skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also hear technology is destroying what is left of their actual class time. Kids are now given laptops so they have plenty of opportunity to tune out class work and do whatever they want and the teachers just have to deal with it. When I was in school tech gadgets were confiscated be it a beeper, gameboy, calculator or walkman, and later on, cellular phones.

Just last night I was talking about this with my brother who told me about his co worker who is a former NYC school teacher. He said he spent half of his teaching time telling kids to stop playing fortnight or browsing social media. After talking to my brother I called a friend who is a 4th grade teacher and said he also deals with social media browsing and gaming in class.

Feels like we're actively working on building an actual Idiocracy.
OnePlus is notorious for preventing apps from working as intended in order to increase battery life. Take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com to see what you need to do to ensure Signal is working as intended.
Can you kid hack Qubes OS?
If eating a sandwich is good, when why stop at one? Eat fifty sandwiches for every meal! A hundred!

...Or maybe there are things that can be good to increase some, but not good to increase arbitrarily.
I meant kWh. The units derivation is as follows if I remember correctly:

The SI unit for some absolute quantity of energy is the "Joule".

1 watt = 1 joule per second (1 J/s)

Watts can sort of be thought of as the rate at which some absolute quantity of energy is available or able to be consumed.

Since energy sources are usually rated in terms of their ability to supply an instantaneous amount of power, in order to get back to the absolute amount of energy, you need to multiply by the time in order to get back to just some multiple of joules.

1 watt-second = 1 J/s * s = 1 J.

So the concept holds that if we are going to measure some amount of something (other than power) produced by a power plant, it should be measured against the absolute amount of power produced. Obviously this doesn't take into account the fact that pollution generated by some forms of power aren't linearly correlated with the power produced - e.g. fossil fuel plants produce less particulate pollution the hotter the fire burns, meaning they get dirtier vs the power output the lower the output power is set. Hence why gas turbines burn cleaner that gas-fired steam generators (hand waving over the efficiency differences of direct fired turbines versus steam generation).

Another data point is that natural gas turbines (again, averages from the US) produce 550 grams per kWh, and combined cycle (adding a second turbine that runs off the exhaust heat of the first) are 435 grams CO2 per kWh.

But the numbers I posted are what I meant. In the US, an average of one kilogram of CO2 is emitted per kilowatt-hour of energy (3.6 * 10^6 Joules) generated. Nuclear is two orders of magnitude less carbon emission (versus coal), wind and solar are comparable if deployed under ideal conditions. Even under non-ideal conditions, they still offer an order of magnitude improvement.
Tesla’s FSD is clearly unsafe, so prohibiting users from publishing demonstrably unsafe behaviour from it seems apropos for them
Can you imagine the shareholder reaction if they even hinted at feeling justifiably targeted by a PR outrage?
> There's no reason source code need to be stored as plain text

The same can be said for lots of different documents, and it's been true for programs like Word for a long time. See also [1]T. H. Nelson, “Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate,” in Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference, New York, NY, USA, Aug. 1965, pp. 84–100. doi: 10.1145/800197.806036.
My biggest hangup is that Google is pretty good at making suggestions based on my past history. You end up losing that doing ddg proxy
That's super interesting. My local ski pass includes pajarito... it's hard to get me to want to ski in New Mexico but I might have to make a trip down this season
The situation is far worse in the UK. Honestly I think it's terrifying, and the political implications are revolutionary.
It’s kind of true. These refrigerated trucks were on standby anyway because they are needed every time there’s a bad flu season.
Is this turned on by default in Chromium too?
If you append `?w=1` to the diff view URL on a pull request it makes it whitespace agnostic just FYI
Since you didn't go into detail, I'm going to guess that you are referring to atmospheric CCS being widely deployed in the future. Unfortunately CCS is not and will not be practical. [1] [2]

I can explain my critiques in more detail if you clarify exactly what your argument is.

[1] https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/08/09/the-improbability-of-c...
[2] Comical, but fact-based take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8
How long does it take you? I do 14km in ~40 minutes on a normal bike, was thinking an ebike would be way better.

I was hoping to make my own, but maybe I'll cave in and just use a Swapfiets electric...
And in addition, after the collapse of the Great Bubble, REITs bought up large swaths of foreclosures. Now the landlord is less likely to be A small investor than a large holding company with a portfolio of many thousands of units.
I don't understand LA. I've been out here for a couple of months now and I'm seeing 2 trends - the salaries are generally very average (I'm not just talking about IT) and completely disproportionate to cost of living and it seems like a good majority of young adults are either broke or severely paycheck-to-paycheck. Yet, somehow these people love the fact that they will never own anything it because "the weather is nice here."
I would maybe be interested in Git allowing you to plug in your own diff generators for different file types.

But I would not want Git itself trying to understand the contents of files. That seems to me to be an idea that lives on a misconception of the "things programmers believe about names" variety. Not every file in source control is source code. Not every programming language's grammar maps to an abstract syntax tree. In some files, such as makefiles, the difference between tabs and spaces is semantically significant. Some languages (such as Fortran and Racket) have variable syntax. And so on and so forth.

So I think that we really don't want the source control system itself trying to get too smart about the contents of files. That will inevitably make the source control system less compatible with the various kinds of things you might want to put into source control. And it will also make the source control system a lot more complicated than it would otherwise be, in return for a largely theoretical payoff.

But if we want to delegate the work of generating diffs off to other people, so that Git can allow for syntax or semantics-aware diffing without having to personally wade into that quagmire (and perhaps also allowing language communities to support multiple source control systems, a bit like how it works with LSP), that might be an interesting thing to experiment with.
The Guide to Robocopy (2019)
Scoville Scale
At least my generation of adults has had smartphones since middle school now. People have neck problems from craning over. The minute there is a lull in the conversation the addicted and hungry brain seeks to fill the void with dopamine, and a phone appears open to some infinite scrolling app before the user can understand what even just happened. Oh and people rip juuls like there is no tomorrow either, so there are physical addictions among my generation. You have older millenials now in their mid thirties who are hiding in the bathroom stalls at their workplaces to hit their juul. All that effort getting generation X off of cigarettes and the work is undone within a few short years with a single company from san fransisco.

Unbelievable that we always foolishly go after the vice of the day (when I was a kid it was flavored cigarettes, look at all the good banning that did) instead of outlawing using the science of addiction for profit in the first place and nipping all of these dark patterns in the bud in one fell swoop.
Thank you on both!

It causes me distress that there isn't a solid discussion ecosystem today that (a) captures it better than "the blend", (b) is easily available to the public, and (c) is a bit more humane than sovereign individual concepts haha, i.e. western democracy is still around in "what's next."

I wonder if, or how, this would ever get bootstrapped, and it feels critical that it is somehow. I know I, and probably everyone else, can list many of the reasons for this (Facebook distraction and... and...). What's disquieting is the list of entities who were not distracted and now apply the implications of cybernetics - if you can phrase it like that.

- RU via thinkers like A. Dugin seem to grasp it and apply it in a fairy adversarial way to western ideology.

- Downstream, Dugin is an input that folks like Bannon draw from the US.

- Intel agencies seem to grasp it, and while I don't have knee-jerk negative views of those entities, equal understanding across democratically elected bodies and the agencies seems important.

- CN grasps it and is building the governance systems they decide proper for what's next. This technical approach is getting exported.

- Lastly, activist groups across the spectrum natively sense the seams present in how western systems were bolted onto tech's impacts, and opportunities for instability exist and are executed on.

That's all to say, and hopefully by not too much of a rant, that it's critical that our public feedback loops find a way to account for how a huge spectrum of systems in our world have changed in a fundamental way because of tech, and we don't try to do so only by bolting on old solutions from the pre-tech era. Very few entities seem to offer clear analysis of this excluding reading cybernetics, humanities<>comp sci hybrid thinkers, and topics related to the above.

Aside - Yang felt more like a figure the tech world would put forward as a solution, but as a result he felt too self-referential to the problem to be a good representative. but, I wonder if he is a spark that leads towards more tech-informed public discourse.
Do we? I haven’t seen a single interventional study about that.
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Scientists Are Creating Talking Laser Plasma Balls That Can Deliver Speech
Yeah. That really, really did not sit well with me. The use of mental health care issues as an excuse for some immoral, unethical behavior is really quite offensive. There are so, so, so many people who have mental health care issues who do not commit fraud nor behave immorally.
Even through HTTPS? They'll have the domain and IP address and transfer size, but not the URL or contents of the traffic. (Unless they managed to MITM a trusted certificate somehow.)
Nice -- shill us the Pinenote then!

I'm in the market for an e-ink reader and have been considering the RM2, but the Pinenote looks pretty tasty too..
Glad to know you think anyone who can offer under $15/hr in value just a "nuance" worthy of unemployment.
Relying on society is too risky. Drop them in a bore hole, fill it up again. Done.
That might actually be a good thing, to break free from an information bubble created to you by Google.
There are countless examples in life where choosing optimism over pessimism will serve you well. Sometimes, being pessimistic is the “realistic” and “right” outlook, but entirely destructive to personal growth.

So yes, there are times when you should choose ideals that support a healthy mind, like believing for example that life is not entirely random, that your circumstances ARE malleable, and that despite whatever histories suggest your disadvantage you can’t let it control your destiny.

As a collective culture we have swung way too far toward this idea of explaining away everyone’s situation based on factors outside of their control. I’ve heard it used to justify some truly disgusting behavior. The truth is that someone’s lot in life is some blend of chance and self determination.
Is it at all possible to be against this new version of Calvinism that treats European ancestry as original sin and insists on total depravity with no hope of forgiveness without sounding like an adherent of the alt-reich?

I don't care much for old-school racism or white supremacy, but the new "with us or against us" social contract that adherents of Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi seem determined to foist on us doesn't look any different or better to me. I don't believe in acceptable bigotries.
A year and a half is an eternity for a kid. Remember how long summer break felt as a child? Or a whole year?

Society stole children’s childhood from them for a disease that doesn’t even affect kids.
Google Mary Newport
That was part of it. Obviously if sites had no choice in the matter then it wouldn't have mattered whether browsers enabled it by default or not.

Since it was a voluntary thing though, browsers sending it by default pretty much destroyed what chance there was of mainstream sites deciding to implement support for it. It's one thing to give up on tracking a small portion of users who explicitly opt-out, and another thing entirely to give up on tracking everyone except for a tiny minority who choose to opt-in.
I know few people that believes that all of the "unfairness" in life is based entirely on history of prejudice/luck/system.

I do know many people who believe that prejudice/luck/system has a very strong influence on one's lot in life. To deny that reality is just as toxic a mindset.
Growing up whenever a teacher thought they were clever and would confiscate phones, kids got even wiser and started bringing in their ancient phones to offer up as a sacrifice, and kept their smartphones hidden in hoodie pockets.
I hope not.

I lived in Paris a few times in my formative years. It's so bad there that, believe it or not, there were homeless who had jobs. Literally. homeless who had to go to work.

It was insane from the perspective of a young American.

EDIT: Changed some slang words to American english.
> able to add friction to its product that serves no purpose for its users

A good moment to remind everyone: the goal of the attention economy is to make things as inefficient as possible, because money is made on the friction.
Facebook...Nuke it from orbit.
> I would maybe be interested in Git allowing you to plug in your own diff generators for different file types.

This is already supported.
Totally fair! I think I'm mostly pushing back on the idea that archive formats with built-in encryption are a good idea.
We could try out "rods from God" instead, but I was thinking more along the lines of dissolving the corporation, letting the FBI trash their data centers, and treating Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies to taxpayer-funded rebar suppositories. :)
What's so hard to understand? Some people value nice weather, and places with nice weather are scarce. Supply. Demand.
"Suburbs where renters became the majority between 2010 and 2019 are mainly concentrated in three parts of the country: California, Florida and the Washington, D.C. metro"

https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots...

^Better headline in my opinion.

It's pretty funny that journalists take the high school/undergrad approach of essay writing (paraphrased/reworded source material). Sorta explains how we end up with odd titles like this one.
That was an eye opening way to lay it out.
There are a lot of shady merchant schemes regarding recurring payments. In the past, I knew hidden charges (i.e., recurring charges I fail to notice) would eventually stop as my credit card would eventually expire in their system. By shady merchants (like AAA, for example, which otherwise claims to be a reputable company), for my "convenience" update by guessing my expired credit card's new expiration date! Thus, they keep charging me forever! So, I'm sorry, recurring charges as both convenient and borderline scams! If I was aware of each upcoming payment and I had to approve it, then I would be spending a lot less money each month!
Of the weekly "Scrum sucks" posts we see on HN, this was by far the most articulate and well-reasoned. I've spent most of my career in consulting or kitchen sink teams. Having Scrum or a Scrum-like process is simply mandatory because we are working with disparate stakeholders against constrained budgets with a team who are not dedicated to the domain we're working in. Getting a high degree of specificity into requirements in the smallest increments is life-saving. Over reliance on rituals is typically only necessary for a really immature team (which I have been part of in the past) but the core elements of backlog management are really valuable. Not just for developer efficiency, but for visibility on progress and priorities.

All that being said, I can easily see how a dedicated team with a very clear product strategy iterating on a hugely successful business model can just roll along without a lot of oversight. I'd still be a bit surprised that anyone working on a customer-facing product isn't running their design decisions through product experts. Idk what that world is like, but I've spent a lot of energy duking out product debates where nobody is really sure how a feature should work or it's even beneficial and developers usually have the worst instincts.
When considering the outsized influence of money in shaping policy and that landlords are more likely to have money to spend shaping policy, I'm not sure that's exactly apt.

Also I feel like renters are much less likely to get involved in local politics, but that's just anecdotal.
My only encounters with Ozy have been overly glowing unlabeled promotional articles on various up and coming tech entrepreneurs.
does that mean trying to understand how "virality" spreads?
Python is not unique nor innovative in that respect. Even FORTRAN and COBOL programs from the early days had very strict rules about indentation and blocks.

The thing is, there's no reason we have to store the code like text. Even the punch card got this right: the program wasn't stored as text, it was stored as physical holes in paper. A very experience programmer could often look at a card with just the holes and have a rough idea what it encoded, provided they knew if it was EBCDIC or ASCII or whatever, but the computer didn't care. The printed representation across the top line of the card was just that: a representation.
I've been pondering similar ideas as this for a while. I think you are correct by starting with Excel files.

What I've been hammock thinking is a way to bridge the gap between spreadsheets and what we tend to consider code. Why can't we iterate spreadsheets to something that makes it easier to: diff, review, separate logic from data, track in version control, write new functions/macros, re-use, package and distribute.

I think as more people will need to use computers more, that everyone will need to have access to some form of programming skills. I think spreadsheets are a successful mechanism for people to rapidly manipulate data, but they deteriorate quickly with complexity. A tool that doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater could help people ramp up to programming much easier. If you teach someone to write a function that operates on a medium they already know like a spreadsheet, it is a lot less intimidating than writing a .py file, and downloading python and learning what compile is.
Then maybe we should implement capitalism differently. Hopefully by making the "surveillance" part of it illegal even if it kills these companies.
I’m surprised these guidelines didn’t mention the connection between extreme TV watching and Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia [0].

That said, I can appreciate attacking the potential core problem (lack of exercise and social activity) rather than the symptom (replacement of these activities with 24/7 Fox News).

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22827619/
I think they appealed three years ago, and it is only now in court?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-inc-antitrust...
Airbyte relicenses its source code from MIT to the Elastic License v2
Those latter people have avenues to growth they likely just don't know about or don't understand are near sure fire ways to advance. A local fast food chain pains its store managers 1.5x the median household income in my state. Anyone who can run a construction crew can earn real money. In my city you can't find anyone to put up fencing for any price.

And your comment points out the real villain in our economy. Institutions that happily accept 20 year loans from students in exchange for a degree that will never earn them a dime. How evil to sell a degree program as a pathway to a successful career, knowing the opportunities to actually make use of that degree are statistically zero.
>This multi-billion dollar industry has to be getting revenue somewhere else.

Wait, how do they know this is a multi-billion dollar industry in the first place?
When I was in highschool about a decade later we figured out we could just hand the teacher some ancient flip phone and keep our actual iphones in our pocket.
Interestingly, apple at one point made an app just like this called "Music Memos" but dropped it pretty soon. I think it has been partly rolled into garageband.
"The lawsuit claims Tesla’s autopilot system has been linked to at least 12 crashes in the United States involving first responders working active scenes with flashing lights.

"“Upon research, what we have discovered is, this is happening all over the country. In fact, the government has just recently, talking about in the last 30-60 days, has requested of Tesla to turn over information regarding every crash that has occurred involving the Tesla on autopilot that also involves police officers, because apparently the defect that exists is when the police lights are flashing it makes the Tesla on autopilot not detect the vehicle,” said attorney Tony Buzbee in an interview with KPRC 2."
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> So how can it be feasible to afford enough energy to "unburn" a century's worth of burnt carbon if we can't even get enough energy to avoid burning new carbon in the first place?

It isn't, and it won't be. Carbon capture is a pleasing myth we tell ourselves to avoid the massive and immediate actions that would be necessary to avert catastrophe.

We're addicted to fossil fuels, telling ourselves that when we eventually sober up we can undo the damage we've done to ourselves.
I've wanted a RFC-like pagination / header / footer feature for Sublime to print my textfile-based website for a while now.

Lends itself nicely to physical copies of a site too.

I know, .txt web pages is weird and hard to rank. Yes, that's the point.
The weird obsession in the US with masking toddlers and children is absolutely baffling to me.
Little gem from a (paywalled) WaPo story a few years ago:

[Hillary] Clinton herself is here at Ozy Fest, in a flowing sky-blue caftan and white linen pants, looking like she was choppered in from East Hampton. For 45 minutes, she is the president of this little plot of Central Park, astride the ritziest Zip code in New York City, a bubble within a bubble within a bubble. Her interlocutor is billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the sixth richest woman on the planet and a primary investor in Ozy Media, whose name comes from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem 'Ozymandias'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/inside-ozy-fe...