skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points about the political and practical difficulty. And you’re right that there would be large incentives to cheat and lean on your auditors. I don’t have a ready answer for that part of the problem, but I think it’s worth trying to start implementing regardless, because it’s the only proposal I’ve seen that I think has a chance of altering behavior enough to hit our carbon targets - we need to start pricing in these externalities and letting the market adjust toward better solutions. In the beginning, the $/ton would be minor, and would escalate over time, which would give us time to build out the infrastructure and solve other issues before the incentives to cheat got really large. And the foreknowledge of the schedule would allow for investment to anticipate needs.

Or perhaps we need to wait a bit longer for the pain to really start being felt broadly, and then we can finally get on with doing what we know we need to do.
>including the cat

But my cat likes going outside. He likes catching birds.
Anybody wanna buy an NFT of the smallest violin in the world?

P3
1 1 255
150 75 0
Time will tell, but in theory the Volts should last a really long time also. The generator only directly powers the drivetrain at highway speeds, and in the gen-1 they were really conservative with allowed pure electric range on the battery.

I'm planning to drive mine until it dies, and suspect that salty winter Midwestern roads will render it unsafe/broken before anything else does.
Brilliant, thank you for that effort, especially the direct link to the PDF. A third of the bird population gone in the 50 years since 1970. As he says in Blood Diamond, "Will god ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? ..." The future is here and the future bites.
Second Female Penn Swimmer Steps Forward
Or if we have the power to terraform Mars, and not just be stuck in a space colony out there, but be able to explore the planet freely, why not just terraform Earth back to Earth [1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdkKMhAdnA&t=458s (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Who said eco-fascism? I say eco-family planning. Get everyone on board and in 3 or 4 generation things are better. Sure, its a pie in the sky idea, but since we're throwing ideas around....
When I found out you could pay $2000 to make your Tesla accelerate 1 second faster 0-60 it made me wonder what's next. Want to role you windows down more than half way? $500. Want your air-conditioner to run on high? $600. Want you seats to recline 15 degrees more? $550. Want the car to make sharper turns? $2500 Want the radio to remember more than 3 favorites? $150

Etc etc etc.... I'm sure it's coming because it can.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries.jsp
Cryptocurrency is a different type of asset than a stock when it comes to (technical) security problems and thus has a vastly different risk profile than a stock. If Microsoft has a security issue, it _may_ affect _some_ users, they are still generating revenue and likely have insurance to cover some of the worst possible situations. Courts provide ways to assist in the real life "undo" button. There is no (technical) security issue, I am aware of, Microsoft could encounter that would cause it to immediately fold without nearly fathomable levels of coordinated negligence or World War against Microsoft.

If cryptocurrencies have a security issue, the entire asset can be irreversibly destroyed with _nothing_ of value left over. Imagine a cryptocurrency called $41TC01N (ShitCoin) has a zero-day that allows any wallet to be trivially compromised, by the time people take action or even understand the nature of the issue-- the attacker could have emptied and exchanged nearly every wallet on the network. The ones left with funds would be worth nothing, because the value has been irreversibly transferred outta the asset. There was a cryptocurrency of some kind recently that is only in existence because the hacker graciously gave it back.

Like, I'm pretty sure, long-term decentralized currencies aren't going to end up as cool as people think they are... distributed ledgers might be, for archival purposes, but like... I ain't seen anything even mildly useful but crappy-DRM, err my bad, I mean NFTs be executed on the blockchain.
Coinbase's Advanced Cryptography Library
I married a Chinese woman, and thus at New Year’s all the children would go out of their way to do me favours so I would give them their red packets.

I jokingly complained that I was getting a bad deal: I didn’t get red packets as a child, but I had to give them away as an adult. But my aunt-in-law put it most amusingly:

“Giving red packets is even luckier than receiving them.”

How so?

“Do you have money to put in the packet and still eat? That’s pretty lucky."
Yeah, I replied that in sister thread. Part of why I haven’t read it is because I think Orson Scott Card is a douche.
> It contains a URL to the 1s and 0s that are stored on someones server, and can be taken down at any time.

I don't think that's true. It contains an address that some centralized database says points to an image on someone's server. I don't think the URL or reference to the image sits anywhere on the blockchain, maybe some characteristics like the name. But I think its just a pointer to nothing.

Is there any blockchain project that is effective at storing actual data, like a distributed file system?
I'm not refuting the TFA. I am refuting the notion that people in American cannot move upwards. There is no group more disadvantaged than immigrants, who arrive with nothing, have no support structure, are discriminated against, and often don't even know the language. Yet they can and do succeed, as the DACA cohort shows.
The market is already there. I have a 2010 Mercedes C180 and the car suddenly wouldn't start. Turns out it has an coded electronic steering lock which talks to the electronic ignition and won't enable the car if the lock doesn't disengage. Of course the steering lock itself failed - turns out this is a design flaw. Would have cost way too much money to transport the car to the Mercedes dealer at the only time the dealer would accept it for repair and then have them replace it. Turns out there's a thriving market in folks who will come to your house, completely remove the steering lock, and replace it with an emulator that just pretends to unlock when its told to.
I think the movies are a lot more focused on just on the main characters, which is a bit of a shame because one of the great things about the original show was that in the later episodes it becomes increasingly more apparent that most of the adults have serious issues too. They're just able to hide it better than Shinji, Rei, and Asuka. I can kind of understand though not wanting to just repeat the exact same content, just with a higher budget.
Has Washington’s Policy Toward Taiwan Crossed the Rubicon?
Looks like they tried to ape Java/JavaScript after a while.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Le...
Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)
Ask HN: How to stay motivated reading textbooks?
Hi HN,

I am working on improving my competencies in certain fields such as AI, statistics, and VR. To do so, I've decided to buy a bunch of textbooks in those fields as well as foundational textbooks (mostly math books).

The problem I'm having is I am having trouble connecting some of the content in the book with a tangible end result. For example, I have difficulty staying focused learning about certain theorems in a linear algebra textbook when I can't see myself ever using the theorems in real life.

Do you guys have any advice on how to stay motivated? Or perhaps how to learn these subject areas avoiding these "time pitfalls" (are they even pitfalls)?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A bunch of the videos don't play for me in Firefox, even with adblockers disabled. Seems to work fine in Edge though. Anyone else have this issue?
We have to start by acknowledging that externalities exist and tell the free-market-is-magic people to shut-up and acknowledge that the market doesn't automatically take care of everything.
The DSC compression ratio is selected by the source as a function of the available and desired bandwidth.

One thing I could add is the theoretical maximum bandwidth if DSC is dialed up to the maximum compression setting of just 8 bits per pixel.
I ponder the same thing. On My Jeep all that nonsense is tied explicitly to the radio. If you yank the 4G modem out, it's all as good as gone - though then the GPS map feature doesn't work either. If I replace the radio entirely I gain control, but lose the auto emergency braking system. That's unfortunate lol.

Luckily no required monthly services. I have no interest in a car with that.
https://github.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscription-for-deve... takes out the StackOverflow clones
I venture to say that it's more than a nine-times multiplier.

An ounce of gold in 1970 was $35. A Rolex watch in 1970 was $210, or exactly six ounces of gold.

That same watch today is over $8000, six ounces of gold today are $10,740. Taking both cases, the multiplier for the watch is around 38 times, and for the gold it's around 50 times (both roughly the same order of magnitude). For the sake of argument, let's average those two multiplier figures. We get a multiplier of 44 times.

Therefore $1000 in 1970 (or therabouts) is today worth $44,000, far more than the $9,390 mentioned above.

(At a multiplier of 44 times, a single 2020 dollar is worth a mere two and a quarter cents in 1960s money.)
It seems to be a regular occurrence these days. I recently did a take home test for GitHub and got completely ghosted by the recruiter after submitting the test.
Yes, Google used to have this feature. I was probably one of the tiny percentage of the users who used it. My guess is it's one of those features where very few people used it. So the cost of maintaining a feature like this on a scale like Google search with tiny percentage of users is not worth it.
And the human population grew more than 50% in the usa in that time frame, so no wonder. (and doubled globally)
To add to this...

A lot of those super annoying ad-filled websites you get directed to from Google Search... Guess who's providing those ads and making money when you accidentally click an ad while trying to get off the website?
I always felt giving your credit card to google for anything was a terrible idea. Privacy aside. A company with terrible support should never be allowed direct access to your credit card.
Look into the cheap Sceptre displays. They make non-smart panels with decent resolution and performance, so long as you have external speakers and use the optical audio output instead of the output from their garbage DAC.
It really depends on the economic situation of the recipient.

I am lucky enough to have more than enough money to maintain the life that I want to have. Giving me cash makes no material difference to me. It will most likely sit in a savings account for potentially the rest of my life. Don't do that especially if you need it (please!).

Finding an actual "physical" gift can be hard, time consuming, stressful, would prompt you to spend more than you afford to "ensure a proper gift", etc.

Gift cards for something I don't usually do is a relatively easy way to solve that. It's like saying "I know you can afford it, but you don't seem to XYZ that often, and maybe you'll like it". XYZ can be [discover a store], [try an experience], [visit some place] or anything else. If I know someone put a little money on that, I will honour that and hopefully discover something new, which is the best gift ever !. And you can put the exact amount that you feel comfortable putting (and in fact the amount itself does not really matter).

But indeed, if the recipient is in any position where cash could be helpful, or if they are saving for a purpose (travel, house, child, ...). Just give cash instead.
This made my day. You're 100% spot on. I laughed loudly at the absurd truth you painted for me.

Low effort comment I know, but I had to let you know.
Not to mention vaccine hesitancy because "when was the last time you got healthcare for free?"
This could be partially mitigated if the fee behaved more like a deposit, but overall I agree, Google has no incentive to go down this route, especially because taking people's money who are already upset with you is a recipe for legal headache.
I just installed the firefox version and it doesn't.

I wish there was a predetermined list with things that are known to be poor results, like pinterest on google image search.
I was planning on watching it through with friends within a month or two and I’ve never seen it before. But I guess I shouldn’t have clicked on the comments. Still, a spoiler tag would have been nice but I’m sure it will still be fine.
Best Buy still sells a dumb TV. Sadly the Insignia N10 only goes as far as 43" and 1080p. I bought a set of the 32" model for my brothers.

Annoyingly, it STILL takes a few seconds to start up.

My living room TV is a 39" Panasonic from 7 years ago. It's dumb as a brick.. but I almost never watch TV so this is fine!

It'd be nice if you could buy a brand new 55" OLED or whatever and not have to deal with smart TV software. I guess there's the gigabyte, LG, and alienware monitors.
Is the subscription business model more ethical than ad-centric models?
Is the subscription model (e.g. Apple Music and Netflix) better for consumers compared to freemium (e.g. Spotify) and purely ad-centric (e.g. Facebook) models?
Why Do We Need IOAM?
Apple, ARM, and Intel (2020)
Extend this to map search - If only I could exclude all starbucks, 7/11, even Denny's from my map searches for 'coffee shop'. No hate to those who like the coffee from there, but I want a proper coffee shop and if I could filter out certain chains, I would do it in a caffeinated heartbeat. This applies to not just Google maps though.
obligatory link to West Wing scene where they point out the political implications of the mercator projection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
Oh wow, it only displays airtags in lost mode? That means it's not very useful for discovering if someone is tracking you. A stalker isn't going to put the airtag in lost mode.
A simple one is to do the exercises in the book, if it has them. With textbooks especially, I find that it's easy to tune out when trying to read them. In school, it was doing assignments that gave me the motivation to go in and actively search for information. If you are reading it with trying to answer a question in mind, it may be easier to stay engaged
I quit Quora as well.

For the reasons:

* Promoting marketing/ad related non-sense, buy my products, they are awesome answers.

* Sign up wall, sometimes I want to quickly check answers using incognito mode so it doesn't affect my feed.

* Engagement driven product. Tell your PMs thank you! Instead of being just useful, at some point it became read more answers, upvote more thing.
You may enjoy this recent article about Stephen Glass (infamous news fabulist) whose wife suffered from early-onset Alzheimer’s.

https://airmail.news/issues/2021-12-4/loving-lies
YouTube, Reddit, I own all of Kelly Starrett's books. The basics are pretty simple - but I think it takes time to form a mind-body connection. Over time you get a sixth sense about your body and can pin-point exactly what area, tendon, etc... is stuck and causing you to be out of alignment.
The android based software randomly updates itself all the time. But it likes crashing and stuff too.
There is a reserved seat in hell for whoever allowed usb-c cables to have a max speed of usb2 (480Mbit/s).
I feed a massive colony of Icterids (blackbirds, grackles and cowbirds) that live in my backyard. They are so fun to watch. I fully believe they are close to apes in terms of intelligence.

Hopefully something can be done to save the declining bird population. America was able to almost totally reverse the impending extinction of Bald Eagles and Falcons through banning DDT, I can only pray similar action is taken in the future.
There are some flat bulges at 10 and 2, and while I cannot hook my thumbs on them in any way, I can rest my thumbs on them if I put my hands at 9:30 and 2:30, instead of resting my hands on them at 10 and 2.

If I put my hands right on 9 and 3, those bumps don’t come into play at all, but I suppose I could hook my thumbs around the wheel while resting my fingers on the backs of the button-festooned spokes, which are at 9 and 3 themselves.

So yes, I can put my hands at 9 and 3 and ignore the bulges at 10 and 2. Or I can put them at 9:30 and 2:30 and rest my thumbs on the bulges. We’ll see how it goes unlearning 10 and 2.
As an often-self-employed solo developer with few marketing skills, what seems to kind of map to 'adding a marketing employee', is getting something working into the hands of a user/customer/client. At that point the product begins to take shape fast.

I've usually corresponded with them before this happens of course, so maybe the part about finding a prospective user is actually me doing marketing. I want to make sure they are really interested and that they seem like they'd be patient and generous with good-quality feedback. And don't have a deadline, that practically goes without saying. A client like that is almost like your cofounder.

After product-meets-reality, I ask lots of questions, even about things I had already assumed. I even question the things that are seemingly working, to try to get from 'that part works great' to 'actually, now that you mentioned it, there might be a problem there.' It takes a lot of back-and-forth, so you are really risking annoyance, hence look for the right person.

I try to first pick out high-return changes I can do in a few weeks. I don't try to turn things faster than that in the beginning. I may have found a big problem in the design, a misunderstanding, a complete miss on something newly-obvious etc. A back-to-the-drawing board issue might take a lot longer. On something like that, having had someone working marketing earlier would no doubt have saved a lot of time.

I save by not paying someone, but I pay with a longer and less predictable development cycle. That trade-off works for me; might not for others. As well, since this is Hacker News, I should say that with outside investors they would no doubt prefer hiring professional marketing and sales folks.
This is a great, pithy expression for exactly what is driving the toxic behavior--nicely phrased.
You had every opportunity to present whatever justification you wanted to establish the categorical nature of your argument, and you chose to post some fairly mixed evidence and then turn around and make it seem like I'm the one who's supposed to come out of this an expert with a complete understanding of the topic.

I think posting a few links that you likely didn't bother to read through yourself (given that one is behind a paywall and another is Korean) and then proclaiming absolute confidence and authority on a subject shows not only poor critical thinking skills on your part but also a propensity to discuss challenging topics in bad faith.
> If you have seen even a few episodes of Robotech/Macross/Gundam that's plenty. Even a bit of Voltron or having seen the movie "Iron Giant" may do.

Power Rangers might be the most mainstream concept for US-audiences. (It helps of course that Power Rangers is somewhat loosely based on Sentai Zyuranger, but a large chunk of the scenes were replaced with American actors)

Power Rangers is a really good example of the mainstream trope that NGE is deconstructing.

A team of "teenagers" are given all-powerful giant robots to kick the ass of the bad guy. And... you just trust Zordon, right? Zordon doesn't have like, nefarious purposes or anything. And these "teenagers" have the right psyche for the job right? We won't need like, a sad commander constantly barking orders at these teenagers to get in the freaking robot to save the world.

And these teenagers won't get hurt right, in these fights? Like, if a heat-ray hits the robot and the internal fluids of the robot begin to boil, the pilots won't get severe burns or mental scars from these traumas? Oh... right.

Why 13-year-olds? I mean, there's an in-universe reason that I don't want to spoil. But its really because its a deconstruction of "teenagers in giant robots" trope that was all the rage in the 90s (like Power Rangers).
Current significant open technical issues that I know of for Starship are 1.) Raptor engine production being significantly behind on schedule (granted, the schedule is aggressive, but still behind), and 2.) TPS tiles disconnecting from Starship at moments they shouldn't.

Issue 1 will likely only delay development and deployment of Starship (production isn't halted), but issue 2 can make-or-break the business model if no solution is found.

As opposed to regulatory issues which are generally (!) a case of putting in the effort and time, with a relatively well-known time path to get permission to e.g. launch to LEO or Mars; this has been done before and will be done many times after. The only unkown issues that I believe are still open are mostly related to range and environmental issues, but I don't think those will be the limiting factor to getting the Starship launch vehicle ready for production payloads.
How to make cross-fading images with CSS
Are you paying for Google search? No. So, its not in Google's interest to do what's best for the enduser (to an extent, after which it hurts them as user engagement dwindles and people move to another search engine).
> ethically, morally, and legally

Idk about your morals or ethics but the "internet crime isn't real crime!" bandwagon crashed decades ago.

> After all, you can't make it illegal for people to yell prime numbers.

Sure you can. Michelle Carter[0] just digitally transmitted some prime numbers.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-found-g...
Implementing this material currently and advise everyone to do the same. It is abhorrent that building developers do not include this on new developments by default.

https://www.featherfriendly.com/
Note that the meaning in the book was almost wholly changed for the film. A big part of the book was that by learning to think 4-dimensionally (via the alien language), the scientists found that free will did not exist. The narrator had no choice in how to act with her child - she was simply acting out a predefined narrative...

"I suddenly remembered that a morphological relative of 'performative' was 'performance,' which could describe the sensation of conversing when you knew what would be said: it was like performing in a play."

...

"Before I learned how to think in Heptapod B, my memories grew like a column of cigarette ash, laid down by the infinitesimal sliver of combustion that was my consciousness, marking the sequential present. After I learned Heptapod B, new memories fell into place like gigantic blocks, each one measuring years in duration, and though they didn't arrive in order or land contiguously, they soon composed a period of five decades. It is the period during which I know Heptapod B well enough to think in it, starting during my interviews with Flapper and Raspberry and ending with my death."

The movie left this key message out almost entirely.
the #1 advice I would give to a young engineer entering their career is to do everything they can to avoid becoming cynical. technology has cycles, but it also moves forward. it's a helix. most people who churn through a few cycles end up becoming cynical, failing to see the orthogonal dimension of progress.

how to avoid cynicism? the primary way is to remove cynics from your life, and add optimists. second to that, keep working on new enough areas that you maintain a beginners mindset and can offset some of the pattern matching that leads one to thinking everything worthwhile has been done before.
Because creators have a business relationship with YouTube, not an employment one.