skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; Just a fun little project of mine that born out of an idea to utilize Gist as a blogging platform, I hope you find it useful.

All I wanted to do was write a blog but got completely distracted on choosing a static site generator or a blogging solution. I have tried some static site generators but I personally find entering the metadata section (frontmatter) for each markdown file repetitious. I have used blogspot and wordpress a lot so I am used/into writing blog into a web page (rather than a text editor) and just publishing it without thinking about files or metadata.

So I thought it would be useful to utilize Gist as it comes with a good Markdown editor, an integrated comment section, starring (bookmarking), and revisions (commits) for metadata. I didn't complete the blog but for those who actually want to write one, try out writing them via Gist.

NOTE: I hope someone who's good at CSS will contribute a better starter theme, I would really appreciate it.
This is a great story, thank you for sharing. Do railroad atlases still exist?
Nucleat actually can do load following quite well, and it's used that way in some places.

But of course this makes it even more expensive per MWh as the utilization drops but the mostly fixed costs don't.
They are pretty fast on my PC and I don't even have an NVMe SSD
Outer Wilds was what I was thinking of when I read this article.

Not because of the article’s content, but in contrast of it. It was an excellent game that doesn’t fit into a lot of the authors advice.

It was complex, and you can miss a lot of it, but it nails and authentic tone that seems to be available on indie titles exclusively.

Top Five of all time for me.
The ad business is what matters right now. Meta is a startup pitch, a trillion dollar company pivoting from 2d screens to 3d, and the social network ad business is the runway to get there. It's absolutely nuts, but I wouldn't call it a distraction. I'm a bit shocked at how many people are handwaving it away as a distraction, really.
I think we need to decrease our footprints radically, but I think the "consume less" framing scares people (though honestly, we should be scared ...)

But in the cases you name, and in many others, the messed up part is that we're creating so much stuff/waste that _isn't_ consumable, and so we needlessly use new resources.

Fast fashion is destructive because both the retailers and the end consumers end up throwing out so much stuff that piles up in landfills and isn't recyclable. If yesterday's garment was cheap (in a resource sense) to recycle into fiber to make a new garment, it would be a lot less harmful.

The cars-becoming-bigger pattern, in part an arms race between car manufacturers to improve safety ratings (in a collision, passengers in the heavier car experience smaller forces; who cares about pedestrians), with the net effect that after several years everyone has more massive cars but their safety edge has been totally eroded away. We no longer get a benefit, but we're all stuck pushing around extra metal for every mile driven.

The move to 5G didn't _have_ to be harmful, but we produce waste streams in all the devices that are now discarded which are _not_ consumed. Most of the components in the phones we toss every 2 years are still fine, but we make it so hard to put them all to good use.

The _unconsumed_ garments that go to a landfill, the _unconsumed_ discarded phones, touch screens, batteries, the ... non-benefit of moving around excess car (including those 4 empty seats when a person drives alone) are just as much the problem.
Nice. This came before SerenityOS and yet seems similar in approach.
Absolutely false on the loss of status. Folks quoting law here on HN tend to ironically be wrong about how things work.

If you can afford some lawyers this is routinely done at varying degrees of morality and fairness.
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Private jets to COP26 in Glasgow emit more CO2 than Scots pump out in a year
It's interesting that they were able to secure the @meta social media handle on Twitter but not on their own Instagram platform

https://twitter.com/meta

https://instagram.com/meta
That's a good point. I prefer to encrypt my files before they go to S3, it's easy to do in applications or using Minio as a gateway.
Show HN: A free iOS music player that adds haptics to your music
> Something does not add up. If PV is so cheap, why don't we see more electricity being produced by PV?

> Utility scale solar PV [...] is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy

For China... The West has very few semiconductor grade silicon smelters, and no industrial scale ones for PV ingots.

I think all of PV cell makers in the West just dice Chinese boules
> Fossil fuels have one of the highest energy densities and hence have been used for ages. We have much to be thankful for thanks to fossil fuels being around.

far lower than nuclear
It's a really great game and I think by the end you'll be awestruck by what it successfully evokes in you, but a painting, or a silent movie for that matter, are by definition not interactive environments unless using your imagination/interpretation is equivalent to a video game. In the games I describe you can miss things by not exploring. I won't miss anything in watching a silent movie or the opening sequence to Up because there's a definite set of frames and they run one way. A painting is even more limited.
No level of radiation exposure is safe. How much of CT radiation is considered acceptable depends on the application.
Wait, a subshell is a child process, right?

I would imagine there would be performance implications of defining every bash function as a subshell, is why it's not universally recommended to define functions this way?

No?
> Observation 6: Good writing comes from a distinctive, individual, human voice. Thus, you'll mainly get it in indie games.

Outer Wilds.

Hands down one of my top games of all time, a total sleeper. But has more heart than any AAA title I’ve ever played.

If you haven’t tried it, super highly recommend.
Does anybody remember ZoneAlarm? At some point later these firewalls became a standard of windows, and then when later they went away again.
I block google analytics at the DNS level so I guess I'm safe? It's good that they don't send the tracking data to the same domain that sends driver updates.
Yep, and always with the same caveats. The dollar houses typically, but not always, need something like a house's real cost worth of renovation. There's no citizenship attached, so one can't just up and move into their new house. And of course, you'd really want to know Italian.

This is all super reasonable, but makes for clickbait headlines.
In this case do I get all the profits and have all the governing power?
Totally understandable. My father is color blind too (particularly red/green), so I totally get that. I just dumbly assumed the comment was because you were bent out of shape as 90% of the internet seems to be these days :). My apologies.
"Renewables need to be combined with power sources that can be turned on and off quickly and on demand. Nuclear emphatically cannot provide that."

There is an illogical assumption underlying this claim - if both power sources are zero-carbon, why does it matter which one we turn off? Why do have to turn off nuclear instead of disconnecting a wind turbine? What difference does it make?
Why? You're making the mistake you're accusing the book of making. You're presenting something as evidence of the book being bad that doesn't actually support that argument.
There's a guy who writes software for California Condor Conservation.

I met him in a parking lot at Pinnacles National Park where there is a full press California Condor conservation effort.

He was wearing a California Condor embroidered hat. A California Condor on his tee shirt. Carrying a Canon with a long lens because he had been out on the high peaks photographing California Condors early in the morning.

His California Condor software is written as a contractor. He was between contracts...end of fiscal year...so he was out doing California Condor conservation (documenting individuals) in his non-working time.

My sense is that's what it probably takes to get that kind of work. Honest commitment to an organization's mission first.

Because if we're sitting in the NGO's board meeting. technically competent and committed candidates who attend the fundraisers will beat candidates who are only technically competent.

Or to put it another way, nobody is going to hire you because it's your dream job. They will hire you because of their dreams.

Good luck.
Story of a Good Brahmin (1761)
I’m not sure if you put Jacob Collier in this category, but I think his success has a lot to do with him attempting to make these higher abstractions of music more approachable.
I’ve sold pumpkins on a farm before. It’s a social experience where you pay for the pumpkin “ticket” at the end.

Whole families dress up for the experience. People love being in a pumpkin patch and searching for their favorite pumpkin. They love doing it with their family. They enjoy the risk of wheeling them and guessing how much they weigh.

And the farm makes more money when they grow heavier pumpkins.

This isn’t an activity to be taken so seriously.

Scales and measurement aren’t really necessary. I could eyeball and wobble a pumpkin very quickly and give a fair price. But then I am having all the fun, not the customer.

Put the tech into making it a better experience!

Oh is that tractor pulling a wagon? Got to go!
You can start by subscribing to newsletters that can give you some exposure to all these topics and you can learn at your own pace. WSJ newsletters are pretty good. I run a stock market newsletter targeted for casual and beginner investors https://bullish.email
> Google has no proven workaround. It was affected as everywhere else.

If everyone is forced to drop behavioral targeting in favor of contextual one, search ads is the king because users give ad networks with the most valuable context, search intent.

Also, Google owns the widest range of ads inventory including many O&O properties. If you no more depend on fancy technologies, it becomes a fight of pure ad network infrastructure. No one can compete with Google there.
Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny wins Sakharov Prize, EU's top human rights award
The ultimate irony is that the first Sakharov prize was given to anti-apartheid and anti- white supremacist activist/politician Nelson Mandela (branded a terrorist by the Clinton administration when he was awarded the prize) and now they have given it to the white supremacist Navalny (with ties to neo-Nazi groups and the Russian March) now. Mandela is probably turning in his grave now.

https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/dictator-vs-democrat-not-qu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakharov_Prize

https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failure-to-renounce-national...
See also, peak uranium : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium

2017 known supply is enough for 130 years at current usage (supplying about 10% of global energy). Each doubling of production halves the peak timeline. Basically no one expects discovery to outpace usage.

So, at best, nuclear is a stop gap and part of a different long term solution. Which could be fine! But the extremely low LCOE and fast build time for modern renewables suggests that nuclear is simply losing the race for relevance.
Do Wacom tablets have any relevant competition?

I have one that I use for hobbyist purposes and when it comes time to upgrade I'd be interested in not buying another Wacom.
People will read and believe what ever trickles in to their generated news feeds.

Of course there will always be demand for confirmation bias and an alt reality, but the fact there are teams of people manufacturing dis info with an agenda, actively competing for mind share, is way more concerning.

Bad actors taking advantage of weak minds
sorry, yes, that should be 100*100*100 ...
Have a look at what new capacity was installed last year:

https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/over-80-of-2020-glob...
Not sure what to make of this.

Patents should be much more expensive. They are government granted monopolies.

Most patents are also not really original too, so I'd expect the world would be better off with 1/10th the number of patents.

They probably should ongoing gradually escalating fees (for example maybe getting a patent for the first 5 years can be $100k, next 5 years $1M, next 5 years $10M, last 5 years $100M).

But the fees for resolving disputes should come down (mostly lawyers fees, not court fees). Probably the best way is to eliminate the government granted Monopoly on attorneys (and related restrictions on law).
I would assume, if meta.com points to Facebook's corporate site, they will likely want to redirect meta.org to meta.com. They currently redirect facebook.org to facebook.com.
If he mentioned how to do it the people who commented would be even more upset.
Only recently did PV becomes the least-cost source of new electric generation.[0] And new utility-scale projects take 2-7 years to develop. For example, TX is anticipated to add 10 GW of new solar generation in 2022.[1] As I write this (while the sun is up, noon in TX), the current demand in TX is 38 GW.[2]

Source: Have been developing solar power plants since 2008.

[0] The tipping point for solar is different in different regions based on many factors, but primarily the amount of annual sunlight and the cost of fuel on the margin, and regulatory policy.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/texas-track-add...

[2] http://www.ercot.com/
As long as the service container's members are typed you should
> When managing a small portfolio, < 5 million dollars, you can be very agile in how you invest.

Most stocks suck:

> We study long-run shareholder outcomes for over 64,000 global common stocks during the January 1990 to December 2020 period. We document that the majority, 55.2% of U.S. stocks and 57.4% of non-U.S. stocks, underperform one-month U.S. Treasury bills in terms of compound returns over the full sample. Focusing on aggregate shareholder outcomes, we find that the top-performing 2.4% of firms account for all of the $US 75.7 trillion in net global stock market wealth creation from 1990 to December 2020. Outside the US, 1.41% of firms account for the $US 30.7 trillion in net wealth creation.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3710251

> Four out of every seven common stocks that have appeared in the CRSP database since 1926 have lifetime buy-and-hold returns less than one-month Treasuries. When stated in terms of lifetime dollar wealth creation, the best-performing four percent of listed companies explain the net gain for the entire U.S. stock market since 1926, as other stocks collectively matched Treasury bills. These results highlight the important role of positive skewness in the distribution of individual stock returns, attributable both to skewness in monthly returns and to the effects of compounding. The results help to explain why poorly-diversified active strategies most often underperform market averages.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2900447

What are the odds that you manage to pick those few stocks that produce those returns? How much effort does a person have to put in to find these stocks? How much time to do that that is not spent (a) working a full-time job, (b) spending time with friends and family, (c) perhaps having a non-investing hobby? And do that over decades to build (e.g.) their retirement fund, and then another few decades (again) to protect their retirement nest egg.

Perhaps someone can beat the market, but what is the trade-off versus accepting "only" market returns by investing in a total market fund?
I'm absolutely terrible at anything music related and can't hold a beat to save my life but I love the world behind songwriting and how music gets made. Best podcast I've heard is Switched on Pop
https://switchedonpop.com/
And that has what market share amongst wacom tablet users?
The 1600 is missing, and definitely changes the magnitude of the statement
Not for eight billion people. Just look at what happens when we stop loading trucks for a little while. Now imagine if you expanded all that "going without" to everything that uses energy. You'd have days at most before mass chaos.
Thanks for all comments, it's helpful.

Is there a sort of a digital playground for financial instruments?

I would like to simulate some strategies, construct some virtual portfolios of stocks, mutual funds, ETFs and observe after one year how well each strategy did.
Um, they are married and they are his shares? Many people share resources with their partners?

Only on HN is this "corrupt self dealing".
You consented when you ran their drivers to use the hardware, just like you consent to being recorded on CCTV when you enter a shop or stop at a gas station.

Don't like it? Read the privacy policy for software you run. That, or you can write or rely on libre drivers for the tablet to run on your specific hardware setup. And deal with all the issues unsupported/maintained drivers have.
I think what you see, and quite likely misinterpret, is world leaders who are still waking up to the issue. I think most of them have not yet fully internalized what the climate crisis truly means (and even if they do, maybe some just are not able to care enough). It is good they at least are starting to do so, and I hope they won't lose momentum.

The climate crisis is likely the greatest challenge humankind has faced so far. I am starting to think that only true SF fans can actually process this information. It seems one needs to have thought about it for a while before being hit with this information (existential threat to our civilization), to be able to process it fast. SF may have provided people with the prerequisites to understand the situation. Or, alternatively, maybe people who are capable of thinking far into the future are drawn to SF.
Saying there is no realistic path to net zero without a reduction in consumption is somewhat funny to me. I don't think it is realistic at all to think that people will accept a reduction in living standards, which is what a reduction in consumption would result in.

I think switching consumption to forms that don't cause climate change is more realistic. Failing that, mass carbon capture is still more realistic than getting people to consume less, as far as I can tell.

Has anyone, anywhere ever had political success saying that everyone's living standards must decrease?
"They", the billionaires, are different people. And some of them would love to see disinformation controlled for gain. Others, having suffered as the result of disinformation, would love to see it stopped.

To lump them all together into a single group united in their purpose would require quite a feat of imagination. Perhaps, I'm just don't have enough of it to wake up
It takes many decades for old generation to phase out, so even with a significant fraction of new capacity being solar, the total proportion will remain low.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2020/09/Cumulative-Total-US-...

Solar capacity is increasing dramatically, but it does have limits.

Namely, solar + storage bids are only competitive in some markets. PV generation is often the cheapest source, but without storage it is not practical for many applications.
One thing that I really admire/respect about your search is that it's really good at capturing a particular kind of good web page. I wonder if there's more precise language than "quality" to express that: inexactness is only inevitable because we're trying to lump everything good into one bucket. Things I've considered improvements to my site are considered degradation by marginalia search's heuristics if we're trying to fit them all on a good-bad spectrum, but maybe that isn't fundamentally what we're asking a search engine to do -- even an opinionated one.
A pumpkin size detector is also known as an eyeball.
I agree with you.

To add to it, Google also have top notch security capabilities. Yes they have my data (privacy), but I know that my data is safe with them and will very very unlikely be hacked by/leaked to 3rd parties (security).
In Hungary, natural immunity is accepted. I have a number of friends who are fully immune from natural infection. We traveled a bit this year and they had huge hassles at borders because their immunity cards were only accepted in Hungary. Yet I, with only one J&J shot, had no problems at all, despite very likely having far weaker immunity. It seems a bit silly to force them to get vaccinated when they're already immune. I wish governments would switch tactics from trying to force people to get vaccinated to trying to persuade people to want to voluntarily get immunity in the safest way possible.
It would be nice to restrict advertising but no politician would do that. All internet infrastructure is now based on ads and it's unlikely that will change any time soon.
Right, the question is not "dogs" but "this dog." Just like a good defendant in a speeding case doesn't stop when the cop says "I used my radar gun" - he asks what kind of radar gun and when was it calibrated, and how?
Huions are pretty great. Very affordable and very high quality. I'm guessing the premium you pay for Wacom has more to do with the brand name than the actual product.

I'm not a professional artist though, so maybe Huions are bad for pro work. Idk, but I'm happy with my Huion.
I'm not sure what you should do, but I know what you probably shouldn't: I'd personally stay away from crypto.

People waste a lot of brain cycles in that space, when they're much better off doing what you're doing.

Nassim Taleb wrote a brilliant "black paper" explaining why bitcoin is worth $0 and his arguments are pretty solid. Like steel.

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf
What jobs are in brand new greenfield cities suggested in parent post?
Does bending your design to make it easier to mock result in better designs?
Just write scripts in Ruby
France and Germany stabilize each other's nets. There actually isn't really a "French" or "German net" anymore as all European countries are very tightly connected nowadays.
There is a new flu vaccine every year and it is given to everyone, including the most vulnerable people on earth.

We also have a covid vaccine now. In the last 30 days, the United States has averaged 2,000 or less deaths per week. Annualizing this comes out to 104k deaths per year.

While this number is higher than the 50k ish deaths per year from the normal flu, it is not 750k per year.

The people who died during the onset of corona virus were all unvaccinated, mostly elderly, in tight quarters, and almost all of them had underlying health issues from smoking, obesity, and heart disease.

Those of us who have survived the initial onset are, based on the official evidence much more able to survive being infected with corona virus.
The Sonicare is marketed as a "sonic" toothbrush (a marketing tactic that I never really understood), so it's not too surprising that it's in the audible range.

I suspect that you, like myself, assumed parent was writing "ultrasonic" by mistake and didn't look too carefully at the wiki link they posted. But to my surprise, true ultrasonic toothbrushes are real! Take a look at the link; apparently they typically operate at 1.6 MHz.
self selection and barriers to entry were a critical part of the early internet's culture. I see this as a feature.
This is not true. You can resale Ableton licenses. In fact a lot of music software allows sale of software licenses.