skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIP Terry Davis. What a titan among men. He belongs up there with the likes of John Carmack.
AirBus certainly believes so https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zer...
Can't speak to folks from New England, but it's very much a thing in the Southeast.

In the sense that someone from a state over would be viewed very differently than someone from up north.

Caveat: This is almost imperceptible in major urban centers, and far more of a thing in rural areas.
they asked me for additional information to "verify my identity" (after 4 years of using coinbae just fine). after 6 weeks my account is still frozen
Great advice/insight. I can personally relate it directly to musical improvisation for example.
Oral History of Ratan Tata
That looks so cool. What’s the thought process in buying one?
Lowest is Ordinary Seaman (OS). This is the entry level rating in the deck department. The only qualifications required are basic safety and firefighting training. The corresponding entry level rating in the engine department is Wiper.
It was enabled by default on my installation, which is extra surprising considering I have all forms of address bar and search suggestions disabled except browser history.
Here's an example:

13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7bvreb/13_baltimore_c...

https://archive.ph/VfciU

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...

https://archive.ph/cqIZd

Just so everyone is aware Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending. This is not because the schools dont get enough money. In fact its just about as far away from that as you can get.

If despite getting the 2nd more funded, your students still can't do high school math, then the problem isn't about money or racism, it's probably about corruption, gangs, fatherlessness, teacher unions and lack of school choice.

Tax payer money literally just disappears.
"For no benefit" is not an objective read. A lot of folks are benefitting.

IMO the environmental impact of crypto is also completely overstated. There are issues so much bigger than crypto's energy consumption that it's basically just a rounding error.
My aunt can't get the vax because the first dose sent her to the hospital. Now she can't work because of the vax mandates require her to be fully vaxxed
Yes Helium is the other gas that does this too - but Hydrogen is lighter than Helium.
In theory. In practice there are a ton of really hard to overcome problems (Hydrogen embrittlement, very low activation energy so it can go 'foom' without provocation, leakage from containment vessels.

There has been progress on all of these fronts, one of the most interesting developments that I'm aware of is this fleet of 1500 trucks that is being built:

https://www.electrive.com/2021/02/18/hiringa-energy-orders-1...

But there are a large number of questions (for me) around this project that make me wonder how much it is vaporware and how much of it is reality. If they pull this off, and that includes delivery of the vehicles, infrastructure and do it within budget and with a substantial fraction of the life-span of an ordinary truck without major issues it will be a game changer. If not some investors - and their customers - are going to be extremely pissed off.

Even the first 50 deliveries would already be a huge milestone, I'm aware of exactly one truck like this that is supposed to be driving for Campina ( https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2021/07/13/frieslandcampin... ) but I have not been able to get any data on the actual use of this truck by the customer (ie: service history, operational readiness history).

What is suspicious is that if I enter that truck's license number (19-BLD-5) into https://ovi.rdw.nl/ that it comes up as a more or less regular Volvo truck with a 12.7 liter LNG installation, not a hydrogen installation, which it would surely mention if that were the case.

It's very well possible that that was just a promotional picture from before the conversion to Hydrogen, but you'd expect the company to put out one press release after another to prove their tech is real if it was actually road worthy. But all of the pictures where they 'Hyzon' logo is present on the front of the trucks show no license plate.

(for instance: https://www.truckpartsandservice.com/alternative-power/hydro... and many other promotional articles like it).
Ghost Army of Wailua Heiau Ruins
Yes I like strategy games but I was responding to the type of game that gets adrenaline flowing. Timing games and shooters. Even old prince of Persia was too much for me :)
Of those that have made a difference, the majority are via laws, which was parent's point.
And embrittles a lot of others. And if you want to use fuel cell tech membrane fouling is yet another problem to deal with.
Except the companies are doing this because they are already strapped for cash.

Willingly trying to avoid global shipping would actually make you more complicit.
Who is SLAPPing whom?

If FB were retaliating to a lawsuit against it with actions of this sort, yes.

As it stands, no, this is simple intimidation and coersion on the part of FB.
Hydrogen proponents have - just like nuclear proponents - latched on to climate change as their best bet for increased funding.
That Paddle demo is smooth.
Apple can’t let this happen - they will lose billions.
My understanding is expensive material for hydrogen production was to increase the efficiency of the system (because energy is costly and not from renewable sources).

With the proliferation of installed solar capacity, and availability of low cost renewable energy, the economics of H2 production allow for use of lower efficient systems, with focus on reducing exotic materials in the system.
It's all outlined here, down to the election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnyvFtfRCu8
The Lady in the Blue Kimono – Film Noir True Crime – Stories of the Supernatural
Enterprise Software is at the mercy of every bureaucracy that the enterprise must deal with and the interactions between bureaucracies can create incredibly complex non-logical logic.

Just remember, at one point every gallon of biodiesel in the US had its own serial number.
I was pondering given the rise in natural gas prices globally, how much effort would be involved for some uses to use hydrogen instead.

Certainly be good use of the off-peak spare capacity type issues with electricity production. Cost wise compared to a therm of natural gas (a therm of natural gas is about 2kg's) then hydrogen starts to become viable on price alone. Now if your able to tap excess electricity production to produce that hydrogen, then you start to become more competitive as an alternative.
I'm not talking about Zuck trying to buy a personality in the form of a custom yacht. I'm talking about Epstein and people like that who prefer to rent people against their will, or the Sacklers who will gladly set ethics and death tolls aside if there is enough profit opportunity.

Billionaires should to go jail for tax fraud, preferably in proportion to the amount of money they stole. They are not running their itemized deductions by a typical accounting firm. They are seeking out teams of lawyers and accountants with a reputation for hiding money, and paying millions of dollars because they expect them to be good at it.
As others mention, if you’re a 1099 contractor (even part time), you have more options to mitigate this (tradeoff being you pay the employer’s portion of social security contribution, and must manage your own finances to withhold enough to pay the next tax bill).

But you’re not wrong to be upset about this. It really doesn’t seem fair. And I’m not sure the government could get away with it so easily if they weren’t able to deputize employers to withhold taxes from your paycheck.

Btw, IMO this is also part of the reason for targeting 1099 status of the gig economy – collection rates are much lower for contractors (who must pay their own taxes, and may not have the funds available to do so) than for employees (who have their taxes withheld from their paycheck so they don’t need to pay tax on their salary).

I’m of the firm belief that the first $100k in individual income should be taxed exactly $0. Taxing unsophisticated, frequently barely profitable contractors – and penalizing them for failure to maintain savings or meet filing deadlines - is counterproductive to a successful economy.

The IRS collects 80% (or more) of its revenue from Americans with more than $100k income. On the other hand, Americans with 1099 status and under $100k income almost certainly feel a greater relative psychological and financial burden of tax compliance than anyone making over $100k.

Many of them need to choose between paying bills or paying the IRS – whereas for higher income earners, tax compliance is much less stressful as there is never any doubt whether they’ll have enough money to both pay their taxes (on time) and survive.

In this sense, the tax system feels disproportionately unfair to a large segment of the population that contributes to a comparatively small percentage of tax revenue.
I spent about a year and a half building a SAAS project - very sophisticated, lots of moving parts.

About 18 months ago I realised I was building a solution without a problem - I was building something technically cool that I could not work out a business model for. So I dropped it.

Recently I think I've worked out the business model. So now I'm trying to get the damn thing running again - it's got many interacting servers and bits and pieces so trying to get it all to work again is a challenge.

Fortunately I tend to write reasonably good notes that would be unintelligible to anyone else but make alot of sense to me, and these are helping me get it going.

Also I wrote ALOT of build and config scripts, without which the task would be impossible.
Ć push iOS keyboard C and it is there.
I recently had a job offer taken away for other atupid reasons that we discussed, but conveniently after I brought up how I should handle billing for time away. Maybe I dodged a bullet.
No, it’s not when you count the cost of compressing it.
Even if it was possible to have completely free hydrogen (and it’s not possible) the compression cost would lower the efficiency to something around 60% if I remember correctly.
Adding to that the storage tank cost and the far bigger explosion potential compared to batteries its supposed advantage is dwindling fast given the continuous improvement in batteries.
It was not clear to me, I thought you made a general assertion about the economics of real estate which is false on its face. I am not equipped to talk about typical renters since I don't have data. All I can find is the Census statistics showing that average national rent is less than mortgage:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/HSG860219
I highly recommend using a compose key to enter special characters. I think it's more common by default on Linux, but I use WinCompose. I've never entered "ć" in my life, but hitting ALT, apostrophe then c, it worked.
What about LoRa? Doesn’t that exist precisely to scratch these itches, without impacting traditional HF QRP etc.?
There’s at least an iOS/iPadOS app for analyzing the reports called App Privacy Insights https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-privacy-insights/id1575583...
That cure is worse than the disease. We don't need people living all over for no good reason.
> even if we can get JIT to work.

But if you assume JIT, you can also compile queries into native code on the fly. That should at the very least offset some of the difference.
Mozilla repeatedly extolls Firefox as the safest, most privacy-respecting browser, but keeps carving away at their goodwill with little barbs like this. It's a very odd image strategy, all actual privacy arguments aside. There must be other ways to monetize than becoming the digital version of a used car salesman.
Python feature and library bloat is at late 1990s and early 2000s levels Perl these days.

This has made Python very accessible and useful to Perl refugees.

This explains the pervasive use of Python to "Automate the boring stuff".
As HN’s self-described #1 Peirce fan, the second I saw the title I knew who this was about. The reason most of us have never heard of Peirce was the unflagging devotion of his childhood “friend” Simon Newcomb to utterly destroying his legacy out of envy and spite.

Not only was Peirce a genius logician who discovered the universal and existential quantifiers independent of Frege, he also formalized pragmatism and semiotic.

Edit: Oh and I forgot abductive reasoning[1], which is shockingly unknown given its utility. I first learned of it from an absurdly smart Raytheon physicist many years ago.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
Have been a Prefect user since their first release. In a nutshell, it's a native pythonic DAG tool, where Airflow is a DAG tool that happens to be written in Python.
People (including myself) really liking getting hand written letters these days. For birthdays, I've been exclusively mailing letter to family and friends. I've never heard that many positive things about a card before.

I wrote one for father's day for my dad and it took me a while to get though because I started to cry with tears of appreciation. Writing that kind of stuff out really makes you feel it.

I'm sure condolence letters are the same. I'm sure they'll appreciate it.
Biden signs law for Havana syndrome
It's quite easy to produce a counterexample to your claim. Harvey Weinstein immediately comes to mind. It was complaining that drew attention to his abuses and ultimately led to his conviction.
Matt Levine's Money Stuff: Looking for Tether’s Money
Poland signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007 together with every other member state. That’s the place you should start looking.
Boil it just before use.
I think Hungary beat you there. You can aim for Florida still, though.
The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)
So much of the world is connected at low latency and high availability now, it's easy to not notice when you transition to somewhere that's not the case

Large national parks, western states, or open ocean: there are still a few places you can be hours from the nearest person, without cell service.
I thought this framing by Andrew Wilkinson, of the "Berkshire Hathaway's way" for making (acquisition) decisions, is relevant in many things we do at work: can we make painful processes today easier for people, so they'll do it more? One area I can think of is suggesting new ideas for the product or technology stack. So while becoming a buyer of businesses is less relevant for most of us, there is plenty to learn in this post and the mindset Andrew is using to build Tiny. Can you think of any? What is painfully slow for you and your teammates now?
A good place to start is How to Make Our Ideas Clear[1].

[1]https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...
No.

"What’s a Facebook shadow profile, and should you be worried about it?"

You can thank anyone who allowed Facebook to scan their mobile phone contacts through the “find friends” feature.
When someone uses this feature, Facebook downloads all of a phone’s contact data to its own servers. This includes mostly emails and phone numbers. At the same time, Facebook is also collecting harder-to track data on how you and all your friends and friends of friends are connected to each other. That’s how it finds people to recommend for its “people you may know” feature.

The company’s mobile app even tells you it will do this...

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/facebook-shadow-profiles-pr...
Was that a pun?
This is a win win. They don’t want you and you don’t want them. There’s nothing wrong with it. It would only seem wrong to people with authoritarian desire to force everyone to align with themselves.
Clinical evidence that 1889 “Russian flu” pandemic was caused by a coronavirus
No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806504
Except that digital depends on... analog radio. I honestly wish there was better ecosystem for SSB 2M or robust SDR platforms. You have a host of digital modes on HF but most of the 2M/70CM radios/chips are FM/FSK.
1% of global energy consumption is hardly a rounding error.

I'm massively excited for the potential of cryptocurrency, but there's a reason ETH is moving to PoS, and newer PoW projects aren't getting the same kind of traction.
Bartek Ciszkowski: Remote brainstorming for regular humans
* CORBA flashbacks *
Bartek Ciszkowski will help you make some order in how you run brainstorming session. Considering more in-writing preparation (e.g. sharing a doc with goals, pains, KPIs, etc. a few days before the meeting) and the roles you'd like to see people take can help boost the effectiveness and inclusiveness of your team.
As a companion piece, see Jonathan Haidt's discussion of "telos":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8
It would have been nice to see the compiler implemented in the language itself. I'm a little skeptical of any language that can't be used to compile itself.
Also a white supremacist. Not a good looks there Charlie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#Slavery...

The syllogism is too much.
Brick by Brick: A recipe for beating tech burnout – Aurora Foundry
I feel like I've written good code while listening to online seminars in the background (and having retained important parts from it). I believed it to be because I use my visual faculties when coding and it doesn't interfere with my auditory channels.
"if you are not “killing it” at home, doing so at work is nothing to brag about" -- this sentence made me stop for a few minutes and opened my eyes to how I deploy my mental and physical energy. Josh Sloat shares how he thinks and structure his time and energy to find a better balance.
> Shunning is likewise immoral.

So, I have to ask. If shunning is off the table, what's the social punishment for people who do shun?
Back in the day you could enter these with alt-... numpad keystrokes. Decimal ASCII representation maybe? Might still work in some situations?
ARTICLE 1

1. The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic hereby become members of the European Union and Parties to the Treaties on which the Union is founded as amended or supplemented.

2. The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the Union is founded, entailed by such admission, are set out in the Act annexed to this Treaty. The provisions of that Act shall form an integral part of this Treaty.

3. The provisions concerning the rights and obligations of the Member States and the powers and jurisdiction of the institutions of the Union as set out in the Treaties referred to in paragraph 1 shall apply in respect of this Treaty.

See also: Treaty of Lisbon, which Poland also signed. Specifically, Declaration 17: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

17. Declaration concerning primacy

The Conference recalls that, in accordance with well settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Treaties and the law adopted by the Union on the basis of the Treaties have primacy over the law of Member States, under the conditions laid down by the said case law.

Edit:

You may want to also have a look here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

"According to the precedence principle, European law is superior to the national laws of Member States. The precedence principle applies to all European acts with a binding force. Therefore, Member States may not apply a national rule which contradicts to European law.

The precedence principle guarantees the superiority of European law over national laws. It is a fundamental principle of European law. As with the direct effect principle, it is not inscribed in the Treaties, but has been enshrined by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)."
Go ahead and cite the passage in the Treaty of Lisbon that says Polish law can be overriden by EU law. I'll wait.

Hint: the reason why the structure of the EU was designed so that national parliaments would pass their own versions of laws agreed to in the EU parliament was precisely because it is the national laws that are binding. Similarly the EU courts rule on actions of the member states in the context of the EU, whether the member states are living up to their agreement. They do not directly rule on laws or override laws in the national parliaments.
We were having issues before the Ever Given but that did not help.

Our orders come from Asia to Eastern Sea board.
> if the monoclonal antibodies are in your blood before contact with an infected person you will not get sick.

So now you are advocating vaccination by another name.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-a-cease-and-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cease_and_desist
After battle in most countries in the past, you either lived or died as one cohort.

However, the Romans had enough patients over a continuing period of time to perfect plastic surgery.

So I think you're confusing emergency surgery and piercings with the art of plastic surgery.

If you think anatomical knowledge was universal, that's not true either. Japanese doctors were ashamed when they saw the first anatomy book - they had known nothing beforehand.

The US had to dig up bodies from graves at night for decades to draw those books.
Free IPV Adult Netflix Sports All World Fast Servers of the Day 9-10-2021
Self-hosting your VSCode online IDE, from Raspberry Pi 4 to AWS Graviton2
This is essentially my plan for releases of the finl app. It'll have a three-part semantic version number (which I suspect will be 1.x.y forever) and then a “marketing” name indicating the major feature checkpoints, for which I'm going to name releases by element.¹ I figure I'll be dead long before I ever hit Ununennium and if anyone still uses finl by that time it will be someone else's problem.

⸻⸻⸻

1. It would be nice to have some mathematical theme, but I don't know of anything that's (a) sufficiently well-known (going with, say, famous mathematicians wouldn't work because the list is not necessarily agreed upon nor is it obvious to the casual user whether Riemann comes before or after Weierstrass), (2) non-numeric (so no fibonaccis or primes) and (iii) of sufficient length (so no platonic solids or named polygons).
Give me any job, and I am certain I can think of a way politics is inextricably involved.

If you are a website and you host user comments, and the government requests information about a commenter. Do you give it to them right away, or do you fight it? What if the country is a known violator of human rights? What if the request is to try to track down a pedophile? What if it is to track down a journalist?

Either decision is political. If you comply, that is a political decision. If you decline, that is a political decision. If you fight it in court, that is a political decision.

What about deciding what to do with user data. Do you sell it to the highest bidder? Do you protect privacy? Do you sell it, but only to certain people? Do you use it internally? Do you store it at all? How much effort do you put into securing your users data? Is that decision purely financial, or do you believe you have a responsibility to protect your users data even if it costs you more than you would lose in a breach?
They fired Eich and turned from a company of smart engineers and users of their product to randos who work on weird projects using their big paycheck from Google.

Their products suck because they don’t care about them. They don’t genuinely want to compete with or anger Google for fear of losing funding.

They’d be better off cutting down to a lean $5/year spend and just making a browser.

I think.
The Nobel Peace Prize Acknowledges a Dangerous Era for Journalists