. They are just 'wasting' less food.

Most people when buying food budget money, not calories. So if food producers shave off a few ounces over time you won't notice because you already buy a surplus of food to begin with. The surplus just shrinks ever so slightly on the consumers end. That unused 2 ounces at the bottom of the mayo jar is now 1. That pack of fruit snacks has 1 less in the pouch, etc.

It usually takes a dramatic sudden change for most consumers to notice "shrinkflation".

I have noticed that when somebody says "so you are saying/suggesting X," X was never actually said/suggested. A frustrating thing to encounter in a discussion. Sorry if I was unclear.
Sounds like a masterful work from you. Planning on open-sourcing your extensions?
You are absolutely right that building a performant rich-text-editor for large document is indeed a very difficult problem. Mixing real-time collaboration put further challenges on api design and server processing. It's a whole different level of engineering challenges compare to building a performant CRUD web app...

I am wondering how your team does note taking in Linear - are you guys create one issue for each document? It doesn't support collaborative editing, right?
Why? Time estimation is hard and you’re a pretty bad PM of a scientific missions primary goal is to launch by a date. You keep working until you are confident you can do it right.

Failures happen when delivery dates are more important than quality.
Yep! At these fields, the effects of shaking your head around an MRI machine are:

- Dizziness/vertigo/headache: AC: typical thresholds is 2T/s for 1 s. DC mechanism: differential susceptibility of vestibular structures (46 T2/m  perceived 1% g)

- Acidic/metallic taste: provoked presumably by electrolytic reactions due to eddy currents in the tongue, effect felt by 15% of test subjects @3T. Threshold dB/dt2.3 T/s (e.g. shaking head @ 0.6 Hz in a 0.5 T fringe field). May be contrasted by opening the mouth.

- Magnetophosphenes: perceived flickering lights caused by electrical stimulation of the retina/optical nerve. (0.2 mV). Threshold dB/dt 2T/s for 50 mS (max. sensitivity 20 Hz)

(source in my other comment)
I am totally fine if some of my dishes need to be re-washed by hand, as long as I have to spend zero additional minutes thinking about pre-washing or how to load my dishwasher.
Oh no! Employees demanding health protections. What’s next? A raise?
Here is a meta-analysis of "every available field experiment of hiring discrimination against African Americans or Latinos".

Just a simple name change on a resume can result in discrimination. Lots of it.

"On average, white applicants receive 36% more callbacks than equally qualified African Americans (95% confidence interval of 25–47% more), based on random-effects meta-analysis of data since 1989, representing a substantial degree of direct discrimination"

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/41/10870.full

> people care deeply about being objective, in order to make better hiring decisions.

They really don't. It costs a lot of money to care deeply. Most companies optimize for rejecting too many candidates, looking for red flags as a time saver. This has been common practice for decades. They do it because there are usually a lot of applicants, and it's a cheap way to reduce the numbers quickly.

But it's even worse now. It's has been codified into job candidate filtering software. "Applicant Tracking System software is used by 75% of US employers to help filter job candidates".

"If an applicant's work history has a gap of more than six months, the resume is automatically screened out"

That's the opposite of caring deeply about being objective for who is the best candidate. You are making decisions based on very superficial information.

It does seem objective at first. Because it is objectively looking at one factor and making a yes or no decision. But that's exactly what I meant when I said at only a superficial level. You aren't objectively screening for the best candidates. Instead you are objectively screening for a signal, and not even a good signal. You need to screen humans, not signals.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/automated-hiring-software-rejects-...
> If I choose to drive 80mph in a 60mph zone, I am also going to choose not to voluntarily stop to receive a fine for it

What nonsense is that? It's only the fear that the police officer will beat you that will cause you to stop. Not that you might wake up tomorrow to a towed car, a summons nailed to your door and a jail term?
This is a microcosm of the "STEM shortage" in general.

Socialize the losses/costs (publicly-funded school), privatize the gains/profits.

That said, there's a different side to the issue, which is that smaller companies do not (and never did) have the resources to train people. There definitely is a shortage of senior management-capable technical people who can lead projects and teams at smaller organizations. This however isn't relevant to big banks and Cobol.
Google DEI training documents leaked
The article is a bit confusing because as you read along

> A Sydney Local Health District spokeswoman confirmed the limits are in place in NSW Health’s Special Health Accomodation, where Covid-positive patients and close contacts are sent for isolation.

> [. . .] A NSW Police spokeswoman said Police officers are not confiscating alcohol delivered to residential buildings, and do not have powers to do so.

Digging further it seems like the building is a homeless shelter and is under a 2 week lockdown https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/mission-aust...

Placing restrictions on deliveries to people’s homes that they own would seem excessive but I’m not sure if the same should apply to a social housing building of this type. I think homeless shelters elsewhere restrict alcohol and impose other stringent rules.
It's written in Python and uses Cassandra.
They share the information and document it. Please don't succumb to some conspiratory thinking.

They can't take everything into account and hedonic adjustments is used for only small percentage of products. That's one reason why it overestimates inflation.
True. If the compute module interface manages to become popular and somewhat standardized, we might start to see an investment in modular keyboards and other parts. Having reuse between models is difficult when so many parts are similar but one-off.
And rely on the “community” to moderate. For zero point zero compensation.
Twitch: “Software and Game Development” – A new streaming category
Yes: What is this crap called “legitimate interest”, as in privacy policies? Can companies really decide to track us even if we don’t want them to just by saying that they believe ottimo their legitimate interest to do so? Is this legal by GDPR standards? Is this legal according to California’s privacy law?

Lastly, what (if any) better alternative do we have as users to saying NO to all the requests we get to use (and misuse) our data? Is there a browser that will just let us say YES once and for all and yet protect us as if we had said NO?
It may not necessarily reduce you infectiousness while you are infected, but it does reduce how long you are infected compared to a person who is not vaccinated and has not had a prior infection. That will reduce how likely you are to spread your infection to others.
> labor shortage

that's a funny way of spelling "wage"
Your criticism of RSS implementation is just, but not so of Atom; Atom feeds are pretty consistently spec-correct and don’t require guessing games to parse. My experience is that the only places where interpretation of Atom feeds goes wrong is where it’s dragged down by RSS, with people coding against a library that handles both, but treating it as though it were only RSS (e.g. not handling HTML titles correctly, perhaps leading to XSS attacks).

Fun fact on #3 that most people don’t know: Atom supports paginated feeds: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5023#section-10.1>. No idea what library support is like. I admit it was defined in the AtomPub spec, but it should still apply to regular Atom feeds too. My own website’s feed is approaching half a megabyte with all my content ever; I’d like to make it paginated and only include the most recent ones in the first page (while still satisfying my unjustified thirst for the feed to still technically contain all the content), but as long as I’m using someone else’s static site generator that doesn’t already support that I’m probably not going to get round to implementing it.
> their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.

This is the first time I’ve heard something negative about Huffman. Could you elaborate?
Yes - agree with you, more players in the Browser engine space would be good.

I'm mainly using Firefox, but it's really becoming a resource hog and making my laptop fan spin more violently. I have a lot of tabs open.

But innovation in how to manage lots of tabs is welcome and this is what these guys seem to address too.
Australia is under insane lockdown right now[0], this is an easy and fast way to quell dissent. Just stop people from communicating with each other.

[0] https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-health-lim...
it is used with kvm / qemu a bunch..
"Hedonic regression model" sounds fancy and all, but look at their charts just filled with arbitrary numbers accessing various features. Funny to see how they weighted various, now failed, technologies/features.
Software is “This could be better…”
I'm guessing something like e.g. Alzheimers or some other quality of life degrading, but not lethal, disease that makes life (not as) worth living, at least past a certain point in the progression of the disease. But because its not lethal, it won't take you out of your misery.
You’re not going to jail unless you have drugs in the car.
A quick death can be a mercy.
The search is the part that really infuriates me. I find it pretty useless at finding exactly where I've mentioned a term or phrase before, compared to Obsidian or even Craft
Seems similar to the Section 230 conversation in the USA.

The newspapers appear to be taking the logical response of switching off Facebook comments going forward.
Oh no, not Bill Gates again. Is there anything at all he isn't involved with?
When I was van dwelling around the US I was blown away at how inviting NYC was for van living. I was expecting it to be the hardest place in the US due to density, but it was one of the easiest.

First spot I checked was a dead end street next to a warehouse in Williamsburg. Backing onto the Hudson. Beautiful Manhattan views. A park on one side, and another a block down with a bathroom. And immediately fell into a community of about 10 others do the same thing.

Amazing.

This is the kind of app that serves well for van living, tho I rarely couldn’t find something.
Thing is the 'civilian' distinction goes back decades and some definitions extend the nen-civilian status to firefighters as well as police. It's neither new nor uniquely American, though I'm sure exactly when it expanded beyond the purely military use fo the term.
> However, because CPI is done at the national level while people typically live in one area, it is possible that HN readers in SF or wherever experience higher inflation than the CPI calculates.

It could even be that most people experience above-average inflation, because there are places with relatively low population but very low, relative, inflation dragging the averages down.

If that is the case, it might be possible to alter how geographic aggregation works to calculate a CPI-for-median-consumer that better captures the common experience. This might be better for some policy purposes, as well.
I believe there are hypervisor.framework backends for vagrant, but it seems that for whatever reason they haven’t taken off? I’m not exactly sure why they haven’t become the default on Mac, given how much more efficient it presumably is.
Very few people are buying cryptocurrencies over fears of a USD monetary crisis. That's a fringe group. Instead must buyers are speculators trading on momentum and hoping to get rich quick before the bubble bursts. There are also a bunch of people using it to conduct illegal transactions (drugs, weapons, ransoms) or evade capital controls in repressive countries (China, Venezuela).
With baby boomers retiring in mass numbers, the argument that pop ratio to employment is null and void.

We have more people at retirement age than ever before.
The article indicates this was a 4 year legal battle and the last ruling in the 2019 Supreme Court was similar. It has nothing at all to do with Coronavirus.

BTW “Australia” is not in lockdown. Some states of Australia are.
You’re giving them wayyyy too much credit for being able to pull anything off.
The problem with reddit isn’t their employees. It’s the finders keepers moderation system. First one to set up a “community” on a given topic is now able to manage messaging.
One of the main points of the app is that it does not use any client side JS, so that wouldn't help anything.
Multi-Party Computation (MPC) Technology Can Ensure Effective Fraud Detection
Hardening E-Commerce APIs to Secure Billion-Dollar Retailers
But seriously, this is an underrated problem. As a runner and someone who drinks a lot of water I wish there were more public restrooms. Even johns are ok
“the National Security Agency, which has the authority to scan foreign but not domestic online activity.”

Does anybody really believe that? I’m so convinced it’s not true, I’d welcome them just being straightforward and telling us, “everything you do is monitored.” At least then I wouldn’t feel paranoid about it.
That tl;dr worked great.

I'll have to see if there's a Nix package for it tomorrow morning for work.
> You’re not going to jail unless you have drugs in the car

No, you aren't going to jail unless the search “justified” by the drug-dog “hit” reveals something that the police can spin into probable cause of a crime.

Needn’t be drugs, or even actual contraband.
I admire the thoroughness of your data collection. I don't doubt your numbers at all.

If anything the only huge inflation I ever see is not in consumer goods, but in appreciating assets.
"Ineffective" is a pretty charged word when we don't have any correlation between serology studies and patient outcomes. I see nothing in the preprint to indicate how they draw the line between ineffective and effective.
Happy to work on COBOL. Happy to prove ability. Will accept a salary of $2M/year minimum. Contact info is in my profile.

Too much? Then I guess you do not need it enough...yet
> If I was asked by a cop during a traffic stop for my social media account I’d give them either a link to Rick Astley or goatse depending on my mood.

That's stupid. Don't do that. Refusing is fine and legal. It's your right! Lying is not fine and is illegal, and you can be arrested. Supplying false information when you can supply no information is a bad idea.
kubernetes makes simple deployments look complex, and complex deployments look simple.
Docker would be my choice for a simple deployment (like server + db)
Only use kubernetes when you need to do complex stuff, it does make things look simple then.
Reddit should be a quarter page box in a social psychology book about groupthink. It’s a shit website and there are better link aggregators.
My parents had a very similar experience. I feel your pain, and I agree with your choice
Interestingly, at work we have some DC charging stations. The "Tesla" stations are actually a ChaDEMO Chargepoint station coupled to a Tesla "dongle". So the dongle not only exists, but seems to be very feasible. It just needs to work in the other direction.

Newer Nissans are supposed to use the CCS standard (if Nissan gets its crap together and actually launches the Arya).
Answered in the subsequent paragraph after the end of the quotation...